A “restored and expanded” version of The Police‘s 1982 documentary The Police: Around the Worldwill be released on May 20 in multiple formats and configurations.
The film, which originally was issued on VHS tape and laserdisc, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time ever, with restored video and remastered audio, as well as four full bonus performances of songs featured in the doc.
In addition, the new release, titled The Police: Around The World Restored & Expanded, will be packaged with a newly created soundtrack album that will be available on either CD or as a colored-vinyl LP. The album includes performances of songs from the band’s first two albums recorded at shows in Japan, Hong Kong and the U.K.
The Police: Around the World captures the band on stage and behind the scenes while touring the globe in 1979 and 1980. The film features singer/bassist Sting, guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland visiting Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, India, Egypt, Greece, France, South America and the U.S., as they rock out in various venues, check out the local sights, meet fans and more.
“Like Napoleon, we wanted the world. Out of the messy and fervent atmosphere in London at that time we conceived the idea to go all around the world and film the whole adventure,” writes Summers in the release’s liner notes about what inspired the the documentary. “As far as we knew no rock band, at least, had ever done that. We had just about enough popularity to get booked around the globe. Plans were made.”
The Police: Around the World Restored & Expanded can be pre-ordered now and will be available as a DVD/CD set, a Blu-ray/CD package and a DVD/LP collection.
DVD & Blu-ray performance track list:
“Next to You”
“Walking on the Moon”
“Born in the 50’s”
“So Lonely”
“Man in a Suitcase”
“Can’t Stand Losing You”
“Bring On the Night”
“Canary in a Coalmine”
“Voices Inside My Head”
“When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around”
“Shadows in the Rain”
“Don’t Stand So Close to Me”
“Truth Hits Everybody”
“Roxanne”
Bonus features — complete live performances of:
“Walking on the Moon” (Live from Kyoto)
“Next to You” (Live from Kyoto)
“Message in a Bottle” (Live from Hong Kong)
“Born in the 50’s” (Live from Hong Kong)
Soundtrack album track list:
“Walking on the Moon” (Live from Kyoto)
“Next to You” (Live from Kyoto)*
“Deathwish” (Live from Kyoto)
“So Lonely” (Live from Kyoto)
“Can’t Stand Losing You” (Live from Kyoto)
“Truth Hits Everybody” (Live from Kyoto)
“Visions of the Night” (Live from Hammersmith)*
“Roxanne” (Live from Hammersmith)
Intro*
“Born in the 50’s” (Live from Hong Kong)
“Message in a Bottle” (Live from Hong Kong)
“Bring On the Night” (Live from Hong Kong)
The hit ABC comedy series Abbott Elementary has been renewed for a second season, the network announced Monday.
The news was shared on Instagram, in a clever schoolwide “memo” sent from the desk of principal Ava Coleman, who is played by Janelle James.
“The camera crew I hired to showcase all that I’ve made happen at our beautiful school thinks I’m a star,” the memo jokes. “With that said, it is with great pleasure that I share they’ll be returning for the 2022-2023 school year! That’s right — Abbott Elementary Season Two is coming to a screen near you.”
According to Deadline, the show was ABC’s strongest comedy telecast of a new or returning series among the 18-49 demographic in nearly two years, with 9 million viewers tuning in for its December premiere.
Star and creator of the show, Quinta Brunson, shared the exciting news on her Instagram with the caption, “Let’s get it.”
Kanye West fired back at D.L. Hughley over the weekend, after the comedian shared his thoughts about Kanye’s “stalker”-like behavior towards his ex, Kim Kardashian.
In response to D.L.’s thoughts that the “difference between him [Kanye] and a restraining order is about 20 hits and a couple of hundred million dollars,” Kanye shared a series of Instagram posts, including a Googled snapshot of the comedian with the caption, “DL lives in Calabasas???????? Yooooo God is good.”
D.L. responded to Kanye in a series of posts on Twitter.
Country star Dolly Parton says she would love for Beyoncé to cover her 1973 hit “Jolene.”
In a recent interview with The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah, Parton said, “I would just love to hear ‘Jolene’ done in just a big way, kind of like how Whitney [Houston] did my ‘I Will Always Love You.'”
Lady Gaga’s been keeping her relationship with Michael Polanksy pretty quiet, but she brought him as her date to two major public appearances on Sunday: the BAFTAs and the Critics Choice Awards. At the BAFTAs in London, host Rebel Wilson awarded Polanksy the “best plus one award.” Gaga, sadly, went home empty-handed at both events.
