Netflix has revealed that season 4 of the period romance will air in two parts early next year: Part 1 will premiere on Jan. 29 and part 2 will premiere on Feb. 26. There will be eight episodes.
A new teaser for the season was also released, featuring Luke Thompson’s Benedict Bridgerton and his love interest Sophie Baek, played by Yerin Ha, crossing paths at a masquerade ball. She walks up the stairs as he walks down and their hands brush as they pass each other.
“The fourth season of Bridgerton turns its focus to bohemian second son Benedict,” according to the season’s official synopsis. “Despite his elder and younger brothers both being happily married, Benedict is loath to settle down — until he meets a captivating Lady in Silver at his mother’s masquerade ball.”
Season 4 will also feature returning cast members Nicola Coughlan, Luke Newton, Jonathan Bailey, Simone Ashley, Claudia Jessie, Hannah Dodd, Golda Rosheuvel, Ruth Gemmell, Adjoa Andoh, Florence Hunt, Will Tilston and Hugh Sachs.
The official trailer for All Her Fault has arrived. The upcoming series stars Sarah Snook as a mother who arrives to pick up her young child from a play date only to find her son nowhere to be seen, and a mother she doesn’t recognize at the door. Jake Lacy, Dakota Fanning and Michael Peña also star in the new series, which premieres Nov. 6 on Peacock …
The shows Countdown and Butterfly have been canceled at Prime Video. Deadline reports that the streaming service has made the decision not to renew either Countdown or Butterfly for sophomore seasons. Countdown starred Jensen Ackles while Butterfly was led by Daniel Dae Kim …
Anna Kendrick and JK Simmons are teaming up for a new geo-political thriller series. Variety reports the actors will co-star in the show Embassy. The plot follows an American diplomat who faces an impossible challenge: protect the U.S. ambassador, or follow his orders to exfiltrate an asset at the embassy …
Taylor Swift performs onstage in Toronto, November, 2024 (Emma McIntyre/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)
Taylor Swift is giving fans what they’ve been wanting for some time now: a behind-the-scenes look at her Eras Tour.
ABC’s Good Morning America announced Monday that Disney+ will stream Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The End of an Era (Docuseries), a six-part series giving fans unprecedented access to the tour. It features appearances by Taylor’s family, friends and special guests, including Ed Sheeran, Gracie Abrams, Sabrina Carpenter and Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine.
The first two episodes of the docuseries will premiere Dec. 12, with two episodes following each week afterwards. But wait … that’s not all.
Also on Dec. 12, Disney+ will premiere Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show, a concert film captured at the final stop of the Eras Tour in Vancouver on Dec. 8, 2024. It features the entire Tortured Poets Department sequence of the show, which Taylor added following the April 2024 release of that album, live for the first time.
On Instagram, Taylor wrote, “It was the End of an Era and we knew it. We wanted to remember every moment leading up to the culmination of the most important and intense chapter of our lives, so we allowed filmmakers to capture this tour and all the stories woven throughout it as it wound down. And to film the final show in its entirety.”
The Eras Tour, which Taylor first announced on Good Morning America in November of 2022, kicked off March 17, 2023 and went on to gross over $2 billion and draw 10 million people, according to Taylor Swift Touring.
The movie capturing the trek, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, became the highest-grossing concert film of all time. A special version of the concert film, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version), is now streaming on Disney+.
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Bipin Joshi and Tamir Nimrodi, the two hostages whose fate in Gaza remained unknown, were not included on the list published by Hamas of the 20 living hostages expected to be released during Monday’s exchange of hostages held by Hamas and prisoners held by Israel.
Neither Hamas nor Israel released statements saying the two were deceased.
In addition to some 1,200 Israelis killed on Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas kidnapped 251 men and women during the terror attack. The majority were later released in hostage exchanges in the two years since then.
Of the 48 hostages who were still in Gaza at the time of the new ceasefire deal, 26 were confirmed dead by Israeli officials. Twenty others were believed to be alive at the time, with two people’s fates unknown.
Bipin Joshi, a Nepalese agriculture student who was in Israel to study, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Alumim, according to The Times of Israel.
“We just want him back,” his sister said in August, according to the newspaper. “It’s too much for me and my family.”
Joshi was 22 years old when kidnapped, according to Nepal’s Kathmandu Post.
