In today’s podcast news roundup, Cole Sprouse is returning for more nightmares in QCode’s “Borrasca” Season 2; Ricki Lake will look back at her TV talk-show legacy in an upcoming podcast from Lemonada; “Dead and Gone” is coming back in a second season to dig into more cases of Grateful Dead fans who have been
Month: March 2022
Chris Willman, one of the industry’s most-respected music journalists, has been promoted to Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic for Variety. Willman is a key player in Variety‘s breaking news coverage with an emphasis on country, Americana and roots artists and well as touring and venues. The promotion to Chief Music Critic recognizes his
There’s only one thing rarer than a March heatwave in the U.K. – and that’s a British alternative group topping the U.S. charts. So Glass Animals’ slow-burn ascent to the Billboard Hot 100 summit with “Heat Waves” represents a highly unusual double whammy. The song took a record 59 weeks to hit the top and,
Cliff Curtis has signed with Verve for representation, Variety has learned exclusively. Curtis continues to be repped by Anonymous Content. The New Zealand-born actor is known for his roles in films like “Training Day,” “The Dark Horse,” “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw,” “Whale Rider,” “Doctor Sleep,” and “Sunshine.” Curtis also starred for multiple
Noah Beck, the internet’s favorite boy-next-door influencer and athlete, is set to star in romantic comedy “The QB Bad Boy and Me” — marking his feature-film acting debut. The movie is being produced by Creator Plus, a content studio and distribution platform startup focused on for digital creators, alongside Wattpad Webtoon Studios, the fan-driven global
Rashaad Ernesto Green will direct “’68,” a biopic about the careers and lives of Olympic runners and activists Tommie Smith and John Carlos for MGM, Participant and MACRO. MGM announced news of the project Thursday, which tells the story of Smith and Carlos from their first meeting on the track team at San Jose State
The Georgia state Senate has dropped a proposal to cap the state’s film and TV tax credit, after facing industry pushback and opposition from the state House of Representatives. The Senate Finance Committee passed a measure on Monday that would have capped the credit at $900 million per year. The bill would also have made
Several days ago, I put my Parcel glasses on and teleported into a party where Grimes was the headlining DJ. The far-from-ordinary fête was thrown by the digital fashion house Auroboros, who was celebrating the triumphant end of the first-ever Metaverse Fashion Week. And it was a banger. Designed fully in 3D, the multi-level space
Michael Bay’s career is defined in part by his blockbuster “Transformers” movies, but the filmmaker recently admitted to Unilad UK (via IndieWire) that he should’ve stopped making them at a certain point. Bay directed 2007’s “Transformers,” which grossed $709 million worldwide, and then returned for four sequels. Two follow-up films, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
The Copyright Royalty agreed to unfreeze the 9.1 cent mechanical royalty rate it pays to songwriters and publishers on Tuesday, setting the stage for the next battle over the rate in the 2023-2027 period. The rate, which is set every five years, is traditionally a hard-fought and contentious battle between music publishers and streaming services
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has claimed that it asked Will Smith to leave Sunday’s Oscars ceremony after he slapped Chris Rock. However, sources close to the situation are refuting that the actor was ever formally urged to leave the show. It appears that in the chaos that surrounded the altercation, the
Fox News Channel named Caitlyn Jenner, a reality star, former Olympian and one time California gubernatorial candidate as a contributor. “Caitlyn’s story is an inspiration to us all. She is a trailblazer in the LGBTQ+ community and her illustrious career spans a variety of fields that will be a tremendous asset for our audience,” said
NBCUniversal has announced that it is developing “Pinned,” a new dramatic scripted series about the world of wrestling. “Pinned” comes from Universal Content Productions and World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. The production is billed as a dramatic series with a logline touting “an adrenalized upstairs-downstairs soap that gives a behind-the-scenes look at a fictional wrestling promotion
MUSIC The BBC is celebrating 60 years of The Rolling Stones with “My Life as a Rolling Stone,” a four-part series of films, each an hour long, focusing separately on Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts. The films will premiere on BBC Two and iPlayer this summer and will include unseen footage
After more than eight years, the weekday and weekend editions of PBS’ signature evening newscast are finally getting together. Washington’s WETA has long produced the venerable “PBS NewsHour,” the show once known as the “McNeil-Lehrer Report” and now anchored by Judy Woodruff, while New York’s WNET has since 2013 produced the Saturday and Sunday editions
