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Forbes
4 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
Telemundo Revives Ana María Polo's ‘Caso Cerrado' With 24/7 FAST Channel Launch
For two decades, Dr. Ana María Polo's gavel echoed through living rooms across the United States and Latin America, as she arbitrated countless court cases. She first stepped into the role of "TV judge" in 2001 on Sala de Parejas, a show initially focused on resolving marital problems between participants. The show later expanded its scope to include anyone with legal disputes, and in 2005, it was rebranded as Caso Cerrado con la Dra. Ana María Polo (Case Closed with Dr. Ana María Polo). Polo's signature, brazen style propelled the show to become one of Telemundo's highest-rated programs, cultivating a legion of devoted fans. However, even Polo's Caso Cerrado eventually reached its own "closed case." The popular show concluded in 2019, following the end of her multi-year contract with Telemundo. Now, Telemundo is reviving the hit Spanish-language courtroom drama with the launch of a 24/7 free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel dedicated to Caso Cerrado. It's a streaming time capsule, offering both longtime fans and new viewers access to over 800 hours of Polo's long-running show. Ana María Polo in a scene from "Caso Cerrado." Telemundo 'Telemundo's Caso Cerrado is one of Hispanic media's most iconic franchises with enduring fandom and new audiences discovering the courtroom drama via viral moments across digital and social platforms. With more than 26 million dedicated fans and nearly 100 million average monthly views on social media, the demand for this iconic series continues to grow,' says Romina Rosado, EVP, Streaming at NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. Launched just after the show's 24th anniversary, the FAST channel taps into early 2000s nostalgia and offers the opportunity to introduce a new generation to Polo's signature style. Each episode presented dramatic courtroom showdowns, with Dr. Polo presiding over cases that, while inspired by real-life situations, were often dramatized for television. Before her career as a popular TV judge, Polo practiced family law in Miami for 20 years. In 2017, she attempted to cross over into the English-language TV court scene with the syndicated Ana Polo Rules, but the show was canceled after only 15 episodes. The Caso Cerrado FAST channel, set to go live on May 29, 2025, at 9:00 AM ET, is available for free on platforms like Roku, Samsung TV Plus, Prime Video, Fubo, Fire TV, Freevee, Google TV, LG channels, TCL, Comcast, Plex, and Xumo.
Yomiuri Shimbun
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yomiuri Shimbun
Tottori: ‘Case Closed' Character Statues Installed in Creator's Hometown; Ran Mori, Sonoko Suzuki
The Yomiuri Shimbun Statues of 'Detective Conan' characters Ran Mori, left, and Sonoko Suzuki stand on a street as participants in the unveiling ceremony strike poses in Hokuei, Tottori Prefecture. HOKUEI, Tottori — Colorful statues of two characters in the global hit manga series 'Detective Conan,' also known as 'Case Closed,' are now on display in the town of Hokuei, Tottori Prefecture, the hometown of the manga's creator Gosho Aoyama. The town is also home to the Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory, a museum which introduces visitors to the world of the manga and its creator through exhibits such as a collection of original drawings of Detective Conan. The new statues, depicting characters Ran Mori and Sonoko Suzuki, stand on Conan Street, which connects the museum with JR Yura Station. The manga's protagonist, Conan Edogawa, is a detective who appears to be a child but is actually a teenager named Shinichi Kudo. Ran and Sonoko are childhood friends of Shinichi. Since the two girls are best friends, they are represented as strolling side by side, and the installation is titled 'Kawaranu Kankei' (An unchanging relationship). Aoyama's father Hiromichi, 92, and his mother Michiko, 86, attended the unveiling of the statues in early April. A large number of fans, including locals and people from both inside and outside the prefecture, gathered for the event. 'All the little details are there. They look so cute!' said an 11-year-old girl who came to the unveiling in a T-shirt featuring characters from the manga.
