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American Idol season 21 is heading into its final weeks of the competition, and the Top 8 has been determined. On Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Night, American Idol season 8 runner-up and current Queen frontman Adam Lambert mentored the contestants. Unfortunately, Nutsa and Lucy Love were sent home after they were saved by the judges, Lionel Richie, Katy Perry, and Luke Bryan, the week before. The American Idol season 21 Top 10 then performed during the Judges' Song Contest on the following night.

During the American Idol season 21 Judges' Song Contest, the judges chose a song for every contestant, who then picked one of them. After the performance was over, they had to guess who picked it. Since more contestants picked Katy's songs, she won the contest. She was able to save one contestant, Oliver Steele, to round out the Top 8. Sadly, Marybeth Byrd and Tyson Venegas went home. As the American Idol...

Gordon Lightfoot, the honey-voiced Canadian singer-songwriter who had giant U.S. hits with “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” died today at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. He was 84.

His longtime publicist Victoria Lord revealed the news to Canadian media outlets including the CBC but did not provide a cause of death. Revered in Canada, Lightfoot had been scheduled to play Los Angeles-area clubs several times during the past two years but had postponed the dates at least twice.

Born on November 17, 1938, in Orillia, Ontario, Lightfoot had been part of the Canadian folk scene for several years before he burst onto the international music charts in late 1970 with with “If You Could Read My Mind,” a gorgeous, ethereal track featuring his acoustic guitar and supple but assured vocal. The song hit No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 drawn from his Reprise LP Sit Down Young Stranger,...

The Rolling Stones remain one of the most legendary classic rock bands. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood keep going long after fellow 1960s bands such as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd called it a day. They made several No. 1 hits, but four Rolling Stones albums peaked at No. 2 in the United States.

The Rolling Stones | Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images The Rolling Stones reached the top of the charts 9 times

Before covering the Stones’ albums that peaked at No. 2, we need to acknowledge their slew of hit records. They sent nine albums to the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart in their career.

It’s more than just an impressive number. The Rolling Stones had chart-topping albums across three decades. Sixteen years separated their first Billboard No. 1 (1965’s Out of Our Heads) with their most recent (1981’s Tattoo You).

With a few more units sold,...

Halfway through A Light for Attracting Attention, the Smile’s debut album, Thom Yorke flashes a smirk: “Don’t bore us, get to the chorus,” he drawls slowly almost without melody over ambient synths and downtempo piano on “Open the Floodgates.” Then he doubles down, whinging, “We want the good bits, without your bullshit, and no heartaches.” These lines are the sorts of gormless heckles he and fellow Smile member Jonny Greenwood have likely heard for decades in their other band, Radiohead, ever since they ventured into more experimental terrain on 1997’s Ok Computer.

Maggie finally has a premiere date. Hulu has announced the release of the new psychic comedy series starring Rebecca Rittenhouse, David Del Rio, Nichole Sakura, Leonardo Nam, Angelique Cabral, Ray Ford, Chloe Bridges, Kerri Kenney, and Chris Elliott. The show arrives on July 6th.

The series was originally ordered to series by , but it was picked up by the streaming service when the network did not have room for Maggie on its schedule.

revealed more about the upcoming series in a press release.

“Dating is hard enough - it's even harder when you also happen to be a psychic. Maggie's gift allows her to see into the future of her friends, parents, clients, and random people on the street. But when she begins to see glimpses of her own destiny after meeting an...

Here is a wrap-up of all the news you need to know from Thursday, May 5, 2022.

Netflix has confirmed its original drama series First Kill will receive its premiere on June 10, 2022.

"When it's time for teenage vampire Juliette (Sarah Catherine Hook) to make her first kill so she can take her place among a powerful vampire family, she sets her sights on a new girl in town named Calliope (Imani Lewis)."

"But much to Juliette's surprise, Calliope is a vampire hunter from a family of celebrated slayers. Both find that the other won't be so easy to kill and, unfortunately, way too easy to fall for."

Felicia D. Henderson serves as showrunner, executive producer, and writer of First Kill, which is based on the short story by New York Times best-selling author Victoria “V. E.” Schwab, who is also a writer and executive producer for the series.

Emma Roberts and Karah Preiss...

Upcoming comedy series Maggie, starring Rebecca Rittenhouse, finally has a summer premiere date at Hulu.

Disney said Thursday that the first season of Maggie will premiere in its entirety on Wednesday, July 6. The date news comes months after Deadline exclusively learned in January that the comedy will move from ABC, where it was originally picked up, to Hulu.

