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Featuring: Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, Jeff Fatt, Jackie Cannizzaro, Evie Ferris, Lachlan Gillespie, Tsehay Hawkins, Caterina Mete | Directed by Sally Aitken

Described as The Beatles for toddlers, The Wiggles are an Australian musical group who were once the country’s top entertainment earners – making more than stars like Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman. With Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles director Sally Aitken crafts a behind-the-scenes look focusing on the most widely known iteration of the group – made up of Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Jeff Fatt – while not being limited to that version.

The original line-up was a group of friends that met at university while taking an Early Childhood course, with some already members of the band ‘The Cockroaches.’ Bringing together a range of musical styles, they combined their teachings with a love of music to become a band that successfully sold albums.

In their characteristic blue, red, yellow, and purple, The Wiggles have for decades been one of the most recognizable acts in children’s entertainment, teaching kids in Australia, the United Kingdom, and around the world the power of music, joy, and friendship. Now, Prime Video will provide a backstage pass to the history of the group with the Australian Original “Hot Potato: The Story of the Wiggles,” coming to the platform on Tuesday, Oct. 24. You can watch with a 30-Day Free Trial of Amazon Prime Video.

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The Australian Original “Hot Potato: The Story of the Wiggles” takes audiences through the history of the friends-turned-global entertainment icons. Created by Anthony Field,...

Netflix Releases “Rustin” Trailer

Netflix has released the trailer of the highly anticipated “Rustin,” starring Colman Domingo.

The biopic tells the story of Bayard Rustin, the architect of 1963’s historic March on Washington, serving alongside giants such as Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and Ella Baker as they dared to dream a better world. Per the logline, “He challenged authority, never apologized for who he was, what he believed, or who he desired. And he did not back down. He made history, and in turn, he was forgotten.”

Watch the “Rustin” trailer below:

Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe (“Ma Rainey's Black Bottom”) returns to the streamer to direct the biopic written by Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black. The film features an all-star cast including Chris Rock, Glynn Turman, Aml Ameen, Gus Halper, Cch Pounder, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Johnny Ramey, Michael Potts, Jeffrey Wright, and Audra McDonald.

Globally popular children’s act, The Wiggles, will be seen like never before in the upcoming Prime Video documentary feature, Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles, launching on Tuesday, October 24, in more than 240 countries and territories. The streamer made the premiere announcement today, Wednesday, August 30, for the highly anticipated Australian Original doc, which celebrates The Wiggles and their enduring worldwide success and cultural impact spanning more than 30 years. According to the official synopsis, the doc tells the improbable story of The Wiggles, four friends who recorded a one-off album of children’s music in the early 1990s and changed the music industry forever. Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Jeff Fatt, recognizable for their blue, red, yellow, and purple outfits, became a music phenomenon, overcoming numerous rejections to become the most successful children’s act of all time. “No other children’s act has come close to emulating...

Craft beer lovers, there’s a hoppy new brew on tap you’re going to want to pour in your glass — and just in time to kick back for patio weather.

Rolling Stone has teamed up with Young Henrys, a brewery that’s located in Newtown, Australia, to brew a one-of-a-kind hazy pale ale that will finally be available to buy in stores this spring. For now, those looking to sample the tasty Unifier can only get the beer in Australia.

Young Henrys is no stranger to legendary collaborations, having...

Yellow Wiggle Greg Page, The Wiggles’ lead singer, collapsed on Friday during a special charity reunion concert in Sydney near the end of the show as the group prepared to perform their last song, Hot Potato. A video that emerged online yesterday showed him collapsing at the sold-out concert at Castle Hill Rsl in Sydney. The concert was organized to raise money for groups directly involved in efforts to put out the devastating bush fires in Australia. The concert abruptly stopped when Page collapsed, and Ems workers rushed to provide first aid. Shortly afterward, Murray Cook, the original Red Wiggle, appeared on stage to announce to […]...

The Wiggles' star Greg Page (Yellow Wiggle) was rushed to the hospital after collapsing during a performance. On Friday, the children's entertainer had a medical emergency while performing with his original bandmates Anthony Field (Blue Wiggle), Murray Cook (Red Wiggle) and Jeff Fatt (Purple Wiggle) at a bushfire relief concert in Sydney. Medics were called immediately for the 48-year-old Aussie, who had gone into cardiac arrest, and he was taken to Westmead Hospital. As of now, Page is in serious but stable condition, according to CNN affiliate Nine News. "As has been reported, our friend Greg Page suffered a cardiac arrest at the end of the bushfire relief...

The two-game Major League Baseball series in London Stadium between between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees on Saturday and Sunday marked the first time regular season baseball had been played in England’s capital.

But it is not going to be the last. The Mlb has already confirmed that it will be returning to London next year when the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs will play June 13-14, 2020.

While many people have described last weekend’s Sox-Yankees inaugural U.K. trip as historic, ESPN analyst Jessica Mendoza told TheWrap that the real history will be made when the league returns.

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“It’s not a one-off as Major League Baseball has committed to coming back at least one more year,” Mendoza said. “The NFL has returned multiple years...

Fans of the Wiggles, we have some bad news: The good-natured Aussie foursome has some major changes in store. Of the group's four original members, three have decided to "step off the stage and hand over the Purple, Red and Yellow skivvies to a new generation of Wiggles," according to their website. Jeff Fatt (Purple Wiggle), Murray Cook (Red Wiggle), and Greg Page (Yellow Wiggle) have been entertaining children around the world for 21 years. Now, Anthony Field (Blue Wiggle) will helm the performance group with three new members. "Singing, dancing and making music with you all has been great fun but it has also meant spending a long time away from our own families and friends," they said...

Ch-ch-ch-changes. Three of the original members of the Wiggles have decided that it’ll soon be time to hand over their colorful skivvies. Jeff Fatt (Purple Wiggle), Greg Page (Yellow Wiggle), and Murray Cook (Red Wiggle) will do one more tour before three replacements join Anthony Field (Blue Wiggle) next year.

“We’ve been entertaining children around the world for 21 years now and it has been a fantastic ride in our Big Red Car,” the wildly successful Australian band said in a statement on their site. The demands of touring and performing have taken their toll and the three departing...

The current incarnation of the Wiggles will waggle no more. Jeff Fatt, Murray Cook, and Greg Page — better known as the purple, red, and yellow Wiggles, respectively — are ready to hang up their wiggling, they tell the AP. There are three replacement Wiggles waiting in the wings, so the hugely popular children's band will still tour and perform, but it won't be the same. It's like Blue's Clues all over again!

Sydney -- Three members of the children's music quartet The Wiggles will be hanging up their colorful outfits and leaving the Australian band this year, with the Blue Wiggle the lone original member left dancing.

Jeff Fatt (Purple Wiggle), Murray Cook (Red Wiggle) and Greg Page (Yellow Wiggle) will leave after the group wraps up a "Celebration Tour" that begins this month and ends in Australia in December, the band said in a statement Thursday. The trio will no longer perform but will take on backstage, creative roles.

Three replacements have already been chosen to join Anthony Field (Blue Wiggle), who helped found the group in 1991. Since then, the group has earned worldwide renown with dozens of pop-influenced children's albums, concert tours and a television show featuring singing, jumping, dancing and skits with recurring characters like Wags the Dog and Henry the Octopus.

The demands of touring and performing have taken their toll,...