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Ted Lasso is a heart-warming comedy about an American football coach who ends up coaching the fictional soccer (well, football) team AFC Richmond in England. It's simply fantastic, which is due in no small part to the excellent acting on the show. With the Emmy awards rapidly approaching and Ted Lasso nominated in various categories, it’s time for some of our favorite actors to get their due. Ted Lasso scores big in 2022Ted Lasso benefits from an incredible supporting cast (an ensemble, truly) as evidenced by the…

Ted Decker, Home DepotSource: PRNewswireHome Depot has named CEO Ted Decker as the chairman of the board, the company announced Thursday.He replaces former CEO Craig Menear, who will retire as chairman Sept. 30. Decker took over as CEO in March, when Menear stepped down from that role. Prior to that, Menear had been the company's chief executive since 2014.The announcement comes two days after Home Depot's second quarter earnings report, which reflected strong performance even as consumers grappled with high inflation.…

A branch of Ted Baker stands on Regent Street in London, England.Jack Taylor | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAuthentic Brands Group, the retail conglomerate that owns businesses including Reebok, Forever 21 and Juicy Couture, has struck a deal to buy U.K. fashion chain Ted Baker for about £211 million, or $254 million.The deal value, which would pay 110 pence cash for each Ted Baker share, represents a premium of roughly 18% to its closing price Monday. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange.Ted Baker said…

Authentic Brands Group LLC said it has agreed to buy Ted Baker TED 17.08% PLC for the equivalent of $254 million, adding the struggling British fashion label to its stable of brands that include Brooks Brothers and Reebok. The New York-based company said Tuesday there were “significant growth opportunities for the Ted Baker brand in North America” in particular, and that taking the business private would enable a restructuring that…

Apple TV+ continues to bring home the awards and build some tentpole series in the process.Yesterday, the streaming service took home seven awards at this year's Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards. Specifically, Severance and Ted Lasso took home seven combined awards.Not only did they take home a ton of awards at the event, but Ted Lasso won for Best Streaming Series, Comedy, and Severance took home the award for Best Streaming Series, Drama. Last night's wins, according to Apple, bring the Apple TV+ award totals to…

Apple TV+ has scooped a whopping 52 Emmy Award nominations including 20 for its hit comedy Ted Lasso. The company announced this week: For the second consecutive year, Apple TV+ today broke records with 52 Emmy Award nominations across 13 titles, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special, Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Apple TV+ boosted its total number of Emmy Award nominations by more…

Logan Roy, played by Brian Cox, at his daughter's wedding reception on season 1 of HBO's Succession.Colin Hutton | HBOCan the Roy family win yet another high-stakes competition with brutal rivals?HBO's lacerating drama "Succession" on Tuesday earned 25 nominations for the 74th annual Emmy Awards, the most of any series. It's squaring off against Netflix's "Squid Game" and "Stranger Things," among others, in the Best Drama Series category.AppleTV+'s "Ted Lasso" and HBO's "The White Lotus" each garnered 20 nominations.…

Those of us who cut our teeth on the weekly music press are, by nature, bullishly nostalgic for the days when NME and Melody Maker sold hundreds of thousands of copies, reputations and heated pub exchanges hinging on their contents. Music and its chronicling seemed like the central whorl around which the universe spun. The tone alternated between bumptious certainty and shit-stirring mischief, in-jokes and crusading.Then two things happened. Around the time Kurt Cobain died, newspapers decided music was worth covering in…

A series of deeply personal unpublished poems by Ted Hughes has been discovered and will be auctioned at Sotheby’s next week.The previously unseen poems were written shortly after the poet’s partner, Assia Wevill, killed herself and their daughter, Shura, in 1969, six years after the suicide of Hughes’s first wife Sylvia Plath.The poetry, handwritten in Hughes’s notebook, is a mixture of short fragments and more complete drafts of poems. There are four poems at the end of the series that seem to be more “finished”, which…

Ted Lasso has become one of the world's most recognized TV characters and it's one of the best things on Apple TV+ as we await its third season. Why not read a script from that magical second season while you wait? The script for Rainbow, sitting in the middle of season two, opens with Nate, played by Nick Mohammed, trying to book a table at a restaurant. It's comedy gold from minute one and gets better from there, and now you can read the entire script as part of an ongoing Deadline series called It Starts On the Page —…