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Poster for The Wiggles Bouncing Balls Tour

The Wiggles unveiled plans for the “Bouncing Balls Tour,” their biggest tour to date. The 25-city tour kicks off on June 1, 2025 in Vancouver and stops in cities including Los Angeles, Houston, Cleveland, Chicago, and Boston. The North America tour will wrap up in Hamilton, On, on July 5th.

“Wigglemania is sweeping the globe! In the past year alone, our YouTube following has practically tripled, while our Spotify streaming numbers have soared by 78%. As The Wiggles celebrate the recent release of their monumental 100th album, we are also proud to have the beloved Classic and new Wiggles programs on various streaming platforms in the U.S. and Canada, including Peacock, The Roku Channel, Happy Kids, Kidoodle TV, Sensical, Kidstream, Ketchup TV, FilmRise Channels, and many more,” said Luke O’Neill, CEO of The Wiggles. “With fans eagerly awaiting The Wiggles’ return to North America post-pandemic,...

The Wiggles have released a new Edm album — yes, you read that right — called The Wiggles Soundsystem: Rave of Innocence.

Featuring 14 Wiggles classics remixed as Edm songs, The Wiggles Soundsystem: Rave of Innocence is helmed by Australian DJ and Justice Crew member Lenny Pearce — who is also the twin brother of purple Wiggle John Pearce. The remixes were also provided by DJ Dorothy, the beloved dinosaur, who appears on the album’s cover.

The Wiggles Soundsystem: Rave of Innocence features bumping, techno remixes of Wiggles favorites “Fruit Salad,” “Bouncing Balls,” “Hot Potato,” and more. There’s also a fascinating rework of “Baby Shark,” which, well, you’ll just have to hear it for yourself.

Marking the debut of The Wiggles Sound System, a press release describes the album as “an electrifying fusion of nostalgia and party-starting techno beats,” and “a pulsating musical journey that’s part wild dancefloor party, part toddler tantrum tamer.

NBC has released the first wave of acts set to return for “America’s Got Talent: The Champions,” the franchise’s new, all-star winter edition. And yes, Darci Lynne Farmer, Susan Boyle, and Shin Lim are all coming back — along with 22 other “Agt” fan favorites.

Premiering on Jan. 7, “Agt: The Champions” brings together former winners, finalists and impossible-to-forget acts from previous seasons of “America’s Got Talent,” “Britain’s Got Talent,” and other “Got Talent” franchises from around the globe, to compete for the title of World Champion.

This special installment of the NBC competition series will feature usual “Agt” judges Simon Cowell, Mel B, Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel — as well as new host (and new NBC employee) “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star Terry Crews.

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By John M. Whalen

Ted Kotcheff’s “Billy Two Hats” (1974) is one of those off-beat kind of movies they made back in the mid-Seventies when studios still believed in small, realistic films that focused on character more than shoot-outs, believable story lines more than special effects and solid performances by seasoned actors who knew their craft more than flashy histrionics by shiny boys and girls who just stepped off the front pages of the supermarket tabloids. It’s not a great film by any means. It’s slow, and a bit heavy handed in getting across the themes contained in Alan Sharp’s (“Osterman Weekend,” “Ulzana’s Raid”) script, but it’s worth watching, if only so you can say you’ve seen the only “Kosher Western” ever made.

57-year-old Gregory Peck, speaking with a thick Scottish accent, stars as Arch Deans, a bank robber on the run with his...

This film about King Charles II and a fictional doctor flips messily from frippery and farting to 17th-century mental healthcare

Restoration (1995)

Director: Michael Hoffman

Entertainment grade: C–

History grade: B

King Charles II was restored to the throne of England after the fall of the shortlived Commonwealth in 1660.

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Dissolute fictional doctor Robert Merivel (Robert Downey Jr) has pawned his instruments, and must go to his father, a glover, for cash to get them back. His father agrees, reluctantly, on the grounds "that the son of a glovemaker should not be denied the use of those gifts that marked you as a physician before you could spell physic!" English spelling had been somewhat standardised by the King James Bible of 1611 (which spells "physic" as "physick", in "Learn before thou speak, and use physick or ever thou be sick", Apocrypha, Sir 1:19). Even so, bearing in mind that Samuel Johnson would...

Justice Crew have revealed that dancing has saved their lives. The Sydney-based dance troupe, who were recently crowned the winners of Australia's Got Talent, said that they would have been "struggling" if they had not taken up dancing as a hobby. The group, which consists of 19 to 24-year-olds Emmanuel Rodriguez, Samson Smith, Omar Kamara, Lennu and John Pearce, Anastasios Repousis, Lukas Bellesini, Paulie Merciadez and Solo Tohi, were awarded $$250,000 (£140,000) for winning the competition. Rodriguez told New Idea magazine: "Getting paid is a big thing. (more)...