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Wheel of Fortune Contestants & Who Won Tonight Friday, 7 March 2025 WinnerOther Contestants Jim VenekasSamantha Rizzo, Krystin Godfrey Tonight’s Puzzles & Toss Ups Friday, 7 March 2025 Puzzle Solutions $1,000 Toss Up: Cast Away (Movie Title)

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Round 1: Just You And I Defying Gravity (Song Lyrics)

Round 2: Political & Pajama Party (Same Name)

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Triple Toss Up 1: Looking At The Ocean (What Are You Doing?)

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Round 4: Spring Forward, Fall Back (Phrase) Bonus Puzzle & Was the Bonus Round Won? Friday, 7 March 2025 Bonus...

Now that Lorne Michaels has tapped Shane Gillis to host Saturday Night Live for a second time, can we declare the grand Gillis experiment over now? We’ve got a clear view of what Gillis the Cast Member would have looked like — a nondescript guy who struggles for a season before fading into an SNL trivia question.

This conclusion isn’t an indictment of Gillis the stand-up. Whether or not he’s your cup of Bud Light, his politically incorrect, Maga-friendly everyman appeal isn’t hard to understand. But that persona makes for forgettable sketch comedy characters, especially when the last two seasons have featured another comic with a clueless white guy vibe who does SNL so much better in Nate Bargatze. He has “Washington’s Dream,” “Lifeguard” and other memorable sketches under his belt. Gillis has had two 90-minute attempts to deliver a single killer sketch, and here we sit,...

Horsegirl are riding back into town in 2025. The indie trio announced today that their second LP, Phonetics On and On, will be released on Feb. 14, 2025, via Matador Records. This is terrific news for anyone who likes unusual guitar tones and sneakily catchy DIY songcraft.

Formed when singer-guitarists Penelope Lowenstein and Nora Cheng and drummer Gigi Reece were all in their teens, Horsegirl quickly emerged as one of the most notable acts in a thriving Chicago underground that also includes bands like Lifeguard, Friko, and Twin Coast. Their debut LP, Versions of Modern Performance,...

For me, one of the most surprising returns to X-Men lore is one of the most hated characters in recent memory. This is a character that I never thought Marvel would bring back, but I'm glad they are, as her powers make her the perfect response to almost every situation. While some fans may not be happy about it, it seems that Lifeguard is returning to front and center in the X-Men side of the Marvel Universe.

Marvel has recently announced that Lifeguard will be making a major return and heading up her own storyline in X-Men: From The Ashes Infinity Comic #19 by Alex Paknadel and Diogenes Neves. This story will follow why her powers have begun going out of control and causing harm to everyone around her. It'll be a major story that truly explores the depths of her powers and exactly how they work.

One of the things...

Fox’s fall 2024 primetime lineup includes the new action drama Rescue: Hi-Surf, premiering on Sunday, September 22nd at 8pm Et/Pt. Set on Hawaii’s North Shore, the lifeguard drama’s lengthy season one teaser promises viewers will get a real look at what lifeguards experience while protecting one of the world’s most dangerous stretches of ocean.

New season one episodes air on Mondays at 9pm Et/Pt beginning on September 23rd.

The one-hour drama stars Robbie Magasiva (Wentworth) as Harlan “Sonny” Jennings, Arielle Kebbel as Emily “Em” Wright, Adam Demos (Sex / Life) as Will Ready, Kekoa Kekumano as Laka Hanohano, Alex Aiono (Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin) as Kainalu Emerson, and Zoe Cipres as Hina Alexander. Sea Shimooka (3 Body Problem), Shawn Hatosy (Animal Kingdom), and Ian Anthony Dale (The Resident) guest star in recurring roles.

“Em” Plot: At Oahu’s North Shore, captain Sonny Jennings and his core...

Sam Elliott's return to the Road House franchise in the confirmed sequel could be a major highlight for fans of the original film. Road House 2 has the opportunity to rectify the missed chance of featuring Sam Elliott in the remake through a new character role. The success of Road House 2 on Amazon Prime Video could mark a significant comeback for Sam Elliott in major movie roles, creating excitement for his return to the franchise.

