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What’s on TVDEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE 8 p.m. on CBS. Seven candidates have qualified for this debate in Charleston, S.C.: Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota; and the billionaire businessman Tom Steyer. A lot is riding on their performances. The debate comes four days before the South Carolina primary and just before the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses on March 3. Bloomberg may try to redeem himself after scathing attacks on the debate in Las Vegas last week. Warren came out strong with an aggressive performance, while Sanders walked away mostly unharmed, politics reporters for The New York Times wrote in an analysis.GORDON RAMSAY’S 24 HOURS TO HELL AND BACK 8 p.m. on Fox. In this two-hour season finale, the host Gordon Ramsay tries to save a pizza restaurant and a Korean-inspired eatery in Arkansas. The owner of the pizza place is prone to violent outbursts, while the owner of the Korean-inspired joint lacks the industry know-how to run a successful business.[embedded content]AMERICAN MASTERS — MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL (2020) 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). This Grammy-nominated documentary from the director Stanley Nelson (“The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution”) charts Miles Davis’s career, from his early days at Juilliard to his experimental years in the 1970s and ’80s. It’s rife with archival gems and features interviews with a long list of big names, including Quincy Jones, Carlos Santana and Clive Davis. In his review for The Times, Glenn Kenny wrote that while there is no shortage of documentaries on Davis, “Birth of the Cool” is “commendably thorough.”REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL 10 p.m. on HBO; stream on HBO platforms. This investigative sports program returns with a new heartfelt episode. The host, Bryant Gumbel, sits down with the trainer and family of the boxer Patrick Day, who died in October after a brain injury sustained during a match.What’s StreamingPETE DAVIDSON: ALIVE FROM NEW YORK (2020) Stream on Netflix. This year is shaping out to be pretty busy for Pete Davidson. The “Saturday Night Live” cast member stars in Judd Apatow’s upcoming comedy, “The King of Staten Island,” which will debut at the South by Southwest Film Festival on March 13. That same day, he will hit theaters in the Hulu coming-of-age comedy “Big Time Adolescence.” And on Tuesday he showcases his stand-up in this new special, his first for Netflix. Expect some personal, worrying anecdotes: The title may be referring to a troubling Instagram post from late 2018, after his breakup with Ariana Grande. The comedian laughed off the incident on “S.N.L.” soon after, and, more recently, joked about spending time in rehab. More

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Officials at the Auschwitz Memorial have criticized the Amazon Prime drama for its fictional deadly game of human chess, but creator David Weil explains the importance of the scenes to the series.
Feb 25, 2020
AceShowbiz – The creator of Al Pacino’s new TV show “Hunters (2020)” has defended the show over controversial scenes that fictionalised atrocities committed during the Holocaust.
The Amazon Prime Video drama, which follows a team of Nazi Hunters in New York in the 1970s, led by Pacino’s Holocaust survivor Meyer Offerman, features flashbacks to scenes in Nazi death camps – including one that features a fictional deadly game of human chess.
Officials at the Auschwitz Memorial have criticised the show, tweeting, “Auschwitz was full of horrible pain & suffering documented in the accounts of survivors. Inventing a fake game of human chess for @huntersonprime is not only a dangerous foolishness & caricature. It also welcomes future deniers. We honor the victims by preserving factual accuracy.”

Creator David Weil, whose mother survived Auschwitz, has hit back at the idea scenes from the Holocaust should never be fictionalised for dramatic effect in a statement to Variety magazine.
After citing his personal connection to the horrors of the Holocaust, and explaining how his team had deliberately chosen to avoid characters’ camp numbers corresponding to real victims, Weil addressed the controversy over the chess scene.
“In speaking to the ‘chess match’ scene specifically… this is a fictionalized event,” he wrote. “Why did I feel this scene was important to script and place in series? To most powerfully counteract the revisionist narrative that whitewashes Nazi perpetration, by showcasing the most extreme – and representationally truthful – sadism and violence that the Nazis perpetrated against the Jews and other victims.”
He went on to claim that he wanted to show a fictional atrocity, rather than a specific act that was perpetrated against real victims.
Weil concluded by writing that he is “forever grateful to the Auschwitz Memorial for all of the important and vital work that they do” and added, “I believe we are very much on the same side and working toward the same goals.”

