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The View is back with Season 28, and fans are already asking about the stars and who will return next year.

It is no secret that some fans feel the ladies are aging and calling for a younger panel on The View.

As Monsters and Critics have reported, the network will examine The View this fall to decide whether the show is profitable as the ladies and audience age.

The ladies, including Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines, are all back for the new season, but some fans wonder if the table will have the same faces next year.

Whoopi Golberg and Joy Behar always seem ready to retire, primarily since they already work a reduced week, but fans also ask about Sunny Hostin.

Sunny has been having a rough time lately, as she is navigating a significant life change since her youngest has moved to college, but there is another reason...

Norman Macdonnell and John Meston's "Gunsmoke" drama series aired on CBS for 20 uninterrupted seasons (!), a feat that feels even more impressive due to the consistent quality maintained throughout its run. Initially a radio series that broadcast between 1952 and 1961, "Gunsmoke" gained steady enough popularity to warrant a television adaptation in 1955, whose half to one-hour episodes culminate to form an epic Western saga for the ages. The nexus of "Gunsmoke" is one lawman Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) tasked to maintain order in Dodge City, Kansas, and his exploits underline the brutality of the Old West, challenging stereotypes attached to similar figures molded as unambiguously heroic. Although the show did employ archetypal characters — such as the loyal sidekick Chester Goode (Dennis Weaver) and the trustworthy town physician Doc Adams (Milburn Stone) — an appropriate amount of nuance grounds "Gunsmoke," which works best when rooted in morally grey vignettes.

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S.W.A.T. is finally coming to an end with a seventh season. This was great news for fans and lead actor Shemar Moore, who fought for the show’s survival. While CBS canceled it after Season 6, a pushback caused the network to allow it to return for Season 7 so the series could wrap up its stories.

However, does this mean that some former actors who left the series like Kenny Johnson and Alex Russell could return? Here is what Shemar Moore had to say.

Could Kenny Johnson Return In The Final S.W.A.T. Season?

When CBS canceled S.W.A.T., Shemar Moore spoke up loudly supporting the series continuing for one more season. However, when the series was headed for its end in Season 6, one of the most important team members fell in battle and ended up forced into retirement.

Kenny Johnson plays Dominique Luca, and he ended up gunned down as he attempted...

Get ready for your next marathon with Max! This February, the streamer is saying goodbye to major award winners, camp classics, and more. Most of the platform’s exits will take place on the final day of the month, including the genre and history-changing “The Exorcist,” the recent Oscar winner “Drive My Car,” and more, but Max will remove several other major TV and film titles throughout the month.

We at The Streamable have assembled our top picks for what’s leaving Max this month— continue below to find your next thing to watch and see the full list below to plan your next movie night before they’re gone!

7-Day Free Trial $9.99+ / month Max via amazon.com What are the 5 Best Shows and Movies Leaving Max in February 2024? “Drive My Car” | Thursday, Feb. 29

A recent Oscar winner for Best International Feature Film, the Japanese drama stars Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yūsuke Kafuku,...

Since it hit screens in 2017, Swat has proved popular with audiences thanks to its blend of high-stakes action and personal drama, yet the show shares a surprising connection with a largely forgotten 2003 Colin Farrell movie. TV shows and movies inspired by the police are nothing new. Every decade seemingly puts a new spin on the cop show formula, examining the concerns and critiques of the specific era. However, Swat is a particularly interesting case study, as it owes its success to not just one, but two earlier projects.

The 2017 Swat follows the adventures of Sergeant Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson (played by Shemar Moore), an ex-marine and loyal member of the LAPD. Incorporating a range of colorful side characters, the show chronicles the adventures of Hondo's dedicated new "Special Weapons And Tactics" team as they face off against dangerous external adversaries and internal bureaucracy. Given that the show has been running for six seasons,...

“I made him the highest paid actor in Hollywood history. We had a lot of fun!” So purrs Tom Hanks’ brazenly camp Col. Tom Parker in the new Elvis biopic. The film, which is the most decadent, jewel-encrusted piece of kitsch ever given an 85 million budget, is as much a monument to director Baz Luhrmann’s showmanship as it is Elvis Presley’s. For who else could condense the larger than life excess of a man dubbed “the King of Rock ’n Roll” into a three-ringed circus that keeps all its plates in the air for 160 minutes?

