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  • ‘Doctor Foster’ Returning for a Third and Final Season With Suranne Jones

    Some good news for Doctor Foster fans: The hit drama is set to return for a third and final season.

    The BBC revealed on Wednesday that season three of Mike Bartlett’s show will see Suranne Jones reprise her award-winning role as Gemma Foster, opposite A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms‘ Bertie Carvel as Simon and Tom Taylor as Tom.

    Made by Drama Republic for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, the five-part series will begin filming in and around Hertfordshire later this spring.

    “Ten years ago, on discovering her husband Simon was having an affair, Gemma Foster enacted a masterful revenge. But the fallout was devastating when her 15-year-old son Tom disappeared. Now, in series three, Gemma is still a GP, still in the same house, but on the brink of a fresh start: She has met someone new and is getting married,” a plot synopsis reads. “But as the wedding day draws closer, and friends and family gather, shadows from the past begin to re-emerge, threatening both her happiness and her reputation. As Gemma fights to protect those she loves and expose whoever’s intent on hurting her, will she be able to put the past to bed, dispense justice, and claim the future she deserves, before it is too late”

    Jones says when she got the call to return as Gemma Foster, she “knew the time was right.”

    “We needed space from the first two series, and we needed Tom — Gemma and Simon’s runaway son — to return as an adult with questions,” said the Gentleman Jack star. “For me, this time around it’s about accountability and questioning: ‘Can we ever truly sever ties with our past and the damage or traumas that haunt us, so we can fully move forward?’ Gemma and Simon have so much to unpick… It’s been an exciting time working with the brilliant Mike Bartlett again, and the team at Drama Republic, on the scripts and now I can’t wait to start filming.”

    Writer, creator and executive producer Bartlett added: “I always hoped that we’d get to tell the final part of Gemma’s story, which is about a woman seeking justice in an unfair world. That feels as relevant now as when Gemma first found a blonde hair on the scarf.”

    Doctor Foster was a U.K. sensation when it aired in 2015 and 2017, with nearly 10 million people watching the finale of series two. It also achieved critical acclaim, with Suranne Jones winning a BAFTA for her performance.

    Series three is produced by Drama Republic, a Mediawan Group Company. It will be directed by John Hardwick (One Day, Buccaneers), with Nige Watson (Killing Eve, The Assassin) as producer. Executive producers are Roanna Benn and Jude Liknaitzky (for Drama Republic), Mike Bartlett and Suranne Jones.

    The third season of Doctor Foster was commissioned by Lindsay Salt, BBC director of drama. BBC Studios is handling global sales of the series and the format, adapted in 15 territories worldwide.

  • ‘Hijack,’ ‘Lupin’ Creator’s Psychological Thriller ‘Gone’ Going to BritBox for U.S., Canada

    ‘Hijack,’ ‘Lupin’ Creator’s Psychological Thriller ‘Gone’ Going to BritBox for U.S., Canada

    BritBox has struck a deal to take the upcoming psychological thriller series Gone from George Kay, the creator and writer behind the likes of Hijack, The Long Shadow and Lupin, for the U.S. and Canada. The drama star David Morrissey (Sherwood) and Eve Myles (Keeping Faith).

    All3Media unveiled the deal on Wednesday as part of a raft of pre-sales during the London TV Screenings week in the British capital.

    The six-part series, set to premiere in the U.K. on ITV this spring, centers on the disappearance of Sarah Polly, with suspicion quickly falling on her husband, local headmaster Michael, played by Morrissey. “Outwardly respectable and obsessively ordered, Michael finds his carefully controlled world unravelling when he comes up against Detective Annie Cassidy, portrayed by Eve Myles,” reads a synopsis. “What follows is an intense psychological duel, as Annie chips away at Michael’s composed exterior in a tense game of cat and mouse that threatens to expose what lies beneath.”

    Beyond the central mystery, Gone also digs into themes of trauma, trust, and the long shadow cast by elite institutions.

    Further pre-sales for Gone include deals with Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, Australian streaming service Stan, and Sky New Zealand, which will show the seeies on Three and stream it on ThreeNow.

    Gone has also sold to BBC Studios for its drama streamer BBC First and its broad-based streamer BBC Player across Asia.

    Kay created and is writing the drama, with Richard Laxton (Mrs Wilson, The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe) directing. The cast also includes Jennifer Macbeth, Arthur Hughes, Nicholas Nunn, Elliot Cowan, Billy Barratt, Rupert Evans, Jodie McNee, Oscar Batterham, and Clare Higgins.

    The show, produced by New Pictures (The Long Shadow) in association with Kay’s Observatory Pictures, is partly inspired by the book To Hunt a Killer and the real-world work of former Detective Superintendent Julie Mackay and ITV crime correspondent Robert Murphy, both of whom serve as consultants on the series.

    Other pre-sales on the upcoming, starring take in both top broadcast networks and streaming services in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Europe. 

