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Everywhere she goes, Michelle Buteau has a rapt audience. On a Wednesday afternoon in January, we’re at a double-­duty gay bar and gastropub in Brooklyn, talking over shoestring fries and coffee about her most recent stand-up special, which dropped New Year’s Eve on Netflix. Titled A Buteau-ful Mind, it was the first comedy show ever filmed by a woman at Radio City Music Hall. “It’s like going to church,” she’s saying of playing to the venue’s nearly 6,000 seats. “You gotta let the people in the back feel it.

Many more besides Muhammad Ali will be portrayed in Peacock’sFight Night: The Million Dollar Heist. The limited series, based on the iHeart true-crime podcast of the same name, will shed light on an armed robbery that took place the night of Ali’s (Dexter Darden) comeback fight in the 1970s.

A star-studded cast brings the show to life starting Sept. 5. For more details on the release rollout, episodes and the cast, read on.

When does Fight Night premiere?

The show enters the ring on Sept. 5.

How many episodes are in Fight Night?

There are eight episodes in the show’s first installment.

Are new episodes streaming weekly or all at once? When do they arrive on Peacock?

The first three episodes came out on the show’s premiere date. The rest arrive on Thursdays each week until October 10, 2024, when the finale airs.

Episode 1: “Round One: The Ballad of Chicken Man” – Thursday,...

“Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist” is a new dramatic TV miniseries starring Kevin Hart as ‘Chicken Man’, Samuel L. Jackson as ‘Frank Moten’, Taraji P. Henson as ‘Vivan Thomas’, Don Cheadle as ‘Jd Hudson’, Terrence Howard as ‘Cadillac Richie’, Chloe Bailey as ‘Lena Mosley’, Marsha Stephanie Blake as ‘Delores Hudson’, Dexter Darden as ‘Muhammad Ali’, Lori Harvey as ‘Lola Falana’ and Sinqua Walls as ‘McKinley Rogers’, now streaming on Peacock:

“…on the night of ‘Muhammad Ali’ making a historic comeback fight criminals took advantage of the match’s popularity and conducted a major heist.

“‘Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist’ follows the infamous story of how an armed robbery on the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback fight changed not only one man’s life but ultimately transformed Atlanta into the ‘Black Mecca’.

“When a hustler named ‘Chicken Man’ (Hart) hosts an afterparty to celebrate the fight with...

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Get ready for a thrilling crime drama series with one of the most stacked casts you will ever see and to top it all off it is set on the night of Muhammad Ali‘s return to boxing. We are talking about Peacock’s new series Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist created by Shaye Ogbonna. Based on the 2020 podcast titled Fight Night by Jeff Keating and Jim Roberts, the Peacock series is going to be an entertaining package filled with thrill, drama, and brutal consequences.

Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist is set in the year 1970 and it revolves around a heist that occurred on the night of Muhammad Ali’s return to boxing, which sets in motion a chain of events that results in some of the most ruthless gangsters in the U.S. going on...

Kevin Hart leads a starry cast of characters in Peacock's new crime drama miniseries, Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist. As its title suggests, the series is based on an exceptionally ambitious heist, previously documented in iHeart Radio's similarly titled true-crime podcast helmed and hosted by Jeff Keating. Both recount the true-to-life events of a shocking armed robbery that occurred the night of Muhammad Ali's first professional boxing match after being banned from the sport for years as a result of refusing to be drafted into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.

The stakes were high not only for the renowned boxer's comeback but for a crowd who gathered to celebrate Ali's historic fight at an ill-fated afterparty targeted by thieves. Fight Night series creator Shaye Ogbonna brings together an assemblage of big-name actors and TV newcomers to depict all parties involved in the catastrophe in what's...

In the first two episodes of Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, we saw that, after a lot of hustling, Chicken Man finally got the opportunity to host the party for Frank Moten and all the notorious criminals of the community. Detective Hudson, on the other hand, started having some misunderstandings with Muhammad Ali, though eventually, the champion boxer realized that Hudson was the only person standing between him and his protestors. All this while Emerson Dorsey had been planning to conduct a heist in the party house and rob all the criminals. It was an audacious plan, but Emerson had made up his mind. So, let’s find out what happened once Frank Mo reached the party house and how Chicken Man coped with the entire situation.

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How did Chicken Man and Frank get robbed?

In the previous episode, Chicken Man attended a fight together with Frank...

