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‘The Royals’ Renewed for Season Three

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William Moseley, Elizabeth Hurley, Tom Austen and Alexandra Park star in ‘The Royals’ (Photo by: Charley Gallay/E! Entertainment)

The Royals will be sticking around for a third season as just announced by E! Entertainment. The dramatic series is the network’s first original scripted show and stars Elizabeth Hurley, William Moseley, Alexandra Park, and Jake Maskall as a fictional dysfunctional Royal family. The Royals, created, written, and directed by Mark Schwahn, will have a 10 episode season three.


Season two is currently airing on Sunday nights at 10pm ET/PT and will finish up on January 17th.

“We are incredibly proud of the success of The Royals,” stated Jeff Olde, Executive Vice President, Original Programming & Development, E! “The series has captured fans and brought them into a regal world of sexy, fun drama. We can’t wait to see what season three will bring and what surprises are still in store as we enter the second half of season two.”

“We are delighted by today’s pick-up announcement for season three of The Royals,” added Kevin Beggs, Lionsgate Television Group Chairman. “The Royals reflects the kind of original, noisy and provocative series that is a Lionsgate signature. We look forward to an all-new season of palace intrigue and badly behaved royals with our partners at E! and Universal Cable Productions.”

The Royals Plot:

The second season picked up eight weeks after the tragic murder of King Simon (Vincent Regan) by an unknown assailant. Cyrus, Simon’s arrogant brother, has taken the throne after deeming the Prince and Princess illegitimate, with the help of the Queen to fabricate the paternity results. While Cyrus, who is also secretly battling cancer, is convinced the Queen is on his side, her majesty has her own agenda in mind: change the succession of the Royal Family and make the power shift to the Queen if anything should happen to yet another King. Meanwhile, Liam vows to bring his father’s murderer to justice and teams up with an unlikely ally to do so, the duplicitous bodyguard Jasper who had been relieved from his duties after sleeping with both the Princess and the Queen, and had once been considered a prime suspect in the King’s attack that led to his death. However, the two young men, who are both working to mend their respective broken hearts, have bonded over their mutual concern for the Princess’ wellbeing as she falls further down the rabbit hole.

The stellar cast is led by Elizabeth Hurley as the calculating Queen Helena, and she is joined by William Moseley as the vengeful Prince Liam, Alexandra Park as an uncontrollable Princess Eleanor, Tom Austen as the Prince’s devious bodyguard Jasper Frost, Oliver Milburn as the troubled head of the Royal security, and Jake Maskall as the newly-crowned and universally despised King Cyrus. Lydia Rose Bewley, Andrew Bicknell, Victoria Ekanoye, Poppy Corby-Tuech, Simon Thomas, and Scott Maslen co-star along with Joan Collins as the Grand Duchess of Oxford.

2016 Golden Globes Presenters Announced

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If you’re on the bubble as to whether to tune in to watch Ricky Gervais (hopefully) skewer the Hollywood Foreign Press Association when he hosts the 2016 Golden Globes, here’s the first confirmed list of celebrities who’ll be joining him on stage for the annual awards show. Any of the following could wind up being targets of Gervais’ jokes:


Amy Adams (two-time Golden Globe Award winner and six-time award nominee), Jaimie Alexander, Patricia Arquette (Golden Globe Award winner and four-time award nominee), Jim Carrey (two-time Golden Globe Award winner and six-time award nominee), Jamie Foxx (Golden Globe Award winner and three-time award nominee), Mel Gibson (Golden Globe Award winner and three-time award nominee), Amber Heard, Bryce Dallas Howard (Golden Globe Award nominee), Kate Hudson (Golden Globe Award winner), Helen Mirren (three-time Golden Globe Award winner and fourteen-time award nominee, including 2016 nominee for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture), Julianne Moore (two-time Golden Globe Award winner and nine-time award nominee), Eddie Redmayne (Golden Globe Award winner and two-time award nominee, including 2016 nominee for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama), Kurt Russell (Golden Globe Award nominee), J.K. Simmons (Golden Globe Award winner), Channing Tatum, and Olivia Wilde.