At the Critics Choice Awards, Gaga also shared a special moment with West Side Story star Rachel Zegler, who plays Maria. “You’re stunning and I’m obsessed with you,” Zegler told Gaga during a commercial break, according to Variety. Gaga then embraced the young actress, causing her to tear up.
Kim Kardashian is loving Rihanna’s maternity style. Rih-Rih recently stepped out in a belly-baring look consisting of a black leather jacket, matching mini skirt, silver bra top, and thigh-high boots. In a Sunday post to her Instagram Story captured by E!, Kim commented on the look, “OMGGGGGG. @Badgalriri best pregnancy style ever.”
Ahead of her album release this week, Charli XCX surprised fans by dropping a brand-new song titled “Every Rule.” “Couldn’t wait so i’m giving you every rule…” the singer tweeted Monday. Her album, Crash, drops Friday.
In an apparent attempt to prove that he can work in every musical genre, pop superstar Ed Sheeranmade a surprise appearance Sunday night at a Luke Combs show in London.
Luke was performing at London’s O2 Arena as part of the Country 2 Country Festival, and Ed showed up to join him on a version of his song “Dive,” which appears on Ed’s album ÷ (Divide). While it wasn’t a single, the track’s a fan favorite and Luke often covers it in concert.
“Boys, I don’t know how we follow that,” laughed Luke after Ed walked off stage.
It seems Luke had the time of his life performing at the three-day festival that takes place across Europe, sharing photos from the stage as he performs in front of massive crowds. This marks the first year of the country music-themed festival since 2019. It was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(NEW YORK) — A Fox News correspondent was injured in Ukraine, a day after the death of a freelance journalist also covering the Russia invasion.
Fox News State Department correspondent Benjamin Hall was injured while newsgathering near Kyiv on Monday, according to Suzanne Scott, CEO of Fox News Media.
The circumstances were not immediately clear but Hall was hospitalized, according to Scott, who asked to “please keep Ben and his family in your prayers.” Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby also confirmed he was injured.
Shaun Tandon, president of the State Department Correspondents’ Association, said in a statement, “We know Ben for his warmth, good humor and utmost professionalism. We wish Ben a quick recovery and call for utmost efforts to protect journalists who are providing an invaluable service through their coverage in Ukraine.”
Hall’s injury follows the Sunday death of freelance journalist Brent Renaud, which was confirmed by the U.S. State Department. Renaud was in Ukraine to cover the global refugee crisis for a documentary with Sugar23, Time Studios and Day Zero Productions, according to Sugar23.
“As an award-winning filmmaker and journalist, Brent tackled the toughest stories around the world often alongside his brother Craig Renaud,” Time editor-in-chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal and president and COO of Time and Time Studios Ian Orefice said in a statement. “In recent weeks, Brent was in the region working on a TIME Studios project focused on the global refugee crisis. Our hearts are with all of Brent’s loved ones.”
Photojournalist Juan Arredondo said he was with Renaud when he was killed.
In a video from a hospital bed, Arredondo said, “We crossed the first bridge in Irpin; we were going to film other refugees leaving and we got to a car, somebody offered to take us to the other bridge and we crossed a checkpoint and they started shooting at us. So, the driver turned around and they kept shooting. It’s two of us, my friend is Brent Renaud, and he’s been shot and left behind.”
“This kind of attack is totally unacceptable, and is a violation of international law,” Carlos Martínez de la Serna, program director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, said in a statement. “Russian forces in Ukraine must stop all violence against journalists and other civilians at once.”
“Two examples of the dangers in covering war,” Kirby, of the Pentagon, said of Hall and Renaud during a Monday press briefing. “This is a war that didn’t need to be fought, to be sure. But just as to be sure, there are journalists from around the world on the ground trying to discover the truth and to show that truth and to tell these important stories.”
ABC News’ Christine Theodorou and Luis Martinez contributed to this report.
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s dual promises to consider NATO’s Article 5 a “sacred obligation” but also not to have U.S. forces engage with Russia in Ukraine may be increasingly difficult as Russian President Vladimir Putin expands the scope of his attack — with a barrage of missiles striking near Ukraine’s border with NATO ally Poland over the weekend, along with intense shelling in Kyiv overnight.