  • Lauren Chapin, the Youngest Kid on ‘Father Knows Best,’ Dies at 80

    Lauren Chapin, who portrayed the precocious Kathy “Kitten” Anderson on the iconic 1950s TV series Father Knows Best, has died. She was 80. 

    Chapin, who said she was molested as a child before dealing with drug abuse, jail sentences, several miscarriages and divorce after her show ended, died Tuesday after a battle with cancer, her son, Matthew, reported on Facebook.

    Following appearances on a 1952 episode of CBS’ Lux Video Theatre and in the Judy Garland-starring A Star Is Born (1954), Chapin was hired for Father Knows Best when she was 9.

    She said she got the job in part because she bore a strong resemblance to one of star Robert Young’s four daughters, also named Kathy. (Norma Jean Nilsson had played the part on the preceding NBC Radio version.)

    Chapin’s older TV siblings were Betty “Princess” Anderson (Elinor Donahue) and James “Bud” Anderson Jr. (Billy Gray), and their mom was level-headed housewife Margaret Anderson (Jane Wyatt). Young played Jim Anderson, an insurance salesman.

    Father Knows Best ran for six seasons, from October 1954 through May 1960, with two stints at CBS sandwiched around one at NBC. Reruns then aired for another couple of years in primetime on ABC and for decades in syndication, and the cast reunited for a pair of TV specials in 1977.

    Chapin was born in Los Angeles on May 23, 1945. Her older brothers, Billy Chapin (The Night of the Hunter) and Michael Chapin (It’s a Wonderful Life), were child actors as well.

    She was signed to a contract at Columbia Pictures and studied with choreographers Gower and Marge Champion and famed French mime Marcel Marceau.

    When she was about 6, her mom, Marguerite, whom she said was an alcoholic, took her brother Billy to New York to build his stage career, and she was left with her father, William, whom she said molested her. By age 11, she said was a “manic depressive personality” and once attempted suicide.

    “I was very difficult to understand how Kathy Anderson could be loved and protected and Lauren Chapin lived a whole different kind of life,” she said during an appearance on Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee in 1989. “I didn’t understand how God could let me suffer.”

    Five months after Father Knows Best ended. Chapin appeared on an installment of General Electric Theater alongside Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows, but that would mark her final acting appearance for 16 years.

    She dropped out of Pasadena High School as a junior, and on the Regis and Kathie Lee program, she said got married at 16 and divorced at 18; another marriage was annulled after she discovered her husband was still married. Another man she was involved with turned her into a call girl and on to heroin, which she said she did for seven years until she was 25. Along the way, she lost eight children to miscarriages.

    She said she also had to sue her mother to claim a portion of the money she had earned from Father Knows Best.

    After achieving sobriety in the 1970, Chapin worked as a minister and as a talent manager; on her website, it was noted that actress Jennifer Love Hewitt “got her start in show biz” through Chapin.

    She also published a memoir, 1989’s Father Does Know Best, and appeared on a 2016 YouTube series, School Bus Diaries.

    Survivors also include her daughter, Summer.

    “If I could be on television again, I would pray for a series like Father Knows Best,” she told People magazine in 1981, “one that has no violence, no sex and shows nothing but purity and love.”

  • Why Stephen Amell Blames Himself for ‘Suits L.A.’ Cancellation After One Season: “It Didn’t Work”

    Why Stephen Amell Blames Himself for ‘Suits L.A.’ Cancellation After One Season: “It Didn’t Work”

    Stephen Amell, who led NBC’s Suits L.A., said he’s taking responsibility for the show’s cancellation after one season.

    The actor, who played Los Angeles attorney Ted Black in the Suits spinoff, made a recent appearance on the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast, where he admitted that he thought the show “wasn’t good enough.” He added, “Anything that ends not on your terms is a failure.”

    However, Amell also put the show’s lack of success on himself personally, saying, “The blame rests with me.”

    “Whatever problem you have with the show — because I think that there were issues — it’s my job to solve those, to smooth them over and to gloss them up with some type of performance or something that, tangible or otherwise, covers up those mistakes,” he explained. “Because you do something that is magnetic, that is charismatic, that fixes those problems. And I didn’t do that.”

    He added, “I didn’t find anything ultimately with Ted Black, that character, that translated, that smoothed those things over, that gave us a chance to keep going.”

    Later, the Arrow alum expanded on his reasoning, saying if the show’s “successful, I’m gonna get a disproportionate amount of the credit, and so I think it’s only fair that I stand in front and I take the blame. I’m the lead of the series and it didn’t work.”

    Amell claimed he wasn’t the only one who questioned the spinoff’s potential, even before it premiered. He said Aaron Korsh — who created Suits L.A. and Suits, which ran from 2011 to 2019 — also had some doubts.