The people who make NBC’s “Dateline” are trying to solve another mystery — but this one will likely never be seen on TV. The show has become known for presenting true-crime stories on NBC’s Friday nights, when Lester Holt and correspondents including Andrea Canning, Josh Mankiewicz, Keith Morrison and Dennis Murphy take viewers across difficult
On the last day of Women’s History Month, results of a new research report reveal from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative concludes that, for women in music, “the last decade has been one of insignificant change in the recording studio.” The study, titled “Inclusion in the Recording Studio?” is the fifth annual report on the
Archewell, the media production company founded by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, has quietly hired former Sony Pictures Entertainment exec Fara Taylor as head of marketing. Prior to Archewell, Taylor spent more than 11 years at Sony Pictures, most recently as VP of global marketing partnerships. She joined Beverly Hills-based Archewell in September 2021, according
Italian TV host Alessandro Cattelan will be among the three MCs of the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest, along with Italy’s Grammy-wining singer Laura Pausini and Lebanese/British pop star Mika. In addition to preparing for the biggest night for music in Europe, he recently made his debut on Netflix with one-man show “One Simple Question.” In
Several of Bruce Willis’ recent directors spoke to the Los Angeles Times about the concerns they felt while working with the actor in the years leading up to Wednesday’s announcement that Willis has aphasia and is stepping away from his acting career. Aphasia is a language disorder caused by brain damage that affects a person’s
Indian streamer ALTBalaji is extending its subscription-video model with a new ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) component. The move follows the massive success of reality show “Lock Upp,” hosted by Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut, which ALTBalaji launched as a free AVOD show in partnership with MX Player, and which has had more than 100 million
Michael Grade, the foremost candidate to become U.K. regulator Ofcom’s new chair, told the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee that he is “not against the BBC license fee.” Grade, who has held top posts at the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 over the course of his long career, was grilled
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe declined to weigh in on The Slap when he appeared on a U.K. morning show to promote his new film “The Lost City” on Thursday morning. “I’m just so already dramatically bored of hearing people’s opinions about it that I just don’t want to be another opinion adding to it,”
In a bid to beef up its sports programming, Netflix is teaming up with Tour de France organizers A.S.O. to create a documentary series on the 2022 cycling competition, with the participation of public broadcaster France Télévisions. The eight-episode series will follow the journey of eight teams taking part in the iconic cycling race, starting
BAFTA chief executive Amanda Berry will leave the organization earlier than scheduled, in June rather than the fall, to join The Royal Foundation as CEO. The Royal Foundation is the primary philanthropic and charitable vehicle for The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge aka Prince William and Kate Middleton. In December 2021, Berry and Kevin Price,
The British remake of “Call My Agent!” is finally heading to Amazon’s Prime Video next month. Titled “Ten Percent,” the show hails from BAFTA-winning “W1A” and “Twenty Twelve” writer John Morton and, much like its French counterpart, follows a ragtag group of talent agents at a fictional British agency. And as evidenced in a new
The Daily Wire, a conservative media organization with no history of producing children’s programming, is using Disney’s opposition to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law as a rallying point to enter the business of kids entertainment. The Nashville-based company announced Wednesday that it plans to invest at least $100 million over the next three years into
Joseph Patel, a producer on the Oscar-winning documentary “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised),” has blasted Chris Rock for his presentation of the category during Sunday’s ceremony, in which Rock introduced Patel and the producers other than Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson as a group of “four white guys.” “The reason that
Check out an Official Morbius Spot with Jared Leto! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Buy tickets for Morbius: https://www.fandango.com/morbius-222176/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to stay up to date. US Release Date: April 1, 2022
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched Season 7, Episode 4, of “The Masked Singer,” “Masking For It — The Good, the Bad and the Cuddly — Round 2,” which aired March 30 on Fox. It was a brief, but eventful, tenure on “The Masked Singer” for supermodel Christie Brinkley, who
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