On Friday, Netflix released the trailer to the second half of the sixth and final season of The Crown.
The final episodes see Ed McVey and Luther Ford as Princes William and Harry,respectively, mourning the death of their mother Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki).
A spitting image of the prince, McVey’s William returns to Eton University “amidst an increase in attention from young female fans touched by his plight,” the streamer teases. “The struggle to re-adjust leads to tensions with his family, as they try to support another young heir to find his way in the system and the world.”
In the clip, Camilla Parker Bowles (Olivia Williams) tells Dominic West‘s Prince Charles of his mourning sons, “The boys need you now more than ever,” to which Charles answers, “I’m afraid we don’t do fathers and sons very well in this family.”
The sixth season also sees William “tested when he develops a crush on one of the most desired students on campus: a woman by the name of Kate Middleton,”played by Meg Bellamy; the final six episodes deal with the now-royal couple’s budding romance.
Meanwhile, Imelda Staunton‘s Queen Elizabeth II, “having approved the marriage between Prince Charles and Camilla…starts to consider her reign and ultimately her legacy,” Netflix continues. “Approaching her ninth decade, the Queen is forced to dig deep and really examine what is best for the future of the monarchy.”
This comes as public sentiment shifts away from the Royals following Diana’s death to the U.K.’s charming Prime Minister Tony Blair (Bertie Carvel).
Part 2 of the sixth season of The Crown premieres on December 14.
Actress Felicity Huffman broke her silence on the college admissions scandal that gripped the nation four years ago, discussing serving 11 days in jail for paying to help get her daughter Sophia into college.
In an exclusive interview with Los Angeles ABC station KABC, Huffman said she owes an apology to the academic community and students and families that sacrifice and work hard to get into college.
“It was sort of like my daughter’s future, which meant I had to break the law,” Huffman told KABC. “I know hindsight is 20/20 but it felt like I would be a bad mother if I didn’t do it. So, I did it.”
Huffman explained why she paid a $15,000 bribe for a proctor to correct wrong answers and falsify the results on her daughter’s SAT test, which ultimately landed her in prison.
Huffman described the guilt she remembered feeling while driving her unknowing daughter to take that test back in 2017.
“I kept thinking … Just turn around. And to my undying shame, I didn’t,” Huffman said.
The following year, the FBI was at her home. Huffman said the agents woke her daughters up at gunpoint before taking her into custody.
“I literally turned to one of the FBI people in a black jacket and a gun and I went, ‘Is this a joke?'” she recalled.
The Desperate Housewives alumna was one of the 33 parents, including actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, who faced federal charges in the so-called “Varsity Blues” scandal, pleading guilty to their involvement in 2020.
As part of her mandated community service after pleading guilty, Huffman worked with New Way of Life, an organization that assists formerly incarcerated women.
Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan has another hit on his hands.
Lawmen: Bass Reeves, the anthology show from the guy behind Yellowstone and its prequels, as well as Mayor of Kingstown and Tulsa King, has become Paramount+’s most-watched season premiere.
The company trumpeted that the first two episodes of the show, starring executive producer and Emmy Award nominee David Oyelowo as the man with the badge, arrested 7.5 million viewers across the world in its first seven days.
The series debuted on November 5.
The audience was on both the platform and CBS, which ran the first two episodes on November 12, following an episode of Yellowstone.
Earlier this year, another Sheridan show, Special Ops: Lioness, starring Zoe Saldaña and Nicole Kidman, also premiered to record numbers for the streamer.
Lawmen follows Reeves’ “rise from enslavement to law enforcement as the first Black U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi.” The remaining six episodes roll out Sundays on Paramount+, leading up to the finale airing December 17.
Thanksgiving filmmaker Eli Roth is cooking up a second helping of the horror film. “John Carver will kill again! @thanksgivingmovie sequel is a GO!!!” Roth shared Thursday on Instagram “Thank you everyone who supported ORIGINAL HORROR in theaters!!! Go see it now on the big screen while it’s in cinemas, sequel set for release in 2025! Taking a year to really get the script right, working on it starting today!” The original has grossed more than $30 million worldwide to date…
Deadline reports Amy Schumer is set to produce and star in a new Netflix feature, Kinda Pregnant. The movie, co-produced by Adam Sandler‘s Happy Madison Productions, stars Schumer as a girl who’s jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy and “begins wearing a fake baby bump — then meets the man of her dreams,” according to the outlet…
Apple TV+ has dunked its basketball drama series Swagger after two seasons. “What an amazing adventure,” series creator, showrunner and director Reggie Rock Bythewoodshared on Instagram. He continued “In our two seasons, we have launched careers, disrupted genre, brought forth humanity through our characters, told stories we care deeply about, revolutionized the way to shoot basketball and had fun. That’s a blessing.” The series is loosely based on the life of basketball star Kevin Durant, follows a high school basketball star — played by Isaiah Hill — and his journey through the world of youth hoops…
Gerry Turner‘s The Golden Bachelor journey for love concluded with a proposal to Theresa Nist, 70, in the season finale of the hit show, which she accepted.
