Cravats are sexy: New dating show ‘The Courtship’ is real-life ‘Bridgerton’

SPOILER ALERT: The following story reveals major plot points from Season 2 of Netflix’s Bridgerton.

Made in Chelsea star Zara McDermott lands her first big presenting gig, hosting a new dating show.The 25 year old’s career has rocketed since she left the reality show where she found love with Sam Thompson, and quit Made in Chelsea. Her impressive BBC Three documentaries on sexual violence in schools and revenge porn, where she shared her own experiences, showed another side to the star. She has even got noticed by royalty, earlier this year meeting Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, as she hosted a reception to mark the 50th anniversary of the domestic violence charity Refuge.

The Gilded Age characters and their real-life counterparts, below.Julian Fellowes doesn’t mask the true identity of Donna Murphy's character in The Gilded Age: Mrs. Astor was, indeed, a real person, and the queen bee of New York society. Although other women had the same family name, there was only one who was considered the Mrs.

Keith Richards reunited with his old band the X-Pensive Winos at a show in New York last week – check out the footage below.The Rolling Stones guitarist assembled the group back in 1986 for his performance in the Chuck Berry concert film Hail! Hail! Rock ‘N’ Roll, which came out the following year.They contributed to Richards’ debut solo album ‘Talk Is Cheap’ (1988) and its follow-up ‘Main Offender’ (1992), as well as touring with the musician. The X-Pensive Winos also appear on his 2015 third LP, ‘Crosseyed Heart’, and played one live show that year.The original X-Pensive Winos line-up consisted of guitarist Waddy Wachtel, keyboardist Ivan Neville, bassist Charlie Drayton, saxophonist Bobby Keys and drummer Steve Jordan – the latter of whom is now a permanent touring member of The Rolling Stones’ following the death of Charlie Watts last summer.As Stereogum reports, Richards and the X-Pensive Winos played a three-track set together at the Love Rocks benefit show at NYC’s Beacon Theatre last Thursday (March 10).

an unfinished Jane Austen novel of the same name, “Sanditon,” is set in the early 1800s England. Season 1 follows Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams), who travels to the seaside resort of Sanditon. There, she meets a slew of colorful characters including her surly love interest Sidney Parker (Theo James), his entrepreneur brother Tom (Kris Marshall), West Indian heiress and Jane Austen’s first black heroine, Georgiana Lambe (Crystal Clarke) and sassy Lady Denham (Anne Reid).

Searchlight Pictures on Friday dated three movies that will stream exclusively this summer as Hulu Originals: Andrew Ahn’s rom-com Fire Island, the Emma Thompson-starring Sundance pic Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, and Quinn Shephard’s Not Okay starring Zoey Deutch. All three had already been targeted to bow on the streamer.

LCD Soundsystem have added two new dates to their upcoming Brixton Academy residency. Tickets are available here.The residency is being held to celebrate the “platinum” 20th anniversary of the first time they performed live in London in 2002 at Arthur Baker’s ‘Return To New York’ and Erol Alkan‘s ‘Trash’ parties.The O2 Academy Brixton run will now take place from June 27-29 and then July 1-3, with the extra dates being June 27-28. The dates are the band’s first UK shows in over four years and tickets are available here.Last month the group announced that they will play four nights in a row at Philadelphia’s Franklin Music Hall from March 28-31, and four nights at Boston’s Roadrunner from April 3-6.We’ve added two more dates in London.

Kim Kardashian’s relationship with Pete Davidson will be a topic of conversation on the reality star’s upcoming Hulu show, Kardashians. However, Pete will not be appearing on the show himself (at least not yet). “I have not filmed with him,” Kim told Variety. “And I’m not opposed to it. It’s just not what he does. But if there was an event happening and he was there, he wouldn’t tell the cameras to get away. I think I might film something really exciting coming, but it wouldn’t be for this season.”

It's been exactly one year since Piers Morgan stormed off ITV's Good Morning Britain and quit the show following a row over Meghan Markle. Within that time, he's become a columnist for The Sun and New York Post, he's come out with a new book, and he's joined forces with his former boss Rupert Murdoch at News UK for his own global show.

Mandy Moore is back in the music game!

A comedy of manners. The Courtship might seem similar to plenty of other reality dating shows, but there’s one major twist: it’s set in Regency England.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentModern dating is tough. With endless swiping, unanswered DMs and app fatigue, everyone can relate to the trials and tribulations of finding your match in 2022.

The Courtship, NBC’s bonkers and highly enjoyable new dating show in which 16 men move into a castle, cosplay as characters, and try to date a software engineer?Was it when the heroine–Nicole Remy, 26, NFL-cheerleader turned programer–arrived at her castle in a horse-drawn carriage as a string quartet played “Don’t Stop Believin”? Was it the moment when a suitor looked around —the same estate where filmed the home of Simon, Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page)—and muttered, “Where can I get a corndog around here?” Was it when Remy, trying to describe a suitor with extravagantly styled eyebrows, used the one phrase that would have improved Jane Austen’s great prose? (“He’s kind of…a lot.”)This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Let me be clear: Nothing makes me feel more insane than when women are nostalgic for the courtship traditions of the past, particularly in the period when Bridgerton and Austen’s novels are set. “Modern dating is not working for me," Remy explains, articulating I have heard from thousands of women in person and online.

Hulu has debuted the first photos from the upcoming movie Fire Island, a new rom-com written by and starring Joel Kim Booster.

Jennifer Hudson, 40, is getting the talk show treatment. News broke on Wednesday, March 2 that The Jennifer Hudson Show will premiere in Fall 2022 on Fox Television Stations following the end of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Jennifer’s daytime show will be one-hour long, according to Variety, and will come from Warner Bros. Unscripted Television and Ellen production company Telepictures. The test show was reportedly shot in November 2021 with Ellen executive producers Andy Lassner and Mary Connelly as showrunners.

Mary J. Blige is expanding her empire.

A blast from the past. NBC’s The Courtship takes the typical dating show with many competitors fighting for the heart of one person and throws in back to Regency-era England — and Us Weekly has an exclusive first look.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterMary J. Blige’s iconic ’90s song “Real Love” is being turned into a Lifetime movie, with the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul executive producing the made-for-TV film.One of her most beloved and memorable tracks, “Real Love” was Blige’s first song to hit the Top 10 and was certified gold two months after its release in 1992.Per Lifetime, in the coming-of-age romantic drama “Real Love,” Kendra sets off on her own for the first time to a college in upstate New York, determined to focus on her studies.