During her highly anticipated appearance on Travis and Jason Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast, Taylor Swift revealed the cover art and track list for her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl”, and announced an October 3 release date for the project. The title track will feature a high-profile collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter.

“Dancing With the Stars” judge Derek Hough is adding a new gig to his schedule this fall. He will host the entertainment news TV program, “Extra”. Derek will take over starting with the Season 32 premiere on September 8. He replaces Billy Bush, who announced his departure from the show after 5 years last month.

The scripts of the first 4 seasons of “Stranger Things” will be released in 2 volumes this fall and are now available to pre-order on Amazon. “Stranger Things: The Complete Scripts,” will give fans access to the full text of each episode, plus exclusive introductions and production notes from series creators Matt and Ross Duffer.

Beyoncé has earned her first-ever Emmy Award, and she still can win in 2 other categories. The Television Academy announced the Emmy winners in some categories, and Bey won for her NFL halftime performance on Netflix, dubbed the “Beyoncé Bowl”. She’s still up for outstanding variety special live, and outstanding directing for a variety special.

Snoop Dogg has been confirmed as the headline performer for the Australian Football League’s Grand Final. He’ll perform September 27 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. AFL CEO Andrew Dillon said, “The AFL Grand Final is the biggest event on the Australian sporting calendar and this year, it just got a whole lot bigger.” 100,000 fans are expected.

One of Eddie Van Halen’s most recognizable guitars will be auctioned off for the first time this fall. Southeby’s will sell a 1982 Kramer guitar that he played onstage with the Van Halen in 1982 and 1983. With its black and white spray-painted stripes, the guitar resembles his famous “Frankenstrat” from 1975. It is expected to go $2-3 million.

Sarah McLachlan has shared her new song ‘Gravity’ from her upcoming album “Better Broken”, out September 19. She said it tackles her “combative and fraught relationship” with her eldest daughter India Ann, and touches on their work to make amends through counseling.

Hallmark has announced “A Grand Ole Opry Christmas,” an original holiday movie premiering during Hallmark Channel’s 16th “Countdown to Christmas” this holiday season. It will include “familiar faces from the Opry’s star-studded cast”. Brad Paisley will write original music for the film and perform. He’ll also record the official anthem for this year’s “Countdown to Christmas” on-air campaign.

Pretenders frontwoman Chrissy Hynde’s October 17 album, ‘Duets Special’ will feature “13 extraordinary duets, beautifully arranged and featuring a host of world-class collaborators”, according to a press release. Garbage’s Shirley Manson, late Screaming Trees/ Queens of The Stone Age vocalist Mark Lanegan, Julian Lennon, Blondie’s Debbie Harry and more contribute to the album.

The trailer just dropped for a new two-part documentary on Charlie Sheen, fittingly titled “Charlie Sheen”, which will be available on Netflix on September 10. In the two-part doc, filmmaker Andrew Renzi covers the actor’s wild ride through the voices of friends, family members, and colleagues, including Denise Richards, Heidi Fleiss, Jon Cryer, Sean Penn, Chris Tucker, and his former drug dealer, Marco.

The Minnesota Vikings have joined the list of NFL teams employing male cheerleaders. The team announced Blaize Shiek and Louie Conn have joined their dancing squad for the season, and they made their debut Saturday in the Vikings’ preseason home opener. The Vikings are among the first teams to include a male cheerleader on their dance squad for the 2025 campaign to promote gender equality, with a further 11 franchises following suit.

BigXthaPlug is revealing more of the star-studded collabs for his upcoming album. He just dropped the full track list for his forthcoming album, “I Hope You’re Happy”, which will be released on August 22. The set will feature collabs with Darius Rucker, Jelly Roll, Ink, Tucker Wetmore, Luke Combs, and Thomas Rhett.

Mattel has unveiled a new Venus Williams Barbie. She is featured in Barbie’s Inspiring Women Series, celebrating her advocacy for equal pay in tennis. The design highlights Venus’s look at Wimbledon 2007. The doll is the second Barbie to honor Venus. The first was released in 2024.

Love it or hate it, everyone knows Mariah Carey’s 1994 earworm “All I Want for Christmas”. But have you seen the video? Mariah says filming it was, quote, “definitely not chic or effortless.” It was so cold that she remembers her HAIR freezing up. In it, Mariah wears a Santa Claus dress in the snow. It was a look that has since become iconic, and she STILL wears it. “Someone asked me, ‘Do you still have that one?’ and I’m like, ‘yeah, I use the same one every year.'”

Backstreet Boys announced that they have extended their “Into the Millennium” residency at the Las Vegas Sphere through early January. The chart-topping boy band added seven new shows to their successful sold-out Vegas run, including a special New Year’s Eve concert.

Hulu has ordered the limited series “Count My Lies” starring Lindsay Lohan and Shailene Woodley. The show, from “This Is Us” co-showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, follows compulsive liar Sloane Caraway who secures a nanny job in a household with deep secrets.

Angelina Jolie is set to star in the upcoming spy thriller “The Initiative”, directed by Doug Liman, known for “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”. Universal Pictures is in discussions to acquire the project, with F. Scott Frazier penning the screenplay. Plot details remain confidential.

Noah Centineo has reportedly been cast as a young “Rambo” in an upcoming prequel film, set to begin filming early next year. Details about the plot are currently undisclosed, but it will explore a young John Rambo’s origin story during the Vietnam War.

The season two premiere date for “Landman” has just been set. Billy Bob Thornton returns as West Texas’ favorite oil fixer in Season 2, debuting on Paramount+ on November 16. “Let the countdown to season 2 begin!” the show’s official Instagram account shared with a teaser video.