The U.S. has also warned about a possible chemical weapons attack and a senior administration official told ABC News earlier Monday that Russia is “desperately” asking for Chinese help — with China “considering” giving the Russians “airstrike capabilities.”
But amid signs that Putin is escalating, it remains unclear what consequences Russia would face from the U.S.
Russian forces targeted a military training site over the weekend in western Ukraine that had housed Western volunteers and members of the Florida National Guard training Ukrainian counterparts before the invasion. At least 35 people were killed and 134 injured, according to Ukrainian officials. There were “no Americans at all working there,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said Sunday.
In what some are considering a provocative message to the West, the attack — just 10 miles from Ukraine’s border with Poland — has raised the prospect of the Kremlin being increasingly likely to target Poland or other NATO allies helping to supply Ukraine. That comes on top of concerns that Russia is laying the propaganda groundwork to use chemical weapons in Ukraine and falsely accuse the Ukrainian military of doing so first.
“They are clearly expanding some of their target sets here,” Kirby said at a Pentagon briefing Monday. “I want to be careful here that we’re not reducing the kind of damage and death he’s causing to some sort of message signaling. I think that’s being way too generous to what the Kremlin is trying to do inside Ukraine.”
At Monday afternoon’s White House press briefing, a reporter presented press secretary Jen Psaki with a list of horrors witnesses in Ukraine — “maternity wards being bombed, illegal weapons being used, pediatric hospitals being targeted” — and asked where Biden draws the line on military intervention, noting former President Barack Obama drew a red line for Syria with chemical weapons.
“You have to weigh how you can lead the world, how you can make very clear that actions are horrific, that they are not acceptable, they’re not aligned with global norms — while also thinking about our own national security interests,” Psaki said. “And starting World War III is certainly not in our national security interests. Putting U.S. troops on the ground in Ukraine to fight a war with Russia is not in our set national security interests.”
Pressed again later, Psaki repeated that Biden does not intend to send U.S. troops to Ukraine and would not specify what “severe consequences” Russia would face if it uses biochemical weapons. Asked then if it’s possible the White House has no consequences left to inflict on Russia, with severe actions like a no-fly zone, transporting jets and putting U.S. troops on the ground currently off the table, Psaki called that characterization “inaccurate.”
“Those are conversations that will happen continue to happen with our national security team and with our partners and allies around the world,” Psaki said.
Meanwhile Russia has repeatedly threatened to target other countries working to resupply Ukraine, declaring them parties to the conflict — and raising fears that an attack could trickle into Poland, a NATO nation, potentially prompting NATO allies to enter the war.
After the strike near the polish border over the weekend ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz asked Pentagon press secretary John Kirby on “This Week,” “If they strike in Poland, what happens?”
“We take our Article 5 commitment very seriously,” Kirby said. “An armed attack against one is considered an armed attack against all. That is why, Martha, we continue to flow and to move and to reposition forces and capabilities along NATO’s eastern flank to make sure that we can defend every inch of NATO territory if we need to.”
“Now, there’s no reason we should need to because there’s no reason that there should be war in Ukraine as it is, and we’ve made it very clear to Russia that NATO territory will be defended not just by the United States, but by our allies,” he later added.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, at a roundtable at Columbia Law School on Monday, said while he is against a no-fly zone over Ukraine, he would support one if Russia used chemical weapons — which the senator called “a war crime of monumental proportion.”
“If there’s a chemical attack by the Russians in Ukraine, that would be a war crime of monumental proportion and all the treaties we’ve tried to construct around the use of chemical weapons will be considered a joke if he doesn’t pay a price. So, I would be for a no-fly zone then,” Graham said
Negotiators from Russia and Ukraine met Monday to see if they could broker a ceasefire and a potential peace deal, but the virtual meeting was stopped due to what Ukraine’s presidential adviser called a “technical pause.” The talks are scheduled to continue Tuesday.
The fourth round of talks come as a senior U.S. official told Raddatz on Monday that Russian attacks on Ukraine will increase, with the western city of Lviv, a highly-populated area, among potential targets. Russia may target the city because “they want to create more terror,” the official said.
Over the weekend, Biden approved the shipment of $200 million in additional lethal aid to Ukraine, including antitank and antiaircraft weapons, after Congress approved a new aid package, with those materials expected to arrive in Ukraine from prepositioned U.S. military stations in Europe and the U.S.
