Reacher isn’t really into bench pressing weights. He also believes that it’s “stupid” to keep track of what he feels is an arbitrary number. This information landed as a blow to new foe Paulie, which set up the first of the pair’s physical conflicts in this third season. The show is steadily cranking through adapting Lee Child’s Persuader novel, and this season finale is (in my unbiased opinion) much better than the second season’s counterpart. Also, Reacher looks fab in an “I Heart Maine” t-shirt, so there’s a lot to enjoy this year on the Prime Video/Amazon series with more on the cusp.
When Does Reacher Season 3 Episode 5 Come Out?
Thursday, March 6 at 12:00am PST and 3:00am EST.
This episode, “Smackdown,” promises more Paulie Drama with the following description: “As Reacher and Paulie’s working relationship grows even more strained, the mission — and Reacher’s safety in Beck’s organization – is jeopardized by a tragic DEA misstep. Reacher, Duffy, and Villanueva must concoct an impromptu plan to salvage the mission.”
Meanwhile, get ready to see much more of Neagley (ahead of Maria Sten’s spin off) as the season finishes its eight-episode run. Alan Ritchson’s career is reaching new heights as well with him recently confirmed to lead a Blue Mountain State revival. Thad will be back? Really.
Procedural-loving CBS (and Paramount Plus) paved the way for a new crop of NCIS shows by introducing younger Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the Origins spin off, which recently received a renewal. This success followed last year’s controversial cancellation of NCIS: Hawai’i, after which some viewers vowed to boycott the franchise, but clearly, that didn’t stop Origins, and it shouldn’t hurt the next franchise offering.
Back in the day, NCIS actually spun off from JAG, and 22 seasons later, the franchise is finally offering up a romantic but tense Paramount Plus reunion show focused on Special Agents Anthony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) and Ziva David (Cote de Pablo). Fortunately, these two talk a lot, so let’s gather up the latest dirt on what to expect.
Plot
First, the series description, and then, we can have some fun:
NCIS: TONY & ZIVA picks up after Ziva’s supposed death when Tony left the NCIS team to go raise their daughter. Years later, Ziva was discovered alive, leading her to complete one final mission with NCIS before she was reunited with Tony and their daughter in Paris. Since then—and where we find them in NCIS: TONY & ZIVA—Tony and Ziva have been raising their daughter, Tali, together. When Tony’s security company is attacked, they must go on the run across Europe, try to figure out who is after them and maybe even learn to trust each other again so they can finally have their unconventional happily ever after.
Michael Weatherly is here for the R&R, and in late February, he unwound by posting a steamy bath photo after finishing up the show’s first-season filming: “Ahhh… finally wrapping Season 1 of NCIS: Tony & Ziva… and feeling how much I love bath tubs.” Ideally, this means that he’s been heavy on the action scenes, although everybody knows that ex-Mossad agent Ziva was always better at that part of the job.
Cameo teasing? Of course, Weatherly appears to be a bit of a stinker in manner of DiNozzo, so he knew exactly what he was doing while teasing the possibility of an ultimate cameo. Can we expect to see Gibbs take some time away from fishing to lend a hand to his former underlings? Weatherly kinda went there on social media with a curious license plate and a “European intrigue! #spy” caption, which he followed up with a clip of Gibbs smacking goofball Tony on the head. That guarantees nothing for a confirmation, but the fuse of expectation has been lit.
Additionally, both Brien Dietzen and Sean Murray have expressed their interest in joining as Dr. Jimmy Palmer and Special Agent Timothy McGee, respectively. Do not, however, expect Pauley Perrette to return as Abby Sciuto. Not only has Perrette had beef with Mark Harmon in the past, but in 2020, she announced her retirement from Hollywood.
Now back to the not-as-fun stuff but clearly what “Tiva” fans are looking to see on this series. The pair has alluded to this first season digging into their trust issues as a couple, especially after the whole death-faking thing. Sure, Ziva did pull that stunt in order to save the lives of Tony and their daughter, Tali, but she broke the loverboy’s heart in the process. De Pablo has now promised that this spin off will deliver “intrigue, romance, a background of Europe, impossible situations that will make our life very complicated but somehow a little something about love.”
