Apple TV Plus Launches True-Crime Podcast ‘The Line’ Ahead of Docu-Series Premiere

Chris Willman Music WriterWhen debates are had about what year in history represented popular music’s peak, the argument is often made for 1971. Apple TV Plus clearly gives some credence to that belief.

Scottish high street prepares to reopen for non-essential retail on April 26, Boots has announced the launch of three inspirational new beauty halls, with more to come in the summer. Although Boots has remained open as an essential retailer throughout lockdown, it has used this quieter period to invest in stores, giving its beauty halls at Fort Kinnaird and Gyle Shopping Centre in Edinburgh and Silverburn Shopping Centre in Glasgow their very own makeover.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticIn retrospect, the opening of “All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur” tells us everything we need to know about the mentality and calculations that led to the team announcing the hiring and firing of mercurial coach Jose Mourinho, and its part in a proposed European “Super League” that has the entire soccer world in panicked shambles.The Amazon Prime series, released last fall, opens with narrator Tom Hardy gravely intoning the club’s history, which stretches back

Brian McCardie might think he has the right to be questioned by, er, a journalist one rank senior, the editor’s busy, so he’ll need to make do with me, Paul English. The Glasgow-born actor’s work was the subject of heated debate around the country last week, as Line of Duty fans try to work out if his character, organised crime boss Tommy Hunter, is connected to Kelly Macdonald’s Jo Davidson in the smash series.

Jasper Polish (Force of Nature), Darren Mann (Fortunate Son), Kevin Csolak (Boardwalk Empire) and Stevie Lynn Jones (Nancy Drew) will join the Animal Kingdom cast in recurring roles for the TNT drama’s sixth and final season.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAmazon Prime Video is pushing out a podcast series about the making of “The Boys” Season 2, taking listeners behind the scenes of the superhero spoof — including what went into creating that life-size whale.The eight-episode podcast, aimed at both fans and Emmy voters, will be available for free on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other podcast platforms.

EXCLUSIVE: John Stamos is to explore the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. in a new true crime podcast for Wondery.

After three days of playback, the April 7 series debut of ABC’s new comedy series Home Economics rose to a 0.8 adults 18-49 rating and 4.1 million total viewers (from 0.5 rating and 3 million viewers in Live+Same Day.) That is even in the demo and up 3% in viewers from the show’s lead-in, veteran The Goldbergs (0.6 in 18-49, 4.0 million in L+3).

FilmRise and FirstLookTV have unveiled plans for Meet, Marry, Murder Hosted by Michelle Trachtenberg, a true-crime docu-series that explores tragic love stories that lead to murder. The 13-episode series will be hosted by the Buffy the Vampire Slayer actress, who also executive produces the series.

Jamie Lang Chile’s BTF Media has unveiled its next project, “El Estallido,” a six-part docu-series telling the story of young psychology student Gustavo Villaroel, who lost both of his eyes after being shot twice with rubber bullets by the Chilean police while participating in the social uprising in Santiago in October 2019.

Demi Lovato is reflecting on her new docuseries, Dancing with the Devil.

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Anderson, star of long-running ABC comedy Black-ish, is getting into the podcast game.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDiscovery Plus, the cable programmer’s nonfiction subscription streaming service, is now available on Comcast’s Xfinity Flex set-top for broadband-only customers.Over the next few weeks, Discovery Plus will roll out to Comcast’s Xfinity X1 platform as well, providing access to the streaming service’s programming alongside live and on-demand content they get as part of their TV subscription.In addition, Comcast is launching Discovery’s direct-to-consumer services

Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years sneak peek episode, and the series premiere of comedy Chad have both gotten off to a solid ratings start for their respective networks, Nickelodeon and TBS.

AppleTV+ has launched a non-fiction podcast series about a controversial war crimes story ahead of the premiere of a doc series.

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Players prevailed in an auction for Quinceanerx, an original pitch for a musical that Kevin Lima (A Goofy Movie, Tarzan and Enchanted) will direct with script by Alvaro Garcia Lecuona, who is writing What If for Billy Porter to direct at Orion.

Chrissy Teigen joined her favorite podcasters Gillian Pensavalle and Patrick Hinds on their true crime comedy podcast True Crime Obsessed. Teigen is an avid true crime lover and fell in love with the show during quarantine.

John Legend donned a traditional Easter Bunny costume to surprise his little girl, Luna, and the pair shared a cute daddy-daughter dance.In an video Legend posted to Instagram on Saturday, the EGOT-winner is decked out in a head-to-toe bunny outfit, and is spinning around with his 4-year-old girl in a back-patio deck.As the pair dance to Estelle's «American Boy» (which, fun fact, Legend helped create, write and produce), Luna steps up with both feet onto Legend's legs and he twirls her around

Deadline has confirmed that a new Transformers feature is in the works at Paramount though this new project is said to be separate from its main Transformer franchise, which includes the five installments directed by Michael Bay as well as the Bumblebee spin-off.