Joshi’s family released footage of Joshi on Wednesday they said was recovered by the Israel Defense Forces and shared with the family by Israeli intelligence officials. The footage was believed to have been filmed in November 2023.
It is unclear exactly when the IDF recovered the footage and shared it with the family. The family released a clip of the footage via the Hostages and Missing Families Forum Headquarters on Wednesday.
“For many months, this footage was under strict censorship. Only recently were we granted permission to release it,” the Joshi family said in a statement with the video. “It is not easy for us to share it publicly, but we are in critical and historic days that will determine the fate of the 48 hostages, whether the living will return to their families and the deceased to a proper burial, or whether we will remain in pain without closure.”
Tamir Nimrodi was 18 years old when he was kidnapped barefoot and without his glasses, according to The Jerusalem Post.
Nimrodi, who had been serving with the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories, was taken from a base near the Erez Crossing into the Gaza Strip, according to the Times of Israel
“He always said I was his best friend. … I pray for the chance to have moments with him again,” said his mom, Herut Nimrodi. “The emptiness in my heart is indescribable.”
In a speech to Israel’s parliament on a day when the country’s living 20 hostages were released as part of a ceasefire agreement he helped broker, President Donald Trump told the Knesset, “This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.”
“This will be remembered as the moment that everything began to change, and change very much for the better,” Trump said.
In a sign of the warm welcome he was receiving, many in the audience were wearing MAGA-style hats that read “Trump The Peace President.”
“We gather on a day of profound joy, of soaring hope, of renewed faith — and above all, a day to give our deepest thanks to the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,” he said.
“After so many years of unceasing war and endless danger, today, the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the sirens are still, and the sun rises on a Holy Land that is finally at peace,” Trump said. “A land and a region that will live. God willing, in peace for all eternity.”
There was a disruption during Trump’s speech when it appeared at least one person in the audience shouted out and was quickly removed from the room. “That was very efficient,” Trump said after the interruption.
Trump received several standing ovations at the Knesset, where he was introduced by the speaker of Israel’s parliament as the “best friend Israel has ever had” in the White House — a sentiment echoed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“No American president has ever done more for Israel, and as I said in Washington, it ain’t even close. It’s not really a match,” Netanyahu said.
The Israeli prime minister said when Trump was elected, “overnight everything changed.”
“Mr. President, today, we welcome you here to thank you for your pivotal leadership and putting forward a proposal that got the backing of almost the entire world, a proposal that brings all our hostages home, a proposal that ends the war by achieving all our objectives, a proposal that opens the door to an historic expansion of peace in our region and beyond our region,” Netanyahu said. “Mr. President, you are committed to this peace. I am committed to this peace. And together, Mr. President, we will achieve this peace.”
With Trump looking on smiling, Netanyahu announced he submitted Trump’s nomination to be the first non-Israeli recipient of the Israel Prize, Israel’s highest award. Earlier, the speaker of Israel’s parliament said he will be nominating Trump for next year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
“As to that other prize, just a question time, you’ll get it,” Netanyahu said.
At the Knesset for Trump’s speech was his daughter Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, the latter having been involved in negotiations, as well as White House special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.
The White House posted a short video of Trump and Netanyahu meeting with the families of hostages before his address.
After the speech, Trump was headed to an international “peace summit” in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt where he was to sign an agreement with more than 20 others leaders from around the world.
Netanyahu will not attend the summit, despite being invited by Trump.
“The Prime Minister thanked President Trump for his invitation, but said that he would not be able to participate due to the proximity of the holiday,” the prime minister’s office said in a statement. “The Prime Minister thanked President Trump for his efforts to expand the circle of peace — peace through strength.”
Trump arrived earlier Monday at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, where he was met by Netanyahu and Israel’s President Isaac Herzog.
The final 20 living hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, were returned to Israel on Monday, Israeli officials said, the first phase of an agreement that also called for Israel to release Palestinian prisoners.
HARDY‘s a minimalist when it comes to album covers.
For the front of Quit!!, his 2024 rock album, he simply used a bar napkin someone shoved in his tip jar years earlier.
For his new COUNTRY! COUNTRY!record, it’s an orange background with a black-and-white picture of his face, encircled by a halo of stars, as if he were dazed. On either side, there’s a thought bubble with the title.
So, what gives?
