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Men’S Basketball

Player of the Week

Nick Martinelli, Northwestern

F – Jr. – 6-7 – Glenview, Ill. – Glenbrook South

Tallied of 22.5 points and 7.0 rebounds per game, while shooting 47.1% from the field, while leading the Wildcats to a pair of wins Logged 29 points on 11-of-20 shooting and 3-of-5 from three, posting the most points by a Northwestern forward in a league game since 2012 in Northwestern’s 75-63 win at Minnesota Fell just shy of a double-double with 16 points and a game-high nine boards in a 68-57 win over Iowa Earns second Player of the Week honor Last Northwestern Player of the Week: Nick Martinelli

Freshman of the Week

Jase Richardson, Michigan State

G – 6-3 – Denver, Colo. – Columbus (Fla.)

Averaged 13.0 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 3.0 assists, as the No. 8 Spartans scored...

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Iowa, Michigan, USC Score Men’s Basketball Weekly Accolades Hawkeyes’ Sandfort, Wolverines’ Goldin, and Trojans’ Yates earn Big Ten weekly honors

Co-Players of the Week

Payton Sandfort Iowa

G – Sr. – 6-8 – Waukee, Iowa – Waukee

Averaged 26.5 points, six rebounds, and 3.5 steals in leading the Hawkeyes to a pair of wins Shot 55.6 percent from the floor (15-of-27), 52.6 (10-of-19) from 3-point range and 92.9 (13-of-14) from the free throw stripe Tied a career high with 30 points in a 97-87 overtime win over Nebraska, scoring all 30 after the halftime break Added a game-high 23 points and six boards in Iowa’s 85-60 win over Indiana Claims second Player of the Week honor Last Iowa Player of the Week: Payton Sandfort

Vladislav Goldin, Michigan

C – Grad. – 7-1 – Voronezh, Russia – Putnam Science Academy

Averaged 27.5 points,...

Former President Barack Obama reportedly visited the USA Men’s Basketball team earlier this week as they celebrated USA Basketball’s 50th Anniversary ahead of their journey to the Olympics. Obama reportedly wished the team luck while also honoring legendary hall of famers of the sport.

A video of Obama congratulating Team USA has now gone viral. Obama’s interactions with the players and the coaches of the team were pointed out to be awfully similar to a Key & Peele skit that sees a parody of President Obama (at the time) treating different supporters differently.

Barack Obama Unwittingly Recreates Famous Key & Peele Skit Barack Obama | Credits: CBS News

Before Jordan Peele became a modern-day horror auteur and Keegan Michael-Key became an accomplished actor, the two were hosts and participants of the sketch show Key & Peel. The Comedy Central show saw the duo perform in multiple filmed sketches which parodied current affairs at the time.

Welcome to the 254th episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast.

Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as the case may be).

Here’s how this week’s (abbreviated) podcast plays out:

1. Headlines

Grey’s Anatomy, Will Trent, Death and Other Details, and Avatar: The Last Airbender lead the week’s industry headlines.

2. March Madness

Caitlin Clark is helping drive viewership for March Madness as Iowa’s run bested a record previously held by USC and Cheryl Miller.

3. Mailbag

In this segment, we respond to listener questions about topics including review embargoes — why did Netflix hold reviews for Ripley until the day of launch? — and the final season of Letterkenny,...

Last year’s NCAA women’s basketball championship set an all-time ratings record for a women’s game on ESPN. A rematch of that game — albeit two rounds earlier in the tournament — on Monday night drew an even bigger crowd.

Iowa’s 94-87 victory over Lsu averaged 12.3 million viewers for ESPN, the largest TV audience ever for a women’s basketball game in the United States. The previous record was set more than 40 years ago, when CBS’ broadcast of the 1983 title game — featuring USC legend Cheryl Miller — drew 11.83 million people. Lsu’s 102-85 win in last year’s championship game was the previous ESPN record, drawing 9.9 million viewers across ABC and ESPN2.

