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The Knockouts came to a close on Monday night (Nov. 24) on The Voice, finalising the teams for next week’s Playoffs as Snoop Dogg, Niall Horan and Reba McEntire filled their last remaining slots.
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The episode marked the final round of head-to-head performances before the competition shifts into its next phase, with each coach selecting winners based strictly on the night’s showing – and, in Snoop’s case, using his last Mic Drop to send one artist straight into a four-way showdown for a spot in the Rose Parade.
McEntire opened the night with her last Knockout pairing: Austin Gilbert, a country singer she previously stole from Michael Bublé, and Peyton Kyle. Gilbert performed Jake Owen’s “8 Second Ride,” while Peyton offered a pop-leaning counterpoint with “I Don’t Wanna Be” by Gavin DeGraw.
The other coaches noted the contrast between their styles, with Niall saying he’d “lean towards” Peyton for his potential to surprise viewers, while Snoop praised both contestants but advised McEntire that her pick depended on the direction she wanted to take her team.
McEntire ultimately selected Peyton, telling him he “had the voice” that fit the moment.
Niall’s final pairing brought together two four-chair turns: Dustin Dale Gaspard and Kirbi. Dustin was forced to skip rehearsals due to illness, meaning he walked into the Knockout without mentorship from Horan or guest advisor Joe Walsh. Kirbi delivered “Heartfelt Hallelujah” by Brandon Lake and Jelly Roll, while Dustin countered with a rugged take on “She Talks to Angels” by The Black Crowes.
The coaches were divided, with McEntire leaning toward Kirbi and Bublé praising Dustin for bringing something unique to the cast. Horan called Kirbi’s performance her strongest yet and advanced her, explaining that she provided an undeniable emotional centrepiece he couldn’t overlook.
The final Knockout of the episode came from Team Snoop, with Lauren Anderson performing Pink’s “Try” and Yoshihanaa offering a soulful, classic reading of “You’re All I Need to Get By” by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
The coaches noted Lauren’s command of the stage and Yoshihanaa’s polished presence, with Horan saying Yoshihanaa “looked like a superstar.” S
noop chose Yoshihanaa as his winner – and immediately hit his Mic Drop for her, securing her a spot in the four-way Mic Drop face-off. “She did everything but drop the mic, so it was my job to drop the mic on her behalf,” he said during the episode.
With the Knockouts concluded, all four teams are now locked for next week’s Playoffs, featuring returning standouts, stolen contestants and newly advanced performers.
Team Snoop enters the next round with Ralph Edwards, Toni Lorene, Mindy Miller and Yoshihanaa. Team Niall moves forward with Ava Nat, Aiden Ross, DEK of Hearts and Kirbi. Team Reba features Aubrey Nicole, Ryan Mitchell (from the Carson callback), Aaron Nichols and Peyton Kyle, while Team Bublé brings Max Chambers, Rob Cole, Trinity and Jazz McKenzie into the Playoffs.
Season 28 of The Voice continues next Monday on NBC, airing at 9 p.m. ET.
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Twenty years since the sitcom’s end, and everybody still loves Raymond.
Fans of the classic ’90s sitcom are in for a treat this holiday season as Ray Romano and the rest of his comedic TV family are headed back to Long Island for a highly anticipated Everybody Loves Raymond: 30th Anniversary Reunion special. Airing Monday (Nov. 24) on CBS, expect many candid conversations, never-before-seen outtakes and plenty of behind-the-scenes footage. For those without cable, the special will be available to stream on DIRECTV.
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The televised special will feature the show’s leading star, Ray Romano, alongside cast members Brad Garrett, Patricia Heaton, Monica Horan, Madylin Sweeten, and Sullivan Sweeten. With series creator, Phil Rosenthal, also set to make an appearance, the cast will reflect on the sitcom’s success, impact and the countless memories from their time filming the show from 1996 to 2005.
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How to Watch Everybody Loves Raymond: 30th Anniversary on DIRECTV
Don’t have cable? A subscription to DIRECTV — which comes with CBS to watch Everybody Loves Raymond — gets you access to live TV, local networks such as NBC, ABC and PBS, and you can also watch many cable networks, including FS1, Lifetime, FX, AMC, A&E, Bravo, BET, MTV, Paramount Network, Cartoon Network, VH1, Fuse, CNN, Food Network, CNBC and many others (some local channel not available in select markets).
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The KPop Demon Hunters craze is still going strong — and books inspired by the film have now hit shelves.
