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Lisa Marie Presley’s cause of death has been revealed.

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner said Thursday that Presley died from a small bowel obstruction, according to an autopsy report.

The report says that Presley was “complaining of abdominal pain on the morning of 1/12/2023” and was later “found unresponsive at home and 9-1-1 was called.”

Presley was transported to West Hills Hospital in Southern California, where, despite medical intervention, she was pronounced dead.

While she was hospitalized she “was found to have a severely distended abdomen and diagnosed with severe metabolic acidosis.”

According to the National Institutes of Health, small bowel obstruction is a mechanical block in the bowel. The leading cause of small bowel obstructions are adhesions, which can develop after surgery.

In the autopsy, it was noted that Presley had bariatric surgery, or gastric bypass surgery, prior to her death, but noted that it was “not related to the immediate cause of death.”

The singer and songwriter, who was the only child of Elvis Presley, died January 12, 2023. She was 54 years old.

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Black Mirror topped Nielsen’s streaming chart for the week of June 12-18 following its season 6 premiere, according to Deadline. Netflix’s dystopian series topped both the overall and streaming originals charts, racking up 1.4 billion viewing minutes over its 27 episodes of season 6. S.W.A.T. took second place with 1.2 billion viewing minutes this week across Hulu, Netflix and Paramount+, extending its billion-minute streak to four weeks. The previous week’s no. 1, Avatar: The Way of Water, took third place with 1.059 billion minutes across both Disney+ and Max…

SyFy will mark the 10th anniversary of its global phenomenon Sharknado with a movie marathon Tuesday, July 18. Ian Ziering and Tara Reid starred in the films that feature sharks, tornadoes and a whole lot of celebrity cameos from Vivica A. Fox, Marc McGrath, Olivia Newton-John, among others…

Vice has officially been removed from Showtime and Paramount+’s rosters. The docuseries was taken off the streaming services, along with The L Word: Generation Q, Ziwe, I Love That for You and American Gigolo, but while the others had already finished their runs, Vice still had half a season left to go. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that despite not being officially canceled at Showtime, producers are shopping the show around to other outlets and some have already shown interest…

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Lea Michele is paying tribute to Cory Monteith 10 years after the actor’s tragic death.

“Hey you. 10 years. It feels like only yesterday that you were here and yet a million years ago all at the same time,” Michele, 36, wrote in a heartfelt Instagram post shared on Thursday, July 13, exactly a decade after Monteith, her Glee co-star and former boyfriend, died.

“I hold all of our memories in my heart where they will stay safe and never forgotten,” she continued. “We miss you every day and will never forget the light you brought to us all. I miss you big guy.”

Michele and Monteith met and fell in love on the set of Glee, playing musical theater wunderkind Rachel Berry and Finn Hudson, the high school jock with the voice of an angel.

Monteith was found dead in his Vancouver hotel room on July 13, 2013, at the age of 31. It was determined that the actor, who had a history of substance abuse, died of mixed drug toxicity, involving heroin and alcohol. His death was ruled accidental.

Michele and the rest of the Glee family paid tribute to him months later with an emotion-packed season 5 episode titled “The Quarterback.”

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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, which officially opened on Thursday, July 13, is off to an estimated $15.5 million start — including the $7 million it made in previews the previous Tuesday, according to Variety.

The seventh film in the Tom Cruise-led franchise is projected to gross another $60 million more between Friday and Sunday, bringing its five-day total to between $85-$95 million in North America and another $160 million overseas for a global haul of around $250 million.

The last Mission Impossible movie, 2018’s Fallout, debuted with a franchise record $61 million.

Dead Reckoning – Part One stars Cruise, as well as returning M:I players Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Czerny and Vanessa Kirby, along with series newcomers Esai Morales, Guardians of the Galaxy vet Pom Klementieff and her fellow Marvel movie star Hayley Atwell.

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Roku and CW Network announced Thursday they’ve joined forces for a new survival reality show.

