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'Riverdale': Warner Bros. Refutes Unsafe-Workplace Charges Following Star's Car Crash

  Warner Bros.

Television has refuted charges of unsafe working conditions on Riverdale a week after the shows star was involved in a late-night car crash.

The safety of the cast and crew on all of our productions is of paramount importance to the Studio, a studio spokesperson said in a pair of statements issued Thursday.

Productions adhere to the Screen Actors Guild–mandated turnaround time of 12 hours from wrap time to next day call time for cast members.

In accordance with industry standard policy, if any cast or crew member feels tired or unsafe at any time after working, the Studio will provide a taxi, a driver or a hotel room upon request.

This is communicated to all cast and crew, both in writing and verbally, at the beginning of production and is reiterated continuously throughout the duration of production..

K.J.

Apa, who plays Archie Andrews on the Warner Bros.

Television-produced series, was involved in a crash last week that caused severe damage to his vehicle, but left him without significant injuries.

Apa was treated by first responders on the scene and visited by doctors the following morning before returning to set thae day after the crash.

The actor had been driving a rental car after being involved in a minor accident near set a few days earlier.

Regarding Apas crash, the studio spokesperson said, First and foremost, we are extremely grateful that KJ Apa was uninjured during his recent accident.

Secondarily, we want to specifically address the characterization that conditions on the set of Riverdale are of concern.

We have a large cast of series regulars, and our actors do not work every day.

On the day of the accident, KJ worked 14.2 hours.

The previous day he worked 2.5 hours, and the day before that he worked 7.7 hours.

KJ has repeatedly been informed about making production aware if he is tired or feels unsafe, and if so, either a ride or hotel room will be provided for him.

The accident occurred last Thursday.

Additionally, it is untrue that KJ was taken to the hospital.

He was treated by first responders on the scene and released by them.

We also sent a doctor to his home later that same day for a follow-up to confirm his well-being..

On Thursday, SAG-AFTRA vowed in a statement to investigate the conditions on the set.

This is an extremely troubling situation and we are deeply concerned about the safety of performers on the Riverdale set, the union said.

We are sending a team to Vancouver to review the circumstances surrounding safety issues affecting performers on this production.

We have no further comment at this time..

Following the accident, several actors confronted producers regarding transportation policies for the show, which they believed contributed to an unsafe work environment.

Warner Bros.

does not provide transportation to and from the shows Vancouver set.

However, the studios policy for Riverdale and all of its series is to provide transportation upon request for all cast and crew should they feel too tired to drive at the end of the workday.

As with other shows, production on Riverdale often stretches into very late hours.

A source says that the studio policy of providing a car service or taxi — as well as a nearby hotel room — upon request to any cast or crew member was announced at the start of production this season and is reiterated periodically in notices attached to call sheets.

A representative for Apa did not respond to a request for comment.

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Review: Advantage, Bobby, but Game, Set, Match, Billie Jean in 'Battle of the Sexes'|K CHANNEL - Duration: 9:05.

Review: Advantage, Bobby, but Game, Set, Match, Billie Jean in 'Battle of the Sexes'

  Every so often an exceptionally capable woman has to prove her worth by competing against a clown.

That's one of the durable truisms of "Battle of the Sexes," a glib, enjoyable fictionalization of the 1973 exhibition tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.

She was 29 and one of the top female tennis players in the world.

He was 55 and had been a world champion before she was born.

She was a feminist symbol and the first female athlete to win more than $100,000 in a single year; he was a self-avowed male chauvinist pig who liked to gamble big.

It was a man vs.

woman match made for maximum public-relations gimmickry but also a deadly serious referendum on equality on and off the court.

So it was personal and it was political, which "Battle of the Sexes" gets.

It was also entertainment, which is where the movie really excels.

Nice and easy, it sets the players and early 1970s scene, with Billie Jean (Emma Stone) already making history and Bobby (Steve Carell) largely sidelined.

She's making waves as a player and as a champion of women's rights, including equal pay, and earning plaudits from the likes of President Nixon.

Bobby seems to be living off his indulgent wealthy wife (Elisabeth Shue), a frozen smiler right out of Stepford, and spending time on idle in a fancy office.

Mostly, Billie Jean is winning while Bobby is keeping boredom at bay.

The directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton make these early scenes pop, cramming characters and information into Billie Jean and Bobby's separate realities.

Billie Jean's is livelier, more engaging, partly because there's more at stake and because she's surrounded by chummy, pleasurably prickly women like Rosie Casals (Natalie Morales) and Gladys Heldman (a tangy Sarah Silverman), the founder of Tennis World magazine.

Together with seven other top female players, these three form a feminist revolt called the Virginia Slims tour, a women's pro circuit that sets out to combat the gross inequalities that defined professional (open) tennis since its advent in 1968.

As the sunny, sporty feminists stake their rightful claim — holding press conferences, drumming up support, winning and winning some more — a rather dark, clubbier male world comes into view.