Elvis really is a marvel in spectacle and indulgence—plus a breakout for star Austin Butler who is so superb as the titular character that Luhrmann more than once slips in footage of the real Elvis’ 1950s rock star career, as well as clips from his ill-advised detour in 1960s Hollywood… and few viewers ever seemed to notice!

Rod Perry, who starred on the 1970s ABC series S.W.A.T. and appeared opposite Cicely Tyson in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, died Dec. 17, his family announced. He was 86.

Perry also had the leads in the Blaxploitation films The Black Godfather (1974) and The Black Gestapo (1975).

Perry portrayed Sgt. David “Deacon” Kay opposite Steve Forrest and Robert Urich on S.W.A.T., which was produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg and lasted 37 episodes in 1975-76, then returned for the 2003 S.W.A.T. feature as the father of LL Cool J’s Deke....

Rod Perry, who starred on the 1970s ABC series S.W.A.T. and appeared opposite Cicely Tyson in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, died Dec. 17, his family announced. He was 86.

Perry also had the leads in the Blaxploitation films The Black Godfather (1974) and The Black Gestapo (1975).

Perry portrayed Sgt. David “Deacon” Kay opposite Steve Forrest and Robert Urich on S.W.A.T., which was produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg and lasted 37 episodes in 1975-76, then returned for the 2003 S.W.A.T. feature as the father of LL Cool J’s Deke....

Amazon Women on the Moon

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Kino Lorber

1987 / 85 Min. / 1:85

Starring Lots of Actors

Cinematography by Daniel Pearl

Directed by Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss

Mark Twain said “If you don’t like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.” That applies just as well to 1987’s Amazon Women on the Moon, John Landis’s unofficial sequel to Kentucky Fried Movie and the bastard child of Joe Dante and Jon Davison’s The Movie Orgy. Like those back-handed tributes to the disreputable entertainments of our youth, Amazon Women is a smorgasbord of comedy skits, some served up just right and others pretty half-baked—but a judicious use of the remote control and patience rewards; overall the result is a good-natured vacation for the mind with three or four laugh-out-loud vaudeville sequences and a couple of bona-fide short-form classics. The...

Jacqueline Scott, who played the sister of David Janssen's man on the run in The Fugitive and the wife of Walter Matthau's bank robber in Charley Varrick, has died. She was 89.

Scott died Thursday at her home in Los Angeles after a battle with lung cancer, her son, Andrew, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Scott's characters also were married to small-town sheriff Jimmy Stewart in Firecreek (1968) and Dennis Weaver's salesman in Steven Spielberg's Duel (1971), and on the 1963 Twilight Zone episode "The Parallel," she was the wife of an astronaut (Steve Forrest) ...

Jacqueline Scott, who played the sister of David Janssen's man on the run in The Fugitive and the wife of Walter Matthau's bank robber in Charley Varrick, has died. She was 89.

Scott died Thursday at her home in Los Angeles after a battle with lung cancer, her son, Andrew, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Scott's characters also were married to small-town sheriff Jimmy Stewart in Firecreek (1968) and Dennis Weaver's salesman in Steven Spielberg's Duel (1971), and on the 1963 Twilight Zone episode "The Parallel," she was the wife of an astronaut (Steve Forrest) ...

HBO Max has put in development The Last Of The Mohicans, a series based on the historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, from Emmy winner Cary Joji Fukunaga (True Detective), Watchmen director Nicole Kassell, Nick Osborne (Remember Me) and Paramount Television, where Fukunaga is under an overall deal, Deadline has confirmed. The project had been in development at Paramount TV since last April. Anonymous Content and Fukunaga’s Parliament of Owls are producing. Kassell will direct.

Written by Fukunaga and Osborne and directed by Kassell, The Last of the Mohicans series will be a retelling of Cooper’s French and Indian War novel that re-centers the classic tale on the unlikely romance between Uncas, a young Mohican, and Cora, the mixed-race daughter of a British colonel.

The Last of the Mohicans has a long history of both TV and film adaptions. There have been nine film adaptations, beginning with a 1912 version starring James Cruze.

