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2015 National Defend Freedom Tour kicks off on Fox and Friends

April 16, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

This Friday, April 17, the 2015 National Defend Freedom Tour will make its first stop live on Fox News Channel’s Fox and Friends for a three-hour special (6am-9am ET) to announce this year’s tour organized by Concerned Veterans for America (CVA). In addition to watching the event on Fox News, if you’re in the area, you can attend the free, family-friendly event, which takes place at the Fox News courtyard (1211 Avenue of the Americas in New York City), and will feature a complimentary breakfast, a concert and patriotic speakers. Register here for Friday’s Fox News event; other tour dates can be found here. Appearing for […]

Directors announced for FOX’s “Grease: Live”

April 15, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

Tony Award-nominated director Thomas Kail (Hamilton, In the Heights) and veteran television director Alex Rudzinski (director of all 20 seasons of Dancing With the Stars, among many other broadcasts) will direct the live musical event Grease: Live that will air on FOX Jan. 31, 2016, at 7pm ET live/PT tape-delayed, it was announced today. Kail will oversee the stage direction, with Rudzinski serving as the live broadcast director. Taking the direction will be currently announced stars Julianne Hough as Sandy and Vanessa Hudgens as Rizzo. Marc Platt (“Wicked,” “Into the Woods”) is executive producer. Grease: Live is a Paramount Television production based on the original musical by Jim […]

Catch The Music of Pokemon At The Symphony!

April 6, 2015 Kellie Freeze

If you grew up watching Pokemon cartoons on Cartoon Network or enjoyed playing the computer or card games that were perhaps the best Japanese monster import since Godzilla, there’s a new Poke-phenomenon guaranteed to cater to your grown-up tastes. Now you can experience Pokemon at…the symphony! The beloved midi-files of the 16-bit video game and the tunes from the CN show are getting a lift into elegant and dramatic scores played by the world’s finest symphonies. After performing the work to sold out audiences in Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh, the producers have turned Pokemon: Symphonic Evolutions into a tour that will […]

HBO debuts Bessie trailer [VIDEO]

April 3, 2015 Lori Acken

HBO released the official trailer for its stunning Bessie Smith biopic, Bessie, which will debut Saturday, May 16 at 8/7CT on the network. Twenty-two years in the making, the project was first brought to a young Queen Latifah — then a successful singer and burgeoning actress — by producers Richard and Lili Fini Zanuck, who had optioned a script from To Kill a Mockingbird screenwriter Horton Foote and director Bruce Beresford. Progress on the film ebbed and flowed until it landed in the hands of writer/director Dee Rees, who was gaining good notices for her coming-of-age story Pariah and leapt at the chance […]

CNN acquires ‘Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me’

February 23, 2015 Lori Acken

CNN announced on Sunday that it has acquired domestic broadcast rights to the critically acclaimed documentary Glen Campbell … I’ll Be Me. The theatrical release follows beloved country music legend Glen Campbell and his family as he embarks on a farewell tour after he is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The network plans to broadcast the film in June and again in November. Featuring Campbell singing the Grammy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated song, “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” — memorably performed by Tim McGraw at last night’s Oscars ceremony — the tender, funny and inspiring film “follows the long goodbye that is Alzheimer’s disease as Campbell, and […]

Shania: Still the One Live from Vegas special airs Feb. 28 on ABC

February 20, 2015 Lori Acken

Shania Twain fans, if you never did make it to Las Vegas to see her live Shania: Still the One shows at the The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, here’s some good news. On Saturday, Feb. 28, ABC will present the exclusive concert event “Shania: Still the One Live from Vegas.” The special, executive produced by Twain, features the full stage show, plus more than an hour of behind-the scenes footage spotlighting what it took to bring the flashy musical spectacular to the stage — including a 13-piece band, dancers, trained horses and a flying motorcycle. And of course Twain’s signature spin on country […]

2015 Grammys Preview: Nominees, presenters, performers and more

February 6, 2015 Ryan Berenz

Beyoncé, Sam Smith and Pharrell Williams lead the nominations (six each) for the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, presented Sunday, Feb. 8, at 8pm (live ET/Tape delayed PT) on CBS at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Iggy Azalea, Beck, Eric Church, Drake, Gordon Goodwin, Jay Z, Miranda Lambert, Sia, Usher and Jack White earned four nominations each. Nominees for Best New Artist are Azalea, Bastille, Brandy Clark, HAIM and Sam Smith. Two-time Grammy Award winner LL Cool J returns as host. List of presenters and performers from the CBS press release below, followed by list of 2015 Grammys nominees in popular […]

Baz Luhrmann music drama series “The Get Down” coming to Netflix

February 5, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

In what is touted as his first music-driven drama since the 2001 hit Moulin Rouge!, Baz Luhrmann will be bringing the 13-episode, one-hour drama The Get Down to Netflix in 2016. The series is set in 1970s New York City, and Luhrmann will be directing the first two episodes, and the season finale, while also serving as executive producer. From Netflix: “[The Get Down] will focus on 1970s New York City – broken down and beaten up, violent, cash strapped — dying. Consigned to rubble, a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them – except […]

TCA: Annie Lennox brings the house down!

January 19, 2015 Ryan Berenz

The Langham Hotel & Spa in Pasadena, Calif., won’t be able to host the Television Critics Association Press Tour — or anything else, for that matter — because Annie Lennox obliterated the place. The legendary singer and musician of The Eurythmics fame performed for TV critics and PBS guests a scorching four-song set of classic jazz and blues standards — “Summertime,” “I Put a Spell on You,” “God Bless the Child” and “Georgia on My Mind” — from her album Nostalgia. Lennox then took questions from reporters gathered, discussing her approach to covering these longtime favorites, her love of Motown […]

Hana Mae Lee live tweets during “Pitch Perfect” network television premiere

January 17, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

As fans eagerly await Pitch Perfect 2, coming to theaters in May, ABC Family will broadcast the network television premiere of the hit 2012 musical comedy Pitch Perfect, Costar Hana Mae Lee, who played Lilly Okanakamura, will be taking part in a live Twitter chat (@hanamaelee) during the East Coast airing using #PitchPerfectParty. Pitch Perfect finds Beca (Anna Kendrick) arriving at her new college and finding herself not right for any clique. Somehow, she is muscled into one that she never would have picked on her own: alongside mean girls, sweet girls and weird girls whose only thing in common is how good […]