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The new episode of the ABC dating show sees the pilot and the three women, Madison, Hannah Ann and Victoria, heading to Australia where they will spend the Fantasy Suite week.
Feb 25, 2020
AceShowbiz – It’s finally time for the fantasy suit for Peter Weber’s season of “The Bachelor”. However, before they got there, the Monday, February 24 episode of the ABC show began right where things were left off last week. After pulling him aside following the rose ceremony, Madison hinted to Peter that she’s saving herself for marriage.
“Next week, if you were to sleep with somebody else, it would be really hard for me to move forward in this,” so she told Peter. That only made Peter confused and he replied, “I feel like that’s not fair to the [other] relationships [with Hannah Ann Sluss and Victoria Fuller] I have, but I don’t want to give you doubt in any way and make you feel like I think any less of what we have.”
“In no way do I want to give you an ultimatum or tell you what you can and can’t do. I hope you know that,” Madison responded. “But for me, actions speak louder than words, and I’m just really big on that.”
Later, Peter and the ladies went to Australia. The first date was between Peter and Hannah Ann. They opted to have some fun on jet skis. Peter and Hannah Ann then had a makeout session on the beach after he told her that he’s falling for her. They later decided to spend the night together in the fantasy suite.
The next date went to Victoria. Peter tried to clear things out with her as Victoria insisted to him that she didn’t “ruin relationship” like his ex Merissa Pence claimed. They fortunately agreed to put the drama in the past and enjoy their helicopter ride.
Later at night, Victoria opened up to Peter about how she was treated in a past relationship and that was why she found communication difficult. She got emotional because she was worried that she wasn’t giving Peter the answers he wanted. However, they later managed to talk it through and spent the night together in the fantasy suite.
Meanwhile in the girls’ hotel room, Madison told Hannah Ann that she wouldn’t be happy if Peter slept with someone else. Hannah Ann didn’t say much but in her confessional, she admitted that she was “really thrown off” by that because Madison should have known “what [she] was coming into” by joining “The Bachelor”.
Then it was time for a date with Madison. They climbed to the top of the talest building in the country. During the date, the two realized how much they’re in love with each other and at the night portion of the date, Madison revealed to Peter that she’s saving herself for marriage.
Peter respected her. Madison then said that while she didn’t want to be judgemental, she wasn’t willing to compromise if he slept with one or both of the other women. When peter admitted that he was intimate during his other fantasy suite dates with the other women, Madison was upset and hurt.
Peter and Madison cried together and he apologized as he didn’t want to lose Madision. It remains to be seen what would happen next as it will play out in the upcoming March 2 episode that will also feature the “Women Tell All” special.

