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29 Nov 2023

End of the Road: How to Watch the Final Kiss Concert Live on Pay-Per-View

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Kiss fans from around the world will be able to watch the final stop on the End of the Road Tour at Madison Square Garden on Saturday (Dec. 2). The final KISS concert will be available to live stream on pay-per-view.

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Read on for more details on the show, plus when and how to watch from anywhere.

How to Watch

The End of the Road concert will stream live from Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Dec. 2 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. Kiss fans can purchase the concert live stream for $39.99 at PPV.com. The digital ticket includes replay access.

Visit PPV.com to watch live or stream through the PPV app — you can find it in Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store. Watch live on a PC, laptop, TV, mobile phone and other compatible devices. PPV.com is compatible with Android 10+, iOS 15.0+, Mac OS 11, Window 10+ and Chrome, Safari and Firefox browsers.  

Kiss is back on stage after canceling several dates on the End of the Road Tour as frontman Paul Stanley came recovered from the flu. The band has just two more shows ahead of the final show on Saturday.

Kiss will perform at CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore on Wednesday, Nov. 29 before heading to New York for two, back-to-back performances at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 1 and Dec. 2.

Last-minute tickets to the three remaining shows in Baltimore and New York City are available online. Prices range from $89-$334 at Vivid Seats and $67-$319 at Seat Geek (use code: BILLBOARD10 to save $10 off eligible purchases of $250+. Valid on first purchase only).

Kiss announced the pay-per-view concert on Nov. 9 writing in an Instagram post “50 years of Rock ‘n’ Roll. 1 Final Show. Rock out with @kissonline one last time! Their final concert ever, LIVE from @thegarden, streaming exclusively worldwide on PPV.COM.”

Need something to wear to the Kiss concert? Shop End of the Road tour merch here.

Watch the trailer for the final concert below.

29 Nov 2023

Paris Hilton Said She ‘Was Crying’ When She Read the Kind Thing Britney Spears Said About Her in Memoir

On Wednesday’s (Nov. 29) Kelly Clarkson Show, the host asked guest Paris Hilton about a throwback picture the socialite/DJ recently posted of herself and pal Britney Spears way back in 2006 in which Hilton bragged that the dynamic duo “created” the idea of the selfie. Clarkson noted that like HIlton — who earlier this year released Paris: The Memoir — Spears has stepped up to give a first-hand account her life story in her recent best-selling tell-tell, The Woman in Me.

In the book, Clarkson noted that Spears wrote, “one of the people who was kindest to me when I really needed kindness was Paris Hilton.” Lamenting that good news doesn’t often get as much attention as awful news, Clarkson said it was cool to read something kind that lifted someone else up.

“I was crying when I read that, that really touched me,” said Hilton, who, like Spears, wrote about some very challenging times in her life in her book. “She’s just so strong, I love her so much and I’m just so proud of her for speaking her truth and writing this whole book. That quote meant a lot me when I read it.”

Clarkson — who also knows the rigors of being a young person thrust into the spotlight thanks to her rise to fame at 20 after winning American Idol in 2002 — said she could relate to both women’s rocky journeys. “I feel like there has to be purpose in the things that happen to us, the good and the bad. And I love that you’re a really big advocate for [the] troubled teen industry… because you had struggled,” Clarkson said.

Hilton said she’s proud of the impact she’s made by advocating for changes in the “troubled teen” industry to prevent the kind of abuse she said in her book she suffered she she was shuttled between different facilities where she was physically and mentally abused between the ages of 16-18.

Watch Hilton talk Spears on The Kelly Clarkson Show below.

29 Nov 2023

Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo & Noah Kahan Set As Final ‘SNL’ Musical Guests of 2023

Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and Noah Kahan are set to be Saturday Night Live‘s musical guests for its last three episodes of 2023, NBC announced on Wednesday (Nov. 29).

The long-running late-night comedy show returns from a brief break Dec. 2 with Oscar-winning actress Emma Stone joining the Five-Timers Club for her fifth shot helming the show. Kahan will be making his SNL debut as the musical guest that night.

Up next on Dec. 9 is Ferrari star Adam Driver, who is set to host for a fourth time that night. Rodrigo returns for a second time as the musical guest, and the first since she released her sophomore album, Guts.

