WWE(R) and FOX Sports Celebrate 'SmackDown's' 20th Anniversary on October 4August 12, 2019The 20th anniversary celebration will mark the premiere of SmackDown on FOX broadcast network at 8 pm ET and take place at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Friday, October 4, 2019. Tickets are available starting this Friday, August 16 at 10 am PT via the Staples Center box office, www.AXS.com or by calling 1-888-929-7849.
LIP SYNC TO THE RESCUE, Hosted by Cedric the Entertainer and Featuring Country Music Superstar Luke Bryan, to Air September 9 on CBSAugust 12, 2019Inspired by the viral video phenomenon #LipSyncChallenge, the new special LIP SYNC TO THE RESCUE, hosted by Cedric the Entertainer, star of CBS' hit comedy THE NEIGHBORHOOD, will be broadcast Monday, Sept. 9 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Also, country music superstar Luke Bryan is featured on the show when he surprises the Saratoga County, N.Y. deputy sheriff's office and helps them redo their original lip sync video.
Viceland True Crime Series THE DEVIL YOU KNOW Premieres August 27August 12, 2019VICELAND has announced the premiere dates for its first foray into serialized true crime storytelling: The Devil You Know as well as a U.S. premiere of VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi's acclaimed 2016 docu-series Terror. Both series will bow on the network Tuesday August 27 at 10:00 and 9:00PM, respectively.
BWW Interview: Kenneth Branagh Talks Playing Shakespeare in ALL IS TRUEMay 13, 2019Kenneth Branagh directs and stars as William Shakespeare in ALL IS TRUE, a film that uncovers the man behind the bard and speculates on the final years of his life. Branagh is a celebrated actor, director, and writer, and is perhaps best known for his passionate screen adaptations of Shakespeare's plays. Judi Dench and Ian McKellen also star.
Holland Taylor Joins TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE SequelApril 4, 2019Deadline reports that Madeleine Arthur will reprise her role as Christine in Netflix's All The Boys I've Loved Before sequel, which has also added Emmy winner Holland Taylor and Sarayu Blue. Stars Lana Condor and Noah Centineo will also return; so will Anna Cathcart, Janel Parrish, and John Corbett, along with previously announced newcomers Jordan Fisher and Ross Butler.
GRAMMYS 2019: Meet This Year's Nominees for Best Musical Theater AlbumFebruary 8, 2019The Grammy Awards, airing this Sunday, February 10th, at 8pm, have recognized five exceptional musical theatre cast albums as worthy of inclusion in their annual celebration of the year's best music. They range from original Broadway cast recordings to revival cast recordings to live concert recordings--and they all feature impressive vocal work from some of the theatre world's biggest and brightest stars. Let's meet the nominees.
BWW Review: Week of January 20 in Comedy Television!January 28, 2019This week in comedy pulled all the stops--original, emotionally effective episodes abounded on many of the major networks. Love was tested, hearts were broken, romantic comedy tropes were turned on their head. Oh, and there were a lot of laughs. That too.
BWW Review: Week of January 14 in Comedy Television!January 20, 2019“The rest of winter” means a return to our favorite shows--some coming back midseason, others beginning a completely new one. Here's a quick recap of some of this week's best and brightest scripted comedies. Spoilers abound.
BWW Recap: Exploring Vietnam and Los Angeles on THIS IS USNovember 15, 2018“This is Us” returned this week after a midterm-elections-related hiatus, providing a more zeroed-in experience than usual. We focus on Vietnam tonight--the experience of it, the aftermath of it, and a son's putting together the pieces of it.
BWW Review: I Sometimes Wish BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'd Never Been Born at AllNovember 5, 2018I spent the months leading up to the release of “Bohemian Rhapsody” in a state of awed anxiety. The release of that first trailer triggered something me--I cried every single time I watched it, and I think I watched it upwards of seven thousand times. I was utterly transfixed by the spectacle, by Rami Malek's uncanny resemblance to the man himself. Freddie Mercury: one of the first non-family voices I can remember recognizing distinctly, a singular talent, and a figure who has informed so much of what I care about and who I choose to be. The best singer to ever live, leading one of the greatest rock bands to ever arrive on the scene. An icon, not only for his talent, but for his identities: a non-white, non-heterosexual, non-Christian superstar who reinvented and mastered the game.
Jason Salmon FORCE OF NURTURE 10/23 Comedy Album ReleaseOctober 12, 2018Jason Salmon who you have seen on Orange Is The New Black and 30 Rock is releasing his debut full-length comedy album Force Of Nurture out October 23. Jason will celebrate with a release show in NYC at Stand Up NY on October 22 and then kicks off a European tour for US troops stationed overseas. Additional civilian tour dates to follow. A full listing of dates is available at www.jason-salmon.com.
RSVP at Arlo October Shows AnnouncedOctober 9, 2018New York based producers Jason Jude Hill and Daniel Sears of GrumpyFilms & Productions are announcing four brand new October performance dates of their critically-acclaimed, modern variety experience: RSVP at Arlo.
Full Moon Unleashes First Film PUPPET MASTER: BLITZKRIEG MASSACRESeptember 25, 2018Full Moon's BUNKER OF BLOOD is an 8-part feature film series designed to shock and scare. Drawing from nearly three decades of cinematic splatter and freakish filmmaking, BUNKER OF BLOOD is a gory 'Greatest Hits' of the legendary studio's strangest and sickest sequences framed by an all new, outrageous narrative. Using lavish illustrated comic book panels to tell the twisted tale of the masochistic drifter and the mad 'guru of gore,' the series will drive viewers deep into the dark, dank depths of a madman's macabre lair. This stomach-churning adventure starts off with PUPPET MASTER: BLITZKRIEG MASSACRE, in which The Gore Collector culls the sickest moments from the 11-film deep PUPPET MASTER series, mashing them together with macabre music and brand new moments of body-breaking mayhem.