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My Big Fat Fabulous Life celeb Whitney Way Thore has a way of creating drama online that is just as spicy as the drama captured in TLC scenes, if not more. Recently, the TLC celeb provoked fans in a big way. So, what did she have to say this time around?

My Big Fat Fabulous Life: Whitney Way Thore Put Big Target On Her Back

When you are the star of your own TLC reality show, you may get all the glory, but, you also get all of the hate. In Whitney Way Thore’s case, she fully embraces both the fame and the notoriety in a big way. This often means that she is the target of fan backlash online.

This is one area that certainly keeps fans amused. In addition to whatever drama goes on in My Big Fat Fabulous Life scenes, there is a lot more drama that happens online as well.

Well, it’s been a while since the writers have given us quite so much in one episode, but Grey’s Anatomy Season 21 Episode 6 proved that they’ve still got it.

For a while, it’s felt as if the show wanted to play it safe, opting for easily resolved storylines with happy endings.

All that went down the drain with this latest installment, and as happy as I am about the drama of it all, it means we need to prepare for some heartbreak.

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Tonight marked an exciting cast change as Sophia Bush made her first appearance as Dr. Cass Beckman, a trauma surgeon who works at Seattle Presbyterian.

The episode opens with an awkward date night between Teddy and Owen, who recently decided to make more of an effort to repair their marriage.

But despite scheduling sex and getting dressed up for a nice restaurant,...

Confessions have a way of bubbling out of you when you least expect it sometimes, something 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 6 highlighted throughout an overly busy hour.

We may be a third of the way into the season, but we’re just getting started in many ways because this was the first hour that really explored the personal lives of Maddie, Chimney, Buck, and Eddie.

To say the results will be the source of A Lot of debate would be putting it very, very mildly.

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The decision over the past two seasons to start with a three-part opening emergency has meant that the action has been at the forefront, alongside some good character work for Bobby and Athena, who are the captains of this ship.

And while subsequent hours dove into Hen and Karen’s family, there wasn’t any movement on Eddie’s residual storyline from last season.

My Big Fat Fabulous Life star Whitney Way Thore seems to look very different on social media from what TLC fans see on the show. Does she use a lot of filters? She sometimes claims that she doesn’t, but at the same time, sometimes, she admits that she does. Read on to find out what fans think.

Whitney Way Thore & Weight Loss

TLC fans know that the premise of the show is about how it’s okay to be larger than average. If that’s the case, then naturally critics wonder why Hunter Thore’s sister would use a filter. Sometimes, Whitney acts out on social media. Remember when she went on a binge of sharing reels of herself eating? Why would she do that? it’s hardly inspirational stuff, after all.

Whitney Way Thore also sometimes goes on and on about hunting for a man. Then, she might post something about animals,...

There will be no chilling out or calming down on NCIS: Origins Season 1 Episode 5. Someone has made the dire mistake of getting Mike Franks worked up in a bad way.

Long-time fans of the franchise are likely well aware of Mike’s gun-happy status, or “gun-ho” as it’s sometimes referred to. Get ready for a barrel-full.

Since the start of NCIS: Origins, the main focus has been on Gibbs and his struggle with losing his family. We’ve seen how the weight has taken its toll and broken his soul.

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However, Gibbs isn’t the only NCIS character who gets a younger, shinier version of themselves. Then again, not every viewer has been so on board with the Gibbs casting.

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What’s New on Netflix in November 2024: Must-Watch Shows and Movies! ( Photo Credit – Netflix )

Here is a list of all the shows and films released on Netflix in November 2024, which will help you organize your binge-watch plans.

Netflix will add several movies and television shows to its catalog in November 2024. The platform always amazes us with its massive collection of original content and licensed programming.

The streaming giant has much to offer in the upcoming month as several original series, reality shows, movies, documentaries, and animated shows are being released on the platform. Here is a comprehensive list of all the programs that will be dropped on Netflix in November 2024.

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Look, obviously the big news this November is the U.S. presidential election.

But for the moments when you want to look away from wall-to-wall coverage (or just stop doomscrolling), Netflix has plenty to keep you occupied. There’s new original Christmas movies like “Hot Frosty” and “The Merry Gentlemen,” as well as more “Outer Banks” for fans of that show created by Josh Pate, Jonas Pate, and Shannon Burke. Plus Oscar contenders like “Emilia Perez” are now streaming on the service. But all of that is just preamble to our No. 1 pick this month, because when Mike Schur has a new television show, it’s time to pay attention.

