Fresh off the premiere of its new Fox drama “Murder in a Small Town,” Jeff Wachtel’s Future Shack Entertainment shingle is ramping up its development slate — next via a first-look pact with Daily Beast chief content officer Joanna Coles. Future Shack and Coles have multiple projects in development, including a take on MSNBC anchor […]
BET+ will air eight original holiday films this season, kicking off on November 7. Starting the first Thursday in November and running each week until Christmas, BET+ will run original movies “filled with yuletide love, family forgiveness and comedy with a holiday twist.” One of the films goes international, with “A Wesley South African Christmas” […]
It’s easy to dip into hyperbole after seeing Idles play. If you want energy, rawness and showmanship from a concert, is any other band devoting this much of themselves to the live experience in 2024? The British post-punk quintet — vocalist Joe Talbot, guitarists Mark Bowen and Lee Kiernan, bassist Adam Devonshire and drummer Jon Beavis […]
FIFA and Global Citizen are teaming up to give the FIFA World Cup final game its own Super Bowl-style halftime show, the first of which will be in 2026. The two organizations announced the news Saturday during the annual Global Citizen Festival in Central Park. Global Citizen — an advocacy organization that produces entertainment events […]
Songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, R.E.M., Burna Boy, Rush and many others are currently unplayable on YouTube in the U.S. due to a legal dispute between the platform and the performing rights organization SESAC. Attempts to play many, but not all, songs by those artists on Saturday met with the following message: “This […]
Before the initial release of “Howl’s Moving Castle” 20 years ago, Akihiko Yamashita spent nearly two years working as the supervising animator on the Studio Ghibli film. “I really have no idea how many pages of drawings there were or how many cels we drew. I just know that we worked a huge amount and […]
The best way to end a long day of watching football is watching even more NFL action with “Sunday Night Football.” For Week 4, two AFC rivals go head-to-head as the Buffalo Bills face off against the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland on Sunday, Sept. 29. The game kickoffs at 8:20 […]
Drake Hogestyn, who played John Black on “Days of Our Lives” for 38 years, has died due to pancreatic cancer. The actor’s family announced the news in a statement posted to the Instagram account of the long-running soap opera. “It’s with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Drake Hogestyn. He was thrown the […]
The question of who would play Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff on “Saturday Night Live” was answered immediately on Saturday night as the sketch comedy series kicked off its 50th season. Jim Gaffigan joined Maya Rudolph in the season premiere cold open as the affable Minnesota Governor and Harris’ running mate, while Andy Samberg appeared […]
“Saturday Night Live” host Jean Smart kicked of this year’s 50th season of the storied sketch show with a monologue highlighting its home city, the Big Apple. Taking the stage in a sparkly pink pantsuit, the “Hacks” star said, “I can’t tell you how honored I am to be hosting the premiere episode of Season 50. […]
