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Taylor Swift is continuing her run of the massive The Eras Tour in Florida this weekend, but there’s still a likelihood of famous faces not being able to attend. Just like us, some have struggled to get through the Ticketmaster queue to even pick some decently-priced seats.

In retired football player Eli Manning’s case, he has his sights on attending one of Swift’s MetLife shows in Jersey this May, as he recently told People.

“We’ve been to a couple of her concerts over the years and we’re trying to get to the one at MetLife this year in New York. The ticket situation has been hard for everybody,” Manning shared, noting that his family pushed him to try. He has three daughters and one son, all relatively young.

“It’s the ticket,” he added. “That was my one duty from my wife.”

However, the former Giants player still has roots at his old stomping grounds of the stadium, so he might be more fortunate in finally scoring tickets. (Or already has by now.)

“Luckily, I have a few connections at MetLife and since we play our games there, I was able to secure some, I think,” Manning said.

Swift’s MetLife shows start on May 26. A complete list of dates, along with more information, is available here.

It looks like the long-delayed HBO original series The Idol is finally imminent.

The upcoming series tells the story of a pop star named Jocelyn (Lily Rose Depp) who falls in love with a cult leader named Tedros (Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye). Today (April 12), The Weeknd, who co-created the series with Euphoria‘s Sam Levinson, shared a tweet teasing new music ahead of the series.

“THE IDOL VOL. 1 [CD emoji] coming soon (double fantasy & jealous guy just a taste),” the tweet reads.

“Double Fantasy” and “Jealous Guy” appear to be names of songs on the show’s soundtrack, or perhaps titles of songs within the show’s score.

Earlier this week, The Weeknd took to Instagram Live to preview new music, which contained jazz-influenced sounds and featured producer Mike Dean on the saxophone.

Last year, during Coachella, The Weeknd debuted an updated version of his 2014 single, “Often,” which featured new production by Dean and Levinson.

While The Idol is one of the year’s most anticipated new shows, it is not arriving without its controversies. Last month, Rolling Stone published a scathing exposé noting the set’s alleged unprofessional conditions, and reported that The Weeknd wasn’t around much during production.

The Weeknd later responded to the piece via Twitter, with a clip from the show featuring characters Jocelyn and Tedros bashing the magazine.

Have you met Max? It’s the new service formerly known as HBO Max, and they are coming in hot with a whole slew of shows and specials. This is great news for everyone who loves good television, but bad news for anyone named Max, who will no doubt have a confusing year. It’s like Alexa all over again.

But with the new announcement comes the first look at Colin Farrell‘s new show The Penguin, aptly named after his tough guy villain in Matt Reeves‘ 2022 emo superhero film Batman. And by the first look, we can safely say: this “penguin” guy sure is pretty evil. It’s hard to even believe that our lovable boy Colin is really in under all of that makeup giving his best Tony Soprano impression.

According to the official synopsis, the series will pick up right where Reeves’ Batman left off. “After Paul Dano’s The Riddler kills Carmine Falcone, one of Gotham City’s top mob bosses, he floods the major downtown area in a coordinated terrorist attack — leaving Farrell’s Cobblepot with a city in chaos and a power vacuum within Gotham’s underworld.” Reeves is also producing the series.

The series is currently in production and is slated for a 2024 release, where it will have to compete with shows like The Last Of Us and House of the Dragon. But really, when it comes down to it, could zombies and dragons really tackle Academy Award Nominee Colin Farrell? Didn’t think so! And will Robert Pattinson make his grand return to stop him? Who knows.

The Penguin will also star Cristin Milioti, Michael Zegen, and Clancy Brown. Check out the trailer above.

(Via Variety)

Confirming reports that a new streaming service was on the way, Warner Bros. Discovery has officially announced that HBO Max and Discovery+ will merge into a new super app known simply as Max. As for the reasoning behind the name change, considering HBO has strong brand recognition and a sterling reputation for delivering the best prestige series on the market, here’s what WB Discovery streaming chief JB Perette said during the announcement.

Via Variety:

“HBO is not TV. HBO is HBO, it needs to stay that way, which is why we will privilege it in the product experience and also not push it to the breaking point by forcing it to take on the full breadth of this content proposition, had we kept the brand in the service name.”

Everyone got all that? HBO needs to stay HBO, but also here’s a plethora of HBO projects that were announced today for Max, the streaming service soon to be formerly known as HBO Max. (Our heads hurt, too.)

– A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight. Technically, this Game of Thrones prequel series will air on HBO, but to make things as confusing as possible, it was announced in the middle of the Max presentation.