Top Pick: “A Man on the Inside”

Created by Schur and loosely based on the 2020 documentary “The Mole Agent,” the eight-episode comedy series will star Ted Danson, who volunteers to help a private detective by going undercover at a nursing...

Exclusive: Jessica Lange’s talent as an actor has been celebrated with two Oscars, three Emmys, a Tony, and numerous other awards. But it’s her gift in a different area of the arts – photography – that will be explored in an upcoming documentary.

Cinergistik has announced production on Jessica Lange: Something About the Light, to begin filming this summer in Mexico, New York City, and along U.S. Highway 61, the north-south highway that extends into Minnesota where Lange grew up.

Benjamin Alfonsi is directing and will produce along with Ken Siman of Cinergistik. The documentary will invite viewers on “a deeply personal journey through the worlds Lange has captured with her Leica M6 camera during her more than twenty-year career in photography,” according to a release about the project. “Something About the Light will take a nuanced, highly original approach in translating Lange’s photographic oeuvre for the screen.”

Lange,...

Updated with teaser trailer for Whitney Houston in Focus below. Exclusive: The estate of Whitney Houston has resolved its concerns about the documentary Whitney Houston in Focus and is now throwing full support behind the film.

The 34-minute film directed by Benjamin Alfonsi is set to hold its world premiere next month at Doc NYC. The doc is centered on the recollections of photographer Bette Marshall who did multiple photo shoots with the young singer between 1982-86, the period Houston went from unknown to worldwide sensation. When Deadline first reported about the nascent film in December 2021, the estate told us it was upset over the project and hadn’t been consulted about it.

Seeing the finished film apparently dispelled any lingering qualms. Pat Houston, executor of the late singer’s estate, president of Whitney Houston Enterprises and Whitney’s former manager, called the documentary “an amazing story,” according to a release about the film.

Nail biting thriller The Flood is out now on Digital Platforms and DVD.

Assault on Precinct 13 meets Alligator in the action thriller The Flood, which sees Nicky Whelan (Hall Pass) trying to control a jail filled with dangerous convicts, a torrential storm, and a horde of hungry alligators.

Written and directed by Brandon Slagle (Battle for Saipan), the film stars Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers), Louis Mandylor (Rambo: Last Blood), Devanny Pinn (Piranha 3D), and Randy Wayne (Hellraiser: Judgement), and features some seriously scary reptiles who are keen to snack on some caged convicts. A rip-roaring, action packed ride, The Flood is a must-watch for fans of nerve-shredding creature features Meg, 47 Feet Down, and Black Water Abyss.

Synopsis: A daring jailbreak during a ferocious storm gets complicated when a horde of giant, hungry alligators interrupt the escape attempt.

The Flood is available on Digital Platforms including Google, Apple TV, Sky and Amazon,...

Dr. Stacy Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, in collaboration with the Adobe Foundation, have launched The Inclusion List, a first-of-its-kind data website that ranks the most inclusive theatrically-released films, distributors and producers from 2019 to 2022.

The Inclusion List is a data-driven ranking system that analyzes theatrically-released films based on their levels of representation, with Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “The Woman King” and Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell” leading the list of the top 100 films.

Dr. Smith, founder and director of USC Annenberg’s Inclusion Initiative, and Amy White, director of corporate social responsibility at Adobe and the executive director of the Adobe Foundation, spearheaded the project, with the initiative’s Samuel Wheeler, Brooke Kong, Dr. Katherine Pieper and Smith authoring the report.

In the process of compiling the list, the research team sorted through 376 theatrically-released films across a span of 20 inclusion indicators, assessing gender, race/ethnicity, LGBTQ, disability and age...

As long as pop culture has existed, so too has the concept of the “It Girl.” Throughout history, a select few women have captured the attention and desire of mainstream audiences with this iconic combination of talent, charisma, and opportunity.

The phrase “It Girl” isn’t as common in the modern lexicon, but the idea behind the term is as prevalent as ever.

What qualities create an ‘It Girl’?

It can be hard to define what an It Girl is. Like any notion of cool, it’s based more on an instinctive feeling more than any rational thought. You know it when you see it.

An It Girl can come from any sector of the entertainment industry. She can be a flourishing actress (Zendaya and Florence Pugh), model (the Hadid sisters), musician (Rihanna), or the representation of a burgeoning cultural scene.