The confirmed sequel of an $85 million hit movie makes room for Sam Elliott's return to a 35-year-old action franchise. In an acting career spanning over five decades, Sam Elliott has earned credits in over 100 distinct projects. However, long before the actor landed major award nominations and became a household name, he started his journey as an actor with relatively smaller roles in Westerns. Almost ten years after he started acting, Elliott got his...

So You Think You Can Dance has found Nigel Lythgoe’s replacement — and she’s no stranger to the show.

JoJo Siwa will return to the Fox competition series as a judge for Season 18, filling the vacancy left by an embattled Lythgoe, who stepped down earlier this month amid various sexual assault allegations.

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Siwa will judge alongside Sytycd alum Allison Holker and Dancing With the Stars...

Actor David McKnight, best known for his lead role in the 1976 blaxploitation horror movie J.D.’s Revenge, as well as brief parts in TV hits such as The Commish and Boston Legal, has died. He was 87. According to his friend and publicist Cynthia Busby, per The Hollywood Reporter, McKnight passed away on Sunday (December 3) in Las Vegas, Nevada, after a battle with cancer. Born on July 2, 1936, in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, McKnight served in the U.S. Army and worked as a police officer before he began his acting career. One of his first on-screen roles came in 1970 when he starred on Wttw Chicago’s Birds of the Iron Feather, the first all-Black TV soap opera. His career took off from there, appearing in films such as The Candidate (1972) and Lifeguard (1976) before landing the lead role of J.D. Walker in Arthur Marks’ cult favorite J.D.’s Revenge in 1976. Throughout the 1980s, McKnight featured in various TV series,...

David McKnight, whose film resume included starring as the lead in the blaxploitation horror movie J.D.’s Revenge, as well as Robert Townsend’s Hollywood Shuffle and The Five Heartbeats, died Sunday at age 87.

McKnight passed from cancer in Las Vegas, according to reports.

The actor was a TV staple in various character roles, appearing on Kojak, Hill Street Blues, The Incredible Hulk, Dynasty and Benson, among other shows.

In J.D.’s Revenge (1976), McKnight played a deceased New Orleans hustler who takes over the body of a college student (Glynn Turman) and goes after the man who murdered him and his sister 30 years earlier.

McKnight was hired to play Uncle Ray in Townsend’s The Hollywood Shuffle, playing a singer turned barber who encourages Townsend’s Bobby Taylor to pursue his dream of becoming an actor.

McKnight went on to portray Pastor Stone in the Townsend-directed The Five Heartbeats (1991) and was the...

David McKnight, who portrayed the title character in the cult blaxploitation horror classic J.D.’s Revenge and appeared in Hollywood Shuffle and The Five Heartbeats for Robert Townsend, has died. He was 87.

McKnight died Sunday of cancer in Las Vegas, his friend and publicist Cynthia Busby told The Hollywood Reporter.

McKnight also showed up on dozens of TV shows, from Kojak, Hill Street Blues, The Incredible Hulk, Dynasty and Benson to Moonlighting, 227, Roc, L.A. Law and The District.

In the New Orleans-set J.D.’s Revenge (1976), directed by Arthur Marks, McKnight played a deceased hustler who takes over the body of a college student (Glynn Turman) and goes after the man who murdered him and his sister 30 years earlier.

In a 2018 interview, McKnight said that he first met Townsend when the first-time feature filmmaker was putting together Hollywood Shuffle (1987) and offered him advice.

He was then hired to play Uncle Ray,...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Ed Sheeran rides the tide on a highlight from his fifth album, Tove Lo delivers a stripped down gem, Lil Baby stays guarded, and electronic music legend Brian Eno shows up twice, once with a rock legend and once with a rising house music star.

Ed Sheeran, “Life Goes On” (YouTube)

Tove Lo, “No One Dies From Love (Stripped from France)” (YouTube)

Lil Baby, “Go Hard” (YouTube)

Bethany Cosentino,...

