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Cue the air guitar: Beavis and Butt-Head’s recently announced return is happening sooner than previously thought — June 23.

Their first adventure in more than 10 years, Beavis and Butt-Head Do The Universe is billing itself as “the dumbest science fiction movie made.”

According to the streaming service, the snickering pair are “sentenced to Space Camp by a ‘creative’ judge in 1998, leading to a trip on the Space Shuttle, with predictably disastrous results.”

“After going through a black hole, they reemerge in our time, where they look for love, misuse iPhones, and are hunted by the Deep State. Spoiler: They don’t score.”

Back in 2020, ABC Audio reported that Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge had inked a deal to write, produce and, of course, voice new B&B content for Comedy Central.

Paramount+ is owned by the same parent company as the comedy network.

Beavis and Butt-Head launched on MTV in 1993 with a series of janky-looking animated shorts, including Frog Baseball, which would never pass in today’s society, making the movie’s time travel plot a rich comedy field to mine.

The show became a smash and later extended to full episodes that were interspersed with scenes of the boys making fun of music videos … because those were still a thing in 1993.

Beavis and Butt-Head spawned a hit movie, the 1996 road trip flick Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, which spawned a best-selling soundtrack to boot.

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Apparently, Pete Davidson has been hiding some hidden talents in the bedroom: amateur dermatology.

Sure, Kim hinted she’s having the “best sex” of her life in the most recent installment of Hulu’s The Kardashians, but apparently she’s also celebrating the literally skin-deep gestures, too.

“I had this big pimple on my nose and I kept on complaining about [it],” the SKIMS mogul told her sisters Kourtney and Khloé, adding that one thing she has in common with Davidson is “we’re obsessed with skin care and dermatologists and beauty products.”

“I fell asleep at 8:30, I was so tired, and I woke up with dried pimple medicine on my nose. He put it on for me in my sleep.”

As for what he’s doing in that room when Kim’s awake, they’re all good in that department, too.

“When I turned 40, everyone said it’s the best sex of your life,” the 41-year-old also said, adding with a wink, “And so far …”

The reality show queen and her 28-year-old King of Staten Island also vibe outside the bedroom. “I never knew you could just be so happy watching [a] TV series or [going] to the gym, from someone that I never thought would go to the gym or had been to the gym before,” Kim said.

A new episode of The Kardashians dropped Thursday on Hulu.

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The sci-fi show The Orville got off to a rocky launch on its original network, creator and star Seth MacFarlane tells ABC Audio.

“I mean … when the show premiered, it was marketed by Fox as almost a Spaceballs kind of thing. And of course, that was not what it was at all. It was something very different,” he explains.

The series has more in common with classic Star Trek than MacFarlane’s other hit, Family Guy. The show follows MacFarlane’s unlikely starship captain, Ed Mercer, whose titular ship is on a deep space exploratory mission.

As the series progressed, word of mouth, and a dedicated fan base, grew, and “that’s a really exciting thing,” MacFarlane says, which led to Hulu scooping it up and rebranding the pandemic-stalled third season as The Orville: New Horizons.

“I follow as many of the podcasts and fan reactions as I can to really hear what’s working … and what’s not. And obviously, we have our own ideas of what we want to do,” MacFarlane says, praising this “dialogue” with fans.

“This season is really going to be a make or break for us. I know a lot more people discovered the show over the pandemic. Whether that works to the degree that Family Guy worked way back when, when the show had … some downtime … We will see.”

Seth admits, “Either it works like gangbusters this season or it’s, you know, it wraps.

“I will say scope wise, we are delivering a little movie every week.”

The Orville: New Horizons also stars Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson Jerald and Scott Grimes, as well as the voice of the late Norm MacDonald.

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The Property Brothers family just got a little bit bigger. Drew Scott and his wife Linda Phan have welcomed their first child.

Taking to Instagram on Wednesday evening, the HGTV star shared two adorable snapshots. The first, a black-and-white photo of the couple with their newborn’s little hand, and the second a photo of the family of three in bed.

“Our lives are forever changed,” Drew captioned the carousel. “Welcome to the world Parker James.”

