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South Park fans are all in agreement after Season 29 premiere episode

South Park fans are all in agreement after Season 29 premiere episode

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter South Park is back for its 29th season and fans are loving the return to the “classic” series. The season kick off comes days after creators mocked Donald Trump’s recent attempts to rename various geographical locations by announcing that their show will be renamed South America. Despite the fact that the show’s name (and location) change were a jab at Trump, the season premiere was less overtly political than most episodes from season 28. Focusing mostly on the arrival of e-bikes in South America, the episode didn’t include Trump or even many references to him. Instead, the adult cartoon appeared to return to its roots by killing off Kenny (again). Kenny has died more than 100 times throughout the show’s history in a recurring classic gag. Viewers who tuned into the premiere episode were pleasantly surprised, all agreeing that the “old” …

Dancing with the Stars premiere night 2 live updates: Recap of last night’s dances and first elimination

Dancing with the Stars premiere night 2 live updates: Recap of last night’s dances and first elimination

Published by Daniella Wilson

Dancing with the Stars S35 kicks off Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Season 35 of Dancing With the Stars is officially underway, with the second part of the two-night premiere just hours away. The season got off to a rocky start when technical difficulties forced ABC to disregard all votes cast online during night one of the premiere. Only text message votes were counted. Despite the glitch, the season’s first elimination went ahead as planned. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Conner Leavitt and new pro dancer Adele Zaikman were sent packing after receiving one of the lowest scores from the judges and not enough viewer votes. Scores from returning judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, and Bruno Tonioli were encouraging, if on the lower side. But co-hosts Julianne Hough and Alfonso Ribeiro did remind viewers that the judges tend to score dances low at …

‘Pride and Prejudice’ Premiere Date Set, Full Cast Photos Unveiled

‘Pride and Prejudice’ Premiere Date Set, Full Cast Photos Unveiled

Published by Daniella Wilson

Bonnets at the ready: The six-part Pride and Prejudice is coming to Netflix Dec. 3. Series writer Dolly Alderton (Everything I Know About Love, Ghosts) gave the Jane Austen Festival in Bath, England the first full look at every single cast member, including Olivia Colman as Mrs. Bennet, Rufus Sewell as Mr. Bennet and Louis Partridge as the roguish Mr. Wickham. Also photographed below are Emma Corrin as our beloved protagonist Lizzy Bennet, Jack Lowden as the stony Mr. Darcy and Daryl McCormack as the doe-eyed Mr. Bingley. Freya Mavor co-stars as Jane Bennet alongside Jamie Demetriou as Mr. Collins, Rhea Norwood as Lydia Bennet, Siena Kelly as Caroline Bingley, Fiona Shaw as Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Hopey Parish as Mary Bennet and Hollie Avery as Kitty Bennet. Emma Corrin as Elizabeth Bennet in Netflix’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Justin Downing/Netflix Jack Lowden as Mr. Darcy Justin Downing/Netflix In a year rife with regency drama for loyal fans — the world premiere of Focus Features’ Sense and Sensibility took place just last night, where THR caught …

DWTS Season 35 Premiere Night 1 Male Celebs: All Scores, Elimination

DWTS Season 35 Premiere Night 1 Male Celebs: All Scores, Elimination

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This story contains spoilers from the season 35 premiere of Dancing With the Stars.] Dancing With the Stars is finally back for season 35, and the festivities for the new season have kicked off with a special two-night premiere. As previously announced, the premiere episodes are split by gender, with the slate of eight male celebrities performing on Tuesday night, as the eight women celebrities will follow on Wednesday night. With a cast of 16 competing couples, the split premiere will ensure each celebrity and their professional dance partner get time to shine during the season 35 premiere. Coming off a dynamic, Emmy-nominated 34th season, the cast is full of reality stars, Olympians and (ABC) television stars a plenty. For both nights, the celebrities will dance to a No. 1 song from the year they were born, and yes, someone will be eliminated. Competing on Tuesday night is The Bachelorette alum Tyler Cameron; Paralympic gold medalist Ezra Frech; “Hanson” band member Taylor Hanson; Secret Lives of Mormon Wives‘ star Whitney Leavitt’s husband Conner Leavitt; Savannah …

Dancing With the Stars Season 35 premiere LIVE: Stars and pros gear up for first performances

Dancing With the Stars Season 35 premiere LIVE: Stars and pros gear up for first performances

Published by Daniella Wilson

New pro dancer to debut Tuesday! A handful of new pros have joined the cast this year. Adele Zaikman won her place in the lineup on the inaugural season of Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro. She is paired with Conner Leavitt, husband of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Whitney Leavitt, who finished fourth during the season 34 competition. The duo will perform Tuesday night. Conner Leavitt is partnered with new pro, Adele Zaikman (Disney) Caitlin Hornik15 September 2026 20:41 How the two-part premiere will work Couples aren’t performing both nights. Instead, each couple will take the stage during one night of the two-night premiere. The male contestants will take the stage Tuesday, while the women will do so Wednesday. Two couples will be eliminated total; one from each night of the premiere. Caitlin Hornik15 September 2026 20:19 How to watch DWTS season premiere The a two-night premiere kicks off Tuesday night at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and Disney+. The episode will stream the next day on Hulu. Caitlin Hornik15 September …

