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TORONTO — Corus Entertainment touted new stars and returning hits set to roll out across Global and its specialty networks on Monday, while making the case for loosened CanCon spending rules that would let it lean further into unscripted content.

MONTREAL — Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon has begun his testimony in his civil trial on allegations of sexual assault.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comic and actor Marc Maron said Monday that he's ending his popular and influential podcast “WTF with Marc Maron” after nearly 16 years.

The history of Chinese immigrants in America has always been about much more than one particular ethnic group.

Renée Victor, who voiced the no-nonsense, sandal-throwing Abuelita in Disney’s animated hit “Coco” and played the wisecracking Lupita on Showtime’s “Weeds,” has died. She was 86.

NEW YORK (AP) — Pulp has returned with a new album, their first in 24 years. Who could've predicted that? Not even the band, it turns out. “It took us by surprise as well,” dynamic frontman Jarvis Cocker told The Associated Press.

NEW YORK (AP) — When he was first asked to helm the Broadway hit musical “Death Becomes Her,” director and choreographer Christopher Gattelli loved it, but refused to work on the big, splashy opening number. It was just too delicious.

TORONTO — Blue Rodeo is making the most of its 40th anniversary with a coast-to-coast Canadian tour. The legendary Toronto alt-country act has announced a 27-date run that kicks off this fall and continues into early next year.

Charlotte Sitterly and her 14-year-old daughter, Iris, are suddenly shut out of their comfortable life in an upscale coastal community in North Carolina.

NEW YORK (AP) — When Old Dominion's eighth group of the year victory broke the tie for consecutive wins at the Academy of Country Music Awards last month, it changed the record books — but not their perspective.