NBC, a major American TV network, will remake a popular South Korean TV reality show with the aim of broadcasting it in the first half of next year, the show’s local broadcaster said Wednesday.“Grandpas Over Flowers,” a reality show about five actors in their 70s going on a backpacking trip around the world, was a smash hit when it was aired on the cable channel tvN last year. The show’s format has recently been sold to NBC through an American distributor, tvN said, adding that it became the fir

Former Korean pop diva Im Sang A ended her 13-year marriage with her American husband Jamie Propp, online celebrity news outlet OSEN reported on Wednesday. “Im Sang A divorced music producer Jamie Propp, whom she married in 2001,” OSEN reported. The couple has one daughter. The precise date of and reason for the separation remain unknown. Critics believe that the divorce took place recently, since Im and Propp appeared in multiple Korean TV shows together in 2010 to talk about their happy marria

LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― With a staggering 19 nominations, royal feud saga “Game of Thrones” will cast a long shadow over Monday’s Emmy awards, akin to the Oscars of U.S. television.Based on George R.R. Martin’s best-selling novels about power struggles between dueling clans in seven mythical kingdoms, it won most nominations overall ― including for best drama series.“Thrones” ― already renewed for a fifth and sixth season ― is among Home Box Office’s nominated shows. Overall, HBO heads into the cere

LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― The Emmy Awards take center stage Monday with “Breaking Bad,” “True Detective” and “Orange is the New Black” among the favorites of TV’s 66th annual version of the Oscars. But this year’s ceremony will be overshadowed by the apparent Aug. 11 suicide of Hollywood great Robin Williams that rocked the entertainment world.With emotions still raw, his friend and fellow actor-comedian Billy Crystal will pay tribute to the Oscar winner during the “in memoriam” part of the primetime

NELIGH, Nebraska (AP) ― Willie Nelson and Neil Young will headline a concert next month in a Nebraska cornfield organized by opponents of a proposed pipeline that would carry oil from Canada south to the Gulf Coast. Bold Nebraska said Monday the concert will be held Sept. 27 on a farm near Neligh in northeast Nebraska. Tickets go on sale Wednesday. Earlier this year, protesters carved an anti-pipeline message into the cornfield, which is in the path of TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Uzo Aduba is an Emmy winner for her breakout role as a prisoner known as “Crazy Eyes” in Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black.” The series received two other awards for casting and picture editing at the creative arts Emmy ceremony Saturday honoring technical and other achievements. In an emotional speech, Aduba thanked her mother, who came from Nigeria “to make a better life for her family.” She also thanked producers and others for a show “that lets everyone be represented in

Two cherished fashion items donated by Kim Soo-hyun and Jun Ji-hyun, co-stars of the mega-hit TV series “My Love from the Star,” have been sold in an auction, the event’s organizers said Wednesday.The auction was held on Sunday at Seoul’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza, where a special exhibition on the drama is under way. Some 200 overseas fans of the drama and journalists from Chinese news media attended the auction, they said.Kim’s knit and Jun’s handbag were sold for 2.4 million won ($2,346) and 68

BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) ― Seeing “Homeland” lose out on an Emmy best-drama nomination after two consecutive nods was painful, series cocreator Alex Gansa said. So was criticism directed at the spy drama’s third season, he told a meeting Friday of TV critics, including some of those detractors.“It’s hard for us to view what we’ve done objectively. ... I don’t know how you can look at the last six or seven shows we did on television last season and say it’s not among the best on television,