I waited a week to release my Fall Television schedule after
most of the networks released theirs to wait for The CW except none of their
new shows made my Most Anticipated list and I will be watching nothing on their
fall schedule.Though,
is it wring that I am more interested the live action Powerpuff Girls show after
the head of the CW called it a mess?I
kind of want to start a #ReleaseThePowerCut movement.As for shows that actually made my list,
well, it is only comedies.Really, this
season is almost as dreadful as last one, but at least the networks last year
could blame the pandemic.I really do
not have much to say about any of these other that they look mostly watchable.Hopefully the streaming services offer
something better this fall.Hulu is premiering
two new shows in late August, Nine Perfect Strangers and Only Murders in the Building,
which should trickle into fall.
Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist:Well that was a clunky way to end the season.Wasn’t the main reason Max was going to New
York was to franchise his restaurant idea.Sure, breaking up with Rose hurts the living situation but he does have
family in the city.And just what changed
in Max’s mind from when he was singing a sexy duet with her earlier this season
and later signing a song with Rose’s name in it (or well he would have song that
song had Zoey’s powers not been glitching), or just singing about having a New
York state of mind to the final scene?Rose telling him he looked distracted was all he needed.That was about as forced as Zoey just learning
Max gave up his offer for her when the brogrammers were have definitely had
brought that up much earlier.But I
guess all that is fine if that final scene means we get more Zoey singing and dancing
next season (please let there be a next season).
The Nevers:I wonder if the writers sat down after five episodes and said, sure this
show is confusing, but how about we make it more confusing.Seriously, what the fork was that?
Fear the Walking Dead:There have been almost twenty seasons of this franchise and it is surprising
this is the first time they have done a death cult.I do like that there is a cop hunting down
the leader and has done so since before outbreak.
Good Girls:So is the gangbanger just going to kill the cop?What about the daughter?
Mare of Easttown:Oh no, not Ralph Bohner.Granted
I already saw one person in the past year get shot in the head and survive.Since that dude is dead, I guess that can put
to rest the theory that the kidnapper and the killer are the same person.Hopefully the murderer turns out to be actually
someone we have met before.
City on a Hill:The past finally caught up to Jackie… or did it?Despite being recommended for termination and
tossing his badge into the bay, it did leave the door open for an appeal with
Decoursey as a key witness.But this did
also seem like it could serve as a series finale.Jackie finally got his comeuppance, Decoursey
got justice for his dead, unborn child (but did not leave him completely
fulfilled), Siobhan found a new purpose in life, and Cathy Ryan is also starting
a new life in Florida.But that last one
seemed like a rushed conclusion to her storyline.She just shoots a dude that I am not entirely
sure who they were and bolts.But if this is the series finale so be it, it
never seemed to come completely together and Showtime already has a show
devoted to two alpha males going at it and sometime teaming up.
Debris:Oh yeah, the evil dude is still around.I completely forgot about him.But
that was a pretty wild plan.
Cruel Summer: Well there goes my theory that
Jeanette’s mom was in the crazy bin in 1995, it certainty seemed like she was
just heading that way.Instead she just
had a career change.But it was weird
when she was surprised when Angela suggested she left her husband.Seemed
that way to me.Then weird she just left
it at that ad did not explain what her point of view was.But I guess I need a new theory and this week
got me thinking, just why is Angela there?I now think she has ties to Martin, maybe the ex-girlfriend he spoke of
this week.Could Angela be Annabelle?
Big Sky:If
these evil doers can make the sex trafficker just disappear, why didn’t they make
him disappear when he went on the run?Sure, he had to call them, but if they can easily find him and break him
out of custody, surely they could have found him before that.But the good guys were just as dumb.Of course it was a trap.How about bring more fire power that the
sheriff, the FBI guy, and two PI’s?This
show is so stupid.
The Handmaid’s Tale:I would have been so mad had June been caught by Gilead yet again.But now she is finally in Canada, reunited
with her husband and child with a different dude.At what point that she had a rom-com moment
on the bridge with that baby daddy who also happens to be a higher up in Gilead?That should be a fun conversation. And does June
visit the Waterford’s in Canadian prison?
The Challenge:
All-Stars:Surprising the cut two
people right off the bat
and then did not eliminate any of the other ten contestants in the subsequent
checkpoint.But who would have guess
Jonna would get the first two first places?I guess it helps that you can pick your partner first if you are fist to
finish.But they do need to trim some fat
soon.Ten finalists is a bit much.
