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One last ride: ‘Yellowstone’ to end with fifth season; launching sequel series

May 5, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Paramount Network’s smash hit Yellowstone will be riding off into the sunset after its fifth season concludes, ABC Audio has confirmed.

The hit drama, which stars Oscar winner Kevin Costner as ranch empire owner John Dutton, will however launch a new, as-yet-untitled sequel series following his clan, also from creator Taylor Sheridan.

Considering Sheridan’s success, not just with the mother ship series, but its prequels 1883 and 1923 — as well as the hits Tulsa King and Mayor of Kingstown — the “epic” sequel has already been given the greenlight as a full series by the network.

Yellowstone returns in November; the cast for the sequel show will be announced shortly, and the show will premiere in December, when Yellowstone‘s fifth season wraps on Paramount Network and later on Paramount+.

In a statement, Chris McCarthy, president & CEO of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, enthused, “Yellowstone has been the cornerstone on which we have launched an entire universe of global hits- from 1883 to Tulsa King, and I am confident our Yellowstone sequel will be another big hit, thanks to the brilliant creative mind of Taylor Sheridan and our incredible casts who bring these shows to life.”

‘DWTS’ pro Lindsay Arnold and husband welcome baby girl

May 5, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Former Dancing With the Stars pro Lindsay Arnold revealed on Thursday, May 4 that she and husband Sam Cusick welcomed their second daughter.

“We are so in love,” Lindsay, captioned a pair of delivery room photos posted to her Instagram. “Mama and baby are healthy and we are soaking up every minute with our little piece of Heaven. thank you for all the love.”

Earlier in the day, Lindsay, 29, took to her Instagram Stories to share that she was having contractions.

The baby’s name was not revealed.

Arnold, 29, announced the pregnancy to E! News last October, following a false positive test two months earlier.

Lindsay and Sam, are also parents to 2-year-old Sage.

Arnold, who left DWTS last year after 10 seasons, told the outlet she hasn’t ruled out a return to the show somewhere down the road.

“I’ll never say never to Dancing with the Stars, it is part of who I am,” she said. “It’s part of what kind of made me and I love it. That door will never be closed. There’s always going to be family to me and we’ll see what happens in the future.”

Padma Lakshmi dishes out more than food on season 2 of ‘Taste the Nation’

May 5, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Padma Lakshmi is serving up another season of her Hulu series Taste the Nation, premiering Friday. It looks at food and immigration issues in various communities all around the United States, but she tells ABC Audio, “We don’t just go into an immigrant community or an indigenous community, find out about them and then rinse and repeat.”

“We’re looking at the whole big issue of immigration in this country, which is so central to the foundation of our republic and so integral to the continued evolution of America,” Lakshmi explains. “We would not be a superpower if it wasn’t for all of the generations of Americans who have come here and given us the best of their cultures and stayed and helped to build this country.”

That diversity, says Lakshmi, is also one of the reasons the food is so great in the U.S.

“American high-end chefs, you know, Michelin star chefs and the like, have been influenced by all the different brown and Black folk that work in their kitchen,” she shares. “You open the door to any five-star restaurant in New York and you look at who is in the kitchen staff, it’s all immigrants.”

So what’s on tap for season 2?

“In Puerto Rico, we’re looking at sovereignty and food sovereignty specifically, but also just whether they should be a state, whether they should continue as a territory. With the Cambodian episode in Lowell, Massachusetts, Cambodians came there as refugees with nothing but the shirts on their backs. And within a generation they have revitalized Lowell so much so that they one in four Lowellians is Cambodian,” she says. “In the Nigerian episode in Houston, we talk to Nigerian Americans, but we also tackle a very sensitive topic about Blackness in America.”

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Jeremy Renner takes his “new parts for a tiny test drive” in “miraculous” new health update

May 5, 2023 by WDNY Radio

While Jeremy Renner continues to recover from his near-fatal snowplow accident in January, he posted to Instagram showing he’s still putting in the work.

The last time the public saw Renner, when he promoted his new Disney+ series Rennervations, he needed a cane to walk around, consequence of the more than 30 bones he broke in the accident.

However, the new video shows the Marvel movie star and two-time Oscar nominee doing squats, jogging in place, and hopping from foot to foot as he hangs onto a cable machine handle anchored to a treadmill.

“I’ve decided to push through the pain of progress(this damn shattered tibia) and take the new parts for a tiny test drive,” Renner captioned the post.

“The body is miraculous…. Even though I feel like the Tin Man, needing oil for all my new joints (hips, knees, ankles, tibia etc ) . Encouraged after this warm up to press on ( don’t tell my PT),” he says, referring to his physical therapist.

Renner’s updates got love — and hundreds of thousands of likes — from fans online, and more than a few famous friends, including Ryan Reynolds, who trumpeted, “That’s the stuff!” along with a heart emoji.

Renner’s Avengers series co-star Josh Brolin celebrated with a series of “party horn” emojis, and Rachael Leigh Cook commented, “!!! Making the case for miracles here…”

The “new parts” comment, incidentally, is reminiscent of a scene in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, in which Renner’s Clint Barton/Hawkeye undergoes advanced surgery to repair a battlefield injury. “I’m gonna live forever. I’ll be made of plastic,” he says sarcastically.

