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    Jordan Peele Has No Plan to Return to Acting Gig

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    The director behind critically-acclaimed movies ‘Get Out’ and Us’ insists he is done with acting as he doesn’t enjoy watching his own onscreen performances.

    Jan 8, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Jordan Peele has ruled out taking on any more acting gigs as he hates watching himself on screen.
    The star made a name for himself in shows such as “Fargo” and “Mad TV” before going on to find fame behind the camera, directing flicks including 2018’s “Get Out” and “Us” in 2019.
    However, in a new interview with Bradley Whitford as part of an ActBlue fundraiser, Jordan admitted he can’t see himself acting in the future.
    “I like watching my movies. I can watch the films I direct (but) watching me perform just feels like, it’s a bad kind of masturbatory. It’s masturbation you don’t enjoy.”

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    “I feel like I got to do so much and it is a great feeling. When I think about those great moments when you’re basking in something you said that feels funny. When I think about all that, I think I got enough.”
    Peele is currently working on an unknown horror film project, with his next directorial offering coming in July 2022.
    Jordan Peele was last seen on the big screen in Spike Lee’s 2018 biographical crime movie “BlacKkKlansman”. He later appeared as himself in documentary film “Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror” and lent his voice to one of the animated characters in “Toy Story 4”.
    Last year, he explained why his movies always centered on black characters. “The way I look at it, I get to cast black people in my movies,” he said. “I feel fortunate to be in this position where I can say to Universal, ‘I want to make a $20 million horror movie with a black family’. And they say yes. I don’t see myself casting a white dude as the lead in my movie. Not that I don’t like white dudes, but I’ve seen that movie.”

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    'Britain's Got Talent' Allegedly Calls Off 2021 Season Due to Ongoing Pandemic

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    The British television talent show has reportedly been put on hold as the U.K. enters another lockdown due to spike in Covid-19 cases amid the never-ending health crisis.

    Jan 8, 2021
    AceShowbiz – The forthcoming season of “Britain’s Got Talent” has reportedly been bumped from its usual spring slot due to Covid-19 lockdowns across the U.K.
    Following Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement of another national lockdown as of Wednesday (06Jan21), sources tell Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper the show has been scrapped until the autumn.
    They explain, “Safety has to be our priority and it’s simply not feasible or sensible to ask members of the public to travel in order to audition at this time.”
    “While we’d love to make the series and bring some much-needed cheer to the nation in the coming months, it’s just not going to be possible.”

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    However, according to the insiders, bosses are hopeful the show will return in the latter half of 2021, with judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon, and David Walliams expected to return.
    “If the vaccination process goes to plan and we are all closer to normal in the summer, we are very hopeful that we could make the series then,” they add. “It would be brilliant to have Britain’s Got Talent for the autumn schedule.”
    Meanwhile, Simon Cowel is expected to make his first TV appearance, since bike accident, on the Israeli version of “The X Factor”.
    The TV star was injured in the life-threatening accident in August this year. He broke his back in three places – and came within about an inch of severing his spinal cord and facing possible paralysis – while test-riding his new high-powered e-bike with his young son.
    He was forced to pull out of the most recent seasons of “America’s Got Talent” and “Britain’s Got Talent”. Kelly Clarkson later took over his “AGT” seat alongside Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum, and Sofia Vergara.

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    Cardi B and Zach Braff Put Their Online Shows on Pause Following Capitol Hill Riot

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    The ‘Bodak Yellow’ hitmaker and the former ‘Scrubs’ actor have decided not to release new episodes of their shows following the violent protest in U.S. Capitol.

    Jan 8, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Rapper Cardi B and actors Zach Braff and Donald Faison have scrapped plans to debut new episodes of their online series in the wake of the U.S. Capitol insurgence.
    The stars were among those expressing their shock and disgust via social media as they watched the violent mob of pro-Donald Trump supporters storm the Washington, D.C. building on Wednesday (06Jan21), in an attempted coup to prevent lawmakers from certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s November election victory.
    As a result of the riots, Cardi took to Twitter on Thursday to announce a new instalment of her weekly Facebook Watch series, “Cardi Tries ____”, would not be premiering that day as originally planned.
    “Good morning everyone,” she began. “Due to all the chaos and craziness we decide to move this week episode of #carditries to next week.Sorry… (In) the mean time keep watching the reruns (sic)…”