This first season will, as noted above, this series will move the franchise into Europe, which makes sene after Ziva making a brief return in the primetime mainstay’s seventeenth season before reuniting with Tony in France. For filming, Budapest stood in for Paris due to production beginning during the city’s recent Olympics ceremonies. Can we get a little Daryl Dixon crossover sometime, too? Probably not, but it’s a nice thought.
Cast
Cote de Pablo and Michael Weatherly will be flanked by a vast ensemble cast, including roles for various hackers, intelligence agents, and Interpol officials:
– Emilia Golfieri reprises her NCIS role as their 12-year-old daughter, Tali in this spin off. Expect her to be “more intuitive and vigilant” than adults will generally admit;
– James D’Arcy as Henry, a seasoned Interpol official with no family or wife, although his career doubles as a spouse;
– Maximilian Osinski as a brilliant hacker who adores flying under the radar.
– Amita Suman as the Chief Technical Officer at Tony’s company;
– Nassima Benchicou as Martine, an ex-French intelligence operative who is known for dancing on both sides;
Other roles are filled by Julian Ovenden, Terence Maynard, and Lara Rossi.
Release Date
The runway is clear for NCIS: Tony And Ziva to land, although the window remains vague with Paramount Plus only clarifying a 2025 release. With Origins coming back in the fall, we can hope for a summer debut for the dynamic duo.
Trailer
Without a trailer in motion yet, DiNozzo’s opening fugitive speech can serve as a treat.
Chappell Roan blew up in popularity after opening for Olivia Rodrigo. Could Rachel Chinouriri, who is supporting Sabrina Carpenter on the Short N’ Sweet Tour in the U.K. and Europe, be next? (I’ll answer that for you: she should!)
A day after her first show with Carpenter, Chinouriri announced that she’s releasing a new EP, Little House, on April 4. The indie-pop artist also shared the first single “Can We Talk About Isaac?”
“I write songs from a place of trauma but since releasing my album, I’ve consistently been in therapy and fell in love,” she said in a statement. “Isaac makes me feel so protected and I’ve never felt protected really in my life, especially from men. I just felt so much of a new emotion I decided to let myself write about how much I love him, no matter what happens the fact that Isaac is the first and only guy to make me feel like this is special. It’s a shame that it took that to love myself but Isaac is my hero and I hope this fairytale never ends.”
You can watch the “Can We Talk About Isaac?” video above, and check out the Little House tracklist and Chinouriri’s tour dates below.
Rachel Chinouriri’s Little House Tracklist
1. “Can We Talk About Isaac?”
2. “23:42”
3. “Judas (Demo)”
4. “Indigo”
Rachel Chinouriri’s 2025 Tour Dates
03/06 — Birmingham, UK @ Utilita Arena *
03/08 — London, UK @ The O2 Arena *
03/09 — London, UK @ The O2 Arena *
03/11 — Glasgow, UK @ OVO Hydro *
03/13 — Manchester, UK @ Co-op Live *
03/14 — Manchester, UK @ Co-op Live *
03/16 — Paris, FR @ Accor Arena *
03/17 — Paris, FR @ Accor Arena *
03/19 — Berlin, DE @ Uber Arena *
03/22 — Brussels, BE @ ING Arena *
03/23 — Amsterdam, NL @ Ziggo Dome *
03/26 — Milan, IT @ Unipol Forum *
03/27 — Zurich, CH @ Hallenstadion *
03/30 — Oslo, NO @ Unity Arena *
03/30 — Copenhagen, DK @ Royal Arena *
04/01 — Copenhagen, DK @ Royal Arena *
04/03 — Stockholm, SE @ Avicii Arena *
04/04 — Stockholm, SE @ Avicii Arena *
05/09 — Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
05/10 — Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
05/12 — New York, NY @ Webster Hall
05/14 — Ontario, ON @ The Axis Club
05/16 — Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount
05/18 — Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
05/20 — Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
05/21 — Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line
05/24 — Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theatre
05/25 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell
05/27 — Seattle, WA @ Neumos
05/28 — Seattle, WA @ Neumos
05/29 — Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
05/31 — San Franciso, CA @ The Independent
06/02 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre
06/03 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre
06/06 — Dallas, TX @ House Of Blues Cambridge Room
06/07 — Austin, TX @ The Parish
06/08 — Houston, TX @ House Of Blues Bronze Peacock
06/10 — Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
06/13 — Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music + Arts Festival
* with Sabrina Carpenter
Little House is out 4/4 via 10K Projects/Parlophone/Atlas Artists. Find more information here.