The series follows Rittenhouse’s titular character, a psychic navigating the dating world. Maggie’s gift allows her to see into the future of her friends, parents, clients and random people on the street. But when she begins to see glimpses of her own destiny after meeting an unexpected stranger, her romantic life suddenly gets a lot more complicated. Can you let yourself fall in love when you think you know how it ends? She probably should have seen this coming.

Spring Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming...

Hulu is set for a summer fling with Maggie, its upcoming romantic comedy that will drop all episodes on Wednesday, July 6, TVLine has learned.

Maggie stars Rebecca Rittenhouse (The Mindy Project, Four Weddings and a Funeral) as the title character, a young woman who can see into the future of her friends, parents, clients and random people on the street. “But when she begins to see glimpses of her own destiny after meeting an unexpected stranger, her romantic life suddenly gets a lot more complicated,” the official logline reads. “Can you let yourself fall in love when you think you know how it ends?...

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s Professional Programs has revealed the winners of its 2021 Feature Screenplay, Television Pilot and Acting for the Camera Pitch competitions.

Alexandra Hope Mackey won the Screenwriting competition for her comedy-drama The Beheaded; Shannon Walsh took the Writing for Television Drama Pilot prize for her drama Sylvie’s Mount; Alexis Irvin was the Writing for Television Comedy Pilot winner for her dramedy The Broad in the Huddle, and Ritabhari Chakraborty won the Acting for the Camera Pitch Competition for her multicultural drama Colors of Silence.

Each received a prize of $1,000. They were chosen from among the yearlong Professional Program in Screenwriting, the yearlong Writing for Television Professional Program and the yearlong Acting for the Camera Professional Program.

Walsh was a runner-up in the 2019-20 screenwriting competition for her coming-of-age drama Death, Ghosts & Other Stuff.

The program also named honorable mention recipients for each of...

On Sunday night, Amanda Shires continued her daily I So Lounging livestream series with a three-song set that included a moving cover of Joe Diffie’s 1993 hit, “John Deere Green.” Diffie died that same day due to complications related to Covid-19.

“Heard this one a lot when I was a kid. We’d have to go pick up pecans from the pecan orchard — that’s what I did when I was a kid, sell pecans. This one would always come on [the radio], so I remember it a lot,” Shires said to introduce the song,...

Make that James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Baryshnikov Fraser.

Sunday’s Outlander featured a brief snippet of a Highland Fling, an elaborate dance Jamie performed during a night of merriment with the men marching in his militia. (Read a full recap of the episode here). Naturally, Big Red’s high-stepping interlude was one of the first things we wanted to talk about during Sam Heughan‘s recent visit to TVLine’s offices. Read on for his thoughts on pulling it off — as well as the dance’s deeper meaning — and his thoughts on the Frasers’ decision not to raise wee Bonnie as their own.

On the occasion of Jamie and Claire’s arrival in Brownsville in this week’s Outlander, I’ve been thinking about a few travel slogans that the North Carolina hamlet might want to consider. Y’know, to attract more visitors to its lovely… environs? And, um, its considerable heaps of barrels?

Brownsville: Because who doesn’t love the tension of being surrounded by a simmering mob about to boil over?

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Brownsville: Come for the sniper fire,...

Grace Rex has been a series regular on the British sitcom High and Dry, a recurring guest star on The Good Wife, and had roles in Master of None, Mindhunter and Boardwalk Empire, among many other TV shows and films. For me, her finespun and hilarious work in Ingrid Jungermann’s Women Who Kill solidified her place among the uniquely talented comedic actors to watch. We talk about one special moment in that film, the “bizarre” endeavor of auditioning, and Not getting into a co-dependent relationship with acting. Back To One can be found wherever you get your podcasts, including iTunes, […]...

Grace Rex has been a series regular on the British sitcom High and Dry, a recurring guest star on The Good Wife, and had roles in Master of None, Mindhunter and Boardwalk Empire, among many other TV shows and films. For me, her finespun and hilarious work in Ingrid Jungermann’s Women Who Kill solidified her place among the uniquely talented comedic actors to watch. We talk about one special moment in that film, the “bizarre” endeavor of auditioning, and Not getting into a co-dependent relationship with acting. Back To One can be found wherever you get your podcasts, including iTunes, […]...

