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The Bordelons are back, and coming back again.

A month before the fifth season of Queen Sugar is set to debut, OWN has given the Ava DuVernay created drama a sixth season.

“What a joy and an honor to continue the stories of Queen Sugar with our partners at OWN and Warner Bros.,” said EP DuVernay today of the early renewal. “On behalf of every producer, editor, costumer, grip, writer, cast member and all departments involved in making this series, we’re delighted to delve into a sixth season and to bring our beautiful audience more of the Bordelon family.”

Set in rural Louisiana and the fictional community of St. Josephine, the Anthony Sparks showrunned Sugar focuses on the trio of Bordelon siblings, played by Dawn-Lyen Gardner, Rutina Wesley and Kofi Siriboe, and their extended family. A politically and emotionally charged Season 4 finale back in September 2019 welcomed Amirah Vann into the fold,...

Lifetime is making plans for its biggest Holiday slate to date. 

Reaching over 80.1 million total viewers during last year's It's a Wonderful Lifetime programming block, the cabler emerged as the #1 holiday movie destination.

For 2020, the star studded It's a Wonderful Lifetime slate will feature 30 new movies, and over 1200 hours of holiday programming - 24/7 - from mid-October through December with many new and returning stars.

Hooray, right?

This year Lifetime dives deeper in the commitment for diverse storytelling with its storylines, talent and characters.

Following last year's Twinkle All the Way which featured an on screen, same sex kiss between couple Lex and Danny (Brian Sills and Mark Ghanimé), Lifetime has greenlighted The Christmas Set Up, the networks' first movie with a LGBTQ romance as the lead story.

Additionally, Lifetime has greenlighted its first holiday movie centered on a Chinese-American family in A Sugar & Spice Holiday, to be directed by...

Dua Lipa has announced that she’ll be bumping up the release of her new album, Future Nostalgia. Originally slated to come out April 3rd, the new LP will now be arriving this Friday, March 27th.

The singer tearfully made the announcement during an Instagram Live session on Monday morning, citing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “In all these kinds of situations…we all need to actively work together to make a change,” she said. “But I guess, you know, what I’m going to do is, instead of my album coming out April 3rd,...

Usher has been mostly quiet for the better part of four years. He has released a dud here, a solid single there. But since R&b is less interested in the vocal acrobatics, washboard abs, and lithe dance moves that are this star’s stock and trade, he appears content to sit back, enjoy the hundreds of millions of streams he amasses annually on his hit-filled back catalog, and wordlessly make fun of Jacquees.

While Usher bides his time, though, other singers keep making Usher songs. In October, Summer Walker took his breakout single,...

TollywoodThe actor took to Twitter to share the news that she would not be a part of the Chiranjeevi-Koratala Siva film. Digital NativeWhen the Tollywood megastar Chiranjeevi’s film with director Koratala Siva was announced last year, it was confirmed that Trisha would play the female lead. However, with the project going on the floors, there is still no clarity on who will pair up with Chiru. The latest update is that Trisha has opted-out of the project due to creative differences with the makers. In a Tweet, Trisha said that she realised certain factors seemed different than what was "discussed" with her earlier. "Sometimes things turn out to be different from what was initially said and discussed. Due to creative differences, I have chosen not to be part of Chiranjeevi sir's film," she wrote in her tweet. The actress signed off the tweet by sending a whole lot of...

Updated with more shut down series: Warner Bros. Television Group has become the latest TV studio to confirm that they are shutting down or postponing production on some current series and pilots. The company is not revealing titles, but I hear the list of current series whose filming has been halted include CBS’ Young Sheldon, All Rise and God Friended Me, the CW’s Supergirl and Batwoman, TNT’s Claws, Own’s Queen Sugar, Epix’s Pennyworth and HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant, along with the already known Riverdale, The Flash and Lucifer.

On the alternative side, impacted is ABC’s The Bachelorette. Pilot-wise, Disney TV Studios earlier this morning confirmed that filming on Warner Bros. TV drama The Brides, a co-production with ABC Studios, is being postponed for at least three weeks.

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I'm fully convinced Brockhampton remixed their song "Sugar" with Dua Lipa for me. Like, specifically me. What other explanation is there for two of my most played artists to suddenly collaborate? I've been secretly hoping Bh would do an unexpected mashup, and here we are now, jamming to the surprise altered R&b tune from their 2019 album, Ginger.