The 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards will air live on NBC on January 10, 2016 at 5pm PT/8pm ET. The Globes will be honoring the best in film and television from 2015, with Carol, Fargo, Outlander, Mr. Robot, Transparent, and Wolf Hall topping the list of nominees.

Complete list of 2016 Golden Globes nominees

‘Star Wars’ Star Adam Driver to Host ‘Saturday Night Live’

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Selena Gomez – Photo © Richard Chavez

NBC’s announced the schedule for the first Saturday Night Live shows of 2016 and Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be well represented when Adam Driver hosts the late-night show for the first time on January 16th. Driver, who plays Star Wars villain Kylo Ren, will be joined by Grammy winner Chris Stapleton for the first episode of SNL in 2016. First-time musical guest Stapleton’s Traveller recently hit the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart.

UFC fighter/occasional actress Ronda Rousey will also be making her debut as SNL host this month when she handles hosting duties on January 23rd. Also set to make her musical guest debut is recording artist/actress Selena Gomez who’ll join Rousey for the January 23rd episode. Gomez’ latest album Revival has launched the hit singles “Same Old Love” and “Good for You.”

John Stamos and Jimmy Fallon Play Kid Dictionary


Don’t look for Jimmy Fallon to be bringing back the Kid Dictionary game any time soon. Grandfathered star John Stamos visited The Tonight Show and although he obviously would rather have been playing any game other than Kid Dictionary, Stamos sort of helped Fallon figure out what word kids were attempting to describe, ending the bit with plea for a people to tune in and watch his half-hour comedy.

And speaking of his half-hour comedy series, Grandfathered airs on Tuesday nights at 8pm ET/PT. The series was created and written by Daniel Chun and stars Stamos, Josh Peck, Paget Brewster, Christina Milian, Kelly Jenrette, and Ravi Patel.

The Grandfathered Plot: Successful restaurateur and man-about-town JIMMY MARTINO (Stamos) is used to being the most suave, most handsome and most single person in the room. All that changes with the surprise appearance of Jimmy’s adult son, GERALD (Peck), and his baby daughter, EDIE. Now Jimmy has to unlearn a lifetime of blissful selfishness and grapple with the fact that he went straight from single to grandfather in six seconds flat. Keeping tabs on Jimmy is Gerald’s mother and Jimmy’s former girlfriend, rocker chick-turned-mother SARA (Brewster). Equally concerned about how Jimmy will manage these new developments is Jimmy’s restaurant family, especially assistant manager ANNELISE (Jenrette) and chef RAVI (Patel).

Can Jimmy teach Gerald to be a little more like him in order to win the affection of Edie’s hot mess of a mom, VANESSA (Milian)? Will Jimmy and Sara fall for each other all over again, even though she’s the one thing he never dates – a woman his own age? And who’s higher maintenance, Jimmy or the baby?

‘The Shannara Chronicles’ – Poppy Drayton Interview

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AMBERLE (Poppy Drayton), WIL (Austin Butler), and ERETRIA (Ivana Baquero) in ‘The Shannara Chronicles’ (Photo Credit: MTV)

MTV’s The Shannara Chronicles will introduce viewers to the world of author Terry Brooks, if they weren’t already avid readers themselves. It begins with Poppy Drayton as Amberle Elessedil competing to be among The Chosen in a blind obstacle race. When fellow Chosen are murdered, Amberle, an elf, teams up with a mostly human Wil (Austin Butler) and Eretria (Ivana Baquero), a forest Rover whose father (James Remar) wants to get his hands on the elf stones.

We spoke with Drayton by phone about her role on the show, including some questions from the fans on Twitter. The Shannara Chronicles premieres Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 10pm ET/PT on MTV.

Poppy Drayton The Shannara Chronicles Interview:

How hard was it running blindfolded?

Poppy Drayton: “Good question. I haven’t been asked that yet. It was quite challenging, as you can imagine. We had variations of blindfold. So we had some that were full blindfolds that you could kind of see through a little bit and then we had some that had holes with perspex, but the perspex used to get all fogged up. So actually I preferred just going full blindfolded and hoping for the best. It was definitely a challenge. Lucky I wasn’t injured in that part of it.”

What are perspex?

