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Showbiz Tonight
''Showbiz Tonight'' is a defunct American entertainment news program that aired from February 20, 2005, until February 6, 2014, on HLN. ''Showbiz Tonight'' was hosted by A. J. Hammer at CNN New York at the time of its cancellation. The show reported and debated celebrity entertainment news stories and controversies, along with social networking segments involving viewer interaction via social networks and the program's call-in toll free number. The program aired Monday through Thursday nights at 11 p.m. Eastern, with encore presentations on Tuesday through Saturday mornings at 2 a.m. and 4:10 a.m. Eastern. ''Showbiz Tonight'' is also shown several times daily in Europe on Star! Scandinavia, a channel operated by Turner NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting. On February 3, 2014, HLN canceled ''Showbiz Tonight'', with the final episode airing February 6. Hammer continues to be involved in the network to cover entertainment stories. History Hosted by A. J. Ham ...
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Entertainment
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and Interest (emotion), interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but it is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention. Although people's attention is held by different things because individuals have different preferences, most forms of entertainment are recognisable and familiar. Storytelling, music, drama, dance, and different kinds of performance exist in all cultures, were supported in Court (royal), royal courts, and developed into sophisticated forms over time, becoming available to all citizens. The process has been accelerated in modern times by an entertainment industry that records and sells entertainment products. Entertainment evolves and can be adapted to suit any scale, ranging from an individual who chooses private entertainment from a now enormous ...
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Nischelle Turner
Nischelle Renee Turner is the co-host of ''Entertainment Tonight'' (2014–present) and '' Secret Celebrity Renovation'' (2021–present). Previously she was former entertainment correspondent for HLN's ''Showbiz Tonight'' and CNN and an entertainment correspondent for KNBC in Los Angeles. She was a general assignment reporter for KTTV Fox 11 from 2004 and to October 2, 2008, and worked as a sideline reporter for Fox's Sunday NFL broadcasts, and did segments for a show called ''Dailies''.(March 1, 2010)Sports Media Dream Girl Nischelle Turner Vizage magazine Prior to KTTV, she worked for WEHT, the ABC affiliate in Evansville, Indiana and for WVUE, the Fox affiliate in New Orleans. She is a native of Columbia, Missouri. She attended the University of Missouri, and graduated from its Missouri School of Journalism in 1998.
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Bill Tush
William John Tush, III (born October 16, 1948) is an American news journalist and humorist. In high school, Tush showed an early interest in broadcast performance and started working in radio professionally while a Junior in High school. Tush went to work in Atlanta, Georgia for Ted Turner, first as an announcer, later developing '' Tush'', a comedy show broadcast on Turner's WTBS SuperStation. Early life and education Tush was born October 16, 1948, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the only child of Apolonia "Pauline" (née Kirzyc) and William John Tush Jr. Living in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Tush attended Arsenal Washington Vocational Technical High School, graduating in 1966. While in high school, Tush showed an early interest in broadcast performance. He said that as young child he was drawn to radio announcer's voices. "They came alive to me... I was much more comfortable with them than I was the people in my real life." Tush chose not to attend college in ...
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Peter Travers
Peter Joseph Travers (born June 27, 1943) is an American film critic, journalist, and television presenter. He reviews films for ABC News and previously served as a movie critic for ''People'' and ''Rolling Stone''. Travers also hosts the film interview program ''Popcorn with Peter Travers'' for ABC News. Early life and education Travers grew up in Yonkers, New York, the son of Howard and Ruth Travers. He received a BA degree from Manhattan College in 1965 before graduating from New York University with an MA in English. Career According to eFilmCritic.com, Travers is the nation's most " blurbed" film critic. Travers' blurbs were being printed in newspapers as early as 1970, when he was a writer for ''Reader's Digest''. By the mid-1970s, he was a film critic for '' The Herald Statesman'', a Yonkers newspaper. In the 1980s, he wrote for ''People'' for four years before joining ''Rolling Stone'' in 1989. In 2020, he departed ''Rolling Stone'' and became the film critic for ABC ...
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Sherri Sylvester
Sherri Sylvester (born Sherri Kay Sylvester 1959) was a longtime entertainment reporter for CNN, and sometimes filled in as hostess of ''Showbiz Today''. She was educated at Indiana University Bloomington. Sylvester has subsequently worked as a producer for CBS News, and works with Women Media Pros specializing in Media Interview Training and Media Relations Media relations involves working with media for the purpose of informing the public of an organization's mission, policies and practices in a positive, consistent and credible manner. It can also entail developing symbiotic relationships with medi .... References External links"Sherri Sylvester and Scott Leon: The Grammy Awards" ''CNN'', February 21, 2001 ''CNN'', May 1, 2001 ''CNN-Showbiz Today'', July 30, 1996 ''CNN'', June 30, 1995 {{DEFAULTSORT:Sylvester, Sherri 1959 births Living people American television journalists American women television journalists Place of birth missing (living people) Indiana Univer ...
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Bella Shaw
Bella Shaw is an American TV personality, journalist and news presenter, known for her work on TV infomercials and prior work on CNN from 1984-1993 when her contract as co-host of CNN's " Showbiz Today" program was not renewed. Professional life Shaw attended the University of Oklahoma, where she earned a degree in journalism"From the Farm Show…To CNN" - Bella Shaw
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while participating in the university's radio station,Anchorwoman stays current: Former CNN anchor Bella Shaw ...
