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The hit Tyler Perry BET shows Sistas and The Oval have both been renewed for an additional season, BET announced on Tuesday.

The news comes a day before The Oval season three finale, which airs Tuesday at 8 p.m. The drama series, which is based on an interracial first family that deals with lies, cheating and corruption behind closed doors, averaged 1.3 million total viewers Live+3 per episode for season three, according to Nielsen figured reported by BET. That means 1.3 million people total watched the show live when it first aired, and also in the first three days after that.

The Oval stars Ed Quinn, Kron Moore, Javon Johnson, Ptosha Storey, Vaughn Hebron, Teesha Renee, Daniel Croix Henderson, Lodric Collins, Ciera Payton and more. 

After recently airing its mid-season finale, Sistas was green-lit for a fifth season. Ranked as the number-one scripted series on cable with African Americans 18-49, according to BET, the wildly popular show enjoyed an average 1.6 million total Live+3 viewers on BET and BET Her every week. 

The one-hour drama follows a group of single Black females as they navigate their “complicated love life,” careers, and friendship through the ups and downs of living in a modern world of social media and unrealistic relationship goals. The Sistas cast includes, KJ Smith, Mignon, Ebony Obsidian, Novi Brown, Crystal Renee’ Hayslett, Devale Ellis, Chido Nwokocha and others. 

Production for each series is set to start this spring.

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Green Day, Metallica and Machine Gun Kelly are among the headliners for Lollapalooza 2022, taking place July 28-31 in Chicago’s Grant Park.

The bill also includes Måneskin, Jane’s Addiction, Glass Animals, Royal Blood, Turnstile, Wet Leg, Dominic Fike, King Princess, Wallows, girl in red, WILLOW, Manchester Orchestra, Local Natives, Dashboard Confessional, Bob Moses, COIN, Sam Fender, The Regrettes, The Wombats and KennyHoopla.

The other headliners are Dua Lipa, J. Cole, Doja Cat, Lil Baby and Kygo.

Tickets go on sale today at noon CT. For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit Lollapalooza.com.

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The Prince of Darkness is soon about to get a new heir.

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne‘s son Jack is expecting a new baby with fiancée Aree Gearhart. The child will be his first with Gearhart, following his three kids with ex-wife Lisa Stelly.

“Exciting news!!!” Jack wrote in an Instagram post Tuesday alongside a photo of him sitting next to Gearhart with a hand on her stomach. “[We] are expecting a baby in the summer! Baby #4 here we come!”

Jack and Gearhart got engaged at the end of 2021.

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CMT has unveiled the first round of star-studded performers for the 2022 CMT Awards. 

Luke Combs, Keith Urban, Maren Morris and Kane Brown are among the artists set to take the stage at the show in Nashville, along with Miranda Lambert, co-host Kelsea Ballerini, Carly Pearce, Little Big Town, and Cody Johnson, who tops the country charts this week with “Til You Cant.”

Cole Swindell and Lainey Wilson will also light up Music City with a performance of their hit duet, “Never Say Never,” while Maren will team up with her husband Ryan Hurd. Additional performers will be announced in the coming weeks.

Kane is the most-nominated act at the fan-voted awards show, with four nominations. Kelsea, Mickey Guyton, Breland and Cody tie for second place, with three nods each. 

Voting is open now and closes on April 4 at 10 a.m. ET. Kelsea and Marvel film actor Anthony Mackiewill co-host the CMT Awards when the show airs live from Nashville on its new network home of CBS and Paramount+ on April 11 at 8 p.m. ET.

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Things are apparently heating up between Migos rapper Quavo and Karrueche Tran. 

According to Entertainment Tonight, the two stars are more than just friends. 

“Quavo and Karrueche Tran are dating. Things are causal between them, but they are seeing each other and like spending time together,” an insider tells the outlet. 

Rumors that the rapper, whose birth name is Quavious Keyate Marshall, and the Claws actress are dating were fueled earlier this month when the duo was spotted dining at West Hollywood hot spot The Nice Guy. This isn’t the first time the duo have sparked romance rumors, though. Back in 2017, Quavo, 30, and Tran, 33, furled speculation when they seemed to be vacationing together with others in St. Martin.

However, they both went on to have separate relationships. Tran dated former NFL star Victor Cruz for three years before splitting in February 2021, while the “Stir Fry” rapper dated Saweetie for three years before it was revealed they’d ended things in March 2021. 