The track, which dropped on March 6, also features singers Jon B and Ryan Beatty, who was on the original version. After Ciarán "Bearface" McDonald opens with a nod to Usher's 1997 hit "Nice & Slow," Dua Lipa croons a verse, saying, "I move mountains on my own / Don't need nobody's help / I've been looking after me like only I can watch my back." And, yes, Joba even gets an added verse at the end (Where my Joba stans at?!). Meanwhile, the accompanying visual simply shows Matt Champion sitting on a basketball hoop, rocking his signature cool,...

Dua Lipa and Jon B have joined forces with everyone’s favorite boy band Brockhampton for their new remix of “Sugar,” from the group’s 2019 album Ginger. It also features Ryan Beatty, who appears in the original version.

On the new remix, the band members, Dua Lipa, Ryan Beatty and Jon B trade verses about yearning, longing and devotion. “I move mountains on my own/Don’t need nobody’s help,” Dua Lipa sings on her verse over the R&b groove. “I’ve been looking after me like only...

You might feel a sense of shame watching Rotimi Rainwater’s “Lost in America,” an expansive documentary look at the issue of youth homelessness in a country where the problem seems unthinkable, and its victims are so often invisible. You are likely to ask yourself how many times you have passed by a homeless child and did not quite see them. The statistics are scary: According to a recent study, nearly 4.2 million kids live out on the streets due to heartbreaking reasons which Rainwater examines in his caring film, chronicling his six-year journey across 15 cities to grasp the breadth of the epidemic. One thing will be certain after tagging along that trip with him: Your eyesight will never skip over the homeless youth again.

That is mostly thanks to Rainwater’s approachable prose — not a feat of filmmaking perhaps, but an absorbing act of compassion nevertheless. As a person who...

Red Hot Chili Peppers announced Sunday that the band have parted ways with guitarist Josh Klinghoffer after 10 years and have reunited with the musician that Klinghoffer replaced, John Frusciante.

“Josh is a beautiful musician who we respect and love,” Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote on Instagram. “We are deeply grateful for our time with him, and the countless gifts he shared with us.”

The band added, “We also announce, with great excitement and full hearts, that John Frusciante is rejoining our group.”

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Brockhampton are no strangers to weird music videos, but their new clip for “Sugar” might be their most surreal one yet.

Directed (as many of their videos are) by band leader Kevin Abstract, the short film opens with a couple having sex in a cartoonish bedroom, when they are suddenly visited by….an alien, who shoots the man in the head. And it only gets weirder and weirder from there.

It’s a late contender for most memorable video for 2019, but “Sugar” is up there. (And did we mention it...

Jimmy Kimmel Live! may have gotten most of the late-night attention Thursday night, with a surprise “sermon” by none other than Kanye West. But while Kimmel’s competitor Jimmy Fallon did appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to do a joint comedy bit, Fallon had his own roster of talent on The Tonight Show.

Among them was Brockhampton, the hip-hop group slash “boy band” who performed one of their most boy band-esque tracks, “Sugar,” off their latest album Ginger.

During a sit-down interview with six members of the group, Fallon found...

It should come as no surprise that Cannes Film Festival will play host to Kent Jones’s doc on the touchstone of filmmaking interview tomes, Hitchcock/Truffaut (see photo above). The film has been floating near the top of this list since it was announced last year as in development, while Jones himself has a history with the festival, having co-written both Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P. and Martin Scorsese’s My Voyage To Italy, both of which premiered in Cannes. The film is scheduled to screen as part of the Cannes Classics sidebar alongside the likes of Stig Björkman’s Ingrid Bergman, in Her Own Words, which will play as part of the festival’s tribute to the late starlet, and Gabriel Clarke and John McKenna’s Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans (see trailer below). As someone who grew up watching road races with my dad in Watkins Glen,...

Now that the busy winter fest schedule of Sundance, Rotterdam and the Berlinale has concluded, we’ve now got our eyes on the likes of True/False and SXSW. While, True/False does not specialize in attention grabbing world premieres, it does provide a late winter haven for cream of the crop non-fiction fare from all the previously mentioned fests and a selection of overlooked genre blending films presented in a down home setting. This year will mark my first trip to the Columbia, Missouri based fest, where I hope to catch a little of everything, from their hush-hush secret screenings, to selections from their Neither/Nor series, this year featuring chimeric Polish cinema of decades past, to a spotlight of Adam Curtis’s incisive oeuvre. But truth be told, it is SXSW, with its slew of high profile world premieres being announced, such as Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs...

