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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic When Fox’s “Monarch” premiered to strong ratings following an NFL game on Sept. 11, there was a big sort-of-maybe cliffhanger: Can the Susan Sarandon character, touted as a series lead, really be as dead as she appeared to be at the end of the pilot? But there were other questions, too. Like: Will this be a series in which the characters are portrayed as having originated a lot of the big hits of country and pop, from “Family Tradition” to “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” to “Born This Way”? Will the middle American audience be completely down with a story that has an out lesbian character vying to become a country superstar? Do parallels with Naomi Judd’s story feel as eerie as we think they do? And did the pilot make all those millions of viewers want to come back when there’s no NFL lead-in?

Scooter Braun and Yael Cohen are officially divorced less than one year after their split, Us Weekly confirms.

vacated on Monday. His case attracted major publicity because of its spotlight on the hit true-crime podcast “Serial.”According to NPR, Phinn’s decision relied on an extensive review of Syed’s case by prosecutors in Maryland, which revealed that authorities knew of at least two alternative suspects to Syed in the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999.According to The Associated Press, Phinn ruled that the state violated its legal obligation to share exculpatory evidence with Syed’s defense.

Bad Bunny.New York University’s Clive David institute will launch a new class next month, focused on the study of Lana’s songwriting, in relation to social justice, musical influence and unique sound, that “has changed the parameters of baroque pop.”“Del Rey provided a new platform for artists of all genders to create ‘anti-pop’ works of substance that could live in a mainstream once categorized as bubblegum,” says author Kathy Iandoli. “The six-time Grammy nominated artist has reinvented the sound (and mood) of mainstream music beyond the 2010s.”San Diego State University will explore Bad Bunny’s impact on Latin culture, as he has been able to show a different side of reggaetón.

Billboard Latin Music Awards are right around the corner, and while it’s one of the biggest nights in music, it’s also a night of fashion. The awards show goes back to 1994, and some of the biggest names have walked the red carpet.

Shakira has had a difficult year would be an understatement. Aside from the fact that she’s splitting up from her partner of a decade-plus, her father is experiencing health challenges and she’s also under investigation by the Spanish government, which claim she hasn’t paid the taxes she’s supposed to. Shakira is now on the cover of Elle Magazine, providing some answers on all of these matters and an update on her music.Shakira walks around holding a bloody heart prop while filming a music video with OzunaShakira rumoredly asked Pique to give her back her GrammysA post shared by Shakira (@shakira)In the interview, Shakira discussed her relationship openly, revealing more than she ever had before.

Friends that matter. Maci Bookout has Amber Portwood’s back when it comes to her custody drama.

Antonio Ferme editor Are we witnessing the start of the “Bros” Cinematic Universe? Billy Eichner stars in the Universal Pictures rom-com as the director of an LGBTQ history museum who falls for a hunky attorney (Luke Macfarlane). After scoring positive reactions at TIFF, Variety was on the movie’s premiere red carpet in New York City Tuesday night to ask if a potential sequel could be in the works. “Billy and I’ve been joking about [the possibilities], I’m not sure what it would be,” Macfarlane told Variety. “The truth is, in any relationship, those early months are the best. And then the reality of life sets in and you got to figure out how you’re going to spend all that time with somebody.”

Marie-Lou Nurk is headed to “Selling Sunset”.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The lineup of five honorees for CMT’s Artists of the Year special has been set, with Walker Hayes, Carly Pearce and Cody Johnson being celebrated on the annual show for the first time, joining previous honorees Luke Combs and Kane Brown. Filmed, as always, at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center, the 90-minute “CMT Artists of the Year” will air on CMT Oct. 14 at 9 p.m. ET/PT after being taped in the week. The non-competitive show is a more intimate complement to the larger-scale, fan-voted CMT Awards, with honorees being selected by the network from among the artists deemed to have made the most collective impact during the preceding year.

lengthy email a few years back, but the actress has finally addressed the “racist” incident with him publicly.McGee, 53, joined “Boy Meets World” alums Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Friedle in an episode of their “Pod Meets World” podcast where the cast further discussed the remark.The actress, who played Angela Moore, quickly confronted Friedle, 46, about the comment when it happened — a move the actor helped him understand the implications of racial stereotypes.“In my head, I attached no cultural significance to that whatsoever,” Friedle recalled during the Sept. 12 episode of the podcast.

