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NBCUniversal(NEW YORK) — With Jimmy Fallon and his house band The Roots bringing The Tonight Show back to Rockefeller Center last week for the first time since the COVID-19 shutdown, The Hollywood Reporter says Saturday Night Live could be next. 

The show’s famous Studio 8H has been dark since its last live broadcast, when Daniel Craig hosted on March 7 to promote his newest James Bond film No Time To Die, which itself was shelved due to the pandemic. The cast created three “At Home” episodes since then, featuring remote-shot segments and musical performances.

The trade reports a possible return might follow The Tonight Show‘s suit: limited cast and crew but no audience, and a more socially-distanced set. Like The Tonight Show‘s current interviews, live video segments could also come to the fore, and SNL‘s “At Home” episodes proved remote sketches can fill the gap. 

THR notes that there’s no date for the show to return, but states that the upcoming presidential election would be a natural fit for new content. 

By Stephen Iervolino
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Melinda Sue Gordon; ©2020 Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved.(LOS ANGELES) — Director Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, once held by many as a last hope for a summer 2020 theatrical movie season, has finally waved the white flag. 

With the COVID-19 pandemic showing no signs of relenting in the U.S., Warner Bros. has pulled the movie from its August 12 berth, Variety reports.

“We will share a new 2020 release date imminently,” said Warner Bros. chairman Toby Emmerich in a statement. “Our goals throughout this process have been to ensure the highest odds of success for our films while also being ready to support our theater partners with new content as soon as they could safely reopen.”

The time-bending thriller, which stars John David Washington and Robert Pattinson, had already been bumped twice as the COVID-19 crisis spread across the country and all the world.

Movie theaters remain closed in many areas of the U.S., but even in those states that had begun to relax their pandemic rules, the coronavirus continues to keep crowds away. Theaters in New York and Los Angeles, the country’s two largest movie markets, remain closed.

However, Variety notes that Warner Bros. is considering releasing Tenet first in foreign markets, many of which have begun reopening their theaters.

By Stephen Iervolino
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ABC(LOS ANGELES) — Since Alex Trebek first announced in March that he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, he says he’s had good and bad days.

But these days, things are looking up for the Jeopardy! game show host, who’s releasing a memoir.

“I’ve received so many expressions of love and so many prayers said on my behalf…I thought, ‘Well, maybe… the people would care to learn something about me,'” Trebek told ABC’s Good Morning America.

As for those good and bad days, Trebek shares, “There was one day a few weeks ago when Jeanie [Trebek’s wife, Jean Trebek] asked me in the morning, ‘How do you feel?’ And I said, ‘I feel like I wanna die.’ It was that bad,” said Trebek. 

“She’s a saint,” said Trebek, choking up while describing his wife of 30 years. 

Trebek also got candid about how often difficult moments come up, both at home and at work. 

“I’m good at faking it,” he said. “And I don’t know what it is, but when it’s time to go, it’s time to go…Get out there, suck it up, make it happen.”

He adds, “I suddenly wake up and I’m able to perform and handle the show because I like it. It’s a good job.”

Trebek, who turns 80 Wednesday, has been hosting Jeopardy! for 36 years, and still has no plans to stop.

“My doctor has told me that he is counting on me celebrating two years of — survivorship past the diagnosis of stage 4 pancreatic cancer. And that…happens in February,” said Trebek. “So I expect to be around ’cause he said I will be around. And I expect to be hosting the show if I am around.”

Trebek’s memoir, titled The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life, will be out tomorrow.

By Cameron Harrison, Angeline Jane Bernabe, and Dominick Proto
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