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Entertainment Weekly
''Entertainment Weekly'' (sometimes abbreviated as ''EW'') is an American online magazine, digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture. The print magazine debuted on February 16, 1990, in New York City, and ceased publication in 2022. Different from celebrity-focused publications such as ''Us Weekly'', ''People (magazine), People'' (a sister magazine to ''EW''), and ''In Touch Weekly'', ''EW'' primarily concentrates on entertainment media news and critical reviews; unlike ''Variety (magazine), Variety'' and ''The Hollywood Reporter'', which were primarily established as trade magazines aimed at industry insiders, ''EW'' targets a more general audience. History Formed as a sister magazine to ''People'', the first issue of ''Entertainment Weekly'' was published on February 16, 1990. Created by Jeff Jarvis and founded by Michael Klingensmith, who serve ...
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum (born July 5, 1952) is an American film critic. She joined ''Entertainment Weekly'' as a senior writer in 1991, working as a film critic for the magazine alongside Owen Gleiberman from 1995 to 2013. Early life Lisa Schwarzbaum was born on July 5, 1952, to Leon Schwarzbaum, a combat engineer during the Pacific War. The oldest child of a Jewish family raised in the Bronx, she has two brothers. Schwarzbaum has credited WWOR-TV's ''Million Dollar Movie'' series for sparking her interest in films through its presentation of RKO Pictures' catalog. After concentrating in music at Sarah Lawrence College, her mother suggested that she become an art critic to combine her interest in writing. Lisa Schwarzbaum's early work under Leo Lerman in the arts and entertainment section of ''Mademoiselle'' further shaped her career as a film critic. Career Schwarzbaum's writing career began with reviewing classical music for '' The Real Paper'' and ''The Boston Globe''. Aside from ...
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Jim Moret
Jim Moret (born James William Ercolani Jr.; December 3, 1956) is the chief correspondent for the syndicated television news magazine ''Inside Edition'' hosted by Deborah Norville and Mary Calvi. Moret has covered entertainment news and traditional hard news stories for over 25 years. He is a regular guest contributor, legal analyst and guest-host on CNN, HLN, Fox News Channel, Court TV, and MSNBC. He is the son of actor-singer James Darren and Darren's first wife, Gloria Terlitsky (m. 1955, div. 1958). Career Moret is from Los Angeles, California. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a degree in Communication Studies and received a J.D. in 1981 when he was 25 years old from Southwestern Law School. Moret covered many major California criminal cases including the Night Stalker trial, Billionaire Boys Club murder trial, the O. J. Simpson criminal and civil trials, Scott Peterson double murder trial and the Michael Jackson molestation case, for whi ...
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Lee Leonard
Lee Leonard (April 3, 1929 – December 16, 2018) was an American television personality who was involved in the launch of cable television networks ESPN and CNN. Early life Leonard was born Maxwell Lefkowitz on April 3, 1929, in New York City, the son of Estelle (Cohn), a beautician, and Daniel Lefkowitz. After graduating from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, he attended Columbia University in New York City but did not graduate. Leonard then served in the United States Army in Germany during the Korean War and developed an interest in broadcasting. He was a midday radio personality on New York's WNBC-AM (660), shortly after it launched its "Conversation Station," a talk format, in 1964. He was part of a weekday talk-variety lineup that included "Big" Wilson, Robert Alda, Mimi Benzell, Sterling Yates, Bill Mazer, Brad Crandall and Long John Nebel and hosted a competition/quiz show for listeners called '' Fortune Phone''. At CBS and NBC In the early 1970s, Leona ...
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Peter Bart
Peter Benton Bart (born July 24, 1932) is an American journalist and film producer, writing a column for ''Deadline Hollywood'' since 2015. He is best known for his lengthy tenure (1989–2009) as the editor in chief of ''Variety'', an entertainment-trade magazine. Bart was also a co-host, with film producer Peter Guber, of the weekly television series, '' Shootout'' (formerly ''Sunday Morning Shootout''), carried on the AMC television channel from 2003 to 2008 and subsequently seen in syndication and in 53 countries around the world. Early life and education Bart was born in New York City, the son of Clara (née Ginsberg) and Max S. Bart and raised on Manhattan's Upper West Side. His mother and likely his father were Austrian Jews who emigrated in the early twentieth century, and both worked as public school teachers. His father was strictly irreligious and anti-communist. Bart was educated at Friends Seminary in New York City; Swarthmore College, near Philadelphia, Pe ...
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Hard News
News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different Media (communication), media: word of mouth, printing, Mail, postal systems, broadcasting, Telecommunications, electronic communication, or through the testimony of Witness, observers and witnesses to events. News is sometimes called "hard news" to differentiate it from soft media. Subject matters for news reports include war, government, politics, education, health, economy, business, fashion, sport, entertainment, and the Climate change, environment, as well as quirky or unusual events. Government proclamations, concerning Monarchy, royal ceremonies, laws, taxes, public health, and Crime, criminals, have been dubbed news since ancient times. Technology, Technological and Social change, social developments, often driven by government communication and espionage networks, have increased the speed with which news can spread, as well as influenced its content. Throughout history, people have ...
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