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Josh Groban, whose 2007 holiday album Noël topped the Billboard 200 for five consecutive weeks, will headline a festive-season special for CBS, Josh Groban & Friends Go Home for the Holidays, set to air on Dec. 20.
Musical performances include holiday classics, new releases and duets with Groban and his guests, including James Bay, Jennifer Hudson, Tori Kelly and The War And Treaty.
Hosted and executive produced by Groban, the special is said to feature a new format combining compelling stories, music, comedy and a live adoption on stage, celebrating the creation of a new family.
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“I am honored and excited to host a show with friends old and new to celebrate the unity and togetherness of the holidays,” Groban said in a statement. “It’s especially important because it will spread the importance of adoption and will feature the most incredible kids. I can’t wait for everyone to watch with their families, sing along and hopefully make room in their hearts and homes for a child who needs one.”
For the last 25 years, Home for the Holidays has shined a light on the thousands of American children in foster care, and has inspired tens of thousands of adoptions. Josh Groban & Friends Go Home for the Holidays continues its legacy of showcasing the transformative power of adoption and the true meaning of family.
Josh Groban & Friends Go Home for the Holidays is produced by Triage Entertainment and Goldsmith Entertainment. Groban, Karen Mack, Stu Schreiberg, Stephen Kroopnick, Marilyn Seabury and Diarmuid Quinn are the executive producers. Jennifer Perry, Nicole Cadena and Kelly Brock are producers. Michael Simon is director.
The special was filmed in the Bram Goldsmith Theater at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, Calif.
Groban’s previous specials include Josh Groban in Concert (2002) and Josh Groban’s Great Big Radio City Show (2022), both for PBS.
Josh Groban & Friends Go Home for the Holidays is set to air on Dec. 20 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the special airs).
Emmy-winning composer Siddhartha Khosla was elected to the Television Academy’s board of governors, representing the music branch. Khosla will serve a two-year term beginning Jan. 1, 2025. Khosla has received seven Primetime Emmy nominations for his work on two hit series – NBC’s This Is Us andHulu’s Only Murders in the Building. He won his […]
KATSEYE are turning up the girl power. The group’s single “Flame” is featured on the upcoming soundtrack for Netflix’s Jentry Chau vs the Underworld, and was officially released on Thursday (Nov. 14). The song, which will also be the animated series’ theme song, is included in a new teaser for the show, starring and executive […]
Two years after Lady Gaga‘s “Bloody Mary” was resurrected by a runaway TikTok trend surrounding Netflix’s Wednesday, Mother Monster has reportedly joined the Jenna Ortega-led cast.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gaga will appear in the second season of the hit Addams Family-inspired show slated for 2025. Details regarding her role are still unknown, but production is currently under way in Ireland.
Billboard has reached out to reps for Gaga and Netflix for comment.
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Though the cameo will mark the “Rain on Me” singer’s first official step into the Wednesday universe, she’s unofficially been in the show’s orbit since its first season premiered in 2022. When one scene of Ortega — who plays the titular role of Wednesday Addams — dancing to The Cramps’ 1981 single “Goo Goo Muck” went viral, fans began editing the sequence to Gaga’s Born This Way deep cut “Bloody Mary.” The edits sparked a broader trend on TikTok of users re-creating the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star’s choreography, which the Oscar winner herself tried out that December.
The “Bloody Mary” craze also propelled the song into the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time, a full 11 years after it was first release. It bowed at No. 41 in April 2023.
Centered on Wednesday’s experience leaving her famous spooky family behind for boarding school, the first season of Wednesday featured Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Luis Guzmán as Gomez and Fred Armisen as Uncle Lester. Emma Myers played Ortega’s onscreen best friend Enid, while Gwendoline Christie portrayed Nevermore Academy principal Larissa Weems and Christina Ricci — who played Wednesday in 1991’s The Addams Family — starred as Marilyn Thornhill.
Around the time of the “Bloody Mary” resurgence, Ortega addressed the possibility of Gaga joining the cast. “I’m sure Netflix would love that,” Ortega said on the Golden Globes red carpet in January 2023. “If Lady Gaga were to be a part, [she and Wednesday] would have to be two monsters that understand each other.”
This year, Gaga starred alongside Joaquin Phoenix in Joker: Folie à Deux — for which she dropped a companion album, Harlequin, in September — and she previously acted in A Star Is Born, American Horror Story and House of Gucci.
The musician is also currently gearing up to release her seventh studio album in February. Its lead single, “Disease,” dropped in late October, debuting at No. 27 on the Hot 100.
Charli XCX is pulling double duty on Saturday Night Live this weekend as both host and musical guest, which means that 30 Rockefeller Plaza’s Studio 8H is getting a whole lot more Brat. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In a new promo for the upcoming episode, […]
Fans just got their longest tastes yet of two highly anticipated Wicked performances from stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, with the film sharing extended looks at the former’s “Popular” and the latter’s “The Wizard & I” Wednesday (Nov. 13).
