Calling all “SpongeBob SquarePants” super fans: It’s game time. Viacom Digital Studios is creating a game show based on the popular animated series. The “SpongeBob Smarty Pants Game Show” will debut later this year on Facebook and the SpongeBob-branded YouTube channel.
Lucy Liu will be honored with the 2,662nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this morning.
Kylie Jenner gifted Travis Scott with a $280,000 Lamborghini for his 28th birthday.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may name their baby Allegra if they have a girl. The late Princess Diana loved the Italian name and may have given it to a daughter had she had one.
The Rock is being paid $20 million to star in the Fast and the Furious spin-off ”Hobbs and Shaw.” Jason Statham is getting $13 million while Idris Elba is getting $8 million.
Netflix will produce a miniseries about the 2018 rescue of a boys’ soccer team from a cave in Thailand.
Oprah Winfrey says that acting no longer feeds her soul. She admits she joined the cast of last year’s A Wrinkle in Time so she could go to New Zealand.
FOX has renewed Empire for a sixth season – but it’s likely Jussie Smollett won’t return. The studio says in a statement, “By mutual agreement, the studio has negotiated an extension to Jussie Smollett’s option for season 6, but at this time there are no plans for the character of Jamal to return to Empire.” The actor’s team confirms that “Jussie will not be on Empire in the beginning of the season.”
Kelly Clarkson ranked her own songs for BuzzFeed. She ultimately chose “Whole Lotta Woman” as her favorite song.
A new study found that there was an increase in teen suicides in the months following the release of 13 Reasons Why on Netflix.
Halsey recently gave friendship bracelets to BTS ahead of their performance of “Boy With Luv” on the Billboard Music Awards.
Cardi B, Billie Eilish, Chidlish Gambino, Guns N’ Roses, Mumford and Sons, The Cure, and Robyn have just been named headliners at the 2019 Austin City Limits fest.
“Variety” has a list of Hollywood salaries, and it includes Netflix shelling out $27 million to land Ryan Reynolds for “Six Underground” . . . and Will Smith scoring $17 million for “Bad Boys for Life”, while Martin Lawrence ‘only’ gets $6 mil.
TOM BRADY is officially the only player left from the 2000 NFL draft.
CBS is doing a 30-minute special after the “Big Bang Theory” series finale.
“The Price is Right” will hit its 9,000th episode in October.