A very cool, very rare video of what appears to be baby Thom Yorke performing "High and Dry" with his pre-Radiohead, Exeter University band Headless Chickens has surfaced via Reddit. Best estimates peg the previously unseen footage at around 1989, six years before Yorke would release the song with Radiohead, which made the track famous. This version features a gnarly Yorke guitar solo, a disheveled (but perhaps less grumpy) Jack White look-alike on drums, and a much faster tempo. Bask in the nostalgia.

Having first shared the screen in 2011's The Rum Diary,Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are still sharing time together. On Saturday, the two were spotted on a date, at The Art of Elysium Heaven Gala in Los Angeles. Though the pair avoided the spotlight for much of the evening - Depp arrived through the back door and Heard avoided interviews, begging off with what she said was a cold - the two were seen getting cozy at a table directly in front of the stage. Heard, 27, wore a vintage black gown, and Depp, 50, wore his favorite tattered fedora and glasses.

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp made their first official appearance as a couple when they attended The Art of Elysium's 7th annual Heaven gala in La on Saturday night. Johnny and Amber have been dating since 2012, but the two have kept their relationship mostly private, instead choosing to pose for photos separately at events and keep details of their romance to themselves. Of course, the good-looking twosome weren't the only stars at the annual pre-Golden Globes bash as Joe Manginello, Nina Dobrev, and Evan Rachel Wood joined a slew of other A-listers for the charity gala, which was sponsored by Perrier-Jouët. Singer Linda Perry was honored with the 2014 Visionary award for her work with the charity, which brings the arts and a creative outlet to hospitalized children, while Ali Larter and Hayes MacArthur were given the spirit of Elysium trophies for their work. The fundraiser featured a vegan dinner inspired...

If you've got a little bit of a sadistic side (and let's be honest, if you watch X Factor every week, then you must) the Judges' Houses round is the apex of the series.

Everyone cries. Half the contestants get their dreams shredded. Sinitta turns up in a bikini. It makes last week's musical chairs twist look like Dora the Explorer.

At this stage the acts are one step away from the Live Shows and the chance to be the next Leona, One Direction, James Arthur or Rikki Loney (ahem). At the same time they're also one step away from rejection, humiliation and having to return to performing back down at the Dog and Duck for a packet of Scampi Fries and half a shandy.

Sharon Osbourne and her Overs category were up first and they were all joined in sunny Los Angeles by a chirpy Robbie Williams.

"I need to have the winner.

The beginning of the end got underway for Breaking Bad last night, as "Blood Money" took viewers into the disturbing future of Walter White and then settled on his suddenly unsettled present.

Yes, Hank now knows the truth about Walt. And Walt knows Hank knows. And, in a scene we'll be talking about for years to come, Hank knows Walt knows that he knows... and no one has any clue what will happen from here.

But Round Table panelists Matt Richenthal, Dan Forcella, Steve Marsi and Jim Halterman will at least take a few guesses, as they convene below and debate the best scenes, best car wash names and more from one of the final episodes of one of television's best-ever shows.

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What was your favorite scene from the episode?

Matt: I'll let other panelists tackle the nail-biting final confrontation and go with Walt's genius plan of how to reorganize the air fresheners.

The third track on one of my favorite rock records of the last decade, Okkervil River’s The Stage Names, is called “A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene.” Without context, its lyric is a bit of a tough nut to crack. Will Sheff sings about events unfolding on a TV screen in the first verse, recaps a dream in the second, and seems to outline the narrator’s innermost wishes in the third. What’s not immediately apparent is that the first verse outlines scenes from two completely different TV shows – scenes that happened to be scored by Okkervil River songs. The first half of the verse refers to “It Ends With a Fall” (from Down the River of Golden Dreams) and its use on the reality series Breaking Bonaduce. (I don’t have that clip handy.) The second half, and probably the more illustrative of the two in any case,...

Sheffield Doc/Fest | Dunoon film festival | A Nos Amours | Seret – The London Israeli film and television festival

Sheffield Doc/Fest

Sheffield doesn't quite have the same ring as Cannes or Venice, but in documentary terms it's a fair comparison. This is a market and a meeting place for professionals, and guests this year include Walter Murch, Jonathan Franzen, Trevor McDonald and Captain Sensible, as well as just about every British documentarian you can think of. But this is also the place to see the latest in non-fiction film: 120 films, many of them premieres, on topics ranging from Pussy Riot to Uri Geller's CIA missions, Indonesian genocide, and Bradley Wiggins.

Various venues, Wed to 16 Jun

Dunoon film festival

Edinburgh and Glasgow festivals bring world cinema to Scotland, but this inaugural festival brings Scottish cinema to Scotland, and helps put a seaside town on the cultural map. There are some recent international releases,...

