Month: June 2024

Suits Season 9 is set to premiere on Netflix July 1, with the streaming service announcing on X: “Order in the court! Suits Season 9 is coming to Netflix July 1st.”  The Netflix site Tudum.com also announced that Season 9 will be released on July 1; Seasons 1 through 8 are currently available on Netflix in the U.S. Seasons 1-9 have been available across the globe.

Suits ran for nine seasons on USA Network, with reruns of the first eight seasons became a huge hit when they began streaming on Netflix in 2023. The show stars Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Sarah Rafferty, Dulé Hill, Amanda Schull and Abigail Spencer; Meghan Markle, wife of Britain’s Prince Harry, starred in the first seven seasons of the series.

A synopsis reads: “The final season of ‘Suits’ centers on the evolved firm, Zane Specter Litt Wheeler Williams, facing uncertainty and change yet again after Robert Zane (Wendell Pierce) took the fall with the Bar Association to save Harvey (Macht). After his sacrifice, Samantha Wheeler (Katherine Heigl) is left reeling from the loss of her mentor, and while trying to console her, Harvey realizes that he doesn’t want to lose the person who’s most important to him: Donna (Rafferty). Season 9 follows the legendary lawyer and COO as they balance their relationship with work and fight to salvage the firm’s tarnished reputation alongside their partners, Louis Litt (Rick Hoffman), Alex Williams (Hill), Katrina Bennett (Schull), and Samantha. As the season progresses, the core characters’ personal lives are explored more deeply than ever before, setting up the series conclusion, in which everyone will finally be forced to decide exactly who they are and what kind of lawyers they want to be.”

Season 9 cast members include Gabriel Macht, Rick Hoffman, Sarah Rafferty, Amanda Schull, Dulé Hill, Katherine Heigl, and special guest star Patrick J. Adams.

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Actor Donald Sutherland has died at the age of 88.  A representative for Sutherland said that the actor died Thursday in Miami after a long illness. CAA’s Missy Davy confirmed Sutherland’s death to PEOPLE, stating that “a private celebration of life will be held by the family.”

Sutherland’s son, actor Kiefer Sutherland, 57, also revealed the news in a social media post: “With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived.”

Sutherland starred in scores of films, including The Dirty Dozen, MASH, Klut, Animal House, Ordinary People, Pride & Prejudice and The Hunger Games franchise, and he won an Emmy Award in 1995 for the television film, Citizen X.   Sutherland was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 2017 “for a lifetime of indelible characters, rendered with unwavering truthfulness,” though he was never nominated for a competitive Oscar over his long career.

Sutherland is survived by five children, including Kiefer, whom he shared with ex-wife actress Shirley Douglas, and five grandchildren. Sutherland, who was also previously married to Lois Hardwick, wed actress Francine Racette in 1972, and shared kids Roeg, Rossif and Angus with her. He is also dad to daughter Rachel with Douglas, who died in 2020 at 86.

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Ryan Reynolds’ Welcome to Wrexham will return for a fourth season on FX and Hulu, with the streamers announcing in a social media post that the sports docuseries was renewed for Season 4: “There’s more to this underdragon story. FX’s Welcome to Wrexham is officially back for season 4! ”

Welcome to Wrexham follows Reynolds and actor Rob McElhenney as they take over ownership of Wrexham AFX, aka the Red Dragons, a U.K. soccer club from a working-class town in Wales. FX Entertainment president Nick Grad said in a statement: “Wrexham AFC has exceeded all expectations on the pitch and with fans, scoring back-to-back promotions under the leadership of Rob and Ryan and rising to compete in League One next season. Welcome to Wrexham is scoring big too, winning five Emmy Awards and a fourth season that will continue to document the team’s remarkable journey and its impact on the Wrexham community and growing legion of fans worldwide.”

Welcome to Wrexham Season 3 chronicles the Red Dragons’ promotion to the English Football League’s League One (3rd Tier), and features unprecedented access on the pitch, “bringing viewers inside the locker room and alongside the players, while the action is unfolding in some of the biggest matches Wrexham AFC has ever played.”

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Alec Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, announced a new reality show about their family, titled “The Baldwins, set to air on TLC in 2025.

