Pour yourself a cup of ambition and head out to your local movie theater. 9 to 5 is headed back to movie theaters for a special, weeklong run starting on Oct. 9. This will be a newly restored version of the classic satirical workplace comedy starring the late Dolly Parton. Additionally, Disney is set to donate net proceeds from each ticket purchased for the rerelease in the U.S. to the Dollywood Foundation in support of its flagship program, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Disney is the parent company of ABC News …
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Hudson Williams in ‘Yaga’ (Crave and Christopher Lawrence)
Yaga is ready to cast its spell.
A new trailer for the AMC+ half-hour drama has been unveiled, giving a fresh look at the reimagining of the Baba Yaga myth based on the play by Kat Sandler.
The trailer, set to Alanis Morissette’s cover of “Season of the Witch,” shows Noah Reid’s private investigator Rapp teaming up with Clark Backo’s local detective Carson to investigate the case of missing young heir Henry Park, played by Heated Rivalry breakout Hudson Williams.
Making things all the more mysterious is an enigmatic university professor played by Carrie-Anne Moss and Henry’s roommate Logan, also played by Williams, who bears an uncanny resemblance to his missing friend.
Yaga, a Crave Original series, debuts its first two episodes on AMC+ Friday, Oct. 23. New episodes will debut every Friday, culminating in a two-episode finale on Friday, Nov. 27.
Dolly Parton attends We Are Family Foundation honors Dolly Parton & Jean Paul Gaultier at Hammerstein Ballroom on November 05, 2019 in New York City. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)
Pour yourself a cup of ambition on Friday, because it’s Dolly Parton’s day.
Dozens of municipalities and one state have declared Sept. 25 Dolly Parton Day, a celebration timed to the date’s nod to Parton’s beloved hit song, “9 to 5.”
While Tennessee, Parton’s home state, already recognizes Jan. 19 — her birthday — as Dolly Parton Day, and is looking to add a Sept. 25 “9 to 5 Day,” California became the first state to officially establish Sept. 25 as an annual Dolly Parton Day.
Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 931 by Senators Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) and John Laird (D-Santa Cruz), which establishes Sept. 25 as Dolly Parton Day in California.
“We could all afford to live a little more like Dolly,” Newsom said in a statement. “Be kind, be humble, and have some fun…Be a diamond in a rhinestone world. With this bill, we are not just establishing a day to celebrate Dolly Parton, we are creating an annual reminder to us, every year, to live the way she did — joyfully, graciously, and with a whole lot of heart.”
Read on to learn more about Dolly Parton Day.
Where else is Dolly Parton Day being celebrated?
While state lawmakers in Tennessee will have to wait until January 2027 to review and vote on the proposal to add a Sept. 25 “9 to 5 Day,” cities and local governments across the state have separately declared Sept. 25 as Dolly Parton Day, including Nashville, Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg and the town of Pittman Center.
In early September, Manhattan Borough president Brad Hoylman-Sigal also declared Sept. 25 as Dolly Parton Appreciation Day across the borough.
Cities and counties also recognizing Dolly Parton Day include Portland, Oregon, and Hays County, Texas, and Montgomery County, Texas.
Why Dolly Parton is being celebrated?
In each of the proclamations declaring Dolly Parton Day on Sept. 25, California, cities and counties have not only recognized Parton’s work as an entertainer, but many are putting a spotlight on Parton’s advocacy for literacy.
Her Imagination Library, which launched in 1995 and has distributed over 330 million free books worldwide, is highlighted in almost every declaration.
How is Dolly Parton Day being celebrated?
Across the country, celebrations are being held to honor the late singer.
Nashville will honor Parton with pink lights and Dolly posters across the city, according to the official website for the city. The website also states that Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood will donate all proceeds on Sept. 25 from their Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk to the Nashville Public Library and the Imagination Library.
A daytime celebration filled with live music and more will also be held on Sept. 25 in San Francisco’s Union Square.
New Orleans-based marching group, Krewe of Dolly, will lead a parade through the French Quarter and end at the New Orleans Jazz Museum to celebrate Parton.
Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore’ (Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott)
Taylor Swift’s new music is here.
The singer released four new songs on Friday as an “encore” addition to her record-setting album The Life of a Showgirl.
The newly-released songs include “Patient Zero,” “Babylon,” Cleveland!” and “Pink Clouding.”
The songs are Swift’s first new music since she wed NFL star Travis Kelce in July, and her song “Cleveland!” pays tribute to Kelce, whom she calls “the love of my life.”
In announcing the new music earlier this week, Swift told fans the songs were “born out of pure gratitude for your exuberance for and celebration of the album we made,” referring to The Life of a Showgirl.
The album, Swift’s 12th, set a record as the biggest album debut in history, with more than 4 million equivalent album units sold in the U.S. alone in the first week. The Life of a Showgirl was also 2025’s top-selling album, according toBillboard.
“I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max [Martin] and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album,” Swift wrote in a social media post Wednesday. “Really we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in, but there was a studio there and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs.”
