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Bob Newhart, the beloved stand-up performer whose droll, deadpan humor showcased on two critically acclaimed CBS sitcoms vaulted him into the ranks of history’s greatest comedians, died Thursday morning. He was 94.
The Chicago legend, who won Grammy Awards for album of the year and best new artist for his 1960 breakthrough record The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, died at his Los Angeles home after a series of short illnesses, his longtime publicist, Jerry Digney, announced.
The former accountant famously went without an Emmy Award until 2013, when he finally was given one for guest-starring as Arthur Jeffries (alias Professor Proton, former host of a children’s science show) on CBS’ The Big Bang Theory.
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In 1972, MTM Enterprises cast the modest comic as clinical psychologist Bob Hartley, who practiced in the real-life Newhart’s favorite burg, Chicago. The Bob Newhart Show would become one of the most popular sitcoms of all time, featuring a wonderful cast of supporting players: Suzanne Pleshette, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace, Bill Daily and Jack Riley among them.
Newhart ended the series in 1978 after 142 episodes — and, incredibly, no Emmy nominations for him and no wins for the show — feeling it had exhausted its bag of tricks. But he was back on CBS in 1982 to front another MTM comedy.
In Newhart, he portrayed Dick Loudon, a New York author turned proprietor of the Stratford Inn in Vermont. The show was a mainstay for eight seasons, and this one also featured a great cast (Mary Frann, Tom Poston — who later would marry Pleshette — Julia Duffy, Peter Scolari and, as handymen “Larry, Darryl and their other brother Darryl,” William Sanderson, Tony Papenfuss and John Voldstad).
In one of the most admired series endings in history, Newhart wrapped its eight-season run with a cheeky final scene in which Loudon wakes up in the middle of the night as Bob Hartley in bed with Pleshette in their Chicago apartment, suggesting that his whole second series had been a dream.
Newhart’s pauses and stammering were among his trademarks, and his wry observations were a result of his observant nature.
“I tend to find humor in the macabre. I would say 85 percent of me is what you see on the show. And the other 15 percent is a very sick man with a very deranged mind,” he said during a 1990 interview with Los Angeles magazine.
He was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame in 1992.
George Robert Newhart was born on Sept. 5, 1929, in Oak Park, Illinois. He grew up a Cubs fan and participated in the team’s victory parade down La Salle Street after Chicago took the National League pennant in 1945. (He was, quite naturally, thrilled when the Cubs ended their 108-year World Series drought by winning in 2016.)
Newhart never dreamed of being in show business; in fact, such a gaudy profession ran against the Midwestern grain of his personality and perhaps was why he would connect with Middle America.
After attending St. Ignatius College Prep and then earning a degree in commerce from Loyola University, Newhart spent two years in the Army and then flunked out of law school. He then worked as an accountant with U.S. Gypsum and then the Glidden Co., which sold paint.
“Somehow there’s a connection between numbers and music and comedy. I don’t know what it is, but I know it’s there,” he once said in an interview with a college business professor. “I know it’s a case of 2 and 2 equals 5 in terms of a comedian. You take this fact and you take that fact and then you come up with this ludicrous fact.”
To combat the tedium at work, Newhart and a friend would amuse themselves by making prank phone calls. He refined those into what was then his signature comic bit: having a one-sided phone conversation (the audience got to imagine what the other side of the chat was like).
He and his pal also sold a syndicated radio show in which they did five-minute comedy routines five days a week for $7.50 a week.
In 1959, another friend who was a disc jockey in Chicago introduced Newhart to a Warner Bros. Records executive. The accountant, now a copywriter, had just three routines at the time but came up with more material and landed a contract with the record company.
“Keep in mind, when I started in the late fifties, I didn’t say to myself, ‘Oh, here’s a great void to fill — I’ll be a balding ex-accountant who specializes in low-key humor,’ ” he said. “That’s simply what I was and that’s the direction my mind always went in, so it was natural for me to be that way.”