Also on Wednesday, Scott, 44, and Phan, 37, revealed on their podcast At Home that they welcomed their baby boy on May 4, which also happened to be the couple’s four-year anniversary.

So, how are the new parents feeling?

“Other than pooped, I feel great,” the new mom shared. “Very happy that he’s finally here. I’m still in awe and in disbelief. I feel like every step of this pregnancy has taken me time to adjust. And then as soon as I almost adjust, it’s onto the next milestone or the next thing. I feel like I’m always playing catchup with my feelings.”

Scott shared that fatherhood so far is “amazing,” adding, “It’s this immediate love and this feeling you need to do everything you can to make them feel safe and make them feel loved.”

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Baby number two is on the way for Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt.

On Wednesday, Heidi, 35, and Spencer, 38, who are already parents to 4-year-old son Gunner Stone, shared that they’re expecting.

“My heart is overflowing with joy! I’m excited to share that I am pregnant! I have been hoping and praying for this moment for so long,” The Hills alum gushed in an Instagram post alongside her Us Weekly cover photo showing off her growing baby bump.

“Once I saw the word “pregnant” I started hysterically crying, overwhelmed with joy and shock and I sprinted upstairs to show Spencer. I couldn’t believe I was pregnant again,” she continued. “Gunner asked me why I was crying and I told him I was so happy because he is going to be a big brother!”

“To say we are all thrilled is an understatement. I am so thankful I used We are so excited for the journey ahead. Miracle baby #2 is on the way,” the reality star concluded.

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Tony nominated Glee alum Matthew Morrison was reportedly fired from Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance for sending “flirty” messages to a contestant, according to People.

The actor and recording artist announced last Friday that he was leaving the show, claiming he “did not follow competition production protocols.” However, a source tells the magazine that wasn’t the case, and that he was let go “after he had an inappropriate relationship with a female contestant.”

The source clarified, “They didn’t have sex, but he reached out to her through flirty direct messages on social media. She felt uncomfortable with his line of comments and went to producers, who then got Fox involved. He was fired after they did their own investigation.”

Morrison, 43, reportedly never met up with the unnamed contestant off set, but his messages, “crossed the line,” according to the insider. The Glee veteran has been married to Renee Puente since 2014, and has one child.

The 17th season of So You Think You Can Dance just got underway in May, with a new judging panel that also included Stephen “tWitch” Boss and YouTube star JoJo Siwa, with Cat Deeley back as host.

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Thar be another season for Our Flag Means Death! The HBO Max pirate comedy from creator and showrunner David Jenkins and executive producer and star Taika Waititi has been picked up for a second season. It’s loosely based on the real life of Stede Bonnet — played by Rhys Darby — “a well-to-do gentleman farmer and child of wealth in the 18th century who suffers a mid-life crisis and becomes captain of the pirate ship The Revenge. Season one also starred Nathan Foad, Samson Kayo, Vico Ortiz, Ewen Bremner, Joel Fry, Matt Maher, Kristian Nairn, Con O’Neill, Guz Khan, David Fane, Rory Kinnear, Samba Schutte, Nat Faxon, Fred Armisen and Leslie Jones. A premiere date has yet to be announced…

The Suicide Squad‘s Daniela Melchior will have a small role in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Deadline reports. Melchior’s role has not been revealed, but as director James Gunn confirmed last year, she won’t be playing Moondragon, as previously speculated. Vol. 3 will be the last of Gunn’s series of Guardians films, which followed the half-human, half-alien Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord — played by Chris Pratt — and his gang of intergalactic criminals as they fend off various threats to their universe. The Portuguese actress, who portrayed Ratcatcher in The Suicide Squad, will next be seen in Fast X, currently filming…

Variety reports philanthropist and reality TV star Bethenny Frankel will receive the Reality Royalty Award at Sunday’s MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted. Frankel got her reality TV start as the runner-up in 2005’s The Apprentice: Martha Stewart. She went on to be part of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City for eight seasons, last appearing on season 11 in 2019. Her many other shows include the RHONYC spinoff Bethenny Ever After, her own talk show, Bethenny, and the reality competition series Big Shot with Bethenny on HBO Max. She’s also written books and launched her B Strong: Disaster Relief initiative, which provides critical supplies to those in need, particularly families across the country affected by natural disasters…