Smash, Season 2, Episode 14: “The Phenomenon”

Written by: Jordon Nardino & Joshua Safran

Directed by: Roxann Dawson

Airs Saturdays at 8pm (Et) on NBC

When we last left Smash Kyle was singing a tune while taking the time to drop off Jimmy’s belongings at the crack house before a set of headlights shown brightly in Jimmy’s face while crossing the street. This left viewers to think the worst and it just so happens the worst did happen. Kyle is dead. It’s difficult to place why the writers of Smash chose this direction or what the point of Kyle’s death is supposed to prove. Especially since the first ten minutes of “The Phenomenon” shines a bright light on the self-absorbed goings on with most of the characters: Ivy and her mom are stunned that they had to wait in line at a Starbucks longer than ten minutes, Eileen is upset her ex-husband,...

Feature James Clayton 15 Mar 2013 - 06:38

With Welcome To The Punch's striking title in mind, James offers some more interesting film names for recent hits...

Welcome To The Punch. Boom. That is a brilliant film title. It hits you and it hits you hard. It’s an inviting knuckle sandwich to your conscious awareness and its five syllables sucker punch you and say, “Yeah, now you know me. You are watching this film, sunshine.”

Imprinted indelibly on my memory right from the first mention, how could I not follow it up and discover what mysteries lie behind the bombastic moniker? It immediately impresses me with its shocking violence and promises brutal action, intense energy and all the other sadomasochistic kicks I crave in my cinema trips. Welcome To The Punch speaks directly to my psyche and is sold to my subconscious in only four words.

Getting beyond the gut-busting first impression,...

Sophie Dahl and Jamie Cullum have welcomed a baby girl. The model-and-author gave birth to Margot Cullum - her second daughter with her jazz musician husband - on Monday (04.03.13) and the proud dad revealed the couple are 'completely thrilled' with their new arrival. Jamie wrote on Twitter: 'On March 4th @sophiedahl gave birth to our second baby girl, Margot Cullum. She is healthy and gorgeous and we are completely thrilled. (sic)' The 35-year-old writer, who is the granddaughter of legendary children's author Roald Dahl, also has two-year-old daughter, Lyra, with the 'High and Dry' singer and the couple had just celebrated the tot's second birthday on March 2 before welcoming their latest bundle of joy two days later. Sophie...

Sophie Dahl and Jamie Cullum have welcomed a baby girl. The model-and-author gave birth to Margot Cullum - her second daughter with her jazz musician husband - on Monday (04.03.13) and the proud dad revealed the couple are ''completely thrilled'' with their new arrival. Jamie wrote on Twitter: ''On March 4th @sophiedahl gave birth to our second baby girl, Margot Cullum. She is healthy and gorgeous and we are completely thrilled. (sic)'' The 35-year-old writer, who is the granddaughter of legendary children's author Roald Dahl, also has two-year-old daughter, Lyra, with the 'High and Dry' singer and the couple had just celebrated the...

Jimmy's End | Alexander Mackendrick | Princefest | Barbican Cinemas 2 & 3

Jimmy's End, Nationwide

Alan Moore has been notoriously dismissive about movie adaptations of his comic-book masterpieces, often with good reason. V For Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: none of them have approached the power of their source material. So now Moore's gone and had a go himself. The prelude, Act Of Faith, and the half-hour Jimmy's End, are the first in what's promised to be a series of films, directed by his regular collaborator Mitch Jenkins and set in the same dreamy, non-linear world. They've generously put it online so you can try and work it out for yourself.

Alexander Mackendrick, Edinburgh

Born in the Us and raised in Scotland, Mackendrick flitted between both during his stilted but eventful career, and the best of his work combines the two national sensibilities. He's best known for his three first-class Ealing comedies: Whisky Galore!

Season 1, Episode 2: "News Night 2.0"

We're only at the second episode and it seems everyone already has an opinion on "The Newsroom," and the fully transparent politics that Aaron Sorkin has on display, for better or worse, realistic or not. Yes, that has made the show uneven, but regardless, it's still an engaging (if at times exhausting) hour of television. But in this week's episode, let's credit Sorkin for doing something right: clearing up the source of Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) and Mackenzie MacHale's (Emily Mortimer) divorce. In most other shows, this is the kind of thing that would've been talked around for a season, leading up to some kind of dramatic, climactic showdown. But here, it's a comedic moment and emotional release, all at once.