Manifest:Okay,
I am surprisingly enjoying this silly Single White Female story line and how
the two family members who were not on 828 could be jeopardizing the Life Boat
by ostracizing the new chick.
The Blacklist:Poor Lizzie, lost her entire team and her sister.Maybe this crusade against Red was a bad
decision.And does she now need to team
up with Red to bring down the guy who hired the hitman?Oh the irony.
I have gotten a plethora of cool press releases have been flooding my inbox recently that you may find interesting. This post includes blurbs on Nine Perfect Strangers, Only Murders in the Building, Hip Hop 50, The End, McCartney 3,2,1., Lord Huron, Almost Famous, Glass Animals, BET Presents The Encore, The Warning, Carpenters, The D’Amelio Show, Immigrant.
- This week, as part of the Disney/Hulu Upfront, Hulu announced premiere dates for upcoming original tentpole series “Nine Perfect Strangers” and “Only Murders in the Building.” Both Hulu Original series will debut this August.
- SHOWTIME today announced HIP HOP 50, a multiyear, cross-platform programming initiative celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop in collaboration with entertainment company Mass Appeal. HIP HOP 50 will encompass unscripted series and features, podcasts and digital shorts by and about some of the foremost names in the genre, driven by Mass Appeal partner Nasir “Nas” Jones and Mass Appeal Chief Creative Officer and partner Sacha Jenkins, writer, director and producer of the Emmy® and Peabody-nominated SHOWTIME series WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN. HIP HOP 50 programming will begin airing later this year on SHOWTIME, running over the next three years and culminating with the 50th anniversary of the genre in 2023.
- SHOWTIME announced today that the new half-hour dark comedy series THE END, starring Emmy® nominee Harriet Walter (Succession, The Crown, Killing Eve) and Frances O’Connor (The Missing, Mansfield Park), will premiere with two episodes airing back-to-back beginning Sunday, July 18 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Produced by See-Saw Films, the 10-part series is a co-production between Sky UK and Foxtel Australia, and was created and written by Samantha Strauss and directed by Jessica M. Thompson and Jonathan Brough.
- Hulu announced the Original documentary series “McCartney 3,2,1.” The six-episode music series event features intimate and revealing examinations of musical history from two living legends, Paul McCartney and super producer Rick Rubin, and hails from Endeavor Content. The series is executive produced by McCartney, Rubin, Scott Rodger, Peter Berg, Matthew Goldberg, Brandon Carroll, Jeff Pollack, Frank Marshall and Ryan Suffern with Leila Mattimore serving as co-executive producer. All six episodes of “McCartney 3,2,1” premiere Friday, July 16, on Hulu.
- Whispering Pines Studiosis finally open for all y’all to visit from far and wide… Lord Huron proudly present their anxiously awaited fourth full-length album, LONG LOST, out now via Whispering Pines Studios Inc./Republic Records. GetLong Lost HERE. With the record loose upon the world, the boys hit the television circuit. Tonight, they are set to deliver an unforgettable performance on NBC’sThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon performing “I Lied” with Allison Ponthier and tomorrow morning, they take the stage atCBS This Morning: Saturdayfor a performance not to be missed.
- "Look under your bed—it'll set you free." With those enticingly enigmatic words, an empathetic, hip older sister bequeaths to her hyper-smart but nerdy 11-year-old brother her Rosetta Stone to life in the late-'60s: a prized trove of expertly curated rock, pop, and folk albums that set into chaotic motion young William Miller's eye- ear- and mind-opening journey in director Cameron Crowe's quasi-autobiographical 2000 ode to rock 'n' roll fandom, Almost Famous. Two decades later, the Oscar/BAFTA/Golden Globe Award-winning film remains one of the sweetest love letters to the genre, one that deftly captured the look, the sound, the feel, the attitude of what rock 'n' roll meant to its creators, its most fervent adherents, its hangers-on and its worried parents during a golden era of pop music. The movie's legacy is celebrated with the first-ever release of all the music that so powerfully fueled Crowe's story, based on his own power chord-driven odyssey from wide-eyed music-loving kid to respected rock journalist to celebrated filmmaker.
- Glass Animals share a collaboration with fast-rising UK popstar Bree Runway on their huge track “Space Ghost Coast To Coast,” taken from their acclaimed third album Dreamland released last year—listen HERE. Hot on the heels of their endearingly trippy video for “Space Ghost Coast To Coast” released last week—watch HERE—Glass Animals have also been experiencing a huge global rise in support on their single “Heat Waves,” with the original track now surpassing 530 million streams, and the band recently released a version of “Heat Waves” featuring iann dior—listen HERE.
