The CW has picked up dramas “All American”, “Batwoman”, “Charmed”, “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”, “Dynasty”, “The Flash”, “In The Dark”, “Legacies”, “Nancy Drew”, “Riverdale”, “Roswell, New Mexico” and “Walker” for the 2021-2022 season.
NBC special “Grand Ole Opry: 95 Years of Country Music” will air on Sunday, Feb. 14. The anniversary celebration will feature performances by Kelsea Ballerini, Garth Brooks, Kane Brown, Little Big Town, Dolly Parton, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood and Trisha Yearwood.
Josh Duhamel has been confirmed as Armie Hammer’s replacement in “Shotgun Wedding”. Josh has officially joined the cast of the upcoming rom-com, after Armie stepped down amid a social media scandal. Josh will star alongside Jennifer Lopez in the flick, which follows the couple as their “extravagant destination wedding is hijacked by criminals”.
Ariana Grande has broken her own Guinness record for ‘Most songs to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100’. ‘Positions’ became her 5th song to achieve the feat. Behind her, Mariah Carey, Drake, Justin Bieber, Travis Scott and Taylor Swift all have 3 each. That’s Ariana’s 20th Guinness musical record.
Queen’s Roger Taylor has a Freddie Mercury statue in his garden. The drummer nabbed the memorial to his late bandmate for the grounds of his sprawling estate in Surrey, England after it was removed from outside the Dominion Theatre, where The Queen musical “We Will Rock You” was staged in 2014.
KISS star Gene Simmons has sold his Hollywood Hills pad with stunning views of downtown LA for $2 million. He also owns a Beverly Hills mansion which served as the backdrop for his reality show “Gene Simmons Family Jewels”, which he put on the market last year for $22 million.
Renee Zellweger is going to star in a new NBC drama called ‘The Thing About Pam’. The show is based on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria.
Serena Williams has built a secret karaoke room in her 14,000 square foot Miami mansion. The room sits behind a doorway that is disguised as a bookcase. Serena says friends and family are not allowed to sing “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Love Shack,” “I Will Survive,” and “Don’t Stop Believin’.”
Salma Hayek is developing a new series for HBO Max called ‘A Boob’s Life’. The show is about a woman, who has her life turned upside down when her breasts start talking to her.
Rob Lowe has no regrets about turning down a role on ‘Grey’s Anatomy.” “Me in that part isn’t as interesting as Patrick in that part. If it’d been me the fans wouldn’t have called me ‘McDreamy,’ they would have called me Rob Lowe. Had I done ‘Grey’s,’ I wouldn’t have been in ‘Parks and Recreation.’ That alone for me is enough.”
Chrissy Tiegen is being slammed on social media for tweeting about ordering a $13,000 bottle of wine. She posted, “One time, John and I were at a restaurant and the waiter recommended a nice Cabernet. We got the bill and it was $13,000. How do you casually recommend that wine? We didn’t even finish it and it had been cleared.”
The card game “Uno” is being turned into an “action heist comedy” movie set in the underground Hip-Hop world. Atlanta rapper LIL YACHTY is producing, and may star in it.
TOM HOLLAND says “Spider-Man 3” will be, quote, “the most ambitious standalone superhero movie ever made.” It is supposed to be released by the end of this year.
CHRISTOPHER MELONI’s “Law & Order: Organized Crime” will premiere in April with an “SVU” crossover event.
Pink Floyd’s album “The Dark Side of the Moon” was on the Billboard 200 album charts for a record 958 weeks and counting . . . but only spent ONE week at number one, in 1973.
Dua Lipa will drop The Moonlight Edition of her second album, Future Nostalgia next week. The latest release will be the third edition of the record, following both the original and the remixed version dubbed Club Future Nostalgia.
Olivia Rodrigo told Nylon she’s “still just spending every day in my room writing songs and doing homework.” She has eight songs for her eventual album and her dream is to have it be “an intersection between mainstream pop, folk music, and alternative rock.”
Taylor Swift has organized her songs from evermore and folklore into another playlist. The latest is the ladies lunching chapter. The singer writes on Twitter, “In my mind all of the evermore and folklore album ladies are a part of the same universe, so I put them in a playlist together.” The new offering opens with “Betty,” followed by “Dorothea,” “Marjorie,” “August,” “No body, No Crime” and “Right Where You Left Me.”
On the heels of Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild has shared its roster of nominations. While “Minari” had a soft showing at the Globes, it surged back leading three SAG nominations alongside Netflix acting powerhouse “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” TV surprised as well with many of last year’s nominees taking time off during the pandemic, allowing “Schitt’s Creek” and “The Crown” to rule.
The third Fantastic Beasts has shut down its shoot in the U.K. after a member of the production tested positive for COVID.













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