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A new collaboration between the streaming service and Lacoste will let viewers of the Netflix shows Stranger Things, Bridgerton, Lupin and Sex Education literally wear their fandom on their sleeves — and other parts of their bodies.

The designer label famous for its crocodile logo polos has created a new line celebrating the streaming hits, which launched Wednesday.

According to the ad copy, the Lacoste x Netflix collection “reimagines Lacoste’s iconic genderless polos, sweatshirts, tracksuits, footwear, and more, from the Upside Down to Las Encinas high school with the French label’s famous Croc disguising as characters from the fan-favorite Netflix shows such as Stranger Things‘ Demogorgon and Bridgerton‘s Queen Charlotte.”

Pieces retail from $30 to $210 in select Lacoste stores and Lacoste.com.

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A new trailer for the upcoming Disney+ original series The Muppets Mayhem has arrived, and carrying on the fine Muppets Show tradition, it doesn’t skimp on celebrity cameos.

The new comedy series follows the beloved Muppets band, The Electric Mayhem — including its famous members Dr. Teeth, Animal, Sgt. Floyd Pepper, Janice, Zoot and Lips — and their comeback to record their first-ever studio album.

The official trailer opens with a slew of famous guest stars reflecting on their own experiences growing up with the famous band for The Muppet Show.

“The Mayhem? They taught Mötley Crüe how to shred and party,” drummer Tommy Lee jokes at the start of the trailer.

“I was in college the first time I saw the Mayhem play,” Chris Stapleton adds.

“I grew up idolizing Dr. Teeth,” Lil Nas X says. “I bought gold grills just to be like him.”

In the new series, music executive Nora (Lilly Singh) works with the group to help them navigate the new music industry landscape in hopes of recording an epic first studio album.

The band’s tight-knit bond remains at the forefront. “We’re more than just a band,” Dr. Teeth says in the trailer. “We’re a family!”

Other guest stars slated to appear in the upcoming series include Morgan Freeman, Ben Schwartz, Ryan Seacrest, Kevin Smith, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Danny Trejo, Billy Corgan, Susanna Hoffs, Paula Abdul, Steve Aoki, Sofia Carson, Charlamagne Tha God, deadmau5, Kesha, and Zedd.

All episodes of The Muppets Mayhem will be available to stream on Disney+ starting May 10.

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When Single Drunk Female returns for season 2, it’ll bring about a long-awaited screen reunion.

Ally Sheedy’s Carol goes through a season of growth, but she also clashes with her late husband’s sister during a pivotal flashback episode. Who better to play Sheedy’s sister-in-law than Molly Ringwald? Sheedy let ABC Audio know what it was like to act alongside her The Breakfast Club co-star all these years later.

“I love Molly. We have an unspoken language, unspoken communication. There’s things I just don’t have to put into words with Molly. We work together in a kind of seamless way,” Sheedy says. “I feel really safe with Molly. I trust her and she trusts me, so we can go at each other a little bit, if you know what I mean. There’s just all the history. It was so much fun to be with her.”

Sheedy says while it was great to act beside Ringwald again, it was just as “lovely” to hang out with her on set.

“She brought her little dog, and we were talking about her fabulous daughter Mathilda, who is just starting to become an actor,” Sheedy says. “All the things that you could think it would be, it was.”

As for what fans can expect this season, Sheedy teases that Carol will be working on herself.

“As far as Carol is concerned, she’s never wrong and she has been wronged by everybody,” Sheedy says. “She has to start questioning herself, admitting things that she wouldn’t admit and finding it within herself to apologize and try to heal this relationship with Samantha.”

Season 2 of Single Drunk Female premieres Wednesday, April 12, on Freeform, and the entire 10-episode season streams Thursday, April 13, on Hulu.

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Jeremy Renner‘s road to recovery is partially covered with a red carpet.

The twice-Oscar nominated actor and Marvel movie and TV star posed for the cameras Tuesday night at the Los Angeles premiere of his new Disney+ show Rennervations — his first such appearance since his near-fatal snowplow accident in January.

Showing the same sense of humor he did on Monday’s night’s appearance of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Renner was all smiles for photographers, as his family beamed. He walked with a cane to compliment his smart blue suit and tie, and even took time to sign autographs for fans.

The Hawkeye star leaned on a knee scooter in a queue for press interviews, but was seen without it in other photos.

Kimmel also spoke at a Q&A panel about the show that took place at the premiere event, held at the Fox Theater in Westwood Village.

Rennervations sees Jeremy and some of his celebrity pals like Anthony Mackie renovating government vehicles to serve various communities.

The premiere event also featured a “block party” reception that showcased two such “Rennervations”: a mobile recreation center Jeremy and the team built for Big Brothers Big Sisters Northern Nevada and the mobile music bus built for The Base Chicago seen in the series.

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Following NBC’s renewal of all six of Dick Wolf‘s series on Monday, Universal Television has extended Wolf’s overall deal with the studio for two more years, according to Deadline. With the renewal of Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Chicago Med, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Organized Crime on Monday, and the existing two-season CBS renewals for FBI, FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International, all nine of Wolf’s current broadcast scripted series are locked in for next season. Wolf also has an upcoming half-hour police drama for Amazon Freevee, tentatively titled On Call, bringing his total on-air scripted series to an even 10…

Speaking of L&O, Kelli Giddish is set to reprise her role as Amanda Rollins in both Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Organized Crime, according to TVLine. She’ll appear in the season 24 finale of SVU and the penultimate episode of OC‘s Season 3. Giddish’s character made her final appearance in December after marrying Peter Scanavino‘s ADA Sonny Carisi Jr. and accepting a teaching position at Fordham University. Upon her return, Rollins will reportedly surprise her former colleagues with the news that she’s pregnant…

Modern Family alum Julie Bowen has been tapped to star in the upcoming Peacock series Hysterical, according to Variety. The coming-of-age thriller follows Satanic Panic — a satanic heavy metal band of outcasts in the ’80s who capitalize on the town’s sudden interest in the occult, until “a bizarre series of murders, kidnappings, and reported ‘supernatural activity’ triggers a leather-studded witch hunt that leads directly back to them,” per the streamer. Bowen will play Linda Campbell, the mother of one of the teenage outcasts…

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Amanda Bynes was released from a Southern California mental health facility on Monday and will start outpatient treatment sources tell TMZ.

