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Find out if Ellen was successful in getting Rob Lowe to say the Mystery Word to win an early Christmas present for the audience in the clip below! 

VMI Worldwide, in association with Archer Films and the Oklahoma Film + Music Office (OF+MO), is proud to announce the successful completion of photography on the feature film “Wake Up” in Oklahoma. The film will now be represented by VMI Worldwide at the 2018 Cannes Film Market in France where selected screen material will be presented to buyers for distribution rights to the film.

Hungary's most evolving band are about to embark on a UK tour. If you're not aware of Middlemist Red just yet you really need to be, they produce atmospheric Pysch Rock that is absolutely second to none.The foursome formed in 2012 and instantly had a great impact on the music scene in Budapest, as well as significant international acknowledgement on the back of their very succesful European tour.

For decades, Nashville America Records has been the label home for David Frizzell's individual projects as well as the renowned Frizzell & Friends collaborations produced by the country music icon. Those collaborations have included projects with Merle Haggard, Crystal Gayle, Johnny Lee, Gene Watson, T. Graham Brown, Lacy J. Dalton, Jimmy Fortune (Statler Brothers), John Cowan (New Grass Revival), and many more top names. After being invited by a friend to hear Sarah Patrick perform, Frizzell soon signed the young singer/songwriter to his label. Reminiscent of a young Loretta Lynn, Sarah writes songs about life's joys and challenges: love, motherhood, romance, heartbreak and disappointment.

Tina Tchen, Chair of the Recording Academy's newly formed task force on diversity and inclusion, announced the names of the 16 members joining her in examining barriers and biases affecting women and other underrepresented voices in the music industry and, specifically, the Recording Academy. 

With less than a month to go until North London enjoys the annual Camden Rocks Festival on June 2nd, the penultimate line up has been revealed with over 200 bands playing across multiple venues in Camden. This is the 6th all-dayer that Camden Rocks would have graced Camden Town with, a festival known for sunshine, cold drinks and good times alongside over 1500 musicians and 8000 music fans soaking up the carnival atmosphere!

Multi-platinum band GODSMACK has exploded onto the album charts with WHEN LEGENDS RISE (via BMG), the band's seventh studio album and their first in four years. The 11-song collection, fueled by the Top 5 rock song and video 'Bulletproof' plus the title track'When Legends Rise,' has entered the Billboard Top 200 album chart in the top ten (#8), with four #1 placements on other charts: Top Rock Albums, Top Hard Music Albums, Top Independent Albums and Top Alternative Albums. WHEN LEGENDS RISE is available on CD, LP and Digital.  

On May 24th, Public Television's critically acclaimed conversation series Speakeasy, will return to The McKittrick Hotel's Manderley Bar in New York City to film an all new episode, presented by Citi, featuring iconic musicians Sting and Shaggy discussing their new album, 44/876. Doors will open at 4:00 PM and the show will begin promptly at 5:00 PM. Tickets are available on May 9th at 10:00 AM EST here.

Netflix, the world's leading internet entertainment service, announced today, Seis Manos, its first original anime series set in Mexico, launching on Netflix globally in 2019. The series is produced by VIZ Media, LLC.

Sony/ATV Music Publishing has won Publisher of the Year at the BMI Pop Awards.

Pema is the experimental pop project of Brooklyn-based musical artist Alex Cohen, also known for her four-piece band Alex Napping. In 2016, Cohen released Doublethink, her first album as Pema and a collaboration with several other musicians that began her odyssey into the world of music production.

All seven seasons of Suits featuring Meghan Markle are available now to stream on Prime Video—and since the royal engagement, average daily streams of Season 1 have increased almost 90% compared to the previous year.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Nicolas Cage is attached to star in Kill Chain, to be written and directed by Ken Sanzel, producer on Numb3rs and writer of The Replacement Killers.

ABC's “The View” averaged 2.731 million Total Viewers, 446,000 Women 25-54 and 313,000 Women 18-49, during the week of April 30, 2018, based on Live + Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. “The View” beat CBS' “The Talk” (2.306 million, 382,000 and 275,000, respectively) during the week, increasing its leads year to year across the board: Total Viewers (+197% - 425,000 vs. 143,000), Women 25-54 (+88% - 64,000 vs. 34,000) and Women 18-49 (+322% - 38,000 vs. 9,000).

Grammy Award-winning superstar and pop icon Christina Aguilera has announced a new North American tour this fall, her first outing since 2008. The music powerhouse will kick off the tour, produced by Live Nation, on September 25th and travel to 22 cities, performing at many of North America's most intimate venues including two dates at New York's Radio City Music Hall, two dates at The Chicago Theatre, and stops in Boston, Oakland, Denver, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and more.

Tony Award-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and actress Idina Menzel slips into an undercover role to find the next Broadway sensation and tries to remain incognito when she's asked to sing her signature song, 'Let it Go,' to a group of children, on UNDERCOVER BOSS: CELEBRITY EDITION, Friday, May 18 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Also, while undercover as a receptionist who wants to break into the musical theater business, Menzel tries to disguise her voice as she sings alongside a wedding singer at a wedding reception, and she might chicken out when suiting up for a singing telegram job.

This week on VICE, Iran in Iraq & Dying on the Vine...

HBO has set the debut date for and confirmed the title of the previously announced documentary about Senator John Sidney McCain, III. JOHN MCCAIN: FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS will debut this Memorial Day, MONDAY, MAY 28 (8:00-9:45 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO. Produced and directed by six-time Emmy® winner Peter Kunhardt (HBO's “Jim: The James Foley Story,” “King in the Wilderness”), along with Emmy® winners George Kunhardt and Teddy Kunhardt, the film is an illuminating, exclusive profile of one of the most influential forces in modern American politics.

 In the context of ongoing national debates over immigration, the timely new two-hour documentary The Chinese Exclusion Act, from Emmy® Award winning documentary filmmakers Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu, will debut as a special presentation of the award-winning PBS television series American Experience on Tuesday, May 29 2018 at 8:00-10:00 PM ET. The film is narrated by actor Hoon Lee (Banshee).

Great Performances: The Opera House, the new documentary by multiple Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Susan Froemke (Grey Gardens; Lalee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton) surveys a remarkable period of the Metropolitan Opera's rich history and a time of great change for New York City. Drawing on rarely seen archival footage, stills and recent interviews, the film chronicles the creation of the Met's storied Lincoln Center home of the last 50 years, set against a backdrop of the artists, architects and politicians who shaped the cultural life of New York City in the 1950s and 60s. Amongst the notable figures featured in the film are famed soprano Leontyne Price, who opened the Met's present Opera House in 1966 with a starring role in Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra; Rudolf Bing, the Met's imperious general manager who engineered the move from the old house to the new one; Robert Moses, the unstoppable city planner who bulldozed an entire neighborhood to make room for Lincoln Center; and Wallace Harrison, whose quest for architectural glory was never fully realized.