Amazon Snags Exclusive Rights to NFL Playoff Game for 2024-25 Season

The best fish and chips takeaways and restaurants in the UK have been crowned at a prestigious award ceremony, and a number of Scottish chippies were recognised.

The Roots have announced the acts for this year’s edition of their annual Roots Picnic festival in Philadelphia.The two-day music festival will return to its usual home of The Mann in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, PA on June 1-2. Lil Wayne with The Roots, Jill Scott and Nas are set to headline the festival with André 3000 performing a special set in support of his recently released debut solo LP ‘New Blue Sun’.Other acts set to play include Gunna, Victoria Monét, Sexyy Red, Babyface, Wale, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Cam’ron, Funk Flex, and more.A post shared by The Roots (@theroots)The festival will also see various collaborations take place such as The Roots’ Black Thought performinf with Method Man and Redman, Fantasia and Muni Long teaming up with Adam Blackstone and Scarface and Amerie set to play with the Backyard Band.General ticket sale will commence on Friday, February 23 at 10am local time.

Overall TV use in January hit a 4-year high (not counting the early pandemic months of 2020), Nielsen said, as new originals and an NFL playoff game helped streaming set a single-day record.

Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign have been announced as headliners for Rolling Loud California 2024.The two rappers will take to the stage for a special, bill-topping ‘Vultures’ set at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California on Thursday, March 14.As Rolling Stone reports, Ty was initially scheduled to perform in a solo slot at the event on the Saturday night (March 16). Organisers of Rolling Loud California said on social media that single-day ticketholders would receive an email with a link to upgrade.

BRIT Awards has announced more live performers for this year’s ceremony – find all the details below.The 2024 edition of the awards is due to take place at The O2 in London on Saturday, March 2. It’ll be presented by a trio of hosts – Maya Jama, Clara Amfo and Roman Kemp – and will be available to watch on ITV1 and ITVX.So far, it has been confirmed that Dua Lipa, Raye and Kylie Minogue (this year’s BRITs Global Icon) will all take to the stage to perform on the night.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Before marketers can start putting their commercials into Netflix programs for the year to come, they’ll have to step into those programs themselves. Netflix plans to host an interactive “Netflix Experience” for advertising clients and buyers, all via an event to be held throughout Thursday, May 16, at New York’s Pier 59 Studios. Those who choose to participate will traverse through rooms and experiences built around Netflix series like “Stranger Things” or the comedy offerings of “Netflix is a Joke.” The company also plans to hold what it calls “an intimate first-look presentation” with its executives on Mary 15 in the afternoon.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor At the 2024 Super Bowl, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Usher soaked up the limelight as the Kansas City Chiefs became back-to-back champions with their overtime defeat of the San Francisco 49ers. And of course, the Super Bowl was again a venue for dozens of advertisers — who spent up to $7 million for a 30-second spot in CBS’s telecast — to try to break through on the noisiest night on TV.

The top players in the NFL make more money than most people can ever imagine making in a lifetime and the list of the top-paid players of the year has been revealed.

Amazon’s Prime Video, which is coming off a sizable ratings uptick for Thursday Night Football in the second year of its exclusive rights deal, will be the only place for viewers to watch an NFL playoff game next January.

trinity, it's mascara, concealer, and lip balm. If a celebrity, model, or friend is going off-duty, these are the three items that (nine times out of 10), they'll say they can't go without.In fact, the makeup trinity has become the official face wardrobe of “clean girls” everywhere, perhaps with blush thrown in as an honorable addition.

The 2024 SXSW Film Festival is just a month away and today 50 new films and television programs were added to its slate. This is after the festival already revealed that highly anticipated projects such as “The Fall Guy” with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, “Road House” with Jake Gyllenhaal, “Inside of You” with Anne Hathaway, and Netflix’s “3 Body Problem,” among others.

The Last Dinner Party have announced a UK and Ireland tour for 2024 – check out the details below.The British baroque-pop group will be playing 16 dates this autumn, including their biggest headline show to date at London’s Eventim Apollo in October.The tour will kick off at O2 City Hall in Newcastle on September 23, followed by dates in Leeds, Norwich, Birmingham, Dublin and more, before they wrap up in London on October 16.The tour will follow the band’s lengthy run of European and North American dates this year in support of debut album ‘Prelude To Ecstasy’ (out February 2).Fans can pre-order the album before 5pm GMT next Tuesday (February 6) to access a pre-sale code for the tour. Pre-sale tickets will be live from 8am GMT on Wednesday (February 7), before general sale at 8am on Friday (February 9).

bungled its NFL-themed cold open after proclaiming that football is the “only thing everyone still watches.”Saturday’s start to the long-running sketch show featured cast member Andrew Dismukes as former Dallas Cowboys quarterback-turned-commentator Tony Romo and James Austin Johnson as broadcaster Jim Nantz. “Hello everyone, and welcome to the AFC championship between the Baltimore Ravens and the Kansas City Chiefs,” Johnson, 34, says as Nantz.

“Without football, what are we going to talk about?” asked the NFL Today’s Nate Burleson in the pro-football thick cold open to Saturday Night Live. “I mean, does anyone have anything remotely insightful to say?” the Devon Walker-portrayed satirical version of the former Detroit Lion added.

Kate Middleton's uncle Gary Goldsmith has reportedly signed up for Celebrity Big Brother, and has vowed to "talk about everything and anything" on the reality show. Gary, 58, is the younger brother of Carole Middleton - the Princess of Wales' mum. He served as an usher at Carole's wedding to husband Michael, 74, in 1980 and he also attended Kate's wedding to Prince William, 41, in 2011 as a guest.

U2 will give a special performance and present an award at next week’s Grammys, live from the Sphere in Las Vegas.It will be the first ever official broadcast from the state-of-the-art venue, which has been hosting the ‘U2:UV Achtung Baby’ show since the end of September, and is due to wrap on March 2.The Grammys are taking place on February 4 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, and will be hosted by Trevor Noah. The nominees were announced in November, with SZA picking up the most nominations with nine.

Young Royals is returning for a third and final season on Netflix!

Ukraine is not happy with HBO for hiring Serbian actor Miloš Biković for season three of The White Lotus.

Manchester United played a behind-closed-doors match this week as they prepare to resume their season in the FA Cup on Sunday.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor NBCUniversal‘s Peacock deal to exclusively stream the NFL‘s AFC Wild Card matchup between the Kansas City Chief and the Miami Dolphins delivered an end-zone spiking TD for the streamer, according to new data. NBCU already claimed the Jan. 13 playoff game was the biggest live-streamed event in U.S.