The actress, 37, was released after both Bynes and the medical staff determined she was ready to get back to her day-to-day life, say the insiders.

The sources add that Bynes will live in her own home and maintain much of the independence she enjoyed following her nine-year conservatorship.

TMZ previously reported that the former Amanda Show star was spotted wandering naked in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 19.

Bynes reportedly waved down a car, telling the driver she was coming down from a psychotic episode, and then called 911 on herself, according to the outlet. After arriving at a police station unharmed, she was placed under a routine 72-hour psychiatric hold.

Bynes’ struggle with mental health was at the center of the nine-year conservatorship that was placed on her affairs. It was terminated last year.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger takes it to the streets, literally, in a new Instagram video. The action movie icon and former governor of California apparently had it with a local pothole and took it upon himself to fix it.

In the video, he and some friends can be seen pouring and shoveling hot asphalt into the giant gap in the street.

A grateful passerby stopped her car and exclaimed, “Arnold! Oh, man!” before thanking him.

“You have to do it yourself,” Schwarzenegger responded. “This is crazy: Three weeks I’ve been waiting for this hole to be closed.”

The star captioned the video, “Today, after the whole neighborhood has been upset about this giant pothole that’s been screwing up cars and bicycles for weeks, I went out with my team and fixed it. I always say, let’s not complain, let’s do something about it. Here you go.”

Arnold won praise from many of his followers, including his former True Lies co-star Tia Carrere, who commented, “Haha Leave it to Arnold,” adding an applause emoji.

Incidentally, before he found big-screen stardom, Arnold worked in construction and as a bricklayer in California. Hauling concrete and stone was the perfect side hustle for him and the pro bodybuilders with whom he worked, including his late friend Franco Columbu, who later had a cameo as another killer cyborg in 1984’s The Terminator.

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Cameo, which allows people to send video messages to family and friends from their favorite stars for a fee, is responding to Paul Rudd‘s get-well gag on pal Jeremy Renner in the best possible way.

As seen on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday night, Rudd had sent a recuperating Renner a gag Cameo, telling “Jerry” he hopes he feels better after “getting in a fight with a snowblower, apparently.”

Rudd also recommended “Jerry” just “let the snow melt” next time, instead of risking his life aboard the more than 14,000-pound vehicle that crushed him in the near-fatal accident.

But Cameo is now allowing fans to follow suit and wish the Avengers star well on his road to recovery following his accident via its Cameo Collage. The free tool lets friends collaborate on a Cameo video to send to whomever they wish — and now they can reach out and touch Renner, virtually. Just head over to this site to upload pictures or a personal message to the star.

Incidentally, many fans who have already contributed have taken Rudd’s lead and are referring to the Hawkeye star as Jerry.

As Renner’s pal Chris Evans lamented as Captain America in Avengers: Age of Ultron, “That’s not going away anytime soon.”

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Air, the drama about the real-life battle Nike had to sign Michael Jordan, made more than $20 million amid tough competition at the box office over its first weekend, what with the monster hit The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

The film is being embraced by critics and audiences, with the ratings aggregator Rotten Tomatoes giving it a Critics Score of 92 and an Audience Score of 98.

Oscar winners Ben Affleck and Matt Damon co-star in the movie they co-produced, with Affleck directing. The latter explains how he was able to wear so many hats.

“For me, it was made … so much easier because this is a group of people who either I had known for a long, long time, [have] an enormous amount of respect and regard for, Matt Maher, Chris Messina, and obviously Matt Damon and Jason Bateman, all of whom … I’ve worked with multiple times and know well and adore and admire, and people who had been my sort of life’s goal to work with.”

He adds of co-star and script contributor Chris Tucker, “I think Chris can attest to the number of times I’ve harassed him like [if] he passed me by in a hotel lobby. ‘Chris! Chris! Chris! I want to do a movie with youuu!'”

Damon agrees. “Marlon [Wayans], Chris [Tucker] … they’re writers, as well as actors … they’re filmmakers. And Jason Bateman’s a director-producer, you know, so we really lean on our actors.”

He adds, “Part of our process has always been from Good Will Hunting all the way ’til today [is] … lean into what your actor’s bringing; the actor always is in the moment and always knows. And we had these conversations with Viola [Davis], like … ‘What do you feel like here?’ You know, because that’s always the way to the best scene.”

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James Marsden is all in for a 27 Dresses sequel.

During a recent interview, the Jury Duty actor shared that he’d gladly do a follow-up to the 2008 rom-com, where he starred alongside Katherine Heigl — and he’s even got a name for it.

“27 Children,” he told E! News.

The 49-year-old went on to share that he was surprised by the response that the film has gotten over the years.

“That movie weirdly has legs that I’m not sure I anticipated in having,” he shared. “Just a fanbase that people — when they talk about romantic comedies — you don’t really see too many of those made nowadays.”

However, Marsden believes that things are starting to shift.

“I think that people are starting to have an appetite for it again,” he added. “So, yeah, bring it on.”

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