Following is a abstract of present leisure information briefs.

CBS ‘Late Show’ host Stephen Colbert recovering from ruptured appendix

Production of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” was canceled this week because the top-rated U.S. late-night tv host recovers from surgical procedure for a ruptured appendix, the CBS program introduced on Monday. The information got here in a quick assertion posted on the present’s official feed on the social media platform Threads, introduced as a message from Colbert himself in his signature tongue-in-cheek type, jokingly hinting at Thanksgiving over-indulgence.

Jon Batiste says documentary turned a ‘symphony of life’

He deliberate to make a movie about composing his first symphony however in late 2021, award-winning musician Jon Batiste was nominated for 11 Grammy awards and his companion’s long-dormant most cancers returned, so the film turned extra a “symphony of life”. “Imagine you’re on stage at the Grammys and you’re thinking about what’s going on back home,” Batiste stated of the evening in 2022 when he received 5 trophies together with greatest album.

TV producer Marty Krofft, creator of HR Pufnstuf, dies at 86

Marty Krofft, who created widespread youngsters’s tv exhibits resembling HR Pufnstuf and The Bugaloos, has died of kidney failure on the age of 86, his publicist Harlan Boll stated on Saturday. Referred to because the “King of Saturday Mornings,” Krofft rose to prominence for his work on The Banana Splits Adventure Hour earlier than beginning Sid and Marty Pictures along with his brother Sid Krofft in 1969.

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