Month: November 2025

Ariana Grande, Cher, Lily Allen and Josh O’Connor are all set to appear on the last two episodes in 2025 of Saturday Night Live. 

On December 13th, host Josh O’Connor, who stars in Netflix’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, will make his SNL debut.   Allen, fresh off the release of her new album West End Girl, will serve as musical guest for the first time since 2007.

Ariana Grande will host the last show of the year on Dec. 20, with Cher serving as the musical guest for the first time since 1987. Grande has hosted 3x previously.

As previously announced, after two weeks off for Thanksgiving, SNL returns to the air on December 6 with Melissa McCarthy as host, featuring musical guest Dijon.

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In the teaser trailer for Season 2 of Prime Video’s post-apocalyptic hit series Fallout, Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell) and Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins) travel the desert before arriving in New Vegas, following the events of the first season. The series is based on the blockbuster video game franchise of the same name.

Prime Video says that Season 2 of Fallout “will pick up in the aftermath of the first season finale in taking audiences on a journey through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas.”

The trailer goes back in time to show a number of flashback sequences before introducing Justin Theroux’s character Robert House, who recruited Cooper into selling Vault-Tec items before the bombs dropped. The clip ends with a quick look at a monstruous Deathclaw that attacks Lucy and Cooper, now known as “The Ghoul.”

Fallout also stars Aaron Moten and Kyle MacLachlan as the villainous Hank MacLean. The show’s first season was a big success for Prime Video, ranking among the service’s top three most-watched original titles of all time.

Season 2 of Fallout  is coming to Prime Video on Dec. 17, with new episodes streaming weekly until the season finale on Feb. 4, 2026. The series was already renewed for Season 3 earlier this year.

See the Season 2 teaser trailer – HERE.

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Sting will headline a NFL Super Bowl-branded concert on Feb. 6 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco – the NFL’s hospitality provider, On Location. The concert takes place two days before the Super Bowl kicks off at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Feb. 8, where Bad Bunny is set to perform the halftime show.   Sting previously performed at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2003, coheadlining the event with Shania Twain and No Doubt.

According to the On Location website, Sting’s set will be part of the broader Super Bowl LX Studio 60 event, described as “a weekend of unforgettable music entertainment at one of San Francisco’s most iconic venues”.

The promoter’s website promises “meet and greet opportunities with NFL legends and current players,” with a second night of Studio 60 festivities will occur in the same location the following evening on Feb. 7, though no performers have been announced for night 2.

The news comes in the wake of intense criticism of the Super Bowl halftime show, which has elicited harsh reactions from conservative political figures. Despite the controversy, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell defended the decision to hire Bad Bunny last week, opining that he’s “confident it’s going to be a great show” in February:  “I’m not sure we’ve ever selected an artist where we didn’t have some blowback or criticism,” Goodell said. “I think it’s going to be exciting and a united moment.”

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NBC has revealed the star-studded lineup of performers for the annual tree-lighting celebration ‘2025 Christmas in Rockefeller Center.’ The annual two-hour event will air live on Wednesday, December 3rd, at 8 pm ET on NBC and simulcast on Peacock.

The network previously announced in a press release that Reba McEntire will host this year’s ‘Christmas in Rockefeller Center’ for the first time; with NBC “Today” anchors Savannah Guthrie, Craig Melvin and Al Roker joining the tree lighting special.

In addition to hosting, McEntire, 70, will perform throughout the evening alongside an all-star lineup of musical guests, including Marc Anthony, Halle Bailey, Michael Bublé, Kristin Chenoweth, Laufey, New Edition, Brad Paisley, Carly Pearce, the Radio City Rockettes, and Gwen Stefani. In addition, the Radio City Rockettes, celebrating their 100th anniversary this year, will perform.

Christmas in Rockefeller Center celebrates the holiday season and the annual lighting of one of the world’s most famous trees in the heart of New York City – a tradition that spans over nine decades. The 93rd annual holiday event at Rockefeller Center will lead up to the lighting of the tree, dressed up with over 50,000 multicolored LED lights and topped with its traditional Swarovski star.

Jen Neal, executive vp of live events and specials at NBCUniversal Entertainment, in a statement: “The lighting of the tree at Rockefeller Center is one of the great traditions that New York has to offer, and we couldn’t be more proud to once again share that excitement with audiences all over the country. We’re so looking forward to seeing Reba bring her infectious energy to the telecast and create an unforgettable holiday moment.”

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Daniel Craig is back as Benoit Blanc in the upcoming Netflix film Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the third installment in the ‘Knives Out’ franchise from writer-director Rian Johnson.

In the trailer, viewers see Blanc declare that he is “incapable of not solving a crime,” despite being faced with “a perfectly impossible” case. This particular crime, set in an upstate New York parish, involves the murder of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin).

An official synopsis reads: “Wicks’ modest but devoted flock includes devout church lady Martha Delacroix (Glenn Close), wary groundskeeper Sampson Holt (Thomas Haden Church), tightly wound lawyer Vera Draven (Kerry Washington), aspiring politician Cy Draven (Daryl McCormack), town docttor Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner), reclusive author Lee Ross (Andrew Scott) and concert cellist Simone Vivane (Cailee Spaeny).”

At the center of the mystery is former boxer turned priest Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor), with the cast also including Glenn Close, Thomas Haden Church, Kerry Washington, Daryl McCormack, Jeremy Renner, Andrew Scott, Mila Kunis and Cailee Spaeny.

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery arrives in theaters on November 26, and begins streaming on Netflix on December 12.  Take a look at the trailer – HERE.

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Netflix has released the final trailer for the fifth – and last – season of Stranger Things, set to premiere on November 26th.

The official description of the new season reads: “The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding. As the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.”

The new season will be released in three parts: Volume 1 on Nov. 26 (consisting of four episodes), Volume 2 on Christmas (three episodes) and The Finale on New Year’s Eve. Each will drop at 5 p.m. PT.

Back in January, co-creator Ross Duffer said about the final episodes, “We spent a full year filming this season. By the end, we’d captured over 650 hours of footage. So, needless to say, this is our biggest and most ambitious season yet. It’s like eight blockbuster movies. It’s pretty insane.”

Co-creator Matt Duffer added, “At the same time, we think it’s our most personal story. It was super intense and emotional to film, for us and for our actors. We’ve been making this show together for almost 10 years. There was a lot of crying. There was so much crying. The show means so much to all of us, and everyone put their hearts and souls into it. And we hope — and believe — that passion will translate to the screen.”

Starring in Season 5 are: Millie Bobbie Brown, Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, Brett Gelman, Cara Buono, Amybeth McNulty, Nell Fisher, Jack Connelly, Alex Breaux and Linda Hamilton star.

See the new trailer – HERE.

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