T.K. and Carlos just got one more thing to celebrate on their honeymoon — Fox has renewed 9-1-1: Lone Star for Season 5, TVLine has learned.

In quite the plot twist, though, Lone Star will be the only 9-1-1 series returning to Fox for the 2023-24 season. As TVLine has confirmed, the mothership series will not be returning for Season 7 at Fox, but will instead move to ABC for its just-announced seventh season. (Get full details here.)

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We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about lotsa shows including The Diplomat, Will Trent, Barry, Superman & Lois and Citadel!

1 | With Felicity vet Keri Russell wrapped up in another buzzy love triangle, this time on Netflix’s The Diplomat, we gotta ask: Are you Team Dennison or Team Hal?

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Zoe Washburne and Jayne Cobb are together again.

Adam Baldwin has been tapped to guest-star in the Tuesday, May 2 episode (Fox, 8/7c) of 9-1-1: Lone Star, reuniting him with former Firefly co-star Gina Torres, TVLine has learned exclusively.

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Baldwin will play Austin Pd Detective Brian McGregor, “who gets involved with Captain Tommy Vega (Torres) after an emergency rescue goes awry,...

April on Prime Video is stacked with returning favorites, the launch of one of Amazon’s biggest shows ever and a bevy of great movies to watch. The fifth and final season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” launches on April 14, while Amazon will premiere the globe-trotting action-thriller series “Citadel” – starring Priyanka Chopra-Jonas and Richard Madden – on April 28. The show hails from “Avengers: Endgame” filmmaker Joe and Anthony Russo.

Noteworthy movies arriving on April 1 include the “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” movies, “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “The Big Lebowski,” “Looper,” “Vanilla Sky” and “Top Gun.”

You can also stream the Billy Eichner rom-com “Bros” starting April 4 and the George Clooney/Julia Roberts rom-com “Ticket to Paradise” on April 11.

Check out the full list of what’s new on Amazon Prime Video in April 2023 below.

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The 41 Best Movies on Amazon Prime (April 2023)

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American Gigolo

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As befitting its status as one of the world’s biggest companies, every now and then Amazon likes to take a big swing with its Prime Video originals. With its list of new releases for April 2023, the streamer is taking one of its biggest swings yet.

Though it’s not quite as vast or expensive as fellow Prime Video series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Citadel (premiering April 28) is a massive, massive undertaking. Starring Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, this spy series is described as “an expansive and groundbreaking global event comprising a mothership series and several local language satellite series.” This means that the Russo Brothers-produced project will eventually feature several spinoffs in multiple countries and languages around the world. Neat-o!

The only other major TV original of note this month is Dead Ringers, based on the 1988 David Cronenberg film of the same name,...

The Pink Ladies of “Grease,” the most colorful Rydell High students, are back on April 6 on Paramount+. However, this won’t be the same collection of young women from the original film — or even its cult classic sequel. This round, we see how the popular clique got its start. The girls now have a show of their own: “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies,” a salute to 1950s teens who refuse to conform to conventional standards. The new musical series shows us Rydell High before Sandy and Danny start strutting down the halls. The show stars Marisa Davila, Cheyenne Isabel Wells, Ari Notartomaso, and Tricia Fukuhara.

Watch the “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies” trailer:

Paramount+ is also producing an original series “Fatal Attraction,” based on the 1980s hit thriller. The TV version refocuses the lens, exploring a modern approach to women, infidelity, personality disorders, and coercive control. It’s...

Prime Video is hoping to launch its own extended franchise universe in April with the premiere of international spy series “Citadel” from the minds of the Russo Brothers. The show stars Richard Madden, Priyanka Chopra, and Stanley Tucci, and is intended to be the first block of an interconnected story with different spinoffs in countries and regions around the world. The first version will begin streaming on April 28. In the show, the world is in the grips of Manticore, a criminal organization, and several former spies are recruited to restore order despite having their memories erased.

