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• The Lonely Island’s Big, Wonderfully Stupid, First Concert Ever

  02-06-2018 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Lonely Island” read the two large screens surrounding the outdoor Clusterfest main stage Friday night. In the center of said stage was a larger screen that also read “The Lonely Island.” In all three versions, there was a palm tree. See, it was 10:00pm, Friday night, and, after nearly...More »
  
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• Cazzie David Seems Awfully Chill With Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande Dating

  02-06-2018 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the old saying goes, if you want to date a famous person, just get a job at SNL. Such a romance is happening at the moment for repertory player Pete Davidson, when it became public last month that he and his long-term girlfriend Cazzie David — daughter of Larry...More »
  
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• Bill Murray Says He Doesn’t Know What Harvey Weinstein Is Being Accused Of

  02-06-2018 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Despite dominating all sorts of international news headlines since last fall, this Harvey Weinstein situation still hasn’t made its way to Bill Murray. Such a revelation occurred during a new interview with The Guardian, during which he was asked by the reporter to reflect on a quote Weinstein said a...More »
  
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• Father Ted to become pope in stage musical

  02-06-2018 18:05
  Graham Linehan announces ‘real final episode’ of popular sitcom is almost written
  The “real final episode” of the popular sitcom Father Ted is set to be viewed not on the small screen, but on stage, next year.Graham Linehan, a co-writer of the Channel 4 show, revealed on Saturday that Pope Ted – the Father Ted Musical, was “almost written”.Continue reading...
  
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• Benedict Cumberbatch Saves Bicyclist From Gang Attack

  02-06-2018 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  A recent night on the town for Benedict Cumberbatch and his wife turned rather unexpectedly cumbersome, when the actor ended up intervening and saving a bicyclist from being beat up on a London street. The Guardian reports that the couple was being driven home in a cab from the city...More »
  
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• Behold Mick Jagger, Prolific Instagram Dad Commenter

  02-06-2018 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  You might’ve heard that Mick Jagger is a pretty cool, pretty intimating septuagenarian. He still flails around with the grace of a cygnini, for god sake! But alas, co-writing “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” and “Gimme Shelter” doesn’t exempt anyone from the pleasures of adorable social media commenting, as Jagger...More »
  
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• Nafessa Williams: ‘As a young black girl I didn’t have a superhero like me to look up to’

  02-06-2018 16:37
  Nafessa Williams, who plays Thunder in Black Lightning, hopes her character will be an inspirationIt’s a genre dominated by white, straight males, so American actress Nafessa Williams admits she was moved to tears when she pulled on her costume for the first time to play a black, lesbian superhero. “It was a moment,” she says. “I mean, I’m representing a whole group of people who need to see themselves on TV.”Williams plays Thunder in the hit television series
  
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• Bill Maher Brands Roseanne’s Tweets As ‘Bordering on Presidential’

  02-06-2018 16:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bill Maher, as he joked during his opening Real Time monologue this week, now has a lot in common with his pal Roseanne Barr — they’ve both been fired by ABC! But besides condemning her history of racist tweets, one of which got her show, Roseanne, cancelled by ABC this...More »
  
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• ABC Shouldn’t Have Revived Roseanne to Begin With, Says Michelle Wolf

  02-06-2018 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  As comedians and pundits alike continue to weigh in on ABC cancelling Roseanne following a racist tweet from the show’s star Roseanne Barr, Michelle Wolf is now offering her own opinion on how the network should’ve handled the situation — mostly that Roseanne shouldn’t have returned in the first place....More »
  
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• Hello Stranger: the naff new dating show where couples lose their minds

  02-06-2018 12:00
  Just when you thought 21st-century television had plumbed all available depths, here’s a programme that goes even lowerMeet Lucy and George, a couple from Worthing whose four-year relationship has lost its oomph. Having long ago ceased swinging from the chandeliers, their life together is now shaped by shopping lists and laundry. There was a time, recalls Lucy, when George’s texts would make her stomach go funny. “When he texts me now it’s: ‘Can you pick some milk u
  
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• Samantha Bee proves there's still one word you cannot say in America

  02-06-2018 11:12
  The C-word has been used from Chaucer to Trainspotting, but this week has shown for Americans it’s still the ultimate tabooSamantha Bee apologised for calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless cunt” on her television show. Amid widespread backlash, State Farm and Autotrader have suspended ads from Bee’s TBS show. On Friday, Donald Trump called on ABC to fire the comedian “for the horrible language used on her low-ratings show”.Aside from the debate over whether Bee was
  
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• 'Hugh Grant is uncanny': Liberals glued to A Very English Scandal

  02-06-2018 11:00
  Grant is remarkable as Jeremy Thorpe and the basic thrust is right, say people linked to the story. Shame about the cars ...Watching Hugh Grant’s TV portrayal of Jeremy Thorpe, it is almost impossible to believe that such an extraordinarily reckless public figure could really have prospered in 20th-century British politics. But he did.The insouciance, the exhibitionism, the darkness and the utter unreliability that Grant captures so brilliantly in A Very English Scandal may seem like a gro
  
