Kim Petras Makes Guest Appearance in ‘Los Espookys’ Season 2 Trailer

Fans have been waiting three years for the return of HBO’s acclaimed series Los Espookys, and the season two trailer was officially released on Wednesday (Aug. 24) featuring some familiar faces.

The Spanish and English-language comedy follows “a group of friends who turn their love for horror into a peculiar business, providing horror to those who need it, in a dreamy Latin American country where the strange and eerie are just part of daily life,” according to HBO’s website.

The new trailer finds Renaldo (Bernardo Velasco), haunted a beauty pageant queen’s ghost, while Úrsula (Cassandra Ciangherotti) takes on the political status quo. Úrsula’s sister Tati (Ana Fabrega) navigates life as a newlywed and Renaldo’s best friend, Andrés (Julio Torres) is in the wake of battling his (actual) inner demons. Uncle Tico (Fred Armisen) also makes an appearance in the trailer, searching for his next steps after his valet career is derailed.

Kim Petras appears in her TV debut as the bombshell Secretary of State, Kimberly Reynolds, who is introduced by emerging out of a limousine in a floral bralette and pink skirt suit, holding a massive stick of Toblerone chocolate.

The best way to watch Los Espookys is to sign up for HBO Max. The streaming service has expanded to two subscription tiers: ad-supported and commercial free. The platform also introduced a free tier last year which only allows you to watch certain episodes. HBO Max’s paid subscriptions start at $9.99 ($99.99 a year) for ad-supported streaming, or $14.99 a month ($149.99 a year) to watch ad free.

Watch the trailer below. Los Espookys season two premieres on September 16 on HBO and HBO Max.

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Pharrell Williams Throws the First Pitch at New York Yankees Game

Hey, batter batter! Pharrell Williams took to the pitcher’s mound at the New York Yankees baseball game earlier this week (Aug. 22) to throw the first pitch.

Fittingly, Pharrell rocked his Billionaire Boys Club collaborative clothing line with the Yankees for the occasion.

It’s been a busy summer for Pharrell, who put out a number of collaborations, including “Cash In Cash Out” with Tyler, the Creator and 21 Savage, and Calvin Harris’ “Stay With Me” with Halsey and Justin Timberlake.

In June, the Grammy-winning artist held his Something in the Water Festival in the heart of Washington, D.C., after moving it from his hometown of Virginia Beach. When asked if the concert would ever move back to Virginia Beach, Pharrell told Billboard, “That is a great question, but one I cannot answer. That is only because I was disappointed with how the local municipal government handled the loss of my cousin’s life. It is one thing for the officer to make a mistake, but it is another to follow up the way they did. I did not feel as if there was enough love, respect, and reverence for his life. Him being a fellow Virginian, his life and the loss of his life should have been treated like anybody else’s. When we start seeing situations handled differently, not only with African Americans but with minorities in general handled differently, then coming back is something we can think about doing again.”

He continued, “The give back is in the leave behind of the festival. It is not just D.C.; the 757 is benefitting, and we brought the city with us to the festival. Everything happening around this festival up here and back home in the 757 is possible because of the activation of the people. It is the people who are powering this event.”

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Do You Get Deja Vu? Olivia Rodrigo Performs With Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden

Olivia Rodrigo introduced the person she wrote “Deja Vu” about to Billy Joel‘s music — and now she’s singing onstage with the “Piano Man” himself.

The 19-year-old pop star surprised fans when she joined Joel onstage during his Madison Square Garden concert in New York City on Wednesday night (Aug. 24) to perform back-to-back songs: “Deja Vu” and Joel’s “Uptown Girl,” the song she references in her 2021 top five Billboard Hot 100 hit.

“Hey, guys!” Rodrigo said to the crowd as they screamed wildly. “Thank you so much for having me, Billy. I’m such a huge fan. And, uh, I kind of wrote this next song about you,” she said before launching into “Deja Vu.”

Fans will recognize the reference to Joel’s 1983 hit in Rodrigo’s single, in which she sings, “I’ll bet that she knows Billy Joel ’cause you played her ‘Uptown Girl,’” and later on when she belts, “Play her piano, but she doesn’t know that I was the one who taught you Billy Joel.”

“Deja Vu” was Rodrigo’s second single from her debut album Sour, released in April 2021. After debuting in the top 10, the song eventually peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100 in June 2021 — becoming her third top five hit off Sour, after “Drivers License” and “Good 4 U.”

Following its release, “Uptown Girl” also peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100, for five consecutive weeks beginning on the chart dated Nov. 12, 1983, and was accompanied by a famous music video that starred model Christie Brinkley, who was married to the singer from 1985 to 1994.

Madison Square Garden has been pretty busy this week, with Harry Styles‘ 15-date residency kicking off on Saturday night. Joel referenced the pop star’s string of dates onstage Wednesday, telling the crowd: “Thank you to Harry Styles for taking a night off.”

While there hasn’t been any official video released of the performance yet, concert attendees flooded Twitter with photos and clips of the superstar duo performing together.