Poppy Drayton: “Like clear plastic lenses. Nifty little trick if you ever need to run blindfolded.”

What do you like most about Amberle?

Poppy Drayton: “Oh my gosh, what I like most is I love her compassion. I think she has a wonderful compassion that transcends everything. She loves creatures and plants and flowers and living things in the same capacity. She just has this wonderful love of life. That’s something that I’ve definitely learned from playing her and I hope other people love too.”

What don’t you like about Amberle?

Poppy Drayton: “I don’t know if there’s anything I don’t like about her. I don’t think you can not like your character. I love her. I can’t think of one thing.”

How does Shannara differ from anything else you’ve done?

Poppy Drayton: “Gosh, for one, there’s a lot more leather than any show I’ve done. It’s not every day you’re on horseback with a sword charging around these pine forests and stuff. It’s quite full on and high action adventure. I’ve done a lot of period stuff in the past. I mean, the most action you get is just sitting around drinking tea. It’s quite nice to wield a sword around for a change.”

How close together was your guest spot on Downton Abbey to doing Shannara?

Poppy Drayton: “I think it was about a year.”

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Poppy Drayton behind the scenes on ‘The Shannara Chronicles’ (Photo Credit: MTV)

What’s involved in putting on the elf ears, the hair, and all the other aspects of your costume?

Poppy Drayton: “It was quite a full-on operation every morning. It took two hours to get me all rigged up. The elf ears alone take about 45 minutes to put on because you’ve got to put the ear pieces on and then you’ve got to glue them on. They’re sort of disposable so you end up using a pair every day. That process is quite long and it obviously has to be colored. The artists who worked on us were absolutely incredible and were the best of the best. They worked on The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. They really know their stuff. They knew elf ears like the back of their hand. The rest of it took heaps of time too. It’s quite a big rig every morning, and then trying to squeeze into a nice leather corset and another pair of leather pans every morning. That’s an ordeal in itself really.”

Did the ears ever come off under the waterfall?

Poppy Drayton: [Laughs] “They didn’t with me. My ears luckily stayed on but I think Austin had a bit of a touch and go moment when he had to fall into his river. I think he came back up but I don’t think the elf ears did. We had a couple of funny ear moments.”

What special training did you have to do for all the things you do on Shannara?

Poppy Drayton: “We had to do quite a lot, actually. We arrived in New Zealand about three weeks before we started shooting to do some sword training and to work with a personal trainer to get us all fit and in shape. And then also had horse riding lessons on top of that too. So by the end of those three weeks you just felt like you could take on the world. You just felt wonderful. It really helped to have that as sort of a foundation so when you did come to film, you had that to fall back on and your training to act as a base. It was invaluable.”

So horse riding was new for you?

Poppy Drayton: “Yes, it was. I think I’d been on a horse all of about three times before we started filming. It’s definitely given me a love of it. You do start to feel really relaxed up there and you do just fall in love with it. It’s such an amazing, beautiful thing to be on the back of a horse and to be riding through this beautiful countryside.”

Had you read the books before getting the part?

Poppy Drayton: “I wasn’t aware of Terry Brooks’s novels before getting the job, but then once I did, I immersed myself in his world. I listened to audio books and was also reading it, and was doing everything I could to completely understand the world that he created. Which is such a fantastic world to get invested in. It has everything. It’s so rich in texture and creativity. It was hugely exciting to immerse myself into it and I’m so glad I got the job and was able to.”

How close to the books does it ultimately stay?

Poppy Drayton: “Well, you’ll have to watch and see, but I think what Terry Brooks has been amazing about is the fact that he completely appreciates that they’re two separate mediums. The books will always be the books and they’ll never go away. Our TV show is different in some respects and in some aspects it’s really similar. He totally understands and appreciates that we are two separate things. If they do branch off in certain directions that differs from the novels he wrote, he’s totally supportive of that which is wonderful.”

How do you like New Zealand?

Poppy Drayton: “I love New Zealand. It’s such a beautiful country. You sort of walk around and you feel like you’re on a film set and you think it’s green screen everywhere you look because it’s just unbelievably beautiful. They sort of have everything. They have black sand beaches and they have golden beaches and they have pine forests and they have huge, glorious mountains. It never ceases to amaze. It’s quite breathtaking.”