The four new songs on The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore follow the release of “I Knew It I Knew You,” which Swift released earlier this year for Toy Story 5.
Swift’s new music will arrive two days before she is honored at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards with the inaugural MTV VMA Artist Director Honors award.
The “Opalite” singer is nominated for nine awards, including video of the year and artist of the year.
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Dolly Parton attends Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs In Symphony World Premiere at Schermerhorn Symphony Center on March 20, 2025, in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
The estate of Dolly Parton has been granted a temporary restraining order against her nephew, Bryan Seaver, who previously served as the singer’s longtime head of security, and his security company.
A Tennessee judge found Wednesday that for purposes of a temporary restraining order, alleged conduct by Seaver and his company shows a “present and continuing disruption and threat” to She’s Alive, the company overseeing the business empire left by Parton, who died on Aug. 25 after a brief battle with cancer.
She’s Alive accused Seaver of “an obscene, deliberate and escalating campaign of threats” against Parton’s estate, according to a request for a temporary restraining order filed Tuesday in Davidson County Chancery Court in Nashville.
The document also alleges Seaver threatened attorneys, business partners and employees and at one point allegedly warned he could “destroy the entire brand” unless he was paid.
Seaver is also alleged to have told a member of Parton’s legal team, “I’m not an entertainment person. I’m a killer,” according to the court document.
The order issued Wednesday requires, among other things, that Seaver and his security company stay at least 1,000 feet away from any person or entity that may have a business relationship with She’s Alive.
A hearing is scheduled for Oct. 7.
Seaver, the son of one of Parton’s 11 siblings, was the family member who officially announced Parton’s death in a video message shared on her social media.
In a statement to ABC News on Wednesday, Seaver denied the allegations in the court filing, saying that his late aunt jokingly called him “her killer.”
“Dolly called me her killer. It was a joke we used around her camp,” Seaver said. “I was her ‘baby boy ninja’ and Danny Nozell took that text out of context to somehow imagine that I was threatening him. He’s always called me The Killer.”
He added, “I’ve never threatened anyone. … They are my friends and my brothers and colleagues.”
Nozell, Parton’s longtime manager who oversees She’s Alive, had no comment Thursday when reached by ABC News.
Seaver did not immediately reply to a request for comment Thursday on the order being granted.
He previously said that he was fired as Parton’s head of security last week over what he calls “contrived threats.”
“I was fired. After the estate negotiated with me and my company for services in perpetuity and agreed to that service provision from my company,” Seaver told ABC News Wednesday. “A week later they fired me for these contrived ‘threats.'”
Parton, who became known for her entrepreneurial skills in addition to her music prowess, left behind a multimillion dollar estate, including the Dollywood amusement park. She and her husband of nearly 60 years, Carl Dean, who died last year, had no children.
Macklemore performs at Rod Laver Arena on May 15, 2024, in Melbourne, Australia. (Morgan Hancock/Getty Images)
Rapper Macklemore announced Thursday he is launching a “Free Palestine” tour after being dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after making pro-Palestinian comments onstage.
“This is a moment of momentum, and there is work to be done. So we’re going on tour,” Macklemore wrote in a message on social media.
The rapper, whose birth name is Ben Haggerty, said more tour details, including artists and dates, will be announced soon.
“So, as you all know, my schedule freed up a bit,” he wrote, in part. “I’ve spent the last week reaching out to artists who have shown up and used their stages to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, regardless of the consequences. Artists who understand that our platforms mean very little if we’re only willing to use them when it’s safe.”
Macklemore previously announced on Sept. 14 he had been dropped from Sheeran’s United States tour after making pro-Palestinian comments on stage at MetLife stadium earlier this month.
In a video from the Sept. 4 show at MetLife posted to his Instagram account, Macklemore says in part, “One of the reasons why I wanted to come on this tour, was because I wanted to stand up here on stages and stadiums across America, and say two words that are very near and dear to my heart. Free Palestine.”
Macklemore then alleged that Sheeran told him Robert Kraft, owner of Gillette Stadium and the New England Patriots, rallied other venue owners and gave Sheeran an ultimatum, threatening to block the shows if Macklemore remained on the tour.
Following Macklemore’s exit from Sheeran’s tour, other supporting Aaron Rowe, Finneas, Beoga and Lukas Graham said they would be withdrawing from the tour in the wake of the controversy.
On Sept. 19, at his first concert following the controversy, Sheeran opened his show by apologizing to fans for “making mistakes.
Sheeran told fans at Lincoln Financial Field that he has had to make difficult decisions in the past week adding, “and I am making mistakes and I’m so, so sorry.”
Earlier in the week, Sheeran said on social media that the decision to drop Macklemore from the tour was his promoter’s decision.
In a statement to ABC News last week, Messina Touring Group, the tour’s U.S. promoter, said, “As the concert promoter for Ed Sheeran’s U.S. Loop Tour, we have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup, which would result in the cancellation of the tour and impact hundreds of thousands of fans. After discussions with stakeholders, Macklemore will not be performing on the remaining support dates.”