- BET brings together nine of the most memorable solo artists and girl groups from the 1990s and 2000s to form the ultimate R&B supergroup in the new original series, “BET Presents The Encore.”Shamari DeVoe, Irish Grinstead, LeMisha Grinstead, Nivea Nash, Felisha King, Fallon King, Pamela Long, Aubrey O’ Day, and Kiely Williams have signed on to the one-of-a-kind music experiment to become the next big musical sensation. With nothing to lose and everything to gain, these talented singers turned wives, moms, and entrepreneurs, will move in together, write new music, learn choreography, record an album, and put on a live performance. The catch? The songstresses must achieve this in only 30 days, with none of them knowing who their bandmates will be ahead of time. Faced with fun twists and unforeseen constraints, the ladies will need to stretch beyond their musical and personal comfort zones to succeed as a team. An esteemed roster of music industry expertswill drop in each week toprepare them for their big debut and deliver a chart-topping record, including music producer Kosine, choreographer Aliya Janell, songwriter Elijah Blake, and vocal coach Cynnamyn. Will their artistic differences or egos get in the way of forming a group? Or will these powerhouse women show the world that they still have what it takes to make a major comeback? Only time, and the music, will tell. “BET Presents The Encore”premieres Wednesday, June 9 at 10 PM ET/PT on BET and BET Her.
- After amassing 65 million-plus views and over 10 million streams independently, the Monterrey Mexico hard rock trio of sistersThe Warningunleash a new single entitled“CHOKE”today viaLAVA/Republic Records. Listen to “CHOKE”—HERE and watch the official music video for the track HERE. On the single “CHOKE” and working with legendary rock producer David Bendeth (Paramore, Bring Me The Horizon, Breaking Benjamin) the band said:“CHOKE is a song about drowning in your feelings and coming to terms with them. Recording it with David Bendeth (while in quarantine!) was an incredible experience and he really worked with us to bring the song to life.”
- The definitive biography of one of the most enduring and endeared recording artists in history—the Carpenters—will be told for the first time from the perspective of Richard Carpenter, through more than 100 hours of exclusive interviews and some 200 photographs from Richard’s personal archive, many never published. CARPENTERS: THE MUSICAL LEGACY is coming to bookstores on October 19th. Pre-order your copy of CARPENTERS: THE MUSICAL LEGACY today, HERE:
- Get ready to get social with “The D’Amelio Show” in our first look teaser! From relative obscurity and a seemingly normal life, to overnight success and thrust into the Hollywood limelight overnight, the D’Amelios are faced with new challenges and opportunities they could not have imagined. Charli, who at 16 became one of the biggest celebrities with over 150 million followers combined and #1 on the TikTok platform in less than a year, has the world at her fingertips and is working to balance fame and family, life with dancing, running a budding empire, making new friends in LA and battling the naysayers online. Her sister Dixie, is now 19 and experiencing her own overnight rise to fame with over 78 million followers combined, one of the fastest growing YouTube channels and ranked within the Top 10 Most Followed Creators on TikTok. Dixie is now pursuing a music career in LA. For mom Heidi and dad Marc, raising teenagers is hard enough before adding in a cross-country move, supporting their daughters’ dreams and doing the best they can to stay close as a family and protect their girls from the dark side of fame, while also trying to adjust to life in Hollywood.
- Hulu has picked up “Immigrant” straight-to-series. The 8-episode, limited series hails from “Pam & Tommy” creator Robert Siegel and star/executive producer Kumail Nanjiani. “Immigrant” is the true story of Somen “Steve” Banerjee (played by Nanjiani), the Indian-American entrepreneur who started Chippendales. The series will detail the insane, darkly comedic, crime-ridden story behind the unique male revue that became a cultural phenomenon. The series is written by Robert Siegel and executive produced by Siegel, Nanjiani, Dylan Sellers and Emily V. Gordon as well as Rajiv Joseph and Mehar Sethi who will also write on the series.
There was a shocking end to the third season of The
Chi.After rescuing Keisha from her abductor,
Ronnie was rewarded with a bullet to his head, a delayed payback from murdering
Coogie back in the first season.That
original season was about how the lives of four black men at different stages
of their development on the south side of Chicago intersected.Now half of them are dead.
