Apple's Road To H'Wood; MSNBCer Defends Farrow; Megyn 'Bombshell'; ‘Watchmen’ Review

What's news: Inside Apple's bumpy road to Hollywood, LeBron James wades into NBA/China controversy, Tom Steyer is ready for his debate closeup, MSNBC's Chris Hayes defends Ronan Farrow, Charlize Theron talks Bombshell, Megyn Kelly returns to Fox News. Plus: Fortnite returns, and the latest news from MIPCOM. --Alex Weprin [The Hollywood Reporter]( [The Hollywood Reporter]( Today In Entertainment OCTOBER 15, 2019 What's news: Inside Apple's bumpy road to Hollywood, LeBron James wades into NBA/China controversy, Tom Steyer is ready for his debate closeup, MSNBC's Chris Hayes defends Ronan Farrow, Charlize Theron talks Bombshell, Megyn Kelly returns to Fox News. Plus: Fortnite returns, and the latest news from MIPCOM. --Alex Weprin What's news: Inside Apple's bumpy road to Hollywood, LeBron James wades into NBA/China controversy, Tom Steyer is ready for his debate closeup, MSNBC's Chris Hayes defends Ronan Farrow, Charlize Theron talks Bombshell, Megyn Kelly returns to Fox News. Plus: Fortnite returns, and the latest news from MIPCOM. --Alex Weprin [Apple's Play For Hollywood] Apple's Play For Hollywood ►Inside Apple's long, bumpy road to Hollywood. Lesley Goldberg and Natalie Jarvey take a deep dive into Apple's TV ambitions, writing about the tumultuous early goings (new showrunners on The Morning Show and Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories, with sources suggesting that the Jason Momoa-led See could follow suit), the investment the company is pouring into it (including a sleek glass office building under construction in Culver City), and the excitement in Hollywood about the company's "game-changing" reach, and having a new buyer for programming. Quote: "If you're going to bet on a new company to enter this space, we felt Apple is as good a bet as you can make," says former HBO drama head Michael Ellenberg, who has three shows (and counting) at Apple. "Apple's brand is synonymous with excellence, and they believe in — and know how to create — cultural moments. And we knew if we were able to make something we were proud of, we could land the moment with them to cut through the noise." [The story](. +Apple TV+ by the numbers: $5: the monthly subscription cost for Apple TV+ (which will be free for one year with the purchase of a device), $240 million: the estimated cost of two seasons of See, $300 million: the cost of two seasons of The Morning Show, $7 to $10 billion: the revenue Apple TV+ could generate by 2023, according to Wedbush Securities, $167 billion: Apple's iPhone revenue last year, placing the company's video projects in perspective. +Roku this morning said that Apple is bringing the Apple TV app and Apple TV+ to its platform, significantly expanding the service's reach beyond Apple devices ahead of Apple TV+'s Nov. 1 launch. ►LeBron steps into the NBA's China mess. LeBron James said in an interview Monday that Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey "was either misinformed or not really educated on the situation" regarding the potential consequences of his actions when he tweeted in support of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests. He later clarified his comments, suggesting that Morey's tweet was poorly timed because NBA teams were in China for preseason games, but it was too late to stem the outrage that followed his initial comments. [More](. +Hong Kong protestors subsequently voiced their disappointment in James: "He supports totalitarianism?" [More.]( ^Billionaire Tom Steyer is ready for a "crazy" 12-person Democratic debate. Jeremy Barr speaks to Steyer ahead of tonight's CNN/New York Times debate. It will be his first primary debate appearance this cycle. "I think most people in America don't know who I am and this is a chance for me to introduce myself and to talk about what I care about and why I am running for president." [The interview](. In other news about the news... ►Ronan Farrow's book, Catch and Kill, is being released today. Following appearances on CNN's New Day this morning, and CBS This Morning and The View yesterday, Farrow is booked to appear on a number of other shows and platforms this week. As the book hits shelves, other newsy sections are trickling out, including a report that the National Enquirer and its parent company American Media Inc. [shredded documents]( related to President Trump. +MSNBC's 8 pm host, Chris Hayes, delivered a monologue last night [defending]( Farrow and his reporting, telling viewers "there's a reason it took so long for the true story about [Harvey] Weinstein to be told, for the many allegations of him to stay locked in a vault. And that's because time and again the path of least resistance for those in power was not to cross Weinstein or his army of friends and lawyers. Same goes for the many, many, many