On Tuesday, October 29th actress Claire Forlani joined the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) and more than 2,500 delegates including political leaders and health officials, doctors, researchers, nurses, tuberculosis (TB) survivors and civil society organisations from around the world at the 50th Union World Conference in Hyderabad, India.

Claire Forlani meeting TB Survivors in Hyderabad.

Credit/Copyright: The Union/Steve Forrest/Workers' Photos

In 2017, 10 million people globally fell ill with TB and 1.6 million died from the disease.

India has the highest TB burden in the world, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has committed to eliminate TB in India by 2025, five years ahead of the official United Nations’ (Un) target.

Claire Forlani talking to TB Survivors.

Credit/Copyright: The Union/Steve Forrest/Workers' Photos

While in Hyderabad, Claire spoke to the first-ever TB Survivors Summit hosted by The Union where Claire is Ambassador. The Summit brought together amazing...

Exclusive: In their first collaboration, Maniac, The Alienist and True Detective’s Cary Joji Fukunaga has teamed with Watchmen director Nicole Kassell to bring The Last Of The Mohicans to the small screen. A TV series based on the historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper is in development at Paramount Television, where Fukunaga has been under an overall deal. Anonymous Content and Fukunaga’s Parliament of Owls are producing.

Written by Fukunaga and Nicholas Osborne and directed by Kassell, The Last of the Mohicans series will be a retelling of Cooper’s French and Indian War novel that re-centers the classic tale on the unlikely romance between Uncas, a young Mohican, and Cora, the mixed-race daughter of a British colonel.

“The clash of civilizations during the Seven Years War, which frames the story of Last of the Mohicans, has been a long-time passion of mine,” said Fukunaga. “It was a...

Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Michelle Pfeiffer, Arsenio Hall, Donald F. Muhich, Monique Gabrielle, Lou Jacobi, Erica Yohn, Phil Hartman, Corey Burton, Peter Horton, Griffin Dunne, Joe Pantoliano, Steve Forrest, Forrest J. Ackerman, Sybil Danning, David Alan Grier, Steve Guttenberg, Henry Silva, Robert Picardo, Rip Taylor, Ed Begley Jr., Dick Miller, Matt Adler, Kelly Preston, Howard Hesseman, Russ Meyer, Andrew Dice Clay, Carrie Fisher, Paul Bartel | Written by Michael Barrie, Jim Mulholland | Directed by Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, Robert K. Weiss, John Landis

One of many, many anthologies to have graced the silver screen over the years (another of which, the horror anthology Nightmares is also being released on Blu-ray by 101 Films), Amazon Women on the Moon features madcap sketches and shorts centred around the eponymous film-within-a-film, a satire of low-budget, 1950s-style sci-fi. Featuring appearances from Rosanna Arquette, Carrie Fisher, Steve Guttenberg, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sybil Danning and Ed Begley,...

The Tiffany Network is doubling down with Hondo and Deacon. CBS has renewed its Swat TV show reboot for a second season. The high-action program is a reboot of the 1975 original, starring Steve Forrest, Robert Urich, Rod Perry, Mark Shera, and James Coleman — itself a spinoff of The Rookies on ABC. A CBS police drama, Swat stars Shemar Moore, Stephanie Sigman, Alex Russell, Jay Harrington, Lina Esco, Kenny Johnson, and Peter Onorati. The police drama centers on Sergeant Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson (Moore). A lifetime Los Angeles local and former Marine, Hondo has been tapped to lead a new “last stop” Special Weapons and Tactics unit. His team includes the seasoned David “Deacon” Kay (Harrington), newcomer Jim Street (Russell), canine trainer Christina “Chris” Alonso (Esco), and expert driver, Dominique Luca (Johnson). They work under the supervision of L.A. Metro...

I’m just about old enough to remember the original S.W.A.T. series, which launched in 1975. It starred Steve Forrest as Hondo while the late Robert Ulrich took on the role of hotshot rookie Street. At the time it was cutting edge like many police series back then, but by today’s standards it would look a little cheesy and perhaps too white despite having a token black character in the form of Sergeant David ‘Deacon’ Kay played by Rod Perry, who also had a role in the 2003 movie as Deke’s dad. Like many, I have been watching the new show with...read more...