    “When I saw the pilot of Suits L.A. — and this goes back to about a month after we finished shooting — I sat down with Aaron Korsh, who created Suits and Suits L.A., and he was editing the pilot. He was like, ‘I don’t know if this is going to work,’” he recalled. “A lot of what he wanted to do seemed to run up against what the network wanted. It seems like they just … I don’t want to say they battled, because I wasn’t a part of those conversations, so I’m not going to speculate. But it just seemed like what he wanted to do and what they wanted to do were different.”

    Amell concluded that it was “tough” having Suits L.A. not renewed for a second season, but that ultimately, “It’s also not anyone’s fault.”

    “We certainly thought that we were gonna have another [season] and we’d get to work out some of those issues, and it just so happened that they went, ‘Nope, we’re gonna pull the plug,’” the Heels actor said.

    Suits L.A. also starred Lex Scott Davis, Josh McDermitt, Bryan Greenberg, Rachelle Goulding, Maggie Grace and Troy Winbush.

    NBC’s president of programming strategy, Jeff Bader, previously said during a conference call with media that the spinoff “had a very short run” because “it really just has not resonated the way we thought it would. There can be many, many reasons — people are speculating why it hasn’t resonated, but it’s just not really showing the potential to grow for us in the future, unfortunately.”

  • ‘Wisecrack’ Wins Podcast Of The Year at 2026 Ambies

    ‘Wisecrack’ Wins Podcast Of The Year at 2026 Ambies

    Wisecrack, a six-part series that combines true-crime and comedy, has been named podcast of the year at the 2026 Ambie Awards. 

    The show, from Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts, centers on UK comedian Edd Hedges, who tells a story about a real hometown murder in his standup act, and journalist Jodi Tovay ,as she investigates the story. The podcast beat out other contenders including Call Her Daddy, Crime Junkie, SmartLess and Pod Save America.

    Wisecrack led the nominations list with five nods, and ultimately took home four, including best society and culture podcast. Pablo Torre, host of Pablo Torre Finds Out, was named the Vanguard Podcaster of the Year.

    Other winners included Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend for best comedy podcast, Death, Sex & Money for best interview podcast, and The Indicator from Planet Money for best business podcast. 

    The ceremony took place Tuesday night (after being rescheduled from Monday due to the blizzard) at the Arlo Williamsburg in Brooklyn as part of On Air Fest. Comedian and writer Wyatt Cenac hosted the event. The 6th Annual Awards For Excellence In Audio were presented by the Podcast Academy.

    In addition to the competitive awards, Kara Swisher, host of Pivot and On with Kara Swisher, received the Governors Awards for her contributions to the growth of the podcasting industry.

    Angela Yee presented the late Reggie Ossé, host of The Combat Jack Show and founding partner of the Loud Speakers Network, with the Impact Award for his lasting impact on listeners. His wife, Akim Vann accepted the award on his behalf. 

    Presenters included B.A. Parker (co-host of Code Switch), Brittany Luse (It’s Been a Minute), Katy Hearne Church (Queen’s Podcast), Maria Hinojosa (founder of Futoro Media; In the Thick), Matt McGorry (How to Get Away with Murder), Sky Scraper (New York City FC’s mascot) and Touré (Why Did They Break Up Tracy Clayton).

    Full wInners list: 

    Governors Award Honoree
    Kara Swisher

    Impact Award Honoree
    Reggie Ossé (posthumously), accepted by his wife, Akim Vann

    Vanguard Podcaster of the Year
    Pablo Torre


    Podcast of The Year
    Wisecrack
    Tenderfoot TV , iHeartPodcasts


    Best Ad Read
    Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend
    SiriusXM

    Best Branded Podcast
    Sesame Street: Cookie Monster Mysteries
    Audible Studios,Sesame Workshop

    Best Business Podcast
    The Indicator from Planet Money
    NPR

    Best Comedy Podcast
    Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend
    SiriusXM, Team Coco

    Best DIY Podcast

    Redacted History

    Dr. Andre White, Airwave

    Best Documentary Podcast

    The Con: Kaitlyn’s Baby

    CBC, BBC World Service

    Best Emerging Podcast

    How Is This Better?

    COURIER Newsroom

    Best Entertainment Podcast

    Twenty Thousand Hertz

    Defacto Sound

    Best Fiction Podcast

    Red for Revolution

    Meta Mana Media

    Best History Podcast

    Our Ancestors Were Messy

    Coco Hill Productions

    Best Indie Podcast

    Our Ancestors Were Messy

    Coco Hill Productions

    Best Indie Podcast Host or Hosts

    Jamie Feldman and Rachel Webster

    Debt Heads

    Captain and the Fox

    Best Interview Podcast

    Death, Sex & Money

    Slate

    Best Knowledge, Science or Tech Podcast

    Radiolab

    New York Public Radio

    Best News & Politics

    Reveal

    Reveal and PRX

    Best Original Score and Music Supervision

    Marcus Bagala and Sam Ewing

    DC High Volume: Batman

    DC Comics, Realm

    Best Performance in Audio Fiction

    Maulik Pancholy, Murray Bartlett, Poorna Jagannathan, Karan Soni, Anna Camp, Adam Pally, Margo Martindale, Richard Kind, Conrad Ricamora, Iqbal Theba, Julian Shapiro- Barnum, Padma Lakshmi, et al.
    Murder at the Patel Motel

