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“NCIS” Cost Cuts Actress Emily Wickersham After Seven Seasons, Only 2 Original Actors Remain After 18 Years

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“NCIS” Cost Cuts Actress Emily Wickersham After Seven Seasons, Only 2 Original Actors Remain After 18 Years

Bishop is outta here.

Actress Emily Wickersham is budget axed from “NCIS” after seven seasons. She said good bye to her character, Bishop, on Instagram.

“This business is finicky and weird and consistency is a rarity,” she wrote. “Time goes fast.
Eat it up but chew slowly.”

Wickersham arrived shortly after Cote de Pablo exited years ago. Pauley Perrette left, so did David McCallum. “NCIS” after 18 seasons is down to just two original actors, Mark Harmon — who owns part of the show and isn’t leaving until the show ends — and Sean Murray, who I hope lives in a mansion at least half as big as Harmon’s.

As I’ve said before, as shows get this old, either actors take pay cuts or they exit. Budgets contract. The top people are taking all the money, leaving crumbs for those below. Some of the actors get extra pay with producer credits.

Maybe in their respective 20th seasons, “Greys Anatomy” and “NCIS” will merge, Gibbs will marry Meredith Grey, the Navy will do investigations in Seattle — it is a seaport — and Mark Harmon and Ellen Pompeo will form one massive entity. Intriguing!

$8.45 Billion Sale: James Bond, Aretha Franklin Get “Respect” as Amazon Decrees that for MGM “This is No Time to Die”

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$8.45 Billion Sale: James Bond, Aretha Franklin Get “Respect” as Amazon Decrees that for MGM “This is No Time to Die”

Amazon is buying MGM Studios for $8.45 billion.

For MGM, Amazon has decreed, this is “No Time to Die.”

That’s the name of the James Bond movie Amazon will now release in November, postponed for a year and a half because of the pandemic. The coronavirus actually helped the James Bond franchise.

It also helped the Aretha Franklin biopic, “Respect.” MGM didn’t have the funds to promote that film properly, or run the necessary Oscar campaign. Every time they postponed the Bond film, they had to push off “Respect” because they needed the cash generated from the Bond for “Respect.”

MGM has basically been on the ropes for the last forty years. Every few years a new group of investors came in, used the famed library of films from MGM’s golden era to leverage their own interests, then sell it again and leave behind a husk.

Amazon is a great endgame for MGM. Now Amazon Studios, which has significantly upped its game in the last year under Jennifer Salke and others, will have a blockbuster film in Bond, an Oscar film in “Respect,” access to the “Rocky” and “Creed” franchises, plus the library.

Amazon will also get the MGM lion logo, which will do a lot to connect the company known for shipping toilet paper and food to Hollywood history. When the lion roars now at the front of a movie or TV show, it’s going to be lording over a whole new jungle!

One winner in this game might be Epix TV. An outlier and also ran in the streaming world Epix has always had quality programming that no one watched or could find. Maybe now as part of Amazon they will grow. (I only know about them because they had an excellent PR team at FrankPublicity who pushed and pushed them like a rock up a hill.) You see, every dog has its day!

New Grammy Award Rules Disallow Campaigning for Other Artists, Ups Percentage of New Material for Album of the Year Eligibility

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New Grammy Award Rules Disallow Campaigning for Other Artists, Ups Percentage of New Material for Album of the Year Eligibility

The Grammy Awards continue to make changes for eligibility and promotion.

Suddenly, the press gets a bigger role in Grammy campaigns as fellow artists and publicists are no longer able to make pushes for other artists. In other words, Recording Academy members can no longer send out endorsements to fellow members for their nominated friends.

According to the new rules, for 2023: “Academy members or their designated publicists are now restricted to FYC emails, social media posts and physical mailings that promote only their own recordings, prohibiting lobbying on behalf of other members.”

That’s kind of interesting to me because unlike the Oscars, the Grammys have always depended on “insider” endorsements. The Oscars depend on the entertainment press writing about movie nominees.

The other big change is in Album of the Year, the big kahuna. “To be eligible for GRAMMY Award consideration, an album must contain greater than 75 percent playing time of newly recorded (within five years of the release date), previously unreleased recordings*. The current eligibility rule is 50 percent. (Note: Best Compilation Soundtrack, Best Historical Album, Best Immersive Audio Album, Best Recording Package, Best Special Package, and Best Album Notes accept albums of recordings that are not newly recorded.)”