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• Shirley Ballas: ‘Most treasured possession? My brother’s ashes’

  02-06-2018 10:30
  The Strictly Come Dancing judge on dancing aged two, forgetting names and remembering her brotherBorn in Wallasey, Shirley Ballas, 57, became one of the most decorated ballroom and Latin dancers in the world. She is a three-time winner of the British Open to the World Latin American Championships, retired from competitive dancing in 1996 and became a coach and adjudicator. In 2017, she replaced Len Goodman as head judge on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, which returns for a 16th series later
  
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• Showmances and sculpted pecs! Seven things to expect from the return of Love Island

  02-06-2018 07:59
  Adele and Jeremy Corbyn’s favourite dating show is back. The people behind the phenomenon talk villains, meta constructs and marriages on the horizonModern Toss on Love IslandWe get very precious about the concept of love but I think we can all agree that adding a competitive element to it improves it manifold. That’s why ITV’s Bafta award-winning Love Island was so good last year: as well as having some special alchemy in the cast (the bromance of Chris and Kem; the very baffl
  
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• 'It is ridiculously intense in there': Love Island as the returns

  02-06-2018 07:59
  Adele and Jeremy Corbyn’s favourite dating show is back. The people behind the phenomenon talk villains, meta constructs and marriages on the horizonModern Toss on Love IslandWe get very precious about the concept of love but I think we can all agree that adding a competitive element to it improves it manifold. That’s why ITV’s Bafta award-winning Love Island was so good last year: as well as having some special alchemy in the cast (the bromance of Chris and Kem; the very baffl
  
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• Saturday’s best TV: Nothing Like a Dame; All Girls Live at the Apollo

  02-06-2018 07:00
  A quartet of our most beloved thespians discuss their careers and ladies’ night at the Apollo includes Trump-baiting US comic Michelle Wolf. Continue reading...
  
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• Director Brian De Palma Is Working On a Harvey Weinstein-Inspired Horror Movie

  02-06-2018 05:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein’s legal reckoning has really only just begun, but his downfall following dozens upon dozens of sexual misconduct and sexual assault allegations has been going on long enough that at least one director thinks there’s a film in there somewhere. In a recent interview with French paper...More »
  
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• Top Dawg Says He Warned Spotify Artists Would Pull Their Music Over Hateful Conduct Policy

  02-06-2018 03:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier today Spotify announced its decision to reverse its creation of a hateful conduct ethics policy, which would remove musicians like R. Kelly and XXXTentation from curated playlists due to the allegations of abuse and assault leveled against them. The protocol reportedly had some artists, including Kendrick Lamar, threatening to...More »
  
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• New York Spent $15 Million to Build a Film Hub. It Just Sold for $1.

  02-06-2018 02:05 via nytimes.com
  When he announced the film studio in 2014, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said “Hollywood comes to Onondaga.” But it never came.
  
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• Details Emerge About The Hostile Environment On Lethal Weapon That Resulted In Clayne Crawford’s Dismissal

  02-06-2018 02:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the start of May, Lethal Weapon star Clayne Crawford was dismissed from the Fox show following reports he was volatile on set and had an extremely contentious working relationship with Damon Wayans, who played the Roger Murtaugh to his Martin Riggs. Now, Variety has a story out with input...More »
  
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• Paramount Network Gives Their Heathers Reboot the Chainsaw

  02-06-2018 01:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chaos might have killed the dinosaurs, darling, but a generation of young viewers who are not here for fictional violence in a high school might have potentially ended the new Heathers reboot. After months of uncertainty, The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Paramount Network won’t be moving forward with the series.“This...More »
  
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• Allyn Ann McLerie, Veteran of Broadway, TV and Film, Dies at 91

  02-06-2018 00:58 via nytimes.com
  She starred in the Broadway hit “Where’s Charley?” in 1948 and went on to TV fame on “The Tony Randall Show” and “The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.”
  
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• Africa: A Journey Into Music review – Nigeria's rich musical history is examined

  02-06-2018 00:05
  Musician, DJ and Afrobeat expert Rita Ray tours the west African country to explore its musical legacy and meets its legends, such as King Sunny Adé
  I’ve been known to be a bit down on BBC4’s Friday night music docs. You know how they go: blokes sitting in front of their massive vinyl collections and mixing desks, listing people from “back in the day”, showing off about how much they know, while dropping names and hinting at wild times. These shows can sometimes se
  
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• After Canceling Roseanne, ABC Is Considering a Show About Sara Gilbert’s Darlene

  02-06-2018 00:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  ABC swiftly canceled Roseanne after creator Roseanne Barr sent out a racist tweet on Tuesday, but the network is apparently still considering ways to keep part of its ratings hit alive. TMZ reports that ABC is considering rebranding the show to focus on Sara Gilbert’s character Darlene, Roseanne Conner’s daughter,...More »
  
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