    Broadway Video, Audible

    Best Personal Growth / Spirituality Podcast

    Wild Card with Rachel Martin

    NPR

    Best Podcast for Kids

    Terrestrials

    WNYC Studios

    Best Podcast Host or Hosts

    Rachel Martin

    Wild Card with Rachel Martin NPR

    Best Production and Sound Design

    Alex Vespestad, Steven Perez, and Cooper Skinner

    Wisecrack

    Tenderfoot TV , iHeartPodcasts

    Best Reporting

    Robyn Semien

    Question Everything

    Placement Theory

    Best Scriptwriting, Fiction

    Jana Naomi Smith

    Red for Revolution

  • One of Eric Dane’s Final Roles Was Boosting Visibility for ALS: “Used His Platform Not for Attention, But for Action”

    Eric Dane still has some posthumous performances to be released, but the role he took on in his final year will be remembered as the most impactful.

    After the Grey’s Anatomy and Euphoria actor publicly announced his diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in April 2025, he didn’t retreat from the public eye as he battled the devastating disease. Instead, he used the platform he built thanks to his career in Hollywood to boost visibility for ALS.

    Dane didn’t hesitate to take on an advocacy role, partnering with organizations like Target ALS and I AM ALS to bring more awareness and research surrounding the rare degenerative disease.

    For the former nonprofit, he joined its Board of Directors and became the face of Target ALS’s “Ending ALS Starts with You” campaign, helping raise more than $500,000 in 2025 to accelerate research for treatments. As for I AM ALS, he served as an ambassador for the nonprofit and helped launch its “Push for Progress” campaign in September, which aims to secure $1 billion in federal funding for ALS over the next three years.

    Dane was recognized as Advocate of the Year at the ALS Network’s Champions for Cures and Care Gala last month.

    In October 2025, Dane also traveled to Washington, D.C., with the I AM ALS leadership to lobby Congress to increase federal funding for ALS research and push for the reauthorization of the Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act, which expires in 2026. He met with lawmakers, including U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, to discuss the urgency of funding.

    In addition to his work with nonprofits, Dane combined his advocacy with his acting talents, appearing in a season two episode of the NBC medical drama, Brilliant Minds. In the episode, which aired in November, he played Matthew, a firefighter who struggles to tell his family about his ALS diagnosis and later grapples to accept help from them as the prognosis progresses. 

    “We really wanted to honor him and his experience and be really truthful about it. [We] didn’t want to sensationalize in any way,” Brilliant Minds creator Michael Grassi previously told The Hollywood Reporter of the importance of the episode.

    Grassi also co-wrote the episode with Daniela Lamas, a doctor, and also leaned on two ALS doctors and two members of the writing staff who had family members living with ALS when developing the storyline. “We really wanted to get all the language right, especially when talking about something like ALS, where yes, there is currently no cure, but people are currently working very hard to find a cure,” the showrunner added.

    Dane died on Feb. 19, following a years-long battle with the rare degenerative disease. The actor had shared that he first experienced symptoms a year and a half before publicly revealing his diagnosis.

    Following his death, I AM ALS shared in a statement, “Eric used his platform not for attention, but for action. From the moment he joined I AM ALS, he showed up with courage and conviction, asking how he could use his superpowers to help the movement grow. It was an honor to brainstorm with him, to walk alongside him in the halls of Congress on behalf of our community, amplify the urgent need for ACT for ALS and research funding, and drive toward treatments and, ultimately, a cure. He understood that ALS is not just a diagnosis; it is a call to action for families, for answers, and for change.”

    “Eric brought humility, humor, and visibility to ALS and reminded the world that progress is possible when we refuse to remain silent. Eric was more than a supporter of our mission—he was part of our family. His impact will live on in the research being funded, the policies being advanced, and the community he helped grow by his honesty, his bravery, and his belief in a better future for anyone struggling with this diagnosis,” the organization continued. “We honor Eric by continuing the work he believed in so deeply: mobilizing communities, driving critical research, securing essential funding, and fighting relentlessly for real solutions. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and our entire community. I AM ALS will carry his legacy forward — until ALS is no more.”

    Target ALS also wrote in a statement, “Though we had only known Eric, or ‘E,’ as so many called him, for the past year, his impact on our community was immediate and profound. From the moment we met him, we experienced his generosity of heart. He didn’t hesitate to ask how he could help, how he could fight, and how he could be part of the solution. Whenever we asked for his support, his response was always the same: ‘I’ll do whatever I can to help.’”

