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Production has begun on “Tangata Pai,” a Warner Bros. Discovery-backed drama that claims to be the first primetime series in which 30% of the dialog will be in the Maori language.

The eight-part series tells the stories of five people whose worlds collide when a bomb is detonated at a peaceful Māori protest against a license to mine a sacred site. The completed show will play on New Zealand’s Three and Three Now channels.

The series was created by writer, director and producer Kiel McNaughton who also serves as showrunner and director for the series.

Tangata Pai is produced by Kerry Warkia under the production banner Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions, which she founded with McNaughton. It was co-written by McNaughton, Mei-Lin Te Puea Hansen, Briar Grace Smith and Hamish Bennett.

The series is made in partnership with Ngāti Te Whiti and Te Atiawa (Indigenous people of New Plymouth and...

Doja Cat unleashed Scarlet 2 Claude on Friday, the deluxe offering of her fourth studio album that arrived back in September.

Titled after the antagonist in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the expanded version features seven new songs, including “Masc” featuring Teezo Touchdown, “Acknowledge Me,” “Headhigh,” “Okloser,” “Piss,” “Urrrge!!!!!!!!!!” with A$AP Rocky” and “Disrespectful.”

She teased the “Masc” on Instagram last month sharing a brief snippet of the track. Doja Cat also alluded to the Scarlet continuation in February, when she shared a potential track list for Scarlet 2.

The rapper...

Doja Cat: Queen of trolling (but also of being real).

On Friday, Doja Cat released her single “Masc,” featuring Teezo Touchdown just in time for her headlining Coachella performance next week. The song was among the new tracks of Scarlet 2 Claude, the deluxe edition of her fourth studio album.

The lyrics hear Doja singing to her man and threatening him to get things together before she ends things: “Don’t you make me kick you out the house again/On your ass, I did have to get masculine.”

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When Doja Cat released Scarlet in October 2023, the album functioned as an introduction to the new Doja: the one who put her fans to the ultimate loyalty test and shifted her focus towards the ones who stood by her side. It was also the Doja who discarded her past releases Planet Her and Hot Pink as cash grabs that a foolish pop audience fell for. Still, the general public latched onto Scarlet singles “Paint the Town Red” and “Agora Hills” as though not much had changed at all. And on...

Netflix is expanding its interactive content offerings, with the streamer ordering the interactive romantic comedy film “Choose Love” from Josann McGibbon.

The cast includes Laura Marano (“The Royal Treatment”), Avan Jogia (“Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City”), Scott Michael Foster (“You”), and Jordi Webber (“Head High”). McGibbon is the writer and executive producer on the film, with Stuart McDonald directing. Robyn Snyder, Deborah Evans, Mel Turner, Axel Paton serve as producers.

In the film, Cami Conway (Marano) has it all. She’s got the job she wants as a recording engineer and is headed towards engagement, marriage and kids with her wonderful boyfriend, Paul (Foster). And yet, she feels something is missing. Is it just Fomo and the fear of commitment that goes with it? Or is she actually missing out on an even better career, perhaps the long abandoned singing career she once dreamed of? And is Paul the love of her life?...