A gambler, Bobby watches Billie Jean on TV but hangs with masters of the universe, male cigar chompers and scotch swirlers who think nothing of betting away a Rolls-Royce.

It looks like a lethal bore, as does Bobby's home, where he plays with his young son under a conspicuously large and looming portrait of his wife.

By the time Bobby is challenging Billie Jean to play it almost seems as if he were willing himself into the arms — or at least company — of this other woman.

It takes a while for them to meet on the court, partly because Billie Jean initially turns Bobby down.

So instead, he takes on Margaret Court (Jessica McNamee), the Australian champion who becomes the movie's female heavy.

(The real Ms.

Court has played that role off screen for her views on same-sex marriage and homosexuality, which she's branded "a lust for the flesh.") In a well-publicized faceoff soon called the Mother's Day Massacre, Bobby defeats Margaret, a loss that Billie Jean feels she needs to correct.

It's game on, though with complications, including Billie Jean's revelatory attraction to another woman, a hairdresser, Marilyn Barnett (Andrea Riseborough).

    Ms.

Faris and Mr Dayton handle the many moving parts in Simon Beaufoy's busy script smoothly as they toggle between intimate moments and public events, and set Billie Jean's bedroom sighs off against Bobby's heat-seeking braggadocio.

There's a lot to follow and a great deal to look at, including an atmospherically embellished past that turns the movie into a veritable wayback machine of amusing and amusingly unfortunate colors and choices.

(The director of photography is Linus Sandgren; the production designer is Judy Becker.) There are plaid jackets and flirty minis, sideburns and shags, harvest-gold drapes and rooms perilously fogged in by cigarette smoke.

A revolution can be tough to squeeze into two hours, but "Battle of the Sexes" manages it mostly by skipping along its handsome surfaces.

The film repeatedly announces that there's a lot at stake here, but without much urgency or sting.

Bobby's sexist pronouncements are outrageous, but his stunts are so absurd and self-serving that they're hard to take seriously.

And while Mr Carell bounces and sags persuasively, the characterization is finally so soft that Bobby comes off as more needy and pathetic than threatening.

The better foil and villain is a tennis promoter, Jack Kramer (Bill Pullman), one of those men who never bothers to hide his contempt for women.

Billie Jean faces down Kramer at one point, speaking feminist truth to power: "It's when we want a little bit of what you've got," she says, "that's what you can't stand." It's a solid gotcha moment, but the reason it works as well as it does is its low-key realism, which underscores the absolute ordinariness of the sexism she's calling out.

Stone handles the scene exactly right, letting you see the tremor of indignation while keeping righteousness in view yet also in check.

She's unsurprisingly good and often moving, although the best thing about the performance is that Ms.

Stone hasn't been asked to play the girl who seduces us with big eyes and a smile.

Billie Jean is a woman, and that's a win.

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Gal Gadot, Kumail Nanjiani to Host 'Saturday Night Live' During Season 43|K CHANNEL - Duration: 4:39.

Gal Gadot, Kumail Nanjiani to Host 'Saturday Night Live' During Season 43

Both Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot and The Big Sicks Kumail Nanjiani will host their own episodes of Saturday Night Live for the shows upcoming 43rd season, NBC announced Thursday.

Gadot will host the Oct.

7 episode with musical guest Sam Smith, while Nanjiani will host the Oct.

14 episode with musical guest P!nk.

This will mark the first time either star has hosted the long-running NBC sketch series. "Wonder Woman" earned more than $400 million at the domestic box office, with Gadot reprising the role in the highly anticipated "Justice League," arriving in theaters Nov.

Nanjiani stars as Dinesh Chugtai in HBO's "Silicon Valley" and most recently wrote and starred in the critically-acclaimed indie comedy "The Big Sick.".

Smith will be making his second visit to "SNL" as musical guest.

He recently dropped a new single, "Too Good at Goodbyes," on Sept.

8 in preparation for his upcoming second studio album release. P!nks seventh studio album, "Beautiful Trauma," is due out Oct.

She was also recently honored at the MTV VMAs with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in August.

She will be making her third appearance on SNL..

As previously announced, Ryan Gosling will host the season opener on Sept.

30 with musical guest Jay Z.

On Tuesday, NBC also announced that SNL will continue its live simultaneous airings in all time zones as it enters Season 43.

Each episode will air live at: 11:30 p.m.

Eastern, 10:30 p.m. Central, 9:30 p.m.

Mountain, and 8:30 p.m. Pacific.

For the Mountain and Pacific time zones, "SNL" will be repeated at 11:30 p.m.

"SNL" experimented with simultaneous airings last season, when the final four episodes were broadcast in the same fashion.

The move came as the show was experiencing a major ratings renaissance thanks to regular appearances by Alec Baldwin as President Donald Trump and Melissa McCarthy as now ex-White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer.

The show picked up nine Emmys this year out of their 22 nominations, including wins for Baldwin, McCarthy, cast member Kate McKinnon, and Dave Chappelle, who hosted the post-election episode in November.

The series also picked up the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series and Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series.