Plot: Based on the acclaimed iHeart true-crime podcast, it follows the infamous story of how an armed robbery on the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback fight changed not only one man’s life but ultimately transformed Atlanta into the “Black Mecca.” When a hustler named Chicken Man hosts an afterparty to celebrate the fight with a guest list of the country’s wealthiest, the night ends with the most brazen criminal underworld heist in Atlanta’s history. Suspected of masterminding the crime, Chicken Man is hellbent on clearing his name but must convince his old adversary, J.D. Hudson, one of the first Black detectives in the city’s desegregated police force, who is tasked with bringing those responsible to justice.

Review: The star-studded trailer for Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist should be more than enough to entice audiences to check out the series. Led by Kevin Hart and Don Cheadle,...

“Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist” is a new dramatic TV miniseries starring Kevin Hart as ‘Chicken Man’, Samuel L. Jackson as ‘Frank Moten’, Taraji P. Henson as ‘Vivan Thomas’, Don Cheadle as ‘Jd Hudson’, Terrence Howard as ‘Cadillac Richie’, Chloe Bailey as ‘Lena Mosley’, Marsha Stephanie Blake as ‘Delores Hudson’, Dexter Darden as ‘Muhammad Ali’, Lori Harvey as ‘Lola Falana’ and Sinqua Walls as ‘McKinley Rogers’, streaming September 5, 2024 on Peacock:

“…on the night of ‘Muhammad Ali’ making a historic comeback fight criminals took advantage of the match’s popularity and conducted a major heist.

“‘Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist’ follows the infamous story of how an armed robbery on the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback fight changed not only one man’s life but ultimately transformed Atlanta into the ‘Black Mecca’.

“When a hustler named ‘Chicken Man’ (Hart) hosts an afterparty to celebrate the fight with...

Peacock has released the official trailer and key art for Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, the eight-episode series premiering on September 5, 2024.

Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, based on the acclaimed iHeart true-crime podcast, follows the infamous story of how an armed robbery on the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback fight changed not only one man’s life but ultimately transformed Atlanta into the “Black Mecca.”

When a hustler named Chicken Man (Kevin Hart) hosts an afterparty to celebrate the fight with a guest list of the country’s wealthiest, the night ends with the most brazen criminal underworld heist in Atlanta’s history.

Suspected of masterminding the crime, Chicken Man is hellbent on clearing his name but must convince his old adversary, J.D. Hudson (Don Cheadle), one of the first Black detectives in the city’s desegregated police force, who is tasked with bringing those responsible to justice.

Peacock has dropped the first trailer for Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, its upcoming limited series that tells the story of an infamous armed robbery after Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback fight. You can also see some new first-look images below.

Based on the iHeart true-crime podcast of the same name, the series follows the infamous story of how an armed robbery on the night of Muhammad Ali’s (Dexter Darden) historic 1970 comeback fight changed not only one man’s life but ultimately transformed Atlanta into the “Black Mecca.”

When a hustler named Chicken Man (Kevin Hart) hosts an afterparty to celebrate the fight with a guest list of the country’s wealthiest, the night ends with the most brazen criminal underworld heist in Atlanta’s history. Suspected of masterminding the crime, Chicken Man is hellbent on clearing his name but must convince his old adversary, J.D. Hudson...

“Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist” is a new dramatic TV miniseries starring Kevin Hart as ‘Chicken Man’, Samuel L. Jackson as ‘Frank Moten’, Taraji P. Henson as ‘Vivan Thomas’, Don Cheadle as ‘Jd Hudson’, Terrence Howard as ‘Cadillac Richie’, Chloe Bailey as ‘Lena Mosley’, Marsha Stephanie Blake as ‘Delores Hudson’, Dexter Darden as ‘Muhammad Ali’, Lori Harvey as ‘Lola Falana’ and Sinqua Walls as ‘McKinley Rogers’, streaming September 5, 2024 on Peacock:

“…on the night of ‘Muhammad Ali’ making a historic comeback fight criminals took advantage of the match’s popularity and conducted a major heist.

“‘Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist’ follows the infamous story of how an armed robbery on the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback fight changed not only one man’s life but ultimately transformed Atlanta into the ‘Black Mecca’.

“When a hustler named ‘Chicken Man’ (Hart) hosts an afterparty to celebrate the fight with...

Louis Gossett Jr., the tough guy with a sensitive side who won an Oscar for his portrayal of a steely sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman and an Emmy for his performance as a compassionate slave in the landmark miniseries Roots, has died. He was 87.

Gossett’s nephew told the Associated Press that the actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica. The cause of death is unknown, but Gossett announced in 2010 that he had prostate cancer.