So you can’t have old stuff that’s been lying around or repurposed for Album of the Year. That certainly makes sense.

Also: “Moving forward, all credited artists (including featured artists), songwriters of new material, producers, recording engineers, mixers, and mastering engineers are eligible to be GRAMMY nominees and recipients in the Album Of The Year category. Previously, the rule stated that all artists, songwriters, producers, recording engineers, mixers, and mastering engineers were required to be credited with at least 33 percent or more of playing time.”

I think this change is to reflect how committees and large groups of people now make pop albums. In the old days you had one or maybe two producers and engineers credited to albums. “Produced by Richard Perry” or “Produced by Phil Ramone” or George Martin, Arif Mardin, Nile Rodgers, that was a big deal. But now to cover up the sheer mediocrity and sameness of all the pop stars, teams are employed. Why shouldn’t they all get Grammys if the project wins? If you were in the room when it happened, you get an award.

But at the same time, the Grammys are putting limits on the Visual Media field. “Clearer limits to the number of participants who can be awarded in the Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media category have been set.” They can be read at www.grammys,com.

So these new rules — there are more on the website — plus the ending of Secret Committees — should make more transparency and inclusion. New permanent Recording Academy chief Harvey Mason, Jr. is certainly working on much needed reforms. They’re all steps in the right direction.

Review: Emma Stone as “Cruella,” The Child of “101 Dalmatians” and “The Devil Wears Prada,” with a Touch of “Joker”

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Review: Emma Stone as “Cruella,” The Child of “101 Dalmatians” and “The Devil Wears Prada,” with a Touch of “Joker”

We’ve learned in this generation of studio filmmaking that every movie villain has a backstory. It’s just a wonder that they don’t make a mental health special with Oprah.

Last year it was “Joker.” This year it’s Disney’s Cruella deVil. Next year, why not Javert from “Les Miz”? His parents, you know, were very neglectful.

So Cruella: not to give too much away, but her mom ran out of money when she was a kid. They go see a wealthy, unidentifiable patron in a castle but mom dies there (I won’t tell you how, but recognizable canines are thought to be the culprit). Cruella, known then as Estella, escapes and lives by her wits. She’s going to be a fashion designer.

The story starts out as a Disney fable, moves Estella to London’s Swinging 60s and Carnaby Street, and then to the world “The Devil Wears Prada” as our heroine swings a job working for an Anna Wintour type called The Baroness, played by Emma Thompson. who runs a Vogue like empire. As Estella sews, the screenplay is stitched together from so many remnants of other movies.

So Estella is like Anne Hathaway, running errands for The Baroness, who, of course, is petty, cruel, snarky, demeaning, and lots of fun. Emma Thompson is a hoot, and plays The Baroness as if she’s Glenn Close in the original live action “101 Dalmatians.” There isn’t a bit of scenery she doesn’t chew and spit out.

As Estella is continually trounced by The Baroness she kinda snaps, and another personality comes out: Cruella. How she gets the DeVil you’ll have to wait for an explanation from Paul Walter Hauser, who’s one of Cruella’s delightfully dim henchmen along with Joel Fry and John McCrea. Together, they are right out of the campy and beloved “Batman” TV series of the 60s. (Mark Strong, sprung from more serious matters, is The Baroness’s aide de camp until he’s not.)

“Prada”‘s Anne Hathaway soon turns into into Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, but you know, not actually violent. Estella/Cruella, after all, is played by recent Oscar winner Emma Stone, who finds this whole thing delicious. Even as two different screenplays try to mesh together — one by “Prada” scribe Aline Brosh McKenna, the other from Dana Fox and Tony McNamara — Stone is smart enough that she’s figured out how to handle her character. She’s really so much fun, and so good at leading us through all this mayhem, that you can forgive the Frankenstein like construction of the story. Just follow her, she won’t lead you astray.

Plus, the sets, costumes, makeup, production design, are really killer. Fiona Crombie’s credits include “The Favourite,” and here she’s matched and upped her game considerably. Even though there’s a considerable pop soundtrack, Nicholas Britell has added a lush and gothic score as a thematic underpinning.