Yahoo
13-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Opinion - Reps. Luna and Garcia should make their next JFK hearing a fair fight
Recently the House Oversight and Government Reform committee's task force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets held a hearing on the JFK files. It included the deeply weird claim by one member of the panel, testifying that the man arrested for the murder of President John F. Kennedy 'might have fired a gun' that day in Dallas, but was absolutely 'not the intellectual author' of the murder. After plenty of thinking, I must admit: I have no idea what that means either. I am not alone. JFK anti-conspiracy nation was appalled. 'My expectations were low going in and it was still worse than I expected,' said Gerald Posner in an interview. Posner is the author of 'Case Closed,' the bestselling book on the assassination. The one that lays out the-beyond-convincing case that Lee Harvey Oswald, arrested 80 minutes after the assassination — after murdering a Dallas police officer — is irrefutably much more than just 'the intellectual author' of the assassination. He is the lone shooter of the president, proven by the evidence, melded with a solid understanding of his biography, confirmed by multiple investigations as well as by decades of hard work by individual researchers unimpressed by tales of invisible additional shooters; or of somehow popular explanations such as that either of two Secret Service agents in the motorcade shot JFK. (Really. This scenario is huge on social media.) The reason the Oswald-is-guilty case was not made at the hearing is because no one present was interested in making it. Nobody at the witness table and nobody among their questioners, members of the subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), who announced before the hearing that she had decided that multiple shooters were involved, and that a news film taken moments after the shooting had been hidden from the country by NBC. It had not, and was barely referenced in the hearing. Several leading anti-conspiracy critics said they approached the subcommittee in advance of the hearing seeking a seat at that table of testifiers, but were ignored. 'We are not angry, but we are disappointed,' said Fred Litwin, author, podcaster and constant updater of his essential website, which debunks claim after ridiculous claim from JFK conspiracists. 'Congresswoman Luna does not seem to have a firm grasp of the case, and I worry that she could end up being fooled by theories which are ridiculous.' One solution: Invite to testify next time experts with a broader range of views. And not just on who the killer is, but on what arcane documents mean and do not mean. Luna announced late last week she would in fact host another hearing on JFK issues. Posner, Litwin, W. Tracey Parnell and other leading anti-JFK-conspiracy critics were left to provide fast and informative reactions after the made-for-TV event. The non-revelations piled up: The CIA reading Oswald's mail — actually only one letter, from Oswald's mother, asking him to write to her more — was likely because Oswald lived in the Soviet Union. The covert mail surveillance program itself has long been public, revealed in the 1970s. Oliver Stone said 'more than 40 witnesses' have claimed they saw a large hole in the back of JFK's head, potentially indicating a shot from the front. Litwin and other researchers patiently point out that in fact such a claim is assembled from recollections that are nowhere near consistent — or from witnesses who would not have had an extended view of Kennedy's wounds. Conspiracy dissenters also note the vast evidence-faking operation necessary to sustain such a scenario, involving, to begin with, the entire autopsy team — doctors, photographers, x-ray technicians, medical staff, military brass — as well as many others operating within an enormous criminal conspiracy that has somehow sustained for 62 years. (The most prominent film of the assassination would have had to be somehow secretly altered, as well, since it shows the back of the president's head intact.) The JFK files release in the days preceding the hearing was also a dud, say the conspiracy dissenters, as nearly all of these documents were previously released and whatever redactions were uncovered addressed zilch about who shot the president. But additional truth may in fact be out there: JFK assassination-related files Litwin says he wants to read may be found in Cuba, Mexico City, Russia and in the city of Minsk in Belarus, the Soviet city where Oswald lived as a defector. Litwin wants to know: Were further KGB operations in place to influence American public opinion — aimed at selling the narrative that the CIA was behind the assassination — than those already known? One useful voice for future hearings is the king of the skeptics. 'Will the final release of all the JFK files at long last put an end to conspiracism surrounding the murder of the 35th president?' asked Michael Shermer, author, publisher, podcaster and executive director of the Skeptic Society. 'Of course not! 'If it were the assassination of Texas Gov. [John] Connally instead of JFK, or the mayor of Dallas, or anyone besides JFK, would we still be talking about it? No. Oswald would have been charged, tried and convicted in a short trial, and that would have been case closed. But because it was the POTUS, the proportionality bias dictates that large effects must have large causes.' And if Luna keeps to her word to look into the murder of Robert Kennedy as well, she or ranking member Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) could invite RFK case authority and author Mel Ayton or bulldog author-reporter Dan Moldea to that hearing. Both are respected anti-conspiracy authorities in the RFK case. Let's at least make it a fair fight. Craig Colgan is a Washington, D.C.-based writer. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
The release of a 1961 plan to break up the CIA revives an old conspiracy theory about who killed JFK
