Brad Schwartz Says ‘FBoy Island’ A Good Fit For CW Because Of Built-In Audience, “Big Loud Title”

Ice Spice changed up her signature look, swapping her copper-colored afro for butt-length crimped locks.For her performance at the UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, Ice Spice wore a plaid mini skirt that's taking me back to Abercrombie circa 2003, a studded belt that's taking me back to Hot Topic circa 2003, a cropped T-shirt, fishnets, black socks, and chunky loafers with silver hardware (I'm basically at the mall in 2003). Her hair is still copper but worn down, falling all the way to her butt. She went for a curvy side part with crimped ends. And here's her bright afro for comparison:While Ice Spice, who gained fame in 2022 after her single “Munch (Feelin' You)” went viral on TikTok, is best known for her copper ‘fro, she has worn her hair in different styles.

Maren Morris shares how the music industry and beyond can help fight back against bigotry on the LGBTQ+ community.

It seems The Kardashians might run for some time to come.

Scandoval comes to an end with the Vanderpump Rules Season 10 Reunion Part 3. Bravo is airing the final episode of the reunion starting at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday, June 7. The episode will be supersized and ending at 10:15 p.m. ET. Peacock will make the episode available online the next day with additional moments and completely uncensored.

Fiddlehead have announced details of their upcoming third album, Death Is Nothing To Us, due out on August 18 via Run For Cover Records. The album's lead single "Sullenboy" is out today and can be found below.

Boston-born singer-producer Cameron Mesirow has announced her third full-length album as Glasser, and her first in 10 years. crux, the long-awaited follow-up to 2013’s Interiors, is due out October 6 via One Little Independent Records. The news comes with the project’s lead single, “Vine,” which finds Mesirow in peak form, cooing about flight over a propulsive beat.

Romy Madley-Croft of The xx has announced details of her debut solo album. Mid Air will be released on September 8 via Young.

Jenna Ortega joined some of this year’s most influential comedic actresses. Alongside Elle Fanning, Natasha Lyonne, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Ayo Edebiri and Devery Jacobs, Ortega sat at The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Comedy Actress Emmy Roundtable.

UPDATE, 10: 15 AM: Facing up to 30 years behind bars for being found guilty last month of two counts of rape, Danny Masterson will be sentenced on August 4.

When GAIKA first emerged from the Brixton underground with 2015's Security, he was hailed as a formidable voice in alternative dancehall with his industrial cyberpunk sensibilities inflecting jams built for sweaty bashments, a style he dubbed "ghettofuturism." Collaborations with Dean Blunt, SOPHIE, and many others followed. If you revisit his early works today, they still sound like they're charting exciting new terrain.

PJ Harvey is back today with the title track from I Inside the Old I Dying, her 10th studio album. It follows "A Child's Question, August," the album's lead single.

WWE fans are mourning a legend.

Princess Andre’s fans have labelled her ‘beautiful’, ‘stunning’ and ‘just like her mum’ after she shared a new picture from her PrettyLittleThing collaboration.The 15 year old followed in mum Katie Price’s footsteps earlier this year by signing a modelling deal that would see her team up with the fashion retailer on Instagram and TikTok content. And the latest snap she has posted to her Instagram shows her modelling the brand's latest PrettyLittleThing X Kappa collection.The image sees Princess looking natural and posing against a vibrant pink flowered backdrop while wearing a Kappa khaki racer neck printed zip up unitard.

Grayson Chrisley is a boy who knows what he wants!

Our hearts are going out to Shannen Doherty.

A little boy whose death led to tributes from Manchester United star Marcus Rashford lost his life after a driver 'failed to concentrate' on the road, a jury has ruled. Kidus Wondwosen, six, who had dreams of becoming a police officer, was his bike near his home in Hulme when he was hit by 34-year-old Jenefer Ebosele.

A suspected county lines gang have been arrested after police raided homes across Bury in the early hours of Wednesday (June 7).

It's attracted quite a bit of attention since landing in the north earlier this year, and now Gail's, the hit London bakery known for its freshly baked sourdough loaves, cakes and bakes, has opened its first store in Manchester City Centre.

Families of those who died in the Manchester Arena terror attack today called on the government and police to act to ensure lessons are learned after the long-running public inquiry into the atrocity came to a close.

A couple have spoken of their upset after becoming 'stranded' in Dubai amid a row over medical bills they say total more than £11,000. Katriona White, 54, fell seriously ill - leaving her unable to walk - after she and her husband Mick, 54, travelled to the United Arab Emirates from India where he had been working as a football coach.