It was another solid week in the Great British Bake Off tent for Lanarkshire music teacher Kevin Flynn.

RuPaul’s Drag Race brought drag into millions of homes, events like Miss’d America, which will hold its 31st pageant this weekend, put the spotlight on the drag community.Taking place in Atlantic City at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, the weekend will kick off at 9 p.m. on Friday, Sept 23, with drag bingo hosted by last year’s pageant winner, Amanda Pörq.Guests will have the chance to win cash and prizes and watch special performances by Sandy Beach, Morgan Wells, and Miss Elaine.On Saturday, eight contestants will take to the stage of Hard Rock’s Sound Waves Theater, starting at 7 p.m., for the chance to be crowned Miss’d America 2023.They’ll compete in the categories of swimsuit, talent, and evening gown, and will be interviewed by the judges.The evening promises to feature over-the-top productions, overseen by the pageant’s celebrity emcee Carson Kressley.Tickets for Miss’d America start at $25 and can be purchased online.VIP tickets are also available at $100 each, and include one complimentary drink and admission to an exclusive post-pageant meet and greet reception.

David Cronenberg returned in a big way this year with “Crimes Of The Future,” his first film since 2014’s “Map To The Stars.” And Cronenberg has more projects on the way. He shopped around “The Shrouds” and a television adaptation of his 2015 novel “Consumed” at the Cannes Film Festival before the world premiere of “Future.” “The Shrouds” comes first, and at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Cronenberg shed some light on the project.

Things don't always go smoothly when Gino D'Acampo's around, as This Morning viewers well know. But on Wednesday (September 21), the Italian chef was back in the UK and rather than being on the ITV daytime show, he paid a visit to the Loose Women.

Serinda Swan (Coroner), Ferdinand Kingsley (Sandman) and Rory Cochrane (Winning Time) are set as series regulars opposite Alan Ritchson in the upcoming second season of Prime Video’s Reacher. Also joining the cast are guest star Domenick Lombardozzi (Magnum P.I.), along with Luke Bilyk (DeGrassi: The Next Generation), Dean McKenzie (Shooter), Edsson Morales (Black Summer), Andres Collantes (Two Sentence Horror Stories), Shannon Kook-Chun (The 100), Ty Victor Olsson (Supernatural), Josh Blacker (See), and Al Sapienza (Coroner). As previously announced, Maria Sten will return for Season 2 as Frances Neagley and Shaun Sipos will play David O’Donnell. Filming will begin this month.

in a TikTok video posted, naturally, at the stroke of midnight.Having previously only revealed that there were 13 tracks on “Midnights,” the 11-time Grammy winner debuted “Midnights Mayhem With Me” as a way to roll out the song titles with a lottery-style cage containing balls marked 1 through 13.“I know I have a habit of dropping cryptic clues and Easter eggs when giving you information about new music, and I’m not here to deny that — I’m here to defy that,” she says in the TikTok. “Welcome to a series I’m calling ‘Midnights Mayhem With Me.’ I am going to be using this technologically advanced device to help me allow fate to decide exactly what tracks titles I’m going to be announcing and in what order.”The 32-year-old entertainer then draws the first ball from the cage, and it just so happens to be for Track 13 — which any good Swiftie knows is Tay Tay’s lucky number.“The first track I’m going to tell you about is Track 13, because, of course,” says Swift, who then picks up a red phone and reveals that “Track 13 is called ‘Mastermind.’ ”And that title tease is all that eager fans get for now, and they will need to calm down and wait for what will presumably be 12 more videos — which are sure to be dropped at the witching hour — before getting the full track listing for “Midnights.”But Swift wasn’t playing it so coy when she accepted her Songwriter-Artist of the Decade honor at the Nashville Songwriter Awards, which took place at Music City’s Ryman Auditorium on Tuesday night.“Writing songs is a calling, and getting to call it your career makes you very lucky,” said Swift, who, of course, got her start in Nashville as a country artist.