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‘Cinderella’ Reunion: How to Stream the 25th Anniversary Special for Free

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Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella returned to ABC in an all-new special celebrating the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking film starring Brandy and Whitney Houston as America’s first Black Cinderella and Fairy Godmother.

Cinderella: The Reunion, A Special Edition of 20/20 premiered on ABC on Tuesday (Aug. 23) and began streaming on Hulu Wednesday (Aug. 24). Brandy, Whoopi Goldberg, Paolo Montalban, Victor Garber, Bernadette Peters, Jason Alexander, Veanne Cox and Billy Porter (who played a gender neutral Fabulous Godmother in the Amazon original Cinderella) will be featured in the one-hour program which airs during Disney’s World Princess Week and explores the Emmy-nominated film’s impact in “expanding society’s view of the term princess,” per ABC.

“We’re delighted that the 25th anniversary of this landmark incarnation of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella is being celebrated on its original network,” Imogen Lloyd Webber, SVP at Concord Theatricals said in a statement on behalf of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s unforgettable score is truly timeless – still enchanting listeners 80 years after their partnership began and 65 years since their Cinderella first charged the largest audience in television history.”

Directly after the special, ABC aired Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella for the first time in over two decades (you can stream the film on Disney+). Read on for details on how to stream the special for free.

How to Watch Cinderella: The Reunion Online for Free

Cinderella: The Reunion is streaming on-demand via Hulu, Hulu + Live TV and ABC, but you’ll need a cable or a streaming provider log-in to access the special on ABC.com.

Right now, Hulu is offering a free trial for the first month, when you subscribe to the basic package for $6.99 a month (or $69.99 a year). Hulu’s commercial-free plan is $12.99 a month ($129.99 a year).

For just $7 a month, TV lovers can enjoy Cinderella: The Reunion and other ABC programs like The Bachelorette and The Con, along with shows from FX, NBC, Fox, Freeform and other networks and exclusive ABC news specials such as Aftershock, Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders, Have You Seen This Man?, The Ivana Trump Story: The First Wife, The Housewife and the Hustler, Wild Crime and Mormon No More.

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The bundle deal, which includes Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN+ is $13.99 a month to stream with limited commercials and $19.99 a month to stream without ads (use ExpressVPN to stream Hulu from outside of the U.S).

Hulu is also home to a bevy of original movies and TV series like Only Murders in the Building, Prey, The Handmaid’s Tale, Castle Rock, The Dropout, On the Count of Three, This Fool, Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers, Not Okay, Fire Island, The Valet, Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons and music-related documentaries including Machine Gun Kelly: My Life in Pink and Look at Me: XXXTentacion.

If you’re a Direct TV Stream subscriber, Cinderella: The Reunion is streaming on-demand (navigate to the search box from your main page and type the program’s name to begin streaming).  You may be able to find it on-demand via YouTube TV as well as Vidgo, Fubo TV and Sling TV, the latter of which offers local channels with the edition of an HD antenna.

The live TV streaming packages mentioned above start at around $20-$50 a month for access dozens of live and on-demand cable and local channels. Also, most of the aforementioned platforms include a free trial.

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Usher Defends R&B And Says Diddy Sounds Nuts When He Claimed “It Was Dead” | Billboard News

Usher dished in a new radio interview this week defending the r&b genre, being crowned the “King of R&B” by his fans and called Diddy “nuts” for saying “r&b is dead.”

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Annette Taddeo wins Democratic primary, will challenge Salazar for congressional seat

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A burned hand was among a national pizza chain’s second batch of child labor violations

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Nadler defeats Maloney in battle of top House Democrats

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Gantt upsets incumbent James Bush III in state House District 109

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Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ Crashes Older Laptops, Microsoft Engineer Reveals

One unforeseen part of the “Rhythm Nation”? The classic Janet Jackson music video has been proven to crash certain older laptops, says Microsoft’s chief software engineer Raymond Chen in a company blog post.

It’s all because of a specific frequency featured in “Rhythm Nation” that interferes with laptop hard drives that spin at 5400 rpm.

Released in 1989, the computer-offending song was the titular anthem of Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814. The album was one of the most commercially successful of its day, producing seven top five singles on the Billboard Hot 100 — which continues to be a record for the pop sensation.

But don’t throw Jackson’s classic hit off your playlists just yet: Manufacturers who made this 5400 rpm drive fixed the problem years ago by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline to remove these frequencies from songs like “Rhythm Nation” that can mess up the older hard drives.

Chen does note he is worried that “in the many years since the workaround was added, nobody remembers why [the filter is] there. Hopefully, their laptops are not still carrying this audio filter to protect against damage to a model of hard drive they are no longer using.”

Jackson’s own Instagram account reposted a clip from Australia’s Kyle and Jackie O. radio show, in which they tried to re-create the bug and were able to crash two of their test computers. “That’s spooky!” Kyle says as the laptop screens go black as “Rhythm Nation” blasts from the radio station’s speakers.

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