Disney Junior Announces New Original Series; Casting of John Stamos, Yvette Nicole Brown

Christian Cooper — the black man and avid bird-watcher at the center of the 2020 “Central Park Karen” fiasco — has scored a TV gig at National Geographic.Cooper, 59, will host a series for the nature channel called “Extraordinary Birder.”The lifelong bird enthusiast will take viewers “into the wild, wonderful and unpredictable world of birds,” according to National Geographic.The channel has yet to announce a release date.“Whether braving stormy seas in Alaska for puffins, trekking into rainforests in Puerto Rico for parrots, or scaling a bridge in Manhattan for a peregrine falcon, he does whatever it takes to learn about these extraordinary feathered creatures and show us the remarkable world in the sky above,” the network said in a statement. Cooper, a Harvard University graduate, has been an avid warbler-watcher since he was 10.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe TV upfronts are usually a dog-and-pony show where networks unveil their new content slates.At YouTube’s Brandcast presentation for brands and agencies, held for the first time during upfronts week, the focus was on the gigantic video platform’s popular creators, its scale across internet TVs — and a new solution for marketers to set limits on ad frequency, addressing one of the most irritating aspects of ad-supported streaming services.“The audiences you most care about are coming to YouTube to watch content,” CEO Susan Wojcicki told attendees at the event, held Tuesday evening at the Imperial Theatre in New York’s Times Square. She cited Nielsen’s estimate that YouTube overall reached 230 million people 18 and older in the U.S.

P1Harmony and American singer-songwriter Pink Sweat$ are set to collaborate on the upcoming single, ‘Gotta Get Back’.Yesterday (May 16), the boyband announced the upcoming digital single on Twitter, and also released the song’s pastel-coloured cover art. According to Korea JoongAng Daily, Pink Sweat$ composed the forthcoming collaboration, while P1Harmony members Intak and Jongseob helped pen lyrics for the track.

Pixar has unveiled the title and plot of its 27th feature film – the one that will follow next month’s hotly awaited Toy Story spin-off, Lightyear – with a classic Pixar trope given a breath of fresh air.The film is titled Elemental, and is currently bound to hit cinemas on June 16, 2023. It’s being directed by Peter Sohn, who’d previously helmed 2015’s The Good Dinosaur (and before it, the short film Partly Cloudy).

Rina Sawayama has announced plans to release a new album and teased the record with a short trailer – you can view it below.Entitled ‘Hold The Girl’ the follow up to her debut, 2020’s ‘SAWAYAMA’, is set to drop on September 2.It comes after she shared a series of banners and leaflets to fans featuring the words “Rina Is Going To Hell” before wiping and updating her Instagram page last week.She also closed her final ‘Dynasty Tour’ show last Friday (13 May) at New York’s Terminal 5 by teasing a new song.Now, she has shared a dramatic trailer which features snippets from her forthcoming record.Hold The GirlThe new albumSeptember 2 2022https://t.co/1r1X9PKSmk pic.twitter.com/nw59Im5ra4— RINA SAWAYAMA (@rinasawayama) May 16, 2022Reviewing her debut, NME awarded the record five stars and said it was a “deeply personal self-portrait that lays waste to genre constraints.”Sawayama, meanwhile, performed as part of the BandLab NME Awards 2022 earlier in March, where she was also awarded the iconic middle finger for Best Live Act Supported By Grolsch.In her acceptance speech, Sawayama spoke of how she posted an ad in the back of NME trying to get some bandmates when she was 15 years old.

William Earl The network upfronts are once again front-and-center for the television industry as major players gather in New York May 16-19 for the springtime ritual of presenting programming plans for the upcoming TV season.The business has changed markedly in the three years since industry insiders last gathered in person at Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall and the like. The pandemic accelerated television’s embrace of on-demand streaming platforms and direct-to-consumer distribution models.But broadcast TV still has its sway — just look at the list of top performing series on the largest SVOD platforms.As content chiefs outline their plans for the 2022-2023 television season, here is a running list of new drama and comedy series orders handed out by ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and the CW.

CHVRCHES have announced details of some new North American tour dates – check them out below.The band will begin the next part of their tour on July 24 at Austin’s Float Fest before heading to New Orleans, Birmingham, Alabama, Atlanta, and Asheville, North Carolina.

Paula Abdul, Leslie Jordan and Yvette Nicole Brown as celebrity “ex-paw-t” judges, ABC announced Thursday.The show features rescued pups from around the country as they “strut their fluff” and compete for a series of titles, including best in underbite, best in snoring, best in belly rubs and more. For each winning dog in the seven categories, a $10,000 donation will be made by Petco Love to a local animal welfare organization.

black midi have announced details of a new album. The U.K. trio's follow-up to 2021 album Cavalcade is titled Hellfire and is due on July 15 via Rough Trade Records.

Rebecca Romijn got candid about her past relationships with current husband Jerry O'Connell. Romijn admitted there's a "lot of things" she misses about ex-husband John Stamos during a recent appearance on "The Talk." "Going through a divorce is terrible, it’s awful," Romijn explained to O’Connell on the show. "I was with him for 10 years.

Rebecca Romijn is sharing some very rare comments about her marriage to ex-husband John Stamos.

California, neighborhood. And Jerry O'Connell, 48, delved into wife Rebecca Romijn's complicated feelings about her former husband John Stamos when she dropped by the set of The Talk on Thursday. The 49-year-old actress and model admitted that she still misses the 58-year-old Full House star, while revealing that she finally saw him in person for the first time since their 2005 divorce.

It’s hard to ever completely cut ties with an ex in Hollywood. While John Stamos and Rebecca Romijn split more than a decade ago, the former spouses – and her husband, Jerry O’Connell — have been asked about their current status for years.

Rebecca Romijn is an open book with her husband, Jerry O’Connell, even when it comes to an awkward AF run-in with her ex!

There’s a new original series coming from Wow Presents Plus!

Disney Branded Television will bring Shawn Amos’ debut novel Cookies & Milk to screen with an animated series currently in development. The project hails from Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland of Cinema Gypsy Productions (black-ish), Jesse Murphy and James Sears Bryant of Jesse James Films and Shawn Amos.

Darren Star has teamed up with co-executive producer Jeffrey Richman on the Netflix series,, starring Neil Patrick Harris. In the first official look at the upcoming comedy, Harris plays Michael, whose life is upended after his husband of 17 years suddenly leaves him and is forced to navigate New York City as a newly single gay man in his mid-forties. In addition to Harris, the series stars Tisha Campbell as Michael’s business partner, Suzanne; Emerson Brooks as TV weatherman Billy; Brooks Ashmanskas as art dealer Stanley; and Marcia Gay Harden as a socialite named Claire.The series should not be confused with the former star’s real-life marriage to David Burtka. The two celebrated their 17th anniversary last year, with Harris recalling on Instagram how his decision to go on his first date with Burtka was the “best decision ever.”, meanwhile, marks Harris’ first starring TV role since playing Count Olaf on Netflix’s and his acclaimed supporting appearance as Henry Coltrane on the HBO Max hit .

Roku welcomed three food luminaries to its NewFronts presentation, announcing new original series with Martha Stewart, Emeril Lagasse and Milk Street Studios’ Christopher Kimball.