National Entertainment

LOS ANGELES — When Javicia Leslie moved to Los Angeles, she frequently rode down the popular Sunset Boulevard to view the row of erected TV and film billboards for inspiration.

Conductor Rafael Payare was hired Thursday as music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal starting with the 2022-23 season. A Venezuelan who turns 41 on Feb.

Roku is buying the content library of Quibi, the short-lived streaming service, to bulk up its own free ad-supported channel. Quibi, short for quick bites, raised $1.

WASHINGTON — Neil Sheehan, a reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who broke the story of the Pentagon Papers for The New York Times and who chronicled the deception at the heart of the Vietnam War in his epic book about the conflict, died Thurs

NEW YORK — A planned book by Sen. Josh Hawley, who objected to President-elect Joe Biden’s win and backed baseless claims that the election was stolen, has been cancelled by its publisher in the wake of the insurrection at the U.S.

TORONTO — Cineplex is calling time on TimePlay. The country's largest theatre chain says after nearly a decade it has parted ways with the technology company that operates the movie trivia app. The changes took effect at the end of 2020.

LOS ANGELES — “All Creatures Great and Small,” a beloved TV series of yore, is back as a reboot because producer Colin Callender saw the seriocomic adventures of veterinarians in a close-knit rural community as tonic for a politically divisive era.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett (Riverhead) 2. “The Invisible Life of Addie Larue” by V.E. Schwab (Tor) 3. “The Return” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) 4. “A Time for Mercy” by John Grisham (Doubleday) 5.

1. “A Promised Land” by Barack Obama (Crown) 2. “Bridgerton's: The Duke and I” by Julia Quinn (Avon) 3. “Bridgerton Collection Volume 1” by Julia Quinn (Avon) 4. “The Boy, the Mole the Fox and the Horse” by Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne) 5.

TORONTO — Don't count out "Caillou." Though the Canadian children's animated series is ending its 21-year run on PBS Kids, its Toronto-based production company says the four-year-old protagonist's adventures aren't over. The U.S.