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Al Matthews dead: Grange Hill actor has passed away
Matthews reportedly retired to Spain in 2005. Al reprised the role in 2013 for video game Aliens: Colonial Marines . What was Al Matthews' cause of death? A representative for Chip Baker Films, the company who produced Al's project, The Price of Death , told Express.co.uk: "I don't think he has an agent but we used to work with him and yes, he's died". [Full Article...]
Spotify coming back to Roku, adding Spotify Connect
We got a chance to see them during a recent press demo held in San Francisco and, alongside them, a slew of updates coming to the software side that will make finding something to watch a significantly less expensive process. It doesn't need a direct line of sight to the box, a power button that can control your TV through HDMI-CEC and comes with a microphone built-in. The Premiere+ is launching... [Full Article...]
Kavanaugh accuser Ford agrees to testify Thursday; 2nd accuser steps forward
The new accusation landed late Sunday in a report from The New Yorker , just a few hours after negotiators had reached an agreement to hold an extraordinary public hearing Thursday for Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford , who accuses him of sexually assaulting her at a party when they were teenagers. [Full Article...]
"Kim Wrote A Beautiful Letter": Trump Says Summit With North Korea Soon
He said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo - whose last planned visit to Pyongyang was abruptly scuttled by the White House - would arrange the summit "in the immediate future". "It looks like we'll have a second summit quite soon", he told reporters. But speaking as he arrived at United Nations headquarters in NY for this year's gathering, Trump hailed "tremendous progress" to halt Pyongya... [Full Article...]
First full Bumblebee trailer arrives
Bumblebee won't be the only Transformer to appear in the film. Bumblebee will arrive neatly wrapped in United Kingdom cinemas on Boxing Day this year - and stay tuned to Empire for a trailer breakdown from Travis Knight himself. [Full Article...]
Bill Cosby Possibly Headed to Jail on Monday
Pennsylvania's sex-offender board has examined Cosby and recommended he be deemed a predator, concluding that he has a mental defect or personality disorder that makes him prone to criminal behavior. He remained a Hollywood A-lister for much of the next half-century, hitting his peak in the 1980s with the top-rated Cosby Show as Dr. Cliff Huxtable. [Full Article...]
Cosby accusers say they hope he is sentenced to jail time
Two of Bill Cosby's many accusers said on Sunday that they hope that the disgraced actor-comedian will be sentenced to jail at this week's hearing. Cosby was convicted in April on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in the suburbs of Philadelphia in 2004. [Full Article...]
Kenan Thompson May Leave SNL For An NBC Sitcom
Fresh off his first Emmy Award for his performance in Saturday Night Live , news has surfaced that Kenan Thompson may star in his own primetime comedy series. He and Chris Redd, Will Stephen, and Eli Brueggemann won the Emmy this year for original music and lyrics for their song "Come Back Barack". Thompson is repped by UTA, Michael Goldman, and Del Shaw. [Full Article...]