NEW YORK (AP) — The revamped “American Idol” had a strong debut on ABC, reaching more than 10 million viewers and shrugging off Fox’s attempt to blunt the premiere’s impact with its special on O.J. Simpson. The Nielsen company said that the 10.34 million who watched the return of “American Idol” represented ABC’s biggest Sunday […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — This year’s Kennedy Center Honors recognizing outstanding artists and performers managed to skip the political drama that loomed over it earlier this year — just ask honoree Norman Lear. Ahead of Sunday night’s festivities at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the longtime television producer behind “All in the […]
Music star and newly minted “American Idol” judge Lionel Richie has been granted the rights to produce a feature based on the life of legendary songwriter and musician Curtis Mayfield. Richie is developing the project via his RichLion Productions., which acquired the rights from the Curtis Mayfield Estate, according to Deadline. “It’s an honor for me to bring […]
Music star and newly minted “American Idol” judge Lionel Richie has been granted the rights to produce a feature based on the life of legendary songwriter and musician Curtis Mayfield. Richie is developing the project via his RichLion Productions., which acquired the rights from the Curtis Mayfield Estate, according to Deadline. “It’s an honor for me to bring […]
Lionel Richie has broken his silence on the relationship that has sprouted between his 19-year-old daughter Sofia and Kourtney Kardashian’s 34-year-old babydaddy of three, Scott Disick. https://www.instagram.com/p/BZw3mbeHyKp/?taken-by=sofiarichie The former frontman for The Commodores said he is “in shock,” to put it mildly. “I’m scared to death, are you kidding me? Have I been […]
ABC and the producers of American Idol” are reportedly at odds about the racial makeup of its still-unsettled judging panel. So far, only Katy Perry has been confirmed for the rebooted show (for a reported $25 million payday). And according to TMZ, Luke Bryan is close to signing a contract to sit beside her. At […]
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — Acknowledging that he has become a “political distraction,” President Donald Trump has decided to skip the festivities surrounding the annual Kennedy Center Honors arts awards later this year, the White House announced Saturday amid the continuing fallout over Trump’s stance on last weekend’s white supremacist demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Kennedy […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — This year’s Kennedy Center honorees will include two singers, a television writer, a dancer – and for the first time, a hip-hop artist. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday announced the recipients of the 2017 Kennedy Center Honors. They are: hip-hop artist LL Cool J, singers Gloria […]
08/2/17- Getting to do the show in real time is no joke for Bill! He’s up at 3 am but he does it for the love and the culture. Bill went to Lionel Richie’s Old School concert and gushed about how Lionel was the first light skin man he’d ever seen, aside from Tom back in […]
