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| Dolly Parton to be honored with tribute at MTV Video Music Awards | MTV will honor late country music star Dolly Parton at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards. Kacey Musgraves will perform a tribute to Parton, who died at age 80 in August, during the VMAs ceremony Sunday. Snoop Dogg will host this year's VMAs, which will air at 7:30 p.m. ET on CBS and MTV. The show will also stream live on Paramount+ for premium members and become available the next day for regular subscribers. Musgraves, a friend and fan of Parton's who is nominated at the VMAS in the Best Country category for "Dry Spell," performed a tribute to the late star at her Aug. 28 concert in Boston. |
| 'Brothers' showrunner: Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson charming, wild | Showrunner Lee Eisenberg has harnessed the chaotic energy of beloved actors Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson for the new Apple TV comedy, Brothers. "Matthew and Woody could not be more charming and charismatic and they're wild," Eisenberg told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. "They would tell me stories about their lives and we'd share stories about fatherhood and our own families. More than anything, they were just game and, so, there was so much riffing and collaborating," the writer-producer recalled. "Then I kind of went off and started developing the story more, brought it back to them, they would kind of riff some more. I would go back. And, so, they always felt like these great partners. |
| Hargitay hints at 'Law & Order: SVU' 600th episode reunion with Meloni | Mariska Hargitay is teasing a special reunion with her former Law & Order: SVU co-star Christopher Meloni. Hargitay, 62, shared a photo with Meloni, 65, Tuesday on Instagram and appeared to hint the actor will appear in the show's upcoming 600th episode. "Happy 600.." she captioned the post. Hargitay and Meloni played partners Det. Elliot Stabler and Det. Olivia Benson in the first 12 seasons of SVU. Meloni left the show after Season 12 but appeared in a recurring or guest capacity in Seasons 22 to 27. Law & Order: SVU will return for Season 28 on NBC in October and air its milestone 600th episode Nov. 12. Real-life NBA star Jalen Brunson, a guard for the New York Knicks, was previously confirmed to guest star in the show's Nov. 5 episode. |
| 'Four Seasons': Tina Fey begins production on Season 3 in new photo | Tina Fey has resumed filming her Netflix series The Four Seasons. Fey, 56, appeared alongside co-stars Will Forte, Colman Domingo, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Marco Calvani and Erika Henningsen in a photo released Wednesday to announce the start of production on Season 3. The Four Seasons is a comedy-drama created by Fey, Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield. The show is inspired by the 1981 film of the same name, written, directed by and starring Alan Alda. Season 3 will follow couples Kate (Fey) and Jack (Forte), and Danny (Domingo) and Claude (Calvani), along with Nick's ex-wife Anne (Kenney-Silver) and his girlfriend Ginny (Henningsen), as they continue to vacation together each season. |
| 'Ray Gunn' trailer: Johansson voices femme fatale in animated noir | Netflix is giving a glimpse of the new film Ray Gunn. The streaming service shared a trailer for the movie Wednesday featuring the voices of Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson. Ray Gunn is an animated sci-fi noir film from The Incredibles and Ratatouille director Brad Bird that takes place in the fictional city of Metropia in an alternate 1939. Rockwell voices the title character, Ray Gunn, a private detective who is drawn into "a case involving aliens, murder and a multimedia star named Venus Nova (Johansson)." In the trailer, Ray and his partner Eye-Ra (Tom Waits) are assigned to Nova, an icy blonde Hitchcockian femme fatale, after she is accused of murder. |