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Season 5, Episode 2: ‘50% Off’You’re playing Texas Hold ‘Em poker with Lalo Salamanca and he raises you $200. You’ve got a strong hand. Three eights. Do you see Lalo’s bet? Raise him another $200? Whoop-whoop in anticipation of pay dirt?Or do you fold, as Domingo (Max Arciniega) does early in this week’s episode? Given the air of menace that surrounds Lalo, this is arguably a very wise career move. It is also apparently the birth of Domingo’s nickname, Krazy-8, bestowed upon him by Lalo, who thinks his petrified employee isn’t petrified at all. He’s merely loco.It’s just one of many short cons played in “50% Off,” an episode in which just about everyone, in true “Better Call Saul” style, is playing everyone else. The most productive con might be Jimmy’s, who manages to buttonhole the assistant district attorney Suzanne Ericsen (Julie Pearl), by conspiring with a maintenance guy to disable the elevator between floors. The two lawyers wind up negotiating deals for Jimmy’s clients, one after another, in 20 minutes.If you’re taking on so many cases that you must resort to such tactics, you need to dial it down a bit. Which is another way of saying that Kim was right. The limited-time offer of half-off legal counsel was a bad idea. Jimmy concedes as much as he and Kim make an impromptu stop to look at a house for sale. And the episode demonstrates the downsides of priced-to-move legal advice in the opening scene, which follows two meth-addled yahoos who celebrate Saul’s introductory bargain rate by launching into a multiday bender.Let’s leave aside the implausibility of this bacchanalia. (Seriously, would anyone think, “Let’s go insane for a while because once the cops nab us, we won’t spend huge sums on a lawyer”?) Those yahoos wind up at one of the apartments where the Salamancas peddle their meth, using a delivery system — a drain pipe — that proves catastrophically flawed. When it jams, the newly christened Krazy-8 climbs a ladder to perform some ad hoc home improvements, and that is where the cops find him when they arrive.The collaring of Krazy-8 offers Nacho an opening. He has already been treated to the scare of his life by Gus Fring, who sends Victor (Jeremiah Bitsui) into a restaurant where Nacho’s father is eating with some friends. It briefly looks as though Nacho is about to witness the gangland slaying of his padre, when Gus shows up and twists the thumb screws a bit more: Win Lalo’s trust, he tells Nacho. Figure out his plans. Share them. Or else.Nacho gets the chance to turn Lalo’s head through an apparent suicide mission to retrieve the meth left in the stash house that was quickly abandoned once Krazy-8 was nabbed. Precisely how Nacho manages this feat of drug superhero-dom is unclear, but Lalo watches from his car as the show unfolds, munching on a snack as if he were at the movies. When Nacho returns, sweating but alive, meth in hand, Lalo is suitably awed — and in a trusting mood.So much so that Lalo delegates to Nacho the decision to send dealers back to the streets. And he shares a meal and a beer with his underling, quickly signaling that he has weighty matters on his mind. Will Krazy-8 flip? He won’t, Nacho says, but offers to have him killed anyway. Nah, says Lalo.“I’ve got something much better for him.”We don’t yet know what that something else is. But soon after Jimmy emerges from his elevator tete-a-tete with Ms. Ericsen, Nacho pulls up in the passenger seat of a car and instructs the counselor to get in.A bit of back story. Nacho and Jimmy met in Season 1, and their relationship includes a very unpleasant detour to the desert. Jimmy had gotten crosswise with the volcanic Tuco Salamanca in one of the show’s early and most disastrous short cons. Nacho worked for Tuco at the time and helped haul Jimmy to a forsaken patch of land outside of town. There, Jimmy frantically produced what might have been his finest closing statement, and saved his own life.Nacho and Jimmy subsequently had more amicable dealings, but that terrifying round trip to the desert would surely have been on Jimmy’s mind as Nacho rolled up in that car.We’re left to surmise that whatever “much better” plan Lalo has in mind, it is likely to involve Jimmy. Of course, it was inevitable that Jimmy would get tangled in Lalo’s life, a development that was preordained, in a time-bendy kind of way, courtesy of an early episode of “Breaking Bad.” Walter White and Jesse Pinkman haul Jimmy to another part of New Mexico’s ample desertscape and make a good show of threatening to kill him. (They, too, were worried about a recently arrested colleague.) Once Jimmy figures out that these two masked men were not sent by Lalo — “Lalo didn’t send you?” he screams — he is vastly relieved.Then again, Lalo’s “much better” plans for Krazy-8 could involve an idea that springs from his meeting with his uncle, Don Hector (Mark Margolis), in some kind of nursing facility. Now wheelchair-bound and mute, Don Hector tries to help his nephew figure out how to handle Gus Fring, whose machinations mystify Lalo. Fring is protected by the money he makes for the cartel, Don Hector suggests, through a bit of tactical bell ringing.So expect Lalo to go on the offensive against Fring and his supply system.Finally, the episode’s saddest scene belongs to Mike, who rages at his granddaughter after she asks one too many questions about her deceased father. Mike blames himself for his son’s death, as longtime viewers know, and his guilt and self-loathing have recently been re-triggered by his murder of the homesick construction manager, Werner Ziegler, at the end of Season 4.It’s excruciating to watch Mike lash out at the one person he seems to love unconditionally, and to whom he will try to give all of his ill-gotten fortune in “Breaking Bad.” But the outburst might also help explain a mystery. Throughout “Breaking Bad,” Mike happily spent time with his granddaughter, but he interacted with his daughter-in-law in a way that strongly suggested that the two were estranged. Maybe they will reconcile. But if they don’t, this is why — or perhaps, it’s the start of why.Did I miss a con? And some smaller questions. Can we talk about the shower in that house for sale? Can we talk about how no customers have been seen at the Mexican restaurant where Lalo now cooks? It almost seems to be a money laundering front.Opine in the comments section, please. And may your criminal record be as clean as Doris Day’s greatest hits. More