The Iowa-lsu game was by far the most watched show in primetime Monday, more than doubling the audience for the biggest program (CBS’ NCIS at 5.9 million) on the broadcast networks.

Monday’s late game, Connecticut’s 80-73 win over USC,...

The Go-Gos, Ava Duvernay and Los Lobos will be among the honorees inducted into the California Hall of Fame next week.

Governor Gavin Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom will headline a ceremony at the California Museum on Feb. 6.

Other inductees include master chef Helene An, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, computer scientist Vinton Cerf, federal judge and civil rights leader Thelton E. Henderson, basketball player and sports broadcaster Cheryl Miller, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and artistic director and choreographer Brenda Way.

The inductees will be the 17th class of individuals to receive the honors, which were started by then-California First Lady Maria Shriver.

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My wood floor is barely visible. I’m organizing, which inevitably turns into sitting and thumbing through remnants from episodes of TV shows I’ve had the honor to direct. I have Post-Its in every size. Call sheets and shot lists that have made their way home in pockets and backpacks. (I’m still not fully down with Scriptation — don’t tell Rachel Raimist and Valerie Weiss!) And I have piles of scripts. The tallest stack is from Queen Sugar.

There is no way to quickly answer what Ava DuVernay’s decision to push for hiring female directors on Queen Sugar has done for my career other than to say I don’t think I would have a career directing for television if she didn’t. Ava making this decision, and Oprah Winfrey agreeing (the series airs on OWN), ushered an incredibly needed change into the industry.

Cory Miller of HGTV's Good Bones may seem like any regular employee of a home renovation company, but the reality TV personality has a lot more going on with his family and other relationships than fans realize. Cory joined the team in 2016 and has been working for Two Chicks and a Hammer ever since. While he isn't shown as frequently on Good Bones as Mina Starsiak or Karen E. Laine, fans are still very interested in what's going on with Cory.

While Cory may be employed by Mina and Karen, who runs the Good Bones home renovation company in Indianapolis, Two Chicks and a Hammer, he isn't always involved with the mother-daughter duo. In fact, Cory mostly works with the company's property specialist, Thadeus Starsiak. The fan-favorite has made his mark on Good Bones for his construction expertise. While many fans have been led to believe he's a member...

This story about Gina Prince-Bythewood first appeared in the College Issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.

On a warm October afternoon in Westwood, Gina Prince-Bythewood walked between buildings on the UCLA campus and grinned. “It looks like nothing’s changed,” she said as she took a shortcut from the School of Theater, Film and Television’s Melnitz Hall to the nearby Freud Playhouse. “Even the paint looks the same.” She laughed. “I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not.”

Of course, Prince-Bythewood is an unabashed booster of UCLA’s Tft, from which she graduated in 1991. And paint color notwithstanding, there have definitely been changes since she spent time in these halls: For instance, the James Bridges Theater, where many of her student films screened, had yet to be updated and upgraded when she was here, and the framed posters that lined the lobby definitely didn’t include her own film debut,...

In today’s TV news roundup, Hulu has set a premiere date for ‘Utopia Falls’ and AMC has released a trailer for “Better Call Saul” Season 5.

Dates

“The Soup” will return to E! Network on Feb. 12. Complete with its new host Jade Catta-Preta, the latest season will feature the comedian and actress’ hot takes on the buzziest clips of the week. Those will cover entertainment and social media such as the latest competition series, daytime and late night talk shows, reality favorites like “The Real Housewives” and “The Bachelor,” award shows, popular scripted series, and sports programming.

“Utopia Falls” will launch on Feb. 14, Hulu announced in partnership with Sonar Entertainment. Set in a reimagined future, the series follows a group of teens chosen to compete in the prestigious Exemplar performing arts competition in the colony of New Babyl. When they stumble upon a hidden archive of cultural relics, the kids...

AutoNation, Inc., America’s largest automotive retailer, along with multi-platinum recording artist Andy Grammer, presented a check for $50,000 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (Bcrf).