In 1975, the Swat TV show -- starring Steve Forrest, Robert Urich, Rod Perry, Mark Shera, and James Coleman -- spun off from ABC's TV series, The Rookies. Prior to its cancellation, Swat ran for 37 episodes, over the course of two seasons. Decades later, the concept came back into vogue, and it premiered in 2003 as a feature film with Samuel L. Jackson and Colin Farrell. Now, CBS has rebooted the police drama, but will a new generation be receptive to it? Will Swat be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned. A high-action program, Swat stars Shemar Moore, Stephanie Sigman, Alex Russell, Jay Harrington, Lina Esco, Kenny Johnson, and Peter Onorati. The CBS TV series centers on Sergeant Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson (Moore). A lifetime Los Angeles local and former Marine, Hondo has been tapped to lead a new “last stop”...

Deadine reports CBS has given a pilot production commitment with penalties to a S.W.A.T. TV show reboot. According to the report, the potential new drama series is inspired by the 2003 feature film, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J, Josh Charles, and Jeremy Renner.That film was based on the 1975 TV series from Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, which was cancelled by ABC after two seasons. Steve Forrest, Robert Urich, Rod Perry, Mark Shera, and James Coleman starred.Shawn Ryan, Neal H. Moritz, Justin Lin, and Aaron Rahsaan Thomas are executive producing the new S.W.A.T. project, which hails from Sony Pictures Television. CBS Television Studios is co-producing.Read More…...

Coleen Gray in 'The Sleeping City' with Richard Conte. Coleen Gray after Fox: B Westerns and films noirs (See previous post: “Coleen Gray Actress: From Red River to Film Noir 'Good Girls'.”) Regarding the demise of her Fox career (the year after her divorce from Rod Amateau), Coleen Gray would recall for Confessions of a Scream Queen author Matt Beckoff: I thought that was the end of the world and that I was a total failure. I was a mass of insecurity and depended on agents. … Whether it was an 'A' picture or a 'B' picture didn't bother me. It could be a Western movie, a sci-fi film. A job was a job. You did the best with the script that you had. Fox had dropped Gray at a time of dramatic upheavals in the American film industry: fast-dwindling box office receipts as a result of competition from television,...

Joan Collins in 'The Bitch': Sex tale based on younger sister Jackie Collins' novel. Author Jackie Collins dead at 77: Surprisingly few film and TV adaptations of her bestselling novels Jackie Collins, best known for a series of bestsellers about the dysfunctional sex lives of the rich and famous and for being the younger sister of film and TV star Joan Collins, died of breast cancer on Sept. 19, '15, in Los Angeles. The London-born (Oct. 4, 1937) Collins was 77. Collins' tawdry, female-centered novels – much like those of Danielle Steel and Judith Krantz – were/are immensely popular. According to her website, they have sold more than 500 million copies in 40 countries. And if the increasingly tabloidy BBC is to be believed (nowadays, Wikipedia has become a key source, apparently), every single one of them – 32 in all – appeared on the New York Times' bestseller list. (Collins' own site claims that a mere 30 were included.) Sex...

Lana Turner movies: Scandal and more scandal Lana Turner is Turner Classic Movies’ "Summer Under the Stars" star today, Saturday, August 10, 2013. I’m a little — or rather, a lot — late in the game posting this article, but there are still three Lana Turner movies left. You can see Turner get herself embroiled in scandal right now, in Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life (1959), both the director and the star’s biggest box-office hit. More scandal follows in Mark Robson’s Peyton Place (1957), the movie that earned Lana Turner her one and only Academy Award nomination. And wrapping things up is George Sidney’s lively The Three Musketeers (1948), with Turner as the ruthless, heartless, remorseless — but quite elegant — Lady de Winter. Based on Fannie Hurst’s novel and a remake of John M. Stahl’s 1934 melodrama about mother love, class disparities, racism, and good cooking, Imitation of Life was shown on...

Ramon Novarro and Greta Garbo in ‘Mata Hari’: The wrath of the censors (See previous post: "Ramon Novarro in One of the Best Silent Movies.") George Fitzmaurice’s romantic spy melodrama Mata Hari (1931) was well received by critics and enthusiastically embraced by moviegoers. The Greta Garbo / Ramon Novarro combo — the first time Novarro took second billing since becoming a star — turned Mata Hari into a major worldwide blockbuster, with $2.22 million in worldwide rentals. The film became Garbo’s biggest international success to date, and Novarro’s highest-grossing picture after Ben-Hur. (Photo: Ramon Novarro and Greta Garbo in Mata Hari.) Among MGM’s 1932 releases — Mata Hari opened on December 31, 1931 — only W.S. Van Dyke’s Tarzan, the Ape Man, featuring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan, and Edmund Goulding’s all-star Best Picture Academy Award winner Grand Hotel (also with Garbo, in addition to Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, and...