In the spirit of family, fun, creativity and, of course, K-pop, these books depict scenes from the beloved animated Netflix film, from HUNTR/X’s pre-show ramen sessions to action poses struck by the Saja Boys. Each of our picks can be shopped right now on either Amazon or Etsy.
We’ve included a few picks, from coloring pages to triva books, giving kids fun and interactive ways to express themselves and their love of the Netflix animated film. We’ve even included an official story book titled For the Fans! by A Little Golden Book retailing for just $3.80. The entry recounts some of our favorite moments from the film, all drawn out in cute chibi fashions.
For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook
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An offical ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ story book.
All three options we’ve linked are super affordable at less than $15, and make great gifts or stocking stuffers for the holiday season. For children, these books are a great way to occupy their time, allowing them to funnel their creative energy into a productive and fulfilling activity. For adults, the coloring books are a great way to manage stress — it’s a low-pressure activity that engages, leaving no room for overthinking.
For those of you who might not be familiar with KPop Demon Hunters, the Netflix animated film dropped on the streaming platform back in June, capitalizing on the popularity of K-pop. The film follows fictional world-renowned K-pop girl group called HUNTR/X consisting of members Rumi, Mira and Zoey. The group sings and performs while secretly slaying demons when not on stage.
The punchy and interactive visuals and musical score, composed by Marcelo Zarvos, make for a thrilling ride from start to finish. You’ve also got appearances from real-life K-pop acts throughout the film: K-pop girl group TWICE perform the version of “Takedown” that appears during the credits. Andrew Choi, the singing voice of Saja Boys’ Jinu, is currently an active solo artist under SM Entertainment. Kevin Woo from the K-pop boy band U-KISS provided the singing voice for Saja Boys’ Mystery Saja.
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Coloring Book
A holiday-themed coloring book from the popular Netflix movie.
The Unofficial ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Trivia Book
An unofficial ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ triva book.
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Chibi Coloring Book
A coloring book based on the hit Netflix film.
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Chibi Coloring Book
A chibi K-pop coloring book.
A majority of these, save for the A Little Golden Book entry, are all fan-made books of course, and not an official release from Netflix or the movie, but if you’re looking for a fun and interactive way to occupy your time that isn’t just scrolling on your phone, these books should do the trick.
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Chance the Rapper and Julianne Hough are joining the hosting lineup for Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2026, ABC announced Monday (Nov. 24).
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The annual broadcast, returning Dec. 31 beginning at 8 p.m. ET, sees Ryan Seacrest return to lead the Times Square broadcast alongside Rita Ora, who is back for her second consecutive year helping count down the iconic New York ball drop.
This year’s telecast will once again span several U.S. cities. Chance the Rapper will host from his hometown of Chicago, where he’ll guide the Central Time Zone countdown from the city’s live celebration.
In Las Vegas, the show pairs NFL legend Rob Gronkowski with performer and presenter Julianne Hough, who makes her Rockin’ Eve co-hosting debut. Details for the Puerto Rico broadcast are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
The multi-city structure has become a hallmark of the franchise, allowing the special to cross between stages, countdowns and performances across multiple time zones. It’s also one of ABC’s most durable draws: last year’s edition drew more than 29 million total viewers at midnight, buoyed by performances from Carrie Underwood, Sabrina Carpenter, Lenny Kravitz, Alanis Morissette, Duran Duran, and Jonas Brothers across the various locations.
The show has also delivered some of the most memorable New Year’s Eve TV moments of the past decade, including Taylor Swift’s “1989” medley, Jennifer Lopez’s rooftop performance, and Miley Cyrus’ Times Square set.
The special airs live Dec. 31 on ABC beginning at 8 p.m. ET, with next-day streaming available on Hulu.
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2026 is produced by Dick Clark Productions, with Ryan Seacrest, Michael Dempsey and Barry Adelman serving as executive producers.
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Billie Eilish has announced the global release date for her upcoming concert film, revealing the news onstage during the final night of her sold-out Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour in San Francisco on Sunday.
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The film, arriving March 20, 2026, will be distributed worldwide by Paramount Pictures in partnership with Darkroom Records, Interscope Films and Lightstorm Earth. It is presented in 3D and directed by two Academy Award winners: James Cameron — most recently recognized for Avatar: Fire and Ash — and Eilish herself.
Captured during the singer’s extensive 2024–25 world tour, the film documents performances behind her third studio album Hit Me Hard and Soft, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 earlier this year and produced the top-10 Hot 100 hit “Lunch.” The tour, which spanned North America, Europe, South America, Asia and Oceania, sold out multiple arena and stadium dates, including several two-night runs in major cities.
