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Olivia Munn announced on Instagram that she’s been diagnosed with breast cancer. The 43-year-old actor wrote in a message to fans: “I hope by sharing this it will help others find comfort, inspiration and support on their own journey.”

“I wouldn’t have found my cancer for another year – at my next scheduled mammogram – except that my Obgyn, Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, decided to calculate my Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Score. The fact that she did saved my life,” Munn added in a statement. “Dr. Aliabadi looked at factors like my age, familial breast cancer history, and the fact that I had my first child after the age of 30. She discovered my lifetime risk was at 37%. Because of that score I was sent to get an Mri, which led to an ultrasound, which then led to a biopsy. The biopsy showed I had Luminal B cancer in both breasts. Luminal B is an aggressive,...

Olivia Munn shared a photo on Instagram of her one-year-old son, Malcolm, trying to drink from a glass bottle with her 2.9 million followers.

The actress could be seen laughing as her partner, comedian John Mulaney, held the bottle close to Malcolm.

She captioned the photo “Sandy.”

Munn wore a string bikini top and a diamond necklace while sitting her baby boy up on her lap.

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Fans showed their excitement in the comments section with one writing, “You looks like you belong back on the cover of @health magazine!”

Munn and Mulaney first met at comedian Seth Meyers‘ wedding in 2013. They later reconnected in Los Angeles and officially began dating in February 2021.

Mulaney was still officially married to Anna Marie Tendler at the time. After revealing that Munn was pregnant in September 2021, he finally filed for divorce at the beginning of 2022.

Munn was previously in...

Exclusive: Russell Arons, an experienced digital executive who joined G4 TV last September as president, has exited the recently revived network.

Arons, who has previously held senior-level positions at Warner Bros, Machinima and Electronic Arts, left her G4 post in July, multiple insiders confirmed to Deadline. Her departure came less than a year after her arrival was announced, and the exact circumstances remain unclear. Arons and Comcast Spectacor, the Philadelphia-based entertainment and sports division of Comcast that runs G4, both declined to comment.

Joe Marsh, an executive with extensive gaming-related experience at Comcast Spectacor, is expanding his role to encompass many of Arons’ former duties, according to a person familiar with the transition. Marsh is currently serving as CEO of T1, an international esports joint venture between Comcast Spectacor and Korea’s Sk Telecom. Marsh was previously chief business officer for the Philadelphia Fusion, an esports team formed by Comcast...

Reanimated video game culture hub G4 will return to linear TV on November 16, with carriage deals in place on Verizon FiOS, Cox, Xfinity TV and Philo.

In announcing its return, the network also said it will also have a multi-year promotional and commercial partnership with Twitch. It also plans to continue putting out channel-specific content on social media and YouTube.

G4 originally launched in 2002 and was created by former Disney TV exec Charles Hirschhorn, who saw it as a successor to MTV in its ability to tap into youth culture. A number of notable personalities appeared on the network as hosts, among them Olivia Munn, Chris Hardwick, Kevin Pereira and Grace Helbig. G4 went dark in 2014 as its place on the dial was taken over by the Esquire Network, which would prove to be a short-lived branding exercise. Amid a groundswell of enthusiasm on social media, new owner Comcast Spectacor...

G4, the gaming TV network that NBCUniversal shut down in 2013, is coming back to cable.

The content studio and network, revived by Comcast Spectacor more than a year ago, will officially return to linear television on Nov. 16, 2021. At launch, G4 will debut linearly on the channel lineups of Comcast’s Xfinity TV, Verizon Fios, Cox Communications, and internet streaming service Philo.

G4 also said it will “collaborate” with Twitch on a multiyear promotional and commercial partnership through the network’s official channel. G4 also plans to continue to create platform-specific digital content for social media and YouTube, as it has been doing in the months since Comcast Spectacor teased its return.

The G4 programming slate at launch will include reboots editions of fan-favorite legacy G4 shows like “Attack of the Show!” and “Xplay.”

“We made a promise to fans that we would build this network with their input and are...

Gaming and media industry veteran Russell Arons has joined G4 as president, ahead of its official return to linear TV and streaming channels later this year.

At L.A.-based G4, Arons — who previously worked at companies including Warner Bros., Machinima, EA and Mattel — will oversee all key business functions, including advertising sales, programming and content, operations, marketing, finance, It and Hr. Additionally, she will manage the launch, growth, day-to-day operations of the network through content licensing, programming and production, development of content distribution and partnership agreements.