– Harry Potter. Confirming reports that WBD was keen to get J.K. Rowling’s books into a streaming show, this long-rumored project has been officially ordered to series for Max. Featuring an all-new cast, each season will focus on one book, which means it will run for at least seven seasons or eight if the final book is split into two parts like the films.

– The Sympathizer. A new comedy spy series starring Robert Downey Jr.

– The Conjuring. This series based on the horror film series is reportedly being developed by HBO Max for Max? Again, your guess is good as ours here.

– The Big Bang Theory spinoff. Thanks the success of Young Sheldon, a new spinoff from the hit sitcom is headed to Max.

– The Penguin. Based on Colin Farrell’s character from The Batman, this show was already announced and in production, but now it’s headed for Max.

Max is scheduled to launch on May 23.

(Via Variety)

Jodie Foster investigating a serial killer? It’s crazy enough to work. And maybe it will with True Detective: Night Country.

The fourth season of the HBO limited series that was an instant sensation when it premiered in 2014. Season two was a rushed mess, but after a four-year break, season three was mostly a return to form. And season four looks promising, based on the chilly and intense teaser trailer above.

In True Detective: Night Country, “when the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice,” according to the official plot synopsis.

The latest season of True Detective (which recently wrapped filming) is being overseen by showrunner Issa Lopez and executive producer Barry Jenkins, the Oscar-winning director of Moonlight. Creator Nic Pizzolatto is supposedly no longer involved.

True Detective: Night Country, which also stars Fiona Shaw, Finn Bennett, Isabella Star Lablanc, Aka Niviâna, Anna Lambe, Joel D. Montgrand, Christopher Eccleston, and John Hawkes, premieres later this year.

Barbie is one of the movie events of the summer, but Margot Robbie is shocked that the film even got made. “The first time I read the Barbie script, my reaction was, ‘Ah! This is so good. What a shame it will never see the light of day because they are never going to let us make this movie.’ But they did,” the actress told BAFTA (via IndieWire).

There have been set photos and a trailer for Greta Gerwig’s satirical comedy, but precious few plot details. When asked if she would reveal anything, Robbie coyly replied, “Can’t tell ya!” She did, however, previously discuss how the Barbie movie won’t be what people think of when they hear “Barbie movie.”

“It comes with a lot of baggage,” she told Vogue. “And a lot of nostalgic connections. But with that come a lot of exciting ways to attack it. People generally hear ‘Barbie’ and think, ‘I know what that movie is going to be,’ and then they hear that Greta Gerwig is writing and directing it, and they’re like, ‘Oh, well, maybe I don’t.’”

Barbie, which also stars Ryan Gosling as Ken; Kate McKinnon, Emma Mackey, and Issa Rae as various Barbies; and Michael Cera as Allan, just… Allan, opens on July 21st, the same day as Oppenheimer.

(Via IndieWire)

John Mayer is a notorious heartbreaker amongst the A-list women in the entertainment industry. But the “Waitin’ On The Day” singer promises that he has since changed his way. However, his old songs, especially the ones about his past whirlwind romances, are still getting him into trouble. During a recent show, the musician took a moment to address one track in particular.

Released in 2013, “Paper Doll” has long since been rumored to be about his pop star ex-girlfriend, Taylor Swift. Following their tumultuous split around 2010, Swifties have whispered that Mayer was the inspiration behind her deep-cutting tracks, 2010’s “Dear John” and 2022’s “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve,” a track Mayer believes “he didn’t deserve” to be at the center of. To be fair, Swift hasn’t confirmed whether or not either song was about him.

Supposedly in response to “Dear John,” Mayer released “Paper Doll,” and during his show at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, he addressed the pushback he received from the song.

“I wonder if people don’t like it because it sounds a little pissed off,” said Mayer. “I don’t really like ‘pissed off’ as a song. […] There’s something about it that’s a little bitchy,” continuing to say it gives off “sarcastic b*tch” vibes.

Watch the video above.

It’s always a treat when your favorite actor or actress shows up in a highly-anticipated trailer. We all felt this way last week when Michael Cera appeared for just a second in the Barbie teaser, right?

The long-awaited John Wick prequel series, The Continental, is finally heading to Peacock this September, and the first trailer just appeared, filled with lots of violence paired with some fun ’70s music. Fans are ready to see the series, led by Colin Woodell, but there is one split second in the trailer that has been making the rounds on Twitter, and that’s Katie McGrath’s debut as The Adjudicator.

The Adjudicator is a High Table agent who was first introduced in John Wick Chapter 3. Since The Continental takes place several decades ago, it seems like there are multiple iterations of The Adjudicator, and Katkie McGrath appears to be one of them. There is not much to go on in her very brief spot in the trailer, though her fans sure did take note!