Eilish shared the announcement in a video posted to Instagram following the San Francisco show, paired with a new image featuring her and Cameron, shot by photographer Henry Hwu. Additional official stills were distributed on Sunday night.
The project continues a long run of visual releases from Eilish, who previously helmed her 2021 Disney+ concert special Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles and starred in the 2021 documentary Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry. Her shift into co-directing a 3D theatrical release marks her most ambitious visual project to date.
Eilish, a two-time Oscar winner, nine-time Grammy winner and one of streaming’s most dominant global artists, remains a fixture across Billboard charts. As of this week, she places multiple tracks from Hit Me Hard and Soft on the Billboard Hot 100 and continues her multiyear streak on the Billboard Artist 100.
Paramount will announce international rollout details, premium formats and theater lists closer to release. Promotional materials — including trailer and key art — are expected to follow in early 2026.
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Universal Pictures’ two-part Wicked gamble continues to defy gravity at the box office. Just a year after part one brought droves of audiences to movie theaters around the country, even more people bought opening weekend tickets to see the epic conclusion, Wicked: For Good. According to studio estimates on Sunday, Wicked: For Good earned $150 million from North American theaters in its first days in theaters and $226 million globally.
Not only is it the biggest opening ever for a Broadway musical adaptation, unseating the record set by the first film’s $112 million launch, it’s also the second biggest debut of the year behind A Minecraft Movie’s $162 million.
“The results are just fantastic,” said Jim Orr, who heads domestic distribution for Universal. “Some films can deliver a false positive when tickets go on sale early but these results speak for themselves.”
Universal began rolling out Wicked: For Good in theaters earlier this week, with previews on Monday ($6.1 million from 1,050 theaters) and Wednesday ($6.5 million from 2,300 theaters). By Friday it was playing in 4,115 North American locations and had raked in $68.6 million. IMAX showings accounted for $15.5 million, or 11%, of its domestic haul — a November record for the company.
IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond said in a statement that the strong market share shows “our momentum carries into demos and genres beyond our traditional core, including families.”As with the first film, women powered opening weekend, making up around 71% of ticket buyers according to PostTrak exit polls. Critics were somewhat mixed on the final chapter, but audiences weren’t: An overwhelming 83% of audiences said it was one they would “definitely recommend” to friends. As far as foot traffic is concerned, the box office tracker EntTelligence estimates that about 2 million more people came out for Wicked: For Good’s first weekend than for Wicked’s.
Jon M. Chu directed both Wicked films, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. The first film made over $758.7 million worldwide and received 10 Oscar nominations (winning two, for costume and production design). The question is how high Wicked: For Good can soar. Combined, the two films cost around $300 million to produce, not including marketing and promotion costs.
“The first film paved the way,” Orr said. “It’s really become a cultural event I think audiences are going to be flocking to theaters for quite some time to come.”
Two other films also opened in wide release this weekend, but further down on the charts behind a buffet of holdovers. Searchlight Pictures opened its Brendan Fraser film Rental Family in 1,925 theaters where it earned $3.3 million. The Finnish action film Sisu: Road to Revenge, a Sony release, also played in 2,222 theaters. It earned an estimated $2.6 million.
Second place went to Now You See Me: Now You Don’t with $9.1 million in its second weekend, followed by Predator: Badlands with $6.3 million in weekend three. The Running Man followed in fourth place with $5.8 million, down 65% from its debut last weekend.
Although this weekend the box office was more of a winner takes all scenario, Wicked: For Good’s success is vitally important for the exhibition industry as a whole as it enters the final weeks of the year.
“It sets up a very strong final homestretch of the year,” said Paul Dergarabedian, Comscore’s head of marketplace trends.
After the slow fall season, the Thanksgiving blockbusters could not arrive soon enough. Early next week, Zootopia 2 enters the mix and is also expected to drive big crowds to the cineplex over the holiday break.
Thanksgiving is often one of the biggest moviegoing frames of the year, Dergarabedian said, and both Wicked 2 and Zootopia 2 will benefit. Last year Wicked, Moana 2 and Gladiator II helped power a record five-day frame.
The running domestic box office is currently hovering around $7.5 billion, according to Comscore. Before the pandemic, the annual box office would regularly hit $11 billion, but the post-pandemic goal has lessened to $9 billion. The big question now is whether titles like Wicked: For Good, Zootopia 2 and Avatar: Fire and Ash can push the industry over that threshold.
