(Reuters) - Shepard Smith, the chief news anchor of Fox News and a sometime critic of U.S. President Donald Trump, abruptly quit the network on Friday after 23 years.

NEW YORK, Oct 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Theo Germaine, a breakout star of new Netflix TV series "The Politician," urged parents to love their LGBT+ children unconditionally as he recalled struggling to come out to his own family ahead of National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - "Treadstone," which begins in East Berlin in 1973 and zooms ahead to multiple locations in the present day, is, we're told in its credits, "based on an organization from the Bourne series of novels by Robert Ludlum."

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian presidential candidate Nabil Karoui was freed on Wednesday after spending the election campaign in a prison cell, though he managed to come second in the first round and now faces a runoff with independent lawyer Kais Saied on Oct. 13.

TUNIS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Tunisian presidential candidate Nabil Karoui was freed on Wednesday after spending the election campaign in a prison cell, though he managed to come second in the first round and now faces a runoff with independent lawyer Kais Saied on Oct. 13.

TUNIS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Tunisian presidential candidate Nabil Karoui has spent the entire election campaign in a prison cell but still managed to come second in the first round and now faces a runoff with independent lawyer Kais Saied on Oct. 13.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - In a roundabout way, "Twin Peaks" may be the most influential show in today's teen TV.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - David Oyelowo has been tapped for the lead role in the upcoming Showtime pilot "The President Is Missing."

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - In theory, a series based on "Modern Love," the wildly popular "New York Times" column about real life relationships, is a slam dunk. There's no shortage of material, it already has an audience, and there's no premise more open-ended than "love." All a TV version of "Modern Love" had to do was pick compelling stories, connect some narrative dots, and cast a handful of beautiful people to give it a glossier finish than it ever had in print.