Each of these women have their own sensibilities and talents.

Three of the five Oscar nominees for Best Sound won at the Golden Reel Awards bestowed by the Motion Picture Sound Editors (Mpse) on February 26 . The Oscar frontrunner, “Top Gun: Maverick,” picked up the prize for sound effects and foley while “Elvis” danced off with the music award and “All Quiet on the Western Front” claimed the foreign language trophy.

The other two Oscar nominees — “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “The Batman”– contended in sound effects and foley and the latter also vyed in dialogue/Adr. That latter award went to “The Banshees of Inisherin,” which was snubbed by the sound branch of the academy.

The upcoming Oscars mark the third year for the new Best Sound category, which combines Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing. There can be up to six nominees from a film: one production sound mixer, two supervising sound editors and three re-recording mixers.

Studios that utilized theaters to boost PVOD prospects saw their efforts pay off this week. The 19.99 “Plane” (Lionsgate) and “M3GAN” (Universal) lead the VOD charts, followed by Christmas titles “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” (Universal/24.99) and “Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody” (Sony/19.99). With studios recouping 14 or more from each transaction, that’s a bonanza — especially with three of those films still in the box office top 10. Synergy at last!

“Plane” is #1 on iTunes and Vudu, #2 on Google Play, with the order reversed for “M3GAN.” “Puss” is #3 on Google Play, fourth on the others. “Whitney,” new this week, is #3 on Vudu and #7 on iTunes. It has yet to chart at Google Play (which often lags), but perhaps it isn’t helped by the site listing it as a “documentary.” “Triangle of Sadness” (Neon/6.99) took the #3 spot at iTunes.

“Legion of Super-Heroes” (Warner Bros. Discovery/19.99), the news DC Comics direct-to-video animated feature,...

Heading into the 2023 Grammy Awards Sunday night, Beyoncé was our odds-on favorite to win Album of the Year for her critically acclaimed disc “Renaissance.” The evening’s host, Trevor Noah, even gushed over her awards supremacy throughout the evening, at some points making Queen B herself look a bit uncomfortable. She did take home four trophies, making her the biggest Grammy winner of all time with 33, but lost the night’s biggest prize to Harry Styles‘ “Harry’s House.”

It was a ceremony filled with surprises — Lizzo took down Adele and Styles to win Record of the Year for her smash “About Damn Time.” Perhaps nobody was more shocked on the night than Bonnie Raitt, who won Song of the Year for “Just Like That.” Had Beyoncé won Album of the Year, she would have become just the fourth Black woman to achieve this feat, and the first in 24 years.

The 65th Annual Grammy Awards are set to be telecast live, February 5, on CBS, with Beyonce leading the way with nine nominations for her critically acclaimed album, “Renaissance.” While many consider Queen B the clear frontrunner to take the evening’s top prize, Album of the Year, it is worth examining the terrible track record the Grammy Awards have had with women of color.

As main album artists, Black women make up around 10 percent of all Album of the Year nominees in the 64-year history of music’s most prestigious event. Of those nominees, only three women were able to pull off a win (less than five-percent of all winners). So while Beyonce may be leading on our Gold Derby racetrack, I can’t help but wonder if we’ll see a repeat of her 2017 loss for “Lemonade,” where she was heavily favored but still lost to Adele (“25”).

See Grammys R&b predictions,...

Lauren Mahon and Steve Bland are stepping down as hosts of BBC cancer podcast You, Me and the Big C.

The award-winning podcast launched in 2018, with Mahon presenting alongside BBC Radio 5 Live newsreader Rachael Bland and Dame Deborah James.

All three of the hosts had cancer, and Rachael Bland died six months later, while James died last year.

Rachael’s husband Steve took her place on the podcast after her death.

Speaking to the BBC, Mahon – who recovered from breast cancer five years ago – said: “I have struggled over the past year getting back in that studio without their seats being filled.”

She said: “I’m still processing it all. In what other job than the army would you go into work thinking you may lose colleagues? And so it’s very hard because there’s not many people who get it. It’s challenging.”

Mahon said she has had...

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Avatar: The Way of Water is a powerhouse.

James Cameron’s tentpole is expected to finish the long New Year’s weekend with an estimated 444.4 million domestically, well ahead of the first Avatar, which finished the year-end holidays with 352 million on its way to earning north of 750 million domestically. The 2009 film still ranks as the top-grossing movie of all time globally with 2.92 billion in ticket sales, including rereleases.