The whole effect is over the top and satisfyingly wacky. Poor Estella, she’s the Catwoman of the Disney universe. And she’s not done, not by a long shot.

“Cruella” will be a big A hit, I think, for Memorial Day weekend, kind of a nice relief after 14 months of tension. And a nice counterprogramming to the other must see movie of the weekend, “A Quiet Place, Part 2.”

Two things worry me, however. Disney held reviews until this morning, which often indicates they’re worried. What are they worried about? Small children are not the audience for “Cruella.” Unless this generation of toddlers is inured to tragedy by the events of the last year, they may take umbrage certainly at set up. But who knows? Maybe I’m too sensitive. After all “Bambi” was tough stuff and kids love it (after a few tears). They’ll get over it.

 

Sony Music Says BTS Is First Ever International Group to Debut New Single on All of Top 40 at Once

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Sony Music Says BTS Is First Ever International Group to Debut New Single on All of Top 40 at Once

BTS, the Korean K Pop dynamos, have set a record at least for the recent modern past.

Sony Music says BTS’s single “Butter,” currently number 1 or 2 everywhere, represents the first time an international group  has debuted single on every Top 40 station at once.

That’s probably partially true. In the 60s there was no measurement of the top 40 the way there is today. The Beatles, an international group, commanded the top 40 in 1964 and 1965. In one week they held the top 5 spots on the charts and many other positions. There wasn’t a station in the US that wasn’t playing their music all day, every day.

But let’s say since 1990 or even 1980, BTS now has this distinction. “Butter” is hot and it’s melting over everything. It’s a perfect top 40 pop hit, full of pep and utterly unmemorable. But the BTS machine has been building to this moment, so we’ll let them have it.

Daytime Emmys Shocker: Last Year’s Winner, “The View,” Gets Nothing For the Show or Hosts First Time Since 1998

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Daytime Emmys Shocker: Last Year’s Winner, “The View,” Gets Nothing For the Show or Hosts First Time Since 1998

Barbara Walters must be livid.

So, too, should be the producers of “The View” and the hosts. For the first time in the show’s history, since 1998, the Daytime Emmy Awards gave them no nominations for the show or hosts.

Every single year the show has gotten nominated for Best Talk Show and Best Talk Show Hosts. But this year, nothing.

Last year, “The View” won Best Informative Talk Show.

Of course, the Daytime Emmys are on CBS. “The View” is on ABC.

“The View” isn’t the only panel show not to get any love from the Daytime Emmys. CBS’s “The Talk,” which has had a wild year, got nothing. Neither did the syndicated show, “The Real.”

An observer points out the Daytime Emmy noms are usually read on “The Talk.” But this year because “The Talk” got nothing, the nominations were announced on Twitter.

Last year, “The View” had 8 nominations. This year they received just 1, for sound mixing.

I can understand the situation with “The Talk,” which jettisoned Sharon Osbourne and had to take a break. But their discussion of race was lively and deserved something.

“The View” is a powerhouse. I can’t live without Whoopi, Joy, Sunny, although Meghan McCain is another story. Still, they are the best informative talk show on TV. To snub them seems quite insane, frankly.

Daytime Emmy Nominations Here, “General Hospital” Cleans Up, Alex Trebek and Larry King Get Tributes

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Daytime Emmy Nominations Here, “General Hospital” Cleans Up, Alex Trebek and Larry King Get Tributes

Daytime Emmy nominations are out. The full list is here. Congrats to everyone. “General Hospital” picked up the lion’s share of acting nods. Alex Trebek and Larry King will get special posthumous tributes when the show airs next month.