Andy Grammer Marc Cannon and Alice Jackson present a check for $50,000 to Myra Biblowit and Kinga Lampert,

This money was raised through AutoNation and Andy Grammer’s partnership. Andy teamed up with AutoNation and its Drive Pink initiative to drive out cancer because raising awareness and early detection is important to the pop artist after losing his mother, Kathy Grammer, to breast cancer.

After an energized and inspiring concert performance at the AutoNation Cure Bowl Tailgate and Pre-Game Concert at Tinker Field, adjacent to Camping World Stadium, Andy Grammer, joined by Marc Cannon, Evp & Cmo of AutoNation, and Alice Jackson, wife of AutoNation’s Chairman, CEO & President and Bcrf Advisory Board Member, presented a check for $50,000 to Myra Biblowit, President & CEO of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation,...

This week Gone examines the tragic case of Cheryl Miller and Pam Jackson, who went missing on a drive and were not seen again for more than 40 years. It was 1971 and end of the school year in Vermillion, S.D., when Pamela Jackson and Cheryl Miller decided to head for a party with their friends from school out at a local quarry. They never showed and at first nobody thought anything of it as the pair were not exactly party animals. However, alarm bells were raised when they and their 1960 Studebaker car seemingly disappeared entirely. The boys in the car they […]

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Back in 1964 a lot of people still thought dolphins were fish, but by the time this TV show was finished, we all knew that our happy undersea friend was smarter than the average bear and lives in a world full of wonder. Ivan Tors’ grandly successful Florida-shot family show kept a lot of seagoing movie veterans in green seaweed, including both original ‘Creature’ Gill Men.

Flipper, Season One

Blu-ray

Olive Films

1964-65 / Color / 1:33 flat TV / 780 min. / Street Date August 29, 2017 / available through the Olive Films website / 39.95

Starring: Brian Kelly, Luke Halpin, Tommy Norden.

Cinematography: Clifford H. Poland Jr., Lamar Boren

Original Music: Henry Vars, song by

Written by: Jack Cowden, Ricou Browning, Peter L. Dixon, Laird Koenig, Stanley H. Silverman, Orville H. Hampton, Lee Erwin, Art Arthur, Jess Carneol, Key Lenard, Ivan Tors, Alan Caillou, Arthur Richards, Robert Sabaroff.

Produced by Ivan Tors, Ricou Browning, Leon Benson, Andrew Marton

Directed by: Ricou Browning,...

"We Want Our DVD And Blu-ray!" - It always frustrates retro movie lovers when a film becomes unavailable in a home video format. Even "B" movies deserve a better fate. Sometimes this is due to contractual and licensing reasons. Nevertheless, we always want to be on the tip of the spear in lobbying for unavailable movies to be brought back to the home video market. In that regard, we are running our previously published review of "Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion", a minor effort, to be sure, but one that we hope will be available again on DVD or Blu-ray. It is presently available for streaming rental or purchase on Amazon.) 

By Lee Pfeiffer

The Warner Archive has released a number of films made by Ivan Tors' production company during the 1960s. Tors specialized in underwater and animal-themed adventure movies and TV series and he had a number of major successes including Sea Hunt,...

Debuting on Tuesday nights in January 1966, Daktari ran for four seasons and 89 episodes on CBS. The show follows the work of veterinarian Doctor Marsh Tracy (Marshall Thompson) at the Wameru Study Centre for Animal Behaviour in East Africa. "Daktari" is a native word for doctor.

Doctor Tracy is joined by his daughter Paula (Cheryl Miller), American Jack Dane (Yale Summers), and a native named Mike Makula (Hari Rhodes), as they protect animals from poachers and local officials. They have two memorable pets; a cross-eyed lion named Clarence and a chimpanzee named Judy.

The complete first season of Daktari has now been released on DVD. You can purchase the set or you can try to win a copy here. To enter, you need to merely post a comment below. You can enter once per day.

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