Do you have any special spots that are personal to you?

Poppy Drayton: “For filming, we were based in Auckland and around Auckland. So at the end of the job, I was really keen to carry on exploring. I’ve actually just come back from there again just because I wanted to do more exploring. So I’ve now done the South Island which is absolutely spectacular. There’s a place called Arthur’s Pass which is this road that crosses from the west to the east of the South Island and it’s just glorious. I can’t even find words to explain it because it’s just inexplicably beautiful. So I advise everyone to go if they can.”

When you started out in acting, was action heroine something you always wanted to do?

Poppy Drayton: “Yeah, definitely. I think one of the most exciting things at the moment especially is that women are getting a chance to play these really strong female roles. It’s just so encouraging and great to see because with all the feminism and stuff that’s in the media at the moment, it’s nice to have something that proves that hopefully the social stigma that has been prevalent in the last however many years, is hopefully starting to break down even more. And I think there’s still further we can go with that but at least it’s a start. To have the chance to play such a strong power young girl is hugely humbling and I’m really excited. I hope it just encourages young girls to realize that they shouldn’t ever feel inadequate because of their sex. If they are feeling that way then they should really try and fight against it because we can do everything that men can do, if not better.” [Laughs]

And there’s two on Shannara, you and Ivana Baquero.

Poppy Drayton: “Exactly, so go girls!”

‘The Shannara Chronicles’ – Austin Butler Interview

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Austin Butler as Wil in ‘The Shannara Chronicles’ (Photo Credit: MTV)

MTV is bringing the world of Terry Brooks’ novels to life in The Shannara Chronicles. Austin Butler stars as Wil, a mostly human with some elf heritage, though the small ears are a sore subject. Wil becomes embroiled in an adventure when Allanon (Manu Bennett) tells him he is the son of a great magician who let magic destroy him. Wil has a chance to learn to control his magic.

We got to speak with Austin Butler this week about his role bringing Wil to life on The Shannara Chronicles, and we asked him a few questions from fans on Twitter too. The Shannara Chronicles premieres with a two hour episode Tuesday, January 5 at 10PM on MTV.

Austin Butler The Shannara Chronicles Interview

What intrigued you about The Shannara Chronicles?

Austin Butler: “My first experience with it was reading the script and I loved it. It was captivating and exciting and it really took me along for the ride. Then meeting with the whole team, [Jon] Favreau, Al [Gough] and Miles [Millar] and Jonathan Liebesman, showing me the imagery and storyboards and everything, that really showed me it such a cool thing to be a part of.”

What made you want to play Wil?

Austin Butler: “I love Wil’s journey through the story. I love how he starts out naive. He’s never been more than five miles outside his village and we get to see him find the hero within himself and realize that there is more to him than he ever knew. I just love the humanity of that.”


How do you relate to Wil?

Austin Butler: “When he starts out, he has no idea what he’s doing. He’s got to find within himself the strength to get through and do these incredibly tough challenges. I think that’s something that I and probably everyone else who’s gone through challenges can totally relate to.”

What do you like most about Wil?

Austin Butler: “I like how he uses humor to get through tough situations. I like how he steps up to the plate and he doesn’t give up. He really didn’t have to go on this journey but he does. I respect that about him, that courage to look fear in the face.”

What are some things you don’t like about Wil?

Austin Butler: “There’s an awkwardness to him and an unheroic side to him that I, while playing him, I want to be the hero, I want to be able to fight with a sword. I think that side of him, I want to be able to do those things but it’s what makes the payoff so wonderful when he is able to. In the moment, you go, ‘I wish he was cooler right now,’ but it makes it so much better when he finally does step up to the plate.”

Do the small ears take just as long to put on as the big elf ears?

Austin Butler: [Laughs] “I believe they do. They actually were at times a little tricker because there’s not as much surface area to get glue under. So they’re a little trickier but by the end it took about the same to get them on as everybody else’s.”

What have been the most challenging things to do while filming The Shannara Chronicles?

Austin Butler: “There were certain physical challenges, there were times where I was in the river for 13 hours and cold water that was coming down from glaciers. So that day sticks out as a particularly rough day. My lips started to turn blue.”

