In brief: ‘Yellowstone’ spin-off, ‘Friday Night Lights’ reboot lands at Peacock and more

The upcoming Friday Night Lights reboot has landed at Peacock. Netflix lost out to the NBCU streamer for the new adaptation of the high school football-centric drama series in a battle that played out over the last several days. Jason Katims, the original series’ showrunner, will helm for Universal Television, while original director Peter Berg and producer Brian Grazer are also set to return …

Hold on to your horses: there’s more Yellowstone on the way. The universe is expanding, as Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser are set to star in a brand-new spin-off series as their characters, Beth and Rip, Variety reports. The news comes just days before the season 5 finale of Yellowstone airs …

Eddie Redmayne will join Julia Roberts in the new thriller Panic Room. Deadline reports that Elizabeth Olsen is also attached to the Warner Bros. film, which will be directed by Sam Esmail. While the plot is being kept under wraps, it has been described as a paranoid thriller similar to Esmail’s previous Emmy-winning show, Mr. Robot …

Miley Cyrus gives thanks for award show nominations: ‘It’s an honor’

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She’s already won a Hollywood Music In Media Award for it, and been nominated for a Golden Globe for it, but now Miley Cyrus has received a Critics Choice Awards nomination for “Beautiful That Way,” the song she co-wrote for the Pamela Anderson movie The Last Showgirl.

Taking to Instagram, Miley wrote, “It’s an honor to be nominated for Best Original Song alongside my friends and collaborators Andrew Wyatt and Lykke Li at the Golden Globes & Critics Choice Awards.”

“Pamela is graciously sharing her moment with us. I am continuing to root for her, it’s so fun to watch her shine,” Miley continues. “Thank you [to director] Gia Coppola for inviting me to be a part of your gem The Last Showgirl.”

The Last Showgirl features Anderson as Shelly, a Vegas showgirl who has to figure out her next move when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. The film, which officially opens on Dec. 13, also stars Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka and Billie Lourd.

Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan win awards for promoting animal rights & veganism

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While they’re waiting to find out if they’ve won the Grammys they’re all nominated for, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande and Chappell Roan have a different award to celebrate: one that recognizes their efforts toward the promotion of plant-based food, animal adoption and cruelty-free products.

They’ve all been named winners of the Libby Awards, handed out by PETA’s youth division, peta2. “Libby” stands for “liberation,” as in animal liberation, and each year the awards are given to people who work to protect animals in various ways.

Ariana won “Best Viral Moment for Animals” due to her appearance on Hot Ones, where she ate animal-free wings and spoke about being vegan. The episode has racked up more than 8 million views since it debuted four months ago. One of the people she beat was Sabrina Carpenter, who was nominated for wearing faux fur in her video for “Please Please Please.”

Chappell was named peta2’s Pawsome Animal Adoption Advocate for visiting an animal shelter while on tour to highlight some of the adoptable dogs. On social media, she also honored her late guinea pigs, who were rescued.

And Taylor won in the Favorite Vegan and Cruelty-Free Celeb Product category for offering fans a Tortured Poets Department journal bound in vegan leather. She, too, beat out Sabrina, who was nominated for her Cherry Baby fragrance, as well as Halsey, who was nominated for the lip stain that’s part of her a24 makeup line.

‘Tangled’ live-action adaptation in the works at Disney

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Tangled is getting the live-action treatment.

Disney is working on an adaptation of the 2010 animated film centered on Rapunzel, Good Morning America has confirmed.

This time around, The Greatest Showman director Michael Gracey is directing with a script from Thor: Love and Thunder screenwriter Jennifer Kaytin Robinson.

Casting for the film has yet to be announced.

Tangled was directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard with a screenplay by Dan Fogelman. It starred Mandy Moore as Rapunzel, Zachary Levi as Flynn Rider (aka Eugene Fitzherbert) and Donna Murphy as Mother Gothel.

The film, which earned more than $582 million at the worldwide box office, according to The Numbers, won a Grammy for the song “I See the Light,” which also earned a best original song nomination at the Academy Awards.

Other songs featured in the film included “When Will My Life Begin?”, “Mother Knows Best” and “I’ve Got a Dream.”

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Beyoncé gets into holiday spirit, teases NFL Christmas halftime performance: See video

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Beyoncé is getting ready for the holidays with another iconic performance.

In a video she shared on social media and YouTube, the “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer is seen dressed in an all-white look with a matching snow-covered cowboy hat as she magically turns on the lights on her cactus Christmas tree.

She flashes a smile before the words, “HALFTIME SHOW THIS CHRISTMAS HOUSTON, TX,” appear onscreen.

It was announced in November that Beyoncé would be performing live during halftime of the Baltimore Ravens vs. Houston Texans game on Christmas Day as part of Netflix’s first-ever NFL Christmas game.

She announced the news with a video of her standing on a red rose-covered car, catching a football with one hand.

The game will take place in Beyoncé’s hometown, Houston, Texas, at NRG Stadium, and the halftime show will be produced by her company, Parkwood Entertainment, and Jesse Collins Entertainment.

According to a press release, she will perform songs from her Cowboy Carter album for the first time.

Details about Beyoncé’s performance are still under wraps, but she is expected to bring out special guests featured on the album, according to the press release.

Music notes: Gracie Abrams, Taylor Swift and more

After announcing her The Secret of Us Deluxe Tour, Gracie Abrams has announced additional dates in Boston, New York, LA and Morrison, Colorado, due to fan demand. If you signed up for the artist presale, you can start looking for tickets for the new dates Dec. 12 at 10 a.m. local time. Tickets for all dates go on sale Dec. 13 at 10 a.m. local time.

Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade, airing Dec. 25 on ABC and Disney+, will feature musical performances from John Legend, Pentatonix, Andy Grammer and Elton John. Pentatonix will also play themselves in the upcoming The Simpsons holiday special, “O C’mon All Ye Faithful,” premiering Dec. 17 on Disney+.

Taylor Swift is Vevo’s #1 artist of the year in the U.S. for the second straight year: Her videos racked up 470 million views. Shaboozey‘s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” was the #1 most-watched Vevo music video in the U.S. this year, garnering nearly 83 million views. Vevo’s top U.S. video premiere of 2024 was for Kendrick Lamar‘s “Not Like Us,” with 23.5 million views in two weeks, followed by Eminem‘s “Houdini” and Sabrina Carpenter‘s “Taste.”

Google is out with its Year in Search 2024, and the top trending searches in the U.S. included new parents Justin and Hailey Bieber, Miley Cyrus‘ Grammy performance, Celine Dion‘s Olympics comeback, Charli XCX‘s Sweat Tour, Sabrina Carpenter‘s Short N’ Sweet Tour and Kendrick Lamar‘s song “Not Like Us.”

The Weeknd to headline Spotify’s first-ever Billions Club Live concert

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The Weeknd is the king of Spotify: With 24, he has the most songs that have reached 1 billion streams on the platform. That’s why he’s being celebrated at a special, first-of-its-kind event that fans can attend for free.

Spotify Presents Billions Club Live With The Weeknd is a concert that will take place Dec. 17 in LA. The singer’s top listeners in LA will be given a chance to attend the show, which will feature him performing a set list comprised of songs from that list of 24.

The list includes “Blinding Lights,” of course, but also “The Hills,” “Can’t Feel My Face,” “I Feel It Coming,” “Earned It,” “Save Your Tears,” “Starboy,” “Heartless” and “Love Me Harder.”

Meanwhile, The Weeknd’s new album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, arrives Jan. 24. He’s described it as the third part of a trilogy that started with his albums After Hours and PM Dawn.

Mariah Carey thanks fans for making ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ #1 again

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Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” made its annual return to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 on Monday. Mariah found out the news that night in the best way possible: while she was performing a concert on her current Christmas tour.

On Instagram, Mariah posted footage of the moment, which shows her accepting a congratulatory bouquet from her twins, Moroccan and Monroe. “Wow, that was a perfect moment to find that out,” said the diva in the clip.

She captioned the post, “Last night on stage in Raleigh, North Carolina, I found out that All I Want For Christmas Is You returned to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. I couldn’t have dreamed of a better time or place to celebrate the news than on stage with my amazing fans, my kids and my #Christmastime tour family. I love you and am so grateful to you all.”

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” came out 30 years ago, but it didn’t hit #1 on the Hot 100 until 2019. Since then, it’s continued to top the chart for multiple weeks. It’s currently #1 for a 15th overall week.

Ed Sheeran’s next album is done, will feature ‘big pop’: ‘It’s quite exciting’

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Ed Sheeran‘s got his next era all figured out.

After finishing his “Mathematics” series of albums in 2023 with Subtract, Ed tells Variety that he’s moving on to something new: His next album is finished and he’s already filmed two music videos. He plans to shoot two more early next year while he tours India.

Ed is also planning to promote the heck out of the new album because, as he notes, Subtract was “obviously a completely different record that didn’t really call for big pop stuff.” By contrast, with the new album, Ed says, “It feels like I’m getting back into big pop for the first time in a long time. It’s quite exciting.”

While we wait for that, we can enjoy Ed’s holiday tune “Under the Tree,” featured in the animated Netflix movie That Christmas, written by Richard Curtis, the man behind the holiday classic Love Actually.

Ed says the film is “perfect” to watch with his younger daughter, Jupiter. In fact, they’ve watched it three times, and he says he “even rented a little local cinema to do it with my mates and their kids.” He adds, “It’s nice to have something quintessentially British, but also that you can watch with young children.”

‘The Golden Bachelor’ star Gerry Turner shares cancer diagnosis

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The Golden Bachelor star Gerry Turner is opening up about being diagnosed with a blood cancer earlier this year.

Turner, 72, revealed in an exclusive interview with People published on Wednesday that he was diagnosed with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia.

Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia is a rare blood cancer that results in an excess of abnormal white blood cells in the bone marrow, according to the National Institute of Health.

The NIH estimates that the disease affects three in 1 million people per year in the United States, and the condition occurs twice as often in men than women.

Turner told the outlet that there being no cure for Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia “weighs heavily in every decision I make” and that the diagnosis “was like 10 tons of concrete were just dropped on me.”

“And I was a bit in denial for a while, I didn’t want to admit it,” he said.

All of this occurred while he was still married to Theresa Nist, whom he proposed to on The Golden Bachelor, which aired its finale in November 2023, and whom he married in a televised wedding on ABC in January.

The couple revealed to GMA in April they were divorcing.

Turner said that after his diagnosis, “the importance of finding the way with Theresa was still there, but it became less of a priority” compared to spending time with his family.

“When you are hit with that kind of news and the shock wears off after a few days or a few weeks and you regroup and you realize what’s important to you, that’s where you start to move forward,” he told the outlet. “And I hope that people understand in retrospect now that that had a huge bearing on my decisions and I think probably Theresa’s as well.”

Turner said he’s embracing the fun of life and not living with regrets these days and wishes Nist “all of the good luck in the world, that she finds everything she wants to.” He said he holds their brief relationship as “a cherished memory.”

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