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Variety reports: Marty Krofft, who with his brother Sid produced memorable kids shows “H.R. Pufnstuf” and “Land of the Lost” — as well as the 2009 feature based on the latter — has died. He was 86. Krofft died of kidney failure Saturday in Los Angeles, Calif., a family representative told Variety. In 2007 TV Guide named “H.R. Pufnstuf” No. …

Variety reports: The mystery of why Daryl Hall obtained a restraining order against John Oates has been solved, at least in part, now that part of the case has been unsealed by a Tennessee judge who previously ordered all details to be kept under wraps. It’s now been revealed that Hall is attempting to block his longtime musical partner from …

Variety reports: The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade packed a punch for NBC in its 99th edition. The New York holiday tradition delivered a record audience of 28.5 million viewers across airings Thursday on the network and its streaming sibling Peacock. In a good sign of the parade’s status as an American institution, more than two-thirds of that audience (22.3 million) …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Squid Game: The Challenge contestants are threatening legal action against Netflix and producers after claiming they were injured during the filming of the game show. A British personal injuries law firm is representing two unnamed players who say they suffered hypothermia and nerve damage while shooting in cold conditions in the UK. The contestants’ allegations concern their …

Variety reports: Hall & Oates are embroiled in a confidential legal battle that has led to Daryl Hall getting a restraining order against his former music partner John Oates. Little information about the lawsuit is publicly available, as the court documents are sealed, but based on court records, Hall filed an undisclosed complaint against Oates on Nov. 16, as well …

Axios reports: When Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” topped the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in 2019, Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” peaked at #2. Carey repeated the climb to #1 the next year, with Lee right behind her in second. Then it happened again in 2021. And 2022. This Christmas might …

CNBC reports: A Senate investigative subcommittee on Monday said it has issued a subpoena to Live Nation Entertainment and its Ticketmaster subsidiary for information regarding ticket pricing and fees after a months-long probe that had not been previously announced. The subpoena “seeks records related to Live Nation/Ticketmaster’s failure to combat artificially inflated demand fueled by bots in multiple, high-profile incidents, …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Ridley Scott has been typically dismissive of critics taking issue with his forthcoming movie Napoleon, particularly French ones. Asked by the BBC to respond, Scott replied with customary swagger: “The French don’t even like themselves. The audience that I showed it to in Paris, they loved it.” The film’s world premiere took place in the French capital …

Deadline reports: Taylor Swift has postponed her Saturday night concert in Rio de Janeiro because of extreme temperatures in the city. The move comes a day after a fan died at her first Eras Tour show in the city. “The safety and well-being of my fans, fellow performers, and crew has to and always will come first,” Swift wrote on …

Deadline reports: Tammy Faye, the Olivier-nominated Elton John–Jake Shears–James Graham musical about ’80s-era televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, will premiere on Broadway during the 2024-25 Season. The musical will be staged at an as-yet-unannounced Nederlander Theatre. Venue, production dates and casting will be announced at a later date. The official synopsis: “From a studio in South Carolina, Tammy Faye and Jim …

Variety reports: Is it real — or is it YouTube‘s robot singer copying a pop star’s vocal stylings? YouTube announced new AI music experiments it has been developing with Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence lab. The most interesting (and possibly most disorienting) of YouTube’s AI tests is Dream Track in YouTube Shorts. Here’s how it works: A user types an idea …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Members of a special House committee fired off a letter to Apple, questioning whether the decision to end The Problem with Jon Stewart was due to concerns over the company’s relationship with China. Last month, it was announced that the Apple+ show was ending, and The New York Times reported that Stewart told members of his staff …

People Magazine reports: In Lifetime’s upcoming original holiday movie Ladies of the ‘80s: A Divas Christmas — part of the network’s annual “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” season programming slate — daytime drama queens, played by WKRP in Cincinnati‘s Loni Anderson, Falcon Crest‘s Morgan Fairchild, Dallas‘s Linda Gray, and Knots Landing‘s Donna Mills and Nicollette Sheridan, reunite to film the final …

The BBC reports: Politician Nigel Farage and social media sensation Nella Rose are among this year’s I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here campmates. This Morning‘s Josie Gibson and EastEnders actress Danielle Harold are also going to be on the show. Hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly will cheer on the celebrities as they battle it out to be …

Variety reports: A musical adaptation of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” the 1985 teen comedy starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt, is in the works. The stage show is based on the film’s screenplay by Amy Spies and features a score of 1980s chart-toppers, including the Cyndi Lauper hit that inspired the title. “Girls Just Want to Have …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Song ideas can come from anywhere. Case in point: the Aerosmith song I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing, the group’s first No. 1 hit, was inspired by Barbra Streisand‘s romance with husband James Brolin. In her memoir My Name is Barbra, Streisand recalled being in bed with Brolin. He told her, “I don’t want to fall …

Variety reports: The full list of nominations for the 67th annual Grammy Awards is out, with SZA as the leading nominee, with nine. Other key nominees include Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Boygenius, Miley Cyrus, Jon Batiste, Victoria Monét and Billie Eilish, all of whom will be competing against SZA for record of the year. In the album of the year …

Deadline reports: NBC said that average of 7.51 million viewers watched the third Republican debate Wednesday night across the broadcast network, streaming and digital, marking a drop from the previous two GOP debates this cycle. The figure is still a relatively solid number, but it’s off from the 9.5 million who watched the second debate in September and the 12.8 …

Variety reports: Disney, which is in the home stretch of swinging the deal to become the full owner of Hulu, will launch a beta test of an app next month that combines Disney+ and Hulu into a single experience, CEO Bob Iger said. Disney still needs to close its deal with Comcast to buy out NBCUniversal’s 33% stake in Hulu. …

AM New York reports: Boy George — the Culture Club icon of the 1980s — is returning to Broadway in “Moulin Rouge! The Musical.” The singer-songwriter whose hits include “Karma Chameleon” and “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” will play Moulin Rouge club owner Harold Zidler in the jukebox adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s hyperactive 2001 movie. He starts Feb. …