    “We also recognize that families across the globe experience this heartbreak every day. To lose someone to ALS is devastating and unacceptable,” the org added. “Partnering with Eric was a way to fight back, to accelerate research and advance effective treatments for this disease. At Target ALS, we will carry this work forward in Eric’s honor, and in honor of the many who came before him. We remain steadfast in our mission so that no family has to endure this loss in the future.”

    Dane’s final onscreen performances will be in Euphoria season three and Family Secrets.

  • Gavin Newsom Memoir Hits Top of Best-Sellers Chart Hours After Release

    Gavin Newsom Memoir Hits Top of Best-Sellers Chart Hours After Release

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    Gavin Newsom‘s new memoir has shot to the top of the best-sellers charts just hours after its release online.

    Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery is billed as an “intimate and poignant account of identity, belonging, and the defining moments that inspired a life in politics,” and the book comes amid speculation that the California Governor is considering a 2028 presidential run.

    Released Feb. 24, Newsom’s book is currently at the top of Amazon’s political biographies chart and in the Top Five of the site’s best-selling memoirs chart as of this writing.

    Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery

    HARDCOVER VERSION

    Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery

    Released by Penguin Press, the book is available now as a 304-page hardcover. Newsom also narrates the audiobook version of “Young Man in a Hurry,” which you can listen to for free right now with a free trial to Audible here.

    Newsom has made headlines in recent months both for squaring off with Donald Trump and for his grand plans to halt Hollywood’s so-called “filming exodus.” The governor has pledged to return television and movie production to California, signing a bill last year that would double the state’s tax incentives for film and TV projects from $330 million to $750 million annually. Still, Newsom has faced his fair share of detractors — even from Hollywood insiders — on issues outside of the industry.

    In October, Joseph Gordon Levitt said the governor was “too scared” to veto legislation that would have banned companies from making AI chatbots available to people under the age of 18 (Newsom attributed his decision to the bill’s “broad restrictions,” though he did sign a law that requires platforms to remind users they are interacting with a chatbot and not a human, as well as prevent the promotion of self-harm content). Halle Berry, meantime, criticized Newsom in December for vetoing a menopause bill she backed, adding that, “That’s OK, because he’s not going to be governor forever, and the way he has overlooked women … he probably should not be our next president either.”

    The new book was written too late to respond to the criticisms, but nevertheless seeks to position Newsom as an underdog, who took up baseball as a way to deal with his family dysfunction and his longtime struggles with dyslexia. The running theme throughout Newsom’s memoir: This is just a guy who has lived his whole life trying to make his home state proud.

    “Born in San Francisco, his parents divorced at a young age, and his childhood was spent being tugged between two worlds: his mother worked three jobs in order to care for her children while his father, a close friend of the Getty family, brought Newsom into San Francisco society, a world of wealth and connections,” reads a book description. “The dissonance was frustrating, and made all the more difficult because of undiagnosed dyslexia, but the vantage point was valuable: he inherited his mother’s perseverance and his father’s reverence of California, not only its wildness, but its opportunity.”

    For what it’s worth, Newsom has never lived outside of California — something that has both endeared him to locals and left him open to critique from potential voters in the rest of the country. The 58-year-old also memorably saw off a GOP-led recall effort in 2021.

    For Newsom, “the California Dream” is what keeps him going, the publishers’ notes say. “His great-great-grandfather, a cop, walked a beat in San Francisco, where almost 150 years later, Newsom would be elected as mayor, running on the values instilled in him by his family history: that California’s open arms must continue to extend to each new generation,” a description reads.

    Of course, the book chronicles Newsom’s entire political career, including his time as mayor of San Francisco, where he issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples more than 10 years before the Supreme Court made same-sex unions legal. The book also lauds his “bold efforts” to “counter climate change, improve mental health care, and enhance gun safety.”

    Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery audiobook

    AUDIOBOOK VERSION

    Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery

    Download or stream the audiobook version of Newsom’s memoir with a free trial to Audible here.

    As the book description states, Newsom’s memoir is a “deeply resilient California story of identity, belonging, and the defining moments that inspired a life in politics.”

    Read and buy Gavin Newsom’s new memoir here.

  • NAACP Image Awards: Kendrick Lamar, SZA, Cardi B Among Night Two Non-Televised Winners

    NAACP Image Awards: Kendrick Lamar, SZA, Cardi B Among Night Two Non-Televised Winners

    The second round of winners for the 2026 NAACP Image Awards was announced Tuesday in the non-televised music and podcast award categories.

    Cardi B won three awards during the presentation: outstanding artist, outstanding album for her latest release, Am I the Drama?, and outstanding hip-hop/rap song for the single “ErrTime.”

    Entertainer of the Year nominee Kendrick Lamar won two awards for outstanding male artist and outstanding music video/visual album, along with SZA, for luther. During Monday’s award announcement, Lamar also won the award for outstanding short-form series or special for his Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show.