A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency behind it, the CIA, had grown too powerful. He proposed giving the State Department control of 'all clandestine activities' and breaking up the CIA. The page of Special Assistant Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s memo outlining the proposal was among the newly public material in documents related to Kennedy's assassination released this week by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. So, too was Schlesinger's statement that 47% of the political officers in U.S. embassies were controlled by the CIA. Some readers of the previously withheld material in Schlesinger's 15-page memo view it as evidence of both mistrust between Kennedy and the CIA and a reason the CIA at least would not make Kennedy's security a high priority ahead of his assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. That gave fresh attention Thursday to a decades-old theory about who killed JFK — that the CIA had a hand in it. Some Kennedy scholars, historians and writers said they haven't yet seen anything in the 63,000 pages of material released under an order from President Donald Trump that undercuts the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old Marine and onetime defector to the Soviet Union, was a lone gunman. But they also say they understand why doubters gravitate toward the theory. 'You have this young, charismatic president with so much potential for the future, and on the other side of the scale, you have this 24-year-old waif, Oswald, and it doesn't balance. You want to put something weightier on the Oswald side,' said Gerald Posner, whose book, 'Case Closed,' details the evidence that Oswald was a lone gunman. The first 'big event' in the US to spawn conspiracy theories But Jefferson Morley said the newly released material is important to 'the JFK case.' Morely is vice president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, a repository for files related to the assassination, and editor of the JFK Facts blog, and he rejects the conclusion that Oswald was 'a lone nut." Morley said that even with the release of 63,000 pages this week, there is still more unreleased material, including 2,400 files that the FBI said it discovered after Trump issued his order in January and material held by the Kennedy family. Kennedy was killed on a visit to Dallas, when his motorcade was finishing its parade route downtown and shots rang out from the Texas School Book Depository building. Police arrested Oswald, who had positioned himself from a sniper's perch on the sixth floor. Two days later Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner, fatally shot Oswald during a jail transfer broadcast live on television. 'It was the first big event that led to a series of events involving conspiracy theories that have left Americans believing, almost permanently, that their government lies to them so often they shouldn't pay close attention,' said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of 'The Kennedy Half-Century" The Bay of Pigs fiasco prompts an aide's memo Morley said Schlesinger's memo provides the 'origin story' of mutual mistrust between Kennedy and the CIA. Kennedy had inherited the Bay of Pigs plan from his predecessor, President Dwight Eisenhower, and had been in office less than three months when the operation launched in April 1961 as a covert invasion to topple Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Schlesinger's memo was dated June 30, 1961, a little more than two months later. Schlesinger told Kennedy that covert all operations should be cleared with the U.S. State Department instead of allowing the CIA to largely present proposed operations almost as accomplished tasks. He also said in some places, such as Austria and Chile, far more than half the embassies' political officers were CIA-controlled. Ronald Neumann, former US ambassador to Afghanistan, Algeria and Bahrain, said most American diplomats now are 'non-CIA,' and in most places, ambassadors do not automatically defer to the CIA. 'CIA station chiefs also have an important function for ambassadors, because the station chief is usually the senior intelligence officer at a post," Neumann said, adding that ambassadors see a CIA station chiefs as providing valuable information. But he noted: 'If you get into the areas where we were involved in covert operations in supporting wars, you're going to have a different picture. You're going to have a picture which will differ from a normal embassy and normal operations.' A proposal to break up the CIA that didn't come to fruition Schlesinger's memo ends with a previously redacted page that spells out a proposal to give control of covert activities to the State Department and to split the CIA into two agencies reporting to separate undersecretaries of state. Morley sees it as a response to Kennedy's anger over the Bay of Pigs and something Kennedy was seriously contemplating. The plan never came to fruition. Sabato said that Kennedy simply 'needed the CIA' in the Cold War conflict with the Soviet Union and its allies like Cuba, and a huge reorganization would have hindered intelligence operations. He also said the president and his brother, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, wanted to oust Castro before JFK ran for reelection in 1964. 'Let's remember that a good percentage of the covert operations were aimed at Fidel Castro in Cuba,' Sabato said. Timothy Naftali, an adjunct professor at Columbia University who is writing a book about JFK's presidency, discounts the idea of tensions between the president and the CIA lasting until Kennedy's death. For one thing, he said, the president used covert operations 'avidly.' 'I find that the more details we get on that period, the more it appears likely that the Kennedy brothers were in control of the intelligence community,' Naftali said. 'You can you can see his imprint. You can see that there is a system by which he is directing the intelligence community. It's not always direct, but he's directing it.' ___ Associated Press writer David Collins in Hartford Connecticut, contributed to this report.
