FOX has announced a slate of programming to hype up SmackDown’s premiere on the channel. Immediately before SmackDown makes its FOX debut on Friday, October 4, there will be a half-hour “blue carpet” kickoff show. FOX wrote that “this star-studded show features ‘blue carpet’ arrivals and backstage access to celebrities and athletes, as well as past and present…

> PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy. (Search “wade keller” to subscribe in podcast app or CLICK HERE to subscribe in Apple Podcasts.) AXS TV issued the following…

Ahead of their first television tapings of the Billy Corgan era, the NWA has announced when and where their show will be airing. The show is titled “NWA Power.” It will premiere on Tuesday, October 8 at 6:05 p.m. Eastern time. The show will air weekly on Tuesdays at that time for free via the NWA’s Facebook page…

> PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy. (Search “wade keller” to subscribe in podcast app or CLICK HERE to subscribe in Apple Podcasts.) -Last night on Mixed Match…

Monica Lewinsky is to produce a television series focusing on the impeachment of Bill Clinton, saying she wishes to "reclaim the narrative" of her story. The show, announced on Tuesday, is the latest in the Emmy-winning American Crime Story series, shown on the channel FX. Previous series have dramatized events leading up to the murder of…

Donald Trump was assailed on Tuesday for his hands-off approach to pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, avoiding criticising Beijing even as he cited US intelligence reports of Chinese troops moving to the territory’s border. Critics on both sides of the political spectrum accused the US president of abandoning longstanding US policy to support democratic movements…

Campaigners are lobbying G7 leaders who are to attend a summit in the French seaside resort of Biarritz this week to ban detergents that cause marine pollution. Environmentalists say there is a “dead zone” in the Bay of Biscay off Biarritz, which they say is caused by a “chemical cocktail” of detergents discharged into the…

An anti-racism campaigner was told to leave the picturesque Belgian town of Ath on Sunday after being warned by the mayor that he could not “guarantee his safety” from angry townsfolk. Mouhad Neghif from the anti-racism group Brussels Panthers had led a campaign against a blackface figure known as the “Savage” who appears in the…

Seven people were killed and 22 others injured in a gun rampage in the cities of Midland and Odessa in west Texas as police identified the shooter but remained unsure about his motive. The gunman, identified as 36-year-old Seth Ator of Odessa, who was shot dead by police after he led them on a high-speed…

Zimbabwe’s government has announced a date for Robert Mugabe’s funeral amid a row over where the former president will be buried.  A government memo declared the funeral will be at Harare National Sports stadium on Saturday, September 14th but gave no location for the burial to follow the next day.  Members of Mr Mugabe’s family…