    Five-time NAACP Image Award nominee Michelle Obama picked up two additional wins for IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson in the categories of outstanding podcast — arts, sports and entertainment and outstanding podcast — lifestyle/self-help. On Monday, Obama also won the award for outstanding literary work — biography/autobiography for The Look. The Don Lemon Show also picked up two prizes: outstanding podcast — news and information and outstanding podcast — society and culture.

    The awards were announced on the second evening of the three-night virtual event hosted by actress and writer Angel “ThatChickAngel” Laketa Moore and actor and rapper Khleo Thomas exclusively on the NAACP Image Awards‘ YouTube channel. Additional non-televised awards will be announced on Wednesday. Rev. Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant will also be presented with the Mildred Bond Roxborough Social Justice Impact Award at the 57th NAACP Image Awards Creative Honors on Thursday and A$AP Rocky will receive the Vanguard Award at the NAACP Image Awards Reception & Fashion Show on Friday night.

    The 57th NAACP Image Awards, hosted by Average Joe star and comedian Deon Cole, will air live on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 8:00 PM ET/PT on BET and CBS from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Special honorees include Viola Davis, who’ll receive the Chairman’s Award, and Colman Domingo, who’ll be presented with the President’s Award.

    The complete list of night two non-televised winners follows.

    Outstanding Music Video/Visual Album

    • Anxiety – Doechii (Top Dawg Entertainment/Capitol Records)
    • Boots on the Ground – 803Fresh (Snake Eyez Music Group/APG)
    • Escape Room – Teyana Taylor (Def Jam Recordings)
    • Folded – Kehlani (Atlantic Records)       
    • luther – Kendrick Lamar & SZA (pgLang under exclusive license to Interscope Records) (WINNER)

    Outstanding New Artist

    • Elmiene – Useless Without You (Def Jam Recordings)
    • Lee Vasi – Love Me To Life (Capitol CMG/Leeda Music Group)
    • Madison McFerrin – Scorpio (MadMcFerrin Music LLC)  
    • Monaleo – Who Did the Body? (Columbia Records) (WINNER)
    • Ravyn Lenae – Bicycle Race (Atlantic Records)

    Outstanding Female Artist

    • Alex Isley – Hands (Warner Records)
    • Cardi B – Am I the Drama? (Atlantic Records) (WINNER)
    • Doechii – “Anxiety” (Top Dawg Entertainment/Capitol Records)
    • SZA – SOS Deluxe: LANA (RCA Records/Top Dawg Entertainment)
    • Teyana Taylor – Escape Room (Def Jam Recordings)

    Outstanding Male Artist

    • Bryson Tiller – Solace & The Vices (RCA Records/TrapSoul)
    • Chris Brown – “It Depends” feat. Byrson Tiller (RCA Records/Chris Brown Entertainment)
    • GIVĒON – Beloved (Epic Records)
    • Kendrick Lamar – luther (pgLang under exclusive license to Interscope Records) (WINNER)
    • Leon Thomas – MUTT Deluxe: Heel (EZMNY Records/Motown Records)

    Outstanding Song – Hip-Hop/Rap Song

    • “Anxiety” — Doechii (Top Dawg Entertainment/Capitol Records)
    • “Chains & Whips” – Clipse, Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell Williams, Pusha T, Malice (Roc Nation Distribution)     
    • “ErrTime” – Cardi B (Atlantic Records) (WINNER)
    • “Ride (Remix)” – Chance the Rapper feat. Do or Die & Twista (CTR LLC)
    • “Typa” – GloRilla (CMG/Interscope Records)

    Outstanding Soundtrack/Compilation Album

    • Godfather of Harlem: Season 4 (Original Series Soundtrack) (Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment)
    • Highest 2 Lowest (Original Soundtrack) (A24)
    • Sinners (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Proximity Media LLC, under exclusive license to Masterworks, a label of Sony Music Entertainment) (WINNER)
    • The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder: Season 3 (Music from the Series) (Walt Disney Records)
    • Wicked: For Good (The Soundtrack) (Republic Records) 

    Outstanding International Song

    • “In Our Sight” – Skip Marley (Def Jam Recordings)
    • “Is It” – Tyla (Epic Records) (WINNER)
    • “Love” – Burna Boy (Spaceship/Bad Habit/Atlantic Records)
    • “With You” – Davido feat. Omah Lay (RCA Records/Sony Music UK)
    • “You4Me” – Tiwa Savage (Everything Savage/EMPIRE)

    Outstanding Jazz Album

    • For Dinah – Ledisi (Candid Records)
    • We Insist! 2025 – Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell (Candid Records) (WINNER)
    • Beneath the Skin – Nnenna Freelon (Origin Records)
    • Live-Action – Nate Smith – Nate Smith (Naive)
    • Griot Songs – Omar Thomas Large Ensemble (Omar Thomas Music)

    Outstanding Gospel/Christian Song

    • “Church” – Tasha Cobbs Leonard feat John Legend (Motown Gospel)         
    • “Constant” – Live – Maverick City Music, Jordin Sparks, Chandler Moore, Anthony Gargiula (Tribl Records)
    • “Do it Again” – Kirk Franklin (Fo Yo Soul Recordings/Tribl Records) (WINNER)
    • “Don’t Faint” – Jekalyn Carr (Waynorth Music)
    • “Jesus I Do” – Mariah Carey feat. The Clark Sisters (gamma.)