The call it “a social experiment in primitive survivalism — with a competitive twist. 17 competitors, including former Survivor, Alone, Naked and Afraid and American Ninja Warrior contestants must survive 25 days on a remote tropical island combatting brutal conditions — and each other — to win $250,000.”

The companies add, “In one of the most intense survival of the fittest competitions ever televised, the competitors battle one another for essential tools and resources in the fight to survive.”

The show will premiere Thursday, August 10, at 8 p.m. ET on The CW, and will then be available to stream on TheRokuChannel and The CW app on September 29, the day after the broadcast finale.

The 17 players are: 

Yuda Abitbol, 30 – Oahu, Hawaii — YouTube/TikTok/Survivalist Chef Influencer

Nathaniel Allenby, 38 – San Diego, California – Survival Enthusiast

Amal Alyassiri, 38 – Cedar Rapids, Iowa – Naked and Afraid

Dani Beau, 33 – Mercer, Maine — Naked and Afraid, Naked and Afraid XL 

Missy Byrd, 27 – Denver, Colorado – Survivor Season 39

Robby Canton, 25 – Colorado Springs, Colorado — Survivalist

Matthew Clarke, 31 – Yukon, Canada — YouTube Survivalist Influencer

Sarah Danser, 31 – Honolulu, HI — Naked and Afraid, Naked and Afraid: Lost at Sea, Naked and Afraid XL, Naked and Ghosted 

Afften DeShazer, 35 – Chicago, IL — Naked and Afraid

Stephanie Gonzalez, 31 – Ocala, FL — Survivor Season 36

Keali’i “K” Ka’apana, 41 – Orange County, California — Called to the Wild

Zane Kraetsch, 33 – Pasoga Springs, Colorado — ALONE: The Beast

Christina McQueen, 45 – Borden, Indiana – Naked and Afraid, Naked and Afraid XL

Jonathan Monroe, 31 – Panama City, Florida — Naked and Afraid 

Makani Nalu, 27 – Venice, California — Stranded With a Million Dollars, Naked and Afraid, Naked and Afraid XL 

J Ruiz, 37 – Tampa, Florida — American Ninja Warrior, Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge

Libby Vincek, 29 – Orange Beach, Alabama — Survivor Season 36

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As an actress and author, Fran Drescher was never one to mince words, and as the president of SAG-AFTRA, she had some choice ones Thursday afternoon for Hollywood studios’ offers to try — in vain, as it turns out — to avoid a strike.

After the national board of SAG-AFTRA voted to go on strike Thursday, Drescher took to the mic to blast the last-ditch offer. “It came with great sadness that we came to this crossroads,” she said. “We had no choice.”

Drescher continued, “We are the victims here. We are being victimized by a very greedy entity. I am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us. I cannot believe it, quite frankly, how far apart we are on so many things. How they plead poverty, that they’re losing money left and right, while giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs. It is disgusting. Shame on them.”

She continued, “At some point, the jig is up. You cannot keep being dwindled and marginalized, and disrespected and dishonored. The entire business model has been changed by streaming, digital, AI … if we don’t stand tall right now, we are all going to be … in jeopardy of being replaced by machines.”

Drescher said, “What happens here … (is) what’s happening across all fields of labor by means of when employers make Wall Street and greed their priority, and they forget about the essential contributors that make the machine run.”

For its part, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers insisted it “presented a deal that offered historic pay and residual increases, substantially higher caps on pension and health contributions, audition protections, shortened series option periods, and a groundbreaking AI proposal that protects actors’ digital likenesses for SAG-AFTRA members.”

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On Thursday, July 13, Lucasfilm and Disney+ announced that six new episodes of its kid-skewing cartoon Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures will debut on August 2.

The first batch of seven shows following the adventures of the Jedi-in-training dropped on May 4, known colloquially as Star Wars Day.

The full first season will have 25 episodes in total.

