Entertainment News Roundup: CBS 'Late Show' host Stephen Colbert recovering from ruptured appendix; Jon Batiste says documentary became a 'symphony of life' and more

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CBS 'Late Show' host Stephen Colbert recovering from ruptured appendix

Production of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" was canceled this week as the top-rated U.S. late-night television host recovers from surgery for a ruptured appendix, the CBS program announced on Monday. The news came in a brief statement posted on the show's official feed on the social media platform Threads, presented as a message from Colbert himself in his signature tongue-in-cheek style, jokingly hinting at Thanksgiving over-indulgence.

Jon Batiste says documentary became a 'symphony of life'

He planned to make a film about composing his first symphony but in late 2021, award-winning musician Jon Batiste was nominated for 11 Grammy awards and his partner's long-dormant cancer returned, so the movie became more a "symphony of life". "Imagine you're on stage at the Grammys and you're thinking about what's going on back home," Batiste said of the night in 2022 when he won five trophies including best album.

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

Marty Krofft, who created popular children's television shows such as HR Pufnstuf and The Bugaloos, has died of kidney failure at the age of 86, his publicist Harlan Boll said on Saturday. Referred to as the "King of Saturday Mornings," Krofft rose to prominence for his work on The Banana Splits Adventure Hour before starting Sid and Marty Pictures with his brother Sid Krofft in 1969.

(With inputs from agencies.)