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Time to turn it up to 11. The highly anticipated sequel of the 1984 comedy, This Is Spinal Tap, officially has a release date. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues will hit theaters on September 12 with Bleeker Street gaining the U.S. distribution rights, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Rob Reiner is returning as director, […]
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The road to March Madness is on with the conference championships taking place this week ahead of the Big Dance. The 2025 SEC Basketball Tournament takes place March 12-16 in Nashville, TN.
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Last-minute tickets to watch the SEC basketball games at Bridgestone Arena are still available on sites like StubHub and Vivid Seats. Bonus: use our exclusive promo code BB30 to save $30 off your purchase at VividSeats.com.
Want to watch the SEC Basketball Tournament on TV? Early round games air this year on SEC Network, with the quarterfinals, semifinals and championship game airing live on ESPN. You’ll need a cable package with those two channels in order to watch the SEC tournament on TV.
How to Watch 2025 SEC Basketball Tournament Online
Don’t have cable? There’s a way to watch the 2025 SEC Basketball Tournament online. Sling TV is a streaming service that lets you watch live television from home without needing a cable subscription. The Sling Orange package includes access to ESPN (and 30+ other channels) for $45/month, while SEC Network is available through the Sports Extra add-on, which costs an additional $11/month.
What we like: Sling is currently running a limited-time promo that saves you up to 50% off your first month of service. Regularly $45+, you Sling Orange subscription is now discounted to just $23 and up.
Use Sling to livestream the SEC basketball games online from your phone, computer, tablet or smart TV (via the Sling app). In addition to ESPN, other channels on the Sling Orange plan include TBS, TNT, CNN, AMC and more. While Sling doesn’t currently offer a free trial, the site offers free DVR and thousands of hours of on-demand TV shows and movies as part of its subscription plans.
Auburn is the number one seed in the SEC tournament this year, with Florida, Alabama and Tennessee rounding out the top four. All four teams earned double byes and will kickoff their tournament play during the quarterfinals on Friday.
This is one of most competitive conferences for D1 basketball this year. Auburn, Florida and Alabama could all make it deep into the NCAA March Madness tournament, but first they’ll have to make it through this field.
Auburn defeated Florida in last year’s SEC Tournament Championship by a score of 86-67 to earn the automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament.
Watch this year’s SEC Basketball Tournament live online through Sling TV here.
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The start of the new Formula 1 season begins with a trip to Australia for the 2025 Australian Grand Prix at Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Albert Park. The racing event will kick off Thursday (March 13) with practice sessions starting at 9:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. PT until race day on Sunday (March 16), airing in the U.S. on Saturday (March 15) at midnight ET/9 p.m. PT. There are some streaming options that’ll let you livestream the races online.
ESPN and its networks will livestream the race and practices for you to watch at home. The easiest way to tune in is through a the network’s cable channels. Cord cutters don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars on a cable package in order to livestream the 2025 F1 Australian Grand Prix at home, there are additional ways to watch ESPN without cable.
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How to Watch F1 Australian Grand Prix Online
ESPN+ is the official streaming platform for ESPN and it’s networks, which will let you watch the F1 Australian Grand Prix 2025 and more live sports coverage. The streamer comes with a variety of affordable plans starting at $11.99 per month or you can save 17% off with an annual plan for $119.99 per year.
In addition to live sports, ESPN+ has exclusive on-demand videos and access to content from what was formerly known as ESPN Insider. You’ll also be able to stream original shows to stream on-demand, game recaps and analysis hosted by Peyton Manning, a shorter version of NFL Primetime and full replays of historic NFL matchups.
To expand your savings and content offerings, you can also bundle ESPN+ with Hulu and Disney+ for a single monthly price of just $16.99 per month for all three services.
How to Watch F1 Australian Grand Prix Online for Free
ESPN is also available through live TV streamers and with current free trials and promos going on, you can watch the 2025 F1 Australian Grand Prix for free. Below, ShopBillboard put together a list of the best offers to take advantage of now.