In Brief: ‘Citadel’ scores for Prime Video, and more

May 5, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Ray Donovan star Liev Schreiber is in talks to star in the action-thriller The Guns of Christmas Past, according to Deadline. In the film, described as “A Christmas Carol meets John Wick,” Schrieber would play Ebb, a former mob hitman who’s coaxed out of hiding by the murder of his best friend and partner. Ebb’s plan to exact revenge is thwarted by the arrival of ghosts of past, present and future…

Citadel, the new spy series from Avengers: Endgame directors Anthony and Joe Russo, starring Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, is heading for one of Amazon Prime’s highest debuts for a series, according to the streamer. “Citadel, the #1 title on Prime! In its series debut, this show attracted one of the largest global audiences in the history of Prime Video – such an incredible performance for new and original IP!” Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke wrote on Instagram.” While she didn’t cite actual numbers, according to Citadel’s show Twitter account, the drama is Prime Video’s number one title in nearly 200 countries and territories…

Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss is re-teaming with her The Handmaid’s Tale co-star star Max Minghella, who’ll direct the psychological thriller Shell, according to Deadline. The film is “set in a near future when humanity’s cultural obsession with youth and beauty has been taken to new extremes,” per the outlet, also stars Glass Onion‘s Kate Hudson and Babylon actress Kaia Gerber…

‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ hits theaters Friday

May 5, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Writer-director James Gunn‘s final Guardians of the Galaxy movie hits theaters today.

The original Guardians came out in 2014, and managed to turn obscure Marvel Comics characters like Rocket Raccoon and Groot into household names.

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige commented on the original, “It was really our attempt of saying, ‘We don’t want to just do superhero movies. We don’t want to only just do Iron Man movies or Avengers movies.’ And it worked in a crazy way. It worked entirely because of James Gunn.”

He adds, “So it does feel like this trilogy and James writing and directing all three of them, it represents something unique within the pantheon of the MCU that I’m very proud of.”

Gunn expressed, “I’m going to miss the characters. That’s the saddest part. And I love all of them. I think there are certain ones that I have a special fondness for, especially Rocket. And yet the saddest part of all of this is…I’m not going to be writing the characters again, at least not in the near future.”

Guardians of the Galaxy turned Chris Pratt from that chubby Andy guy from Parks and Rec into a superhero. He teases that this time around, his Peter Quill/Star-Lord isn’t the plucky guy he seemed to be. “He’s lost,” the actor says, adding, “He’s a guy who’s constantly been searching for who he is.”

“He had found himself with the Guardians of the Galaxy, and then he thought he could find himself with who his father was [in Vol. 2]. And then he found it again in his relationship with [Zoe Saldaña‘s] Gamora,” but that too is “stripped away,” Pratt says.

Marvel Studios is owned by Disney, the parent company of ABC News.

Padma Lakshi dishes out more than food on season 2 of ‘Taste the Nation’

May 5, 2023 by WDNY Radio

That diversity, says Lakshmi, is also one of the reasons the food is so great in the U.S.

So what’s on tap for season 2?

Yes, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ has after-credits scenes

May 4, 2023 by WDNY Radio

As with nearly every movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2008’s Iron Man, audiences champing at the bit to see Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 might be curious as to whether the new movie has after-credits scenes — and possibly budgeting their beverage intake accordingly.

That’s due in no small part to writer-director James Gunn stuffing an MCU-best 5 such sequences at the close of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

The short answer is yes.

There are three reasons to stay in your seat after the final Guardians film ends — if you count a key bit of text on the screen concerning whether or not you may see one particular character elsewhere in the MCU in the future.

Other than that text tease, without giving away any spoilers, there is both a mid-credits scene and an after-credits scene.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 hits theaters Friday from Marvel Studios, which is owned by ABC News’ parent company, Disney.

Billie Lourd honors mom Carrie Fisher at Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony

May 4, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Star Wars legend Carrie Fisher was posthumously honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 4, which has come to be known as Star Wars Day.

Fisher’s daughter, Billie Lourd, attended the event to accept the honor on behalf of her mother, who died at the age of 60 on December 27, 2016.

“My mom used to say you weren’t actually famous until you became a PEZ dispenser. Well, people eat candy out of her neck every day,” Lourd said in her speech. “I say, you aren’t actually famous until you get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.”

“My mom is a double whammy — a PEZ dispenser and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame now,” she continued. “Mama, you’ve made it.”

Lourd said Fisher tried to show her Star Wars when she was little, but it wasn’t until she was in middle school — when she said the boys started telling her “they fantasize about my mom” — that she decided to give it a serious watch.

“Like any kid, I didn’t want my mom to be hot or cool — she was my mom,” the Scream Queens star said. “But that day, staring at the screen, I realized no one is or will ever be as hot or as cool as Princess Leia.”

Lourd recalled attending ComicCon with her mom and quickly realizing “how widespread and deep people’s love” for Fisher was.

“It was surreal. People of all ages from all over the world were dressed up like my mom, the lady who sang me to sleep at night and helped me when I was scared,” she recalled. “Watching the amount of joy it brought to people when she hugged them or threw glitter at them … was incredible to witness.”

She added, “It was the side of my mom I had never seen before, and it was magical.”

New Fox reality show bringing stars to “Mars”

May 4, 2023 by WDNY Radio

While Elon Musk‘s SpaceX gets closer to actually bringing humans to the red planet, Fox is setting its new celebrity reality show there.

Well, not really.

Stars on Mars will transplant Lance Armstrong, Natasha Leggero, Christopher “McLovin” Mintz-Plasse, Marshawn Lynch, Tallulah Willis, Ariel Winter, Adam Rippon, Ronda Rousey, Tom Schwartz, Richard Sherman, Tinashe and Porsha Williams Guobadia to a simulated version of Earth’s neighbor, where they’ll vie for the title of “the brightest star in the galaxy.”

Oh, and both real-and-simulated space traveler William Shatner is aboard, too — as a mission control commander for the show, which blasts off Monday, June 5.

Fox teases, “The stars will live, eat, sleep, strategize and bond with each other in the same space station. During their stay, they will be faced with authentic conditions that simulate life on Mars, and they must use their brains and brawn – or maybe just their stellar social skills – to outlast the competition and claim the [top] title.”

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