Orlando Bloom is set to join Pete Davidson, Naomi Scott, Franz Rogowski and Sean Harris in the big screen comedy Wizards! Per Deadline, the film follows “two hapless pothead beach-bar operators — played by Davidson and Rogowski — who run into trouble when they stumble across stolen loot that they really should have just left alone.” Bloom will next be seen starring in season two of Amazon’s Carnival Row, which he executive produces…

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Rosie O’Donnell marked the first day of Pride month on Wednesday by going Instagram official with her new girlfriend, Aimee.

Rosie reposted a photo of herself and Aimee from her girlfriend’s Instagram account, which is private. The pic shows a smiling Aimee with her arms wrapped around Rosie’s neck.

“Happy PRIDE!!” Aimee captioned the shot. Rosie did not add a comment of her own to the photo’s caption.

Rosie shares four children — sons Parker, 27, and Blake, 22, and daughters Chelsea, 24, and Vivienne, 19 — with her ex-wife, Kelli Carpenter, whom she divorced in 2004.

O’Donnell was married to Michelle Rounds from 2012-2015. The couple shared a 9-year-old daughter, Dakota, until Michelle’s death in 2017.

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King Richard star Aunjanue Ellis is living her true, authentic life, revealing in a new interview with Variety that she’s bisexual.

Although the news isn’t news to those close to the actress, her sexuality wasn’t something that had been in the media before and the answer for why that was is simple.

“Nobody asked,” Ellis, 53, shared.

The Oscar nominee even recalled wearing a Dolce & Gabbana suit jacket with the word “Queer” in rhinestones back in March at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards.

“I was thinking, ‘Why didn’t more people pay attention to that? And I was like, they probably thought it said ‘Queen,'” she said with a laugh.

As for why she never brought up the topic herself, Ellis explained, “How do you work that into the conversation, in the middle of me talking about this movie? I’m not that chick.”

“My job was to talk about King Richard, the Williams family, these wonderful young women I worked with, Will Smith’s incredible work in that movie,” she continued. “I wasn’t going to be like, ‘And by the way, in case you ain’t heard yet…’ Because that’s artificial.”

Ellis said she’s “very clear about being bisexual,” noting, “I have a sweatshirt that says ‘Girl Bi’ that I wear everywhere, however she added that Black women in the entertainment industry fail to recognize her as part of the LGBTQ community.

“There is an assumption made of me, a presumption made of me. Is it because I’m a Black woman from Mississippi? Is it because I’m older? I don’t know what the mechanics are that goes into them not processing, or them not just being able to believe that in the same way I am Black, I am queer. This is who I am,” she said.

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When veteran voiceover actor John DiMaggio refused to sign onto new episodes of Futurama for Hulu earlier this year, he mentioned it was a matter of money and respect.

When the alter ego of the show’s hard-drinking robot Bender agreed in March to come back, he got lots of the latter, but none of the former.

In a new interview with SlashFilm, DiMaggio said, “People are like, ‘I’m so glad you got more money!’ I didn’t get more money. But what I did get was a lot of respect and a lot of head nods from people who are like, ‘Yo bro, I see you and thank you.'”

The actor, who is also a veteran of Adventure Time, likened his standoff to “David vs. Goliath,” with the latter being Disney, ABC News’ parent company and a controlling partner of the streaming service.

“… trying to get money out of Disney is like trying to get blood from a stone — you ain’t gonna get it!” the actor jabbed.

That said, he called his showdown ultimately rewarding. He said weighing his decision to rejoin his castmates, including Katey Segal, Phil LaMarr and Billy West, was like being “in the house having a nice Thanksgiving dinner, or … standing across the street in the freezing rain watching everybody eat stuffing.”

DiMaggio’s brinksmanship at one point had Hulu reportedly searching for a soundalike for the beloved character, which apparently didn’t sit well with show creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen.

New Futurama episodes are expected to hit Hulu in 2023.

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