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES

The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)

Days of Our Lives (NBC)

General Hospital (ABC)

The Young and the Restless (CBS)

OUTSTANDING LIMITED DRAMA SERIES

The Bay (Popstar TV)

Beacon Hill (reelwomensnetwork.com)

A House Divided (UMC)

Studio City (Amazon Prime Video)

OUTSTANDING GAME SHOW

Family Feud (SYNDICATED)

Jeopardy! (SYNDICATED)

Let’s Make a Deal (CBS)

The Price Is Right (CBS)

Wheel of Fortune (SYNDICATED)

OUTSTANDING LEGAL/COURTROOM PROGRAM

Caught in Providence (SYNDICATED)

Divorce Court (Fox)

Judge Judy (SYNDICATED)

Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court (SYNDICATED)

The People’s Court (SYNDICATED)

OUTSTANDING MORNING SHOW

CBS Sunday Morning (CBS)

Good Morning America (ABC)

Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist (NBC)

Today Show (NBC)

OUTSTANDING INFORMATIVE TALK SHOW

The 3rd Hour of TODAY (NBC)

GMA3: What You Need to Know (ABC)

Red Table Talk (Facebook Watch)

Red Table Talk: The Estefans (Facebook Watch)

Tamron Hall (SYNDICATED)

OUTSTANDING ENTERTAINMENT TALK SHOW

The Drew Barrymore Show (SYNDICATED)

The Ellen DeGeneres Show (SYNDICATED)

The Kelly Clarkson Show (SYNDICATED)

Live with Kelly and Ryan (SYNDICATED)

Today Show with Hoda & Jenna (NBC)

OUTSTANDING ENTERTAINMENT NEWS PROGRAM

Access Hollywood (SYNDICATED)

E!’s Daily Pop (E! Entertainment)

Entertainment Tonight (SYNDICATED)

Extra (SYNDICATED)

Inside Edition (SYNDICATED)

OUTSTANDING DAYTIME SPECIAL EVENT

94th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (NBC)

2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards (IFC)

David Blaine Ascension (YouTube Originals)

Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time (SYNDICATED)

Space Launch Live: America Returns to Space (Discovery and Science Channel)

OUTSTANDING DAYTIME NON-FICTION SPECIAL

Call Your Mother (Comedy Central)

Creators for Change on Girls’ Education with Michelle Obama (YouTube Originals)

I Am Patrick (CBN)

The Manhattan Project – Electronic Field Trip (Digital Release)

Reclamation: The Rise at Standing Rock (vimeo.com)

Red Table Talk: Will Smith’s Red Table Takeover: Resolving Conflict (Facebook Watch)

TIME’s Kid of the Year (Nickelodeon)

OUTSTANDING DAYTIME PROMOTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT

The Astronauts / The Astronauts Launch (Nickelodeon)

The Drew Barrymore Show / The Drew Barrymore Show (SYNDICATED)

Good Morning America /Sunshine (ABC)

Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous / Launch Campaign (Netflix)

Kid of the Year / Kid of the Year (Nickelodeon)

Kids’ Choice Awards / 2020 Kids’ Choice Awards (Nickelodeon)

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

Melissa Claire Egan as Chelsea Lawson
The Young and the Restless (CBS)

Genie Francis as Laura Collins
General Hospital (ABC)

Nancy Lee Grahn as Alexis Davis
General Hospital (ABC)

Finola Hughes as Anna Devane/Alex Marick
General Hospital (ABC)

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood as Steffy Forrester
The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Maurice Benard as Sonny Corinthos
General Hospital (ABC)

Steve Burton as Jason Morgan
General Hospital (ABC)

Thorsten Kaye as Ridge Forrester
The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)

Wally Kurth as Justin Kiriakis
Days of Our Lives (NBC)

Dominic Zamprogna as Dante Falconeri
General Hospital (ABC)

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

Marla Adams as Dina Mergeron
The Young and the Restless (CBS)

Tamara Braun as Ava Vitali
Days of Our Lives (NBC)

Carolyn Hennesy as Diane Miller
General Hospital (ABC)

Briana Henry as Jordan Ashford
General Hospital (ABC)

Courtney Hope as Sally Spectra
The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Darin Brooks as Wyatt Spencer
The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)

Max Gail as Mike Corbin
General Hospital (ABC)

Bryton James as Devon Hamilton
The Young and the Restless (CBS)

Jeff Kober as Cyrus Renault
General Hospital (ABC)

James Patrick Stuart as Valentin Cassadine
General Hospital (ABC)

OUTSTANDING YOUNGER PERFORMER IN A DRAMA SERIES

Tahj Bellow as TJ Ashford
General Hospital (ABC)

Victoria Konefal as Ciara Brady
Days of Our Lives (NBC)