other powerful predators that we’ve come to know about." +In other MSNBC news: Hardball host Chris Matthews[is recovering]( from prostate cancer surgery, Steve Kornacki said on last night's show. "The procedure went well, but he is taking a few days to get back into fighting shape." ►Sarah Silverman is getting back into business with HBO. The comedian has signed a deal with the premium cable outlet to star in a stand-up special and a pilot for a late-night series. The stand-up special will be her first since 2013, and the late night concept will see her "weighing in on the mishigas of the week and taking live video calls." [The details](. +Also in development: Jason Sudeikis [is reviving]( his American football coach character Ted Lasso for a straight-to-series comedy at Apple. The show will see Sudeikis step back into his role as the titular all-American football coach who is hired to manage an English football club — despite having no soccer coaching experience at all. Critic's notebook: Daniel Fienberg turns a critical eye toward season two of HBO's Succession. Quote: "I can't speak for everybody whether the pleasure of watching Succession comes from rooting for the Roys to crash and burn or from the hope that some of the Roys might be redeemed or the real estate porn, yacht porn and fashion porn that lets us believe that if we had the money to sustain this sort of life, maybe we wouldn't waste our time eviscerating those closest to us?" [The notebook](. +Succession showrunner Jesse Armstrong talks about the season two finale twist: "Different interpretations are valid." [More](. Elsewhere in TV... --Tim Goodman reviews the anticipated [HBO series Watchmen](. He also reviews USA's [action drama Treadstone](. --ABC News [has taken down]( a Syria bombing video that was broadcast on Sunday and Monday morning that in fact was 2017 footage from a Kentucky military gun range event. --Here's [a trailer]( for season three of Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. --Webtoon[is teaming]( with Crunchyroll for new animated content. --Ratings: Sunday Night Football took a [sizable hit](in early ratings, with the NBC broadcast recording what looks to be its smallest audience of the season so far by a significant margin. Apple's Play For Hollywood ►Inside Apple's long, bumpy road to Hollywood. Lesley Goldberg and Natalie Jarvey take a deep dive into Apple's TV ambitions, writing about the tumultuous early goings (new showrunners on The Morning Show and Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories, with sources suggesting that the Jason Momoa-led See could follow suit), the investment the company is pouring into it (including a sleek glass office building under construction in Culver City), and the excitement in Hollywood about the company's "game-changing" reach, and having a new buyer for programming. Quote: "If you're going to bet on a new company to enter this space, we felt Apple is as good a bet as you can make," says former HBO drama head Michael Ellenberg, who has three shows (and counting) at Apple. "Apple's brand is synonymous with excellence, and they believe in — and know how to create — cultural moments. And we knew if we were able to make something we were proud of, we could land the moment with them to cut through the noise." [The story](. +Apple TV+ by the numbers: $5: the monthly subscription cost for Apple TV+ (which will be free for one year with the purchase of a device), $240 million: the estimated cost of two seasons of See, $300 million: the cost of two seasons of The Morning Show, $7 to $10 billion: the revenue Apple TV+ could generate by 2023, according to Wedbush Securities, $167 billion: Apple's iPhone revenue last year, placing the company's video projects in perspective. +Roku this morning said that Apple is bringing the Apple TV app and Apple TV+ to its platform, significantly expanding the service's reach beyond Apple devices ahead of Apple TV+'s Nov. 1 launch. ►LeBron steps into the NBA's China mess. LeBron James said in an interview Monday that Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey "was either misinformed or not really educated on the situation" regarding the potential consequences of his actions when he tweeted in support of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests. He later clarified his comments, suggesting that Morey's tweet was poorly timed because NBA teams were in China for preseason games, but it was too late to stem the outrage that followed his initial comments. [More](. +Hong Kong protestors subsequently voiced their disappointment in James: "He supports totalitarianism?" [More.]