Paul Henreid: Actor was ‘dependable’ leading man to Hollywood actresses Paul Henreid, best known as the man who wins Ingrid Bergman’s body but not her heart in Casablanca, is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of July 2013. TCM will be showing a couple of dozen movies featuring Henreid, who, though never a top star, was a "dependable" — i.e., unexciting but available — leading man to a number of top Hollywood actresses of the ’40s, among them Bette Davis, Ida Lupino, Olivia de Havilland, Eleanor Parker, Joan Bennett, and Katharine Hepburn. Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of Paul Henreid movies to be shown on Turner Classic Movies in July consists of Warner Bros. productions that are frequently broadcast all year long, no matter who is TCM’s Star of the Month. Just as unfortunately, TCM will not present any of Henreid’s little-seen supporting performances of the ’30s, e.

Hollywood actor best known for his starring role as Lieutenant Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson in the 70s cop series S.W.A.T.

Steve Forrest, who has died aged 87, was a product of the Hollywood studio system, then at its tail end in the 1950s. Although MGM had the handsome, rugged 6ft 3in actor under contract for five years, from 1952 to 1957, they gave him few chances to shine. It was only when he left the studio that Forrest got bigger and better parts in feature films – one of his best performances was as the white brother of Elvis Presley, who plays the son of a Native American mother and a Texas rancher father, in Don Siegel's excellent western Flaming Star (1960) – and he was able to start a long and busy career on television.

In fact, it was on the small screen that Forrest would build his fame, notably in S.W.A.T. (1975-...

 

Actor Steve Forrest has passed away at the age of 87. The brother of famed actor Dana Andrews, Forrest had a successful career in films and television. A WWII veteran who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, Forrest was discovered by Gregory Peck and appeared in numerous films including Flaming Star, Spies Like Us, The Longest Day, Heller in Pink Tights, North Dallas Forty and Mommie Dearest. He was also a proficient vocalist and golfer. On TV, Forrest enjoyed his greatest success, starring in the short-lived, but fondly remembered British adventure series The Baron. As the titular character in the 1965 show, Forrest played an American antiques dealer living in London who would secretly undertake dangerous international missions in the service of British Intelligence. Forrest also had the lead role in the 1970s hit TV series S.W.A.T.  For more click here...

"Let's roll!" started with S.W.A.T. Steve Forrest, best known for starring in the 1970s action drama, died May 18 at his home in Thousand Oaks, Calif., according to his family. He was 87. A spinoff of the Aaron Spelling-produced The Rookies, S.W.A.T. ran on ABC for two seasons. Forrest had dozens of TV and film credits to his name, but the Texas-born actor was forever linked to the role of Lt. Dan "Hondo" Harrelson, whose signature line, "Let's roll," has been adopted as a catchphrase many times over. Fittingly, his final acting gig was a cameo as a Swat truck driver in the 2003 film S.W.A.T., starring Samuel L. Jackson as Hondo. After serving in the Army during...

Veteran he-man actor Steve Forrest, probably best remembered for starring in the TV series S.W.A.T., has died at 87. Forrest, who was the younger brother of the actor Dana Andrews, labored in movies for a decade, in tiny, mostly uncredited bit parts (including, among others, the 1943 Val Lewton production The Ghost Ship, Vincente Minnelli’s 1952 Hollywood expose’ The Bad And The Beautiful, and the Minnelli-Fred Astaire musical The Band Wagon) before winning a Golden Globe for Most Promising Male Newcomer for his performance in So Big (1953). Movie stardom failed to materialize, but he worked ...