Watch the trailer for “Citadel”:

Beloved young adult author Judy Blume opened the door to discussion about difficult subjects for generations of kids. Now, the writer is the subject of a new documentary, “Judy Blume Forever,” coming to Prime Video on April 21. The doc looks at her trajectory — from a scared kid to...

When you’re a streaming service, there’s only one way to celebrate the New Year. And that’s by IP mining to bring back a franchise that had no business in coming back!

With its list of new releases for January 2022, Hulu is raiding CBS’s closet and premiering How I Met Your Father, a continuation of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Complaints about unnecessary rebooting aside, perhaps its worth giving the Hillary Duff starring series a chance. If nothing else, telling a story about 2022 from a future perspective might play well.

Aside from Himyf, there aren’t any other Hulu original series to speak of. Instead, Hulu is opting to once again beef up its film library. January 1 sees the arrival of Master and Commander, Seven, and a whole bunch of Star Treks. Hulu will also be the streaming home of some recently released film Indies,...

Lenka Peterson, whose Broadway performances included a 1984 Tony-nominated turn in the musical Quilters, co-starring roles with Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish and Colleen Dewhurst in plays with creative teams including Truman Capote and Arthur Penn, died Sept. 24 in her sleep at home in Roxbury, Connecticut. She was 95.

Her death was announced by her family, including daughter, actress Glynnis O’Connor.

In addition to her stage work, Peterson appeared in an extensive roster of film and television projects, spanning more than 50 years beginning with a small role in director Elia Kazan’s 1950 film Panic in the Streets (Peterson was a charter member of The Actors Studio) and continuing through the 2006 remake of All The King’s Men starring Sean Penn, Jude Law and Kate Winslet.

Born Lenka Isacson in Omaha, Nebraska, Peterson moved to New York City following World War II to pursue a stage career, and soon landed...

It’s impossible to have any discussion about actor and icon Sam Elliott without mentioning That Voice. Simultaneously rough and smooth, like gravel coated in melted butter, that distinctive, husky sound seems to emanate not from Elliott’s throat, but his very soul.

Filmmaker Brett Haley, who has made two recent films with Elliott, calls it “the most beautiful voice ever, special and singular.”

Bradley Cooper found it so distinctive, he used it as a launchpad for his character, country singer Jackson Maine, in his directorial debut “A Star Is Born” — and then cast Elliott as his brother, Bobby.

“We had never met and so I felt like I was taking a gamble,” Cooper admits of the day he invited Elliott over to his house to talk about the film. “I said, ‘I’m going to play something for you, and this might sound weird.’” He proceeded to play a...

Ralph Woolsey, an Emmy-winning cinematographer who worked on such series as Batman and It Takes a Thief and films including The Iceman Cometh and The Great Santini, has died. He was 104. The American Society of Cinematographers, which gave him its career award in 2003, said he died March 23 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills.

The Asc described Woolsey as a consummate technician whose Hollywood career paralleled the birth and early evolution of television cinematography, including the transition from black-and-white to color. Among the many series he shot were Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip — for which he earned Emmy noms in 1959 and 1960, respectively — Batman and Mister Roberts. He won the 1968 Emmy for It Takes a Thief, starring Robert Wagner.

Born on New Year’s Day 1914, in Oregon, the first movies Woolsey saw were silent. He began his career while a student at the University of Minnesota, making conservation...

As an ailing Western actor suddenly facing is own mortality, the value of his life and how he has lived it, Sam Elliott not only excels but also has the role of his nearly half-century career. The Hero is one of those movies that creeps up on you as it goes along and by its conclusion has knocked you out with an emotional punch that makes this one a keeper.

As I say in my video review (click the link above to watch), the entire cast is simply superb, but it is Elliott’s show. As Lee Hayden, a fading cowboy star whose main claim to fame was a film called The Hero, he has the leading role he has always deserved but seldom gets. In some ways, this part — which was written for him by director and co-writer Brett Haley (with Marc Basch) — is the perfect career bookend for...

