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Nickelodeon’s slime-filled NFL playoff game was either a delight or an abomination depending on your worldview, but it’s officially begat a new highlight show for the league this season. And that’s good news for Nate Burleson and the kids who made the broadcast a hit earlier this year.

Burleson, who recently expanded his role at CBS, truly thrived during some NFL-themed shows ahead of the kids network airing a playoff game between the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints last season. And he’ll be part of a new show, NFL Slimetime, which will show “Nick-ified” highlights from that week’s slate of NFL games.

As The Hollywood Reporter detailed on Friday, the show will feature Burleson, a Nick star, and even Adam Schefter’s daughter.

NFL Slimetime will air at 7 p.m. Wednesdays, with CBS Mornings anchor and former NFL player Nate Burleson and Nick star Young Dylan will host, with teenage sports reporter Dylan Schefter (the daughter of ESPN NFL reporter Adam Schefter) serving as correspondent. The half-hour show will “Nick-ified” highlights and game footage, segments spotlighting youth football, interviews with players and appearances by other Nickelodeon personalities.

Burleson did commentary for Nickelodeon’s alternate telecast of a CBS wild card game in January, which drew better than 2 million viewers — making it the most watched program on Nick in nearly four years.

Also in this news is that another Wild Card Game will be broadcast on Nick later this year, and maybe all that work on the weekly show will make everyone but Burleson a bit more polished come postseason. But if you liked the goofy broadcast and miss having a must-see highlight show in your life, well, this may fill that spot with a much stickier substitute.

[via THR]

Ahead of her portrayal of Ann Coulter in FX’s Impeachment: American Crime Story, Cobie Smulders sat down for a lengthy interview on how she ended up taking over the role from Betty Gilpin and what it was like trying to recreate a late ’90s Coulter who was just beginning her career as a conservative firebrand.

As part of her process, Smulders listened to all 12 of Coulter’s book, which she readily admits got very anti-immigrant as they went on. However, Smulders was adamant that her research mainly involved nailing the cadence of Coulter’s speech patterns and trying to incorporate for penchant of always acting like she’s the smartest person in the room. That said, Smulders wasn’t completely walled off from Coulter’s political beliefs, and she had an interesting response when Marlow Stern asked her if she thinks Coulter actually believes what she’s saying or if she’s just a “performance artist.” Via The Daily Beast:

You know, it’s hard to say, because one of the things I try to do is say, I can’t really know anybody until I have a personal moment with them. She has a political style—to go in and stir up the pot—and that’s how she’s made her career. But I don’t know what she feels or thinks genuinely. She’s outspoken about a lot of different things, and to be comfortable saying some of the beliefs that she has out loud, it leads me to believe that there’s probably a part of her that does [believe it]. She’s still an enigma to me.

So essentially Smulders feels Coulter is most likely a “true believer,” which isn’t great if you’ve heard any of the things that Ann Coulter has said over the years. Case in point, the lady super hates immigrants. So much so that she even got mad at Trump after he softened his anti-immigration stance while in office, and it wasn’t all that soft. We’re going to side with Smulders and agree that Coulter probably isn’t putting on an act.

Impeachment: American Crime Story airs Tuesdays on FX.

(Via The Daily Beast)

The year is 2024. Joe Biden is running against a Republican ticket of Matt Gaetz / Marjorie Taylor Greene and third-party candidate Joe Rogan to become a two-term president. America is divided, even more than it is now; also, Taco Bell took away the Crunchwrap Supreme, leading to riots in the streets. Can anyone unite the country? Yes: Anya Taylor-Joy wrecking sh*t in a death-mobile.

Deadline reports that the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel movie, Furiosa, has been pushed from June 23, 2023, to Memorial Day 2024. The cast includes Taylor-Joy as Imperator Furiosa, the character originated by Charlize Theron, as well as Chris Hemsworth and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in unknown roles. Tom Hardy is unlikely to return, but I will allow production to use the original Doof Wagon after I buy it at an auction later this month:

George Miller’s Furiosa will be Australia’s biggest ever, and is prepping for a South Wales shoot next year. The production will inject at least $350 million AUD into the local economy and create 850 jobs. Miller wrote the story and produces with Doug Mitchell.

Warner Bros. also announced that a new adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot, starring Alfre Woodard, Lewis Pullman, Makenzie, Leigh, Bill Camp, Spencer Treat Clark, and William Sadler, will open on September 9, 2022. But considering it — nor Avatar 3, which is also scheduled to come out in 2024 — doesn’t feature a single maniac in red pajamas shredding a flame-throwing guitar, I’m inherently less interested.

(Via Deadline)

Marc Gasol, for a short period of time, is headed back to the Memphis Grizzlies. According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the Grizzlies worked out a deal for the veteran big man with the Los Angeles Lakers, who rumors indicate have been looking to move him for much of this offseason.

The catch: While the Lakers will salary dump Gasol, Memphis doesn’t plan on keeping him around, either. The Grizzlies — which sent L.A. the draft rights to Wang Zhelin and received a second round pick and cash for their troubles — reportedly plan on working out an arrangement with Gasol that will see him waived. As a result, the former All-NBA center will remain in Spain.

