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In brief: ‘Lioness’ season 3 gets release date and more

June 8, 2026 by WDNY Radio

We now know when season 3 of Lioness is set to debut on Paramount+. The third season of the series that stars Zoe Saldaña and Nicole Kidman will premiere on Aug. 2. From creator Taylor Sheridan, the espionage thriller continues with even more hidden networks, foreign operatives and personal betrayals …

Henry Cavill has joined the cast of Kevin Hart’s upcoming spy comedy. Variety reports that Cavill will star alongside Hart in a Netflix comedy where they’ll play rival spies who cross paths when their wives become friends. According to a synopsis, “their double lives collide in unexpectedly hilarious and dangerous ways, forcing the two men to reluctantly become confidantes and partners on the road to fatherhood.” …

The Harry Potter HBO series is looking to cast another young wizard. Deadline reports that casting directors are searching for a young actor to play the character Colin Creevy in season 2 of the fantasy series based on the books by J.K. Rowling. According to the outlet, auditions are currently underway …

Scoreboard roundup — 6/7/26

June 8, 2026 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
Red Sox, Yankees 6
White Sox 5, Phillies 9
Pirates 2, Braves 3
Orioles 4, Blue Jays 6
Mariners 4, Tigers 5
Rays 1, Marlins 4
Athletics 5, Astros 0
Royals 6, Twins 5
Reds 3, Cardinals 5
Guardians 0, Rangers 10
Brewers 12, Rockies 4
Nationals 1, Diamondbacks 5
Angels 13, Dodgers 5
Mets 7, Padres 3
Giants 2, Cubs 1

French Open Finals
Women’s Final: Mirra Andreeva beats Maja Chwalińska (6-3, 6-2)
Men’s Final: Alexander Zverev beats Flavio Cobolli (6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-1)

‘Don’t Mind If I Do’: Riley Green reveals how he likes to write a song

June 8, 2026 by WDNY Radio

There’s no denying Riley Green is one of the hottest artists in country music right now, with two songs currently climbing the country chart.

The fun “Think As You Drunk” is the first radio single from his upcoming That’s Just Me album and borrows from 2005’s “As Good As I Once Was,” a hit from one of his heroes, Toby Keith.

“I don’t think I’ve ever written a song the same way twice,” Riley says. “Sometimes it’s something that comes to me and I write it in 20 or 30 minutes. Sometimes it’s an idea that I think, ‘Man, that’s a great idea,’ and I mull it over for a month and a half, and then it takes a while to write it. And sometimes I write with other people on a scheduled time and day.”

And if Riley could pick how his songs come together?

“The songs that are the easiest to write, certainly the ones I like the most, are ones that are about something I’m passionate about, you know, something that’s going on in my life,” he says. “‘I Wish Grandpas Never Died,’ I wrote when my granddaddy passed away.”

“It was a really personal song for me, and I think people find a way to make the lyrics about their own life,” he adds.

Riley’s currently on the verge of his next #1, as “Change My Mind” nears the top of the chart.

That’s Just Me arrives Sept. 18.

Adam Lambert says new album has both ‘heaviness’ and ‘levity,’ chooses fave Pride anthems

June 8, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Adam Lambert has, so far, released two very different songs from his upcoming album, ADAM. “Eat U Alive” draws on ’90s alternative rock and electronica influences, while “Under the Rhythm,” released Friday, is a darker dance song that interpolates a 2000s club classic. Do these two songs represent what the album sounds like as a whole? Well, sort of.

“There is a through line [to the album], but it’s interesting because, you know, you start picking singles and it’s not necessarily — you know, they’re not next to each other on the album,” Adam told ABC Audio. Rather than jarring transitions between styles, Adam said, “There is the sequence. There’s a flow on the album.”

He notes there’s a reason he chose to lead the album with those two tracks. “I guess in terms of trying to find which songs to get out there it was like, I wanted to give people some of the range of the album,” he explained.

“Eat U Alive” represents a number of songs pretty well — there’s a lot of, like, darker industrial energy on the album, heaviness,” he said. “And then there is some levity, you know? There’s some danceability, like ‘Under the Rhythm.'”

ADAM arrives on July 10.

Meanwhile, Adam shared a few of his personal top LGBTQ anthems in honor of Pride month after Billboard compiled a list of them.

“Ooh, I mean, Sylvester … ‘Mighty Real,’ I mean, I did a cover of it for that reason, that’s a pretty bold one,” he told ABC Audio. “Anything George Michael, I love George Michael. I love, obviously, Freddie [Mercury], I mean, all the stuff I’ve done with Queen. Those all kind of feel like musicians that I can feel proud of, that I feel like reflect the spirit of Pride.”