McGrath is known for her roles in historical dramas and various sci-fi/fantasy-adjacent roles, most recently as Lena Luthor on Supergirl. Despite ending in 2021, the Supergirl fandom is alive and well and they are more than happy to see McGrath making her assassin debut after all this time.

You can see Katie McGrath and her mask alongside Peter Greene, Ben Robson, Ayomide Adegun, and Mel Gibson (really) on Peacock this September.

When we think about how hard it would be to lose one of our senses, we usually imagine losing our sight or our hearing. But what about losing our sense of smell?

Being able to smell may not seem as important as being able to see or hear, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a big deal if you can’t. Our sense of smell functions as an early-warning safety alert system, for one thing, so losing it can put us at risk. But smell is also one of our biggest memory triggers; a familiar scent can transport us to a specific time and place in the past in an instant. Pleasant smells can also evoke joy, whether we’re inhaling the fragrance of our favorite flower or basking in the mouth-watering scent of our mom’s cookies.

One of the most beloved scents in the world, even for people who don’t like the taste of it, is the smell of coffee. So when 54-year-old Jennifer Henderson got to experience her first whiff of coffee after two years of not being able to smell anything at all, her reaction was understandably emotional.

Henderson has been dealing with “long COVID,” a term referring to new or lingering symptoms long after an initial acute COVID-19 infection wanes, since she contracted the virus two years ago. Long COVID can manifest in many ways, one of which is the senses of smell and taste going awry. For Henderson, long COVID has resulted in bananas tasting like metal, garlic tasting like gasoline and her sense of smell being nonexistent for two years, according to WOIO News.

However, Cleveland Clinic anesthesiologist and pain medicine specialists Christina Shin, M.D. and Jijun Xu, M.D., Ph.D. have found that a common pain medication treatment seems to help many COVID long haulers regain their sense of smell and taste. The doctors told WOIO they don’t really konw why it works, but it does offer hope for many who are suffering with long COVID like Henderson.

“You feel like you’re in this box,” Henderson said in a video shared by CBS. “For two years, two senses are gone, completely gone. And now I just feel like I’m getting my life back. I’m getting back to normal.”

Watch the moment she realizes she can smell the coffee:

People struggling with long COVID often feel forgotten as the world increasingly moves away from focusing on the pandemic. It doesn’t help that there’s still so much we don’t know. As can be expected in a novel viral pandemic, data has taken time to collect and analyze, and even defining long COVID has been a challenge as researchers learn in real-time about the long-term effects of COVID infection.

The Kaiser Family Foundation reports that as of January 2023, the estimated workforce numbers affected by long COVID range from fewer than 500,000 to as many as 4 million. A study published in Nature in January 2023 estimated that long COVID occurs in at least 10% of acute SARS-CoV-2 infections, with more than 200 symptoms impacting multiple organ systems being identified with the condition.

Thankfully, breakthroughs like the one from the Cleveland Clinic do offer hope for people who have had far more questions than answers about their symptoms. Hopefully, we will see more people get relief like Henderson did as doctors and scientists keep working to decipher the long COVID puzzle.

If you’ve never heard of the Cat Distribution System, then you probably don’t own a cat, or you do, but you acquired your cat in a normal, non-weird way. You know, like at an animal shelter or from some nice lady on social media who had a box of kittens. Some people do get cats that way, and it’s one thousand percent a valid way to attain cat parent status.

But some lucky folks get cats through the Cat Distribution System (or CDS for short). Is this system real? The only people who know this are cats. They’re also the ones that run the system, so the rules and the way in which you attain your purr machine may be a bit wonky. You may wake up with an unknown cat in your bed even though all of your windows are closed, or you just may be like this delivery driver.

The driver was out picking up orders when a cat came out of the CDS and jumped on the man’s leg as he attempted to get back to his car. Thanks to his dash cam, you get to see CDS at work, and so did his mom. The video currently has over 2.8 million views on TikTok.

When the driver asked his mom if he could keep the cat, at first she said no. Then she saw the footage of the cat aggressively and desperately choosing her son to be its new cat dad—and that’s how you get a cat through the CDS. Once the cat realized she made the right choice, she snuggled up on her dad’s lap as he drove her home.

“We are not cat people,” reads the text overlay. “My youngest son was out making deliveries last night. A cat kept following him. Then jumped on his leg and would not let go.”

I have news for you, Mom, you’re cat people now. It’s how the Cat Distribution System works. They train their recruits to turn non-cat people into cat people, one unsuspecting human at a time. If you don’t make it to the end of the video, yes, they kept the cat and her name is Venus. That’s how the system is designed.

Watch the CDS at work below:

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