Now there are just Emmett and Kevin left on the show.But their lives have intertwines with plenty
of other Chicagoans in the ensuing seasons to pick up the slack of those that
were lost.Kevin, along with his two
best friends Jake and Papa, have grown from boys to almost men.Jake has two surrogate fathers in his life
now, his real life brother who showed up after his other brother died and Douda,
a gangsta turned politician, granted what is really the difference? Emmett finally married his baby momma, except
before that happened, he hooked up with his business partner who is now dating
his father.That is some Jerry Springer
shirt right there.
The third season starts off with a montage set to one of the
greatest song ever put on wax.Well, it
is part montage, part promo because all of it turns out to be scenes of what is
to come this season as the montage culminates with something very huge happening
followed by a “One Month Earlier” title card.Unfortunately what follows is a very clunky Black Lives Matter plot and a
lot of heavy hand scenes that seems like they were added because the writers
felt obligated to include it since it was such a big story in the lives of black
people in between seasons.Personally, I
would much rather spend time watching Papa record his new podcast.
Black Monday was one of the first casualties of the Coronapocalypse.But the show was lucky that they had finished
filming the season before shutdown and were able to finish editing the season and
get the rest of it out by the summer.Billions, which was airing at the same time still has not finished that
season yet.By the time Black Monday season two ended, big changes had occurred. Dawn
confessed to Black Monday. Blair announced
he was running for the seat his gay lover, who hung himself, used to have. And we were down one Leighman brother.
Season three starts off with Dawn in prison, hustling while
reading Shawshank Redemption (natch).Mo
has taken to producing jazz music in the old Jammer Group office after leaving
Wall Street (or kicked off depending on who you ask).Blair is a freshman congressman with an
unfortunate historic office.And there
is a surprising Leighman brother replacement.
The episode titles in the first season referred to the number of day until Black
Monday. They dropped that for the second
season, but numbers are back for season three: the season premiere is entitled “Ten!” Next week is “Nine!” What are they counting down to? It is not explicitly said, but one character
does talk about heading to the nineties while the second episode features some nineties
references like lyrics to a 1992 Ice Cube song.
So I guess we can assume that is it until proven otherwise. Personally I look forward to the fourth season
with Mo sporting a Kid n Play style flattop.
Showtime is getting into experimental comedy game.After the very broad comedy of Black Comedy
comes Flatbush Misdemeanors.Based on a
short film of the same name that had a budget of zero dollars, the television
show is also created, written, and stars Kevin Iso (High Fidelity) and Dan
Perlman (That’s My Bus!).Dan plays Dan,
a teacher while Kevin plays Kevin, a painter who has to deliver food to make
money because you have to be either dead or famous to make money and crashes in
Dan’s apartment after moving back to Brooklyn.
It is an experimental comedy because it is one where the
writers do not feel obligated to put in at least one joke a minute for better
worse like more traditional comedies.So
the show is reminiscent in that way.The
show follows a four act structure; well the first episode does get a fifth act
that is designated solely by the surprise emoji.
The two leads mostly play it straight while they surround
themselves with a few more outlandish characters (well, I did laugh when it was
revealed that Kevin plays chess by himself).The funniest is Dan’s new step-dad Kareem (played by Kareem Green) who
keeps trying to get Dan to call him dad.Then there is the local petty criminal Drew (played by, you guessed it,
Hassan Johnson) that keeps entertaining himself in Kevin and/or Dan’s business.
Flatbush Misdemeanors will probably be enjoys by those who
prefer their comedy more experimental like Hulu's Ramy, but those who want their comedies to have
jokes that come fast and furious may want to stick with Black Monday.
Flatbush Misdemeanors airs Sundays at 10:30 on Showtime.
Zoey’s Extraordinary
Playlist:When the promo looked
like is was going to be a flashback I thought, well, I guess there will not be
many, if any, songs this week.But they cleverly
worked in plenty of music despite Zoey not having powers (I thought maybe the
flashback would reveal Mitch had that power too).The best had to be the weird battle between Max
and the man-bunned Leif.And how could have
guess Tobin worked there before anyone else?But that seemed very unprofessional for the therapist to say the story was
a love story about her and a dude that is not her current boyfriend that happens
to also be in a different relationship.
The Nevers:I was wondering why the cop was talking to the press like it was someone
we should know.Except there was no reason
for him to know her.Or was she supposed
to look like someone on the show previously?Was the person who died the press lady and the crazy lazy convinced her
to switch places with her?If so, how?