Veteran actor Steve Forrest, who had more than 100 TV credits including starring on the mid-1970s police actioner S.W.A.T., died May 18 in Thousand Oaks. He was 87. The brother of actor Dana Andrews, Forrest made guest appearances on scores of TV shows and recurred on the original Dallas. He also played Lt. Hondo Harrelson on ABC’s 1975-76 police actioner S.W.A.T. — he had a cameo in the 2003 feature adaptation — and starred as John “The Baron” Mannering on the 1966 Cold War spy drama The Baron, the first color series on UK TV. Forrest, from Texas, was a sergeant in the Army and saw action in the Battle of the Bulge. He later moved to La and graduated from UCLA in 1950 with a theater arts degree. He went on to work as a stagehand at the La Jolla Playhouse, where he was discovered by Hollywood icon Gregory Peck, who cast Forrest in a...

Steve Forrest, an actor best known for his role as Lt. Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson on ABC's "S.W.A.T.," died in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Saturday. He was 87. A cause of death was not made available, but he passed away peacefully surrounded by family, according to a statement from his publicist, Amanda Nguyen. Also read: Notable Celebrity Deaths of 2013 Forrest, a World War II veteran and UCLA graduate, began his acting career in the early '50s after being discovered by actor Gregory Peck while working as a stagehand at La Jolla Playhouse.   Peck cast him...

Hollywood lost a true onscreen and offscreen hero on Saturday, May 18. S.W.A.T. star Steve Forrest, best known for his role as Lt. Dan "Hondo" Harrelson on the '70s action series, died peacefully surrounded by family in Thousand Oaks, Calif., according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 87. The screen veteran played the leader of the police department's special weapons and tactics team on two seasons of the series, and later even made a cameo in the 2003 movie remake of the same name, starring Samuel L. [...]...

Steve Forrest, who starred as Lt. Dan “Hondo” Harrelson on the 1970s ABC action series S.W.A.T., died peacefully surrounded by family on May 18 in Thousand Oaks, Calif. He was 87. In a career spanning more than 60 years, Forrest frequently was cast as a leading man or “heavy.” An aficionado of the American Western, he delighted in roles that glorified the genre, including guest-starring appearances on such television classics as The Virginian, Bonanza and Gunsmoke. Photos: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2013 But it was his role as the hard-hitting yet warmhearted Harrelson on the

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With the entire original run of The Twilight Zone available to watch instantly, we’re partnering with Twitch Film to cover all of the show’s 156 episodes. Are you brave enough to watch them all with us? The Twilight Zone (Episode #113): “The Parallel” (airdate 3/14/63) The Plot: An astronaut orbiting the Earth blacks out only to awaken back on the planet’s surface. He returns home to his wife and child and discovers that something isn’t quite right. Or at least it’s a bit too right. The Goods: Astronaut Robert Gaines (Steve Forrest) is the man of the hour as his scheduled launch into space approaches. His wife and daughter watch on the television while his colleagues at ground control monitor his every move. But shortly after reaching orbit a bright light hits the capsule, and he awakens back on Earth. It seems he disappeared from radar for several hours until the capsule was eventually...

Actor known for her roles in The Ipcress File and Crossroads

The actor Sue Lloyd, who has died aged 72, exuded glamour and sophistication on screen in the 1960s, before finding renewed fame two decades later as Barbara Hunter in 714 episodes of the TV soap opera Crossroads. But it took two attempts by the serial's producers to persuade her to join a programme that was roundly abused by the critics.

"My initial reaction was to be a bit sniffy about it," Lloyd recalled in her 1998 autobiography, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time. "The soap was renowned for its wobbly scenery, bizarre storylines and regular slaughtering by the critics. Why would I, just back from filming [Revenge of] The Pink Panther with Peter Sellers in the south of France and about to embark on the comedy The Upchat Line with John Alderton, want to get involved in a project like that?...

She spent the final days of her life in a New York City hospital room. It had no frills and no visitors, either - just her dolls. Worth $500 million when she died at the age of 104, Huguette Clark chose to live in a series of hospital rooms for 22 years though she had no known ailments. She also owned a $100 million estate in Santa Barbara, a $24 million chateau in Connecticut and a $100 million Fifth Avenue apartment in Manhattan. Nearly a week after the reclusive copper heiress's death at Beth Israel Medical Center, details have begun to emerge about the woman who...

