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| Hardy, Red Clay Strays to perform during Nashville NYE special on CBS | Hardy, Little Big Town and the Red Clay Strays will take the stage during this year's Nashville New Year's Eve special on CBS. The network announced Tuesday that New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash will air Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and stream live for Paramount+ Premium subscribers. The show will become available on Paramount+ the next day. The nearly five-hour special will see country music's biggest names help "usher in 2027 with powerhouse performances and the iconic Music Note Drop at midnight," according to a press release. The event at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park is free for fans in Nashville. Additional performers will be announced in the coming months. |
| Christina Applegate 'back at square one' after MS misdiagnosis | Christina Applegate says she's "back at square one" after learning she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). The actress, 54, shared the news on Tuesday's episode of her MeSsy podcast co-hosted with Sopranos actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who herself was diagnosed with MS when she was 20. Applegate, who went public with her multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 2021, said she still has "every symptom of someone with MS," a disease where the body's immune system attacks the central nervous system. "If anything, I've gotten worse in some ways, and so I'm back at square one that I don't know what's going on with me," the star said. |
| Paramount+ offers first look at S5 of 'Mayor of Kingstown' | Paramount+ has released first-look photos of Jeremy Renner and the cast of Mayor of Kingstown from the crime drama's upcoming fifth and final season, which is expected to premiere in 2027. "This season, in the wake of Tracy's murder and the vengeance visited upon Callahan (Richard Brake) by Mike (Renner) and Kyle (Taylor Handley), FBI agent Russell Hardy (David Morse) arrives in Kingstown searching for the 'fugitive' Callahan," the streaming service said in a press release. "A true lawman, Agent Hardy threatens to unearth all of Mike's sins and secrets, and disrupt Kingstown's tenuous balance of power. |
| 'Slayground' teaser sets scene of 'Green Room' director's new film | A24 is giving a glimpse of the new film Slayground. The studio shared a teaser trailer for the movie Tuesday featuring Cory Michael Smith (Gotham). Slayground is a horror film from Green Room and Rebel Ridge director Jeremy Saulnier. The teaser sets the scene at a haunted attraction where one of the actors (Saulnier) becomes the prime suspect in a massacre. "Scare-actor 'Metal Mike' Graves wakes up in a haunted attraction surrounded by the dead bodies of his co-workers with no memory of how they got there. As a state-wide manhunt closes in, he races to uncover the truth -- even if the trail leads straight back to him," an official synopsis reads. Chase Sui Wonders, Sophie Wilde, Stanley Simons, James Badge Dale, Stephen Root. |
| 'The Hunting Wives' Season 2 trailer teases 'old secrets,' 'new foes' | Netflix is gearing up for the release of The Hunting Wives Season 2. The streaming service shared a trailer for the season Tuesday featuring Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman. The Hunting Wives is a soapy drama series based on the May Cobb novel of the same name. Snow stars as Sophie, a wife and mother who is drawn into the seductive orbit of Texas socialite Margo (Akerman) after moving to the fictional town of Maple Brook. Season 2 opens with Sophie and Margo on the outs following the events of Season 1, but "old secrets and new foes force them back together." "As they play their dangerous games, the question arises: Are they the hunters or the hunted?" an official synopsis reads. |