What's news: Nick Cannon's talk show pushed, Briarpatch canceled, the Russo brothers eye a spy thriller, how the Harvey Weinstein settlement fell apart, China sets release dates for Dolittle and Bloodshot, Rachel Maddow's ratings record, John Lewis dead at 80, local broadcasters ask Congress for COVID-19 relief. Plus: A review of NBC's 30 Rock special, and the BAFTA Craft Award winners. --Alex Weprin

 Nick Cannon's Talk Show Pushed To 2021

►Nick Cannon daytime talk show pushed back, but still alive, following anti-semitic comments. Cannon, who also hosts Fox's The Masked Singer, was set to host and executive produce an eponymous show from Lionsgate's Debmar-Mercury.

--The show was cleared in more than 90 percent of the country, including all of the 20 biggest markets, with Fox-owned stations as the lead group. It was also set to air on stations owned by CBS, Sinclair, Nexstar, Tegna and Cox, among other station owners. Lionsgate says it's standing by Cannon, but will hold off on the daytime show for a year. The story.

In other TV news...

+Briarpatch canceled at USA Network. The drama starring Rosario Dawson and from exec producers Andy Greenwald and Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot) completed its 10-episode first season in April. The series, based on the Ross Thomas novel of the same name, told a complete story in its first season and was billed as anthology. The story.

+Falcon & the Winter Soldier release delayed. The series is Marvel Studios' first for Disney+ and had been expected to bow in August, though it never had an official release date. However, the coronavirus pandemic saw production on the globe-trotting series suspended in March, with several weeks of filming still needed to complete the season. The series was not included on Disney+'s list of releases for August, which was published Thursday. More.

+HBO is considering going back into therapy. The premium cable outlet is exploring a reboot of its drama series In Treatment, about the interaction between a therapist and his patients. The series, based on an Israeli show, BeTipul, and starring Gabriel Byrne as Dr. Paul Weston, ran for three seasons from 2008-10. More.

 Russo Bros. Eye Another Blockbuster

 Russo Bros. to direct Chris Evans, Ryan Gosling in Netflix's The Gray Man. The Avengers: Endgame directors are getting back into the world of big-budget filmmaking with the spy thriller. Joe Russo penned the script, with Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely performing a polish.

--The film is based on the 2009 novel by Mark Greaney that centers on Court Gentry, a former CIA operative known as the Gray Man. The story.

+Hawkeye, the TV series featuring Marvel’s masked marksman, has found its directors. Or, at least, some of them. Bert and Bertie, the nom de plume for Amber Finlayson (Bert) and Katie Ellwood (Bertie) and known for helming Amazon’s coming-of-age comedy, Troop Zero, have been tapped to captain a block of episodes of the Marvel Studios series that will air on Disney+.

--Also pulling the string for a block will be Rhys Thomas, a Saturday Night Live helmer who has also directed Staten Island Summer, Amazon’s action comedy series Comrade Detective, and John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch. More.

In movie news...

►Paul Thomas Anderson's 1970s high school movie moving from focus to MGM. Anderson's untitled coming-of-age drama set in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s is getting a new home. MGM is in talks to pick up the project from Focus Features, the company that backed his last film, the Oscar-nominated drama, Phantom Thread. The story.

+Bloodshot, Dolittle land China release dates as theaters begin to reopen. The two films will open in China on July 24, becoming the first Hollywood movies to play there since theaters closed in late January amid the coronavirus pandemic. Oscar winner 1917 will open in the world's second-largest moviegoing market a week later. The release dates were revealed Friday, a day after the China Film Administration gave some cinemas the greenlight to reopen on July 20. More.

 How The Harvey Weinstein Settlement Fell Apart

 How an army of lawyers messed up a deal to compensate Weinstein victims. Two years of negotiations crumbled in days. A judge's scathing rejection, though, wasn't totally unforeseeable, Eriq Gardner writes. The column.

+Pair of IATSE members file class action lawsuit against Motion Picture Health Plan. The complaint calls into question the Plan's temporary eligibility changes prompted by the industry shutdown amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, alleging that it violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) by not treating all plan members fairly. The story.

+Also: Amid pandemic-prompted stay-at-home orders across the globe, Netflix's Tiger King became an unexpected phenomenon — but not everyone is pleased with the attention the hit series has drawn.