Selome Hailu The Independent Television Service (ITVS) has tapped Carrie Lozano as its president and CEO following the departure of Sally Jo Fifer in January. The ITVS board selected Lozano after working with executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates. Leading the organization, Lozano will work to “protect independent artists’ voices, editorial control and copyright while elevating nonfiction storytelling as an essential strategy for public media to reach new and diverse audiences.” She will enter the role on August 7. The ITVS board worked with the executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates to recruit its third President & CEO since the organization’s founding.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The Los Angeles Times, facing declining ad revenue and readership, is eliminating 74 editorial jobs, representing about 13% of the total newsroom staff. Staffers at the paper learned of the cut in a memo sent Wednesday from executive editor Kevin Merida, wrote wrote that the decision was “made more urgent by the economic climate and the unique challenges of our industry, the L.A. Times reported. The L.A. Times Guild, an affiliate of Media Guild of the West, issued a statement that it was “outraged” by the job cuts and that it was “blindsided by this news.” “We are outraged by management’s announcement this morning that it plans to lay off 57 Guild members across several departments, amounting to roughly 15% of our entire newsroom membership, including several Guild leaders,” Reed Johnson, LAT Guild Unit council chair, said in a statement. “This list of targeted layoffs is not final. Under our contract, management is required to bargain with the Guild over proposed layoffs. Management also so far has failed to offer buyouts to staff as is required by our contract.”

Jessica Kiang Of all the classic summer berries — straw, blue, goose, rasp — blackberries ripen latest. That makes them an appropriate fruit for sturdy 48-year-old loner Etero (Eka Chavleishvili) to be reaching for at the beginning of Elene Naveriani’s slyly delightful “Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry.” But then, further distracted by the other title star, a handsome blackbird, she takes a tumble in to a ravine. It could have killed her. Indeed, there’s a moment where she envisions that it has. She watches as idly curious passersby gather around her body; anyone who has ever imagined their own funeral would be disappointed by this paltry turnout. One subtle trick of Naveriani’s second feature, making good on the promise of her Locarno-awarded debut “Wet Sand,” is to convey that this near-death experience marks a rupture in Etero’s normal routine, while also establishing the shape of that routine. Perhaps it’s the first time Etero herself has really noticed how small are the patterns of her life, or perhaps, in her vaguely dislocated state, it’s the first time she’s felt unfulfilled by them.

Stephen Rodrick Tucker Carlson — who was booted from Fox News last month — has made a serious pile of cash practicing what I like to call the conventional wisdom of the counterintuitive take. His worldview can be whittled down to this: everything you ever heard is wrong. And I mean everything. (He still believes the English alphabet has twenty-six letters but give him time.)  Last night, he began the Twitter phase of his lucrative career. Carlson was broadcasting from an undisclosed man cave of a studio — complete with unfinished wood and fishing rods that clashed with his preppy tie and blue blazer attire. It made him look like the country club money man wandering into a meeting of the Secret Society of Maladjusted Lunkheads who all loom right off-camera. 

Addie Morfoot Contributor While gender, race and politically-themed documentaries are once again prevalent at Tribeca Festival, celebrity-driven docus dominate this year’s nonfiction lineup.David Gelb’s “Stan Lee,” Stephen Kijak’s “Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed,” Luke Korem’s “Milli Vanilli,” Frank Marshall’s “Rather,” Betsy Schechter’s “Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive,” and Fernando Villena’s Oscar De La Hoya doc “The Golden Boy” are among the nonfiction titles focused on a bold face name screening at Tribeca, which kicks off on June 7.Marshall calls “Rather,” about longtime news anchor Dan Rather, a “very personal project.”“The collection of stories (Rather) has covered, it’s my history and the history of our country over the past 60 years,” says Marshall. “Dan dreamed of being a reporter and spent a large part of his career in journalism at CBS, including anchoring the CBS Evening News for twenty-four years, so it seemed natural to come to New York City and celebrate the world premiere of our film at Tribeca.”For director Michael Selditch, Tribeca Festival was also the perfect location for the world premiere of his latest docu “Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field,” about the iconic costume designer known best for her work on “Sex and the City.”“Tribeca seemed to make a lot of sense because it is a New York story and Patricia is a New York icon,” says Selditch.The director originally asked Field to be the subject of a documentary in 2019, but she declined.