When you’re dragged behind the horses, even though it’s fairly slow, did they ever go too fast?

Austin Butler: “Oh, that was pretty rough. That was funny because they had a rig on that horse where if it started to run into trees or something I could pull something and it would detach me from the horse. So it’s sort of a safety rig. We tried it multiple times with the safety rig and the way the horse pulled me, I didn’t realize I was going to bounce so much. So I’m bouncing on hard dirt and the bouncing caused the safety rig to pull apart and this metal thing whacked me in the face and cut my nose. It cut the bridge of my nose and then we ended up having to just do it with the regular rope because the safety rig was actually hurting me worse. That was another rough day. I thought I broke my nose that day.”

What’s involved with using the elf stones?

Austin Butler: “That was interesting to figure out how to, when Wil is using them, how does he hold them? We all got to decide but it’s a hard thing to show them while you’re using them because if you just open your palm, they could fall out of your hand. So I ended up holding them in a fist. The thing about them is that magic always has a price. That’s a theme in the show so it ends up causing physical pain to Wil. You have to take the good with the bad with the elf stones.”

Did you read the books after you got the part?

Austin Butler: “Yeah, I read them after I got cast and I love them.”

How accessible is The Shannara Chronicles to people who haven’t read the books?

Austin Butler: “I think it’s very accessible. I think the whole world is so beautiful and it really sucks you into the environment and to the story. The themes that we’re dealing with, the themes of love and loss and rising to challenges, these are all things that we feel in the year 2016 and they feel in Shannara.”

How close will the show follow the books?

Austin Butler: “Well, there are inherent challenges with adapting a large novel to a TV show but the awesome thing that we had was Terry was a part of the entire process. So if little changes had to happen, they all went through Terry and he gave his blessing on things and he decided things. It was cool because we had the guy who wrote the novel helping to write the scripts, helping to make decisions.”

How do you like New Zealand?

Austin Butler: “New Zealand is an absolutely breathtaking country. I love getting to work there. It’s serene and magical in and of itself. I felt very grateful to be there.”

What are some great spots in New Zealand you’ve discovered?

Austin Butler: “Oh wow, there’s an island called Waiheke Island where they have all these vineyards and great restaurants. You take a ferry from Auckland out to the island. I got together with some of the other cast and some of the producers and we rented a big house out on this island that had its own private beach, so we got to get up in the morning with the sunrise and ride kayaks out into the water. It was just absolutely magical, so that was a really cool spot.”





Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan Start Work on ‘The Fall’ Season 3

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Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dorman from “The Fall” season 2.
The third and final season of BBC Two’s The Fall has just begun filming in Belfast with Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan back in starring roles. The Fall, which was created, written, and directed by Allan Cubitt, also has John Lynch, Valene Kane, Stuart Graham, Bronagh Waugh, Colin Morgan, and Aisling Franciosi reprising their roles. Newcomers to season three include Krister Henriksson, Aidan McArdle, Ruth Bradley, Aisling Bea, and Richard Coyle.


“I’ve been on a very exciting journey over the last five years with Stella Gibson and Paul Spector – the central characters of The Fall – and I’m thrilled to have recently started filming the third installment of their macabre, obsessive dance of death,” stated Cubitt. “Gillian and Jamie have lived and breathed those characters during that time and I’ve been incredibly well-served as both writer and director by their stellar performances. Obviously I don’t want to give anything away about how the third series will end but I can say that I am looking forward to working with both Gillian and Jamie again in the near future!”

The Fall Season Three Plot:

Picking up at the moment where the heart-stopping series finale left off in series two, Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan return to BBC Two in their iconic roles as the battle between Detective Superintendent Gibson and Paul Spector reaches its terrifying conclusion in Allan Cubitt’s intense psychological thriller, The Fall.

At the climax of the last series, audiences were left reeling as Spector, critically injured in a devastating ambush, lay bleeding in the arms of Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson. Moments before, the intense and single-minded investigator thought she had her man; now, shocked and desperate, she’s losing him.