Ryan Coogler, The Weeknd and Beyoncé among the “VIP of the ‘Forbes’ Universe”

June 8, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Ryan Coogler, The Weeknd and Beyoncé have made the inaugural Iconoclast 50 list from Forbes.

According to the publication, they are among the honorees, aka “the VIP of the Forbes Universe” — “leaders in finance, business, technology, media, entertainment and philanthropy that are changing the game in real time, disrupting their industries and challenging the status quo.”

Forbes only considered those who had previously appeared on one of its lists and ensured they had made a significant impact or disrupted their respective fields within the past two years before selecting the top 50.

Coogler, who previously made the Forbes 30 Under 30 All Star Alumni list and the 30 Under 30 Hollywood & Entertainment list, was recognized as “one of Hollywood’s most influential filmmakers.” He’s directed movies that have grossed more than $2 billion worldwide, including Sinners, which won the 2026 Oscar for best original screenplay.

The Weeknd, who topped Forbes‘ Highest-Paid Musicians list in 2025 and appeared on the Celebrity 100 list in 2019, earned an estimated $298 million over the past year. His earnings increased after he sold his music catalog to Lyric Capital in a reported $1 billion deal. He also holds the record for the highest grossing tour by a male artist with his ongoing After Hours Til Dawn Tour.

Beyoncé, who just made Forbes‘ America’s Richest Self-Made Women list, is one of 10 women on the list. Among her accomplishments are becoming the fifth musician to reach billionaire status, winning album of the year at the 2025 Grammy Awards and making history as the first Black woman to win for best country album for Cowboy Carter. The supporting tour also became the highest grossing tour of 2025.

The full list is on Forbes.com.

The Rolling Stones release visualizer for ‘Foreign Tongues’ track, ‘Rough and Twisted’

June 8, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The Rolling Stones have released a visualizer for the Foreign Tongues track “Rough and Twisted.” In the clip, a businessman runs and dances on a city street in slow motion. It also includes clips of him slowly stripping out of his constricting suit.

“Rough and Twisted” was actually the first taste Rolling Stones fans got of the band’s upcoming album. The song was originally released on vinyl under the pseudonym The Cockroaches.

The track was part of a viral campaign in which posters popped up in London featuring a QR code that directed folks to a website run by Universal Music. Fans quickly guessed that The Cockroaches were really The Stones, since the name was an alias the band used in the ’70s when they wanted to play secret shows.

It was later confirmed that “Rough and Twisted” would appear on Foreign Tongues, due out July 10.

Speaking of “Rough and Twisted,” Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger has posted a carousel photos and video on Instagram of his time in Italy, including a clip of him driving a small vehicle set to the song. There’s also another clip of him hiking up a mountain to a helicopter, set to the Foreign Tongues track “In The Stars.” Jagger captioned the post, “Working break in Italy.”

A ‘Scary’ return: ‘Scary Movie’ debuts at #1 at box office

June 8, 2026 by WDNY Radio

It seems folks were clamoring for the return of Scary Movie.

The sixth installment in the horror movie parody franchise, and the first since 2013’s Scary Movie 5, earned $55 million at the box office this weekend to debut at #1, according to Box Office Mojo.

Variety reports that Scary Movie’s haul was actually a record opening for the franchise, surpassing 2006’s Scary Movie 4, which brought in $49.7 million in its debut weekend.

Another new film, Masters of the Universe, debuted at #2, bringing in $29.3 million, while last week’s #1, Backrooms, dropped to #3 with $25.9 million.

Rounding out the top five were Obsession, with $25.6 million, and another new film, The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act, with $11.6 million.

Here are the top 10 films at the box office:

1. Scary Movie — $55 million
2. Masters of the Universe — $29.3 million
3. Backrooms — $25.9 million
4. Obsession — $25.6 million
5. The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act — $11.6 million
6. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu — $10 million
7. Michael — $7.7 million
8. The Breadwinner — $3.4 million
9. Pressure — $3 million
10. The Devil Wears Prada 2 — $2.8 million

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79th annual Tony Awards: The winners

June 7, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The 79th annual Tony Awards, hosted by Pink, were handed out Sunday at Radio City Music Hall in New York City and carried live on CBS.

Here’s the complete list of winners:

Best play
Liberation

Best musical
Schmigadoon!