Neither Sheeran nor Kraft have commented publicly on Macklemore’s “Free Palestine” tour announcement.
Kraft previously replied to Macklemore’s comments in a statement shared with ABC News on Sept. 14.
“Based on Macklemore’s recent actions, material shared from the stage during Ed Sheeran’s shows in New Jersey, and a broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery that we believe has been deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community, we determined that his participation in the September 25th and 26th concerts at Gillette Stadium would cross that line,” Kraft stated in part.
Kraft didn’t specify the allegations of antisemitism.
“This decision is not about diminishing the suffering of innocent Palestinians or denying anyone the right to advocate on their behalf. Their pain and loss are real,” Kraft continued. “I would welcome the opportunity to sit down with Macklemore and discuss the facts, because ultimately our goal is the same – peace for all people, an end to suffering, and an end to all hate.”
In his statement also released on Sept. 14, Macklemore said that “antisemitism is real,” adding, “That is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state.”
“When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying ‘Free Palestine’ gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn’t protect Jewish people,” he continued. “It protects Israel from accountability.”
Kristen Bell as Joanne and Adam Brody as Noah in episode 1 of ‘Nobody Wants This’ season 3. (Netflix)
Everybody wants this.
Netflix has released the official trailer for Nobody Wants This season 3. It finds Kristen Bell and Adam Brody back as the agnostic podcaster Joanne and unconventional rabbi Noah. Despite their differences, the pair are a loving couple who navigate their romantic relationship amid the challenges that get thrown their way.
Bell and Brody are joined by other series regulars Justine Lupe, Timothy Simons and Jackie Tohn.
One of the biggest updates in the season 3 trailer finds Joanne and Noah having moved in together. We also see Joanne going to an Intro to Judaism conversion class, where she meets a fellow classmate played by Andrew Rannells.
“I heard about you. You know, the hot rabbi blew up his life to be with you,” he tells Joanne.
“Uh, our story is a little bit more nuanced and much more romantic than that,” she responds.
He stares back at her and blinks unbelievingly. “OK,” he says.
The trailer also touches on the dynamic between Sasha (Simons) and Esther (Tohn) after they decided to separate back in season 2. It also hints at the underlying romantic tension between Sasha and Morgan (Lupe).
“I am done being seen as a liability. People think I’m not a perfect match for Noah, but I actually am,” Joanne says at the end of the trailer.
“Jo, there is no perfect. It’s perfect because it’s us,” Noah responds.
Nobody Wants This season 3 premieres on Netflix Oct. 22.
Taylor Swift attends the Songwriters Hall of Fame 55th Annual Induction and Awards Gala at Marriott Marquis Hotel on June 11, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
Taylor Swift will debut a star-studded music video for her new single, “Patient Zero,” during Sunday night’s 2026 MTV Video Music Awards.
The teaser for the video was released Thursday, revealing that along with Swift, the video stars Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell. Swift directed the visual.
“Patient Zero” is one of four new songs Swift is releasing on Friday.
Swift said in a social media post Wednesday that the new songs were created while she was celebrating the success of her 2025 album, The Life of a Showgirl, which was last year’s top-selling album, according to Billboard.
“I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max [Martin] and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album,” Swift said Wednesday. “Really we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in, but there was a studio there and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs.”
The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, which includes four new songs, is out on Friday and available to preorder and save now, she added.
Just two days after the songs are released, Swift is scheduled to receive the inaugural MTV VMA Artist Director Honors at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.
The award recognizes “groundbreaking music artists whose work behind the camera has expanded the possibilities of music video and advanced the art of visual storytelling,” according to MTV.
Swift is nominated for nine awards at this year’s ceremony, including video of the year and artist of the year.
Taylor Swift attends the Songwriters Hall of Fame 55th Annual Induction and Awards Gala at Marriott Marquis Hotel on June 11, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
Taylor Swift will debut a star-studded music video for her new single, “Patient Zero,” during Sunday night’s 2026 MTV Video Music Awards.
The teaser for the video was released Thursday, revealing that along with Swift, the video stars Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell. Swift directed the visual.
“Patient Zero” is one of four new songs Swift is releasing on Friday.
Swift said in a social media post Wednesday that the new songs were created while she was celebrating the success of her 2025 album, The Life of a Showgirl, which was last year’s top-selling album, according to Billboard.
“I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max [Martin] and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album,” Swift said Wednesday. “Really we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in, but there was a studio there and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs.”
The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, which includes four new songs, is out on Friday and available to preorder and save now, she added.
Just two days after the songs are released, Swift is scheduled to receive the inaugural MTV VMA Artist Director Honors at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.
The award recognizes “groundbreaking music artists whose work behind the camera has expanded the possibilities of music video and advanced the art of visual storytelling,” according to MTV.
Swift is nominated for nine awards at this year’s ceremony, including video of the year and artist of the year.
