Chris Rock to Host SNL - Oct 3rd - Megan Thee Stallion To Appear

 

Chris Rock will take the stage in Studio 8H as host of “Saturday Night Live’s” 46^th season premiere on Oct. 3, 2020. This will mark Rock’s third appearance as the show’s host.   Also on the show, Megan Thee Stallion will make her “SNL” musical guest debut. Her latest album, “Suga,” has garnered over 900 million streams to date and spawned this summer’s smash hit and 3x platinum single, “Savage.”

 Rock was a SNL cast member from 1990-1993 and he previously hosted the show in 1996 and 2014. The multiple Emmy and Grammy Award winner, Rock, currently stars in the fourth installment of FX’s critically acclaimed drama series “Fargo,” which launches  tonight.    

 

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RAISED BY WOLVES Returns for Season Two

 

Ridley Scott’s Raised by Wolves will return on the impressive debut it made on HBO Max as the Top Performing Max Original since the platform’s launch.
After a striking debut on the streamer as the #1 performing Max original since the platform’s launch, HBO Max has ordered a second season of Raised by Wolves, a serialized sci-fi series from master storyteller and filmmaker Ridley Scott (The Martian, Gladiator, Alien), which has immersed fans into the rich, intricate world of Kepler 22-b. The series, which debuted with three episodes on Sept. 3, has continued to be a strong performer in its second week on the platform, growing its audience by nearly 50% week over week.

Raised by Wolves centers on two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet. As the burgeoning colony of humans threatens to be torn apart by religious differences, the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is a treacherous and difficult task.  Scott serves as an executive producer on the series and directed the first two episodes, marking his television series directorial debut for American audiences. The series was created by Aaron Guzikowski, acclaimed writer and visionary behind the highly lauded film, Prisoners.

"When I think of Raised by Wolves, I think of artistry; artistry in crafting a compelling storyline, artistry in the out-of-this-world production design, special effects and cinematography, artistry in our actor’s portrayals of these memorable characters, and artistry attached to the legendary work of Ridley Scott, Aaron Guzikowski and our phenomenal crew,” said Sarah Aubrey, head of HBO Max. “This chart-topping series beautifully weaves together Ridley’s hallmarks of sci-fi and horror while offering fans one of the most original storylines they’ve seen in some time.  I can’t wait to see what’s in store for season two.”

Critics have lauded the series, with IGN calling it “one of the most interesting sci-fi shows in years.  Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal heaps praise on Amanda Collin (A Conspiracy of Faith, A Horrible Woman), who stars as Mother, as “one of the most memorable female/female-like space entity since Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley in “Alien”—or the alien in “Aliens.” Collin’s performance, alongside her character’s counterpart, Father, played by Abubakar Salim (Fortitude, Jamestown), has been underscored as “top-notch” by Forbes.
 
In addition to Collin and Salim, Raised by Wolves stars Winta McGrath (Aloft, Red Dog: True Blue), Niamh Algar (The Virtues, Calm With Horses), Jordan Loughran (The Infiltrator, Emerald City), Matias Varela (Narcos, Point Break), Felix Jamieson (Game of Thrones, The Ghost), Ethan Hazzard (The Long Song, Damned), Aasiya Shah (Call the Midwife, Unforgotten) Ivy Wong (Star Wars: Rogue One, Maleficent 2) and Travis Fimmel (Vikings). 
 
The series is produced by Scott's Scott Free Productions, with Scott, Guzikowski, David W. Zucker (The Man in the High Castle), Jordan Sheehan (The Terror), Adam Kolbrenner (Prisoners) and Mark Huffam (The Martian) serving as executive producers.

Courtesy: HBOMax.com

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GO-BIG SHOW Extreme Talent Competition To Premiere in 2021

 Go-Big Show is set to be an hour-long extreme talent competition starring celebrity judges Snoop Dogg, Rosario Dawson, Jennifer Nettles and “The American Nightmare” Cody and hosted by popular comedian Bert Kreischer. It will showcases supersized talents on a scale never before seen on television. Featuring monster trucks, alligator trainers, stunt archery and other radical feats, the program celebrates daring acts alongside personal, behind-the-scenes stories from the challengers as they battle head-to-head to impress the judges and advance toward the finale’s ultimate $100,000 prize.

Go-Big Show has begun production on 10 episodes at the Macon Coliseum in Georgia, where contenders and staff are operating under strict Covid-19 safety protocols and isolating together for the duration of production.

While the 7,000 seats within the arena will remain empty during tapings, the show’s lively indoor festivities will extend outdoors to TV’s first-ever, interactive drive-in audience. Spectators will cheer for their favorite competitors in real time during a socially-distanced tailgate party just outside the venue.
“Go-Big Show celebrates unique, nontraditional and unforgettable American talent,” said Corie Henson, EVP and head of unscripted programming for TBS, TNT and truTV. “Each contestant brings tremendous heart and swagger, which also perfectly describes Bert and our judges, a dream team of larger-than-life talent.”

Go-Big Show debuts on TBS in 2021,  and is produced by Propagate and Matador Content, a Boatrocker Company.

