Freeform's New Series 'Cruel Summer' Just Made History for the Network!

NEW YORK -- Chrissie Hynde wouldn't make her own mark in music until a few years later, but her memories of how 1971's daily soundtrack was tied to the times remain vivid.“Music said something,” the Pretenders' leader and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member says at the start of “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything,” an eight-part documentary series that premieres Friday on the Apple TV+ streaming service.Hynde had just dropped out of Kent State University in Ohio, where a year earlier

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterABC unveiled its fall TV offerings for the 2021-2022 season ahead of Disney’s upfront presentation Tuesday, with a schedule that includes several heavy-hitter mainstays as well as a few high-profile newcomers.Unscripted staples “Dancing With the Stars” and “The Bachelorette” anchor Monday and Tuesday nights, respectively, with new drama “Queens” following the dating reality show on Tuesdays, signaling the network’s confidence in the new series.

People Just Do Nothing star Grindah has opened up about a potential sixth season of the show.Allan Mustafa, who plays Grindah in the garage wannabe group Kurupt FM, spoke to Digital Spy about working with the BBC for five seasons.“I loved my time on People Just Do Nothing and all that when they filmed us for the BBC,” Mustafa as Grindah said.

ABC has announced four new shows that will be coming to the network in the upcoming 2021-22 television season!

Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clarke are taking their fans back to the early 2000s with their new podcast “Welcome To The O.C.” where they’re rewatching the entire series.

Laura Whitmore rocked a red jumpsuit on Tuesday as she filmed what appeared to be a promo for the new series of Love Island.The ITV dating show’s presenter, 36, was hard at work along with the rest of the crew as they filmed ahead of the dating show’s comeback after it was cancelled last year due to the pandemic.

Get ready to rewind back to one of rock and roll meets Hollywood’s greatest romances ever. Sebastian Stan and Lily James are giving fans their very first looks in costume as Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee  and his then-wife, Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson. The two are starring in the upcoming Hulu miniseries Pam and Tommy, and debuted how they compare to the real deal in photographs the stars posted in costume to their Instagram pages on Fri. May 8.

Pose‘s Michaela Jaé (Mj) Rodriguez is set to star alongside Maya Rudolph in Apple TV+’s half-hour comedy series created by Emmy winners Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard.

Happy Star Wars Day, May the 4th be with you! Star Wars fans have something to celebrate today: Star Wars: The Bad Batch is now streaming on Disney+ with a special 70-minute long premiere, with new episodes posted every Friday.

Jessica Biel and takes place over three summers in the 1990s, following mousy Jeanette Turner (Aurelia) and popular Kate Wallis (Olivia Holt). During the show’s arc, Kate mysteriously disappears, while Jeanette progresses from wallflower to popular girl to hated outsider — seemingly stealing Kate’s life while she’s gone (including her friends and boyfriend).

Cruel Summer has posted Freeform’s most-watched overall series debut ever, averaging 3.81 million average multi-platform viewers in its first week. The Jessica Biel-produced drama also ranks as the network’s best-ever series debut among Adults 18-49 (2.65 million) and Adults 18-34 (1.33 million).

EXCLUSIVE: Evelyn Braxton, the matriarch of long-running reality series Braxton Family Values, is cooking up a new show.

CBS has some great news for fans of the NCIS franchise!

A worse teen crime drama than “Cruel Summer” would play to conventions and pit the high school archetypes such as the spoiled mean girl against the nerdy, innocent girl, with no real estate between them for character growth. But the new Freeform series, created by Bert V.

Star of the summer! Chiara Aurelia made waves when her new Freeform TV show, Cruel Summer, premiered on Tuesday, April 20.

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Mosley (Ozark) is set as a series regular in the upcoming fourth season of USA Network’s crime anthology series The Sinner, starring Bill Pullman.

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