Bringing a killer to book is going to take much more now than simply catching him. In the emotionally charged aftermath of the shooting, Gibson’s personal journey to exact justice for the victims’ families must begin with the blood-soaked fight to keep Spector alive. As The Fall reaches its inexorable conclusion, it’s clear that the rules of this deadly game of cat and mouse are set to shift once again.

Channing Tatum Photo Arrives from ‘The Hateful Eight’

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Channing Tatum in ‘The Hateful Eight.’

The Weinstein Company’s released numerous trailers, clips, and featurettes from The Hateful Eight, however Channing Tatum’s character has been curiously missing from all of the promotional material. If you’ve seen Quentin Tarantino’s new bloody Western, then you’ll understand why Tatum’s character has been hidden from the promotional material. But now with the film playing in expanded release, TWC’s released the first official photo of Channing Tatum from The Hateful Eight. It’s best to go into the film not knowing how Tatum’s character is connected to those played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Walton Goggins, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, or Demian Bichir, and thankfully the photo doesn’t give away any spoilers.

The Hateful Eight Plot:

In The Hateful Eight, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff.

Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…

Victoria Justice, Reeve Carney, and Ryan McCartan Star in New ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’

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Reeve Carney, Annaleigh Ashford, Victoria Justice, Ryan McCartan and Christina Milian in ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ (Photo © 2016 Fox Broadcasting Co)

The cast is coming together for Fox’s upcoming new take on The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Victoria Justice, Ryan McCartan, Reeve Carney, and Staz Nair all confirmed for starring roles. The two-hour event will air this Fall on Fox, with filming expected to begin soon. Justice, best known for starring in Victorious, will play Janet Weiss while McCartan is set to take on the role of Brad Majors.

Penny Dreadful‘s Reeve Carney will play Riff Raff and Staz Nair will play the titular Rocky.

Orange is the New Black‘s Laverne Cox was previously announced to star as Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Lou Adler, Gail Berman, and Kenny Ortega are executive producing Fox’s reimagining of the cult classic. Ortega is also attached to direct and choreograph this 2016 version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Carney’s credits include Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark on Broadway and he’s just released Mr. Green Vol. 1 with his band, Carney. Justice’s acting credits include Eye Candy, The First Time, and Fun Size. McCartan can be seen on Liv & Maddie and recently started a band with his co-star Dove Cameron.

The Plot: The Rocky Horror Picture Show follows sweethearts Janet (Justice) and Brad (McCartan), who stumble upon Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s (Cox) bizarre abode. Frank-N-Furter, a sexually ambiguous, flirtatious alien mad-scientist, is holding an annual, Transylvanian science convention to showcase the birth of “Rocky Horror” – a fit, attractive man created solely to fulfill Frank’s desires.

 

‘Vikings’ Season Four Trailer: Power is Built With Blood

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History’s Vikings kicks off season four on February 18, 2016 at 10pm ET/PT and today the network’s unleashed the first official two-minute trailer for the critically acclaimed drama series. The series was created and written by Michael Hirst and stars Travis Fimmel, Clive Standen, Katheryn Winnick, Gustaf Skarsgard, and Alexander Ludwig.

Season four will be split in two, with 10 new episodes airing weekly on Thursdays beginning February 18th. The remaining season four episodes will air later in 2016.

The Vikings Plot:

Season three culminated with the extraordinary battle in Paris, where Ragnar (Fimmel) seized victory from the jaws of defeat – but still returns to Kattegat dangerously ill. Thoughts of his death galvanize the forces who seek to succeed him as king, including his wife Queen Aslaug (Alyssa Sutherland) and his oldest son, Bjorn (Alexander Ludwig). Meanwhile, Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick) continues power struggles with her calculating, former second in command, Kalf (Ben Robson); Rollo (Clive Standen) betrays his Vikings heritage by remaining in Frankia and Floki (Gustaf Skarsgård) is seized for his brutal actions to the Christian priest Athelstan.

Joining the stellar cast this season is Peter Franzén as “King Harold Finehair,” a complex character who seeks to be King of Norway and a potential threat to Ragnar; Jasper Pääkkönen as “Halfdan The Black,” King Harold’s violent younger brother; and Dianne Doan as “Yidu,” a completely different character within the world of the Vikings who fascinates Ragnar.

Vikings season four trailer:





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