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    Meanwhile, Braff and Faison also pushed their latest chat on their “Fake Doctors, Real Friends” comedy podcast to next week, as they, like so many others, tried to come to terms with the attack on democracy.
    “No show today. We didn’t feel it was appropriate. Back on Tuesday,” Braff posted on social media, next to an image of newly-elected Georgia Senators Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock, who ousted the state’s two incumbent Republican representatives in Tuesday’s run-off elections, giving Democrats control of the Senate.
    On Wednesday afternoon, the actor admitted he was “speechless” at how easily the angry rioters were able to overrun the police and walk right into the Capitol, and hours later, Braff confessed he was resorting to alcohol to ease his anxiety, breaking his attempt to abstain from booze for the first month of 2021.
    Alongside a photo of a frosted martini glass, he wrote on his Instagram Story timeline, “Dry January on pause tonight.”

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    Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, James Corden Slam D.C. Rioters in Monologues

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    The U.S. late-night show hosts deliver passionate monologues to condemn President Donald Trump after his angry supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in a bid to overturn the election results.

    Jan 8, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel led the U.S. late night TV hosts condemning the actions of Washington D.C. protesters as “terrorism” on Wednesday (06Jan21).
    Fallon ditched his usual jokes in favour of a moving opening statement blasting the attack on the Capitol building, which was stormed by supporters of Donald Trump in a bid to overturn the election results.
    Hitting out at the “bad leadership” of the President, he said, “This is what happens when there’s no peaceful transition of power and what happens when there’s bad leadership. This is not how you lose.”
    The star insisted his grandfather, a veteran, would have been “disgusted” if he was still alive, adding, “Today was not patriotism. Today was terrorism.”
    The talk show host went on to praise President-elect Joe Biden for his comments calling for an end to the violence and insisted that, ultimately, “good will prevail.”
    “Today was a disgrace. Today was disappointing. But sadly, today was not a surprise,” concluded Fallon. “But it’s important to remember that this is not who we are. I assure you there are more good people than there are bad, and good will prevail.”
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    Fellow talk show host Kimmel blamed “incompetent” Trump for inciting the “angry mob,” telling viewers on his show, “The President of the United States – because he is too angry, too insecure and too incompetent to deal with the fact that he lost an election, a fair election, an election that was no different than any other election, an election he lost by seven million votes and 70 electors – turns an angry mob against members of Congress and his own Vice President.”

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    “Not to mention endangering the Capitol police, those blue lives he claims matter so much to him.”
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    Seth Meyers also spoke out on the day’s events and blasted the outgoing POTUS for his much-derided video message urging the protesters to stand down while still repeating his claims the election had been “stolen” and telling the rioters he “loved” them.
    He said on his show, “What we saw today was a violent insurgency, an attempt to overthrow the legitimately elected government of the United States and it was incited, directed, and encouraged by the present, Donald Trump and more than a few members of the Republican Party and right-wing media.”
    “As we were all watching these stunning scenes of violence and sedition, of insurrection against our democracy, anxiously hoping for a restoration of calm and order, the President of the United States told the traitors and the mob, ‘We love you, you’re very special. I know how you feel.’ And he does. He knows how they feel because he’s spent four years telling them in great and odious detail how they should feel.”
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    “So we can be shocked but we can’t be surprised. The president wanted this. He directed it, supported it, he incited it, and encouraged it.”
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    After condemning the actions of a “crazy, sad day,” James Corden urged viewers of his programme to hold on to “hope,” assuring that, “In two weeks on those same steps where that mob fought and pushed past the police, the people who encouraged and instigated that violence – Donald Trump, his children, Rudy Giuliani – they’re all going to need a tourist pass to get in, because they’ve lost the presidency, they’ve lost the House, and now they’ve lost the Senate… So, if you can, have hope.”

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    'Welcome to the Dark Ages' Gets Streaming Release After The KLF Give Thumbs Up

    The Paul Duane-directed movie follows musician duo Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty from their 2017 reunion as they become ‘new age undertakers’ building The People’s Pyramid.