Fear the Walking Dead:Happy Mother’s Day everyone.Geez.But a pretty stupid episode.I could not understand why none of the evil
doers brought guns while looking for Morgan, or why Morgan was able to murder
everyone except the one guy I remembered from last episode even though he was able
to stab through the chest.Seriously,
why let him walk away?But then the guy
returns with a gun?Why not bring it
with you in the first place?Why leave
it in the car?
Good Girls:I am no legal scholar, but how can a councilman be able to go over federal
agents to convince the district attorney to not press charges?And why is this case going to a district attorney?If it is a federal crime, shouldn’t a US attorney
be presiding over the case?
Mare of Easttown:That dude who kidnapped that girl looked pretty big, kind of like Mare’s
ex-husband.But it is weird that they
just low-key mentioned that the first kidnapping victim had a kid, but the grandma
cancer patient had to get a babysitter to pay the ransoms. Just when you thought her life could not get
worse, she turns out to be a single grandmother with cancer and a missing
daughter.But who is looking over that
kid when she is at work?Who is the baby
daddy?Is that who usually takes that
kid?
City on a Hill:Well that was a stupid plan.Why
not surprise him in a building with limited exits instead of a wide open street
where there could be potential bystanders?So now that he is dead, do we go back to Decourcy and Frankie
feuding?Granted Decourcy will have to
repay a favor first.
Cruel Summer: So Kate thought she saw Kate at
the dunk tank and thought it was Jamie, someone of a completely different
height, weight, and gender?Well that
certainly helps Jeanette’s case of mistaken identity.But I am waiting for things to pick up, after
three strong episodes to start; the next two have sort of dragged.They need more scenes of Kate confronting Jeanette,
but it was Kate that ducked away from Jeanette this episode.And those stupid trigger warning are starting
to get very spoilery.These millennial
need to grow the fork up.
Supergirl:I did not think things could be worse than Brainiac 5 and Dreamer going
back in time episodes, but this stupid everyone manifests their fears may have actually
been worse.Okay, I did laugh at Brainiac
5 being afraid of balloons.
Big Sky:I always that that wig was so bad; no way that
it is fooling anyone.It turns out it
did not, the girlfriend did know he was a sex trafficker.And did not care?Okay, I could see a murderer being attracted
to another murderer, but shouldn’t sex trafficking cross the perverable line,
even for murderers? But it looks like the wrapped up the other plotline with all
the male heirs dead.Congratulations to the
daughter?But I am not sure if the family
farm is going to be worth much anymore.
The Handmaid’s Tale:So Janine survives the train only to be
buried by rubble two episodes later?But
I guess we did not see the body so I guess she may have survived.But what was Moira doing in Chicago?And doesn’t mass bombing a city minute before
a ceasefire defeat the purpose of a ceasefire?Would people who would give aid to Gilead really think, well, that did
get that mass murdering in before the deadline, so that is okay?
The Challenge:
All-Stars:Last week I mentioned how
few people in the final who actually won an elimination and it ended up being
fewer than I expected since two people that went home had won previous eliminations.So that is just four of the twelve finalists
saw the Arena.Yeah, it is definitely
time to institute the rule that you have to win an elimination to run TJ’s final.Poor Kendal, wins three of the seven dailies,
and goes into three of five possible eliminations.Thank you Yes for calling out Nehemiah for claiming
everyone needs to warn their stripes and they pick the only female that already
went in multiple times.
Manifest:It is sad that the white single teenage female
is the most interesting part of this show. But why is Olive hooking up with the
la tech and mad that the other chick is doing the same?Doesn’t she have a boyfriend?And where has that dude been?
The Blacklist: So evil dude asked the Russian spy if he or
Reddington was M13 and he whispers something to him that makes evil dud go after
Lizzy. Wait, is Lizzy M13? What could he have possibly said to make him
react like that?
I have gotten a plethora of cool press releases have been flooding my inbox recently that you may find interesting. This post includes blurbs on Olivia Rodrigo, Panic, Lavelle Crawford: The Comedy Vaccine, Temptations, Joy Oladokun, Haerts, Noah Kahan, Ariana Grande, Ida Maria, Glass Animals, Armchair Expert, The Great, Kevin Garnett: Anything Is Possible, and Los Angeles Lakers..
- Vevo, the world’s leading music video network, today announced that 2021’s break-through artist Olivia Rodrigo has been named their first LIFT artist of 2021, and has released a live performance of “deja vu,” shot on film. WATCH "DEJA VU (LIVE PERFORMANCE) | VEVO LIFT" Vevo’s LIFT program connects today’s up-and-coming and most relevant artists to audiences around the world through music video content. Launched in 2011, Vevo's artist development program shines a spotlight on the world's freshest new talent. Vevo LIFT alumni include the likes of Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, Halsey, Khalid, Jorja Smith, YUNGBLUD, and more.
