CHICAGO -- No one knows when we'll begin listening to live music again in the ways we did before the pandemic.

You know, with sprawling classical and jazz orchestras playing grand venues such as Symphony Center and the Auditorium Theatre; with huge casts performing in lavish productions at the Lyric Opera House; with crowds packed into clubs ...Read more

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will develop and produce TV shows with CBS Television Studios, home of "CSI" and "S.W.A.T.," under a new partnership meant to bring more Black stories to television in the U.S.

The two organizations will create a team to collaborate on scripted, unscripted and documentary work, the ...Read more

Netflix Inc. is revealing its biggest blockbusters for the first time.

"Extraction," an action thriller starring Chris Hemsworth, delivered the biggest audience of any Netflix original movie in its first four weeks, according to the company, which provided a list of its 10 most-watched original movies. It's followed by "Bird Box," "Spenser ...Read more

If television's many platforms and networks and channels were not already confusing and taxing enough, now we get Peacock, from the Comcast-owned NBCUniversal. (The name references NBC's longtime logo, born at the dawn of color TV.) It is all Clash of the Titans nowadays, as one enormous mega-corporate conglomeration of banked, acquired or ...Read more

"CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King has officially signed on to satellite radio provider SiriusXM for a topical listener call-in show. She was offered the regular weekly time slot after launching "Gayle King in the House" in April as a six-week guest program.

New York-based SiriusXM, which reaches around 30 million subscribers, announced ...Read more

Immature rom-com "A Nice Girl Like You," about a prudish violinist, Lucy (Lucy Hale), on a quest to loosen up her frigid views on sex means well, I suppose. But it's woefully, painfully out of touch. The character of Lucy is not a recognizable person but rather a grab bag of extreme cliches sort of patched together to form some kind of human ...Read more

The Edward James Olmos movie "Windows on the World," about a Mexican family's ordeal during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was scheduled to open on 100 theater screens nationwide this summer. Then, the novel coronavirus struck and shut down cinemas worldwide.

So the film's producers scrambled to find another way to release the movie. They ...Read more

Four new documentaries pull back the curtain on noteworthy stage and screen performers you might have only thought you knew -- or didn't know at all. "Kaye Ballard -- The Show Goes On!" looks at the long career of the comic actress and versatile singer whose fame might be described as "superstar-adjacent"; "Olympia" is a personal view of Oscar-...Read more

This summer has been unlike any other, as concerns over the coronavirus pandemic impact just about everything we love to do during the warm weather months.

Trips to the beach, backyard barbecues with friends, church services, vacations, hikes in the mountains -- none of it has been the same in 2020.

Yet, we still have music, even though we ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The Ventura County medical examiner on Tuesday determined the cause of death of "Glee" star Naya Rivera, whose body was found Monday in Lake Piru, was an accidental drowning.

Rivera disappeared Wednesday during a boat outing with her young son. Authorities have long believed her death was an accident.

"Based on the location ...Read more