    Jan 7, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Art pranksters and musicians The KLF’s reunion movie, “Welcome to the Dark Ages”, has been released just days after the duo allowed tracks to be uploaded to major streaming services for the first time.
    Paul Duane’s new movie follows KLF stars Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty from their 2017 reunion as they become “new age undertakers” building The People’s Pyramid – a monument featuring bricks forged from the ashes of the dead.
    A synopsis for “Welcome to the Dark Ages” reads, “Welcome to the Dark Ages begins in the 23rd century, in a post-apocalyptic wasteland which was once the northern English City of Liverpool. In the district once known as Toxteth, a mysterious pyramid stands among demolished buildings.”
    “Returning to the late 20th century, we revisit the origins of the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The JAMs – otherwise known as the KLF – who became the top-selling singles act in the world and then left the music business, burned £1 million of their own money and signed a contract agreeing to a 23-year silence.”
    “23 years later, in Liverpool, this silence ended at 23 seconds past midnight on 23 August, 2017. On this day the KLF were no longer pop stars but had become undertakers, and were planning to build a 23-foot-high pyramid in Toxteth, Liverpool, made from bricks which would each contain 23 grams of a dead person’s ashes, proposed as a new British ritual for the commemoration of the dead.”

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    The film tracks the first year of this project.
    Duane admits the filming process was tough at times because Cauty and Drummond are notoriously camera shy.
    “The band hadn’t agreed to be filmed since the early 90s, but I persevered, and they eventually agreed,” he says. “We started filming. On day two they told me they were no longer interested in taking part in the film. I just kept filming, and they allowed me to film anything I wanted as long as I didn’t ask them anything or try to make them do anything. When I showed the finished film to the JAMs, they asked me to destroy it.”
    “I disagreed with their judgement. Eventually, they came around to agreeing with me that the film should be released after all. So here it is.”
    The film is available to rent or buy here: https://burning-bridges.vhx.tv/products/welcome-to-the-dark-ages.

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    Katie Couric Tapped as 'Jeopardy!' Guest Host After Alex Trebek's Final Episodes

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    The former ‘Today’ co-host will be the second guest host on the game show while Ken Jennings will take the center stage on Monday, January 11 following Alex’s death.

    Jan 7, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Katie Couric will temporarily replace Alex Trebek on “Jeopardy!”. While the late game show host’s final episodes aired this week, the former “Today” co-host was unveiled to be one of the first guest hosts to take over the role following his death.
    Revealing the 64-year-old journalist’s hosting deal was Los Angeles Times. Sources told the outlet that she has been signed to host the game show for one week. However, she and Sony Pictures Television have yet to confirm the report.
    Katie will follow Ken Jennings to serve as guest host on “Jeopardy!”. The 74-time champion of the game show will take center stage on Monday, January 11, 2021. The show itself has previously informed fans that there will be interim guest hosts until a permanent replacement has been chosen.

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    “We will resume production on 11/30 with a series of interim guest hosts from the ‘Jeopardy!’ family – starting with Ken Jennings,” the show pointed out on Instagram in November 2020. “Additional guest hosts to be announced.”
    The temporary replacement hosts came after Alex died from pancreatic cancer on November 8, 2020. His last episodes are currently airing until Friday, January 8. In one of the episodes that aired on Monday, January 4, he shared a powerful message about togetherness and giving.
    “You’ll recall that about a month ago, I asked all of you to take a moment to give thanks for all of the blessings that you enjoy in your lives,” he stated. “Now, today, a different kind of message. This is the season of giving. I know you want to be generous with your family, your friends, your loved ones.”
    “But today, I’d like you to go one step further. I’d like you to open up your hands and open up your hearts to those who are still suffering because of COVID-19. People who are suffering through no fault of their own,” he went on. “We’re trying to build a gentler, kinder society, and if we all pitch in – just a little bit – we’re gonna get there.”

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    'Bridgerton' Star Rege-Jean Page Rises as Contender for New James Bond

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    The Duke of Hastings depicter first fueled the speculation that he was in the running for the role of the secret agent with his social media post, in which he made a reference to Bond’s martini preference.