SNL alum and Barbie star Kate McKinnon — who in the past has delivered hilarious impressions of everyone from Justin Bieber to the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg — returns to Studio 8H to host for the first time on Dec. 16. Eilish, whose song “What Was I Made For” for the Barbie soundtrack has been nominated for several 2024 Grammy awards — will be the musical guest for the third time.

Recent musical guests on Saturday Night Live include Tate McRae, Boygenius, Foo Fighters and more. Latin superstar Bad Bunny both hosted and was the musical guest on the Oct. 21. In addition to announced musicians, the long-running show has seen some artists make surprise appearances as well. Taylor Swift showed up unannounced to introduce Ice Spice on the season premiere. Lady Gaga did the same to introduce Bunny’s performance the night he did double duty; that same evening, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger showed up to support the Puerto Rican star in several sketches.

Saturday Night Live airs on NBC at 11:30 p.m. ET, and streams live on Peacock.

29 Nov 2023

Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Concert Movie on Track For Big Opening Weekend

Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé is expected to top the box office charts this weekend when the concert film by Queen Bey opens on screen across the world. According to Deadline, on what is typically a slow post-Thanksgiving period, the movie is aiming for a $30-$40 million global opening.

The film is the second one to be distributed by AMC, following on the heels of the massive opening and box office for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which has raked in $250 million to date; the three-hour-plus Swift movie is headed to on-demand on Dec. 13 with three bonus songs.

Deadline reported that sources have been saying that despite the huge ticket sales for the Renaissance tour — close to $600 million, which puts it at eighth on the highest-grossing concert tours of all-time list — Bey’s appeal is very different from Swift’s, so it was always unlikely that Renaissance would open with a figure close to the Eras movie’s 92.8 million domestic.

A sign of the differing expectations can be glimpsed in the first-day presales for the films, with the Eras movie racking up $65 million to Renaissance‘s $6 million. The Renaissance movie is booked into 2,539 theaters domestically and another 2,780 abroad in 94 territories, with U.S. previews slated to begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday (Nov. 30) before it settles into a Thursday-Sunday schedule for the two-and-a-half-hour movie directed by the singer. The only major competition this weekend will come from the monster movie Godzilla Minus One.

The 42-year-old singer made a splash on Saturday night when she strutted on the red carpet with long silver hair and a body-hugging Versace dress at the movie’s premiere at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, CA. She was joined by Destiny’s Child members Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett, as well as Janelle Monáe, Lizzo, Chloe X Halle‘s Chloe and Halle Bailey, Gabrielle Union, Lupita Nyong’o, Tyler Perry and Kris Jenner.

29 Nov 2023

Jason Mraz Punches His Ticket for ‘DWTS’ Finale

Jason Mraz has barely put a foot wrong during his stint on Dancing With The Stars.

The two-time Grammy Award winner stayed true to form Tuesday night (Nov. 28), for the semi finals of ABC’s DWTS.

Fresh from topping the leaderboard with a perfect score, Mraz and his dance partner Daniella Karagach had two bites at the cherry. First up, a Viennese Waltz, a routine performed to his own song “I Won’t Give Up”. The performance was “refined,” remarked Carrie Ann Inaba. But it wasn’t perfect, earning a score of 27 out of 30.


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Next up, the duo did the double with a Paso Doble, dancing to “Diablo Rojo” by Rodrigo y Gabriela. The pressure was on, but they didn’t show it as their efforts landed a perfect 30 out of 30. Inaba said she was “looking for magic,” and “that dance was magic.”

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Bruno Tonioli remarked that Mraz was so good, he looked like a “man possessed by the devil”.


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Would dancing like the devil be enough to get Mraz to the finals? Well, the short answer is yes. The 57/60 scorecard was enough to place Mraz and Karagach in fourth place. The longer answer involves a twist, which sees all five groups of contestants advance to the finale, with the judges’ scores from the semis carrying over.

Last week, the 46-year-old singer did the business on Dancing With The Stars, now in its 32nd season, as the celebrity dance-off paid tribute to Taylor Swift. After voicing his concerns on an early exit, Mraz and Karagach nailed it, earning a perfect score of 40 from the judging panel for their Argentine Tango to “Don’t Blame Me.” And in the “Relay Dances,” the pair bagged the additional three points for a perfect night out — and a spot at the top of the leaderboard.