Avatar: The Way of Water will cross 1.4 billion in worldwide ticket sales on Monday after sprinting past the 1.37 billion mark on Sunday (Imax accounts for a huge 152.2 million of the gross, the fourth-best showing of all time for the large-format exhibitor). The pricey tentpole is already among the 15 biggest films of all time, not adjusted for inflation.

Overseas, the sequel grossed a sizeable 186.7 million for the three-day weekend for a foreign tally of 956.9 million. That includes 152.8 million from China,...

Tuesday Am: Final 4-day holiday numbers 20th Century Studios/Disney’s Avatar: The Way of Water came in with 95.5M in its second 4-day weekend. Global is nearing 1 billion. Nancy will have more on that soon.

That 4-day weekend is just under that of Rogue One‘s 4-day second weekend of 96.1M, the last time Christmas fell on a Sunday in 2016. Monday’s 31.5M is just under that of the Star Wars prequel too which made 32M. Total stateside cume of 293.2M is 26 ahead of the original Avatar‘s first 11 days in 2009. That movie crossed the 400M threshold on its 23rd day of release. Many wonder if Avatar 2 hits that mark as soon as New Year’s weekend.

Meanwhile, Avatar 2 has now earned 105.5M in IMAX global box office in less than two weeks — the fastest film to hit the 100M mark in IMAX since April 2019. James Cameron...

With the Christmas & Hannukah holiday’s officially over, we can finally return our focus to what matters most: box office numbers! And, to put it bluntly, unless you were the sequel to the highest grossing movie of all time, it wasn’t a great weekend for you!

As expected Avatar: The Way of Water came in first place with an estimated 3-day take of 64 million with some seeing the 4-day haul as high as 100 million. The film seems to have had solid Christmas Day numbers at just over 29 million, making it the fourth best Christmas day take ever. The sequel has also played to excellent weekday numbers, and this second weekend take is actually quite excellent! What does this all mean? Well, last week when the film came in pretty strongly under even the most modest of predictions, some people were sounding the alarms. But those numbers didn’t represent...

The December holidays is a time for many to gather with friends and/or family and eat a lot of food, but plenty also take the opportunity to head to the local multiplex to check out a new movie. But if you’re wondering just what new movies are playing in theaters right now, we’ve got you covered. Below we’ve run down the major new releases currently playing, from Oscar contenders to thrillers to blockbuster sequels.

Avatar: The Way of Water Disney

Over a decade after “Avatar” first hit theaters, James Cameron’s long-awaited sequel (the first of a planned four sequels in total) has arrived. And “Avatar: The Way of Water” is precisely the kind of movie for which movie theaters were made. This is an eye-popping, three-hour thrill ride that transports you to Pandora well beyond the sights and sounds of the first film. As the title suggests,...

In 1985 Whitney Houston took the music world by storm with her record-setting self-titled debut album. The diamond-certified release included three Billboard Hot 100 chart-toppers: “Saving All My Love For You,” “How Will I Know” and “Greatest Love of All.” Two years later, with a sophomore disc simply titled “Whitney,” she became the first woman to debut at the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart. Four more number ones – “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)”, “Didn’t We Almost Have It All,” “So Emotional” and “Where Do Broken Hearts Go” made her the first artist (and only to this day) to have seven consecutive number one singles.

See Whitney Houston songs ranked: Her 35 best hits we will always love [Photos]

The legendary diva’s musical success continued through “I’m Your Baby Tonight” in 1990, with two more number one singles including the title track and “All the Man That I Need,...

A music biopic so broad and hacky it makes “Jersey Boys” seem like “All that Jazz,” Kasi Lemmons’ well-acted but laughably trite “Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody” is an anonymous portrait of a singular artist — a by-the-numbers “Behind the Music” episode that needs 146 minutes to say almost nothing about a once-in-a-lifetime voice. Not even “Bohemian Rhapsody” was so obviously written by the guy who wrote “Bohemian Rhapsody,” as Anthony McCarten’s algorithmic script

Here’s young Whitney as a choir soloist at the New Jersey church where she discovers her love for music. There she is at Arista Records’ HQ listening to the demo track for her future hit single, “I Wanna Dance with Somebody”. Once her career takes off, the rest of her life is reduced to a diminishingly unsophisticated series of reactions to whatever happened in the previous scene, which doesn’t express Houston’s struggle...

