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HBO Shares Trailer for QAnon Documentary Series: Watch
HBO has shared the trailer for Q: Into the Storm, a new six-part documentary series about the QAnon conspiracy movement connected to former US President Donald Trump. Ahead of the documentary’s debut on March 21st, check out the trailer below. After opening with footage from the 2021 storming of the US Capitol in which QAnon followers participated, the clip offers a glimpse at the various individuals who filmmaker Cullen Hoback interviewed, including Fredrick Brennan, founder of the 8chan website QAnon calls home. He also spoke to current 8chan owner Jim Watkins, as well as QAnon debunkers, political operatives, and journalists who have been following the movement since its inception in 2017. Executive produced by Adam McKay, the series follows Hoback’s three-year investigation into t...
A Different Homecoming: Why Eric Couldn’t Join His Real World Roommates
In 1992, Eric Nies was the first roommate to step into “a new world.” Fast-forward 29 years later: The New Jersey resident did not have the same experience as his roomies during a once-in-a-lifetime homecoming in January 2021. During The Real World Homecoming: New York premiere — now streaming on Paramount+ — the original cast members all traveled back to the Big Apple in the middle of a global pandemic to reunite in their original Soho loft. Becky Blasband, Andre Comeau, Heather B. Gardner, Julie Gentry, Norman Korpi, and Kevin Powell all arrived — and began to ponder Eric’s whereabouts. Soon, they were greeted by an “Incoming Message” on their television monitor. And Eric’s face appeared. “Guess what I have?” Eric asked th...
Jenni ‘JWOWW’ Farley And Zack Carpinello Are Engaged
Just WOWW: Jenni Farley and 24 Zack Carpinello are engaged! “On 2.27 I said yes on the top of the Empire State Building @zackclayton,” the Jersey Shore: Family Vacation star shared in the Instagram album above. The two met through Zack’s brother; in fact, Zack attended JWOWW’s wedding. The couple made their official debut at the CMT Music Awards in June 2019 and then attended their first MTV events together (the Movie & TV Awards as well as the Video Music Awards). Zack’s network debut was during Season 3 — and he soon became known as “24” (his then-age). Jenni’s roommates soon got the chance to meet Zack (of course, the jokes were flying), and eventually he joined the crew while appearing in several episodes. The two temporarily sp...
The Birds And The Bees: Maci Had ‘The Talk’ With Bentley On Teen Mom OG
Most parents speak about the birds and the bees with their kids, and during tonight’s Teen Mom OG episode, Maci had “the talk” with Bentley. So what prompted the candid discussion? “Apparently, the boy and girl bible classes are separate,” Maci told Taylor pre-chat. “And he goes, ‘I don’t know why they’re separate. Do you know why boys and girls bible classes would be separate?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s when they probably start talking about sex.’ And he was like, ‘Okay.'” Yes, Taylor, “now we’re doing that.” Maci believed it was time: Bentley is in the sixth grade and middle school (no, we can’t believe it either). And Maci’s point about how she would rather him hea...
Disney CEO Defends Gina Carano Firing, Says Company Stands for “Values of Inclusion”
Last month, The Manadalorian actress Gina Carano was fired by Lucasfilm for a series of abhorrent tweets, including one that compared being a Republican today to being a Jew during the holocaust. She quickly doubled-down and became an anti-cancel culture crusader. Now, Disney’s CEO has chimed in to defend her departure from the Star Wars TV series. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Chapek was on a call during an annual shareholders meeting when someone asked him if Carano was on Disney’s “black list” for her openly conservative politics. Chapek responded with the type of corporate vagueness that you’d expect from a major entertainment executive, saying that he doesn’t see Disney as “left-leaning or right-leaning.” However, he did say that Disney st...
Schitt’s Creek’s Annie Murphy Tapped for Russian Doll Season 2
Last year, Annie Murphy and her Schitt’s Creek co-stars swept the 2020 Emmys in a historic feat that saw them take home W’s in all major categories. Murphy’s performance as the character Alexis Rose surely made her a desired player in Hollywood, because she’s now been cast for the second season of Netflix’s Russian Doll. The follow-up the show’s first season, which hit the streaming service in 2019 and quickly became a cult favorite, is still in the development stages, and we have no idea what Murphy’s character will entail. However, given what we saw in the first season of the show, which starred its co-creator Natasha Lyonne, it’ll probably be weird as hell. Lyonne created and executive produced the show alongside Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland, and that inaugural season saw h...