In a recent interview with GLAAD, Mraz recounted his performance with Swift during her Speak Now world tour in 2011, and praised her work as an ally to the LGBTQ community. “It’s beautiful,” he said of Swift’s kinship. “If you want your music to be popular, you’re going to hopefully have it be heard by all ears. Therefore, you’re representing all ears, and you should be inclusive of all ears.”

Dancing with the Stars airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and Disney+.

29 Nov 2023

‘The Voice’: ‘Special’ Kaylee Shimizu Sings Quincy Jones In the Playoffs

Somehow, Kaylee Shimizu makes singing look like a glorious gymnastics routine — all style, grace, strength, athleticism.

Hailing from Ewa Beach, Hawaii, the 17-year-old got everyone’s attention during the Blind Auditions with a cover of the Beatles’ “Golden Slumbers.”

She earned a four-chair turn. “We’re just stunned right now. Your voice was just dazzling, it was so creative it was so musical,” John Legend remarked at the time, her future coach. “You know you could win The Voice, right,” he added. “You have so much confidence delivering these impossible notes.”

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Then, in the Knockouts, more knockout stuff with a performance of Aretha Frankin’s “Ain’t No Way,” lifted from the late legend’s Lady Soul album from 1968.

Nothing would stand in Shimizu’s way of competing in the Playoffs, which she launched into with a cover of master producer Quincy Jones’ “You Put a Move On My Heart” featuring Tamia, from 1999.

Shimizu breathes blues, and jazz, into the song, punctuated with her trademark dynamite runs and big, showy high notes.

“It really is phenomenal that you are the age that you are, and your voice has this much control and depth and range. Your low voice is really gorgeous. I love the warmth in it,” Legend enthused. “The fact that you can do that and then go to those notes in the stratosphere that almost no one on the planet can hit, you’re ready for this. You are ready to be a big star. You’re so special Kaylee.”

Special, however, doesn’t always win talent shows. Luck can play a part in it. Bad luck, too, as Kaylee Shimizu found out. The teen was eliminated, as were Kristen Brown and Taylor Deneen.

Team Legend singers Azán, Lila Forde and Mac Royals advance to The Voice season 24 Live Round, where they’ll be joined by Huntley, Nini Iris and Mara Justine (Team Niall); Jordan Rainer, Jacquie Roar and Ruby Leigh (Team Reba); and BIAS, Tanner Massey and Kara Tenae (Team Gwen).

Watch Shimizu’s performance on NBC‘s The Voice below.


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28 Nov 2023

BTS Unleash Career-Spanning Trailer for ‘Monuments: Beyond the Star’ Disney+ Docuseries

From their trainee days through their current solo projects, the life of BTS will be on display in the upcoming Disney+ docuseries BTS Monuments: Beyond the Star — and now we have a trailer for the expansive project.

Released on Tuesday (Nov. 28), the trailer kicks off as the then-newly-formed group — Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jung Kook — train to become the biggest band on the planet. And they achieve their goal, as images flash of the septet winning awards and headlining U.S. stadiums. “It felt like we were leveling up,” J-Hope says in the trailer.

Everything grinds to a halt with the 2020 pandemic, as their tour is canceled and their daily activities come to a standstill. “I was hoping and waiting for a change in my personal life,” V says. But BTS comes out of the pandemic bigger than ever with their Permission to Dance On Stage in the US tour. And now, the members are exploring their individual talents as they release solo projects — with all seven scoring their own Billboard Hot 100 hits and Jimin and Jung Kook even topping the chart (with “Like Crazy” and “Seven” featuring Latto respectively) — before they come back together as a group in 2025.

With the tagline “10 Years of BTS and Beyond,” the eight-part Monuments series will debut Dec. 20 on Disney+, with two new episodes released every Wednesday over four weeks. BTS previously teamed with Disney+ last year for their BTS: Permission to Dance On Stage – LA concert film, which is streaming now on the service.

Watch the BTS Monuments: Beyond the Star trailer below:

28 Nov 2023

‘Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays’: How to Watch Online for Free

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Selena Gomez is serving up some holiday spirit in a new special coming to the Food Network called Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays. The four-part series will debut Thursday (Nov. 30) at 8 p.m. ET on the Food Network and later on Max (home of her cooking show titled Selena + Chef, which is what the special is based on).