--Hollywood Weekly Magazine is suing Netflix, CBS, Paramount and Imagine Television for a host of claims including trademark and copyright infringement, unfair business practices and unjust enrichment. The publication says it owns the "Tiger King" trademark and its unwanted association with the series is injuring its reputation. It's seeking not only damages and disgorgement of profits but also the destruction of the series and all related advertising. The story.

+Is betting on an athlete's heart rate during a game coming to broadcasting? It's now possible to measure in real time biometric data like an athlete’s respiration, temperature, blood pressure, and more. Can sports content partners let people gamble on these metrics? Attorneys David Sussman and Amy Egerton-Wiley explore the issue in a guest column.

►Rachel Maddow's ratings record: MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show hit an all-time ratings high Thursday night with an interview with Mary Tump. Maddow's sit-down with President Trump's niece drew a record 5.23 million viewers to the show, leading every show on cable and broadcast in primetime Thursday. The audience for the hour easily surpassed The Rachel Maddow Show's previous high of 4.47 million viewers, set in January for an interview with impeachment figure Lev Parnas. More.

►Local broadcasters ask Congress to provide relief amid COVID-19. Associations representing local broadcasters in all 50 states, the District and Columbia and Puerto Rico sent a letter to Congress, urging legislators to provide relief for local media so that it can "continue to serve their vital roles in informing Americans and keeping them safe."

--Specifically, the letter asks Congress to see that local media has access to the Paycheck Protection Program and receive federal support for advertising. More.

►TV review: Inkoo Kang reviews NBC's 30 Rock: A One-Time Special. "The One-Time Special feels like 30 Rock's "Man Cave," like something the show once would've mocked. Without the sharp jabs at NBC, the show's essence has been hollowed out. And now that the industry is in the era of TV auteurs, where superstar creators like Fey can negotiate for creative leeway in addition to lucrative deals, it's hard not to suspect that the special could have been something she had to put up with to, say, get her next NBC series, the Ted Danson- and Holly Hunter-starring Mr. Mayor, on the air. The review.

+30 Rock's ratings: The 30 Rock reunion/NBC upfront presentation that aired on NBC on Thursday night didn't draw much of an audience. ABC's game shows were down as well, although the finale of Fox's Labor of Love ticked up a little.The numbers.

Obituaries: John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died. He was 80... Veteran Hollywood publicist Joe Sutton died of health complications on July 16 in hospice care at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, his son Michael announced on Friday. He was 83... Phyllis Somerville, an actor known for The Big C and Little Children, died of natural causes at her home in New York City on July 16, her manager Paul Hilepo said. She was 76...

In other news...

--Action thriller The Old Guard is among the most popular films to hit Netflix ever, according to the streaming giant, reaching 72 million viewers in its first four weeks.

--Chernobyl was the runaway winner at the BAFTA TV Craft awards, celebrating behind-the-camera talent and held for the first time virtually.

--New York City was cleared Friday to take the next step in its reopening next week, allowing movie and TV crews to film, zoos to welcome reduced crowds and professional sports teams to play to empty seats.

--Electronic Arts is making an update to its upcoming Madden NFL 21 game following the Washington, D.C. NFL team deciding earlier this week to change its name that has been denounced by Native American groups as an ethnic slur.

--As more and more actors, artists and musicians try to find a way back to their work amid the coronavirus shutdown, Kehlani performed at one of the first official drive-in concerts on Thursday night, taking over Malibu's Calamigos Ranch in a partnership with Audi.

--Rome’s city council voted on Friday to rename one of its concert halls after Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone, who died last week in the Italian capital.

--Dan Stevens on The Rental and the chances of a The Guest sequel

--Rita Wilson says wearing a face mask during a pandemic should be as normal and unquestioned as brushing one’s teeth twice a day.

What else we're reading...

--"Former employees say Ellen’s “be kind” talk show mantra masks a toxic work culture" [BuzzFeed News]

--"Christopher Nolan says Tenet will come out this summer. Should it?" [NY Times]

--"FTC considering deposing top Facebook officials in antitrust probe" [WSJ]

--"Fox News staffers erupt over network’s racism: Bosses ‘created a white supremacist cell’" [The Daily Beast]

Today's birthdays: Martha Reeves, 79, Vin Diesel, 53, Richard Branson, 70, Wendy Williams, 56, Kristen Bell, 40.