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Cassandra Vinograd, a London-based associate producer with 60 Minutes, has sued CBS Broadcasting for allegedly retaliating against her after she complained about the conduct of her boss. According to the lawsuit, senior producer Michael Gavshon frequently consumed large amounts of alcohol, berated junior staffers and…

(UPDATED WITH DARABONT & CAA ATTORNEY STATEMENT) Just over six months before the trial is finally set to start on Frank Darabont and CAA's consolidated multi-million dollars cases against AMC over profits from The Walking Dead, the cabler today threw a new potential spanner in the works. "Defendants respectfully…

Attorneys for actress Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli are accusing the Justice Department of refusing to turn over key evidence in the college admissions bribery case. The couple’s lawyers filed a motion Friday asking a judge to compel federal prosecutors to hand over the evidence, according to USA Toda…

Former The Walking Dead co-star Austin Amelio was on the small balcony filming a TWD Season 8 scene with stuntman John Bernecker in 2017 when Bernecker fell over, missing the protective pads underneath by two feet and landing on the concrete head-first. He died two days later from the severe head injuries. “I saw the…

Caroline Flack, host of ITV’s dating reality show Love Island, has been charged with assault by beating over an incident at her home in England. Police were called to the presenter’s home in north London, where she lives with her partner, tennis player Lewis Burton, in the early hours of Thursday morning. Officers…

Former Fox newscaster Gretchen Carlson today renewed her call for Fox to lift its non-disclosure agreements for employees. Carlson voiced her complaints in an editorial in The New York Times. It arrives as the film Bombshell hits theaters tomorrow, dramatizing the efforts of women (including Carlson) to expose…

The WGA has filed its opposition to the Big Three talent agencies' motion to dismiss the guild's antitrust and price-fixing claims in their ongoing legal battle. The WGA's opposition, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, argues that the motion to dismiss – filed by WME, CAA and UTA – "largely ignores the detailed…

Facebook has followed through on its initial vow to put $130 million into bolstering oversight of content that circulates on its massive social networks. The company has been in a harsh spotlight after issues with phony news and malevolent forces able to put its messages across via Facebook. From election interference…

A long heralded multi-million-dollar settlement between Harvey Weinstein, his former company and dozens of alleged victims of the much-accused producer is far from a done deal, it seems. And clauses in the tentative $25 million agreement that could see the rape trial facing Weinstein reap big bucks for his own legal…

Christmas might not feel so merry for the Walt Disney Company this year after a hearing this morning on the potential class action pay equity lawsuit from 10 female employees of the House of Mouse did not go to a happy place for the Bob Iger-run company. With LaRonda Rasmussen and seven more of the probable plaintiffs…

Harvey Weinstein, who will face trial in January on several sex-crime charges, including rape, had his bail increased Wednesday to $5 million cash from $1 million due to dozens of alleged violations of his electronic monitoring agreement. Pushing a walker into the New York courtroom due to a back injury, Weinstein…

UPDATED, 3:29 PM:  Fox won’t be getting its $1 in damages in the long-running executive-poaching battle with Netflix, but the streamer won’t be snagging any more employees of the now Disney-owned studio or maybe anyone else. Two weeks after Judge Marc Gross issued a tentative ruling that seemed to snap off Netflix’s…