“Of course, the great thing about television is that it lets you see events live as they happen, like old movies from thirty years ago.” — Rock Hunter “I wanted to make a picture where I got a laugh faster than anyone else – I guess that’s where it started,” said director Frank Tashlin, explaining […]
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Don’t Rock the Boat viewers switch off as stars ‘puke’ in graphic ITV scenes
With Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff and AJ Odudu at the helm of the ITV show, two teams of celebrities went head to head take on an almighty challenge on the water. The likes of The Chase’s Shaun Wallace, former Labour deputy Tom Watson and Love Island’s Jack Fincham were tasked with rowing approximately 100 miles in […]
Young Rock: NBC Orders Sitcom About Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Formative Years’
RELATED STORIES NBC is expanding its partnership with Titans Game host Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, placing a straight-to-series order for a sitcom about the wrestler-turned-actor’s tumultuous childhood, TVLine has learned. Titled Young Rock, the project — which has snagged an 11-episode Season 1 order — will serve as an exec producer as well as a cast […]
SNL Video: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock Recall Getting Fired by NBC (in Song)
Nearly 25 years after being booted from Saturday Night Live, former cast member Adam Sandler returned to Studio 8H with a lot to get off his chest — in song, naturally. Sandler’s musical confession came during his monologue. After acknowledging his wife and kids in the audience, he said that his daughter once asked why […]
Sentient rock gods, Hamlet, and a dash of LOTR: Ann Leckie’s The Raven Tower
Warning: Mild spoilers ahead. (credit: Tor/Orbit) Author Ann Leckie may not be the first to explore the consequences of ruling sentient beings and dueling AIs within a book, though her award-winning sci-fi novel Ancillary Justice and its sequels suggested there were still new storytelling ideas in the conceit. For instance, what if that dystopian-future lens […]
A Million Little Things Recap: Between Plymouth Rock and a Hard Place
Need to catch up? Check out the previous A Million Little Things recap here. Happy Valentine’s Day! Let’s talk about divorce! Eddie and Katherine’s heretofore civil divorce mediations hit a major snag in this week’s A Million Little Things, and the fact that the episode airs on a holiday traditionally devoted to love is just the icing […]
Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw trailer is EXPLOSIVE – WATCH The Rock and Jason Statham
Eight Fast and Furious movies in and Hobbs and Shaw finally have their own spin-off movie. The official synopsis reads: “Two years after the events of The Fate of the Furious, federal agent Luke Hobbs reveals he must join forces with his old ally Deckard Shaw in order to stop a new threat emerging from the […]
Fortnite week 8 challenges COUNTDOWN: Search between mysterious hatch, rock lady, flatbed
Fortnite week 8 challenges will be going live soon on PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, PCs and Macs. And, as per usual, thanks to leakers we have a good idea of what to expect from the Fortnite week 8 season 7 challenges. It looks like the big challenge for Fortnite week 8 will […]
How Buke and Gase built a huge indie rock career—and its own guitars, software
L-R: Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez perform as Buke and Gase in November 2018. Each holds one of the band’s titular, custom-built instruments: a baritone ukulele and a guitar-bass fusion. [credit: Sam Machkovech ] NEW YORK CITY—The band brings to the stage: two stringed instruments, neither of which look exactly like a bass or a […]
Papa Roach, Steve Hackett, Thunder REVIEWS: This week's new rock album releases
Steve HackettAt The Edge Of Light(Inside Out)***** 5 stars Steve Hackett has had many Eureka! moments during his stellar Genesis and solo career and his latest At The Edge Of Light continue his golden roll of inspired releases. The intense recipe of world (and otherworldly) musical sounds on this faultless recording, explode in all directions […]