As the poster says, before Oprah and Arsenio, there was Ellis Haizlip. Haizlip, who died in 1991 at 61, is the “Mr. SOUL!” of the new documentary of the same name, about the groundbreaking weekly Black arts and politics program that he created and hosted—as America’s first Black TV host--on public television from 1968 to 1973. Originating on New York’s flagship PBS station WNET Channel 13, it was the first nationally broadcast all-Black variety show, conceived as a “Black Ton

TTPM's 2020 Most Wanted Holiday Toys list Prior to the pandemic, TTPM--the leading video review site for toys, baby toys and gear, and pet products--would have staged its 2020 Holiday Showcase before scores of excited toy industry manufacturers and media reps, families and friends—all joyously checking out and reviewing new toy product prior to the holiday sales push. Held yesterday at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Pavilion, the Showcase was understandably quite different. Attenda

ITV News tribute to Diana Rigg Men of a certain age on both sides of the Atlantic paused yesterday when word spread that Dame Diana Rigg had died at 82, for in her two seasons as Mrs. Emma Peel opposite the late Patrick Macnee’s John Steed on the classic 1960s British television series The Avengers, she was one of their first true TV loves. As the noted British media personality and current chancellor of the University of Chester Gyles Brandreth tweeted, Rigg was “funny, feis

From left: Devynn Hart, Danica Hart, Rev. Willy G., JD Shelburne and Trea Swindle. New female country trio Chapel Hart takes its name partly from the Chapel Baptist Church in the New Orleans-based group’s Poplarville, Mississippi hometown, and the video for their debut single “Jesus & Alcohol” is wedding-themed and takes place in a wedding chapel. So it’s only fitting that they turned to a veritable reverend to officiate. Said veritable reverend is one Billy F Gibbons, ZZ Top