- The official trailer and first-look episodic images for season one of Panic are available now. The ten-episode Amazon Original series will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, May 28, 2021 in more than 240 countries and territories around the world.
- Lavell Crawford returns for his third SHOWTIME comedy specialLAVELL CRAWFORD: THE COMEDY VACCINE,premieringFriday, May 28 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. In the hour-long special filmed at the Tempe Improv in Arizona, Crawford reflects back on a tumultuous year of living through a global pandemic with an added punchline. From the panic of looking for toilet paper to attending virtual church services and wearing masks, Crawford brings levity to the many shared lifestyle changes we’ve experienced during a life in lockdown while also touching on his own quarantine frustrations with whimsical banter. To watch and share the trailer fromLAVELL CRAWFORD: THE COMEDY VACCINE, go to:https://youtu.be/O5nNnUZGgsw.
- Motown/UMe is pleased to announce the kickoff of the 60th Anniversary celebration of the legendary, Grammy Award-Winning Temptations. The Temptations are one of the most revered and prolific musical institutions of all time. Motown luminaries, The Temptations, are today, one of the most iconic, bestselling brands in the entertainment world. With Otis Williams, the founding and sole surviving member of The Temptations, their popularity is ever-increasing and their track record of continuing to sell decades worth of history-making music is breathtaking.
- Emerging singer, songwriter and musician Joy Oladokun joined forces with Grammy Award-winning artist Maren Morris for her new song, “Bigger Man,” out today. Listen/share HERE. Written by Oladokun, Morris, Jimmy Robbins and Laura Veltz, the track is the latest unveiled from Oladokun’s highly-anticipated forthcoming major label debut album, set for release on Amigo Records/Verve Forecast/Republic Records.
- Nini Fabi and Benny Gebert, the German-born, New York-based duo HAERTS are sharing their latest chapter “Days Go By” HERE from their upcoming third album Dream Nation which comes out next week, May 21st via AntiFragile Records. The single comes with a filmed live version which was shot at Valentine Recording Studios in North Hollywood HERE.
- Vermont singer and songwriter Noah Kahan returns with his new single entitled “Part of Me” out now via Republic Records—listen HERE. The introspective anthem reflects a natural progression for the artist. Noah’s signature storytelling and evocative lyrics shine over upbeat guitar and production by his frequent collaborator and Grammy Award-winning producer Joel Little (Taylor Swift, Lorde, Shawn Mendes, Jonas Brothers, Khalid). The momentum of the verses crashes right into the all-too-relatable hook as he confesses,“I don’t miss you. I miss the way you made me feel.”
- Ariana Grande just made history again. The GRAMMY® Award-winning and record-breaking multiplatinum superstar has emerged as The First Artist To Simultaneously Land Three Songs in the Top 10 of the Billboard Pop Airplay Chart and The First Artist ToSimultaneously Land Three Songs in the Top 10 of the Mediabase Top 40.These entries include blockbuster singles “positions,” “34+35,” and “pov”—available on her 2020 album, Positions. Additionally, for a second consecutive week, Grande and The Weeknd currently hold the #1 Billboard Hot 100 spot with “Save Your Tears”.
- The opening to"Dirty Money" will immediately grab listeners and confirm that this indisputable viking punk Queen Ida Maria has retained the same rebellious attitude that got her in the game, while referencing the lifestyle of an industry's enabling that took her out of the game for a brief time. Featuring a punk blast of garage guitar, 'Dirty Money' carries the high-energy punk-pop Ida's been widely acclaimed for with cheeky lyrics that are sugar-coated with a highly addictive chorus, addressing much more serious topics that are frustrating to her. Ida's personal experiences with greed and corruption are detailed with a racket of petulant screams, among them"Pay me all your Dirty oney/I'm your favorite monkey/watch me go!!!"
- Glass Animals today release the endearingly trippy video for their single “Space Ghost Coast To Coast,” taken from their acclaimed third album Dreamlandreleased last year—watch HERE. The UK band has experienced a huge global rise in support for their single “Heat Waves,” with the original now surpassing 500 million streams and climbing up the Top 40 Radio Chart, and the band recently released a version of “Heat Waves” featuring iann dior—listen HERE.
- Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) announced today a multiyear exclusive license agreement with one of the world’s most listened-to and shared podcasts, the award-winning Armchair Expert podcast, co-hosted by actor, filmmaker and comedian Dax Shepard and Emmy-nominated producer and personality Monica Padman. In addition to bringing the widely-popular podcast to the Spotify platform exclusively, the deal also covers a first look with Armchair Umbrella Network. All existing and new episodes of Armchair Expert, which is produced by Rob Holysz, Padman and Shepard, will remain free and available exclusively on Spotify starting July 1st.
- Hulu announced that Gillian Anderson will be joining the cast of the second season of Emmy, SAG, Golden Globe and WGA-nominated series “The Great.” Gillian Anderson (“The Crown,” “Sex Education,” “The Fall” and “The X-Files”) will join the cast of Hulu’s critically-acclaimed Original comedy series “The Great” in a two-episode appearance as Catherine’s (Elle Fanning) mother, Joanna. Joanna is a glamorous socialite from Germany, sometimes also known as the “maestro of marriage” for her abilities to arrange high profile partnerships for her daughters. She has heard rumors of her daughter’s coup and come to Russia to see it for herself. Though the apple of Catherine’s eye and a doting mother, it soon becomes clear Johanna has more sinister intentions to save her family’s reputation.
- SHOWTIME Sports has announced the title and premiere date of the upcoming documentary KEVIN GARNETT: ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE, chronicling the career of one of the NBA’s all-time greats. The film will premiere on Friday, July 30 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME and will include scenes from Garnett’s induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, taking place at Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut this Saturday. To watch and share a teaser of the upcoming documentary, go to https://youtu.be/RErHyWLzTN8.
- Hulu announced that a new expansive, nine-part Original docuseries chronicling the history of the storied Los Angeles Lakers franchise will join the Hulu Originals lineup. The project comes to Hulu from Lakers’ CEO and controlling owner Jeanie Buss, Emmy®Award-winning director Antoine Fuqua, in association with Fuqua Films, as well as Haven Entertainment and Los Angeles Media Fund. The series details the past four decades of the Lakers, and contains colorful and emotional new interviews from over 35 people within the organization, including the Buss family, legendary coaches Pat Riley and Phil Jackson, and NBA Hall of Famers Magic Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal and team captain Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, among numerous other current and former players. Also featured are interviews with a range of high-profile fans and a treasure trove of archival footage featuring never-before-seen interviews with the Lakers late owner, Jerry Buss.
Zoey’s Extraordinary
Playlist:People kept giving grief
to Zoey about her
costume, but were we supposed to know who Rose was supposed to be?She just looked like someone practically
dressing for a race in colder weather.The internet claims she was Victoria Beckham that almost makes sense if
Max was David Beckham but I do not really equate Posh Spice with a black puffy
coat with a hoodie.I guess I only think
of her in little black dresses.Sure that
would be the best attire for a seven mile run, but I am not sure a little black
dress would rank in the bottom ten worst things to run a race that we saw.
But to
be honest, I would not have much of a problem with Max going to New York even
permanently.I am just ready for the
love quadrangle to end anyway possible.I was hoping Rose would end things, but Max and Zoey are still going at
it with lingering resentment from their relationship ending.Which is a shame, because I have really
enjoyed Rose in the little we have seen her.But hey, at least Tobin is getting some and Leif is not being weird about
it.Well, other than that weird jumping
up and down, arms clenched in plain view of the office.
The Nevers:So no Touched that can bring someone back from the dead.Though I think the crazy lady admitting to hanging
out in the dead girl’s casket.But that
twist at the end would have landed much better had I known who that chick was.They have done a pretty bad job making us care
for most of them and in some cases given a reason to even remember them.
Fear the Walking Dead:Did I miss something?Last week I
vaguely remember someone talk about catching up to Alicia as they look for the
people who were tagging everything.Then
all of the sudden this episode starts with Alicia and her group already in the
taggers headquarters.Then the dude I barely
remember is seeing his brother he thought was dead and then killing him.And why is Alicia still there?Why couldn’t she light the match and join the
rest of them?Whoever edited this
episode needs to be fired.
Good Girls:Ugg, Rio knows.Of course he
knows.He has to figure out everything
just to keep him on the show.Except the
show would be much better if they just brought in a new big bad every season.Haven’t the writers ever see Buffy or
Justified?Well, I guess the secret service
agents are not long for this world.