For the last few months, my new favorite genre of YouTube video has been house party DJ sets. In addition to helping me dodge the AI music channels that have been cropping up at an alarming rate lately, they really are a great vibe.
Clearly, Wizkid’s a fan too. His “Kese (Dance)” video borrows the format about halfway through, surrounding the afrobeats star with a DJ and an intimate house party atmosphere, with extras winding it up to the smooth instrumental and clinking their drinks to highlight how much fun this shoot must have been.
The other half of the video is an exquisite, elegant dance production, as a troupe rehearses some intriguing choreography in a near-empty theater as Wiz watches. Finally, toward the end, Wiz lines up an eye-popping array of models in colorful, continental ensembles in front of a massive painting in a gallery. The messaging ain’t subtle; Black women are works of art, worthy of appreciation, preservation, and protection.
“Kese” is one of the standout cuts from Wizkid’s most recent album, Morayo. Released in November, the album features appearances from Asake, Anaïs Cardot, Brent Faiyaz, Jazmine Sullivan, and Tiakola, and debuted at No. 4 on Billboard‘s World Albums chart.
It’s March, and you know what that means: Basketball is back, baby! March Madness has yet to get fully underway, but announcements for the finale weekend are already coming out. Today, the NCAA and Women’s Final Four sponsor AT&T announced the headliner for the annual Super Saturday concert preceding the final three games of the season. After booking Latto for last year’s show, they’ve once again tapped a rising female rapper, this time going with one of Latto’s favorite collaborators, GloRilla.
Glo had arguably the second-biggest breakout story of 2024 (right behind Doechii), with her songs “TGIF” and “Yeah Glo!” becoming fan favorites ahead of the release of her debut album, Glorious. The love has culminated in a 20-city tour which kicks off tonight in Oklahoma City and concludes with a hometown show in Memphis at a to-be-determined future date. In between, she’ll make her Coachella debut, and now, we know she’ll be in Tampa Bay, Florida on Saturday, April 5, at the Curtis Hixon Park concert kicking off the Final Four festivities.
A&T
Glo’s prior experience with basketball aside, she’s a great pick for an exploding market; as interest in women’s ball has shot up in the past year, it makes perfect sense to book a Grammy-nominated hitmaker to highlight how women are taking over both sports and music. For more about women’s hoop, check out Uproxx’s Shot Clock Challenge with UCLA star Kiki Rice here.
Once upon a time, before Lady Gaga was Lady Gaga, she was simply Stefani Germanotta. Things are different now: She’s one of the biggest stars in the world (and she’s hosting SNL this weekend). She looks back especially fondly on the old days, though.
A new Gaga interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe was filmed in one of Gaga’s pre-fame haunts, and Lowe asked Gaga if her life since becoming famous has “felt like the blink of an eye or a river.” As Gaga reflected on the question, she was outwardly emotional as she started to sniffle and tear up. She responded, “Both. It definitely feels like both.”
Gaga continued:
“I just had no idea what was going to happen, and I’m really grateful that it did, but what I value when I think about this time is not what it gave to me in my career, but the endless memories. The memories were so powerful here, and that will just be in my heart forever. You know, I am so grateful, and you hear me say it a million times when I talk about this, ’cause I obviously feel like I need to qualify that piece of myself, and it’s true, but I do feel so happy to be in a place now in my life when… the thing that I valued the most in all of this was the community, and I left that behind.”
It has been well over two years since Adidas ended its partnership with Kanye West over his (first) run of antisemitic comments, and almost two full years since the company announced it would begin selling off its remaining Yeezy stock. Today, according to Rolling Stone, Adidas chief financial officer Harm Ohlmeyer confirmed that the company has officially offloaded its last Yeezy product. “There is not one Yeezy shoe left,” he said after the company’s earnings report earlier today. “It has all been sold and that episode is behind us.”
The report comes four months after Adidas and West reached a settlement in October following a dispute over promotional funds provided by Adidas that West allegedly put into other projects. “There isn’t any more open issues,” said Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden at the time. “No one owes anybody anything anymore. So whatever was is history.” It certainly sounds like the company is glad to be rid of West, especially in light of his comments drawing negative attention to the brand’s spotty history.