The Independent
20-03-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
The release of a 1961 plan to break up the CIA revives an old conspiracy theory about who killed JFK
A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency behind it, the CIA, had grown too powerful. He proposed giving the State Department control of 'all clandestine activities' and breaking up the CIA. The page of Special Assistant Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s memo outlining the proposal was among the newly public material in documents related to Kennedy's assassination released this week by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. So, too was Schlesinger's statement that 47% of the political officers in U.S. embassies were controlled by the CIA. Some readers of the previously withheld material in Schlesinger's 15-page memo view it as evidence of both mistrust between Kennedy and the CIA and a reason the CIA at least would not make Kennedy's security a high priority ahead of his assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. That gave fresh attention Thursday to a decades-old theory about who killed JFK — that the CIA had a hand in it. Some Kennedy scholars, historians and writers said they haven't yet seen anything in the 63,000 pages of material released under an order from President Donald Trump that undercuts the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old Marine and onetime defector to the Soviet Union, was a lone gunman. But they also say they understand why doubters gravitate toward the theory. 'You have this young, charismatic president with so much potential for the future, and on the other side of the scale, you have this 24-year-old waif, Oswald, and it doesn't balance. You want to put something weightier on the Oswald side,' said Gerald Posner, whose book, 'Case Closed,' details the evidence that Oswald was a lone gunman. The first 'big event' in the US to spawn conspiracy theories But Jefferson Morley said the newly released material is important to 'the JFK case.' Morely is vice president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, a repository for files related to the assassination, and editor of the JFK Facts blog, and he rejects the conclusion that Oswald was 'a lone nut." Morley said that even with the release of 63,000 pages this week, there is still more unreleased material, including 2,400 files that the FBI said it discovered after Trump issued his order in January and material held by the Kennedy family. Kennedy was killed on a visit to Dallas, when his motorcade was finishing its parade route downtown and shots rang out from the Texas School Book Depository building. Police arrested Oswald, who had positioned himself from a sniper's perch on the sixth floor. Two days later Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner, fatally shot Oswald during a jail transfer broadcast live on television. 'It was the first big event that led to a series of events involving conspiracy theories that have left Americans believing, almost permanently, that their government lies to them so often they shouldn't pay close attention,' said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of 'The Kennedy Half-Century" The Bay of Pigs fiasco prompts an aide's memo Morley said Schlesinger's memo provides the 'origin story' of mutual mistrust between Kennedy and the CIA. Kennedy had inherited the Bay of Pigs plan from his predecessor, President Dwight Eisenhower, and had been in office less than three months when the operation launched in April 1961 as a covert invasion to topple Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Schlesinger's memo was dated June 30, 1961, a little more than two months later. Schlesinger told Kennedy that covert all operations should be cleared with the U.S. State Department instead of allowing the CIA to largely present proposed operations almost as accomplished tasks. He also said in some places, such as Austria and Chile, far more than half the embassies' political officers were CIA-controlled. Ronald Neumann, former US ambassador to Afghanistan, Algeria and Bahrain, said most American diplomats now are 'non-CIA,' and in most places, ambassadors do not automatically defer to the CIA. 'CIA station chiefs also have an important function for ambassadors, because the station chief is usually the senior intelligence officer at a post," Neumann said, adding that ambassadors see a CIA station chiefs as providing valuable information. But he noted: 'If you get into the areas where we were involved in covert operations in supporting wars, you're going to have a different picture. You're going to have a picture which will differ from a normal embassy and normal operations.' A proposal to break up the CIA that didn't come to fruition Schlesinger's memo ends with a previously redacted page that spells out a proposal to give control of covert activities to the State Department and to split the CIA into two agencies reporting to separate undersecretaries of state. Morley sees it as a response to Kennedy's anger over the Bay of Pigs and something Kennedy was seriously contemplating. The plan never came to fruition. Sabato said that Kennedy simply 'needed the CIA' in the Cold War conflict with the Soviet Union and its allies like Cuba, and a huge reorganization would have hindered intelligence operations. He also said the president and his brother, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, wanted to oust Castro before JFK ran for reelection in 1964. 'Let's remember that a good percentage of the covert operations were aimed at Fidel Castro in Cuba,' Sabato said. Timothy Naftali, an adjunct professor at Columbia University who is writing a book about JFK's presidency, discounts the idea of tensions between the president and the CIA lasting until Kennedy's death. For one thing, he said, the president used covert operations 'avidly.' 'I find that the more details we get on that period, the more it appears likely that the Kennedy brothers were in control of the intelligence community,' Naftali said. 'You can you can see his imprint. You can see that there is a system by which he is directing the intelligence community. It's not always direct, but he's directing it.' ___
