Louisiana Parents Potentially Face Murder Charges After Their Disabled Daughter Was Found ‘MELTED’ Into The Couch After Years Of Neglect

Survivor: Thailand alum Clay Jordan died on Thursday, May 19. He was 66.

J. Kim Murphy Peacock has released the first trailer for “Queer as Folk,” pulling the curtain back on its reimagining of the TV series created by Russell T. Davies.The new series relocates from Pittsburgh, Pa.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaA trio of veteran film financiers and producers are launching a new venture.Joe Simpson, Simon Williams and Jonathan Bross are teaming up on Ashland Hill Media Finance, a film and TV financing venture, backed by an alternative investment fund with assets under management of $1.85 billion. From its offices in Santa Monica and London, Ashland Hill expects to close upwards of 25 deals in the next 12 months, with plans to further expand its operations beyond the U.S.

IllumiNative, The Black List and Sundance Institute today revealed the finalists for their 2022 Indigenous List, which represent the best and most promising Native creatives in the film and television industry. See the list below.

Kehlani has announced details of a UK, European and North American tour that will run from July through to December.The Bay Area artist will tour in support of their third studio album ‘Blue Water Road’, which was released last month.Kehlani will embark on the ‘Blue Water Road Trip’ on July 30 in Raleigh, North Carolina, with a string of North American tour dates running until October with a date in Honolulu, Hawaii on October 21.She will then head to Europe in November for a number of live dates, which will conclude with a run of UK and Ireland shows in London, Dublin, Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester.General sale tickets for Kehlani’s UK dates will go on sale here this Friday (May 20) from 10am, while tickets for the North American shows can be bought here from 10am local time on Friday.

Three teen inmates managed to escape from a Louisiana detention facility over the weekend, all thanks to the help of a 21-year-old female security guard.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJust hours after Kendrick Lamar dropped his long-awaited fifth full-length album, “Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers,” he’s unveiled dates for a massive tour in support of the album, launching in Oklahoma on July 19 and wrapping in New Zealand five months later.

Kendrick Lamar just dropped his new album and he has more great news for fans – he’s going on tour!

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.

Selome Hailu A+E Networks has partnered with educational travel provider Academic Travel Abroad to launch History Travel, a new program offering a series of domestic and international trips inspired by world history.Under the multi-year agreement, A+E and Academic Travel Abroad are designing tours that will be led by historians and local experts approved by the History Channel, allowing travelers to experience historical places and bring context to the events and cultures that have shaped the present day.The program is an ambitious move for A+E and especially unprecedented for a network brand. At the same time, offerings like History Travel make sense within a television and film landscape that is rapidly seeking new avenues to reach viewers and beginning to trend towards direct-to-consumer engagement strategies.

Mo'Nique is heading back to the small screen! On Tuesday, STARZ announced that the Academy Award-winning actress will join the second season of the network's hit drama  in a recurring role. Inspired by a true story, the series follows two brothers who rise from the decaying streets of southwest Detroit in the late 1980s and give birth to one of the most influential crime families in the country. Mo’Nique will play Goldie, described as a sophisticated Atlanta strip club owner with swagger and street smarts. According to a press release, Goldie allies with the Flenory brothers, helping fuel their migration from Detroit to Atlanta.

Supreme Court opinion draft, in which Justice Alito pushes for Roe v. Wade to be overturned.

Mickey Gilley, who ran one of the world’s largest honky tonks in Pasadena, Texas and was credited with helping foster country music’s revival in the late ’70s as a key part of the Urban Cowboy film, has died. He was 86 and his death was announced by the Pasadena, Texas mayor, where the club was located.

Will Smith’s film Emancipation, which was expected to be Apple’s next big awards project following the Oscar success of CODA, has now been delayed until 2023. Directed by Training Day’s Antoine Fuqua, the movie was going to be released in time for the autumn film festival circuit later this year, and would have marked the actor’s first release since he slapped Chris Rock during the Oscars. Smith was banned from attending the Academy Awards for 10 years following the incident.

signed a bill into law that prohibits discussion of LGBTQ-related content in primary grades, and in secondary grades if the topic is broached in a manner that is not “age appropriate or developmentally appropriate.” Critics, who have dubbed the new law the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, argue that the only way its provisions can be enforced is either by trampling on the speech rights of LGBTQ students, students with same-sex parents, and teachers, or by censoring entire lessons related to history, biology, or sex education.On Tuesday, Louisiana’s House Committee on Education rejected the Pelican State’s own version of the law by a 7-4 vote, with three Republicans joining all the committee’s Democrats in opposing the legislation.Chief among the objections to Horton’s bill were that banning gender identity — writ large — would not simply censor transgender-related issues, but might bar teachers from using gender-related titles like “Mr.,” “Ms.” or “Mrs.” — since even cisgender people have a gender identity of their own. While Horton said that was not the bill’s intention, the committee struck down an amendment that would have removed that provision before ultimately killing the bill, reports Forbes.But Horton insisted that the legislation remains necessary, arguing that it is inappropriate for teachers to share details about their personal lives with students.

Laine Hardy has been arrested.

New York Post. Hardy is a Louisiana native who lives in Livingston Parish, but does not attend LSU.According to prison booking documents, on April 7, the student and her roommate found a device under her futon and determined that it was a VR-500 voice activated recorder. She turned it over to SUPD, who found audio from February of Hardy’s “distinguishable voice” and other people calling him by name.

Lane Reed Hardy, known professionally as Laine Hardy, was arrested and booked by Louisiana State Police today for secretly recording his ex-girlfriend, an LSU student, Deadline has confirmed. Hardy, who does not attend the university, is most notably known for winning the honors on the 17th season of .

confirmed Thursday that he was under criminal investigation by the LSU Police Department, but did not disclose any further information. On Friday morning, however, sources familiar with the case told WAFB-TV that the probe centers around allegations that Hardy was spying on the unnamed female student.