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As we start decorating our homes with real or artificial Christmas trees and grab our Christmas ornaments out of storage, the “Single Soon” singer also wants to inspire you with holiday-themed dishes that’ll put all your cookware deals to good use. Award-winning chefs Eric Adjepong, Alex Guarnaschelli, Michael Symon and Claudette Zepeda will join the Only Murders in the Building actress each episode bringing their personal favorite holiday recipe with them.

“The holidays have always meant so much to me,” said Gomez in a press release. “It was an honor to have these amazing chefs in my kitchen to introduce some of their favorite foods and what makes the holidays special for them.”

Keep reading to learn the streaming options availble.

When & How to Watch Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays

The holiday cooking special will premiere on the Food Network on Thursday (Nov. 30) at 8 p.m. ET. Three more episodes will follow every Wednesday with a new guest chef joining each episode. If you have cable, you’ll be able to watch the show wherever the Food Network is. Just make sure to check your cable provider’s guide to see what exact channel it’s on. Don’t have cable? You might be able to watch Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays through and HD antenna like this one here from Amazon.

Max, HBO’s streaming platform, is the home of Selena + Chef and will also have the holiday special episodes to stream and rewatch later. If you’re a Prime member, you can add Max to your Prime Video library through the Prime Video Channel storefront for $9.99/month. Click here or the button below to add Max.

Not a Prime member? Amazon offers a 30-day free trial that’ll give you access to the Prime Video library and additional perks. Once you start your Prime membership, you’ll need to add Max to your channels through the Prime Video Channel storefront for an extra $9.99/month. Once your free trial ends you’ll be charged the regular membership fee of $14.99/month or $139/year on top of the Max subscription. Click here or the button below to start your free trial.

Students can take advantage of the student membership, which comes with a six month free trial and 50% off the membership price. If you’re a part of a qualifying government program, you can sign up for the EBT/Medicaid membership that has a 30-day free trial and half off membership price.

More Ways to Stream Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays

Live TV streamers are offering a slew of promos, free trials and discounts as part of their Cyber Week deals, which means you can watch the holiday special and more for the best price: free!

DirecTV provides a five day free trial that’ll let you watch the first episode of the holiday special for no cost. Afterwards, you can score $50 off plans for the first two months when you combine them with a Sport’s Pack. After the free trial is over, you’ll be charged the sale price for the first two months based on the plan you choose.

Fubo is treating you to a seven day free trial, then $20 off the first two months of any plan. Each plan also includes DVR storage, over 100 channels to watch and the ability to stream from multiple devices at once.

Whether you miss live TV or are looking cut the cable cord, Philo offers a seven day free trial and is only $25/month after the free trial is over. You’ll receive over 70 channels and DVR storage.

SlingTV may not offer a free trial, but it is having a 50% off promo that’s almost too sweet to pass. Sling’s Orange Plan is half off and includes the Food Network channel and 31 additional channels. The Blue Plan doesn’t include the Food Network, but you can combine the two plans together for even more channels. Each plan includes DVR storage to record content to watch later.

For the most content viewing options, Hulu + Live TV provides you with a 30 day free trial along with access to the entire Hulu library and live TV channels to watch all your favorite series and movies the moment they air. You can also quadruple your program offerings by bundling it with Disney+ and ESPN+.

Check below for the Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays trailer.

28 Nov 2023

Mandy Moore Goes Digging for the Truth in ‘Dr. Death’ Season 2 Trailer: Watch

Although This Is Us bid the world farewell just over a year ago, Mandy Moore has already lined up her next television project. On Tuesday (Nov. 28), Peacock unveiled the official trailer for the second season of Dr. Death, featuring Moore and her Emmy-nominated co-star Édgar Ramírez.

In the ominous trailer, Moore’s Benita Alexander attempts to balance covering Ramírez’s Dr. Paolo Macchiarini — a successful doctor whose current research focuses on transforming 3D-printed organs into functioning body parts — and his dubious experiments while handling her feelings for him. Ramírez’s character is based on the real-life Macchiarini, whose fraudulent research led to a 2022 conviction for causing bodily harm to a patient through a trachea transplant.