    Outstanding Gospel/Christian Album

    • Jekalyn X The Legends – Jekalyn Carr (Waynorth Music)
    • Live at Maverick City – Maverick City Music (Tribl Records, LLC)
    • Only On The Road (Live) – Tye Tribbett (Freligious Music)          
    • Tasha – Tasha Cobbs Leonard (Motown Gospel) (WINNER)
    • The Live Reunion: Washington D.C. – JJ Hairson and Youthful Praise (James Town Music)

    Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Traditional)

    • 803Fresh feat. Fantasia – “Boots on the Ground Remix” (Snake Eyez Music Group/Artist Partner Group) (WINNER)
    • Clipse, Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell Williams, Pusha T, Malice – “Chains & Whips” (Roc Nation Distribution)
    • Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande – “For Good” (Republic Records)
    • Mariah Carey, The Clark Sisters – “Jesus I Do” (gamma.)
    • Travis Greene & Andra Day – “Let Freedom Ring” (Greenelight Music/TRIBL Records)

    Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Contemporary)

    • Cardi B, Kehlani – “Safe” (Atlantic Records)          
    • Chris Brown feat. Bryson Tiller & Usher – “It Depends (Remix)” (RCA Records/Chris Brown Entertainment) (WINNER)
    • kwn feat. Kehlani – “Worst Behavior” (RCA Records)
    • FLO – “The Mood (Remixes)” (Uptown Records/Republic Records)
    • Leon Thomas & Chris Brown –  “MUTT (Remix)” (EZMNY Records/Motown Records)

    Outstanding Original Score for Television/Film

    • Boots (Madison Gate Records)
    • Eyes of Wakanda Original Soundtrack (Hollywood Records)
    • Marvel’s Ironheart: Vol. 1 (Original Soundtrack) (Hollywood Records)
    • One of Them Days (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Madison Gate Records, TriStar Productions)
    • Sinners (Original Motion Picture Score) (Proximity Media LLC, under exclusive license to Sony Classical, a label of Sony Music Entertainment) (WINNER)

    Outstanding Album

    • Am I The Drama? – Cardi B (Atlantic Records) (WINNER)
    • Beloved – GIVĒON (Epic Records)
    • Let God Sort Em Out – Clipse, Pusha T, Malice (Roc Nation Distribution)
    • Mutt Deluxe: Heel – Leon Thomas (EZMNY Records/Motown Records)
    • SOS Deluxe: LANA – SZA (RCA Records/Top Dawg Entertainment)

    Outstanding Podcast – Scripted/Limited Series/Short Form

    • Exonerated: The Cost of Wrongful Conviction (WURD Radio)
    • Interesting Things with JC (Jim Connors LLC) (WINNER)
    • Kingsland (SBH Productions and Audible)
    • Squeezed with Yvette Nicole Brown (Lemonada Media)
    • The Prophecy Season 2 (Audible, Simpson Street and Q Code Media)     

    Outstanding Podcast – News and Information

    • Accidentally Informed (ComebackTV Presents)
    • Native Land Pod (iHeartMedia/Reasoned Choice Media)
    • The Assignment with Audie Cornish (CNN)
    • The Don Lemon Show (Lemon Media Network) (WINNER)
    • The Joy Reid Show (Image Lab Media Group LLC)

    Outstanding Podcast – Lifestyle/Self-Help

    • Ageless, Fearless, & Unscripted (Williamson Media Group)
    • Hot & Bothered with Melyssa Ford (Forged Path Productions)
    • IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson (Higher Ground) (WINNER)
    • Just Heal with Dr. Jay (Cue & Coda Films)
    • Money And Wealth With John Hope Bryant (Black Effect-iHeartPodcasts)  

    Outstanding Podcast – Arts, Sports and Entertainment

    • IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson (Higher Ground) (WINNER)
    • Legacy Talk with Lena Waithe (Hillman Grad & Lemonada Media)
    • ReLiving Single with Erika Alexander & Kim Coles (Hartbeat)
    • Shawn Stockman’s On That Note (CTG Media)
    • SPOLITICS with Jemele Hill (Unbothered Inc)

    Outstanding Podcast – Society and Culture

    • Baby, This is Keke Palmer (Wondery)
    • Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay (The Ringer)
    • IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson (Higher Ground)
    • The Don Lemon Show (Lemon Media Network) (WINNER)
    • What Now? with Trevor Noah (Day Zero Productions)  
  • Box Office Preview: ‘Scream 7’ Set to Deliver Year’s Top Opening With $40 Million-Plus

    Box Office Preview: ‘Scream 7’ Set to Deliver Year’s Top Opening With $40 Million-Plus

    Theater owners have good reason to scream for joy as the Scream 7 prepares to open in theaters this weekend.