The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, recorded live at a nightclub in Houston, became the first comedy album to reach the top of the album charts, selling 1.5 million copies as one of the biggest-selling “talk” albums. The bits included such classics as “Abe Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue” and “Driving Instructor.”
Coming at a time when controversial, harder-edge comedians like Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl were taking hold, The Button-Down Mind also earned Newhart a third Grammy for best comedy performance. Suddenly, he was getting booked on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Following two more successful albums, Newhart was offered a weekly TV variety series for the 1961-62 season. The first The Bob Newhart Show won an Emmy for the year’s outstanding program achievement in the field of humor as well as a Peabody Award.
Newhart, however, soon found himself exhausted. “I took all the responsibility for the program seven days a week, 24 hours a day, despite a fine production team,” he once said.
He was offered a spate of sitcoms but turned them down, returning to nightclubs and sharpening his acting skills with TV guest spots and film work, beginning with Don Siegel’s Hell Is for Heroes (1962), starring Steve McQueen, and then in other movies like Hot Millions (1968), Mike Nichols’ Catch-22 (1970) and Norman Lear‘s Cold Turkey (1971).
Newhart Show co-creators Dave Davis and Lorenzo Music had wanted to work with the comic for some time.
“Lorenzo and I wrote a segment for Bob on Love American Style. Bob wasn’t available. So, we got Sid Caesar. A few years later, we did a script for Bob for The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Again, Bob wasn’t available,” Davis told THR in an oral history of the sitcom. “After we became story editors on Mary’s show, MTM Enterprises decided to branch out and asked Lorenzo and me to do a pilot. We knew exactly what we wanted to do. We wanted a show with Bob.”
Said Newhart: “Arthur Price [co-founder of MTM] was my manager. He asked me if I was interested. For 12 years I’d been on the road doing stand-up, mostly one-night shows where the next day you’re off somewhere 5,300 miles away. I wanted a normal life where I could be home with my family.
“I didn’t have a lot of demands. I just didn’t want the show to be where dad’s a dolt that everyone loves, who gets himself into a pickle and then the wife and kids huddle together to get him out of it.”
In 1992, he embarked on another new series, Bob, playing a cult comic book artist, but it never found an audience. Neither did George & Leo, in which he played a bookstore owner opposite Judd Hirsch.
Newhart appeared on NBC’s ER for three episodes, playing a doctor who is developing macular degeneration (that earned him another Emmy nom), and played Morty Flickman, the husband of Lesley Ann Warren’s character, on ABC’s Desperate Housewives.
More recently, Newhart portrayed Judson on a trio of The Librarians telefilms and then a series for TNT.
Newhart also co-starred in Little Miss Marker (1980); as the president in Buck Henry‘s First Family (1980), with Gilda Radner as his frisky daughter; as Papa Elf in Will Ferrell‘s Elf (2003); and in Horrible Bosses (2011). He brought his flat Midwestern cadence to voice work on two Rescuers films.
Chicago honored Newhart with a statue on Michigan Avenue, near the office building seen in the opening credits of The Bob Newhart Show, with his likeness in a chair and an empty psychiatrist’s couch at his side. It was later moved to the Navy Pier.
In 2002, he became the fifth recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and four years later published his memoirs, I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This.
Newhart was married to Virginia “Ginny” Quinn (the daughter of character actor Bill Quinn) from January 1963 until her death in April 2023 at age 82. They were set up on a blind date by comedian Buddy Hackett (Ginnie was baby-sitting Hackett’s kids).
“Buddy came back one day and said in his own inimitable way, ‘I met this young guy and his name is Bobby Newhart, and he’s a comic and he’s Catholic and you’re Catholic and I think maybe you should marry each other,’ ” she recalled in a 2013 interview.
She was the one who came up the idea for the brilliant ending of the Newhart show during a Christmas party that Pleshette happened to also be attending.
The Newharts were great friends with Don Rickles and his wife, Barbara, and the couples often vacationed together.
