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Showtime has an exciting new original movie, and the cast is impressive.

Heist 88 is headlined by two-time Emmy Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance and produced by MTV Entertainment Studios, Bassett Vance Productions, and Gunpowder & Sky.

Inspired by one of the largest bank robberies in U.S. history, the film will stream exclusively on Paramount+ with Showtime starting on Friday, September 29, and on Showtime on Sunday, October 1 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt.

"Inspired by true events, Heist 88 is the unbelievable story centered on Jeremy Horne (Vance), a criminal mastermind with an innate ability to convince anyone to do just about anything, who decides to pull one last job before going to prison," the cabler's official description teases.

"He recruits four young bank employees to steal close to $80 million dollars in a daring and brazen assault on the U.S. banking system."

"The film takes place in a time before widespread...

Spike Mendesohn is one celebrity chef with a lot on his plate. He currently has a reality show that takes a behind-the-scenes look at his family's restaurant business called Life After Top Chef on Bravo. He is a contestant on the latest season of The Next Iron Chef on the Food Network, and he has recently teamed up with Captain Morgan to create fall recipes with their latest formula, Black Spiced Rum.

I had the chance to speak with Spike about his many ongoing projects. Check out what he had to say about being on Top Chef versus The Next Iron Chef, and what it's like to work with Captain Morgan Rum below!

What can people expect to see on your new show, Life After Top Chef?

Well I think people will be really interested to see the team that’s behind me, and it’s family. So people that...

Diy survey platforms make constructing questionnaires easy, but the results could be biased, contradictory, or deeply misleading.

Online surveys often have to compete for attention against the backdrop of Netflix, Gmail alerts, and 25 open browser tabs. The minimal cognitive effort given to answering questions may exacerbate all the problems that lead to biased or outright distorted results.

As Facebook adds polling features and SurveyMonkey acquires popular document form builder, Wufoo, the proliferation of amateur surveying has a big future. So, we asked a survey expert at the famous University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, Professor Michael Traugott, about how to make questionnaires that get at precisely the data we're digging for.

Leading Questions

Perhaps the biggest no-no that surveys violate is poor wording. Minor adjustments in questions can often produce enormous differences. For example, one study found that for the question "Should divorce in this country be easier to obtain,...

Emmy-winning writer-producers Andrew Reich and Ted Cohen are making new friends at Paramount Network Television. The Friends executive producers/co-showrunners have inked a seven-figure, multiyear overall deal with Paramount to develop comedy projects for the studio. Reich and Cohen have been highly sought after in the past few months as the two are finishing their duties on the 10th and final season of Friends together with executive producers/co-showrunners Scott Silveri and Shana Goldberg-Meehan and exec producers Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman and David Crane. Reich and Cohen, who joined the flagship NBC comedy in 1997 as executive story editors, were named executive producers in December 2001 in recognition of the great creative and rating resurgence of the veteran Warner Bros. TV series in its Emmy-winning eighth season. The two started their TV writing careers in 1995 as staff writers on the comedy Minor Adjustments and worked the following year as story editors on the sitcom Mr. Rhodes. Reich and Cohen are repped by ICM and attorney Don Walerstein.