Sling TV
Sling TV is offering new users half off their first month when they sign up for one of the three packages available. ESPN is only included in the Sling Orange and Sling Orange + Blue packages, which are discounted for as $23 for the first month (reg. $45.99 per month). After your first month you’ll be charged the full package price.
The Sling Orange package comes with 32 channels that can be streamed on one device at once. For additional channel options including FS1 and the NFL Network, you can combine both plans for $33 for the first month (reg. $65.99 per month) and get access to all 48 channels. Please note that Sling TV pricing and channel availability varies from market-to-market. Learn more at Sling TV here.
Fubo
You can watch ESPN on Fubo and livestream the 2025 F1 Australian Grand Prix and more for no added cost. New users can take advantage of a seven-day free trial in addition to a promo that’s taking $25 off the first month, giving you access to more than 200 live channels for as low as $59.99 (reg. $84.99).
Fubo’s Essential plan also comes with unlimited DVR storage, while you have the ability to simultaneously watch content on up to 10 screens.
Hulu + Live TV
Hulu + Live TV offers the most streaming options with access to more than 95 live channels including ESPN and the entire Hulu library. It starts at $82.99 per month, but unlike the rest of the options on this list, Hulu + Live TV comes bundled with Disney+ and ESPN+ for no added cost. You’ll have all of the Hulu library to watch and exclusive and original programming available only on ESPN+.
Who Is Performing During F1 Australian Grand Prix?
During the five-day motorsport event, rock bands The Living End and Spiderbait are set to perform, while rapper Baker Boy and singer Tones and I are scheduled to perform too. The musical headliner of F1 Australian Grand Prix is English DJ Fatboy Slim with Australian singer Anna Lunoe.
Stream F1 Australian Grand Prix on ESPN starting on Thursday (March 13) at 9:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. PT. Race day lands on Sunday, airing in the U.S. on Saturday (March 15) at midnight ET/9 p.m. PT. The best way to watch is on ESPN+, or ESPN via Sling TV.
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With the upcoming Final Chamber tour with Run The Jewels this summer, Wu-Tang Clan fever is sweeping hip-hop nation. And to get ready for the tour, Wu-Tang’s RZA has a new collab with toy and collectible company Super7 for a new action figure.
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Ready for pre-order for $55 on Amazon, the Super7 action figure is a seven-inch collectible that features RZA as his alter-ego Bobby Digital. It comes out on Thursday, April 3.
The action figure comes with a few interchangeable heads and hands, a test tube, a large rifle and more. The accessories allows you to recreate the classic 1998 hip-hop album, Bobby Digital in Stereo.
And if you’re an Amazon Prime member, you can pre-order now and the Super7 RZA Bobby Digital Action Figure will be delivered to your home in less than two days once it’s released, thanks to Prime Delivery.
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Meanwhile, Super7 has collectibles of the other members of the Wu-Tang Clan, including ODB (“Shimmy Shimmy Ya” and “Return to The 36 Chambers” variants), Ghostface Killah (“Can It Be All So Simple” and “Ironman” models) and a smaller RZA Bobby Digital action figure.
The toy company even has action figures of Outkast, Beasties Boys, Biz Markie and more. In fact, Super7 has a Glen Danzig collectible for your inner metalhead.
Additionally, the Wu-Tang Clan has a new partnership with blanket and towel company Slowtide for a new line of premium blankets, towels, tote bags and other home goods.
Priced at $55, the Super7 RZA Bobby Digital Action Figure is available for pre-order on Amazon. It drops on Thursday, April 3.
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Selena Gomez is proud of her Only Murders in the Building co-stars! So much so, that when Steve Martin and Martin Short’s SAG Awards arrived, she wanted to deliver them to the actors herself. In a clip posted to the popular Hulu series’ social media accounts, Gomez is seen with Michael Cyril Creighton and the […]
Eminem’s epic 8 Mile rap battles have long been part of hip-hop movie lore. Anthony Mackie, who played Papa Doc and lost the final battle to Em’s B-Rabbit character, revealed that Em actually used part of the actor’s real life story to diss him in the 2002 film.
