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Exclusive: A feature documentary about renowned sound recordist and environmental activist Martyn Stewart is in production with a raft of seasoned industry and creative names on board. Stewart’s niece Amanda Hill is behind the film, My Uncle Martyn. It will be Stewart’s final project after doctors told him he had terminal cancer.

Hill has held various plum positions in the international TV biz having founded the BBC Earth natural history brand, and served as CMO for BBC Studios and then A&e Networks. She has assembled a heavyweight team for the doc, with Nick Lyon directing and Matt Aeberhard director of photography.

Lyon’s credits include David Attenborough’s Dynasties while Aeberhard is the protégé of Nat Geo photographer Hugo van Lawick and has worked on shows including The Crimson Wing for Disney.

Ellen Windemuth, founder of Off the Fence and now on the board of environment-focused streamer WaterBear,...

When Neil Patrick Harris returns to TV next week, he won't be cracking jokes in another sitcom. Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris (debuting on September 15th on NBC) marks the return — overdue or not — of the variety show, that long-dormant format in which kooky skits, musical guests, and frenzied production numbers are jammed into an hour of family-friendly entertainment. "When you think of the variety shows we all grew upon — Sonny and Cher and Donny and Marie — those [programs] all said, 'Sit on the couch, be entertained with a little song,...

Shields & Yarnell were the rock stars of mime. Back in the 1970s, the then-husband-and-wife duo headlined in Las Vegas, worked with everybody from Dean Martin to the Muppets, and starred in their very own prime-time TV show.  Lorene Yarnell, the robotic Mrs. Clinker to Robert Shields' similarly programmed Mr. Clinker, passed away July 29 of a brain aneurysm in Norway, where she lived, Variety reported today. The couple divorced in 1985, but remained partners in mime. As Shields told a Florida newspaper in 1997: "We still do our act because we love it, not because we have to."...

Lorene Yarnell, half of the mime-dance-comedy team Shields and Yarnell, died July 29 at the age of 66 after suffering a brain aneurysm, the Los Angeles Times reports. Best known for her partnership with then-husband Robert Shields, the duo worked the streets of San Francisco before hitting the small screen, where they starred in their own 1970s variety show and made appearances on hundreds of programs including The Sonny & Cher Show, The Muppet Show, and the Christmas at Walt Disney World special (which featured their signature robot personas The Clinkers, watch below). They were also a hit on the Vegas strip and...