CHICAGO — Almost a year after he walked out of court seemingly a free man, the actor Jussie Smollett returned to court on Monday to again face charges that he had lied to the police about a hate crime attack that detectives said he had staged.Mr. Smollett, 37, appeared in court two weeks after a special prosecutor, Dan K. Webb, announced that a grand jury had indicted Mr. Smollett on nearly identical charges that the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office dropped 11 months ago.Mr. Smollett’s lawyer, Tina Glandian, entered a plea of not guilty as her client stood before the judge, hands clasped and with his black overcoat still on. The judge, James B. Linn of Cook County Circuit Court, allowed the actor to remain free, saying he was not a flight risk and rejecting prosecutors’ request for $10,000 bail. Mr. Smollett walked out without comment, his departure captured by a line of television cameras in the hallways outside the courtroom.[A timeline of the case|What we know about the evidence]The case has spellbound the city ever since Mr. Smollett, who played a son of a hip-hop mogul on the Fox drama “Empire,” reported on Jan. 29, 2019, that he had been attacked by two men who shouted racist and homophobic slurs, placed a noose around his neck and poured bleach on him. Mr. Smollett, who is gay, told the police that the attackers also yelled, “This is MAGA country,” a reference to President Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan.But the Police Department concluded that Mr. Smollett had paid two brothers to stage the attack because he was unhappy with his salary on “Empire.”Weeks after Mr. Smollett was indicted, the state’s attorney’s office dropped the charges against him. In exchange, Mr. Smollett performed 15 hours of community service and forfeited the $10,000 bond that had released him from jail. Prosecutors said at the time that it was an appropriate resolution because Mr. Smollett was not a violent criminal and had a long record of community service.But the outcome angered prominent officials in Chicago, including then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel; the city is now suing Mr. Smollett for more than $130,000 it said it had spent investigating the reported hate crime.Mr. Smollett has maintained his innocence throughout, denying that he had hired the brothers.A judge appointed Mr. Webb, a former federal prosecutor, as special prosecutor last year after concluding that the State’s Attorney, Kim Foxx, had acted improperly when she handed the case to her deputy instead of someone outside her office. Ms. Foxx had removed herself from the case because of contact she had with representatives of Mr. Smollett when the police still considered him a victim.Mr. Webb obtained an indictment this month charging Mr. Smollett with six counts of disorderly conduct by giving various false statements to the police. In a statement that accompanied the announcement of the new charges, Mr. Webb sharply criticized the way in which the state’s attorney’s office resolved the original case.When the office approved the first grand jury indictment, it appeared to have strong evidence against Mr. Smollett, Mr. Webb said. There was no indication that prosecutors had learned new information casting doubt on Mr. Smollett’s guilt before the office dropped all of the charges against him without requiring that he admit wrongdoing, Mr. Webb said.Ms. Glandian, the actor’s lawyer, said on Monday that she had filed a motion with the Illinois Supreme Court arguing that the new indictment constituted double jeopardy because Mr. Smollett had already been punished by forfeiting the $10,000 bond. “Trying to punish him a second time around is not permitted,” she said outside court, adding that it was “very frustrating” for Mr. Smollett to be back in court nearly a year after the charges were dropped.Mr. Webb did not comment on the motion, but is likely to argue that because Mr. Smollett never was tried or pleaded guilty, he was still eligible to be prosecuted.Ms. Foxx is running for re-election, and her opponents in the Democratic primary have criticized her office’s handling of the Smollett case. Her campaign denounced the “James Comey-like timing” of the new charges, referring to the former F.B.I. director’s public pronouncements about the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server just before she lost to Mr. Trump. Mr. Webb said that he had not found any wrongdoing by Ms. Foxx’s office, but that he was still investigating.Mr. Smollett was dropped from the cast of “Empire” after his arrest last year. Since then, his acting and singing career appears to have stalled, and he has had little public exposure beyond his court appearances.Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, the brothers who attacked Mr. Smollett — either at his behest or not — watched Monday’s proceedings from the courtroom gallery.“The brothers want the public to know that they were open and honest and remorseful about their conduct,” their lawyer, Gloria Schmidt Rodriguez, said outside the courtroom with the Osundairos by her side. “They have been truthful since day one and they will continue to be truthful.”Julia Jacobs contributed reporting from New York. More

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Having just released their new album ‘Map of the Soul: 7’, the K-pop sensations share their experience filming scenes for ‘The Late Late Show with James Corden’ segment.
Feb 24, 2020
AceShowbiz – Producers at “The Late Late Show with James Corden” had to rent an extra big vehicle when the seven members of BTS (Bangtan Boys) signed on to appear in the Carpool Karaoke segment.
The K-pop sensations, who released their new album “Map of the Soul: 7” on Friday, February 21, have already filmed their scenes for the show which airs February 25, and they told Entertainment Tonight they were surprised by the experience.
“It took like three, four hours. I heard it’s the biggest car they ever rented because we’re seven (members). Some van, like, really hot inside,” singer RM shared. “Like, 16 cameras inside and Corden wasn’t driving it. I didn’t know, I thought he really drove, but safety first.”
Although James Corden usually drives, he’s previously explained that he doesn’t drive the vehicles if the team thinks it might not be safe, due to various production elements.
The “Boy With Luv” group also confessed they were excited to share new music with fans, and confessed the new record gives a glimpse into “what’s inside our souls”.