Naomi Ackie is excellent in the title role and the film delivers all the singer’s big hits, but it swerves the difficult questions

Whitney Houston has already been the subject of two startling and effectively competing documentaries: Nick Broomfield’s Whitney: Can I Be Me? from 2017 and Kevin Macdonald’s Whitney, which was released a year later. Each in its own way was hamstrung by legal issues and family pressure, although Broomfield’s was perhaps the more judicious and insightful. Now here is a music biopic on very traditional lines from screenwriter Anthony McCarten and director Kasi Lemmons: a smoothly watchable and well performed piece of work. It is almost a 144-minute narrative montage, and very avoidant on key issues – seemingly deferring to everyone who is still alive and suing.

British actor Naomi Ackie is very strong in the role of Houston (though with Whitney’s original singing...

Naomi Ackie in Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody Image: Emily Aragones The grim downward spiral of musical megastars is, sadly, a path too well trodden. The small-town artist with staggering talent. The euphoric big break. The pressure from the tabloids. The sinister, money-grubbing manager. The tumble into substance abuse.

Olly Murs has responded to criticism of the “cruel” lyrics to his new song “I Hate You When You’re Drunk”.

Last month, the singer released his new single from his album Marry Me.

However, the lyrics were quickly dissected online, with critics suggesting that the song showed Murs attempting to humiliate a loved one for getting drunk and that the words were “misogynistic”.

While Murs’s fiancée Amelia Tank defended the former X Factor finalist, he has now responded to his critics while appearing on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday (6 December).

“I mean, it’s obviously upsetting to think that people took it that way because it was not that intention,” Murs told hosts Jon Kay and Sally Nugent. “It was a song that I really related to in the studio when it was a song that was [written] eight years ago.”

He explained: “It’s so true, because at the start of January,...

HBO Max has dropped the ball, cancelling the voguing competition series Legendary after three seasons, TVLine has confirmed.

This is HBO Max’s second unscripted cancellation in two days, following Monday’s axing of FBoy Island. It’s also the latest in a long list of HBO Max casualties triggered by the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, joining original series Made for Love, Raised by Wolves and Gordita Chronicles and the Batgirl movie (we have a full roundup of the bloodletting here.)

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Founded by Oscar-winning “Man on Wire” producer Simon Chinn and Emmy winner Jonathan Chinn, high-end documentary producer Lightbox is navigating the next phase of its evolution, and exiting one of the key initiatives that helped the transatlantic company set up shop.

Variety can reveal that the London- and Los Angeles-based outfit is buying back its shares and leaving U.K. broadcaster Channel 4’s Indie Growth Fund (Igf), which invests in British production companies by taking minority stakes to help them grow. Lightbox is now fully independent, and plans to remain so “for the short term” before considering a sale in the future.

Since accepting the Channel 4 investment in 2014, the “Whitney” producer has more than tripled in size, growing from a £4-million to £13-million turnover company, and establishing itself as a bona fide U.S.-U.K. player specializing in high-end documentaries for streaming services and premium cablers.

“It’s...

President Trump has claimed that he alone — not Barack Obama or other past presidents — has called “virtually” all families of U.S. soldiers who have died in service since Trump took office in January.

But Gold Star families have since lashed out at Trump over his false claims about past presidents, recalling how they were comforted by Obama and former President George W. Bush as they grieved. Trump was soon forced to walk back what Obama aides called an “outrageous lie,” admitting that his predecessor “probably sometimes and maybe sometimes he didn’t. I don’t know.”

But now some...

The 25th anniversary of The Bodyguard will be celebrated with new Whitney Houston recordings -- and only Et has the exclusive details.  

Legacy Recordings, in cooperation with the Estate of Whitney E. Houston, is paying tribute to The Bodyguard Original Soundtrack, which became the best-selling soundtrack of all time, with the release of Whitney Houston -- I Wish You Love: More From The Bodyguard on Nov. 17. 

Exclusive: Deborah Cox Talks Channeling Whitney Houston for 'Bodyguard' Tour, Says She Has Family's Blessing

The album will feature a collection of unreleased live and studio recordings from Houston's The Bodyguard Tour from 1993 to 1995, an alternate version of a remix of "I'm Every Woman" and other alternate versions of audio recordings from The Bodyguard film.