Largely unified on the issue, Congress this week will also vote to codify Biden’s executive action taken Friday, which downgraded normal trade relations with Russia — the latest example of how lawmakers have pushed the White House to take forceful steps against Russia.
And amid fears China could supply ally Russia with weapons, national security adviser Jake Sullivan met in Rome on Monday with China’s top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, in the first high-level, in-person meeting since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
ABC News’ Luis Martinez, Conor Finnegan, Matt Seyler, Shannon Crawford and Benjamin Siegel contributed to this report.
Jane Campion‘s latest win for The Power of the Dog, at Sunday night’s 2022 Critics Choice Awards, came tinged with cringe, thanks to a comment she made from the podium to Venus and Serena Williams.
In picking up her latest trophy for the drama, as the only nominated female director going into awards season, Campion mentioned the sisters, who were in attendance supporting the award-winning movie about their lives, King Richard.
“Venus and Serena, you’re such marvels,” Campion said, “However, you don’t play against the guys, like I have to.”
Social media users flamed the filmmaker for the implication that the tennis greats couldn’t hack it on the court against male competitors. The comments came fast and furious, stress on “furious.”
“Woman History month and you go and f*** over 2 of the greatest female athletes of the modern age WTF,” one Instagram user vented on an Instagram page that apparently isn’t even Campion’s.
“Check your white woman privilege at the door next time,” said another, in part.
“PUT SOME RESPECT ON BLACK WOMEN…” said yet another on The Power of the Dog‘s Instagram page.
Campion soon apologized for the comment, saying in a statement quoted by Variety. “I made a thoughtless comment equating what I do in the film world with all that Serena Williams and Venus Williams have achieved. I did not intend to devalue these two legendary Black women and world-class athletes.”
The director added, “The fact is the Williams sisters have, actually, squared off against men on the court (and off), and they have both raised the bar and opened doors for what is possible for women in this world.”
Campion concluded, “The last thing I would ever want to do is minimize remarkable women. I love Serena and Venus. Their accomplishments are titanic and inspiring. Serena and Venus, I apologize and completely celebrate you.”
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Rod Stewart may be a rich and famous rock star, but he’s not afraid to get his hands dirty.
A few days ago, Sir Rod, 77, posted two videos on Instagram of himself shoveling gravel with a road crew as they attempted to fill in a bunch of muddy holes all along the road in Harlow, Essex, England, that leads to his mansion.
“I’m repairing the street where I live, ’cause no one could be bothered to do it,” Rod says in the first video. In the second clip, he shows off the pothole-ridden dirt road, and says, “This is the state of the road where I live. People are bashing their cars up, and the other day, there was an ambulance with a burst tire.”
Of course, Rod’s motivation to repair the road isn’t solely altruistic. “My Ferrari can’t go through here at all,” he admits. “So me and the boys thought we’d come here and do it ourselves!” He also complains about the “millions and millions of pounds” that have been spent fixing a nearby highway.
Rod’s daughters Kimberly and Ruby Stewart applauded him in the comments, while his former Faces band mate and longtime Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood wrote, “Bravo, Rod!”
However, one fan noted, “Don’t hurt yourself! I’ve got tickets to see you in June!”
Another fan commented, “Takes you back to your graveyard days I’m sure,” referring to the story that, in his pre-fame days, Rod worked as a gravedigger. Rod later admitted in his autobiography that the story wasn’t true, but he’d gone along with it. In reality, he did work in a cemetery, but his job was measuring out plots, not digging graves.
(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) — Two years after Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by police in her Louisville, Kentucky home, her mother met with officials at the Department of Justice, urging federal charges against the officers involved in her daughter’s death.
“The most important thing is to remember that Breonna didn’t deserve this,” her mother, Tamika Palmer, told reporters on Monday following the meeting with Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke and attorneys in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. “She was at home, in her own home minding her business when these people kicked in her door and murdered her.”
A DOJ spokesperson confirmed to ABC News that Clarke and attorneys from the Civil Rights Division met with members of Taylor’s family and attorneys, saying, “This matter is currently under investigation and we have no further comment.”
Attorney Ben Crump, who represents Taylor’s family, told ABC News that the meeting at the DOJ lasted for 45 minutes and officials said that they were conducting a “thorough investigation.”
“We don’t want to have to come here next year this time and still not have decisions made,” Crump said.
“You have to think about it from the perspective of the Black community. There are charges brought against us for a lot less, so we hope that they are just as zealous in holding these police officers who killed Breonna Taylor accountable,” he added.
Following the press conference, which took place outside the National Council of Negro Women in Washington, D.C., the family, joined by advocates and leaders in the Black Lives Matter movement, walked to the DOJ to hand-deliver 18,000 signatures from people, calling for the officers to be held accountable.
The 26-year-old Taylor, an emergency medical technician, was fatally shot down on March 13, 2020, in a hail of bullets by plainclothes officers Brett Hankison, Myles Cosgrove and Jonathan Mattingly. They were executing a “no knock” search warrant for Taylor’s ex-boyfriend for allegedly dealing drugs.
He was not at the residence, but her current boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, thought someone was breaking into the home and fired one shot from a 9 mm pistol at the officers. Mattingly was struck in the leg and three officers fired 32 shots into the apartment, killing Taylor, who was in her bedroom.
“No-knock” warrants, which are when officers don’t announce themselves before entering a home, have come under renewed scrutiny following the Feb. 2 fatal shooting of Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man who was killed during a raid by Minneapolis police officers.
“For the nation, it’s been two years and one day. For me, I’m trapped in March the 13th, 2020,” Palmer said. “I don’t know how people think I should just move on; that I should just walk away from this thing. Half my life has been spent being Breonna’s mother. It’s the only thing I’ve learned to do well in my life. It’s the thing that I’ll die for – fighting to make sure she gets justice.”
ABC News reached out to the attorneys representing Hankison and Cosgrove, but requests for comment were not immediately returned.
Mattingly’s attorney Kent Wicker told ABC News they have “no comment at this time.”
Hankison and Cosgrove were ultimately fired from the police department and Mattingly retired in 2021.
Taylor’s killing gained national attention and sparked nationwide “Black Lives Matter” protests in the summer of 2020 after the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man in Minnesota, who died after an officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
Six months after Taylor was killed, Kentucky Attorney General Cameron convened a grand jury to investigate possible charges against the officers.
The grand jury indicted former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison in September 2020 on three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree for firing into the apartment directly behind Taylor’s, where three people were inside.
Earlier this month, a jury in Louisville found Hankison not guilty on all three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree.
But none of the officers were charged for their involvement in Taylor’s death – a decision that sparked widespread backlash from social justice advocates.
Amid a barrage of criticism, Cameron told ABC affiliate WBKO in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in October 2020 that the officers who opened fire were “justified” because they “returned fire after having been fired upon.”
He also defended his decision not to give the grand jury on the case surrounding the death of Breonna Taylor the option to consider murder charges.
“I fully take responsibility for the recommendation that we made,” he said at the time. “Based on the facts, that was the appropriate recommendation to make.”
Palmer said on Monday that Cameron and Kentucky “failed” her daughter and she is now asking the DOJ to “do the right thing.”
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The stars of 90s TV favorites were on hand at Connecticut’s Hartford Convention Center over the weekend for the first-ever 90s Con.
Among the stars who sat down to throwback with ABC Audio included Reginald VelJohnson, Kellie Shanygne Williams, Darius McCrary and Jo Marie Payton from Family Matters.
“We’re not just one of the greatest shows of the ’90s,” enthused McCrary, who played Eddie Winslow, “We’re one of the greatest shows of all time!”
Payton offered a hearty “Amen!”
Family Matters ran from 1989 to 1998, first on ABC before a move to CBS for its final season. During the pandemic, the series found a huge new audience via streaming.
“I mean, everything else is horrible, but the cool thing about the pandemic is it drove us all back together,” commented Shanygne. “I think that parents that are our age…they wanted to share…a specific kind of experience with their kids.”
She continues, “When we saw that the show had been streamed over two billion times during the pandemic, that was awesome.”
VelJohnson, the Die Hard veteran who played Winslow family patriarch Carl, is pulling for a reboot, suggesting, “…I’d be a grandfather.” However, he laughed about what that would mean to the show’s most memorable character, played by Jaleel White, “…Urkel’s kids! Oh lord, could you imagine? ‘Did I do that?'” he said, dropping the character’s catchphrase.
Payton, who already stars in the reboot of The Proud Family on Disney+, has one rule: A reboot can’t be like Peacock’s new Fresh Prince re-do, Bel-Air. “I wouldn’t like to go that way because we were not a dramedy. We were a situation comedy,” she declared.
