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“The Birth of a Nation,” writer-director-star Nate Parker’s stirring drama about the life of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion he led in antebellum Virginia, won the grand jury prize and the audience award for American dramatic features at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday night.
“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to diverse TV,” Idris Elba joked on stage after winning twice at Saturday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, where actors of color claimed a slew of wins amid a furor in Hollywood over the lack of on-screen diversity.
Local cable viewers tuning into KLAS-TV Channel 8 Saturday morning to watch “Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild” didn’t see lions, tigers or bears.
As of early Saturday morning, local Cox subscribers are not receiving Channel 8. An agreement between Nexstar Broadcasting Group and KLAS-TV expired late Friday night due to a contract dispute.
Here are our picks for your best TV bets for the coming week.
Move over, “Making a Murderer.” Take a seat, “The Jinx.” FX is revisiting the original did-he-or-didn’t-he reality TV obsession with “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” (10 p.m. Feb. 2).
Twice now, southwest Las Vegas has served as a launching point for the return of the Vegas PBS program “Outdoor Nevada.”
Robert Durst is set to plead guilty to a gun charge in New Orleans next week, a move that puts the millionaire real estate heir one step closer to facing a murder charge in Los Angeles.
With all the controversy over #OscarsSoWhite, now may not have been the best time to announce that a white actor has been cast as African-American pop star Michael Jackson.
The Feb. 6 Ultimate Fighting Championship card at the MGM Grand Garden will air on cable television instead of pay per view after the main event was canceled because of injuries to both fighters scheduled for a heavyweight title bout.
For those who have been planning to get on the “Doctor Who” bandwagon, you better dive into the series quickly, because Netflix has announced seasons one through eight of the popular television show will be removed soon.
Don’t have any special plans for Valentine’s Day? Netflix has announced its list of content that will be added to the service throughout the month of February.
Doritos is making a millionaire for the tenth and final time with its Crash the Super Bowl ad contest.
Vegas Voices is a weekly question-and-answer series featuring notable Las Vegans.
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