Memphis has been busy this offseason, as the team has been involved in a number of transactions that have let them build up their draft capital while giving them the chance to look at younger players who need to jump start their careers. Unfortunately for those of us who enjoy nostalgia, though, it appears giving Gasol one last chance with the franchise isn’t in the cards. Perhaps he’ll be able to join up with his older brother, Pau, as a member of Barcelona’s basketball team, instead.

Everyone, even President Joe Biden, is frustrated with the amount of COVID vaccine misinformation that’s been circling online right now. It’s gotten so bad that, during his address to the nation Thursday evening, Biden made a point of calling out the vaccine-hesitant among us.

“My message to unvaccinated Americans is this: What more is there to wait for? What more do you need to see?” Biden said in his speech after laying out a multi-step plan to ramping up vaccinations and reducing the surge of COVID cases happening thanks to the more contagious Delta variant. “We’ve been patient but our patience is wearing thin and your refusal has cost all of us.”

Harsh? Maybe. Necessary? Depends on who you ask. If you’re talking to CNN’s Jake Tapper, Biden’s “scolding” tone was a bit over-dramatic and directed at the wrong people.

The news anchor shared his thoughts on Biden’s address during the network’s New Day segment, telling hosts John Berman and Brianna Keilar that he thought the president’s censure was uncalled for.

“I don’t think scolding is the approach. There are these purveyors of misinformation out there, and they’re not just on the right,” Tapper said. “He’s scolding the people that are being lied to as opposed to the liars.”

Social media platforms like Facebook have been instrumental in convincing skeptics that the FDA-approved vaccines for COVID aren’t necessary or, worse, are dangerous, despite a lack of evidence to support those claims. Because so many of these conspiracy theories live on social media, it’s difficult to combat the stereotypes now associated with the virus and our best preventative measure of fighting it, which might be why Biden decided to directly call out the people falling for this nonsense instead. But Tapper does have a point: if we’re trying to convince more people to get their shot, taking a 360-degree approach to that by contradicting and challenging those spreading misinformation seems like a good way to do that.

Ryan Pollie is formerly known as Los Angeles Police Department, and last year, he took on yet another moniker with his Total Revenge project. Now, though, he’s back to making music under his own name (as he did on his 2019 self-titled album) with a new single, “The Shore House.” It starts as a breezy tune with some pep in its step before going through multiple other moods and musical ideas, so it’s fitting that Pollie describes the track as “a concept album within a song:

“Featuring a ripping guitar solo by Michael Rault, ‘Shore House’ is a concept album within a song. There is a chromatic breakdown that features a desk bell and gym whistle and a chorus that strips down to my voice, a string quartet and a lonely harpist. Inspired by my father, ‘The Shore House’ is a story about a man raising children in suburbia. The character grew up at the shore and always thought he would see his kids grow up next to the beach as well. Now stuck in the mundanity of a predictable suburban life, he dreams of the waves and longs for even just a weekend back home at the shore.”

Of his upcoming music and life in general, he noted that things are going exceptionally: “I felt so much support from our music community when I had Cancer that it’s absolutely necessary to say my thanks here. Artists, journalists, industry folk and the like — reaching out and checking in… I truly appreciate it. Quick update — I’ve been in remission for 3 years almost, which is HUGE. Every year that goes by, the more in the clear I am. Of course the music you’re going to be hearing from me has a bit to do with when I was sick and what I’ve been pondering about my own life and life in general since then. Looking back, regret, and the like. But this is certainly the most joyous material I’ve ever released — my sad boy 22-year-old self would be in disbelief!”

Watch the video for “The Shore House” above.

Stephen A. Smith is one of the defining takesmen of our time. Smith, as has long been evident, takes a quantity over quality approach to dishing out his beliefs on a given subject, as the longtime ESPN personality has the breathtaking ability to come up with something for literally every subject. They’re not always good — in fact, some of them are quite bad — but they are consistent in their ability to exist.

The sheer volume of takes Smith has doled out was revealed during a recent appearance on Ebro in the Morning. Smith, while discussing the end of Max Kellerman’s time on First Take, said that while the pair have a good relationship, sometimes, chemistry between two people can begin to grow stale. He slipped in his sheer output as a takesman and good LORD.

“What a lot of people don’t realize is the work that goes into doing the show every single day,” Smith said. “And the reality is that we have 15 segments a day, 75 segments a week, over 3,000 takes a year. In the nine years that I’ve been on First Take, I’ve given over 33,000 takes.”

That is a lot of takes! The wild thing is this does not include Smith’s take output on, say, his radio show, or SportsCenter, or Stephen A’s World, or any of the other shows he appears on, or that time he went onto Fox News and no one on set had any idea how to respond to the fact that Stephen A. Smith is a master takesman who was unfazed by the general weirdness of being on Fox News (link here, but be warned that you’re going to Fox’s YouTube page and it might totally mess your YouTube algorithm up, so maybe go Incognito for this one).