The game-focused G4 cable channel launched in 2002; NBCUniversal wound it down starting in 2012. The brand was revived last year, housed within Comcast Spectacor, the cable and entertainment giant’s sports and esports division whose main businesses are the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers and the Wells Fargo Center arena. Spectacor Gaming’s portfolio of gaming and esports assets include Overwatch League’s Philadelphia Fusion and T1 Entertainment & Sports.

The rebirthed G4 TV is kicking off a weekly content series — dubbed “B4G4” — to get fan feedback on the programming ahead of the gaming network’s official summer 2021 bow.

G4, which is being revived under the auspices of Comcast’s Spectator sports unit, will publish content under the B4G4 (“before G4”) banner on its YouTube and Twitch channels. Execs say the pre-release strategy will let them experiment with several formats, including original sketch comedy, game reviews, talent collaborations, and music and esports parodies. G4 will encourage fans to chime in on what they like — and don’t like — on the official Reddit r/g4tv forum.

In the B4G4 mix will be elements of the daily variety/news show “Attack of the Show!” and game-reviews show “X-Play,” two of G4’s most popular original series. Those are both returning to the network’s programming slate at launch,...

Photo: X-Men The Anime/Netflix Marvel Anime, a project that consisted of four separate anime series and two direct-to-video films featuring different Marvel characters, was a collaboration between Marvel and Madhouse, the latter of which being a Japanese animation studio known for producing a number of prominent anime including Death Note, season 1 of One Punch Man, and Satoshi Kon’s Paprika (which would be a major inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s Inception). It initially aired in 2011, the same year that Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger premiered in theaters, but didn’t have the same popularity as its other Marvel peers for a number of reasons--a major contributor to its relative obscurity was the fact that it aired on G4, a subscription television network that was quickly on its way to closure. Known most widely for their program Attack of the Show!, which would launch the career of Olivia Munn,...

Updated: After nearly six years sitting in mothballs, the G4 video-game TV network is coming back — with some kind of relaunch next year by Comcast.

On Friday, the Twitter accounts of G4TV and G4’s Attack of the Show! and X-Play, two popular shows on the network, both posted the same cryptic teaser video, captioned with “We never stopped playing.” The video culminates with the numerals “2021.”

IGN, the game and entertainment publication owned by j2 Global’s Ziff Davis, also posted a version of the video (two minutes before the G4 account did). The teasers were timed for Comic-Con@Home, the first virtual streaming edition of the annual fan convention.

We never stopped playing. pic.twitter.com/fKJSvL9uaZ

— G4TV (@G4TV) July 24, 2020

The g4tv.com website, which currently features a playable Pong game, is registered to Comcast-owned NBCUniversal Media. An NBCU rep declined to comment.

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CAA has added to its digital gaming talent coffers with the signings of Jesse Cox (pictured above) and Bruce Greene, both of whom have racked up sizable presences on YouTube and Twitch -- respectively.

Cox, for his part, created a YouTube Premium series titled Good Game in 2017, which The Hollywood Reporter notes followed an emerging esports team. He also produced the 2018 visual novel game Monster Prom. Cox, who counts 975,000 YouTube subscribers, also hosts the CoxCon convention in the U.K. -- an Irl meetup where YouTube creators can convene with fans.

Greene, on the other hand, is a co-founder of the Rooster Teeth-owned YouTube gaming channel Funhaus -- though he recently departed that venture to pursue a full-time Twitch-streaming career, per the Reporter, where he counts 117,000 followers. His streams feature playthroughs of Doom Eternal, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and Monster Hunter World. Greene also previously worked on the Inside...

G4 is cancelling "Attack of the Show!" and "X-Play," two giddily nerdy shows that helped define the network. Both shows will end production at the end of the year after 1,700 episodes of "Attack of the Show" and 1,300 episodes of "X-Play." "Attack of the Show!," perhaps best known for launching the career of former host Olivia Munn, has focused since its 2005 debut on technology, games, pop culture, movies and videos. Candace Bailey and Sara Underwood now host. The gaming-obsessed "X-Play" debuted in 2003 on G4's previous incarnation, TechTV. It is now...

The network made it official today that production on the long-running shows is shutting down at the end of the year. Attack Of The Show and X-Play helped define G4‘s gamer-culture focus and launched careers for the likes of Olivia Munn and Chris Hardwick, amassing close to 3000 episodes to date. They also provided wall-to-wall coverage of Comic-Con and E3 — two events right in the network’s young-male demo wheelhouse. X-Play launched in 2003 on what was then known as TechTV; Attack followed in 2005. Here’s the network’s release about farewell plans for the shows, which will air original episodes through 2012: Los Angeles, CA, October 26, 2012 – Attack of the Show! and X-Play are the longest-running and defining series for G4 through its first decade. With the shows ending production at the end of 2012, G4 is getting set to showcase the landmark series as they wind down their long runs on the network.