Alyvia Alyn Lind as Faith Newman
The Young and the Restless (CBS)

Katelyn MacMullen as Willow Tait
General Hospital (ABC)

Sydney Mikayla as Trina Robinson
General Hospital (ABC)

OUTSTANDING GUEST PERFORMER IN A DRAMA SERIES

Kim Delaney as Jackie Templeton
General Hospital (ABC)

George DelHoyo as Orpheus
Days of Our Lives (NBC)

Briana Lane as Brooklynn Ashton
General Hospital (ABC)

Cady McClain as Jennifer Horton-Devereaux
Days of Our Lives (NBC)

Victoria Platt as Dr. Amanda Raynor
Days of Our Lives (NBC)

OUTSTANDING CULINARY HOST

Valerie Bertinelli
Valerie’s Home Cooking (Food Network)

Giada De Laurentiis
Giada at Home 2.0 (Food Network)

Edward Delling-Williams
Paris Bistro Cooking with Edward Delling-Williams (Recipe TV)

Ina Garten
Barefoot Contessa: Cook Like a Pro (Food Network)

Sophia Roe
Counter Space (Vice TV)

Michael Symon
Symon’s Dinners Cooking Out (Food Network)

OUTSTANDING GAME SHOW HOST

Wayne Brady
Let’s Make a Deal (CBS)

Steve Harvey
Family Feud (SYNDICATED)

Alfonso Ribeiro
Catch 21 (Game Show Network)

Pat Sajak
Wheel of Fortune (SYNDICATED)

Alex Trebek
Jeopardy! (SYNDICATED)

OUTSTANDING INFORMATIVE TALK SHOW HOST

Gloria Estefan, Emily Estefan, Lili Estefan
Red Table Talk: The Estefans (Facebook Watch)

Tamron Hall
Tamron Hall (SYNDICATED)

Taraji P. Henson, Tracie Jade
Peace of Mind with Taraji (Facebook Watch)

Larry King
Larry King Now (Ora TV)

Rachael Ray
Rachael Ray (SYNDICATED)

Amy Robach, Dr. Jennifer Ashton, TJ Holmes
GMA3: What You Need to Know (ABC)

Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, Adrienne Banfield-Norris
Red Table Talk (Facebook Watch)

OUTSTANDING ENTERTAINMENT TALK SHOW HOST

Drew Barrymore
The Drew Barrymore Show (SYNDICATED)

Kelly Clarkson
The Kelly Clarkson Show (SYNDICATED)

Sean Evans
Hot Ones (First We Feast – Complex Networks)

Hoda Kotb, Jenna Bush Hager
Today Show with Hoda & Jenna (NBC)

Kelly Ripa, Ryan Seacrest
Live with Kelly and Ryan (SYNDICATED)

OUTSTANDING WRITING TEAM FOR A DRAMA SERIES

The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)

General Hospital (ABC)

The Young and the Restless (CBS)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTING TEAM FOR A DRAMA SERIES

The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)

Days of Our Lives (NBC)

General Hospital (ABC)

The Young and the Restless (CBS)

OUTSTANDING MUSIC DIRECTION AND COMPOSITION FOR A DAYTIME PROGRAM

Dash & Lily (Netflix)

Endlings (Hulu)

Ghostwriter (Apple TV+)

I Am Patrick (CBN)

The Letter for the King Netflix

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG

“Cabana Boy Troy”
The Kelly Clarkson Show (SYNDICATED)

“I Got the Music”
Julie and the Phantoms (Netflix)

“More Than a Vow”
The Young and the Restless (CBS)

“The Other Side of Hollywood”
Julie and the Phantoms (Netflix)

“Unsaid Emily”
Julie and the Phantoms (Netflix)

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DIRECTION FOR A DRAMA OR DAYTIME FICTION PROGRAM

The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)

Endlings (Hulu)

Ghostwriter (Apple TV+)

Studio City (Amazon Prime Video)

Trinkets (Netflix)

The Young and the Restless (CBS)

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DIRECTION

The Ellen DeGeneres Show (SYNDICATED)

The Kelly Clarkson Show (SYNDICATED)

Odd Squad (PBS)

Sesame Street (HBO)

The Talk (CBS)

OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL TEAM FOR A DRAMA OR DAYTIME FICTION PROGRAM

The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)

Days of Our Lives (NBC)

General Hospital (ABC)

The Young and the Restless (CBS)

OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL TEAM

Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love (Netflix)

CBS This Morning (CBS)

Sesame Street (HBO)

Space Launch Live: America Returns to Space (Discovery and Science Channel)

The Talk (CBS)

Wheel of Fortune (SYNDICATED)

OUTSTANDING MULTIPLE CAMERA EDITING FOR A DRAMA OR DAYTIME FICTION PROGRAM

Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love (Netflix)

The Gaze (Facebook Watch, YouTube)

OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING AND EDITING FOR A DRAMA OR DAYTIME FICTION PROGRAM

Endlings (Hulu)

Ghostwriter (Apple TV+)

The Letter for the King (Netflix)

Trinkets (Netflix)

OUTSTANDING LIVE AND DIRECT-TO-TAPE SOUND MIXING

Family Feud (SYNDICATED)

The Kelly Clarkson Show (SYNDICATED)

Let’s Make a Deal (CBS)

Tamron Hall (SYNDICATED)

The View (ABC)

OUTSTANDING CASTING FOR A DRAMA OR DAYTIME FICTION PROGRAM

Dash & Lily (Netflix)

Days of Our Lives (NBC)

General Hospital (ABC)

Julie and the Phantoms (Netflix)

Trinkets (Netflix)

OUTSTANDING ART DIRECTION/SET DECORATION/SCENIC DESIGN FOR A DRAMA OR DAYTIME FICTION PROGRAM

Dash & Lily (Netflix)

Endlings (Hulu)

Ghostwriter (Apple TV+)

The Letter for the King (Netflix)

Trinkets (Netflix)

#WASHED (Amazon Prime Video)

OUTSTANDING ART DIRECTION/SET DECORATION/SCENIC DESIGN

Craftopia (HBO Max)

The Kelly Clarkson Show (SYNDICATED)

The New Legends of Monkey (Netflix)

Odd Squad (PBS)

Weird But True (National Geographic Kids)

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN/STYLING FOR A DRAMA OR DAYTIME FICTION PROGRAM

Alexa & Katie (Netflix)

Dash & Lily (Netflix)

Days of Our Lives (NBC)

Julie and the Phantoms (Netflix)

Trinkets (Netflix)

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN/STYLING

The Baby-Sitters Club (Netflix)

The Healing Powers of Dude (Netflix)

Helpsters (Apple TV+)

Odd Squad (PBS)

OUTSTANDING HAIRSTYLING FOR A DRAMA OR DAYTIME FICTION PROGRAM

Dash & Lily (Netflix)

Ghostwriter (Apple TV+)

Julie and the Phantoms (Netflix)

The Letter for the King (Netflix)

Trinkets (Netflix)

OUTSTANDING HAIRSTYLING

The Big Fib (Disney+)

The Real (SYNDICATED)

Red Table Talk (Facebook Watch)

The Talk (CBS)

The Wendy Williams Show (SYNDICATED)

OUTSTANDING MAKEUP FOR A DRAMA OR DAYTIME FICTION PROGRAM

Dash & Lily (Netflix)

Julie and the Phantoms (Netflix)

The Letter for the King (Netflix)

Trinkets (Netflix)

The Young and the Restless (CBS)

OUTSTANDING MAKEUP

All That (Nickelodeon)

The Real (SYNDICATED)

Red Table Talk (Facebook Watch)

The Talk (CBS)

The Wendy Williams Show (SYNDICATED)

Monkee Time: Micky Dolenz Album of Mike Nesmith Songs Unexpectedly Sells Out at Amazon, Reorders Coming

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Monkee Time: Micky Dolenz Album of Mike Nesmith Songs Unexpectedly Sells Out at Amazon, Reorders Coming

Amazon usually has enough of everything in stock. But they underestimated the demand for Micky Dolenz’s new album, “Dolenz Sings Nesmith,” a collection of gorgeous new recordings of Mike Nesmith songs by his Monkees c0hort Micky Dolenz.

Right now, the words “Temporarily out of stock” have gone up on Amazon. I am assured that a new order has been placed. In the meantime, you can buy the CD on Micky’s website.