Gail Simmons is sharing her thoughts on Padma Lakshmi‘s decision to exit Top Chef.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was always ready to battle for the title of Hollywood’s top action hero. During the ‘80s, Schwarzenegger went head-to-head in a heated rivalry against actor and "enemy" Sylvester Stallone. "I always need an enemy," Schwarzenegger, 75, revealed during his Netflix documentary, "Arnold." "Every time he came out with a movie, like ‘Rambo II,’ I had to figure out a way of now outdoing that." After the release of Stallone’s "Rambo II," Schwarzenegger worked on the 1985 action film "Commando."  "We were incredibly antagonistic.

Martha Stewart loves a good ole , she hates the concept of remote work (which I'm literally doing right now, sorry!). The convicted felon and swimsuit issue star believes that the concept of remote and hybrid work will cause the United States to “go down the drain,” like France. Okay, Martha!Stewart told that she is on a "rampage" against the remote and hybrid work model.

For months now, we’ve known a series led by “Star Wars” fan-favorite, Ahsoka Tano, was coming to Disney+. Several weeks ago, we saw the first full trailer for the series.

As I watched the new trailer for the fourth “Expendables” film, I couldn’t help but wonder who this film is actually for? Originally, the “Expendables” franchise was this fun experiment, where some of the best action stars from the ‘80s and ‘90s came together for another adventure. Now, four films deep, it’s morphed into… a starring vehicle for 50 Cent and Megan Fox? What? READ MORE: ‘The Flash’ Review: Barry Allen Is Barely The Lead In A Hollow Movie Overfilled With Fan Service As seen in the new trailer, “Expendables 4” (I refuse to call it “Expend4bles”) follows a group of mercenaries as they combine forces for another job.

Heather Dubrow has two words to describe season 17 of : «Very tough.»  «This was not an easy season for me,» she admits to ET, sitting down inside her new Los Angeles penthouse. «I think, first of all, I was dealing with a lot in my life, in my personal life with my children, and we don't show everything about our kids and our families on the show, obviously; they are minors, you know? You don't tell everyone's stories for them, but you are still dealing with those things and so that, and two kids going to college and being involved in this group… it's a lot.»«I could very easily sit here and say, I had a terrible season and everyone was mean to me and it was just the worst,» she adds.  «I mean, do I have PTSD from some things that happened? Yeah, I really do.»Heather returned to  last year, her first season back after exiting the series in 2016. «It was so weird coming back last year,» she reflects.

The CW that audiences see when they tune in this fall won’t look like the CW of years past – but it also won’t look like the CW that new owner Nexstar actually intends to offer consumers moving forward.In a move similar to its broadcast competition, the CW released a fall schedule meant to be practically immune to the effects of the ongoing writers strike. It’s an acquisition-heavy lineup that’s a mix of comedies (Canadian sitcoms including “Children Ruin Everything” and “Run the Burbs”), dramas (former AMC series “61st Street”) and unscripted fare (the salvaged HBO Max hit “FBoy Island”). The only potential hiccup would be a strike-related production delay for “All American,” one of two CW shows that new network president Dennis Miller and entertainment president Brad Schwartz have decided to keep moving forward.As much as Schwartz doesn’t like the perception that there is anything wrong with an acquisition, he and Miller told Variety that isn’t the center of their scheduling strategy, but rather a path they had to take this first year because of production uncertainties.Here, Variety speaks with Schwartz and Miller about the network’s plans for adult dramas, programming to Black audiences following the success of “All American,” going hard on unscripted with “FBoy Island,” and the path to making the former Paramount/Warner Bros. Discovery-owned channel profitable for Nexstar.

The CW held its first upfront week meeting with the press since the Nexstar acquisition closed last year, presenting a schedule heavy on foreign acquisitions and unscripted fare. Brad Schwartz, president of entertainment for The CW, took questions after the presentation alongside network president Dennis Miller. They laid out their plans for the network going into its new era, how the acquisitions play into their overall strategy, and the future of scripted development at the network. Read on for Variety‘s takeaways from the event. Superheroes Flying Off into the Sunset?

The CW revealed three more unscripted series after presenting its fall schedule.

The CW programming chief Brad Schwartz took a gentle swipe at the network’s previous business model as he revealed its fall schedule.

The CW’s fall primetime schedule, we’re getting a true look at what the Nexstar era of The CW entails. The network’s new schedule only includes two returning scripted originals — Season 6 of “All American” and Season 4 of “Walker.” The network’s typical youth-focused programming has been replaced by seven new and more adult-oriented originals. Say goodbye to DC superheroes and cute fashion dramas and hello to half-hour comedies about raising kids.