( ^Billionaire Tom Steyer is ready for a "crazy" 12-person Democratic debate. Jeremy Barr speaks to Steyer ahead of tonight's CNN/New York Times debate. It will be his first primary debate appearance this cycle. "I think most people in America don't know who I am and this is a chance for me to introduce myself and to talk about what I care about and why I am running for president." [The interview](. In other news about the news... ►Ronan Farrow's book, Catch and Kill, is being released today. Following appearances on CNN's New Day this morning, and CBS This Morning and The View yesterday, Farrow is booked to appear on a number of other shows and platforms this week. As the book hits shelves, other newsy sections are trickling out, including a report that the National Enquirer and its parent company American Media Inc. [shredded documents]( related to President Trump. +MSNBC's 8 pm host, Chris Hayes, delivered a monologue last night [defending]( Farrow and his reporting, telling viewers "there's a reason it took so long for the true story about [Harvey] Weinstein to be told, for the many allegations of him to stay locked in a vault. And that's because time and again the path of least resistance for those in power was not to cross Weinstein or his army of friends and lawyers. Same goes for the many, many, many other powerful predators that we’ve come to know about." +In other MSNBC news: Hardball host Chris Matthews[is recovering]( from prostate cancer surgery, Steve Kornacki said on last night's show. "The procedure went well, but he is taking a few days to get back into fighting shape." ►Sarah Silverman is getting back into business with HBO. The comedian has signed a deal with the premium cable outlet to star in a stand-up special and a pilot for a late-night series. The stand-up special will be her first since 2013, and the late night concept will see her "weighing in on the mishigas of the week and taking live video calls." [The details](. +Also in development: Jason Sudeikis [is reviving]( his American football coach character Ted Lasso for a straight-to-series comedy at Apple. The show will see Sudeikis step back into his role as the titular all-American football coach who is hired to manage an English football club — despite having no soccer coaching experience at all. Critic's notebook: Daniel Fienberg turns a critical eye toward season two of HBO's Succession. Quote: "I can't speak for everybody whether the pleasure of watching Succession comes from rooting for the Roys to crash and burn or from the hope that some of the Roys might be redeemed or the real estate porn, yacht porn and fashion porn that lets us believe that if we had the money to sustain this sort of life, maybe we wouldn't waste our time eviscerating those closest to us?" [The notebook](. +Succession showrunner Jesse Armstrong talks about the season two finale twist: "Different interpretations are valid." [More](. Elsewhere in TV... --Tim Goodman reviews the anticipated [HBO series Watchmen](. He also reviews USA's [action drama Treadstone](. --ABC News [has taken down]( a Syria bombing video that was broadcast on Sunday and Monday morning that in fact was 2017 footage from a Kentucky military gun range event. --Here's [a trailer]( for season three of Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. --Webtoon[is teaming]( with Crunchyroll for new animated content. --Ratings: Sunday Night Football took a [sizable hit](in early ratings, with the NBC broadcast recording what looks to be its smallest audience of the season so far by a significant margin. [Megyn Kelly's 'Bombshell' Role] Megyn Kelly's 'Bombshell' Role ►Charlize Theron talks Bombshell. Theron takes on the role of former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly in the Lionsgate film. After the film's first official screening at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, she was asked if she thought Kelly, considered by many a divisive character, was portrayed as a hero in the film. “I don’t think I’ve ever chased playing heroes. I’m interested in playing people who are complicated and flawed and make mistakes. Because I relate — a lot," she said. "Whether she's a hero or not — that's not really a question I ever asked myself." [More](. +This morning Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, where they released a new Bombshell trailer. [More](. +Speaking of Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News host will return to the channel on Wednesday night, as a guest on Tucker Carlson's 8 pm show. It will be her first appearance on the channel since leaving for NBC in 2017. [More](. Bombshell debut, critics' doc picks, east coast film fests heat up awards race. Scott Feinberg reports that the early buzz from the first Bombshell screenings tip Margot Robbie and John Lithgow as possible supporting awards contenders for the film, with Charlize Theron a strong contender in the lead categories. That, plus reports from some of the east coast film festivals, [in the column](. ►Fortnite returns. Epic Games' blockbuster battle royale shooter, which has more than 