With his sleek, bald pate and athlete’s physique, Gossett was intimidating in a wide array of no-nonsense roles, most notably in Taylor Hackford’s Officer and a Gentleman (1982), where as Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley he rides Richard Gere’s character mercilessly (but for his own good) at an officer candidate school and gets into a memorable martial arts fight.

He was the second Black man to win an acting Oscar, following Sidney Poitier in 1964.

For the role,...

“The Rookie: Feds” remains on the bubble, as one of two shows at ABC awaiting news regarding a renewal — and its star, Niecy Nash-Betts, is crossing her fingers for a second season.

Nash-Betts has had an in-demand year, starring in Netflix’s “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” and hosting Fox’s gameshow “Don’t Forget the Lyrics,” in addition to headlining “The Rookie: Feds.” And she’s hoping to keep her busy schedule going, continuing to play her character, Simone Clark, on the ABC police procedural.

“I love my job so much, I love the people that I work with, and I love the fact that I get to work with my better half over there,” Nash-Betts says of her wife, musician Jessica Betts, who plays her love interest on “The Rookie: Feds.”

Speaking to Variety for her special Emmys Edition cover story about “Dahmer,” Nash-Betts says that...

By Lee Pfeiffer

Time Life has released "Bob Hope: Entertaining the Troops", a priceless presentation of Hope's famous Uso shows for American troops serving overseas. The two programs, presented uncut, are a wonderful time capsule of the era. At the time the Vietnam War was raging and the only glimpses concerned Americans got of the fighting men were grim images squeezed into the half-hour evening news during this pre-cable TV era. Thus, Hope's merry band of entertainers allowed some welcome views of the servicemen getting a rare and well-deserved laugh from the songs, skits and stand up presented by Hope and his troupe. Not surprisingly, the biggest reactions are afforded to the sex symbols who traveled with him. In this case, they include Connie Stevens, Lola Falana, Romy Schneider and Ursula Andress. Admittedly, the humor creaks with age but the spirit and good will is timeless. One of the...

What could possibly connect the dots between early seventies softcore sexploitation, mid-seventies blaxploitation, and late-seventies giallo horror? Between cult B-flick hellcats Laurene Landon, Mamie Van Doren and Dyanne Thorne (Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS), and the lofty laureled likes of Orson Welles and Rex Harrison? Who else could claim he helped propel histrionic singing divas Pia Zadora and Lola Falana toward movie stardom…even if those efforts failed? Or that he repeatedly directed talents as wildly diverse as Millie Perkins (The Diary of Anne Frank), Hollywood’s favorite “drunk homeless dude” portraitist George “Buck” Flower, or the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (aka G.L.O.W.)? Who but Matt Cimber?>> - Dennis Harvey...

What could possibly connect the dots between early seventies softcore sexploitation, mid-seventies blaxploitation, and late-seventies giallo horror? Between cult B-flick hellcats Laurene Landon, Mamie Van Doren and Dyanne Thorne (Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS), and the lofty laureled likes of Orson Welles and Rex Harrison? Who else could claim he helped propel histrionic singing divas Pia Zadora and Lola Falana toward movie stardom…even if those efforts failed? Or that he repeatedly directed talents as wildly diverse as Millie Perkins (The Diary of Anne Frank), Hollywood’s favorite “drunk homeless dude” portraitist George “Buck” Flower, or the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (aka G.L.O.W.)? Who but Matt Cimber?>> - Dennis Harvey...

What could possibly connect the dots between early seventies softcore sexploitation, mid-seventies blaxploitation, and late-seventies giallo horror? Between cult B-flick hellcats Laurene Landon, Mamie Van Doren and Dyanne Thorne (Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS), and the lofty laureled likes of Orson Welles and Rex Harrison? Who else could claim he helped propel histrionic singing divas Pia Zadora and Lola Falana toward movie stardom…even if those efforts failed? Or that he repeatedly directed talents as wildly diverse as Millie Perkins (The Diary of Anne Frank), Hollywood’s favorite “drunk homeless dude” portraitist George “Buck” Flower, or the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (aka G.L.O.W.)? Who but Matt Cimber?>> - Dennis Harvey...

What could possibly connect the dots between early seventies softcore sexploitation, mid-seventies blaxploitation, and late-seventies giallo horror? Between cult B-flick hellcats Laurene Landon, Mamie Van Doren and Dyanne Thorne (Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS), and the lofty laureled likes of Orson Welles and Rex Harrison? Who else could claim he helped propel histrionic singing divas Pia Zadora and Lola Falana toward movie stardom…even if those efforts failed? Or that he repeatedly directed talents as wildly diverse as Millie Perkins (The Diary of Anne Frank), Hollywood’s favorite “drunk homeless dude” portraitist George “Buck” Flower, or the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (aka G.L.O.W.)? Who but Matt Cimber?>> - Dennis Harvey...

