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Jamie Foxx to host app-based game show

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) – Jamie Foxx is turning game-show host.The Oscar-winning actor will host Fox TV’s “Beat Shazam,” an interactive game show based on the song-identification app Shazam.The game show’s producers include Mark Burnett of “Survivor” and “The Voice.”Foxx will ...

Coen brothers to make their first TV series

NEW YORK (AP) – The Coen brothers will make their first TV show, a miniseries titled “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.” Joel and Ethan Coen will write and direct the project, set in the Old West, Annapurna Television announced. The production company said it plans to make “The Ballad of ...

‘Exorcist’ author William Peter Blatty dead at 89

NEW YORK – Novelist and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, a former Jesuit school valedictorian who conjured a tale of demonic possession and gave millions the fright of their lives with the best-selling novel and Oscar-winning movie “The Exorcist,” has died. He was 89.Blatty died Thursday ...

‘Mad Men’ archive lands in Texas

AUSTIN, Texas – The last America saw of Don Draper, he was meditating on a Pacific hillside, imagining one of the most iconic ads in television history.What’s left of the flawed protagonist of “Mad Men” has now gone to Texas.Show creator Matthew Weiner and production company Lionsgate ...

Alec Baldwin considering other venues for Trump impression

NEW YORK (AP) – Alec Baldwin may be taking his Donald Trump act on the road.Baldwin tells ABC News he is “in discussions” with other venues for his impression of the president-elect besides NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.”The 58-year-old actor has played Trump on SNL since last year. He ...

Former England soccer coach Taylor dies at 72

LONDON – Graham Taylor, the England coach derided for failing to qualify for the 1994 World Cup after flourishing as a club manager working for pop star Elton John, died. He was 72.Taylor, who won admiration by leading Aston Villa and Watford into the top-flight in the 1980s, died early ...