Top 10 movies by domestic box office
With final domestic figures being released Monday, this list factors in the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore:
1. Wicked: For Good, $150 million2. Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, $9.1 million3. Predator: Badlands, $6.3 million4. The Running Man, $5.8 million5. Rental Family, $3.3 million6. Sisu: Road to Revenge, $2.6 million7. Regretting You, $1.5 million8. Nuremberg, $1.2 million9. Black Phone 2, $1 million10. Sarah’s Oil, $711,542
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Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are saying goodbye to Wicked, but they’ll always be changed for good by the franchise.
On Friday (Nov. 21) — the day Wicked: For Good finally hit theaters worldwide — both leading ladies shared emotional posts marking the end of an era. On Instagram, Erivo began by sharing a carousel of photos of herself in her green Elphaba skin and witch hat on the set of the musical duology.
“I could write you an essay, a poem, Shakespearean prose, to describe what this journey has meant to me, what lessons this time has taught me, bought me,” the Tony winner wrote in her caption. “I could try to give a metric to the love I have felt and experienced. I could give a number to the stories I have heard.”
“The truth is the numbers are too small and the words are not enough,” she continued. “So I’ll simply say this. “Take my hand and walk with me to the end of this road paved with gold and hopefully, the things that I’ve found, might find you too. Thank you for letting me be your Elphaba.”
A few hours later, Grande shared her own roundup of photos from the Wicked set — complete with many pink items of clothing — and gushed about her love for her character in the project. “thank you, my sweet Glinda, for everything,” she wrote. “i will love you always … Wicked For Good is out now.”
It’s certainly an emotional day for both actresses and Wicked fans all over the world. The cast and crew spent years bringing the Broadway musical to life, with Erivo and the R.E.M. Beauty founder first landing the roles of Elphaba and Glinda, respectively, back in 2021. They’d spend the next two years or so rehearsing and shooting on set in London, wrapping in early 2024.
After finishing the films, the cast would take the world by storm with an almost inescapable press tour for the first Wicked, which premiered in November 2024 and shattered box-office records before winning Oscars for best costume and production design. Though the promo cycle for part two this year was far more lowkey, Erivo and Grande still spent much of the past month traveling all over the world for international Wicked: For Good screenings and red carpets in São Paulo, Paris, London and Singapore.
“We knew immediately that we were stepping into something that was quite special because it already has this beautiful legacy behind it,” Erivo told Seth Meyers on Thursday (Nov. 20) of herself and her castmates.
“i will never forget even a minute of my year(s) with [Glinda],” Grande wrote on Instagram last year. “Or you. or my Cyn. permanently and preferably intertwined.”
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The filming of the two Wicked movies sounds like an exhausting, exhilarating and super-intense adventure. It’s been clear watching the cast stump for the just-released sequel, Wicked: For Good, that the actors and actresses in the film got super close and realized they were a part of something that was a cultural event, as well as a life-changing moment for all of them.
“We knew immediately that we were stepping into something that was quite special because it already has this beautiful legacy behind it,” Cynthia Erivo told Seth Meyers on his late night show on Thursday (Nov. 20). After begging off red carpet interviews earlier this week because of a hoarse throat — with co-star Ariana Grande also offering to stay mute in solidarity — Erivo said the cast and crew knew that the had to do the story “justice” given how beloved the original Broadway production, and the 1995 book it was based on, are to the many fans of the story around the world.
“And it seems like you all genuinely like each other,” Meyers observed. “We do, yeah… no we really like each other,” Erivo said with a wicked, eyes-narrowed look at the camera after Meyers suggested that it might just be good acting, or a combo of that and genuine affection.
Noting that earlier in the week another Wicked: For Good cast member, Jonathan Bailey, told him that he couldn’t stop crying while watching the movie with his niece, Meyers asked how Erivo reacted to seeing part two on the screen. “The first time I watched it… this happens every time — I watched the first movie and I couldn’t see anything. I was really overwhelmed,” Erivo said of last year’s blockbuster first part of the two-part epic movie musical.
“Then I watched it a second time and then I can finally take it in,” she said. “This time around again, I was lie, ‘This is great. I love this.’ But I knew I wasn’t taking it in properly. The second time I saw it, I wept. Like, fell to my knees and wept, couldn’t stop crying.”
Meyers also asked Erivo what it feels like to suddenly be a reliable Halloween meme, posting a series of pics of young girls and women dressed as her green-skinned character Elphaba. He then busted out a much-shared snap of the ultimate tribute: a fan dressed as one of Erivo’s signature long, bedazzled fingernails. Asked if she’d seen the photo, Erivo said it’s been shown to her “100 million times,” and praised the “wonderful person” in the towering costume for their unrelenting commitment to the bit. “I was elated,” she said of her initial reaction to the outfit she said totally nailed it.
Wicked: For Good is in theaters now.
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