The episode also saw his heartbreaking goodbye to Leslie Fhima, 64, who was the first woman he said “I love you” to during his journey.
The finale began with Nist meeting Gerry’s family. Theresa met Gerry’s daughters first and told them about herself and the similar story she shares with Gerry about the loss of a spouse.
When Gerry’s daughters asked if she would say yes if Gerry proposed, Theresa said “yes.”
After meeting with Gerry’s family, Theresa and Gerry had a final date where they had a deeper conversation about life.
During their date, Theresa expressed her apprehension about Gerry’s connection with Leslie, but told him that she’d “still want him to be happy” even if he didn’t choose her. She also that she wouldn’t want Gerry to choose her if he wasn’t “1,000% wanting me and overwhelmingly wanting me.”
Gerry told her that “There is another woman in the mix” and that he “wouldn’t propose” unless he’s a thousand percent “committed to what we have.”
Next, it was time for Gerry to meet Leslie’s family. Fhima was the first woman Turner said “I love you” to on the show. The two had an immediate connection.
“I’m crazy about your grandfather, I love him,” Fhima told Gerry’s granddaughters. “Everything about him, he’s very heartfelt and sincere, he’s a very good person.”
But following her meeting with Gerry’s family, Fhima said she noticed a change in him as they were parting ways, explaining, “His mannerisms were a little different.”
During their final night together, Fhima confronted Gerry about how he was different with her that day, which he chalked up to stress over the decisions he’d have to make and apologizing for the “low energy” he was bringing.
At the very end of their date, Fhima told Gerry that she loved him, but his only reply was, “That’s such a special sentiment. I can feel it.”
After leaving Fhima’s hotel room in tears, he came back and came clean to her about falling “in love with Theresa,” telling her, “That is the direction I’m going to take.”
Fhima answered with “Everything you told me the other night was a lie.”
“I’m heartbroken once again,” she added.
Fhima and Turner reunited after their heartbreaking goodbye on stage where Fhima told him about how she fell in love with him “for so many reasons” and how she fell in love with his integrity.
“Your words meant so much to me and that’s why I was blindsided,” she said. “I just don’t know where I went wrong.”
Turner admitted that he “got caught up in moments” where he said, “I love you.” He also apologized for the “pain” he caused her and other women along the way. Fhima said she doesn’t know if she accepts his apology, but “understands” it. She also told him that she doesn’t regret Turner telling her “I love you” because it “opened my heart.”
The finale ended with Gerry proposing to Theresa.
Turner also gave her a golden rose as a “symbol” of his love for her.
During the “After the Final Rose” ceremony, host Jesse Palmer surprised them with a trip to Italy.
Turner said that they would use the trip as a honeymoon because they’re getting married live on television on Jan. 4, 2024.
Watch Turner and Nist’s interview on Good Morning America on Friday, December 1.
Jennifer Lopez covers Elle‘s Women in Hollywood December/January issue, and the singer and Hustlers actress delves into what it took to become a Hollywood hyphenate.
She laments that when big-screen stardom came calling, she “came in blind.”
JLo recalls “having to fight for different roles” as a Latina, “to be a lead in a romantic comedy — to not play the maid or the housekeeper.”
While she noted progress has been made for women and people of color, she contends, “There are still a lot of obstacles in the way.”
Lopez allows, “It’s not everything you would want it to be, but at least you can see a diverse cast in a movie where the leads are of different races and genders and things like that. And I think that’s encouraging, that we fought for that.”
That led to her becoming a producer, as well, she explains: “[W]e have to take ownership. We can’t sit around and wait for people to hand us roles. A lot of actresses right now, they produce their own movies and develop their own material, and I think that’s key as well.”
Lopez adds, “I want to tell the gamut of stories. Uplifting, empowering stories, and entertaining stories, and gangster movies. I want to do everything that men do. I want to do all of it.”