Gregory Bonann was a lifeguard at Will Rogers State Beach in 1977 when he helped two children who were caught in a riptide. That rescue would ultimately change his life – and the face of television, setting the stage for the eventual “Baywatch” juggernaut.

Now, with the new feature adaptation of “Baywatch” in theaters this weekend, it’s time to revisit the unusual story of how the lifeguard show made it on the air – ultimately producing 242 episodes before ending its run in 2001.

It all started because it turns out Bonnan had saved the children of Stu Erwin, an executive at Mtm – the independent production company behind series like “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Bob Newhart Show,” and run by legendary exec Grant Tinker.

While visiting Mtm’s offices in Studio City, Bonann pitched Erwin on a drama about lifeguards. The company passed, but Bonann took the opportunity to learn all about the TV biz.

There’s nothing fresh about the story of a movie star facing down the barrel of mortality, but it’s comfortable terrain for writer-director Brett Haley. The filmmaker’s tender 2015 drama “I’ll See You In My Dreams” found Blythe Danner playing an ex-singer looking back on her life in somber terms; now, Haley sets his sights on Sam Elliott — who played Danner’s suave romantic interest in “Dreams” — for another melancholic character study about the tribulations of getting old. “The Hero” finds Elliott in a deeply contemplative role, riffing on his own career and delivering a touching meditation on fading stardom. Haley may traffic in traditional sentiment, but again the actors elevate it.

As the perennial cowboy figure, it’s been many years since Elliott’s iconic roles in “Lifeguard” and “Tombstone;” for younger generations, his iconic drawl may be most familiar as the rambling voiceovers in “The Big Lebowski.

Chicago – Television has changed so much in the last generation that it’s hard to imagine a time of only three networks and a limited number of shows premiering every fall. But in the 1970s there were two such TV series, “The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries,” starring Parker Stevenson, and “What’s Happening!!,” starring Ernest Thomas. They both made appearances at the “Hollywood Show” in Chicagoland.

The “Hollywood Show” is an event in which fans can mingle, take photographs and get autographs from the celebrities who appear there, and takes place in Chicago, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The next session will take place in Los Angeles on January 8th-10th, 2016. For complete details and ticket purchase information, click here.

Parker Stevenson of “The Hardy Boys,” “Baywatch,” “Stroker Ace”

Parker Stevenson at the “Hollywood Show’ Chicago

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

Parker Stevenson began...

Chicago – Actor Sam Eliott will make you smile. The distinctive voice, his famous mustache and his character presence in a film or TV show increases any potential in the production. He recently was in Chicago with director Paul Weitz, as they teamed up in the film “Grandma,” starring the incomparable Lily Tomlin.

“Grandma” has a very unique premise. Tomlin is the title character of Elle, who is visited by her granddaughter Sage (Julia Garner). The girl is seeking an abortion, and her feminist poet grandmother seems like the right fellow traveler on her way to the procedure. Sam Elliott portrays Karl, Elle’s ex-husband – she left him for a same sex partner – who harbors a resentment toward circumstances in their relationship. The two meet along the way to the clinic, and the resentment boils to the surface.

Lily Tomlin and Sam Elliott in ‘Grandma’

Photo credit: Sony Pictures Classics

Sam Elliott...

Happy Friday, little darlings! It's been a long week, so let's all take a trust fall back into the marshmallowy softness of Ae Movie Club.

This week I'm starting things off with a Reviewlet of the new real-time indie horror flick Silent House, which then kickstarts a discussion of other "parlor trick" movies that successfully used sleight-of-hand to create a unique and engaging filmgoing experience.

It Came From Instant Queue looks under the fur of one of our most beloved playtime pals, our Movie Confessional asks which movies have gotten you out of your seat and out the door before the credits rolled, and of course we've got the usual heapin' helpins of Vintage Beefcake, new posters and trailers, and more movie talk that you can stuff in Jiminy Glick's underpants.

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Elizabeth "Don't Call Me Mary Kate and/or Ashley" Olsen

Reviewlet: Silent House

This week a horror...