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Photographer: Jeremy Freeman for TBS

Will Smith & Cast Celebrate 30 Years of FRESH PRINCE

 

Will Smith released two first-look photos at the upcoming The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion special from Westbrook Media, of the 30th anniversary of the iconic series. Smith was joined by series regulars Tatyana Ali, Karyn Parsons, Joseph Marcell, Daphne Maxwell Reid and Alfonso Ribeiro as well as recurring co-star DJ Jazzy Jeff for a family reunion on set in the Banks’ home in this this one-time special. Surprising the rest of the cast, Smith revealed that he sat down yesterday with Janet Hubert, who originated the role of Aunt Viv, for the first time in 27 years for an emotional reunion and a candid conversation.

 

 

 The reunion will launch exclusively on HBO Max around Thanksgiving 2020. The upcoming special will be a funny and heartfelt night full of music, dancing, and more special surprise guests, in honor of the series that ran for six seasons and 148 episodes. 

 

The iconic series starred Will Smith as a teenager from inner city Philadelphia who's sent to California to live in with his wealthy relatives in the hopes that they will "straighten him out and teach him some good old-fashioned values," but Will soon takes his rightful place as The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
HBO Max will be the exclusive home for the upcoming cast reunion special for the series which taped on September 10, 2020.

 

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Full Frontal Samantha Bee on Covid-19's Politicization

 Sam dons her best lab coat blazer to deliver an in-depth look at the politicization of the COVID-19 vaccine and the history of vaccine science. According to Frontal, It’s not surprising that Trump is pushing for a rushed COVID-19 vaccine in order to gain cheap political points. But good things take time! So plan on taking shots, not getting them, come November.

 Is It Vaccine Season, Yet?
As summer ends and fall begins, nothing sounds better than a pumpkin spice latte and a shot of COVID-19 vaccine! But if we can wait all year for Starbucks to release the PSL, we can wait a little longer for a safe and effective vaccine.

 

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JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE (2020) - New Documentary Review

On July 3, 2020 I saw a pre-screening of  the new John Lewis documentary JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE (2020), produced by Magnolia Pictures, I am saddened that my scheduled  review of the film would be released one day after his passing.   Nonetheless, I am honored to have had to opportunity to get up-close and personal with Lewis, via this documentary.   

JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE (2020) is simply brilliant!  From the moment the film begins and we see Lewis  walk into an almost empty auditorium,  for what would be his private viewing of images and video related to this documentary, we know we are in for a special treat. 

As he gently sits on the stage, looking up towards the black & white images as they flash across the screen, he admits he has never seen many of the images before.  However, you quickly come to understand his in-depth knowledge of the moments the images were captured more than 60 years prior.   He asks the theatre technician to pause an image for a moment.  Lewis then states,  “I’ve never seen this photo before. You see the man standing next to me?  He’s got his hand up to his nose because he knows we are getting ready to be gassed.”  

JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE fast forward and rewinds us back and forth 60 plus years throughout  Congressman John Robert Lewis’ life.  We are afforded the opportunity to walk with him through the halls of the US Congress, the streets of Washington D.C., his private home, and then back to his childhood farm where, as he says, “As a child, I wanted to be a preacher SO bad, that I’d gather the chickens around and I’d preach to the chickens!”  Lewis laughs and goes on…  “Yes, my siblings wouldn’t sit long enough to listen to me. So I’d preach to those chickens.” He laughs some more.

Through the age of 80 he preached a new message to the world from his seat in the US Congress.  And his message is simple.  “Go out and get into some good trouble!”  Lewis would say.  And with these words, Lewis is told us to not be afraid to speak up and spark the kind of trouble that will cause positive change in our society and world.  

In JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE (2020) the film’s Director, Dawn Porter (Trapped (2016) - Gideons Army (2013), along with Producers: Erika Alexander, Ben Arnon and  Laura Michalchyshyn, do an excellent job of not only getting up-close and personal with Congressman Lewis,  who represented the 5^th District of Georgia, they are able to capture the true sense of Lewis’ character.  We witness how Lewis sincerely cared, not only for the public, but for those who work for and serve him in private.  We watch the gentle way in which he addressed his personal executive assistants, drivers and staff, giving back to them equal, if not more, service than they render unto him.

JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE (2020) chronicles Lewis' 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on issues including: civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. The film co-stars, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Corey Booker, ILhan Omar, Nancy Pelosi, Eric Holder, Michael Collins, Jamila Thompson, Beto O’Rourke and Stacey Abrams.  Rare  images and video footage of Julian Bond, Lyndon B. Johnson, Malcolm X, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. are also contained within the documentary as well. 

US Congressman and Representative, John Robert Lewis passed away on July 17, 2020, at age 80.  He was a key figure and confidante of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the height of the Civil Rights Movement.  And through this film, we learn the very private details of exactly how he and King met after unknown activist; Lewis wrote Dr. King a personal letter.   King would later invite Lewis for a private meeting eventually adopting Lewis into his inner circle with Lewis ultimately becoming one of Dr. King’s most trusted confidants and advocates of the non-violent philosophy and Civil Rights Movement. 

JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE (2020) is a great historical film about US Congressman and Representative, John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020).  It is a documentary people of all races should see along with their children.  It will be the best “GOOD TROUBLE” you’ll ever watch. 

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– DeAlan Wilson  

“Thank you Congressman John Robert Lewis for your life of service and for teaching us all how not only to serve our Nation, but how to serve one another and GOD. May you forever Rest in Peace.  AMEN.”                                             – DeAlan Wilson  (Saturday,  July 18, 2020)