Best revival of a play
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Best revival of a musical
Ragtime

Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical
Caissie Levy, Ragtime

Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical
Joshua Henry, Ragtime

Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play
Lesley Manville, Oedipus

Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play
John Lithgow, Giant

Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a play
Alden Ehrenreich, Becky Shaw

Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play
Laurie Metcalf, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical
Ali Louis Bourzgui, The Lost Boys

Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical
Shoshana Bean, The Lost Boys

Best direction of a play
Joe Mantello, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Best direction of a musical
Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch, Cats: The Jellicle Ball

Best book of a musical
Cinco Paul, Schmigadoon!

Best original score
Music and lyrics: Cinco Paul, Schmigadoon!

Best choreography
Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons, Cats: The Jellicle Ball

Best orchestrations
Doug Besterman and Mike Morris, Schmigadoon!

Best scenic design of a play
Chloe Lamford, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Best scenic design of a musical
Dane Laffrey, The Lost Boys

Best costume design of a play
Jeff Mahshie, Fallen Angels

Best costume design of a musical
Qween Jean, Cats: The Jellicle Ball

Best lighting design of a play
Jack Knowles, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Best lighting design of a musical
Jen Schriever and Michael Arden, The Lost Boys

Best sound design of a play
Mikaal Sulaiman, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Best sound design of a musical
Kai Harada, Ragtime

Ariana Grande kicks off Eternal Sunshine tour with ‘Brighter Days Ahead’-heavy set

June 7, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Ariana Grande’s long-awaited Eternal Sunshine tour launched in Oakland, California, on Saturday night. And, as its name suggests, the set list was heavy on songs from that 2024 album, as well as tracks from the deluxe version, Eternal Sunshine: Brighter Days Ahead, which came out last year.

All the extra tracks from the deluxe version made it onto the setlist: “warm,” “twilight zone,” “past life,” “hampstead” and “dandelion.” She also performed multiple tracks from the original album, opening the show with “yes, and?” and also performing “supernatural,” “the boy is mine,” the title track, “we can’t be friends (wait for you love)” and “imperfect for you.”

Positions, the other album Ariana released since her last tour in 2019, was represented by three songs, including the title track. Only one song from her upcoming album, petal, made it onto the set list, the single “hate that i made you love me.”

As for Ariana’s classic hits, fans got to hear “Dangerous Woman,” “Thank U, Next,” “Break Free,” “Into You,” “Honeymoon Avenue,” her Lady Gaga duet “Rain on Me” and “7 Rings.”

According to Rolling Stone, the set design was inspired by the flooded and destroyed house in the Brighter Days Ahead short film. At the end of the concert, she’s lifted up towards a set of alien spaceship-looking lights, just like the film.

The tour is set to continue through September.

Rescuers suspend search for 2 miners believed trapped in flooded cave in Laos

June 7, 2026 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — International rescuers have indefinitely suspended the search for two gold miners believed trapped in a cave in Laos, nearly three weeks after they were reported missing with five others who were rescued, officials said.

International dive teams that converged on the country’s Xaisomboun province, where monsoon flood waters trapped the miners last month, were heading back home on Sunday, a search coordinator told ABC News.

The cave system, according to the coordinator, has become too unstable to safely carry on with the search. The rescue coordinator said the hope of finding the two remaining miners is now very low.

While water in the flooded subterranean labyrinth has been pumped out and lowered to a manageable level, the coordinator said the entrance to the cave has become too unstable for rescuers to safely proceed with the operation.

A local rescue team will keep pumping water from the cave in hopes of a miracle, the coordinator said.

The operation was halted after rescuers explored a newly discovered 196-foot-deep shaft they had hoped would lead them to a chamber where they suspected the two miners might be. But no sign of the miners was reported.

A group of seven illegal gold miners entered the cave on May 19 and became trapped when monsoon rains flooded the cave’s entrance, rescuers said.

The rescue team was able to pump enough water out of the system for four miners to crawl out of the muddy abyss on May 30, authorities said. A day earlier, a fifth miner was able to crawl and swim out of the cave after he was taught how to scuba dive, rescuers said.

In an interview with ABC News last week, Josh Richards, an Australian diver who was part of the rescue operation, said the two remaining missing miners could be in a sixth chamber, past the one where the five other miners were located.

But Richards said some of the rescued miners told officials that there were only six of them trapped in the cave, including one who managed to extract himself at the outset of the emergency and alert authorities.

Richards said that one possible theory is that eight miners entered the cave and three got out on their own and went into hiding because their mining activities are illegal in Laos and subject to prosecution.

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