Three current and former employees of G4's Attack of the Show are suing the network and parent company NBCUniversal for allegedly attempting to improperly classify them as "exempt" from laws governing overtime compensation. Sean Jordan, Bruce Greene and Yaniv Fituci filed a proposed class action on behalf of themselves and other line and field producers in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday. The plaintiffs say they have complained to network management about being "woefully understaffed," and that as a result of staff shortages, they could only complete their work by working more than 40 hours per week. In fact,

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The last few days have not been the best for director Brett Ratner. Today, while doing a phone interview on The Howard Stern Show, the Tower Heist helmer said he lied about having sex with actress Olivia Munn when he appeared on G4′s Attack of the Show last week. Ratner does call Munn “a friend,” and says the geek cult icon told him he is not the unnamed director she’s refers to in her book as having “undersized manhood.” Ratner continued: “She’s actually talented. The problem is I made her look like she’s a whore.” You can listen to the whole,...

Aaron Sorkin's upcoming HBO project just got a whole lot better-looking. Former "Attack of the Show!" beauty Olivia Munn has signed on for "West Wing" creator Sorkin's upcoming HBO pilot, the cable outlet confirms to TheWrap. Munn will play a financial analyst in the pilot, tentatively titled "More as the Story Develops," which will revolve around a cable news program. As reported earlier,  Jeff Daniels will be playing the lead in the pilot. Should the pilot get the go-ahead for a full series, Munn will have her plate full. In addition to her...

G4 has ordered a spinoff of its top-rated series "Attack of the Show," where two hosts will conduct wacky science experiments.

"It's Effin' Science" started as a popular segment in "Show" and is now getting a 10-episode series order.

In each episode, comedian hosts Angie Greenup and Marc Horowitz, along with engineer Chad Zdenek, set out to push the boundaries of homemade experimentation. Segments include trying to build a hoverboard as in "Back to the Future II," blasting a Port-a-Potty 100 feet into the air and trying to construct night-vision goggles.

The series takes the tried-and-true "Show" format of having male-female co-hosts explore fast-paced geek-friendly topics and marries it with some "Mythbusters"-style science experimentation.

Greenup is a stand-up comic who worked on sites such as Fearnet.com, while Horowitz has worked with MTV and E!

"It's Effin' Science" is produced by Renegade and debuts June 15 following G4's live E3 coverage.

Last Summer, it was announced that "Attack of The Show" co-host Olivia Munn would portray an unspecified character in "Iron Man 2." Munn later related how her improvisation skills on the set moved Robert Downey Jr. into leading a standing ovation for her.

And while it was a professional high point for Munn, audiences might not see her original scenes when the film is released in May.

During an interview with Complex Magazine, Munn revealed that her original part was cut from the film and that she was called back to the set to reshoot all of her scenes again.

"As they started to edit they realized it was becoming darker than what they'd expected and what my scenes had allowed for," said Munn. "My parts were lighthearted and comedic."

"Jon Favreau called and was like, 'I've got good news and bad news: This is what's happening in editing but we all really like you,...

G4's Attack Of The Show! (one of the best magazine shows on tv) is covering Comic-con Day One live from San Diego and reports that Robert Rodriguez made the announcement there that he will be unable to direct Rose McGown in the remake of Red Sonja because of schedule conflicts. Now, wouldn't you think he'd have been aware of those conflicts [...]...

TORONTO -- Jesse Metcalfe, Peter Stormare, Kiele Sanchez, Kevin Sussman and Olivia Munn are checking in to Insanitarium.

Midnight Meat Train writer Jeff Buhler penned the script and is making his directorial debut on the indie horror thriller.

Metcalfe will play a man who pretends to be crazy in order to save his sister (Sanchez) from being involuntarily hospitalized. Once inside the institute, the siblings discover that a doctor (Stormare) is using his patients like lab rats, forcing them to take a drug that turns them into flesh-eating psychopaths.

Mason Novick, J.C. Spink, Chris Bender, Andrew Golov and Larry Shapiro are producing.

Metcalfe is attached to star in Ashok Amritraj's romantic comedy The Other End of the Line for Hyde Park Entertainment and MGM. Filming on Line is scheduled to start next month in Mumbai, India, and in the U.S. Metcalfe recently reprised his role as gardener John Rowland for an upcoming episode of ABC's Desperate Housewives.

Sanchez appeared on ABC's Lost, Stormare played a convict on Fox's Prison Break, Sussman played Walter on ABC's Ugly Betty, and Munn is co-host of Attack of the Show.

Metcalfe is repped by Gersh, Untitled and attorney Karl Austen.