‘Jaÿ-Z in 8’ Premiere Party Report

‘Jaÿ-Z in 8’ Premiere Party Report

Published by Sam Flores

Premiering on HBO on September 18, the show’s first two episodes deliver on the promise of unprecedented access to a particularly introspective Jaÿ-Z. A barefoot Rubin stands in for the audience as Jaÿ-Z goes lyric by lyric—sometimes word by word—through songs from his catalog, including “Can’t Knock the Hustle,” “Brooklyn’s Finest,” “4:44,” “99 Problems,” “The Story of O.J.,” “Family Feud,” and “Legacy.” The pair goes deep on Jaÿ-Z’s life, digging into his childhood growing up in the Marcy Houses; his relationship with his mother, Gloria Carter; and even 4:44, his album detailing a rocky patch in his marriage to Beyoncé. After the screening, the party continued for those lucky enough to have a blue sticker on their ticket. (A blue sticker for Jaÿ-Z and Beyoncé’s eldest daughter, Blue Ivy, perhaps?) Inside the private after-party, model Winnie Harlow graciously posed for photos with NYPD officers who were working the event. By this point, the 20-piece orchestra had been replaced by a single DJ. A solo, smiling Jaÿ-Z sipped Champagne by the DJ booth and greeted scores …

’60 Minutes’ Season Premiere Suggests a Limited Bari Weiss Effect

’60 Minutes’ Season Premiere Suggests a Limited Bari Weiss Effect

Published by Daniella Wilson

There have been months of controversy, outrage and general conversation regarding alterations to CBS’ 60 Minutes franchise under new CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss. But the venerable newsmagazine returned Sunday night to start its 59th season with a premiere that will probably offer very, very limited confirmation to both the pessimistic and optimistic biases espoused by pundits on the left and right. I’m supposed to want to rend my garments over changes to 60 Minutes because I have an earnest belief that Weiss’ tenure at CBS News has rendered the nightly news broadcast and its overall coverage unwatchable; because every quote from new executive producer Nick Bilton has been glib and disheartening; and because circumstances surrounding the departure of respected on-air talent, particularly Scott Pelley, were handled with, at best, a lack of respect and little regard for professional optics. The reality is that the 99.999 percent of 60 Minutes viewers who watched the show because they were too lazy to change the channel after CBS’ late NFL game ended, who watched out of tradition …

Nick Bilton, Bari Weiss Send 60 Minutes Staff Memo Ahead of Premiere

Nick Bilton, Bari Weiss Send 60 Minutes Staff Memo Ahead of Premiere

Published by Daniella Wilson

CBS News and 60 Minutes leaders sent a memo to staff to “congratulate the team on the launch of what will be an exciting season” ahead of the season 59 premiere on Sunday evening. In the email sent Sunday morning and obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton, CBS News Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski, president and executive editor of CBS News, wanted to take a moment to thank “everyone across CBS News for the support over this summer.” This memo comes after 60 Minutes experienced a major staff overhaul and leadership shake-up in recent months, led by Weiss. Last year, Weiss was appointed by David Ellison, the current owner of CBS after his Skydance Media acquired Paramount Global, to oversee the editorial direction of CBS News. Under her leadership, the long-running show has seen an exodus of talent, both voluntary departures and forced ones, including former managing editor Guy Campanile, former executive producer Tanya Simon and correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi, Cecilia Vega and Scott Pelley. Most recently, Campanile broke his …

Inside Jeremy O. Harris’s Uber-Stylish ‘Rager’ of a Venice Film Festival Premiere

Inside Jeremy O. Harris’s Uber-Stylish ‘Rager’ of a Venice Film Festival Premiere

Published by Jenni Sidey

A few days ahead of the premiere, Harris and Tera were spending plenty of time with their film’s young cast, some of whom had never left Okinawa before. “Our star, Naoto [Shimajiri], was standing at the airport in front of a guy who had a sign with his name on it, and he had no idea that it was for him,” Harris says. “He thought we would be there to pick him up.” Despite that greenness, Harris and Tera had already seen flashes of readiness for the spotlight in their actors—particularly during a fitting for the Maison Margiela looks they’d all be wearing at the festival. “Once they put on the clothes, it was so cool to see how quickly they were able to ease into being movie stars,” Harris says. “There was no hesitation. It was like all of a sudden I saw Yuma [Taira] just putting her hands like this and standing on the carpet already in her head.” Tera says that Margiela (whose team he also first met through GQ Japan) felt …

‘P-Valley’ Ending with Season 3 on Starz, Sets Premiere Date

‘P-Valley’ Ending with Season 3 on Starz, Sets Premiere Date

Published by Daniella Wilson

Starz will make one final trip to P-Valley. The streaming and cable outlet has set a Dec. 4 premiere date for the critically acclaimed Lionsgate TV series’ third season — and also announced that the coming season will be the last one for P-Valley. When the nine-episode season premieres, it will have been more than four years since the show’s second season concluded (in August 2022). Season three was put on hold during the 2023 strikes, but filming had begun by May 2024. The final season of creator and showrunner Katori Hall‘s drama will find the dancers and staff at The Pynk dealing with the opening of a casino in their town of Chucalissa, Mississippi, and the realization that, as the season’s logline puts it, “mo’ money does indeed bring mo’ mayhem. Dreamers, schemers, ballers, and shot-callers alike come from far and wide for a dance with chance — but are they willing to put their souls on the line for a legendary bag?” Starz also released a teaser for the final season, which is …