250 million active players and generated north of $2.4 billion in 2018, essentially shut down on Sunday following an in-game event which saw its map, players and menu system all sucked into a black hole. The game returned Tuesday morning with "chapter two." [More](. Revolving door: Chicken Soup for the Soul [has launched]( its own film and TV studio, Landmark Studio Group, and appointed former IDW Entertainment president David Ozer as its CEO...Arnold Schwarzenegger [has signed]( with UTA in all areas. He was previously with CAA... Former ABC Studios president Patrick Moran [has inked]( an overall deal with Amazon... Netflix [has hired]( Ivana Lombardi away from Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures to serve as director of independent films... ►Maleficent: Mistress of Evil review: Todd McCarthy reviews the Disney film, writing that "[T]his inevitable follow-up to the eighth-biggest box-office attraction of 2014 feels just as predictably programmed, with a new evil queen to make the title character seem benevolent by comparison, a textbook young love romance and enough swirling computer-generated “camera” moves to make this come close to qualifying as an animated film." [The review](. Elsewhere in film... --Jordan Peele [explains his attraction]( to horror: "There is an evil embedded into our DNA." --Kali Wallace's sci-fi novel Salvation Day is [set to be adapted]( as a movie by Oblivion screenwriter Karl Gajdusek and Entertainment One. --Martin Scorsese's The Irishman [will play]( for two weeks at the historic Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The news doesn't mean that Netflix has closed its deal to buy the locale from American Cinematheque. Insiders say it is still pending. --Terminator: Dark Fate [will open]( in China on Nov. 1. --The Advanced Imaging Society [will honor]( 10 women with its Distinguished Leadership Award during its 10th annual Entertainment Technology Awards luncheon on Oct. 28. Megyn Kelly's 'Bombshell' Role ►Charlize Theron talks Bombshell. Theron takes on the role of former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly in the Lionsgate film. After the film's first official screening at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, she was asked if she thought Kelly, considered by many a divisive character, was portrayed as a hero in the film. “I don’t think I’ve ever chased playing heroes. I’m interested in playing people who are complicated and flawed and make mistakes. Because I relate — a lot," she said. "Whether she's a hero or not — that's not really a question I ever asked myself." [More](. +This morning Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, where they released a new Bombshell trailer. [More](. +Speaking of Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News host will return to the channel on Wednesday night, as a guest on Tucker Carlson's 8 pm show. It will be her first appearance on the channel since leaving for NBC in 2017. [More](. Bombshell debut, critics' doc picks, east coast film fests heat up awards race. Scott Feinberg reports that the early buzz from the first Bombshell screenings tip Margot Robbie and John Lithgow as possible supporting awards contenders for the film, with Charlize Theron a strong contender in the lead categories. That, plus reports from some of the east coast film festivals, [in the column](. ►Fortnite returns. Epic Games' blockbuster battle royale shooter, which has more than 250 million active players and generated north of $2.4 billion in 2018, essentially shut down on Sunday following an in-game event which saw its map, players and menu system all sucked into a black hole. The game returned Tuesday morning with "chapter two." [More](. Revolving door: Chicken Soup for the Soul [has launched]( its own film and TV studio, Landmark Studio Group, and appointed former IDW Entertainment president David Ozer as its CEO...Arnold Schwarzenegger [has signed]( with UTA in all areas. He was previously with CAA... Former ABC Studios president Patrick Moran [has inked]( an overall deal with Amazon... Netflix [has hired]( Ivana Lombardi away from Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures to serve as director of independent films... ►Maleficent: Mistress of Evil review: Todd McCarthy reviews the Disney film, writing that "[T]his inevitable follow-up to the eighth-biggest box-office attraction of 2014 feels just as predictably programmed, with a new evil queen to make the title character seem benevolent by comparison, a textbook young love romance and enough swirling computer-generated “camera” moves to make this come close to qualifying as an animated film." [The review](. Elsewhere in film... --Jordan Peele [explains his attraction]( to horror: "There is an evil embedded into our DNA." --Kali Wallace's sci-fi novel Salvation Day is [set to be adapted]( as a movie by