Survivors include his children, Robert Jr., Timothy, Courtney and Jennifer, and 10 grandchildren.
This article was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.
Over the past few years, through songs such as “Son of a Sinner,” “Need a Favor” and his latest “I Am Not Okay,” Jelly Roll has served as a chronicler and salvo for many who have faced a number of afflictions, be it depression, addiction, anxiety, broken hearts or shattered dreams. His latest, the hard-charging “Dead End Road,” serves as the most recent release from the 29-track Twisters: The Album soundtrack.
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“I’m just a blood-stained, folded hands/ Throwin’ back the milligrams,” he sings in “Dead End Road,” acknowledging the incessant tug to live life on the edge, regardless of the consequences. Jelly Roll (real name Jason DeFord) wrote “Dead End Road” with Jaxson Free, Taylor Phillips and Brock Berryhill.
Jelly Roll’s newly released contribution to the Twisters: The Album soundtrack follows a steady slate of songs from the country-music-packed soundtrack. Luke Combs launched it earlier this year with the song “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma,” while artists including Bailey Zimmerman, Miranda Lambert, Conner Smith and Megan Moroney are also featured on the set.
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Twisters, which releases July 19, connects to the ’90s hit movie and centers on a retired tornado chaser/meteorologist who returns to following tornadoes across Oklahoma. The film stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell and Anthony Ramos.
The release of Jelly Roll’s song just before the movie’s release is appropriate, given that the Tennessee native’s ascendance to a top-tier act shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. He’s notched four No. 1 Billboard Country Airplay hits, and he’s expanded his 2024 headlining Beautifully Broken Tour, which runs through November and features an array of openers, including Warren Zeiders, Billboard Hot 100-topping artist Shaboozey, Ernest, Alexandra Kay and Allie Colleen. Earlier this year, Jelly Roll also celebrated a Grammy nomination for best new artist, as well as a Grammy nod for best country duo/group performance for “Save Me” with Lainey Wilson.
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Selena Gomez finally has a Primetime Emmy nomination in an acting category, and it couldn’t be sweeter. That’s why the 31-year-old star is celebrating the news with a cake, writing on Instagram Stories Wednesday (July 17) that she couldn’t be more thankful for the recognition. After receiving word that she’d received a nod for outstanding […]
In the nominations for the 76th annual Emmy Awards, which were announced on Wednesday (July 17), Rickey Minor has two of the five nods for outstanding music direction. Minor is nominated for his work on The Oscars and The 46th Kennedy Center Honors. He has won twice in the category, for his work on Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America (2017) and The Kennedy Center Honors (2020).
The other nominees in the category this year include the 2023 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, which had three music directors – Adam Blackstone, Don Was and Omar Edwards. Like Minor, Blackstone and Was are past winners in this category.
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Two-time Oscar winner Hans Zimmer has three nominations across the seven music categories in the Primetime Emmy nods. He’s up for two awards (alongside Kara Talve) for his work on The Tattoist of Auschwitz and for a third for his work on Planet Earth III.
Others with two nods in music categories, besides Minor and Talve, include Marc Shaiman, Saturday Night Live’s Eli Brueggemann and the team of Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross and Nick Chuba.
Maya Rudolph, who is nominated for outstanding music and lyrics for co-writing “Maya Rudolph Mother’s Day Monologue” for her hosting turn on Saturday Night Live, has three other nominations this year in non-music categories. She is nominated in performance categories for SNL and Loot and character voiceover for Big Mouth.
Final-round online voting begins Aug. 15. The 76th Emmy Awards will broadcast live on ABC on Sunday, Sept. 15, from 8 to 11 p.m. ET/5 to 8 p.m. PT, from the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live, and stream the next day on Hulu. The 76th Creative Arts Emmy Awards take place at the Peacock Theater over two nights on Saturday, Sept. 7, and Sunday, Sept. 8, with an edited presentation to air on Saturday, Sept. 14, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on FXX.
Emmy Award winners Jesse Collins and Dionne Harmon along with Emmy-nominated Jeannae Rouzan-Clay of Jesse Collins Entertainment are set to return as executive producers of the 76th Emmy Awards.
Outstanding music direction
The 46th Kennedy Center Honors • CBS • Done + Dusted in association with ROK Productions; Rickey Minor, Music Director
Late Night With Seth Meyers • Episode 1488 • NBC • Universal Television and Broadway Video; Fred Armisen, Eli Janney, Music Directors
The Oscars • ABC • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Rickey Minor, Music Director
2023 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony • ABC • Tenth Planet Productions; Adam Blackstone, Don Was, Omar Edwards, Music Directors
Saturday Night Live • Host: Ryan Gosling • NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Television and Broadway Video; Lenny Pickett, Leon Pendarvis, Eli Brueggemann, Music Directors
Outstanding original music and lyrics
Girls5eva • “New York” / Song Title: “The Medium Time” • Netflix • Universal Television for Netflix; Sara Bareilles, Music & Lyrics
Only Murders In The Building • “Sitzprobe” / Song Title: “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” • Hulu • 20th Television; Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, Music & Lyrics
Saturday Night Live • “Host: Maya Rudolph” / Song Title: “Maya Rudolph Mother’s Day Monologue” • NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Television and Broadway Video; Eli Brueggemann, Music; Maya Rudolph, Auguste White, Mike DiCenzo, Jake Nordwind, Lyrics
The Tattooist of Auschwitz • “Episode 6” / Song Title: “Love Will Survive” • Peacock • Synchronicity Films, Peacock, SKY Studios; Kara Talve, Hans Zimmer, Walter Afanasieff, Music; Charlie Midnight, Lyrics
True Detective: Night Country • “Part 5” / Song Title: “No Use” • HBO | Max • HBO in association with Peligrosa, Neon Black, Anonymous Content, Parliament of Owls and Passenger; John Hawkes, Music & Lyrics
Outstanding music composition for a series (original dramatic score)
The Crown • “Sleep, Dearie Sleep” • Netflix • Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix; Martin Phipps, Composer
Mr. & Mrs. Smith • “First Date” • Prime Video • Amazon MGM Studios, Big Indie Pictures; David Fleming, Composer
Only Murders in the Building • “Sitzprobe” • Hulu • 20th Television; Siddhartha Khosla, Composer
Palm Royale • “Maxine Saves a Cat” • Apple TV+ • Apple Studios; Jeff Toyne, Composer
Shōgun • “Servants of Two Masters” • FX • FX Productions; Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross, Nick Chuba, Composers
Silo • “Freedom Day” • Apple TV+ • AMC Studios in association with Apple; Atli Örvarsson, Composer
Slow Horses • “Strange Games” • Apple TV+ • See-Saw Films in association with Apple; Daniel Pemberton, Toydrum, Composers
Outstanding music composition for a limited or anthology series, movie or special (original dramatic score)
All The Light We Cannot See • “Episode 4” • Netflix • 21 Laps Entertainment for Netflix; James Newton Howard, Composer
Fargo • “Blanket” • FX • FX Presents an MGM/FXP Production; Jeff Russo, Composer
Lawmen: Bass Reeves • “Part I” • Paramount+ • MTV Entertainment Studios, 101 Studios, Bosque Ranch Productions and Yoruba Saxon; Chanda Dancy, Composer
Lessons in Chemistry • “Book of Calvin” • Apple TV+ • Apple Studios; Carlos Rafael Rivera, Composer
The Tattooist of Auschwitz • “Episode 1” • Peacock • Synchronicity Films, Peacock, SKY Studios; Kara Talve, Hans Zimmer, Composers
Outstanding music composition for a documentary series or special (original dramatic score)
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life • HBO | Max • HBO Documentary Films and Castle Rock Entertainment; Marc Shaiman, Composer
Beckham • “Seeing Red” • Netflix • A Netflix Documentary Series / A Studio 99 Production in association with Ventureland; Anže Rozman, Camilo Forero, Composers
Jim Henson Idea Man • Disney+ • Imagine Documentaries Productions, Disney Branded Television; David Fleming, Composer
Planet Earth III • “Extremes” • BBC America • A BBC Studios Natural History Unit Production co-produced with BBC America, ZDF and France Télévisions for BBC; Jacob Shea, Sara Barone, Hans Zimmer, Composers
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed • HBO | Max • HBO Documentary Films presents an Altitude Film Entertainment; Production in association with Berlanti/Schechter Films and Dog Star Films; Laura Karpman, Composer
Outstanding original main title theme music
Feud: Capote vs. the Swans • FX • FX Productions, 20th Television; Thomas Newman, Composer
Lessons in Chemistry • Apple TV+ • Apple Studios; Carlos Rafael Rivera, Composer
Masters of the Air • Apple TV+ • Apple Studios with Amblin Television / Playtone; Blake Neely, Composer
Palm Royale • Apple TV+ • Apple Studios; Jeff Toyne, Composer
Shōgun • FX • FX Productions; Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross, Nick Chuba, Composers
Outstanding music supervision
Baby Reindeer • “Episode 4” • Netflix • A Netflix Series / A Clerkenwell Films Production; Catherine Grieves, Music Supervisor
Fallout • “The End” • Prime Video • Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks; Trygge Toven, Music Supervisor
Fargo • “The Tragedy of the Commons” • FX • FX Presents an MGM/FXP Production; Maggie Phillips, Music Supervisor
Mr. & Mrs. Smith • “A Breakup” • Prime Video • Amazon MGM Studios, Big Indie Pictures; Jen Malone, Music Supervisor
Only Murders in the Building • “Grab Your Hankies” • Hulu • 20th Television; Bruce Gilbert, Lauren Marie Mikus, Music Supervisors
True Detective: Night Country • “Part 4” • HBO | Max • HBO in association with Peligrosa, Neon Black, Anonymous Content, Parliament of Owls and Passenger; Susan Jacobs, Music Supervisor
Selena Gomez and Donald Glover both received Primetime Emmy nominations in acting categories on Wednesday (July 17). It’s Gomez’s first acting nomination, Glover’s fifth.
Gomez was nominated for outstanding performance by a lead actress in a comedy series for Only Murders in the Building. She had been passed over for a nod in the category the last two years. Her co-stars, Martin Short and Steve Martin, were nominated in the equivalent category for lead actors for their work on the show – Short for the third year in a row and Martin for the second time in three years.
Glover was nominated for outstanding lead actor in a drama series for Mr. and Mrs. Smith. He received three nods for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series for his previous series, Atlanta. He won in that category in 2017. Glover was nominated for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series in 2018 for hosting Saturday Night Live. The multi-talented artist was also nominated for writing, directing and executive producing Atlanta. He won outstanding directing for a comedy series for that series in 2017, the same year as his acting win. He received a second nod this year for outstanding writing for a drama series for Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
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Gomez also stands to receive a nomination for outstanding comedy series for serving as an executive producer of Only Murders in the Building. (The names of the nominees in series categories haven’t been announced yet.) She was nominated in that category in both of the last two seasons.
Gomez and Glover have both topped the Billboard Hot 100. As Childish Gambino, Glover led the chart for two weeks in May 2018 with “This Is America.” Gomez hit No. 1 in November 2019 with “Lose You to Love Me.”
As Childish Gambino, Glover has amassed five Grammys. Gomez has yet to win a Grammy, but she has received two nominations.
Final-round online voting begins Aug. 15, 2024. The 76th Emmy Awards will broadcast live on ABC on Sunday, Sept. 15, 8-11 p.m. ET/5-8 p.m. PT) from the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live, and stream the next day on Hulu. The 76th Creative Arts Emmy Awards take place at the Peacock Theater over two nights on Saturday, Sept. 7, and Sunday, Sept. 8, with an edited presentation to air on Saturday, Sept. 14, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on FXX.
Emmy Award winners Jesse Collins and Dionne Harmon along with Emmy-nominated Jeannae Rouzan-Clay of Jesse Collins Entertainment are set to return as executive producers of the 76th Emmy Awards.
Cody Johnson offered a sterling performance of the national anthem on Tuesday (July 16), just before the second evening of the MLB’s All-Star game.
Appropriately, the MLB got native Texan Johnson to perform the national anthem for the game, which was held at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, home to the Texas Rangers.
As the cameras centered on Johnson — who was clad in a suit jacket, jeans and a white shirt — he removed his signature cowboy hat before delivering an expertly rendered version of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Johnson was well-prepared for the moment, having spent years on the road, building his fanbase concert by concert and becoming a well-known performer in Texas before breaking through to the mainstream in 2022 with his hit “‘Til You Can’t,” which was named single of the year by the Country Music Association.
Johnson’s performance came one night after fellow country singer-songwriter Ingrid Andress, known for her hit “More Hearts Than Mine,” performed another memorable version of the national anthem at the MLB’s Home Run Derby — a pitchy version that sparked a torrent of criticism from viewers.
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Andress spoke out and owned up to the performance, posting a statement on her social media pages that read, “I’m not gonna bulls–t y’all. I was drunk last night. I’m checking myself into a facility today to get the help I need. That was not me last night. I apologize to the MLB, all the fans, and this country I love so much for that rendition. I’ll let y’all know how rehab is I hear it’s super fun. xo, Ingrid.”
The national anthem is notoriously hard to sing, and Andress is far from the first artist to spark backlash after performing the tune. Musicians including Fergie, Christina Aguilera and Steven Tyler have earned criticism for their performances of the song.
Johnson will return to headline at Globe Life Field later this year, when he brings his Leather Tour to the stadium on Nov. 9.
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Season 2 of UnPrisoned, starring Kerri Washington and Delroy Lindo, premieres Wednesday (July 17) on Hulu.
The series centers around Paige (Washington), a single mother whose life changes after her father gets released from prison and moves in. Lindo plays Paige’s father, Edwin Alexander. In the new season, Paige elicits the help of a “family radical healing coach” (played by John Stamos) to help the family confront and heal old wounds.
UnPrisoned is based off series creator Tracy McMillan’s life story. The cast includes Washington, Lindo, Faly Rakotohavana and Marque Richardson.
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Hulu’s UnPrisoned begins streaming on Wednesday. If you’re a Hulu subscriber, you can navigate to the homepage — or use the search bar — to find and watch the series.
Not subscribed? You can join Hulu and stream for free for 30 days. Hulu’s most popular plan is the standard, ad-supported package at $7.99 a month (or $79.99 a year). Stream thousands of episodes of TV and movies in the Hulu library such as UnPrisoned, Only Murders in the Building, The Kardashians, The Handmaid’s Tale, Shōgun and The Bear and other Hulu originals; along with most new episodes from network TV and cable shows one day after they air.
Hulu’s ad-free plan is $14.99 a month ($139.99 a year). There’s a Hulu bundle with Disney+ and ESPN+ for $13.99 a month, and an option to add channels such as Starz and Max to your Hulu subscription.
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Unlike other streaming platforms, Hulu allows subscribers to create up to six profiles under one account. Subscribers can stream from up to two different screens at once, and from any device, including a smart TV or laptop.
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Summer is in full swing, and this year’s MLB All-Star Game is back in Texas for the first time in a decade. The 2024 MLB All-Star Game will be held at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, on Tuesday (July 16) at 8 p.m. ET.
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If you want to see it in person, you can still buy MLB All-Star Game tickets through sites such as Stub Hub and VividSeats.
(Find the full MLB All-Star event schedule here.)
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Where to Watch and Stream the MLB All-Star Game
The 2024 MLB All-Star Game is happening on Tuesday, July 16, at Globe Life Field. The game starts at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT and airs on Fox.
If you don’t have cable, you have different options when it comes to streaming the MLB All-Star Game. Although cable companies don’t usually offer free trials, you can find them with DIRECTV Stream, Hulu + Live TV and Fubo.
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DIRECTV Stream offers 90+ channels and a free trial for five days. Watch ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and cable channels such as ESPN, CNN, HGTV, Bravo, MTV, BET, Lifetime, Bally Sports, A&E, CMT, CNBC, E!, Food Network, HLN, ID and MSNBC.
You can join Sling TV at a discount of just $20 for the first month and you can chose between the Orange, Blue, or Orange + Blue streaming plans. Sling features over 30 channels ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, FS1, Fx, USA, TLC, Syfy, HLN, QVC and TruTV.
Want to watch network television? Sling offers local channels — ABC, NBC, Fox and NBC — in select regions.
The package includes 32 channels and 50 hours of DVR storage but you can only stream from one device. Sling’s entertainment-based Blue package comes with 42 channels, 50 hours of DVR and three device streams. Combining both plans, the Orange & Blue tier gets you 50 channels and 50 hours of DVR and the ability to stream from up to three devices.
If you don’t want to sign up for a streamer, a simple digital antenna (like this one from Amazon) will get you access to all the major TV networks, including Fox, so you can watch the All-Star Game on TV.
The 2024 All-Star schedule launched earlier in the month with the MLB All-Star Starters Reveal on July 3. Other festivities included the MLB All-Star Selection Show, HBCU Swingman Classic, MLB All-Star Futures Game, All-Star Celebrity Softball Game, MLB Home Run Derby and MLB All-Star Red Carpet Show.
For those who want to watch the All-Star Game internationally, ExpressVPN offers access to multiple channels and streaming platforms.
When The Lion King soundtrack rose to the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart in 1994, it marked not only the first No. 1 for the Walt Disney Records label, but the first soundtrack from a fully animated film ever to top the tally.
The album – with songs written by Elton John and Tim Rice, and its score composed by Hans Zimmer – ascended to the summit on the July 16, 1994-dated Billboard 200 in only its fourth week on the chart. It collected 10 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 and lingered in the weekly top 40 for over a year.
During the course of The Lion King’s run on the Billboard 200, the album spun off hits in John’s “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” (No. 4 peak on the Billboard Hot 100) and “Circle of Life” (No. 18). The former marked John’s highest charting Hot 100 hit unaccompanied by another artist since 1988, when “I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That” reached No. 2.
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The Lion King proved to be so popular that it finished 1994 as the year’s top-selling album in the U.S., according to Luminate, with 4.9 million copies sold that year. The soundtrack’s success ran concurrent with the film’s smash status at the box office. The Lion King closed 1994 as the highest-grossing film at the U.S. and Canada box office, with $295.7 million earned that year.
In March 1995, John and Rice won the Academy Award for best original song for “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” marking the first nomination and win for John, and the second win for Rice. The two were largely competing against themselves, as three of the five nominees were The Lion King songs that they penned – “Circle of Life” and “Hakuna Matata” also made the cut. Zimmer additionally took home his first Oscar, for best original score.
On the April 29, 1995-dated Billboard 200, a few weeks after the Oscars and the film’s release on home video, The Lion King returned to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for its 10th and final week on top, more than seven months after it had last led.
In the years since The Lion King’s release, Walt Disney Records has produced 10 more No. 1 soundtracks on the Billboard 200, including chart-toppers from Pocahontas, High School Musical, Frozen and Encanto.
Brat summer is here to stay — and not even the strongest of national disasters could wipe it out. Twisters castmates Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Anthony Ramos have become some of the latest stars to try out TikTok’s viral dance to Charli XCX‘s “Apple,” posting a video of the choreography that earned a seal […]