Los Angeles/New York - The eccentric Us multimillionaire Huguette Clark has died aged 104, media reports said Thursday. Clark died Tuesday at Beth Israel Hospital in New York. She had lived in hospital at her request since the end of the 1980s. 'She died as she wanted, with dignity and privacy,' a spokesman for her lawyer Wallace Bock said, the Los Angeles Times reported. She was the daughter of William Andrews Clark, a copper and railway magnate who was among the richest men in the country. Huguette Clark's wealth was put at around 500 million dollars. She had no children. Clark was born in Paris in 1906 and grew up in a house with 121 rooms, the New York...

Elvis Presley holds the throne as “The King” of rock n’ roll. Music was his forte, but he did dabble in film for awhile and the results were a mixed bag. In honor of his 75th birthday which he won’t be able to celebrate for himself (unless you’re an Elvis Lives conspiracy theorist), Fox has released the Elvis 75th Birthday Collection. Presented in 2.35:1 Widescreen (save for Kid Galahad in 1.85:1 and Frankie and Johnny in 1.66:1), the collection shows its age in a few places as Fox seems to have done little to remaster these classics, but overall it’s a nice look at the musician who would be an actor, even if the selection of films leaves a lot to be desired. If the set is good for anything it’s for showing his progress as an actor from his first film ever, Love Me Tender,...

New plot details have emerged about the sequel to the 2003 film S.W.A.T., itself based upon the 1975-76 series of the same name that starred Steve Forrest and Robert Urich. According to /Film, the studio has hired Next Day Air director Benny Boom to helm from a script by Reed Steiner (Nash Bridges, Navy NCIS).

The sequel is called Swat: Fire-Fight. In the story, Lapd Lieutenant Paul Cutler finds himself the target of a homicidal genius who is protected by government officials after being transferred to Detroit to put a local S.W.A.T. team through a training regimen.

The film will head into production in April.

2003's S.W.A.T. starred Samuel L Jackson, Colin Farrell, Jeremy Renner and Michelle Rodriguez and grossed over $200M on a $80M budget. The sequel is expected to have a new cast and /Film speculates that it may be destined for direct-to-dvd status.

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The concept behind Mission: Impossible had never been attempted on television before and the CBS series about a covert government operation taking on; well, impossible, cases became a smash hit. Guided by the steady Peter Graves, Greg Morris and Peter Lupis, the series received awards, acclaim and most importantly, ratings. Early on, the show was also headlined by Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, but they left after three seasons. In stepped Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, and Sam Elliot for the next two seasons but by spring 1971, the show was beginning to feel tired.

Season six, airing 1971-1972, was the season that should not have been. Paramount Pictures wanted the show canceled and placed into profitable reruns but CBS saw ratings upticks at the end of season five and wanted the series back. Nimoy wanted out, saying he was bored. It was time to change everything up.

The penultimate season,...

A music video directed by Howard Greenhalgh to support Placebo's single called "For What It's Worth" has been debuted. It mostly highlights the band's live performance in a building. Their performance is sometimes intercepted with a capture of people doing their daily basis routine in town.

"For What It's Worth" is one of the new materials to be listed in Placebo's soon-to-be-released studio album "Battle for the Sun". The lead single off the record was played on radio for the first time on April 20 during Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 program.

"Battle for the Sun" itself is slated for U.K. release on June 8. Becoming the band's first album with new drummer Steve Forrest, the effort is "about choosing life, about choosing to live, about stepping out of the darkness and into the light."

Placebo's "For What It's Worth" music video:...

Itc cut the strings with this thriller spy series that didn.t rely on marionettes. It was a big hit across the pond, but since it was made for the American market, which didn.t produce the hoped ratings, it was cancelled after one season (1965-66). DVD resurrects another .lost. show as E1 Entertainment brings the complete series out of antiquity. John Mannering (Steve Forrest) is known as .The Baron. after his grandfather.s cattle ranch. He outwardly appears to be an antiques dealer with a father lavish lifestyle, but secretly he.s an agent for the British government. He and his assistant Cordelia (Sue Lloyd) engage in all sorts of daring do in the name of the queen. The show...

Indie rock act Placebo have announced plans to release their sixth studio album in June. Brian Molko's band will return in the summer with their first record since 2006's Meds. It will be the trio's first LP with new drummer Steve Forrest. The group have signed with European entertainment group Pias, according to NME. "We were very lucky to have so many great labels interested in signing us, it (more)...