“The six new episodes will follow the Younglings as they continue to hone their Force abilities and go on adventures across the galaxy,” the companies tease.

Lucasfilm is owned by Disney, the parent company of ABC News.

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Rob McElhenney is opening up about being diagnosed recently with “a host of neurodevelopmental disorders and learning disabilities.”

The Welcome to Wrexham and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia star shared the news Tuesday, July 11, on Twitter.

“I was recently diagnosed with a host of neurodevelopmental disorders and learning disabilities! At 46!” he wrote.

Neurodevelopmental disorders are “behavioural and cognitive disorders, that arise during the developmental period, and involve significant difficulties in the acquisition and execution of specific intellectual, motor, language, or social functions,” according to the World Health Organization.

They can include “disorders of intellectual development, autism spectrum disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) amongst others,” the WHO states, adding, “Psychosocial interventions, behavioural interventions, occupational and speech therapy” are among treatment options.

Learning disabilities, according to the National Institutes of Health, are “disorders that affect the ability to understand or use spoken or written language, do mathematical calculations, coordinate movements [and] direct attention.”

McElhenney said he will go through his “full diagnosis/prognosis” on an upcoming episode of The Always Sunny Podcast, which drops in two weeks.

“It’s not something I would normally talk about publicly but I figured there are others who struggle with similar things and I wanted to remind you that you’re not alone,” he noted.

“You’re not stupid. You’re not ‘bad,'” he continued. “It might feel that way sometimes. But it’s not true :).”

McElhenney hosts The Always Sunny Podcast with show co-stars/co-creators Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton and is married to his co-star Kaitlin Olson. Danny DeVito also stars on the sitcom, which is currently airing its 16th season.

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In a quick promo shared with Variety, it was reported that the single senior looking for love in The Golden Bachelor will be revealed Monday, July 17, on Good Morning America. 

As ABC previously reported back in May, the forthcoming show “showcases a whole new kind of love story,” one in which “one hopeless romantic is given a second chance at love in the search for a partner with whom to share the sunset years of life.”

ABC continued at the time, “The women arriving at the mansion have a lifetime of experience, living through love, loss and laughter, hoping for a spark that ignites a future full of endless possibilities. In the end, will our Golden man turn the page to start a new chapter with the woman of his dreams?”

The short tease, set to the age-appropriate classic “This Magic Moment,” has the show’s classic red rose swapped to gold, with the note that the show will air Mondays this fall at 10 p.m.

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On Thursday, July 13, at 10 p.m., FX’s hit vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows returns for its fifth season.

Like the 2014 movie of the same name from Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, the Emmy-nominated comedy centers on a group of vampires living in the New York City borough of Staten Island. Star Mark Proksch says it’s been quite a ride.

“It’s been crazy,” the show’s energy vampire Colin Robinson says to ABC Audio. “It’s a slow burn. And I think that slow burns are good nowadays because if your show gets tons of attention right away, it peaks and people get bored with it…”

He adds, “So having it be a slow progression to people really loving and coming to the show I think has been a real a big part of the show’s success…”

This season, Colin found a job that perfectly fits his ability to drain people of their spirit: He runs for office.

Kayvan Novak plays the vampire Nandor the Relentless. The U.K.-born actor says this season, his character’s feeling “lost” because his adoring, long-suffering familiar Guillermo has finally become a vampire, but not with Nandor’s help as promised. “[H]e’s wondering why his kind of devoted, beloved familiar is kind of a little distracted, you know, because he needs that…attention to be able to kind of flick it away…,” Novak says.

Harvey Guillén plays Guillermo, who, like him, revealed himself to be queer. He explains how his character’s recently revealed sexuality has connected with fans he’s met, saying, “[It] just made me realize that it’s through entertainment…you might…maybe make someone aware of something they didn’t know about themselves, or maybe teach a lesson that they didn’t know about the kind of society we live in.”

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