The setup for the reveal is almost painfully obvious -- the show opens with Will taking Mackenzie aside and making it crystal clear that...

50/50

Directed by: Jonathan Levine

Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anna Kendrick

Running Time: 1 hr 39 mins

Rating: R

Release Date: September 30, 2011

Plot: Adam (Gordon-Levitt) thinks he is happy and healthy until the 27-year-old is diagnosed with a rare cancer that has a 50 percent survival rate. His dysfunctional friends and family try to help him through his treatments.

Who’S It For? It’s a small movie that subtly focuses on a young person struggling with cancer. While it’s a drama first, there is a lot of comedy.

Expectations: I like Gordon-Levitt, I like Rogen and I love cancer. Ok, only two of those things are true.

Scorecard (0-10)

Actors:

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Adam: Adam plays it safe in life. He doesn’t smoke or drink and he respects crosswalks. It’s actually a struggle to find out how Adam is going to deal with the news that he has cancer.

Something Borrowed

Directed by: Luke Greenfield

Cast: Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, Colin Egglesfield, John Krasinski

Running Time: 1 hr 53 mins

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: May 6, 2011

Plot: After her birthday party, Rachel (Goodwin) wakes up next to her best friend’s fiancee (Egglesfield). The two must decide what to do as the wedding day for her friend (Hudson) draws near.

Who’S It For?: Don’t be a sap – Something Borrowed is so skewered that it doesn’t romanticize love, but instead cheating. This movie about two gal pals isn’t even for friends, as friendship is made out by the movie to be deceitful. If anything, Something Borrowed is for those who just enjoy hearing people talk about their feelings, and putting themselves in “I’ve got to talk to you” moments. But you can get that in real life, right?

Expectations: Competing against Thor, it seemed like summer movies...

London, June 25 – Radiohead band has named the Greatest Glastonbury Headliner Of All Time in an online survey.

The rockers – popular for songs such as ‘High And Dry,’ ‘Paranoid Android’ and ‘Karma Police’ – left behind some of the greatest names in music, including Sir Paul McCartney’s famous set in 2004, Jay-z’s controversial turn in 2008 and Blur’s triumphant reunion last year.

The band’s headline performance in 1997 coincided with the release of their third album, Ok Computer. The album has sold around 4.5 million copies till date and is repeatedly voted one of the greatest albums of all time.

The poll was.

From Batman to Quentin Tarantino, we analyze every influence on the epic clip.

By James Montgomery and Eric Ditzian

Lady Gaga in her "Telephone" video

Photo: Interscope

As soon as Lady Gaga's epic "Telephone" video premiered, her ultra-obsessive fans (not to mention even the most casual of pop-culture observers) began picking it apart, frame by frame. It was a pretty big job.

'Telephone' Cheat Sheet Photos

Because while it's a feast for the eyes, "Telephone" is also a sort of "all-you-can-eat" buffet for those who dine almost exclusively on popular culture, full of nods to cult films and comics, eclectic icons, underground bands and internationally famous pop legends, and even the occasional commercial (there are an awful lot of not-too-discreet product placements sprinkled throughout).

Sorting through it all is a head-spinning experience, which is why we've done all the dirty work for you. Here — after hours spent analyzing each...

With the exception of Katelyn Epperly's quasi-funereal cover of Coldplay last week, this year's "American Idol" semi-finalists have shown predictably tame, somewhat bland taste in song choice. And while it's been the same cavalcade of Gavin DeGraw, Sam Cooke and much-feared covers of "The Climb," a handful of contestants have shown they have a jones for some more indie-leaning music.

Because singing the song the judges tell you to doesn't always work out, we've got some suggestions for the remaining singers based on their recent Tweets.

Resident quirky girl Siobhan Magnus revealed to fans on Sunday that she is "over the moon happy!" because "Hole is playing a reunion show next month! I could cry!" Well Maggie, since you're such a fan of Courtney Love's grunge-era histrionics, here's our suggestion for a song you could play on "Idol" that would kill it: "Awful." It's a great, rocking guitar...

Jamie Cullum has said that some of the artists he has covered are fans of his versions of their tracks. The jazz singer told The Guardian that he has received some feedback for his covers of Radiohead's 'High And Dry', Rihanna's 'Don't Stop the Music' and Pussycat Dolls' 'Don't Cha'. Cullum said: 'Rihanna liked 'Please Don't Stop The Music'. Pussycat Dolls saw 'Don't Cha' on YouTube and said, 'Doesn't he look cute?'. "Radiohead's Phil (more)...