Television
Will Smith Discusses Oscars Slap & New Movie On ‘The Daily Show with Trevor Noah’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Matt Wilson / Comedy Central Will Smith appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and talked about the infamous Oscars incident where he slapped Chris Rock . The Academy Award-winning actor got the chance to sit down with Noah for his first late-night interview since earlier in the year on Monday night’s episode. Smith was there to promote his latest feature, Emancipation, directed by Antoine Fuqua which will debut in theaters on Friday before airing on Apple TV+ on Dec. 9. During the conversation, Noah ventured a question about that night at the Academy Awards where Smith strode onstage and slapped presenter Chris Rock who had made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith. “I’d love to know since we’ve been talking – what has the journey been like tha...
LL Cool J To Receive Entertainment Icon Award At 2022 Urban One Honors
Source: Scott Dudelson / Getty Hip-Hop icon LL Cool J will be among those recognized for their contributions to the culture at the annual Urban One Honors being held this week. The announcement of the annual gala held by Urban One was made earlier today. In a press release, the star-studded event will be held on Friday, Dec. 2 in Atlanta, Georgia. The Urban One Honors will then be aired on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Jan. 16, 2023 on TV One and Cleo TV, a division of Urban One. R&B star and actor Tank will be hosting the festivities. View this post on Instagram A post shared by TV One (@tvonetv) The theme of the night will be “Celebrating Icons of the Culture,” and LL Cool J was named as one of the honorees who will be awarded at the event. The two-time Grammy Award and NAACP Image ...
LL Cool J To Receive Entertainment Icon Award At 2022 Urban One Honors
Source: Scott Dudelson / Getty Hip-Hop icon LL Cool J will be among those recognized for their contributions to the culture at the annual Urban One Honors being held this week. The announcement of the annual gala held by Urban One was made earlier today. In a press release, the star-studded event will be held on Friday, Dec. 2 in Atlanta, Georgia. The Urban One Honors will then be aired on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Jan. 16, 2023 on TV One and Cleo TV, a division of Urban One. R&B star and actor Tank will be hosting the festivities. View this post on Instagram A post shared by TV One (@tvonetv) The theme of the night will be “Celebrating Icons of the Culture,” and LL Cool J was named as one of the honorees who will be awarded at the event. The two-time Grammy Award and NAACP Image ...
LL Cool J To Receive Entertainment Icon Award At 2022 Urban One Honors
Source: Scott Dudelson / Getty Hip-Hop icon LL Cool J will be among those recognized for their contributions to the culture at the annual Urban One Honors being held this week. The announcement of the annual gala held by Urban One was made earlier today. In a press release, the star-studded event will be held on Friday, Dec. 2 in Atlanta, Georgia. The Urban One Honors will then be aired on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Jan. 16, 2023 on TV One and Cleo TV, a division of Urban One. R&B star and actor Tank will be hosting the festivities. View this post on Instagram A post shared by TV One (@tvonetv) The theme of the night will be “Celebrating Icons of the Culture,” and LL Cool J was named as one of the honorees who will be awarded at the event. The two-time Grammy Award and NAACP Image ...
CBS To Air Inaugural TheGrio Awards On Network Television
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Tommaso Boddi / Getty A Black media destination is heading to network television. CBS has agreed to air the inaugural TheGrio Awards. As spotted on Deadline African American-focused news, lifestyle, sports and entertainment platform theGrio recently celebrated icons, leaders and legends at Byron Allen’s inaugural THEGRIO AWARDS, a star-studded, black-tie event held at the Beverly Hilton. Co-hosted by THE TALK’s Sheryl Underwood and Taye Diggs, BYRON ALLEN PRESENTS THEGRIO AWARDS will be broadcast Saturday, Nov. 26 (8:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network and available to stream live on Paramount +*. The special will celebrate excellence in film, music, comedy, television, sports, philanthropy, business, fashion, social justice, ...
Maren Morris Campaigns to ‘Make DJ Gay Again’ Following Candace Cameron Bure’s Anti-LGBTQ Comments
If dunking on anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is a skill, then Maren Morris is an expert at this point. The country star posted a comment on Instagram on Tuesday calling out actress Candace Cameron Bure for her recent comments on “traditional marriage” and queer characters. Writing under a post from LGBTQ influencer Matt Bernstein, Morris said “Make DJ Gay Again,” a reference to Bure’s most famous role as DJ Tanner on Full House and the 2016 reboot, Fuller House. Morris is far from the only star to call the actress out — JoJo Siwa posted an Instagram on Tuesday calling Bure’s comments “rude and hurtful,” and GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis issued a damning statement saying it was “irresponsible and hurtful for Candace Cameron Bure to use tradition as a guise for exclusion.” Explore Explore Se...