Oblivion screenwriter Karl Gajdusek and Entertainment One. --Martin Scorsese's The Irishman [will play]( for two weeks at the historic Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The news doesn't mean that Netflix has closed its deal to buy the locale from American Cinematheque. Insiders say it is still pending. --Terminator: Dark Fate [will open]( in China on Nov. 1. --The Advanced Imaging Society [will honor]( 10 women with its Distinguished Leadership Award during its 10th annual Entertainment Technology Awards luncheon on Oct. 28. [MIPCOM Latest] MIPCOM Latest ►MIPCOM: Surviving R. Kelly producers talk "blowback," harassment solutions for Hollywood. The Lifetime film was the center point of discussion at A+E and The Hollywood Reporter's annual Women in Global Entertainment lunch at this year's MIPCOM. It not only brought the singer to trial and changed the conversation globally around sexual violence but also helped reinvigorate investigative journalism and films. [The report](. +MIPCOM roundup: The fire that devastated Paris iconic Notre-Dame Cathedral earlier this year is being [turned into]( a TV drama... Forget the golden era of TV drama. For many of the broadcasters and online streamers shuttling through the halls of the Cannes Palais at international television market Mipcom this week, [reality's the thing](... RuPaul took Cannes by storm, dazzling a packed Lumiere Theater for his [keynote speech]( on the first day of MIPCOM... Britain's Channel 4 [has picked up]( two new U.S. series from CBS Studios International, buying both Star Trek: Discovery and the comedy Man With a Plan for their digital channel E4... +Also: Patrick Dempsey praised Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rimes [when accepting]( the CanneSeries Excellence award at MIPCOM... Facebook [unveiled a partnership]( with a number of European publishers for its Facebook Watch short-form platform and unveiled 23 new shows from the continent... Starz's Latino drama Vida and Hulu's LGBTQ-friendly children's series The Bravest Knight [are among]( the big winners of the Diversity TV Excellence Awards... When They See Us, Ava Duvernay's critically praised docuseries about five African-American men wrongfully incarcerated for a 1989 sexual assault, has provoked a rather interesting defamation suit, Eriq Gardner writes. The complaint, filed on Monday in Illinois federal court against Netflix and Duvernay, comes not from any of the individuals tied to the infamous "Central Park jogger case" — not the accused nor prosecutors and investigators — but rather from a company not mentioned whatsoever during the course of the four-part series. [The story](. ►Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo split the Booker Prize. Chairman Peter Florence said the five judges simply couldn't choose between Atwood's dystopian thriller The Testaments and Evaristo's kaleidoscope of black women's stories, Girl, Woman, Other. [More](. Video: The Hollywood Reporter In Studio. In this episode, Showtime hosts Desus and Mero discuss their late-night show, and their dedicated fan base known as The Bodega Hive that's been following them since the launch of their Bodega Boys podcast in 2015, and their Viceland series in 2016. [Watch](. Casting roundup: Zoe Kravitz [will play]( Catwoman in The Batman... Craig Ferguson [will host]( a game show for ABC, The Hustler... Samara Weaving[has joined]( Henry Golding in the G.I. Joe spinoff Snake Eyes... NBC's This Is Us [is adding]( Austin Abrams as a recurring character... Ice-T is [set to narrate]( the feature documentary Public Enemy Number One... Hadley Robinson and Lauren Tsai have been [set to star]( in Moxie, the latest directorial effort from Amy Poehler... Obituaries: [Sam Bobrick](, the Emmy-nominated writer and playwright who created the NBC comedy Saved by the Bell and wrote four comedies that played on Broadway, has died. He was 87... [Scotty Bowers](, whose explicit, best-selling 2012 memoir revealed a covert realm of Golden Age Hollywood sexuality, died Sunday of natural causes at his home. He was 96... [Jay Frank](, a digital music pioneer who created innovative approaches to developing artist careers, died Sunday of cancer. He was 47... [Joe Rice](, who spent nearly three decades with the Abrams Artists Agency, has died. He was 61... What else we're reading... --Disney+ posted an epic thread on Twitter highlighting (almost) all the content to be available on the service. [[Twitter](] --"AMC theater chain gets into streaming with on-demand movies" [[NY Times](] --"Rock & Roll Hall of Fame reveals 2020 nominees: Whitney Houston, Soundgarden, and more" [[Billboard](] --"Bong Joon-ho's dystopia is already here" [[Vulture](] From the archives... In fall 1951, I Love Lucy made its television debut on CBS on Oct. 15. [The Hollywood Reporter's original review](, published the day after