Mare of Easttown:Yeah, the priest did it.Not the
priest they were questioning, but Mare’s cousin.The other priest is just covering for him by
dumping the bike.Sure, this hurts my theory
that the most famous person always does it and it is super weird that they cast
Guy Pierce just to be a red herring booty call.Also weird: Mare all the sudden being a dirty cop.Bad look at the captain to look the other way.How is the baby mamma just going to let that
slide?Doesn’t Mare have to at the very
least give up custody to keep her quiet?
City on a Hill:Ooo, Deep Cover: great song.I was
wondering if they were trying to signal he was undercover or even possibly a
snitch.But since he got shot by the end
of the episode, it looks like they were just playing a great song.But after how many people that kid had killed
now, it would be hard for them not to pin Siobhan’s shooting on him no many how
alibis his mother give him.Yet I have a
feeling he will go free or at the very least avoid the law so Decoursey will
need Jackie to enact his vengeance.
Debris:Yeah, this definitely did not need to be two episodes.I was fun for an episode but it really dragged
on during the second one.Not to mention
it was extremely obvious once they started communicating threw time and space
the answer to solve everything was obviously both twins needed to jump at the same
time.
Cruel Summer:We finally got the scene I was assuming that would happen for a while: Kate
and Mallory becoming friends united in their hatred of Jeanette.Now we have to wait and see if my early
prediction that Malory gave Kate the necklace is correct.It was weird that the show ended with the rape
crisis number even though there was no rape in the episode.I guess we are supposed to assume that is why
the dude would kidnap a teenage girl, but I am not sure the vice principal has
it in him to do that.Kate seems to kind
of dominate him, scratching and he is the one that always scurries away.Though, if not for sex, why exactly kidnap
her?
But I do
have one more prediction: the gunshot he heard in the first episode was Kate
shooting the VP.The whole shootout they
talked about on the news was overblown or possibly a cover-up.She even killed him with the gun the dude’s dad
used on himself (though I am not convinced he committed suicide, I think the VP
may have staged it; though that hurts my theory that dude does not have it in
him to do stuff like that; but hey, what is a mystery show without spitballing
some silly theories).
Supergirl:Speaking of episodes that did not need a second one. This show needs
less Brainiac 5 and Dreamer, more.Though by the end of the second episode, I realized I liked young Kara and
Alex than their grown up versions.Especially Alex.
Big Sky:Does the sister want to die?If both of your brothers are stone cold murderers,
maybe you should tempt the murderers with the knowledge that you know.Speaking of dumb people, why was Ronald taking
his girlfriend and his daughter with him to bury her dead sister?The guy is supposedly a mastermind that has
been able to evade the police this long, but he is going to be caught by a ten
year old?
The Handmaid’s Tale:I do not think I have witnessed a dumber escape
plan ever than locking yourself in a milk car.Pretty lucky that someone ambushed the train and that the car was able
to be opened from the inside.But Fred
is really the father?Way to establish
he was shooting blanks back in the first season.I fear this is just going to be the stupid plot
devises to get the Waterford’s back to Gilead.
The Challenge:
All-Stars:I laughed when Kendal was
trying to argue that it was better to have her puzzle upside down than to fix
it, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized she had a point.If all the pieces were in the right order,
why should it matter if it were upside down?Unless there were rules they did not tell us, there was no right way to
do the puzzle as long as they are all fitting together.But big twist coming next week, that is it and
then the finals start after that.Unfortunately thanks to the last promo, we know two of the contestants
that will be in the Arena.
With two less people that will get eliminated last week, that means
twelve people in the finale.Geeze. Maybe
they should have been doing double eliminations this whole time.Nine of the remaining fourteen contestants have
not even been in the Arena.So at the
very least, seven of the twelve finalist will have made it to TJ’s Final
without winning an elimination.Or maybe
they should have institute the Gold Skulls they have been doing recently on the
main show.Granted that would just be
Kendal, Nehemiah, Alton, Anessa, and Mark right now.Add the two winners from next week then subtract one since we know at least one of those people is going in again this week and a six person final seems more reasonable.
Manifest:So Noah’s Ark time traveled like 828?Alrighty.Way to steer into the absurdity.Yet not as absurd as Jared dating the Major’s daughter (they are definitely
learning what happened to her mom by the end of the season), that the new girl
looks like she is going to Single White Female Olive, or that anyone thinks
they are going to get all the 828’ers in the same lifeboat.It may be prudent just to kill everyone off
who are not following the callings.Though the callings may frown on that.
The Blacklist: Why was Lizzy acting like that in the car? Why she trying to overact like Red? Is she turning into the person she hates the
most? Is that what this season is about?