Doja Cat has said she is now not doing a ‘90s German rave album after all.The rapper recently said in an interview that she was currently inspired by the German rave music of the 1990s and she was “sort of embracing that” adding: “That’s kind of a hint to the album. Rave culture, not house.”But in a series of tweets she has backtracked on her previous comments saying: “im not doing a german rave culture album you guys i was pranking the outlet that interviewed me about it.”She went on to tweet to that she was working on an R&B album before she went on to say it was actually an “experimental jazz album”.The rapper finally posted an audio clip, which she captioned “the truth” and said she was in fact working on a rock album.im not doing a german rave culture album you guys i was pranking the outlet that interviewed me about it— spooky cat (@DojaCat) September 21, 2022I'm doing an R&B album— spooky cat (@DojaCat) September 21, 2022Yall I was lying.

Meet Cute, a Groundhog Day-style rom-com costarring that's now available to stream on Peacock. Cuoco is delivering holiday for this press cycle with glamorous, sparkly looks, even though Spooky Season hasn't even started yet (it has according to HomeGoods, but not to me, at least). For an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the wore a sequined black tuxedo jacket and black pants (it's very party on top, business on the bottom), as well as a black bowtie around the collar of her prim white shirt. She styled the tux with silver drop earrings and black backless pointed-toe heels with silver embellishments. Cuoco wore another sparkly, menswear-inspired look for the red carpet Meet Cute premiere in New York City, pairing a gold sequin double-breasted blazer minidress with strappy heels and a shiny gold clutch.

Hef’s Playboy playmates and their adult playthings were almost deemed too hot for TV. Exposing more explosive truths about their seemingly plushy lives as Hugh Hefner’s ladies in the early 2000s, former “Girls Next Door” starlets Holly Madison, 42, and Bridget Marquardt, 48, revealed that E! initially canned their reality show’s pilot episode due to the “risqué” nature of a “sex toy” fete. “This party was actually a sex toy party,” Madison recalled during a recent episode of her podcast with Marquardt, “Girls Next Level.”“This was more like a quaint tupperware party, but it was still deemed too risqué for E!,” said Madison. “After the pilot was finished, they said, ‘We can never air this because we can’t show all these sex toys on the network.’ “She went on to insist that the party’s X-rated novelties, such as lubes and faux phalluses, were only for display and not for demonstration. “We weren’t doing anything with them like I said, it was like a tupperware party or there would be like funny games with sex toys.”The honey-haired hottie recalled hosting the saucy celebration at the Playboy Mansion — where she resided as one of Hef’s three main girlfriends alongside Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson, 37, — with Hefner’s permission. However, when the late smut mag magnate, who died of sepsis in 2017 at 89, got a load of the sex goodies and gadgets being hawked in his house, he allegedly “dogged” Madison for orchestrating the tawdry scene. “[Hefner] was like dogging me,” she remembered.

