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New Music Friday is back on HOLA! USA, and we have a round-up of new music from a variety of genres. Listen to music from some of your favorite artists and get to know some rising stars in the industry.Demi Lovato goes back to their pop rock ways in “SUBSTANCE.” Watch the video or a surprise appearance by Paris Hilton. The Cody Critcheloe-directed will have you thinking of all your favorite songs in the 90s and 00s.Lizzo’s new album “Special” is available now.

Rafael Caro Quintero, whose role in the murder and torture of a US anti-narcotics agent in 1985 was profiled in the Netflix drama series Narcos: Mexico, has been captured by a joint law task force.

Manori Ravindran International Editor“Tinder Swindler” production outfit AGC Studios has launched a new division for non-fiction and unscripted content, headed by former Magical Elves executive Joel Zimmer.AGC Unwritten will develop, finance, produce and distribute the company’s burgeoning unscripted slate, with Zimmer serving as president. The intention is for the non-scripted arm to match AGC’s busy operations in the feature film and scripted TV arena.Set up by Stuard Ford in 2018, AGC Studios’ non-fiction titles include the upcoming documentary series “Nobu,” about the famed restauranteur and entrepreneur Nobu Matsuhisa, from documentary director Matt Tyrnauer (“Valentino: The Last Emperor,” “Where’s My Roy Cohn?”).

Boy dad! Brian Austin Green welcomed his fifth son, his first with girlfriend Sharna Burgess, in June 2022, and baby Zane has already stolen their hearts.

Celebrity Gogglebox got in on Pride celebrations on Friday (1 July) with celebrities tuning in to a heartfelt scene from Channel 4 comedy Big Boys. Written by Jack Rooke and starring Dylan Llewellyn and Jon Pointing, the show centres around two "mismatched boys" during their first year of university, and features a particularly poignant coming-out scene.

Big Time Rush member and Mica von Turkovich, his longtime love, are engaged, reports.According to the outlet, Schmidt popped the question on Wednesday at Radio City Music Hall with band members Logan Henderson, Carlos PenaVega and James Maslow all in attendance.The location is a special one for the couple, as it's the place they first met a decade ago at one of Big Time Rush's shows, reports. The pair started dating three years later, in March 2015, according to the outlet.Schmidt shared a pic of himself down on one knee on Instagram, revealing the moment he asked Turkovich to be his wife.«My heart and soul,» he captioned the romantic shot.

Peaky Blinders and Cobra producer Joe Donaldson has set an indie, Magic Hour Television, and signed a first-look deal with All3Media International and All3Media-owned drama house New Pictures. Donaldson will develop a slate, funded by All3 and its international arm, and partner with New Pictures co-founder and CEO Willow Grylls to produce scripted TV.

Naman Ramachandran Joe Donaldson, producer of “Peaky Blinders” and “Cobra,” has launched new production company Magic Hour Television and signed a first look deal with All3Media and New Pictures.Donaldson will develop a slate, funded by All3Media and All3Media International, and partner with New Pictures co-founder and CEO Willow Grylls, to produce new scripted television content. He will also serve as executive producer for New Pictures on the upcoming third series ‘Cobra: Rebellion’ for Sky Max, which is due to start filming later this year.Magic Hour is set up to produce human stories about life in Britain and beyond, tapping into U.K.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterDirector Baz Luhrmann’s musical biopic “Elvis” dazzled at Cannes Film Festival, earning a 12-minute standing ovation. Will audiences respond with the same, sustained enthusiasm?According to early estimates, the Warner Bros. film is aiming to collect $30 million in its domestic box office debut over the weekend.

Jimmie Allen and Lindsay Ell are living it up.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“The Daily Show” is hitting the road for midterms again. This fall, host Trevor Noah will take his Comedy Central late-night series to battleground territory in Atlanta, Ga.While on-the-ground election coverage is nothing new for “The Daily Show,” which has previously moved to Ohio and Florida for midterms, the decision to head to Georgia for the first time is “highlighting key races and broader voting issues,” per the Paramount show.

Firefighters who rushed to a blaze at a Chinese restaurant which sent smoke billowing over the city centre discovered another fire in the same block, it has been revealed. A fire in the kitchen of Lameizi restaurant on Chester Street, off Oxford Road, caused concern in the city after it sent black smoke out of the extraction system into the city centre sky, however, another fire threatened the building just before.

Her final rose! Tia Booth got engaged to Taylor Mock during Bachelor Live on Stage, but she didn’t meet him on TV.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentStudiocanal has acquired a majority stake in Dutch FilmWorks, a leading film production and distribution company operating in Benelux.Launched in 1998, Dutch FilmWorks produces and distributes 25 films each year, and has built up a library of over 900 Dutch and international films, including the popular family franchise “The Claus Family.” The acquisition of Dutch FilmWorks is part of Studiocanal’s aim to consolidate its pipeline of premium European content with international potential.Owned by Vivendi-backed Canal+ Group, Studiocanal already operates in all four major European markets — France, U.K., Germany and Spain — as well as in Australia and New Zealand. The banner also produces more than 200 hours of TV series each year at an international level, either in-house with Studiocanal Original, or through its network of European production labels, including Germany’s Tandem Productions, the U.K.’s RED Production Company, the U.K.’s Urban Myth Films and SunnyMarch TV, Spain’s Bambu Producciones or Scandinavia’s SAM Productions.

Two people have died and six others injured after a van carrying crew from Netflix show The Chosen One was involved in a serious crash in Mexico. Actors Raymundo Garduno Cruz and Juan Francisco Gonzalez Aguilar both died from injuries sustained in the crash in the Baja California Sur peninsula, the Baja California Department of Culture confirmed on Friday.The van is said to have flipped after running of the road in a desert area on Thursday June 16, according to local media.The crew had apparently been working in the nearby Santa Rosalia area at the time of the crash.