In addition, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is honoring the classic film starring Houston and Kevin Costner by re-releasing special features for select digital retailers on Oct. 31. 

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One year ago, veteran documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield realized that something was wrong. He was about three months into postproduction on Whitney: Can I Be Me, his new documentary on the life and death of Whitney Houston – and sitting in his editing room, he found himself "in complete despair." In its rough state, the movie was primarily a compendium of experts and talking heads opining about the singer's influence and legacy – a "journalistic report" as Broomfield calls it. But, he notes, "I wasn't feeling my heart moved by the story.

Nick Broomfield’s Whitney Houston documentary is an engrossing and compassionate portrait of a supremely talented singer racked by self doubt

Nick Broomfield’s documentary portrait of Whitney Houston shows once again that her climactic “I” in I Will Always Love You is one of the most amazing moments in pop music: a sustained blazing siren of euphoric self-affirmation. That song became the keynote of her smash-hit movie The Bodyguard in 1992 with Kevin Costner, and sealed her global megastar triumph. (Much stronger, for me, than Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On from Titanic.)

Whitney’s hurricane-force “I” all but blitzes the song’s meaning, which I only fully appreciated on listening to Dolly Parton’s considerably more muted and melancholy self-penned original from 1973. The singer is of course renouncing her claim on the loved one. But the way Houston belts it out, she is owning everything and anything.

Miramax hires Oscar-winning writer of 12 Years A Slave.

John Ridley has signed on to write and direct Needle In A Haystack for Miramax as his next feature.

The project is based on a short story by Robert Silverberg about a devoted husband who will stop at nothing to save his marriage when it is destroyed by a time-travelling rival.

Vince Gerardis and Matt Kennedy will serve as executive producers. Zanne Devine, head of film and TV, and David Thwaites, senior vice-president of film, will oversee the project for Miramax.

Ridley engaged in a heated exchange last week with audience members at the London premiere of Guerrilla over a perceived lack of black women in his new show about London activists in the 1970s.

Besides Guerrilla, Ridley’s current projects include the La Riots documentary Let It Fall for ABC News, and Season 3 of ABC’s American Crime.

Miramax’s upcoming projects include I, Tonya, the Johnny Depp...

Colony fans can watch the finale with the assurance the fight will continue!

USA Network renewed the sci-fi series ahead of the Colony Season 2 finale this coming Thursday.

The series not only features aliens and action but addresses the moral dilemmas that arise during times of political dissonance.

The series stars Josh Holloway and Sarah Wayne Callies and has been among the top cable dramas on Thursdays.

The third season will again consist of 13 episodes.

"Colony continues to fire on all cylinders creatively, with Carlton, Ryan and our incredible cast and crew striking a deep chord around the themes of humanity, survival and family," said Chris McCumber, president of entertainment networks at NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment.

"Along with our partners Legendary Television and Universal Cable Productions, we can’t wait to see what’s in store for our heroes next season."

Colony could be compared to some of the greatest shows airing on television.

Taryn Manning Orange is the New Black, Hustle amp Flow, Crossroads, Suzzanne Douglas How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Lifetime's Whitney, Emma Myles Orange is the New Black, Child of Grace and Diane Guerrero Jane the Virgin, Orange is the New Black star in musical theatre mockumentary Happy Yummy Chicken, written by Brandon Monokian and directed by Anna Loyd Bradshaw.

Whitney Port is pregnant! The Hills alum shared the news via Instagram on Thursday along with a photo of herself baring her growing belly while clad in a pair of lacy underwear. "Oh hey! Just standing by the window in my underwear, with a Baby in my belly!" Whitney wrote, adding, "Dm me if you know what I'm supposed to do with this thing for how ever many years I'm supposed to be in charge." The 31-year-old covered her bump the previous night when she stepped out for Tommy Hilfiger's Spring '17 fashion show in La. It's the first child for Whitney and her husband, Tim Rosenman, who tied the knot in a stunning desert ceremony in November 2015. Whitney joins her fellow former MTV star Lauren Conrad, who is also expecting her first child with husband William Tell. Related:Whitney Port's Insanely Pretty Wedding Pictures Will Inspire Your...

Deborah Cox is dishing to Et about stepping into Whitney Houston's shoes for the iconic role of Rachel Marron for the national tour of The Bodyguard.