Anyway, I would love to know exactly how this number is kept. Does Smith do it himself? Does someone on First Take keep count like they’re watching a pitcher on a strict pitch limit? Is there a big board that has a number that goes up with every new take? Is this just unique takes, or does this include ones that are constantly repeated? What happens when he hits 50,000? Or 100,000? More questions than answers exist, surely.

On August 13, 2020, Fortnite developer Epic Games “declared war on Apple” after the company’s frustrations with the iOS version of their app being forced to use Apple Pay reached a boiling point. Following their 1984-inspired declaration, Epic Games proceeded to add an option in Fortnite‘s main menu that allowed players to choose to pay Epic directly — and at a lower cost — in order to cut Apple Pay out of the equation. As you can imagine, tech giant Apple didn’t take too kindly to Epic’s bold move, and quickly removed the Fortnite app from the App Store, kicking off a massive legal battle between the two.

Now, over a year later, the judge overseeing the case, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, has issued a ruling in favor of Epic Games, stating that Apple can no longer force developers to use its own payment system within their apps as it engages in what the state of California refers to as “anticompetitive conduct.” However, the judge also ruled Epic Games must pay Apple $3.6 million in revenue that was previously withheld, stating Epic’s “Project Liberty” (Epic’s name for its aforementioned attempt to allow players to buy from them directly and circumvent Apple Pay) was nothing more than a “highly choreographed attack” on Apple. Lastly, Judge Rogers argued Epic’s description of Apple as a monopoly was incorrect, stating “success is not illegal.” This ruling is scheduled to officially take effect in 90 days, meaning Apple could seek to block the order before then.

As you can imagine, both Apple and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney had a lot to say about the ruling. In a New York Times article published earlier today, an Apple representative said:

“Today the Court has affirmed what we’ve known all along: the App Store is not in violation of antitrust law. Apple faces rigorous competition in every segment in which we do business, and we believe customers and developers choose us because our products and services are the best in the world. We remain committed to ensuring the App Store is a safe and trusted marketplace.”

Sweeney provided his own comments on the ruling via tweet, stating “today’s ruling isn’t a win for developers or for consumers. Epic is fighting for fair competition among in-app payment methods and app stores for a billion consumers.”

Ultimately, the ruling given by Judge Rogers could cost both parties a lot of money and neither one is walking away with a “victory royale,” meaning if you were someone who was rooting for both big businesses to be knocked down a peg or three, you just got your wish. However, I think the real takeaway from the whole trial has to be that popular Fortnite mascot Peely was also ruled to be “just a banana man,” which really throws the absurdity of this whole ordeal into perspective.

In an almost on-brand moment considering she was promoting The Morning Show Season 2, Jennifer Aniston left BBC viewers scratching their heads after an awkward exchange with The One Show host Jermaine Jenas. While appearing alongside her Morning Show co-star Reese Witherspoon, Aniston was seemingly cut off by Jenas, and her reaction has people divided over who was in the wrong.

It all happened as Aniston described experiencing the intense early morning grind that talk show hosts go through … only to have Jenas abruptly toss a question at Witherspoon who took the whole thing in stride. Via The New York Post:

“Reese, I’ve got to be honest with you, Jennifer’s pretty much sold it to me that she’s not a morning person,” he said, at which Aniston appeared stunned.

“Did I sell that to you?’” Aniston uncomfortably asked, to which Jenas responded, “A little bit, a little bit.”

“Did I get a good deal?” the actress snapped back.

Jenas, a former English soccer player, then laughed awkwardly and tried to move forward with his conversation with Witherspoon, abruptly saying, “So, what about you, Reese?”

After the back-and-forth between Jenas and Aniston went viral, BBC viewers were split over whether Jenas was rude or Aniston overreacted.

Without picking a side here, Jenas did cut her off, but it also seemed like Aniston was rolling with the punches and delivering some friendly jabs that wouldn’t be out of place on The Morning Show. It’s almost like the whole blue and gold dress debate, but without the deep emotional scars that will haunt an entire generation.

The Morning Show Season 2 premieres September 17 on Apple TV+.

(Via New York Post)

It was reported this morning that Josh Homme’s young children, 10-year-old Orrin and 5-year-old Wolf, have filed (through their mother and Homme’s ex-wife, Brody Dalle) for restraining orders against their father, citing physical and emotional abuse as the reason. It looks like that didn’t go as planned for them, though, as TMZ reports the requests have been denied by two separate judges.

The publication notes the requests were first filed in Los Angeles, but after they were denied there, Dalle brought them to a Santa Monica court, where they were again shot down.

At the time the original news was announced this morning, Homme’s attorney, Susan Wiesner, told TMZ, “Ms. Dalle has previously brought these claims to the police, DCFS, and the presiding judge of the family law court, all of whom have declined to take any action based upon these spurious claims.”

Documents indicated that Homme’s sons are scared their father will harm them. Homme allegedly drinks and drives with the children in the vehicle and physically and emotionally abuses the children, with Orrin claiming examples of that behavior include “flicking his ears, hitting his head, poking his chest and throwing things at him — while calling him fat and allegedly making threats about murdering Brody’s boyfriend.”