SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about Episodes 1 and 2 of ABC‘s Scrubs, which premiered Feb. 25. Sixteen or seventeen years after the end of Scrubs — depending if you count the divisive ninth season or not — the medical comedy is back with a two-episode premiere for its long-in-the-works revival. Conceived as if … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Keir Starmer has urged his MPs and activists to flood the streets of south-east Manchester on Thursday, as he seeks to persuade jaded Labour supporters to stick with the party and avert a disastrous … Read more
Tokyo Fashion Week has a sprawl problem. A significant number of the city’s homegrown designers have taken to showing off-schedule, with more than 10 brands holding runway shows and presentations on seemingly random days throughout January and February. For these designers, going off-schedule is a matter of getting in front of the money before it’s … Read more
Ann Godoff, the founder, president and Editor-in-Chief of Penguin Press, whose stable of authors included E.L. Doctorow, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Michael Pollan, Tom Brokaw, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, William Styron and Alice Waters, died Tuesday in Albany, NY, Deadline has confirmed. She was 76. Born on July 22, 1949, in Manhattan, Godoff founded The … Read more
Members of the CCC network facing police blockade while demanding dignified wages in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo: Clean Clothes Campaign NGOs say that funders now prefer program-specific funding over general year-round support. “Across the sector, core funding has become harder to access, with most money now tied to specific projects,” says Shruti Singh, director of Fashion … Read more
Traditional investors don’t yet realize the impact crypto may have on financial markets, meaning there could be an opportunity to invest in what the technology could eventually become, says Bitwise investment chief Matt Hougan. “Everywhere I look, Wall Street is screaming that finance is moving on-chain. Not a little of it; all of it,” Hougan … Read more
As Sidney Prescott faces off against another Ghostface in Scream 7, premiering in theaters Friday, the slasher franchise is facing a fan-led boycott. During Wednesday’s world premiere of the Kevin Williamson-helmed horror, the director spoke to Deadline about the “Free Palestine” protest amid fallout from Melissa Barrera‘s 2023 firing from the franchise, which has sparked a boycott of … Read more
It’s not just Vietnam debating whether to allow waste to flow across borders, notes Janmark. “This is an ongoing discussion in the regulatory circuit,” he says. “But once waste is properly sorted into something we can use, it shouldn’t be classified as waste; it should be considered a raw material.” Spanish recycler Coleo is taking … Read more
Trump family-backed crypto venture World Liberty Financial (WLFI) has proposed new measures to boost participation in governance through a staking system and incentivize the use of its stablecoin USD1. In its latest proposal on Wednesday, the team suggested governance votes should require holders to stake their tokens for at least 180 days to ensure “voting … Read more