"For me, it's about bringing this to a whole new generation," Cox, 42, says. "There are so many people that don't know of the movie and the music and her songs and that kind of thing, so this is an opportunity to do that."

Read: Meet Deborah Cox, the R&B Singer Taking On Whitney Houston

Based on the 1992 blockbuster starring Houston and Kevin Costner, the stage musical follows closely to the original screenplay as singer-actress Rachel Marron hires former Secret Service agent Frank Farmer to protect her from an unknown stalker. Their relationship strays from the professional realm when they fall in love.

The production first premiered in London in 2012, but the upcoming national tour will be the first time the musical is performed in the U.S.

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Once a blockbuster staple, the power ballad was the ultimate movie accompaniment. We look back at some of the classics...

For a glorious period from the mid-80s throughout the 90s, the biggest summer blockbusters were only worth their salt if they had an equally gargantuan song at the head their soundtrack. Often the success of one was inexorably linked to the other, with the likes of Four Weddings And A Funeral's feats matched and even exceeded by Wet Wet Wet's accompanying Love Is All Around.

The greatest and most successful songs belong to the power ballad genre, and are as emotionally charged and forceful as the gods of epic balladry such as Journey, Whitesnake, Bon Jovi and Meat Loaf. As the 90s became the 00s and the charts became increasingly irrelevant, the movie ballad became almost defunct, with even the song-dominant film soundtrack being...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

– Kino Lorber has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Keith Maitland’s animated documentary, “Tower.” The film explores the tragic story of America’s first mass school shooting, where a lone gunman climbed a clock tower at the University of Texas in 1966, shooting 49 people and killing 17. The film had its world premiere at SXSW 2016, where it won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for best documentary feature.

The film has also picked up awards at numerous other festivals, including Dallas International, Montclair, RiverRun, and DeadCenter Film Festival. Kino Lorber will release “Tower” theatrically on October 12 at New York’s Film Forum, to be followed by a national rollout, marking the 50th anniversary of the shooting.

Asolo Rep, in collaboration with Tony Award winner Kenneth Waissman Grease, Torch Song Trilogy presents the world premiere of the new, Broadway-bound musical Josephine. Opening tonight, Friday, May 6 at 8pm, the production runs at the Mertz Theatre, located in the Fsu Center for the Performing Arts, through May 29. Grammy nominated, multi-platinum selling recording artist Deborah Cox Broadway's Aida, Jekyll amp Hyde vocals for the Whitney Houston Lifetime movie Whitney stars as the legendary African-American performer Josephine Baker. Check out a first look at the cast on stage below...

The Main Art Documents of the Year

Environment from the Zombie panel. It had been an eventful year for craft writing, with lots of shifts inside the scenery, as new journals popped (including this 1), or sprang up. or reinvented themselves. But beneath all the institutional shuffles, what were the tips that got people excited? I interviewed peers to attempt to answer that problem, but the remaining choice below is obviously a personal one. It displays the entire world and it is weighted towards parts that echo my own personal location and my own feeling of this yr’s struggling qualities. Regardless, listed here are a number of the pieces of publishing that I think are touchstones of 2014: Holland Cotter – Complex, New York Times. Jan 17, 2014 It;s somewhat crazy if you ask me that #039 Cotter&; s fretful, sweeping express -of-the-picture item is already per year old. But it stands here...

The Most Important Art Essays of the Entire Year

Setting from the Zombie Formalism screen. It had been an eventful year for craft writing, with a lot of changes while in the panorama, as new publications popped (including this 1), or sprang up. or reinvented themselves. But beneath all of the institutional shuffles, what were? I polled colleagues to try to answer that concern, nevertheless the final choice below is obviously a personal one. The entire world is reflected by it around me, and it is measured towards pieces that replicate my own area and my own personal feeling of the year’s troubled attributes. Regardless, listed here are some of publishing that I believe are touchstones of 2014 of the items: Holland Cotter, Lost in the Gallery – Sophisticated, & quot York Times. January 17, 2014 It’s a bit nuts tome that state that is sweeping, s fretful -of-the-world piece has already been per year old.

Filmmaker Nick Broomfield — known for controversial documentaries like Kurt and Courtney and Biggie and Tupac — is helming a new film about Whitney Houston for BBC Two.

Per the network, Whitney "goes in search of the forces that made and then destroyed the singer who has been described as having one of the greatest voices of the last 50 years." A release date has yet to be announced.