In the meantime, it doesn’t appear that West has exactly learned his lesson; as recently as January, he was still calling Adidas out over Google search results prioritizing his work with Adidas over his independent Yeezy-branded site. Then, just a month ago, he was right back at it, redirecting said site to a T-shirt emblazoned with a swastika, the more-or-less official emblem of antisemitism, xenophobia, and white supremacy worldwide. He may have made “Jesus Walks,” but it sounds like Adidas would be perfectly alright with him going to hell.
The “Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon” game between Haim and Nicole Kidman got just a lot easier.
On Wednesday (March 5), Haim shared the artwork for their upcoming single, “Relationships.” It shows Alana, Danielle, and Este looking jubilant with their eyes closed in a sunny parking lot, a reference to a photo of Nicole Kidman that was supposedly taken after her divorce to Tom Cruise was finalized. The much meme’d pic of Kidman is real; the Cruise backstory, not so much.
“That was from a film, that wasn’t real life,” she told GQ UK. “That’s not true.”
Haim haven’t released an album since 2020’s Women In Music Pt. III, but the sisters have remained busy, including opening for Taylor Swift on The Eras Tour. Alana also starred in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2021 film Licorice Pizza. The director — who, in a further connection to Kidman, worked with Cruise on Magnolia — cast the youngest of the Haim sisters after seeing the group perform at Coachella. “Paul helped us with our Coachella set in 2018,” she told The Daily Texan. “He says he turned to me and said, ‘I’m going to put you in a movie one day.’ I vaguely remember that, but I don’t really remember.”
Alana appears in PTA’s new film, One Battle After Another, which is scheduled to come out this year.
If you’re a Doechii fan, you know all about her old song called “Anxiety.” For those who aren’t in the loop, she just gave the song, which samples Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know,” an official streaming release. It turns out this song has had quite the journey to get here.
“OK, so I’m gonna break down this lore to people who don’t understand it.
So, I’m dropping a song called ‘Anxiety.’ Now, you may be thinking, ”Anxiety’ already came out.’ So, Sleepy Hallow — amazing artist, by the way — he dropped a song called ‘Anxiety,’ where he was sampling my song called ‘Anxiety,’ but my song is using the sample of ‘Somebody I Used To Know.’ And then I took that beat, ‘Somebody I Used To Know,’ and I made my own song on top of it called ‘Anxiety.’ So then I dropped that song on YouTube.
It never hit streaming, and then Sleepy Hallow sampled that, it got approved, and then that song blew up, and now people are finding the original version that I did on YouTube, and that’s blowing up on TikTok, […] and now people want me to release the full version, and… we’re here! And I’m releasing it, and it’s coming out! So, y’all can enjoy the full version and that’s the lore behind ‘Anxiety.’”
Despite arguably hitting too close to current events, The Handmaid’s Tale has remained a flagship series for Hulu (with the viewership to match), but it’s almost time to sunset this phase of Gilead and make room for a followup series, The Testaments. Both shows are based upon Margaret Atwood novels, and Elisabeth Moss has been embodying Offred since the character’s 2017 onscreen debut, so she is likely ready to put a final nail in her oppressors, although one of them (Yvonne Strahovski’s Serena Joy) certainly has already experienced a table turning of her own.
A recent teaser trailer promises to illuminate and reappropriate the Handmaids’ trademark clothing color into a symbol of rage, so of course, viewers will want to catch up before the final episodes begin streaming.
When Will The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 Premiere On Hulu?
Mark your TV calendars for April 8, 2025. From the synopsis:
In the final season of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” June’s unyielding spirit and determination pull her back into the fight to take down Gilead. Luke and Moira join the resistance. Serena tries to reform Gilead while Commander Lawrence and Aunt Lydia reckon with what they have wrought, and Nick faces challenging tests of character. This final chapter of June’s journey highlights the importance of hope, courage, solidarity, and resilience in the pursuit of justice and freedom.
The final season’s cast not only includes Moss and Strahovski but also Bradley Whitford, Ann Dowd, Samira Wiley, Madeline Brewer, O.T. Fagbenle, Amanda
Brugel, Sam Jaeger, Max Minghella, Ever Carradine, and Josh Charles.
You can watch the sixth season teaser trailer below.
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