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(NOTE LANGUAGE) It’s all love over here. Cardi B is joining Summer Walker and SZA to bring fans “No Love (Extended),” dropping Friday.

Taking to Instagram on Monday, Summer announced, “Yall guessed it, my girl @IamcardiB jumped on “No Love” with me & @Sza.”

The 25-year-old singer added, “I can’t wait for y’all to see the video Friday!”

Shortly after the reveal, Summer and Cardi hopped on Instagram Live to celebrate, where they showered each other with compliments and shared their excitement for fans to hear the song. In her own social media posts, the “Up” rapper expressed that she’s bringing a new sound to the record that fans haven’t heard form her before.

“Ommmmmggg I’m soooo excited and nervous!” Cardi wrote alongside a photo of the song’s artwork. “I have never sounded the way I do on this record but I love it ! Hope you guys love it too.”

Over on Twitter, Cardi provided some more context, sharing, “If you’re going through a break up, but you still low key want the d*** you going to relate to this verse ….. I’m so proud of myself I stepped out my element.”

The original “No Love” with SZA was featured on Summer’s sophomore album, Still Over It, which dropped in November 2021.

“No Love (Extended)” is available for pre-save now.

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Last week, Ed Sheeran said his next release would be something of a “curveball,” and he wasn’t lying: He’s releasing two songs with Latin superstar J Balvin — and he’s singing in Spanish.

In an Instagram post, Ed explains, “So I want to share something with you that I’ve been working on. I met @jbalvin in a gym in New York last year.  It was just me and him very early in the morning. I recognized his voice when he was on the phone so I just went up and said hi.”

“We chatted so long we ended up having lunch and then afternoon tea. Then just went to being mates who chatted non stop,” Ed continues. “I was in New York at Christmas for shows so we decided to have one day in the studio that led to so so much more, which you’ll find out about soon. But the first two songs we wrote are ‘Sigue’ and ‘Forever My Love,’ they are out soon, and I absolutely love them.”

“He wanted to bring me into his world, and I wanted to bring him into mine,” Ed concludes. “Was a proper challenge learning Spanish for this and I had so much fun doing it.  Hope you guys love it as much as I do, and look out for more to come.”

The post is accompanied by sped-up footage of what appears to be a video shoot for either one or both songs. No release date has been announced yet.

J Balvin is one of the best-selling artists in Latin music, and has collaborated with Beyoncé, Pharrell Williams, The Black Eyed Peas and Dua Lipa.  He also topped the charts along with Cardi B and Bad Bunny with the number-one 2018 smash, “I Like It.”

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Billie Eilish and her brother/producer FINNEAS will perform their Oscar-nominated song “No Time to Die,” from the James Bond film of the same name, during the 94th Oscars ceremony on Sunday night, a source involved with the show tells The Hollywood Reporter.

The Grammy-winning siblings are considered odds-on favorites to take home the Best Original song Oscar, following wins at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice and Grammy Awards.

Two other Bond songs have nabbed Oscars over the past decade: Adele’s “Skyfall,” from the 2012 film of the same name, and Sam Smith’s “Writing’s on the Wall,” from 2015’s Spectre.

The 94th Annual Academy Awards will air live on ABC on Sunday at 8 p.m. from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

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Pharrell Williams’ non-profit Black Ambition has announced that applications for its second annual Black Ambition Prize are now open.

The company, founded by Williams in 2020 to empower Black and Latinx entrepreneurs, is looking to fund and support ventures in consumer products and services, media and entertainment, healthcare, technology and Web 3.0.

To enter, ventures must have at least one founder or co-founder that identifies as Black or Latinx. The grand prize winner will receive a $1 million prize. At least six additional teams will receive smaller prizes.

Black Ambition is also offering the HBCU Prize, in which current and former students at HBCUs have the chance to win prizes and mentorship as they develop ideas and launch companies. The grand prize winner will receive a $100,000 prize, while at least seven other teams will receive smaller prizes.

“When you realize how lucky you are to be in the constellation of the universe and when you learn how it really works, you stop buying vehicles and you create vehicles to drive you. That’s what Black Ambition is, it’s a vehicle for impact,” Pharrell says in a statement. “At Black Ambition, we find you and then we fund you.”

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