A long time ago in a far off galaxy, the great singer Harry Nilsson recorded a whole album of songs by the still not so well known Randy Newman. It was a big hit and a cult favorite. I remember that album in everyone’s collections. It was a must have.

Micky remembered it, too, and wanted to do a similar project with Nesmith for the last, uh, 50 years. Mike’s son, Christian, produced it, and the album cover is a tribute to “Nilsson Sings Newman.”

It’s not just Micky’s voice that is outstanding on this collection. Or the songs, which including Mike’s hit that he wrote for Linda Ronstadt, “Different Drum.” It’s also the band. They are insanely good. They are tight and in the groove. The production is sterling. This CD has not left my car for two weeks!

Give it a play here on Spotify but get a physical copy if you can. The album package is beautiful, with liner notes, lyrics and photos. I am truly impressed. Why does Micky sound just like he did on those Monkees hits? Wonderful!

 

You Tube Host Sean Evans (Who?) Gets Daytime Emmy Nomination, Beating Famous Names Like Ellen DeGeneres, Tamron Hall, Whoopi Goldberg

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You Tube Host Sean Evans (Who?) Gets Daytime Emmy Nomination, Beating Famous Names Like Ellen DeGeneres, Tamron Hall, Whoopi Goldberg

Sean who? Some guy named Sean Evans who hosts a show on YouTube was nominated for a Daytime Emmy award for Outstanding Talk Show Host last night.

Such is the power of YouTube that this Evans, whose name we’ll learn now, beat out Ellen DeGeneres, Tamron Hall, and a number of marquee names. Also, Sean Evans isn’t even on television! He’s on YouTube. His show, called “Hot Ones,” is on the internet.

That’s a big deal, I’d say. While syndicators are scrambling to find new faces for talk shows, this guy has an Emmy nod and no one knows who he is.

The Daytime Emmys for some reason released two categories last night the others will come today at noon. The actresses from “General Hospital” got three of the five top spots. (They could have had all five, really, as Maura West and Laura Wright didn’t make it, which is unusual.) There were no lead actresses from “Days of our Lives.”

Here are the two categories so far:

The nominees for Outstanding Talk Show Host are: Drew Barrymore (The Drew Barrymore Show); Sean Evans (Hot Ones); Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager (Today Show with Hoda and Jenna); Kelly Clarkson (The Kelly Clarkson Show); and Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest (LIVE with Kelly and Ryan).

The nominees for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress in a Drama Series are: Jacqueline MacInnes Wood (Steffy, The Bold and the Beautiful); Melissa Claire Egan (Chelsea, The Young and the Restless); and from General Hospital, Genie Francis (Laura), Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis), and Finola Hughes (Anna/Alex).

Ratings: “Billboard Music Awards” Drops 36% from Last Year, Trounced by “American Idol” With Double the Numbers

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Ratings: “Billboard Music Awards” Drops 36% from Last Year, Trounced by “American Idol” With Double the Numbers

“American Idol” isn’t much of a powerhouse anymore but it’s still strong enough to knock off the Billboard Music Awards.

The “Idol” finale scored 5.4 million viewers, more than twice as many fans as the BBMAs on Sunday night.

The two shows ran against each for the whole night on their respective networks. “Idol” was on ABC, “BBMA” was on NBC.

“Idol” featured not only the big season ending competition but also big star performers like Chaka Khan and Sheryl Crow. Their performances were top notch, too.

The Awards recycled the same stuff from the Grammy Awards and before that the American Music Awards. The audience wasn’t interested. Billboard Music Awards was down to 2.333 million viewers, off by 36% from last year’s 3.6 million. That’s a new all time low after a previous all time low.

Even BTS couldn’t save the Awards, presenting their new hit, “Butter.” Alicia Keys shined of course with a medley of greatest hits, but otherwise the music was mostly deadening. There was no country performer, which was a BIG Mistake. But the show had “banned” Morgan Wallen and still gave him three big awards off camera. Ridiculous.

If these Awards had been on the CW Network, it would have been fine. But this was one of the big three networks.

CBS won the night easily with “60 Minutes,” “The Equalizer,” “NCIS Los Angeles” and the series finale of “NCIS New Orleans.”

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