Miami - Being the director of any film festival requires a dauntingly broad skill set: the best in the business are at once discerning cinephiles, persuasive businesspeople, savvy media monitors and charismatic public figures. Their own expert appreciation of the artform can't interfere with their intuitive popular touch; they must interact with industry, journalists and paying audiences with equal care and cordiality, usually at the same time. A film festival lasts less than a fortnight; building and running it is a year-round job. Canadian-born Jaie Laplante, director of the Miami International Film Festival since 2011, ticks all these boxes, fully aware of the role that sheer force of personality can play in building a smaller festival's brand. Over the nine-day event, you'd be forgiven for wondering if he's had some success in the field of human cloning: present at a daily panoply of screenings, Q&As, parties and junkets – seemingly with a fresh,...

Even if you don’t buy into the game and you prefer not to live in a world in which the term “Oscar snub” is used with a straight face, sometimes a lack of recognition for worthy nominees can still sting a little. Such was the case with the conspicuous absence of Sarah Polley’s name when the Best Documentary Feature nominees were announced two weeks ago. After two strong narrative explorations of romantic relationships in the bitter winter of old age and the summer splendor of late youth (Away From Her and Take This Waltz, respectively), Polley redirected her interest in the world of human coupling by turning the camera on herself – or, more accurately, her family, or, even more accurately, who she thinks may be her family, or… Well, just see it if you haven’t already, because Stories We Tell is one of the more passionate, involving, and...

The Detroit Film Critics have revealed their nominations for their annual film awards. Besides the usual suspects -- "Zero Dark Thirty," "Argo," "Silver Linings Playbook" -- it is interesting to note that the Detroit Film Critics also chose to honor Juan Antonio Bayona's heartfelt "The Impossible" and Josh Whedon's "The Cabin in the Woods" for Best Screenplay.

Here's the full list of nominations:

Best Picture

.Argo.

.The Impossible.

.Silver Linings Playbook.

.Take This Waltz.

.Zero Dark Thirty.

Best Director

Ben Affleck, .Argo.

J.A. Bayona, .The Impossible.

David O. Russell, .Silver Linings Playbook.

Sarah Polley, .Take This Waltz.

Kathryn Bigelow, .Zero Dark Thirty.

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper, .Silver Linings Playbook.

Daniel Day-Lewis, .Lincoln.

John Hawkes, .The Sessions.

Bill Murray, .Hyde Park on Hudson.

Joaquin Phoenix, .The Master.

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain, .Zero Dark Thirty.

Greta Gerwig, .Damsels in Distress.

Jennifer Lawrence, .Silver Linings Playbook.

Naomi Watts, .The Impossible.

Michelle Williams,...

I can't remember a time I went to the Seattle International Film Festival (Siff) press launch and looked over the list of films and saw so many I was interested in seeing. The claim to fame for over the years is to call it the largest and most-highly attended festival in the United States. This is a fact I've often taken issue with as I don't equate quantity with quality. Granted, there has been a large number of quality features to play the fest over the years, including Golden Space Needle (Best Film) winners such as Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), My Life as a Dog (1987), Trainspotting (1996), Run Lola Run (1999), Whale Rider (2003) and even recent Best Director winner, Michel Hazanavicius's Oss 117: Nest of Spies in 2006. That said, looking over this year's crop of films I see a lot of films I will be doing my absolute best to see.

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Brendan Fehr discusses Roswell, Nikita and Ice Quake, which airs tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern/8 p.m. Central on Syfy.

Q:Could you talk about the stunts in IceQuake?

Brendan:Yeah. I guess the majority of the stunts would probably simply be thesnowmobiling.

Wedidn’t exactly know how much snow was going to be out there at that time ofyear they had to shut down the mountain for the sky season eventually and wepicked up right when it shut off. And while we were filming we got heaps andheaps of snow, which obviously added to the look of the movie and everythingelse.

Sowe were pretty straightforward. You have a lot of the guys there obviouslybeing up in Canada and on a mountain, I mean, snowmobiling kind of comes secondnature. So… there’s only so much damage you can do, I mean, if you fall overbecause we had...

SoapNet on Monday announced three new series, including a relationship-themed reality show featuring Greg Behrendt and a scripted drama about a thirtysomething woman trying to figure out her life.

"Greg Behrendt's Wake-Up Call," from Avalon Television, will feature Behrendt -- who has consulted for "Sex and the City," co-wrote the book "He's Just Not That Into You" and hosted his own daytime talk show -- addressing one couple's major issues each week and using practical and funny relationship expertise to give them the tools to fix their problems. The series will air at 11 p.m. Thursdays beginning Jan. 8, kicking off SoapNet's six-week programming event "Sugar-Free Valentines."

Another new series, "Being Erica," follows the life of 32-year-old Erica Strange (newcomer Erin Karpluk), a highly educated but underachieving single woman who can't understand why her life is heading nowhere. She gets help from a mysterious man named Dr. Tom (Michael Riley...