16 And Pregnant Sneak Peek: Why Shelby Decided Against An Adoption Plan
Shelby is 16 and pregnant with her first child and is no longer with the baby’s dad. There was a time when the teenager considered a different plan for her daughter — until she spoke to her ex’s mother April. “When you told his mom, she didn’t want you to get an abortion,” Shelby’s mother Angie remembers in the clip, below. “She didn’t want adoption either,” Shelby replies. “She was going to be mad if it was her own family. She would have wanted to adopt the baby.” She continued: “I was never thinking about abortion or anything, but adoption — I did think about it for a little bit.” So why did Shelby have a change of heart? And how does Angie feel about the father of her soon-to-be granddaughter? Watc...
Behind Mickey Sumner’s ‘Kickass, Badass’ Snowpiercer Character
By Emlyn Travis When Mickey Sumner stepped foot back on the Snowpiercer set in October 2020, seven months after the production of the show had been shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was with a mix of fear and excitement. Prior to the lockdown in spring, eight episodes of the second season had been filmed and work had just started on the final two episodes when, in a shift that felt ripped straight out of the post-apocalyptic series, the entire world came to an abrupt, gear-grinding halt. “We had started episodes nine and ten, but we had just never completed them. So then in October, we came back for two weeks and finished the season,” she tells MTV News over the phone from her home in British Columbia. The 37-year-old actress, known for her spellbinding performances in Frances ...
Jenna Compono And Zach Nichols Reveal The Sex Of Their First Child
Jenna Compono and Zach Nichols did not agree when it came to guessing the sex of their first child: The mama-to-be firmly believed the bundle of joy was a boy, while the future dad was convinced the peanut is a girl. But now, the Challenge couple — who announced on Valentine’s Day that they will welcome their brand-new addition in August — have the answer, because they just held a gender reveal bash with loved ones in New York. And Jenna was correct: Baby Nichols is a boy! “We are having a……,” Jenna captioned the Instagram above featuring the moment they found out their little one would be a son. Blue balloons galore! Be sure to monitor MTV News for updates as Jenna and Zach get ready to welcome a little lad, and keep watching Double Agents every W...
Bad Reputation: An Oral History of the Freaks and Geeks Soundtrack
Revisiting Freaks and Geeks is akin to revisiting an old high school friend. As you watch the characters wander the halls of the fictional McKinley High School in Michigan, you can’t help but feel as if this was your own high school experience. It’s all very relatable. And nearing 22 years since the first day of school on September 25th, 1999, the show manages to defy the impossible. Despite only having lasted for 18 episodes (12 of which only ever aired during its initial run on NBC), the show has left an indelible mark on pop culture. In the years that have passed, a massive cult following has built up, only furthered by the fact that every single person has gone on to do bigger things in Hollywood. But no matter how high they have soared and no matter how many years have stacked behind ...
New York Times Columnist Says Pepé Le Pew “Added to Rape Culture”
The last few weeks have seen a reckoning come to the world of children’s media, as some Dr. Seuss books have been pulled for racist imagery, while the Mr. Potato Head toy line dropped its gendered name (though that’s more of a branding move than anything). New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow has come out strongly on the “pro” side of such changes and argues further actions are needed. In particular, he’s called out the Looney Tunes character Pepé Le Pew for normalizing rape culture. In an opinion article for the Times, Blow commended the Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ decision to stop printing six books that contained racist imagery. His piece also pointed out a number of incidents in kids’ culture that he argued irresponsibly enforced racial stereotypes and inappropriate behavior. ...
The Wire’s David Simon Bringing We Own This City Series to HBO
For his next HBO series,The Wire creator David Simon is returning to Baltimore to tell the story of a corrupt Baltimore crime task force. Entitled We Own This City, the limited series is an adaptation of investigative journalist Justin Fenton’s bookWe Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption. We Own the City is set in Baltimore in 2015, as protestors demand justice for the suspicious death of 25-year-old African-American Freddie Gray while in police custody. In response to mounting pressure from the mayor’s office and a federal investigation over Gray’s death, the police department turned to Sergeant Wayne Jenkins and his elite plainclothes Gun Trace Task Force to help get guns and drugs off the street. Jenkins used this power to exploit the city, skimming from d...