Dr. Death made its television debut in 2021 with a season focusing on the malpractice of Christopher Duntsch, led by actors Joshua Jackson, Grace Gummer, Christian Slater, Alec Baldwin and AnnaSophia Robb. The series is a true crime anthology, with both seasons drawing from the Wondery-produced podcast of the same name. “The joy of an anthology series is the freedom to explore variations on a theme,” mused season 2 showrunner, executive producer and writer Ashley Michel Hoban in a statement. “Dr. Death is a show about systemic failures, and this season, these issues reach a global scale.”

All eight episodes of Dr. Death season 2 will premiere exclusively on Peacock on December 21. A companion documentary titled Dr. Death: Cutthroat Conman will also premiere on the platform on the same day. Moore shared the trailer to her Instagram Story, writing, “Here we go!! Season 2 of #DrDeath coming December 21st on @peacock. It’s a WILD ride that you won’t want to miss.”

The new season of Dr. Death comes a year and a half after the release of In Real Life, Moore’s seventh studio album. The record, which pulled from indie pop and country, peaked at No. 41 on Top Album Sales.

Throughout her career, Moore earned a pair of entries on the Billboard Hot 100: 1999’s “Candy” (No. 41) and 2000’s “I Wanna Be With You” (No. 24). On the Billboard 200, the Emmy-nominated actress has earned eight entries, peaking with 2003’s Coverage (No. 14).

Watch the full trailer for Dr. Death season 2 above.

28 Nov 2023

‘The Voice’ Singer Tom Nitti Promises ‘This Isn’t the End of Me’ After Leaving Show Before Playoff Rounds

If you tuned in to Monday night’s (Nov. 27) playoff round episode of The Voice there was a prominent member of Team Reba who was nowhere to be seen. Season 24 country singer Tom Nitti was missing, forcing Reba McEntire to move her group along with just three performers for the upcoming live shows.

On the episode, McEntire said, “I have wonderfully talented people, but Tom had to leave for personal reasons, so I only have five artists tonight.” Nitti explained his absence in a lengthy Instagram post on Tuesday morning (Nov. 28), in which he shared a carousel of pics of his children and girlfriend cued to Cody Johnson’s “Leather.”

“Well, I’ve been dreading this day ever since the blind audition so here goes nothin’. …First and foremost I’m blessed beyond belief and I can’t say enough how much I love and appreciate the constant support from my fans, my friends and my family,” wrote Nitti. “As much as it absolutely stings to say, I had to make probably one of the hardest yet easiest decisions ever and ultimately at the end of the day, my kids will always come first and if I had to make the same decision again I’d do it over and over.”

McEntire supported Nitti from the get-go, as the only judge to turn her chair when he performed Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours)” at the blind auditions. He proved he’d earned his spot on the team with subsequent impressive performances of Johnson’s “Til You Can’t” during the battle round and again during the knockout round with the Temptations’ “(I Know) I’m Losing You.”

“This past summer was filled to the max with everything I love and could’ve only dreamed of and Thanks to @nbcthevoice I was able to live my wildest dreams and do what I’ve always hoped. I made friends that’ll last a life time, experiences that I can hold on to forever and even found REAL and TRUE love,” Nitti continued in his post, tagging girlfriend singer Ashley Bryant.

Nitti also shouted out the many people he said had his back “going through the tough times” he said he endured during his time in California on the show, including McEntire and his fellow team members.

“But nonetheless I hope everyone knows how happy and grateful i am for them. This isn’t the end of me and I’ll do what I do best for everyone to see which is keep my head down and move forward playing music and raising/creating new memories with a family I will continue to grow,” he added. “I never believed in the whole, things happen for a reason statement but in this case I think God has it all figured out. He knows I don’t break easily. For everyone asking, I’m alright and still standing. Thank you so much and as always, I’m super pumped to keep on keepin’ on with music, my kids Rayleigh and Brently my whole family to include my smokin’ girlfriend that keeps my head held high… Im more than ready to continue to live life now happier than ever before.”

The post ended with a series of hashtags, including: #familyfirst, #itsnotoveryet, #imstillstanding and #kentuckygotme.

With Nitti’s leave-taking, McEntire sent home Noah Spencer and Ms. Monet, with Ruby Leigh, Jordan Ranier and Jacquie Roar moving on to the live shows. The Voice airs on Monday night at 8 p.m. ET/PT and Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.

Check out Nitti’s post and one of his performances below.


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