And the 54-year-old isn’t stopping anytime soon. “I see myself working [as long as] I want to. I don’t know what that age is. It might be 70, it might be 80, it might be 90,” she says.
As reported, her musical and theatrical sides will soon come together in This Is Me…Now, a highly autobiographical album that will be accompanied by a Prime Video film on February 16.
Taking a cue from CBS, which saw success bringing Yellowstone over from its Paramount Network, ABC announced on Thursday that the first season of the Hulu comedy Only Murders in the Building will be airing on the network in January.
ABC is owned by Hulu’s majority shareholder, Disney; airing the acclaimed series starring Selena Gomez, Steve Martin and Martin Short on ABC will give people who don’t subscribe to the streaming network an idea of what all the fuss and Emmy wins are about.
ABC will be airing the show in chunks, starting Tuesday, January 2, at 9 p.m. ET with episodes 1-3. The following Tuesday will see episodes 4-6 roll out; 7-9 will air on January 16. The season 1 finale, episode 10, will air Tuesday, January 23, at 9 p.m. ET.
Recently renewed for a fourth season on Hulu, the series has co-creator Martin, Gomez and Short playing true-crime fans who band together in season 1 to try to solve a mysterious death in their NYC apartment building.
Parton performed during halftime at the Dallas Cowboys versus Washington Commanders game on November 23, donning a bedazzled Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders outfit for the occasion.
While some appreciated the 77-year-old country superstar’s festive attire, others didn’t — and Brinkley had a few words for those folks.
“Whoever had the nerve to suggest that the one and only Dolly Parton should dress her age, should sit down!” the supermodel, 69, wrote in an Instagram post Wednesday. “You should know you can’t define an icon like Dolly Parton by a number!”
“Also immeasurable are her too numerous to count talents, her boundless good energy and effervescent humor, and her golden philanthropic heart full of love!” she continued. “The fact that she can also rock a Dallas cheerleader outfit too, is inspiring and fun!”
Brinkley also gave a shout-out to Parton for her Rockstar album reaching #3 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart — the highest-charting album of her career — writing, “Brava! You go girl!”
She ended her post by calling the “Jolene” singer’s cheerleader outfit “killer” and suggesting a new first for her: “Maybe @si_swimsuit [the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue] is next?
On his Instagram Thursday, Tim Burton revealed that his long-awaited sequel to the 1988 hit Beetlejuice has finished shooting. “Thank you to everyone involved,” the director added to a caption of a picture of himself posed casually in a chair.
As reported, the movie — starring Michael Keaton reprising as the titular “ghost with the most,” his original Beetlejuice co-stars Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara, and franchise newcomers Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe, got right back to filming after the SAG-AFTRA strike was resolved.
And it didn’t take long to wrap: Burton recently toldThe Independent the movie was already “99% done,” adding, “Literally, it was a day and a half” remaining on the shooting schedule when the strike was declared in July.
The filmmaker had told the U.K. publication he really enjoyed making the sequel. “I tried to strip everything and go back to the basics of working with good people and actors and puppets. It was kind of like going back to why I liked making movies.”
Incidentally, one of the first replies to Burton’s wrap post was from his Wednesday co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones, who fangirled, “Can’t wait!!!!!”
Beetlejuice 2 is slated for a September 6, 2024, release.
Karen Gillan will lean into her Scottish roots this Sunday on The Simpsons, the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise star revealed on Instagram.
“I can finally announce the role I was born to play,” the actress and director captioned a photo of her animated self, slow dancing with a longtime character from the long-running series.
“That’s right folks, I’m Groundskeeper Willie’s new Scottish love interest in The Simpsons. SO honoured to join this legendary show!!!! Episode airs this weekend!” she continued.
Simpsons star Dan Castellaneta has voiced Homer Simpson and other characters since 1989, including Willie aka William MacMoran MacDougal, Springfield Elementary School’s head groundskeeper and janitor.
Gillan normally hides her native accent onscreen: It has gone unheard in her role as the cyborg Nebula in the Marvel movies, and in films like Gunpowder Milkshake and the Jumanji reboot adventures opposite Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson.
Gillan’s post earned more than 180,000 likes, and an attagirl from her fellow Guardian Pom Klementieff, who played Mantis in the Marvel movies, and who was recently seen in the newest Mission: Impossible movie. “Omg f****** amazing!!!!!!” she enthused.
Gillan’s episode, “Ae Bonny Romance,” sees Willie kidnapped back to his home country, and the Simpsons family — and apparently, romance — follows.