Mackie joined The Pivot Podcast on Tuesday (March 11), during which he recalled confiding details of his life to the Grammy-winning rapper, such as growing up in a two-person household and attending The Juilliard School, which ended up backfiring.
“Eminem is such a brilliant dude,” he said. “We’re on set one day and he’s like, ‘Yo, it doesn’t make sense that we’re beefing.’ I was like, ‘Right!’ He says, ‘I need something on you.’ So we talked for, like, two hours, chilling.”
Mackie continued: “I go to the casino. The next day we’re shooting the battle scene, and that’s why I’m standing there like, ‘You’re talking about me, you’re not talking about Clarence. That has nothing to do with the character. ‘You’re an a–hole, Eminem!’ I’m like, ‘I wanna fight this motherf—-r!’ I’m like, ‘Yes, my parents are still married.’”
8 Mile arrived in 2002 and served as the first credited acting roles for both Eminem and Mackie. Em went on to win a best original song Oscar for the film’s “Lose Yourself,” while the actor went on to star in multiple Marvel films.
In an interview earlier this year with Esquire, the actor evealed his role was originally supposed to be much smaller as Papa Doc, and he pitched the idea of his character delivering a better performance in the final battle.
“When we’re doing the scene, it was like everybody there was a rapper, so everybody was kind of talking trash cause they knew I wasn’t a rapper,” he told the magazine. “And I was like, ‘Yo, I’m tired of this, man.’”
Mackie added: “This was nothing about Papa Doc — this was Anthony Mackie had to live with being murdered this awfully forever. So yeah, it was an awful moment in my life.”
Watch Anthony Mackie’s full interview with Pivot below.
The teachers down at Abbott Elementary are ready to sing their hearts out on tonight’s (March 12) episode, as seen in a brand new preview video.
In the minute-and-a-half clip shared exclusively with Billboard, the teachers are seen hanging out in the break room as Barbara Howard, portrayed by Sheryl Lee Ralph, walks in requesting a “final head count” for an upcoming karaoke night.
“I’ll be there,” Mr. Johnson, played by William Stanford Davis, says, before making a reference to his karaoke song of choice: “Baby Got Back” by Sir Mix-a-Lot. “I like big butts, but someone out there thinks I’m lying about it and I’ve got to set the record straight,” he explains.
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Janine Teagues, played by Quinta Brunson, then asks if she can bring her newly heartbroken friend Erika to the karaoke event. Howard agrees, only if she agrees not to “throw it back, forward or to the side.”
The scene wraps up with Ava Coleman, portrayed by Janelle James, explaining that she’ll miss out on the karaoke fun because she has a date planned — leading to a slew of music-themed puns by her co-workers.
Abbott Elementary has been a massive success since its premiere in 2021. The series stars Brunson as a second-grade teacher at the underfunded public school in West Philadelphia. The star-studded cast includes Ralph, Davis, James, Tyler James Williams, Lisa Ann Walter and Chris Perfetti.
Throughout the years, the ABC series has been nominated for 24 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning four in the comedy categories including outstanding lead actress for Brunson and supporting actress for Ralph. Abbott Elementary has also won three Golden Globe Awards. The show has already been renewed for a fifth season, set to premiere in the 2025-26 television season.
Abbott Elementary airs on Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. ET on ABC and is also available to stream on Hulu. Watch the sneak peek below.
Director Dan Reed is planning a third chapter in his ongoing Leaving Neverland series about allegations of sexual abuse against late pop icon Michael Jackson by dancer/choreographer Wade Robson and James Safechuck.
