• Stephen King's time-travel novel about the Kennedy assassination is being adapted as a small-screen miniseries. Streaming service Hulu said Monday that the nine-hour series, titled 11/22/63 after King's book, includes the author and J.J. Abrams as executive producers. King said in a statement that if any of his works cried out for "long-form, event TV programming," then 11/22/63 is it. In King's 2011 novel, a high school teacher goes back in time to try to prevent the Nov. 22, 1963, killing of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald. The release date for 11/22/63 and casting weren't announced by Hulu or producer Warner Bros. Television. The series will be seen in the United States on Hulu and distributed internationally by Warner.
• Kris Jenner is ending her 22-year marriage to Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians matriarch filed for divorce Monday in Los Angeles, citing irreconcilable differences. The pair's relationship and its troubles have been featured prominently on the reality show that focuses heavily on Kris Jenner's daughters from a previous marriage, Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian. The women and their brother, Rob, were born during Kris Jenner's previous marriage to Los Angeles attorney Robert Kardashian, whom she divorced in 1991. Kris and Bruce Jenner have two children together, daughters Kendall and Kylie. The divorce petition seeks joint custody of 17-year-old Kylie Jenner. Court filings say the pair separated on June 1.
• Paula Deen is ready to tell her side of the story behind the racial slur that decimated her career, but you'll need to pay to hear it. The former Food Network star has been working on a documentary about herself and her downfall -- triggered in 2013 by her acknowledgment that she'd used a racial slur in the past -- but it will only be available to subscribers of her new website, the Paula Deen Network. Recipe content on the site will be free, but viewers will need to pay $9.99 a month to view videos. "We hope to have it out the first of the year and tell everybody the true story of what really happened," Deen said of the documentary during a recent telephone interview. "It was a painful year for me. It was a hurtful year when I found myself being labeled for something I was not." The website launches today.
A Section on 09/24/2014