    Jan 7, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Rege-Jean Page has entered the ring of competition to be the new James Bond. The British-Zimbabwean actor’s name has been thrown in the list of possible actors to replace Daniel Craig as the 007 agent in future installment(s) of the spy film franchises following the success of his Netflix series “Bridgerton”.
    The Duke of Hastings of the period drama has increased his odds of taking on the role of the super spy, according to British betting firm Ladbrokes. As reported by Variety, Page is now just 5/1 in the betting with Ladbrokes to replace Craig as Bond, having previously been 40/1 before Christmas.
    “Tom Hardy still leads the way as favorite, with James Norton close behind in second place,” Ladbrokes representative Alex Apati tells the site. “But it really is all to play for in the race for 007 and RJP has a great chance if the odds are anything to go by.”
    Noting that this kind of shift in the odds isn’t uncommon in the wake of a successful show, Apati cites a previous example, “It’s the reason Cillian Murphy was once favorite during the peak of ‘Peaky Blinders’.” He goes on explaining, “All of those aforementioned names have seen their odds slashed immediately after a huge hype around the show they most recently starred in, hence why it’s no surprise to see a similar pattern with Rege-Jean Page.”
    He adds, “However, what strengthens RJP’s chances somewhat more is that an announcement feels seemingly imminent [around] Daniel Craig’s replacement, so the timing of ‘Bridgerton’ success may well have worked in his favor.”

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    The actor himself stirred the speculation last month with his social media post. On December 19, Page shared promo clip of his hit drama “Bridgerton” featuring him in character, who is described as “equal parts desirable and scandalous.” He captioned it with, “Regency, royalty. Shaken and stirred,” which was a reference to how Bond likes his martini mixed.

    A number of fans supported him as the next Bond, with one tweeting, “Watching Bridgerton and thinking that @regejean would make a brilliant new James Bond.” Another weighed in, “If @regejean is the new James Bond… I’ll actually watch a James Bond.”
    When someone pointed out that Page may be a little young for the part, another fan insisted, “He’s 31, Craig was 38 on first Bond but I still think he’s perfect for the role. Great age for reboot.”
    Prior to starring on “Bridgerton”, Page has already been known for his role as Chicken George on 2016’s miniseries “Roots”. He also starred as a regular cast member on ABC’s legal drama “For the People” from 2018 to 2019.

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    Patty Jenkins Lashes Out at Headlines Suggesting War With Warner Bros. Over 'Wonder Woman'

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    Insisting she was extremely supported by the studio executives, the ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ director clarifies her ‘beard’ statement by stressing that it was about other projects at other studios.

    Jan 7, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Filmmaker Patty Jenkins has taken aim at New York Post editors for exaggerating comments she made about initial creative conflicts with Warner Bros. bosses over her vision for “Wonder Woman”.
    The director recently appeared on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast and recalled how studio chiefs were hesitant at the start of their collaboration to take her story ideas for 2017’s “Wonder Woman” into consideration – until she put her foot down.
    “They wanted to hire me like a beard,” she said. “They wanted me to walk around on set as a woman, but it was their story and their vision.”

    “They didn’t even want to read my script. There was such mistrust of a different way of doing things and a different point of view… When I first joined ‘Wonder Woman’, it was like, ‘Uh, yeah, OK, but let’s do it this other way.’ But I was like, ‘Women don’t want to see that. Her being harsh and tough and cutting people’s heads off… I’m a ‘Wonder Woman’ fan, that’s not what we’re looking for!’ ”

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    Her remarks quickly hit headlines, but Jenkins didn’t appreciate the Post’s take on her conversation with Maron, which resulted in an article titled, “Patty Jenkins exposes ‘war’ with Warner Bros. over Wonder Woman”.
    Taking Post reporters to task on Twitter on Tuesday (January 05), the filmmaker wrote, “Versions of this article seems to be everywhere and not true (sic). There was no ‘war’ with warner bros. over ww (‘Wonder Woman’).”
    “I’m talking about 10 years of discussions with 10 different execs through them. And whole beard thing was about other projects at other studios.”
    Jenkins then insisted she has a great working relationship with Warner Bros. executives, who recently signed the director and her leading lady, Gal Gadot, for a third film in the superhero franchise, following the recent launch of “Wonder Woman 1984”.

    Patty Jenkins reacted to headlines about her war with Warner Bros. over ‘Wonder Woman’.
    “I felt extremely supported in my vision on both films by @wbpictures, (producer) @ZackSnyder all the producers and everyone on board our eventual team,” she tweeted. “Just was a long road to make it. Let’s chill the dramatic headlines like ‘war’.”

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