According to Variety, the second sequel will focus on the upcoming trial pitting Robson and Safechuck against Jackson’s companies over their allegations that the organizations neglected to protect them from the alleged abuse detailed in the bombshell 2019 two-part doc. In the original film, the men described in graphic detail how the late King of Pop allegedly molested them at his Neverland Ranch in California when they were both minors; Jackson’s estate has continuously and emphatically denied the allegations.
The reported third film will serve as the follow-up to the upcoming Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson, which will premiere on Channel 4 in the U.K. on March 18 and on YouTube in the United States. The 50-minute movie will primarily focus on Robson and Safechuck fighting to have their lawsuit against Jackson’s estate go forward; the case is slated to go to trial next year.
“It’s taken an awful long time just to get to a trial date that looks as though it could actually happen,” Reed told Variety about his plan to have cameras in the courtroom, despite his belief that the Jackson estate will “find a way to try and sideswipe this whole thing and make sure it never goes to court… But who knows. Maybe justice will prevail and there’ll be a trial. And if there is a trial, I want to be there.”
While we will have to wait to see what will happen when the men have their day in court, Reed is aware that it’s possible that the judge in the case might not let cameras in their courtroom. “It’s really the judge’s discretion,” he said. Reed was allowed to film inside the Santa Monica Courthouse for several hearings depicted in Leaving Neverland 2, which mainly focuses on the legal back-and-forth leading up to Robson and Safechuck being granted a trial.
“It’s a bridge film in between what was a pretty high-profile start and what I hope will be a very dramatic ending,” Reed said. “We could have kept it to include all this material and the trial. But I think the trial will be so dramatic, and you won’t have time for all the stuff in between.”
The original Leaving Neverland won an Emmy for outstanding documentary or nonfiction special, even as it drew fire from Jackson’s family and estate and, in 2019, resulted in a $100 million lawsuit by the estate against HBO over claims that the documentary violated a 27-year-old non-disparagement clause the network signed to air a 1992 concert film for Jackson’s Dangerous World Tour; the case was sent to private arbitration that year and is still pending.
Jackson’s estate has consistently denied a series of allegations of sexual abuse against the singer who died in 2009, often noting that Jackson was acquitted in a 2005 criminal trial and has never been convicted or held liable for any such claims. The estate has also claimed that accusers are looking for a payday from an artist who cannot defend himself because defamation laws do not cover dead people.
As for why he’s planning the third chapter, Reed said that he hopes to keep telling Robson and Safechuck’s story because he thinks it will help viewers “realize that these are real people, with a real story, with real families who are doing this… They’re not just a couple of people who popped up because they saw a pot of gold. These are people who have really dedicated a decade, at least, of their lives to getting justice.”
On The Tonight Show Tuesday (March 11), Sting and Shaggy explained the current tumultuous state of the United States economy the best way they know how: through song. In a hilarious segment on the episode, the duo answered host Jimmy Fallon’s questions about the Donald Trump administration’s financial policies with lyrics from their own songs. […]
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It appears Wendy Williams might be one step closer to gaining unsupervised release. She was taken to a hospital after dropping a note from her assisted living facility.
As per The Huffington Post Wendy Williams took matters into her own hands on Monday, March 10. According to reports she dropped a written note from her window asking the public for aid. “Help! Wendy!!” the piece of paper read. She was then spotted waving her hands to the public and reporters who were on the scene. These tactics proved successful as local police and an ambulance soon arrived at the property located in Midtown Manhattan.
According to The New York Post she was then escorted by lawmen into a vehicle which whisked her away to Lenox Hill Hospital. There medical professionals ran independent tests to examine her cognitive skills. TMZ is exclusively reporting that they have spoken to a source close to the situation and say that Wendy Williams aced the test with a perfect score. While this might be a small win for Wendy those results vary greatly from the assessment made by completed by her guardian.
In 2023 the media personality was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. Wendy Williams is set to appear on The View on Friday, Mar. 14. You can see footage of Wendy Williams being escorted to the hospital below.