‘The Best Man: The Final Chapters’ Trailer Hits And That Book Is Still Causing Trouble
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Gilbert Carrasquillo / Getty Peacock is giving out an early Christmas gift. The Best Man: The Final Chapters is heading to the streamer on Dec. 22 just before the holiday. A teaser trailer dropped late over the weekend to preview the show. The 8-episode series began with two popular movies, 1999’s The Best Man and 2013’s The Best Man Holiday, helmed by director Malcolm D. Lee. The movies starred Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Sanaa Lathan, Terence Howard, Morris Chestnut, Monica Calhoun, Melissa de Souza, and Harold Perrineau, becoming one of the most beloved of the black rom-coms. In the first movie, Diggs plays Harper, a writer who draws animosity from his college buddies after publishing his first novel Unfinished Business, a thinly disguised version of their l...
Fortune did not, in fact, favor the brave: Matt Damon’s Crypto.com TV spot turns 1
The crypto industry has had its share of issues with marketing, from projects many authorities labeled scams to high-profile branding with sports franchises, but one ad that has stood out came from crypto exchange Crypto.com featuring Hollywood star Matt Damon. Many have ridiculed the “fortune favors the brave” ad starring Damon since its release in October 2021, using the TV spot as a creative springboard to criticize the crypto space and celebrities supporting it. The creators of South Park aired two episodes and one two-part special poking fun at crypto users and the Crypto.com ad specifically. Late-night TV hosts including Stephen Colbert also targeted the ad spot with parodies and jokes following the market downturn in May. Still shot of Matt Damon in the Crypto.com TV spot, sinc...
Bono Tells Taylor Swift He’s a ‘Swiftie’ on ‘Graham Norton Show’
Will Taylor Swift and Bono collaborate on a song someday? Graham Norton brought up the idea of the stars working together when they both appeared on the same episode of The Graham Norton Show in the U.K. on Friday (Oct. 28). Bono was promoting his new book, Surrender, while Swift was invited to the show to speak about her new album, Midnights. “Have you worked together?” Norton asked the pair. “Not yet,” Swift replied, but added: “We’re gonna talk about it later.” Swift might have been teasing the audience — but based on the U2 frontman’s enthusiasm for her work, the potential idea might not be completely out of the question. “I’m a Swiftie,” Bono announced. Touched by that statement, Swift put her hand to her heart. “He’s so nice he sent me roses when I played in Dublin,” Swift said. “He ...
TV streaming providers should start relying on NFTs
Subscription-based services have become so ubiquitous it’s hard to remember a time when they weren’t the norm. Streaming companies have sought to take advantage of that norm by fleecing consumers for everything they’re worth — just look at Netflix’s decision to start running advertisements. Another benefit of leveraging NFT technology is that streaming services can increasingly be used to create communities. As with all consumer culture in the digital world, we are what we consume. NFTs, however, have the potential to make the relationship between the consumer and what is consumed far more profound. There is a solution to streaming “churn” A decade ago, who would have thought digital communities based on families of JPEGs would become billion-dollar enterprises? From Bored Apes to Pa...
MTV Announces 6 New Films For 2022 Holiday Season with Ashanti, Ne-Yo, MC Lyte & More
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty The holiday season is fast approaching, and MTV is getting into the spirit with six new movies set to air on their networks beginning at the end of November. On Thursday (Oct. 27), MTV Entertainment Studios announced the premiere of a slate of six new movies for the 2022 holidays with star-studded casts and equal star power serving as producers. “Last year we broke the traditional mold of holiday films in a big way,” said Nina L. Diaz, President of Content and Chief Creative Officer, Paramount Media Networks & MTVE Studios Head of Unscripted Entertainment & Adult Animation P+ in the press release. “As we look toward this new slate, with the depth of our powerful producers coupled with the diversity of our amazing talent, we wil...
Grand Re-Re-Reopening: P-Valley Renewed For Third Season
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Rodin Eckenroth / Getty Fans of the Starz Network highest-rated show are excited to learn that they will be going back “down to the valley” of Chucalissa, Mississippi—but, it may be a while. P-Valley has been renewed for a third season of 10 episodes about the love and lives of the dancers and staff at The Pynk—described by Vulture as the “little strip club that could.” But, the third season isn’t slated to air until 2024. Creator, showrunner and executive producer Katori Hall said in a statement, “I am blessed beyond measure for this opportunity to write the next chapter of P-Valley. With its complex, dynamic, and beautifully flawed characters, this show is a love letter to marginalized communities in the American South who rarely see t...