Guy Lodge Film Critic At the height of his career, Czech-born composer Josef Mysliveček was the most prolific and sought-after figure in Italian opera, bound for immortal celebrity. Nearly three centuries later, his name isn’t forgotten to classical music scholars, but neither does it have anything approaching household status; the facts and records of his personal life, meanwhile, have largely been lost to history. Via a blend of free narrative speculation and exacting musical presentation, Petr Vaclav’s stately, sumptuous biopic “Il Boemo” seeks to restore a degree of iconic status to a talent latterly overshadowed by relative 18th-century contemporaries, albeit not with much swagger or modernity of its own: This is costume drama of a traditional, ornately brocaded stripe, a classical music lesson for classicists.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJonathan Bailey is in talks to join the cast of Jon M. Chu’s “Wicked” movies.The “Bridgerton” star will play Fiyero in the two-part feature adaptation headlined by Ariana Grande as Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba. The Universal Pictures films are set for release on Christmas in 2024 and 2025.“Wicked” is a prequel to “The Wizard of Oz,” telling the story of how Elphaba became the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch.“We decided to give ourselves a bigger canvas and make not just one ‘Wicked’ movie but two!” Chu wrote in a statement when announcing the two-parter. “With more space, we can tell the story of ‘Wicked’ as it was meant to be told while bringing even more depth and surprise to the journeys for these beloved characters.”

BreAnna Bell Amazon Prime’s “Reacher” has added Serinda Swan, Ferdinand Kingsley, Rory Cochrane to its Season 2 cast as series regulars. The group is joined by guest star Domenick Lombardozzi, along with Luke Bilyk, Dean McKenzie, Edsson Morales, Andres Collantes, Shannon Kook-Chun, Ty Victor Olsson, Josh Blacker, and Al Sapienza.  Based on the 11th novel in Lee Childs’ Jack Reacher series — “Bad Luck and Trouble– Season 2 of the military drama picks up as the members of Reacher’s old military unit start turning up dead. Reacher (Alan Ritchson) sets out on a plot for revenge as he hopes to get justice his fallen friends. Filming will begin this month.

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Elizabeth Chambers is opening up about her estranged husband Armie Hammer amid all the controversies he’s been involved in.

Tommy Lee has made good on his promise to launch his very own OnlyFans account.It comes after the Mötley Crüe drummer announced earlier this month at a show with the band in Las Vegas that he was joining the subscription-based social media platform which is popular with sex workers, where users can buy and sell original content.At the time he made reference to a full-frontal nude selfie he posted across his social media accounts, later saying he uploaded the picture while on a “bender”.He said: “In case you guys are fucking living under a rock, I’ve been in trouble a little bit lately. I wanna see what kinda trouble we can get into tonight.

legal battle with Elon Musk. Matt Wing, who has left Uber’s communications department after seven years, is joining UnitedMasters as head of communications. Prior to joining Uber, Wing worked for then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s press team from 2011 through 2014.

Chicago PD stars Marina Squerciati and Jason Beghe have revealed how the departure of Jesse Lee Soffer as Jay Halstead from the show will change the dynamics of the investigative unit.Exclusive: Chicago Fire bosses detail Brett's 'turmoil' ahead of emotional premiereFans will see Detective Halstead leave later in the season, although how it plays out on screen remains to be seen. The loss of Halstead will affect the team in different ways and viewers will also see them be forced to reckon with their loss while also welcoming newcomer Officer Dante Torres into the fold.WATCH: One Chicago returns to NBC"Jay was Torres' handler - or even mentor - and they had a nice rapport on screen, so it is a loss for all of us to lose Halstead but it is a wonderful thing to have Torres," Jason shared with HELLO!"It will be a new relationship for all of us; Torres has a lot to offer, and we allow him to be himself and relationships will develop.MORE: Chicago PD star Marina Squerciati shares first day back on set picture"Atwater to an extent will take Torres as his responsibility when Jay leaves but it is something that will unfold naturally."For several seasons Halstead has been the angel on Voight's shoulder, and Marina adds that viewers must see "Voight find that balance now" on his own.

Can Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo’s marriage survive this scandal? And why did he even bother flirting with so many women when he has his very own Victoria’s Secret angel at home?

POP superstar Shakira has broken her silence after splitting up with footballer Gerard Pique. The singer, 45, has been rocked by Gerard's new relationship with PR girl Clara Chia Marti, 23, who is believed to have met him while working on events at his sports investment firm Kosmos.