 

The Liberation of L.B. Jones, a 1970 film that examines the topic of racism and inter-racial sex relations in the American South, will be telecast tonight on Turner Classic Movies at 10 Pm (Est). The film, which is not available on DVD, boasts an impressive cast: Lee J. Cobb, Anthony Zerbe, Roscoe Lee Brown, Lola Falana, Lee Majors, Barbara Hershey, Chill Wills, Yahpet Kotto and Dub Taylor. William Wyler directs and Elmer Bernstein provides the score.  ...

Oakland — Just in time for the holiday season, the Gravy has arrived.

Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy Movie opens up in various theaters across America at the start of December. Wavy Gravy is an icon with an ever changing career. He’s gone from the legendary Merry Pranksters to the head of security at the original Woodstock to running a respected charity and finally achieving international greatness as a flavor of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. The many facets of his life are covered in the documentary directed by Michelle Esrick.

We had a chance to sit down for an extensive interview with Wavy Gravy and Michelle Esrick when the movie premiered at 2009’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

This first part has him discuss getting drunk with Jack Kerouac (On the Road) and dropping acid at the Electric Acid Kool-Aid Tests. Ahhh good times.

Now we get...

Hollywood's guilds, unions and collection societies are sitting on a gold mine of unclaimed residuals and royalties. They're holding more than $150 million for tens of thousands of actors, writers, directors and musicians they're trying to locate.

I began looking into this recently when I learned that my late father had a small piece of this pie coming to him.

My dad, Larry Robb, was a bit player and longtime SAG member. He had a small role on an episode of "Kung Fu," played Mad Dog in a movie called "Star Hops" and had a couple of lines in the telefilm "Frank Nitti: The Enforcer." We went to the premiere.

My dad died broke 20 years ago; there was no will and no estate. But I recently discovered that he'd left me some money after all -- in the form of unclaimed SAG residuals.

It turns out that SAG has more than...

While poor Noah is dealing with brain damage, Luke's confrontation with Reid takes a turn for the shirtless.

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2:05Pm Est: Henry walks in on Barbara, who's dressed like Lola Falana circa 1982, chatting up another man. Meanwhile, Butters and Vienna are about to start pawing each other.

Molly has an intimate dinner planned for her and Holden, but he calls her and tells her that he needs to go to the hospital to see how Luke is doing. With Lily.

Woo-hoo! Luke is talking to Reid and turns into Hot Angry Luke before our very eyes. Luke Smash! He starts yelling at Reid that he had the audacity to swagger into town acting like cock of the walk, when it turns out he's cock of nothing! Lily and Holden arrive just in time to keep Luke from throwing any more shout spittle in Reid's face.

A spooky new Halloween classic, documentaries about heavy metal music and Aussie exploitation cinema, plus some tasty '70s TV are just part of the week's new DVD releases.

Read on for more!

Finally making its long-awaited DVD debut is Trick 'r Treat, a Halloween-themed fright flick that's been hotly anticipated ever since Warner Bros. yanked it from release in 2007. That's the sort of move that usually spells doom for a movie, but Trick's reputation has only grown in stature, culminating in recent screenings at Austin's Fantasic Fest and at L.A.'s Cinefamily and New Beverly Theater that have fanboys saying hosannas.

Dylan Baker, Brian Cox and Anna Paquin star in this anthology film set at Halloween; all the stories explore different facets of the holiday, but they're tied together by the unsettling presence of Sam, a sack-headed kid who represents the soul of Halloween.

Fans say that...

Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.

Not only is The Lola Falana Show on DVD now, I didn't even know there was a Lola Falana Show. I knew that there was a Lola Falana (that's a fun name to say: Lola Falana Lola Falana Lola Falana). She was a dancer and actress who was pretty well known back in the 70s, but her TV show escaped my radar. This set includes guest stars Dick Van Dyke, Bill Cosby, Sonny and Cher, and Muhammad Ali.

There's also a Heeere's Johnny: The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson "Holiday Set." It looks like the same set that I've owned for a couple of years (several DVDs split up into different categories: Timeless Moments, Standup Comedians, Carson Country, and the original Ultimate Collection disc), but with a special Christmas disc thrown in, with three classic episodes.

Ally McBeal - Season 1 and...

DVD Playhouse—August 2009

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Allen Gardner

Watchmen—Director’S Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday...