Manchester’s highly-anticipated new park has taken another step forward this month. Mayfield Park will be the city centre’s first new park in more than 100 years.
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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorReady to listen to an off-the-cuff tale from Adam McKay as you drift off to dreamland? Of course you are.In the forthcoming podcast “Bedtime Stories With Adam McKay” from Sony Music Entertainment, the filmmaker, writer and comedian will deliver an “immersive and lulling auditory experience” — one that McKay will make up on the spot, the company says. It’s part of Sony Music’s new original podcast slate, announced Wednesday as part of the IAB Podcast Upfronts.Each episode of “Bedtime Stories” will feature McKay delivering an improvised story, based on one word chosen at random by his producer, Harry Nelson.
The series is produced by McKay’s Hyperobject Industries shingle.To be clear, “Bedtime Stories With Adam McKay” is not intended for children. The topics, language and sarcasm in the podcast will be tailored to adult audiences.
“Every episode, I will take one suggestion and I will improvise a story that hopefully you can go to sleep to,” McKay said during Sony Music’s podcast upfront presentation. “We’ll have guests and all kinds of different stories.
Manchester’s highly-anticipated new park has taken another step forward this month. Mayfield Park will be the city centre’s first new park in more than 100 years.
Harry Styles is helping parents get their kids to sleep.
Harry Styles has become the latest big-name star to read a story for CBeebies’ Bedtime Stories – watch the musician read In Every House On Every Street below.Styles follows Dave Grohl, Dolly Parton, Elton John, Tom Hardy and Ed Sheeran in appearing on the children’s TV series.The ‘Harry’s House’ singer and actor read Jess Hitchman’s story In Every House On Every Street (featuring illustrations by Lili la Baleine) for his spot on Bedtime Stories, which aired on CBeebies yesterday (May 23).“Hello, I’m Harry. Welcome to my house,” Styles, dressed in a set of pyjamas, told the viewers.
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is expected to see a high-profile witness called to testify on Wednesday – Kate Moss.MORE: Johnny Depp: Here's what his lawyer really said as he celebrated Amber Heard's Kate Moss commentNumerous reports have stated that the supermodel will appear via video link to speak about her former relationship with Johnny, which lasted from 1994 until 1997. WATCH: Inside Johnny Depp's Family LifeIt comes after Amber referenced Kate while delivering her own testimony – prompting celebrations amongst Johnny's legal team.READ: Lila Moss facts: Everything you need to know about Kate Moss' daughterMORE: Lila and Kate Moss' most stylish momentsAhead of Kate's highly-anticipated courtroom appearance, we take a look back at her romance with Johnny, and where the former couple stand now.
The parents of some of this year’s graduating students might be second-guessing their choices after this Adam Sandler speech.
Dan Humphrey and Blair Waldorf are together again!
Marta Balaga Finland’s Mikko Myllylahti returns to Cannes’ Critics Week with his feature debut as a director “The Woodcutter Story.” His short “Tiger” premiered in the same section in 2018, while “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki,” which he co-wrote with Juho Kuosmanen, won Un Certain Regard back in 2016.“It’s a very strange film,” he tells Variety about his dark fairytale about the ever-optimistic Pepe, whose world – confined to a small, snowbound town – is slowly crumbling around him. Admitting that after “Olli Mäki,” based on a true story of a boxer preparing for his big break in the 1960s, he needed to “get away from reality.” “I was fascinated by old tales and in Finland, they can be quite cruel,” he says.
Harry Styles fans cant wait after the star confirmed he will read a story for CBeebies ’ bedtime broadcast.
A.D. Amorosi Joe Budden’s “Music Lovers Only With Joe Budden,” which launches today on Amazon’s live radio app Amp, is the latest entry to a deep resume that includes the super successful, 100% independent “Joe Budden Podcast.”The New York City native, who retired from the rap game, has become one of the leading voices in hip-hop culture, creating an empire along the way that includes co-hosting “Everyday Struggle” for Complex, and “State of the Culture” for Revolt.But it’s his often-controversial twice-weekly podcast, which launched in 2015 and touches on sports, current events, relationships and, of course, music, that has taken his influence to new heights — and had Amazon calling. “Music Lovers Only With Joe Budden” takes one act of the podcast, his unfiltered take on records old and new, and makes it the focus of a live show that’s scheduled for Mondays at 5 p.m.
Harry Styles has become the latest artist to sign up to read a CBeebies Bedtime Story for the BBC.Later this month (May 23), Styles will read In Every House, On Every Street, a story written by Jess Hitchman and illustrated by Lili la Baleine that is described as “a heartwarming celebration of homes and the different families that live in them”.To introduce the story, Styles said: “Tonight’s bedtime story is about a house full of love and laughter.”The story will air next Monday (May 23) at 6.50pm on the CBeebies channel, and will then be available on iPlayer.Harry Styles.
Charlie Amter Disruptor Records may be known as the home of the Chainsmokers, but ever since New York-based label founder Adam Alpert turned the EDM duo’s success into a joint venture deal with Sony, the imprint is finding its legs outside of the world of electronic music. Most notably, the label has begun growing its own cadre of female singer-songwriters such as Dove Cameron, whose hit “Boyfriend” has lit up international terrestrial radio and streaming sites globally alike this year.Variety caught up with Alpert to talk about his label’s growing influence in the pop world, his philosophy on developing artists, the new Chainsmokers album (out Friday), the future of streaming, Alpert’s JV at Sony Music and more.
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“Charmed,” “Dynasty,” “Roswell, New Mexico” and “In the Dark” have been canceled at The CW, Variety has learned.Both “Roswell, New Mexico” and “In the Dark” have already completed filming on their upcoming seasons, and will conclude after those episodes have aired.Also canceled Thursday by the younger-skewing broadcast network were “Naomi” and “4400.”Based on the original WB/CW series of the same name, “Charmed” was currently airing its fourth season. The reboot starred Melonie Diaz, Sarah Jeffery, Lucy Barrett, Rupert Evans and Jordan Donica.
EastEnders and Strictly Come Dancing star Rose Ayling-Ellis will be the first celebrity to sign a CBeebies Bedtime Story in British Sign Language on Sunday. Rose will be signing the story of a young bear and his dad on their journey into the discovery and management of deafness to mark the end of deaf awareness week.The story that she will be signing will be ‘Can Bears Ski?’ written by Raymond Antrobus and illustrated by Polly Dunbar, a story which draws on the author's own experience to show how isolating it can be for a deaf child in a hearing world.
EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures’ 3000 Pictures has preemptively acquired film rights to I Think My Mother-In-Law Is Trying to Kill Me—a psychological thriller, based on a Reddit short story by Nick Moorefox.
EXCLUSIVE: Writer, director, and award-winning journalist Julian Rubinstein’s highly anticipated anti-gang war documentary, The Holly has tapped Academy Award-winning filmmaker and Hyperobject Industries founder, Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up) and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Todd Schulman (Borat) as executive producers ahead of its world premiere at Telluride’s this Memorial Day weekend.