While the film is still in its early stages, it doesn't have the initial support of the singer's family. Asked about the film, a...

We will always love Beyoncé's cover of "I Will Always Love You." The pop star again performed her version of Whitney Houston's iconic ballad - following similar covers, for example, in 2012 and, for Paul Walker, in 2013 - while appearing Saturday at the Center for Early Education's 75th Anniversary Gala in Los Angeles. (Houston's version, made famous by The Bodyguard in 1992, is of course itself a cover, of Dolly Parton's 1974 original.) Then as now, Beyoncé blew through the smash hit's sweeping notes, as audience members soaked up snippets of her voice with their phones. Then this happened!!!! Beyoncé singing some Whitney!

We will always love Beyoncé's cover of "I Will Always Love You." The pop star again performed her version of Whitney Houston's iconic ballad - following similar covers, for example, in 2012 and, for Paul Walker, in 2013 - while appearing Saturday at the Center for Early Education's 75th Anniversary Gala in Los Angeles. (Houston's version, made famous by The Bodyguard in 1992, is of course itself a cover, of Dolly Parton's 1974 original.) Then as now, Beyoncé blew through the smash hit's sweeping notes, as audience members soaked up snippets of her voice with their phones. Then this happened!!!! Beyoncé singing some Whitney!

School events aren't what they used to be - just ask the students at the Center for Early Education in La. On Saturday, Beyoncé attended the school's annual gala, which was hosted by Will Farrell and Billy Crystal, at the Shrine Auditorium. While there, Beyoncé, who stunned in a gold and black zebra print dress, took the stage and performed a handful of songs, including "Crazy in Love" and Whitney Houston's legendary ballad, "I Will Always Love You." Naturally, parents and administrators alike all took to Instagram to share snippets of the epic performance. In one 15-second clip shared by Instagram user Wanda McDaniel, the singer is shown covering Whitney's famous song along with a caption that reads, "#Cee #QueenBey sings #whitneyhouston Listen to the children's voices. #sosweet #cee75 We will always love you #revetabowers." Beyoncé's daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, is currently enrolled at the Center for Early Education,...

I’m not going to kvetch about American Idol failing to reward one of its dozens of worthy grads with a Thursday-night performance slot — there are only six weeks left, after all! — and instead using it to promote the doing-just-fine-already former X Factor judge Demi Lovato.

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If Agent Carter isn't renewed for season 3, at least the season 2 finale provides a satisfying ending...

This review contains spoilers.

2.10 Hollywood Ending

Well, it’s fair to say that didn’t disappoint. It’s safe to say I didn’t get everything I wanted – Dottie to come back, for instance – but other than that it’s hard to be upset about anything in this episode. This series has really been more about the characters than the plot, and pretty much everyone’s been through the wringer by the time the episode ends. Predictably, not everyone survived, but it’s safe to say that the death wasn’t at all expected.

But first things first. If anyone’s fate bothers me here, it’s Jason Wilkes’. Whether or not we believe that he was being influenced by Zero Matter (and the show never quite convinced me he was...

We'll miss you, Chad Michael Murray.  We will not, however, miss Agent Carter, because it's coming back. It has to. We refuse to go on living our lives without knowing Peggy Carter's returning to us.  Tonight's season two finale closed things up in La for the most part, with Peggy (Hayley Atwell) and the gang opening up their own rift to get rid of the zero matter that had transferred itself over to Whitney when it exploded at the end of last week's episode.  The rift got a bit hairy for a minute, but the zero matter was safely gotten rid of and the rift closed, with the help of Stark's poor hovercar.  Everyone was preparing to head back to New...

Agent Carter is nearing the end of its second — and, I fear, final — season. After tonight's double feature, there's only one episode to go, and last year's already modest ratings have only gone down in season 2. (And may, along with the renewals of the similarly low-rated Galavant and American Crime, have played a role in last week's ouster of ABC boss Paul Lee.) This is a business, and between the ratings, the exit of the man who greenlit the show, and the development of Marvel's Most Wanted as the thing to fill in at mid-season for Agents of Shield, the writing seems on the wall for Peggy, Jarvis and friends. Maaaaaaybe Marvel convinces their other TV partners over at Netflix to pick it up(*), though Daredevil and Jessica Jones are a lot more graphic and "mature" than what Agent Carter is aiming for. (*) Weirdly, season 1 of the show isn't available...