    From Spyglass and Paramount, the slasher pic is expected to open to at least $40 million, which would mark the best three-day launch of the year to date. Tracking is more bullish, with the National Research Group projecting $45 million. If the leading firm is right, that would also mark the top opening of the franchise ahead of Scream VI, which launched to $44.4 million in March 2023, not adjusted for inflation. It is targeting a $60 million global launch.

    The pic sees Neve Campbell return to the iconic series in the role of Sidney after sitting out Scream VI because of a salary dispute after appearing in every film up to that point.

    Kevin Williamson, who wrote the script for the original Scream, Scream 2 and Scream 4, directs the seventh installment. The story follows Sidney as she returns to her hometown with her daughter (Isabel May), who soon cross paths with a new Ghostface killer. The girl is named Tatum, the same name of Rose McGowan’s character in the 1996’s Scream who was murdered.

    A trailer released in March focused on Ghostface targeting Sidney and Tatum, with Sidney teaching her daughter the rules of surviving the brutal killer. Another ad played during the Super Bowl, underscoring how important the franchise is to David Elllison and his new regime at Paramount.

    In addition to Campbell, original star Courteney Cox returns as reporter Gale Weathers.

    Spyglass fully produced the movie, with Paramount co-financing half of the net $45 million budget. If all goes well, it will be the first hit for the studio since Ellison arrived last August.

    Additionally, Scream 7 marks the first installment to screen in Imax. It is also playing across all other premium formats.

    Scream launched in 1996 with the late Wes Craven going on to direct three sequels known for skewering horror genre tropes. In 2022, the fifth film reinvented the franchise under the direction of directing team Radio Silence, with Campbell, Cox and David Arquette returning alongside a crew of new actors.

    They followed it up with Scream VI, which in 2023 became the franchise’s top grossing movie, grossing $108.4 million domestically and $166.6 million globally

    While Campbell’s return marks a highly anticipated moment for fans, two stars of the revival films Scream (2022) and Scream VI will not be back. Melissa Barrera was fired from Scream 7 because of her social media posts about the Israel-Hamas war. Jenna Ortega had already left the film voluntarily before the firing, though it was not made public until after. Christopher Landon, who was set to direct the horror sequel, also exited amid intense fan backlash after Barrera’s firing, despite not being the one to fire the actress.

    Other franchise stars returning include David Arquette as Dewey Riley, completing the legacy trio alongside Sidney and Gale. Matthew Lillard, one of the original co-Ghostface killers, is coming back as Stu Macher, as well as Scott Foley, Scream 3‘s Ghostface Roman Bridger — Sidney’s half-brother. Siblings Chad and Mindy, played by Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown are also in Scream 7.

    Newcomers to the franchise include May, Michelle Randolph, Joel McHale, Anna Camp, Mckenna Grace, Ethan Embry, Mark Consuelos, Jimmy Tatro, Celeste O’Connor, Asa Germann and Sam Rechner.

  • Taylor Sheridan Moves ‘Tulsa King’ Spinoff, Starring Samuel L. Jackson, From New Orleans to Texas

    It appears Taylor Sheridan‘s Tulsa King spinoff, starring Samuel L. Jackson, won’t be taking place in New Orleans anymore.

    Paramount+ announced Tuesday that the spinoff, which was originally titled NOLA King and set in New Orleans, will now move to Texas and be called Frisco King. Sheridan has also been tapped to write all eight episodes of the first season.

    The spinoff will center on Jackson’s character, Russell Lee Washington Jr., who was first introduced in the third season of Tulsa King, starring Sylvester Stallone.

    “We are honored to have Taylor Sheridan write the first season of Frisco King and bring to life Samuel L. Jackson’s iconic character,” Matt Thunell, president of Paramount Television Studios, wrote in a statement. “Having him pen all episodes of the season with his singular voice will be a treat for fans of Tulsa King and audiences around the world.”

    Produced by Paramount Television Studios and 101 Studios, Frisco King is executive produced by Sheridan, Stallone and Jackson. David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin, Bob Yari, Christina Alexandra Voros, Michael Friedman, LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Keith Cox are also executive producers on the series.

    Dave Erickson, the showrunner for the third season of Tulsa King, was initially set to be the showrunner for NOLA King as well, but reportedly stepped away due to scheduling conflicts, leading Sheridan to pen the spinoff.

    Production on Frisco King is set to begin in late March in Fort Worth, Texas.

    “Taylor Sheridan continues to build worlds that attract some of the most iconic talent working today, and Frisco King is no exception,” Jane Wiseman, head of originals at Paramount+, added in a statement. “Having Samuel L. Jackson step into this universe is a testament to the scale and ambition of the storytelling Taylor is crafting. We’re thrilled to expand this storyline with such a powerhouse creative team and cast on Paramount+.”