the premiere. Today's birthdays: Emeril Lagasse, 60, Keyshia Cole, 38, Michael Lewis, 59. MIPCOM Latest ►MIPCOM: Surviving R. Kelly producers talk "blowback," harassment solutions for Hollywood. The Lifetime film was the center point of discussion at A+E and The Hollywood Reporter's annual Women in Global Entertainment lunch at this year's MIPCOM. It not only brought the singer to trial and changed the conversation globally around sexual violence but also helped reinvigorate investigative journalism and films. [The report](. +MIPCOM roundup: The fire that devastated Paris iconic Notre-Dame Cathedral earlier this year is being [turned into]( a TV drama... Forget the golden era of TV drama. For many of the broadcasters and online streamers shuttling through the halls of the Cannes Palais at international television market Mipcom this week, [reality's the thing](... RuPaul took Cannes by storm, dazzling a packed Lumiere Theater for his [keynote speech]( on the first day of MIPCOM... Britain's Channel 4 [has picked up]( two new U.S. series from CBS Studios International, buying both Star Trek: Discovery and the comedy Man With a Plan for their digital channel E4... +Also: Patrick Dempsey praised Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rimes [when accepting]( the CanneSeries Excellence award at MIPCOM... Facebook [unveiled a partnership]( with a number of European publishers for its Facebook Watch short-form platform and unveiled 23 new shows from the continent... Starz's Latino drama Vida and Hulu's LGBTQ-friendly children's series The Bravest Knight [are among]( the big winners of the Diversity TV Excellence Awards... When They See Us, Ava Duvernay's critically praised docuseries about five African-American men wrongfully incarcerated for a 1989 sexual assault, has provoked a rather interesting defamation suit, Eriq Gardner writes. The complaint, filed on Monday in Illinois federal court against Netflix and Duvernay, comes not from any of the individuals tied to the infamous "Central Park jogger case" — not the accused nor prosecutors and investigators — but rather from a company not mentioned whatsoever during the course of the four-part series. [The story](. ►Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo split the Booker Prize. Chairman Peter Florence said the five judges simply couldn't choose between Atwood's dystopian thriller The Testaments and Evaristo's kaleidoscope of black women's stories, Girl, Woman, Other. [More](. Video: The Hollywood Reporter In Studio. In this episode, Showtime hosts Desus and Mero discuss their late-night show, and their dedicated fan base known as The Bodega Hive that's been following them since the launch of their Bodega Boys podcast in 2015, and their Viceland series in 2016. [Watch](. Casting roundup: Zoe Kravitz [will play]( Catwoman in The Batman... Craig Ferguson [will host]( a game show for ABC, The Hustler... Samara Weaving[has joined]( Henry Golding in the G.I. Joe spinoff Snake Eyes... NBC's This Is Us [is adding]( Austin Abrams as a recurring character... Ice-T is [set to narrate]( the feature documentary Public Enemy Number One... Hadley Robinson and Lauren Tsai have been [set to star]( in Moxie, the latest directorial effort from Amy Poehler... Obituaries: [Sam Bobrick](, the Emmy-nominated writer and playwright who created the NBC comedy Saved by the Bell and wrote four comedies that played on Broadway, has died. He was 87... [Scotty Bowers](, whose explicit, best-selling 2012 memoir revealed a covert realm of Golden Age Hollywood sexuality, died Sunday of natural causes at his home. He was 96... [Jay Frank](, a digital music pioneer who created innovative approaches to developing artist careers, died Sunday of cancer. He was 47... [Joe Rice](, who spent nearly three decades with the Abrams Artists Agency, has died. He was 61... What else we're reading... --Disney+ posted an epic thread on Twitter highlighting (almost) all the content to be available on the service. [[Twitter](] --"AMC theater chain gets into streaming with on-demand movies" [[NY Times](] --"Rock & Roll Hall of Fame reveals 2020 nominees: Whitney Houston, Soundgarden, and more" [[Billboard](] --"Bong Joon-ho's dystopia is already here" [[Vulture](] From the archives... In fall 1951, I Love Lucy made its television debut on CBS on Oct. 15. [The Hollywood Reporter's original review](, published the day after the premiere. Today's birthdays: Emeril Lagasse, 60, Keyshia Cole, 38, Michael Lewis, 59. [Image] [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( Is this e-mail not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser.]( ©2019 The Hollywood Reporter. 5700 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036 All rights reserved. OCTOBER 15, 2019 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( [MANAGE PREFERENCES]( [PRIVACY POLICY]( [TERMS OF USE](