NBC has announced that The Kelly Clarkson Show will kick off its sixth season Sept. 23 with a rooftop party at the show’s 30 Rock headquarters. The upcoming season will include guest appearances from Kristen Bell, Halle Berry, Jim Carrey, Colin Farrell, Anna Kendrick, Uma Thurman, Kate Winslet and Zachary Quinto, as well as the cast of Emily In Paris and the cast of Wicked …
Make that Emily in Rome as the Netflix rom-com Emily in Paris moves to the Italian capital for part two of its fourth season. The streaming service released the trailer for season 4, part 2 on Monday. “Emily (Lily Collins) has everything she wants, but is it what she needs? From skiing in the French Alps to taking a Roman holiday, she’s ready for her next adventure,” reads the tag line for the upcoming season. Emily in Paris season 4, part 1 hit Netflix on Aug. 15. Part 2 drops on Sept. 12 …
Comedy Central has revealed Sept. 25 as the premiere date for Everybody Still Hates Chris, along with a first-look image. The series is an animated version of Chris Rock‘s sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, which ran for four seasons from 2005 to 2009. Rock returns as Adult Chris to narrate the reimagined series, with America’s Got Talent host Terry Crews voicing Chris’ dad, Julius, The Neighborhood‘s Tichina Arnold voicing Chris’ mother, Rochelle, and Saturdays‘ Tim Johnson Jr. as the voice of Young Chris …
Deadline reports The Good Wife creators Robert King and Michelle King are developing another legal drama for CBS. Tentatively titled Cupertino, the potential series is described as a “David vs. Goliath legal show set in Silicon Valley,” according to the outlet …
Hulu has picked up The Spot, a drama starring and executive produced by Kate Winslet, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series, created and scripted by writer Ed Solomon, who also directs, follows a successful surgeon — played by Winslet — whose husband suspects that she may be responsible for a child’s hit-and-run death, according to THR …
Military.com reports the U.S. Army is having serious “buyer’s regret” over an $11 million deal to have Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson boost sagging recruitment numbers.
In fact, not only did Johnson’s involvement not cause a single would-be GI to sign on the dotted line for Uncle Sam, the campaign “may possibly have had a negative impact on finding new enlistments,” according to internal emails reviewed by the news source.
For these reasons, the Army is reportedly trying to get $6 million back, the article says.
According to Army sources, the deal would have leveraged Johnson’s football minor league, the United Football League, to promote the military branch. However, poor viewer numbers for the league deflated that strategy — as did Johnson’s reported lack of participation using his Instagram fanbase of 396 million followers.
According to the article, Johnson promised the Army five promotional posts to his legion of followers — worth, according to the military, a million bucks each considering the size of his audience. But Johnson allegedly delivered on just two of them.
Evidently, the Army pushed back against the sports tie-in after an $88 million deal with NASCAR to promote the National Guard flopped, but the deal was reportedly “pushed through” by Gen. Randy George.
Col. Dave Butler, a rep for George, tells the website, “In terms of The Rock, it’s unfortunate he was pulled away at a time when we expected him to … create content for his social media channel.”
While they try to “rebalance the contract,” Butler said, “The Rock remains a good partner to the Army.”
A rep for the superstar didn’t return ABC Audio’s request for comment.
Kelly Preston, the late wife of John Travolta and the mother of their children, Ella Bleu, Benjamin and the late Jett, is memorialized in a new single and music video from her daughter.
According to Ella Bleu’s reps, “Little bird” is a “deeply personal tribute” to the actress, who died of breast cancer at 57 in 2020.
Both the song and the video, which is made up of home video snippets and snapshots of Ella and her family over the years, “captures the tender bond she shared with her mother and honors the profound impact Kelly had on her life.”
The 24-year-old’s song, which is available for download on streaming platforms, is described as “a journey of finding yourself as a young person growing up in the public eye” and “a moving expression of love, loss, and remembrance.”