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Norah O’Donnell’s exit from “CBS Evening News” Thursday night wasn’t what viewers might have expected. And the successor program that CBS intends to air in its place on Monday will have a similar quality.

O’Donnell bid farewell to viewers of the long-running broadcast after a surprise taped cameo from Oprah Winfrey which celebrated the anchor and showed many highlights of her tenure. O’Donnell thanked the audience for welcoming “hard news with heart into your homes,” and was spotted being surrounded by colleagues and family as the show’s credits began to roll. Coming Monday: a completely overhauled edition of the program that is taking pains to break many visual ties to the days when Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather told the nation what was most important at the end of their day.

CBS will launch a new “Evening News” that relies on a group of co-anchors, rather than a single person.

It was quite the year in the world of F1 and motorsport!

The 2024 Formula 1 season was full of “Breaking News” and plenty of records being broken throughout the year.

From the very first race of the season in Bahrain, and all the way up until the final race weekend at Abu Dhabi, this year’s drivers and teams hit the pavement in the race to secure as many points as possible for their team.

This year, all ten teams on the grid scored points, though not every driver was able to crack the top ten to score by the end of a race.

Now that the season has come to an end, we are taking a look back at many of this year’s highlights, from first time winners to record extending starts and more.

Keep reading inside to check out a series of fun facts and highlights from the 2024 F1 race season…...

Are there any Queen Sugar fans out there? If you are, you need to know that the actor who played “Davis West” on the hit Oprah Winfrey Network drama has joined the upcoming daytime drama Beyond the Gates. In Queen Sugar, Timon Durrett played a pro-level basketball athlete. Davis played hard on and off the court, ultimately blowing up his family. So Durrett knows how to play the highs and lows of drama and deviousness. And he will bring it when Btg debuts in 2025.

The Early Days

The Chicago native traveled to Mississippi to attend Alcorn University, where the 6’5″ athlete played college basketball and earned a bachelor’s degree in communications in 1988.

When Alcorn University shined a spotlight on its esteemed alum, Durrett told them about what it was like being a student-athlete. “To some, you are a role model, and if you disappoint, there’s a lot of scrutiny,...

CBS viewers can expect a few changes to their network’s daytime programming for 2025. Fans can see their favorite daytime shows come and go, as well as finding new ones. The network’s lineup of soaps, which include The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful, are especially expected to be impacted by upcoming changes.

Daytime Fans Are Losing A Talk Show & Gaining A Soap

The talk show, The Talk, is expected to air its final episode by December 24, 2024. The following Monday, its slot will be filled with encore episodes of The Price Is Right. By February 24, in the following year, a new soap, Beyond the Gates, is slated to take its place.

Starting by December 23, 2024, CBS will have a new daytime schedule. Starting off with the game shows, Let’s Make A Deal will air from 10:00 Am to 11:00 Am Et.

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The Berlin International Film Festival’s jury press conference, headed by Hollywood star Kristen Stewart, concluded on Thursday, but remarks made by legendary Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To at the event are still reverberating a world away.

When the festival juror were asked by a journalist in the crowd to share their views on why cinema remains important in today’s world, To, considered on the greatest filmmakers Hong Kong has produced, responded: “For me, cinema has always been in the vanguard. When totalitarian rule emerges, when people lose their freedoms, cinema is the first to take the hit. In most cases, cultural production will be forcefully suspended, since the cinema speaks directly to the audience. That’s why dictators always target the cinema. I think Hong Kong… No, sorry. I think all the countries and peoples fighting for freedom across the globe should support the cinema. Because the cinema...

Exclusive: Awkwafina is about to blow our minds by pairing two unlikely things: Chinatown restaurants and the Califronia punk scene from the 1970s and ’80s. The Crazy Rich Asians breakout and Jumanji: The Next Level star is collaborating with Topic Studios to develop a yet-to-be-titled feature film inspired by the Topic.com article “How Chinese Food Fueled the Rise of California Punk. Awkwafina is set to star and produce alongside Topic Studios.

Written by Madeline Leung Coleman, the article explores how, during the recession of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Chinatown restaurants from Sacramento to San Francisco started renting their banquet halls for rehearsal space and booking the young bands of nascent West Coast punk as dinner entertainment to bring in additional business. The article puts shine on these Chinese and Filipino restaurants and how they became some of California’s most important venues and the focal point of...

Turner Broadcasting System executives pledged to become more aggressive about developing original series for their general entertainment networks Thursday at the Television Critics Assn. press tour. TBS chairman and CEO Phil Kent emphasized the importance of adding a few original series in the coming years to top-rated basic cable channels TBS Superstation and TNT, the latter of which currently subsists entirely on acquired drama series, sports and original and theatrical movies. "We know that a big part of our mission going forward is to accelerate our efforts in the original-series business, and we're starting to spend a lot of time out here now doing that," said Kent, who declined to elaborate on any specific projects in development. Despite its ratings momentum, TNT has been criticized in recent years for making few strides on the original-series front. Two short-lived series, Bull and Witchblade, met with mixed results; a third, Breaking News, never made it to air despite the completion of a full season of episodes.