Accompanied by a visual lyric display, the “Popular” video finds the pop star as Glinda, frenziedly dressing up the Pinocchio actress’ perplexed Elphaba in pink accessories. “Don’t be offended by my frank analysis/ Think of it as personality dialysis,” she sings on the signature track, originally performed by Kristin Chenoweth on Broadway. “Now that I’ve chosen to become a pal/ A sister and adviser, there’s nobody wiser/ Not when it comes to popular.”
In the “Wizard & I” video, Erivo roams the campus of Shiz University and explores the Ozian outdoors while belting out the hopeful ballad, adding her own custom riffs. (Sorry, Wicked superfans, it looks like you’ll have to wait for the full movie to hear her take on the track’s famous final high note.)
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“When I meet the Wizard/ Once I prove my worth/ And then I meet the Wizard/ What I’ve waited for since, since birth,” she sings, making the Idina Menzel-originated song her own. “He’ll say to me I see who you truly are/ A girl on whom I can rely/ And that’s how we’ll begin/ The Wizard and I.”
The new videos come just nine days ahead of the premiere of Wicked Part 1, which hits theaters Nov. 22. Part 2 will arrive one year later. Leading up to the movie’s theatrical release worldwide, the two stars — and the rest of the Wicked cast — have been traveling to various premieres, most recently greeting fans on the red carpet in Mexico City Monday (Nov. 11).
As sampled in the newly released performance videos, both Grande and Erivo sang live vocals on the set of Wicked. “When we were shooting it, those girls were like, ‘F–k the pre-records,” Chu recalled in a March Vanity Fair interview. “We’re going live.’”
Watch Grande sing “Popular” above, and see Erivo perform “The Wizard and I” below.
Jin of BTS on The Tonight Show? He’ll be there. As announced by host Jimmy Fallon in a video posted to to the show’s social media accounts Tuesday (Nov. 12), the 31-year-old K-pop star is set to make his solo debut on the late-night talk program. In the clip, the Saturday Night Live alum opens […]
When fans of The Voice tuned in to the show on Monday night (Nov. 11) to check out the start of the Knockout rounds, there was one singer who was conspicuously absent. According to EW, host Carson Daly noted at the top of the episode that country singer Tanner Frick had dropped out of the competition after notching a four-chair turn earlier in season 26.
At press time, Frick had not commented on his absence and the show did not provide any additional information about why he left the series. But on Tuesday (Nov. 12), the Manchester, TN native who used to work at the city’s water & sewer department posted another snippet of a new song on Instagram featuring seemingly prescient lyrics.
“These whiskey nights and neon lights they all fade away/ But this lonesome road keeps calling me to stay,” he sings in his gravely country drawl over acoustic guitar. “So I’m back here, I’m on my own/ I can’t seem to leave this life alone/ I guess I’m a lone wolf and a stray/ Ain’t nobody want me anyway.” Frick did not comment on the song or his departure in the post, with the caption to the clip re-iterating the song’s refrain.
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Commenters were confused and had a lot of questions, with one asking “What happened???,” while another added, “Ugh I hate that you left the Voice. I had you as my top #1 artist! So sad to see you go but I hope everything is okay! You have an amazing voice and you have such talent. Keep pushing forward and good luck with your future.” One of his fans lamented that Frick could have “won it all.”
On Nov. 3 Frick seemed to preview his leave-taking in a TikTok video featuring the same song — which he said was titled “Lonesome Road” — while reminding fans to tune in to the show to see him perform.
Frick made a name for himself during the blind auditions round in early October with a cover of Morgan Wallen’s “Thought You Should Know,” which earned him chair turns from all four coaches, with both Snoop Dogg and Reba McEntire bonding instantly with the singer over their shared family roots in Mississippi. “While ya’ll still had your backs turned I was into this!” Snoop reminded fellow judges Michael Bublé and Gwen Stefani about his early adopter status on the country crooner.
Stefani said all the judges were won over when Frick sang with his “full voice,” which allowed his uniqueness to shine through, correctly predicting that the singer would go with country icon McEntire as his coach. Last week, Frick impressed again in a Battle Round duel with Tate Renner on Jelly Roll’s “I Need a Favor.” After he failed to advance in that round, Bublé snagged him for his team, calling the pick-up a “huge win for me” and dubbing the country singer a “piece of the puzzle” that he didn’t have.
EW reported that on Monday’s show Daly told fans at home that Frick, 26, had “left the competition after rehearsals,” with no additional information available at press time on the reason for his departure.
The Voice airs on NBC on Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET before streaming on Peacock the next day.
American Idol alum Triston Harper is living his American dream with wife Paris Reed, who is pregnant with the couple’s first baby together. Hattie M. Sullivan, the mom of the 16-year-old aspiring singer, announced the news in a Facebook post just two days after Harper changed his relationship status on the site to reflect his […]
Season 26 of The Voice is heating up, and on Tuesday night’s (Nov. 12) episode, Gwen Stefani‘s team members Felsmere, Gabrielle Zabosky and Kay Sibal put on three powerful performances during the Knockouts that make the choice of a winner nearly impossible for their coach. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, […]