“A lot of ideas got thrown around,” HARDY explains, “but I kind of like the quirkiness of the shot of me just sort of looking at the camera, like kind of smirking or just making my dumb, goofy face of like, ‘Here’s your country album.'”
But the self-deprecating star wants to make sure you know he didn’t mean anything by it.
“That didn’t come from frustration, but more of like, you know, I knew it was time to put out another country record. So, ‘Here you go!'”
Clearly the cover’s done its job, as the album’s first single, “Favorite Country Song,” is a top-20 hit, just as he prepares to launch THE COUNTRY! COUNTRY! TOUR! in February.
Bush’s Gavin Rossdale on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Bush‘s new album I Beat Loneliness has a song called “60 Ways to Forget People,” which is 10 more ways than there are to leave your lover and 39 less than there are luftballons. If you’re wondering why exactly frontman Gavin Rossdale chose the number 60 for the track, he actually started off with another, much larger number.
“It began as 1000,” Rossdale tells ABC Audio.
Rossdale decided to change it, though, not because of any musical or rhythmic reason — “It actually sang really well,” he says — but because Bush already recorded a song called “1000 Years” for their last record, 2022’s The Art of Survival, and released a duet version of it with Amy Lee of Evanescence.
“So I was, like, ‘It can’t be 1000 again!'” Rossdale says.
To finally arrive on 60, Rossdale had to “go through a number of numbers to see what worked.”
I Beat Loneliness is out now. It also includes the single “The Land of Milk and Honey.”
: Drummer Simon Kirke and Paul Rodgers of Bad Company perform in concert during ‘ZZ Top’s 50th Anniversary Texas Bash’ at Austin360 Amphitheater on May 19, 2019 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Rick Kern/WireImage)
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announced the performers and presenters for this year’s induction ceremony on Wednesday, although they didn’t specify who those people would be honoring on induction night. Well, now Bad Company, one of this year’s inductees, is asking fans to guess who’ll be handling the duties for them.
The band shared a video on Instagram featuring frontman Paul Rodgers, who teased, “Yes it’s great that Bad Company are to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and it’s also great that we will be inducted by … I can’t tell you, but you can guess.”
He then seemed to offer up a clue, turning around to show off the jacket he was wearing, which featured the logo for the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
The caption of the post asks fans to share their guesses for a chance to win a Bad Company T-shirt. They have until Nov. 3 to enter, with winners selected at random.
The initial lineup of performers and presenters for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony include Elton John, Beck, Iggy Pop, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist Flea, The Pretty Reckless’ Taylor Momsen and Twenty One Pilots, along with Brandi Carlile, David Letterman, and more.
Bad Company’s fellow inductees include Joe Cocker, Soundgarden, The White Stripes, Salt-N-Pepa, Chubby Checker and Outkast. In addition, Warren Zevon is being inducted in the Musical Influence category, while producer Thom Bell, guitarist Nicky Hopkins and bassist Carole Kaye will be inducted for Musical Excellence.
The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony is happening Nov. 8 in Los Angeles, and will stream live on Disney+ starting at 8 p.m. ET.
Tron: Ares, the third film in the Tron sci-fi franchise that started back in 1982, zoomed its way to #1 at the box office over the weekend.
According to Box Office Mojo, the movie, starring Jared Leto, Jeff Bridges, Greta Lee and Evan Peters, took in $33.5 million over the weekend. However Varietynotes that number is disappointing, given that the film was initially predicted to bring in as much as $50 million.
Channing Tatum‘s latest film Roofman debuted at #2 with $8 million. The only other top-10 debut was Soul on Fire, a faith-based film based on the true story of a man who survives being burned in a fire. It brought in $3 million, good enough for fifth place.
Meanwhile, Jennifer Lopez‘s remake of Kiss of the Spider Woman failed to make the top 10, entering at #12 with a take of just under $919,000.
Here are the top 10 films at the box office:
1. Tron: Ares –– $33.5 million 2. Roofman — $8 million 3. One Battle After Another — $6.675 million 4. Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie — $3.35 million 5. Soul on Fire — $3 million 6. The Conjuring: Last Rites — $2.9 million 7. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie – Infinity Castle — $2.25 million 8. The Smashing Machine — 1.796 million 9. The Strangers: Chapter 2 — $1.55 million 10. Good Boy — $1.36 million