A video clip begins with Alec, 66, and Hilaria, 40, introducing themselves and their large family. “We have an announcement to make,” Hilaria, says before Alec, interrupts, “Good God, no.” Hilaria says they are “done having kids” while Alec states: ”We’re inviting you into our home to experience the ups and downs, the good, the bad, the wild and the crazy. Home is the place we love to be most.”  The social media post ends with the family of nine yelling, “We are the Baldwins! And we’re coming to TLC!” Alec adds before joking, “God help you all!”

Alec and Hilaria share seven children: Carmen Gabriela, 10, Rafael Thomas, 8, Leonardo Ángel Charles, 7, Romeo Alejandro David, 5, Eduardo “Edu” Pao Lucas, María Lucía Victoria, 3, and Ilaria Catalina Irena, 19 months. Alec also shares daughter Ireland, 28, with ex-wife Kim Basinger.

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Sir Ian McKellen has been hospitalized after falling off the stage during a show in London on Monday. Page Six confirmed that the 85-year-old actor was midway through his performance in “Player Kings” at the Noël Coward theatre when he lost his footing doing a fight scene and fell off the front of the stage, crying out in pain

According to the BBC, who was first to report the news, the audience was evacuated from the theater and the evening show was canceled. A representative for the theater shared a statement that he British actor, who plays John Falstaff in the show, will “make a speedy and full recovery” and was in “in good spirits.”

The statement read: “Thank you to our audience and the general public for their well wishes following Ian’s fall during this evening’s performance of ‘Player Kings.’ Following a scan, the brilliant NHS team have assured us that he will make a speedy and full recovery and Ian is in good spirits. The production has made the decision to cancel the performance on Tuesday 18 June so Ian can rest. Those affected will be contacted by their point of purchase as soon as possible tomorrow. Thank you to doctors Rachel and Lee who were on hand in the audience and to all the venue staff for their support.”

“Player Kings” is a production of William Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Parts One and Two” which started its 12-week run on the West End in April; the play is expected to run through Saturday before going on tour throughout the United Kingdom until the end of July. Per Variety, McKellen is a frequent Shakespeare actor with stage roles including Macbeth, King Lear, Richard II, Coriolanus, Iago and Richard III.  Just this year, he portrayed Hamlet in a film adaptation from director Sean Mathias. McKellen also famously played Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, as well as Magneto in the “X-Men” film franchise.

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Justin Timberlake was been released from police custody after being arrested for driving while intoxicated or impaired in the Hamptons, NY on Monday night.

PEOPLE reported that Timberlake, 43, appeared in court for his arraignment in handcuffs on Tuesday, and was released shortly afterward.  Law enforcement did not confirm Timberlake’s charges to the outlet, but sources told PEOPLE that the singer was pulled over while driving to his friend’s house after having dinner at the American Hotel in Sag Harbor, adding that “nobody was hurt.” NBC News reports that Timberlake claimed he had just “one martini” before he was pulled over; however, according to the complaint written by Sag Harbor Village police officer Michael Arkinson, once police spoke to Timberlake they said it was clear the motorist was not in any shape to drive. Police ascertained that Timberlake was “operating said vehicle in an intoxicated condition in that his eyes were bloodshot and glassy, a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage was emanating from his breath, he was unable to divide attention, he had slowed speech, he was unsteady afoot, and he performed poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests.”  Timberlake was then arrested on suspicion of impaired driving early Tuesday in the affluent Hamptons area of Long Island.

The Sag Harbor Police Department issued a statement reading: “On June 18, 2024, at 12:37 AM, Justin R. Timberlake, age 43, of Tennessee, was observed operating a 2025 BMW southbound on Madison Street, failing to stop at a duly posted stop sign and failing to maintain his lane of travel. A traffic stop was initiated by a Police Officer from the Sag Harbor Village Police Department and upon investigation it was determined that Mr. Timberlake was operating his vehicle in an intoxicated condition. Mr. Timberlake was placed under arrest, processed, and held overnight for morning arraignment. Mr. Timberlake was arraigned at the Sag Harbor Village Justice Court on June 18, 2024, at 9:30 AM where he was released on his own recognizance.”

Timberlake is currently on the road with his first tour in five years, the Forget Tomorrow World Tour, in support of his latest album, Everything I Thought It Was, which dropped on March 15. He is on a brief break in New York this week following his Miami tour stop on Saturday, June 15, and is next scheduled to play Chicago’s United Center on June 21-22, before a two-night stint at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on June 25-26.

Timberlake is due back in Sag Harbor court for a hearing regarding the DWI charges on Friday, July 26.

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