BTS is also going to be embarking on a “Map of the Soul Tour”, which kicks off in April.

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Stopping by Keyshia Cole’s ‘Fox Soul’, Tami explains the current state of her relationship with the her former co-star of the hit VH1 reality TV series which Shaunie also executive produces.
Feb 24, 2020
AceShowbiz – Tami Roman exited “Basketball Wives” last season due to the tension between her and former co-star and friend Shaunie O’Neal. People seem to be curious about the current state of her relationship with Shaunie, and Tami addressed the matter in a recent interview.
Stopping by Keyshia Cole’s “Fox Soul”, Tami explained, “I thought in my mind that we were close. I thought that we had a camaraderie and sisterhood and mutual respect for each other.” Speaking of her shocking exit at the end of season 8 of the hit VH1 reality show, Tami added, “I found out over the past three seasons that the lack of friendship was shown rather than the sisterhood as it pertained to me, which was unfortunate because I care for Shaunie.”
“I think that when I went back to the show, ‘Basketball Wives LA’ in 2015, I thought that cast was great. We had [Mehgan James], and we had [Brandi Maxiell], we had [Malaysia Pargo], [Jackie Christie]. I thought it was great. And then 2016 entered what I like to call the demon seed,” she continued.
Seemingly alluding that Evelyn Lozada was the reason behind her fall-out with Shaunie, Tami shared, “The whole dynamic changed. And for me, it was just not a happy place to be once she returned. And this is no secret. She doesn’t like me, she never has liked me, I tried to be friends, and so now I’ve accepted that she doesn’t like me, so now I don’t like you.”
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“I tried numerous times. I really truly did, and to find out that there were a lot of workings going on behind the scenes and emails being sent and negative, derogatory things being said about my health and my miscarriages all the way up to the network executives, I felt like at that point, that was crossing a line for me. So there was no way we could have ever worked together, for me,” she continued.

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What’s on TVTHE VOICE 8 p.m. on NBC. This singing competition is back for its 18th season, with Nick Jonas replacing Gwen Stefani as a coach. Episode 1 kicks off the competition’s blind auditions. Here, singers vying for the chance to be on the show — and mentored by Jonas, John Legend, Kelly Clarkson or Blake Shelton — will audition only with their voices. Later stages of the competition include singing battles and rehearsed performances, with the guest artists Dua Lipa, Ella Mai and Bebe Rexha, as well as Kevin and Joe Jonas.BLACK IN SPACE: BREAKING THE COLOR BARRIER 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Smithsonian. On Aug. 30, 1983, the astronaut Guion Bluford embarked as a crew member of the Space Shuttle Challenger, making him the first African-American in space. This documentary features him alongside Edward Dwight, an Air Force pilot edged out of a position with NASA, and Frederick Gregory, the first African-American to command a NASA mission, to examine the complications of sending a black man into space during the Cold War. Also included are Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, the first Cuban astronaut sent into space by the Soviet Union, and Ronald McNair, an African-American pilot who died in the Challenger disaster in 1986.What’s StreamingGENTEFIED Stream on Netflix. At the center of this show tackling gentrification is Casimiro (Joaquín Cosío), a struggling Mexican restaurant owner in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. He’s aided by his grandchildren, who aim to strike a balance between tradition and modernity: Chris (Carlos Santos), an aspiring chef; Ana (Karrie Martin), an ambitious artist; and Erik (J.J. Soria), who helps Casimiro run the restaurant. In his review for The New York Times, James Poniewozik wrote that the series sometimes “wants to be a sharp-elbowed satire.” But “sometimes — more effectively,” he adds, “it’s a working-class family dramedy, conscious of the cascading effects of small financial setbacks and the code-switching involved in moving across cultures.”HUNTERS Stream on Amazon. “The show has us at Al Pacino,” Mike Hale wrote in his review for The Times, noting a star-studded cast in this new series about World War II vigilantes. After the grandmother of 19-year-old Jonah Heidelbaum (Logan Lerman) is killed, he crosses paths with Meyer Offerman (Pacino), a concentration camp survivor who has assembled a group of Nazi hunters. The show takes place in the 1970s, and Meyer has reason to believe the Reich is again attempting world domination; this time, in America. The moral dilemma of the plot is easy enough to predict: Is vigilante killing, even of Nazis, really justified? More