Actress Scarlett Johansson (Her, The Avengers), 29, is pregnant with her first child according to reports on E! and other entertainment/gossip outlets. E! broke the news on March 3, 2014 and People confirmed the reports that same day, with unnamed sources saying Johansson and fiance Romain Dauriac are soon to be first-time parents.
Journalist Dauriac and Johansson confirmed their engagement back in November 2012. Johansson was previously married to Ryan Reynolds.
In an interview with People back in January, Johannson said, “I’m very happy. He’s my buddy.”
Musical guest Idina Menzel performs "Let It Go" with Host Jimmy Fallon and The Roots on Monday, March 3, 2014 (Photo by: Lloyd Bishop/NBC)Idina Menzel – or as John Travolta calls her Adele Dazeem – joined with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots to perform Frozen‘s Oscar-winning song “Let It Go.” With Menzel singing, Fallon and The Roots provided the music via classroom instruments.
Here’s the list of instruments:
Jimmy Fallon – toy blocks, bass drum, Casio keyboard
Idina Menzel – triangle
Questlove – kazoo, jingle sticks
Mark Kelley – kazoo
Kamal Gray – xylophone
James Poyser – melodica
Luke – ukulele
Tuba Gooding Jr. – lemon shaker
Frank Knuckles – bongos
Black Thought — tambourine, chimes
Donkeys beware…Chef Gordon Ramsay is back screaming at (and mentoring) chefs on the 12th season of Hell’s Kitchen kicking off on March 13th at 8pm ET/PT on Fox. That means the final episode of Rake in the Thursday night spot will be on March 6th and then it’ll move to Friday nights at 8pm ET/PT beginning March 14th.
Rake will be followed on Fridays by Enlisted at 9pm and Raising Hope at 9:30pm.
American Idol will air results shows on Thursdays beginning March 13 at 9pm. Beginning on March 27th, the AI results show shrinks to half an hour, and filling the vacant 9:30pm spot will be the comedy series Surviving Jack starring Chris Meloni.
Details on the Hell’s Kitchen Season 12 Premiere Episode:
In the season premiere of Hell’s Kitchen, Chef Ramsay splits the latest batch of 20 aspiring restaurateurs into two teams, men vs. women, and asks them to present their signature dishes. The winning team gets treated to an exclusive dinner with Ramsay, while the losing team is left behind to scrub down the kitchen.
It was Ellen DeGeneres’ idea to have pizza delivered during the 2014 Oscar broadcast and it was her idea to have it actually brought into the Kodak Theatre by a real pizza delivery guy. Edgar Martirosyan, co-owner of Big Mama’s and Papa’s Pizzeria, was told he was delivering a big pizza order to the writers room at the Oscars, but Ellen’s plan was to have him come out and deliver pizza to some of the celebs seated in the first few rows. Martirosyan wasn’t prepared, but handled it well. In fact, he even had the opportunity to deliver a slice to his favorite actress – Julia Roberts.
Following his appearance on the Oscars, Martirosyan sat down with Ellen to chat about the experience. Another surprise came when she handed him a $1000 tip, $600 of which was collected from the A-list celebs while Ellen threw in $400 of her own money.
Jordan Klepper (Photo credit: Justin Chabot)Upright Citizens Brigade’s Jordan Klepper has been tapped to be a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central. Klepper joins the show and will join with correspondents Samantha Bee, Jason Jones, Aasif Mandvi and Jessica Williams who make up what Comedy Central calls the “best f—ing news team ever.”
Klepper made his debut on the March 3, 2014 episode that aired at 11pm ET/PT and which found the newbie correspondent reporting “live” from Ukraine.
Brief Bio on Jordan Klepper [Courtesy of Comedy Central]
Klepper has been a regular performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City for three years and has written and appeared in comedy shorts for UCB Comedy. He has had multiple long-running shows at UCB, several with his wife and frequent collaborator, Laura Grey. “Klepper & Grey” co-created and co-starred in the UCB Comedy-produced pilot presentation Engaged, which was recently featured at the New York Television Festival, and the “Engaged” web series is currently running online. “Klepper & Grey” also wrote and starred in the short film TMI, which was a featured short at Slamdance in 2012, and their newest short, Peepers, will be premiering this month at SXSW.
Klepper is from Kalamazoo, Michigan and prior to his time at UCB New York, he spent time training and performing in Chicago at Improv Olympic and The Second City. While in Chicago he was a writer/correspondent for the Big Ten Network’s “Friday Night Tailgate.” Also while in Chicago he co-created and co-starred in a long running hit iO sketch-show “Steve and Jordan, Respectively,” which The Chicago Tribune called “among the best sketch shows in Chicago.” Klepper is repped by Kirsten Ames Management and Fred Hashagen at Paradigm.
A scene from Vikings season 2 (Photo Courtesy of HISTORY Copyright 2014)
History’s critically acclaimed drama series Vikings returned for a second season on Thursday, February 27, 2014 to an average of 3.6 million viewers, behind only primetime cable shows American Horror Story and The Walking Dead‘s. Episode two will air on March 6th at 10pm and involves a leap forward in time.
Vikings Episode 2 Season 2 Description: “Invasion” – Four peaceful years have since passed with Ragnar as Earl. The time has come for an unlikely alliance to band together in pursuit of a common goal – a new raid on England. A storm pushes the Viking fleet to a new destination, and on the beaches of Wessex, Ragnar and his men may have met their match.
CBS announced films is now underway on season two of the summer series Under the Dome starring Mike Vogel, Rachelle Lefevre, Dean Norris, Natalie Martinez, Britt Robertson, Alex Koch, and Colin Ford. Very loosely based on the bestselling book by Stephen King, the series follows the inhabitants of a small town who are cut off from the world after a dome of unknown and perhaps unearthly origin surrounds their city.
Season two is currently shooting in Wilmington, North Carolina. Author King wrote the first episode and series executive producer Jack Bender will direct episode one. King also returns as executive producer along with Steven Spielberg, Neal Baer, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, Stacey Snider, and Brian K. Vaughan. CBS has set a June 30, 2014 premiere date for the second season.
Season one averaged 15.06 million viewers and helped prove that audiences will tune into new primetime shows during the hot summer months. Under the Dome earned the title of the most watched “scripted summer series” since 1992.
Watch the start of production video that shows Stephen King Tweeting from a typewriter – because he’s Stephen King:
Coldplay will be releasing their new album Ghost Stories on May 19, 2014 and the group’s just released their new single, “Magic,” off the upcoming album. The sixth album will arrive via Parlophone/Atlantic Records and marks the first new album since 2011’s Mylo Xyloto.
Chris also shared this handwritten not with the track list for Ghost Stories along with the lyrics to “Magic.”
Paramount Pictures just unveiled this new poster for the upcoming Transformers movie, Transformers: Age of Extinction. The film marks the first of the Transformers movies without Shia LaBeouf who’s currently busy telling everyone he’s not famous anymore. Directed by Michael Bay, the new cast is led by Mark Wahlberg and includes Sophia Myles, TJ Miller, Titus Welliver, Jack Reynor, Nicola Peltz, Stanley Tucci, Han Geng, and Kelsey Grammer.
Paramount’s releasing the fourth Transformers movie on June 27, 2014.
Cate Blanchett was the frontrunner to snag the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine, and as expected she did win the Oscar in a field that included Amy Adams (American Hustle), Sandra Bullock (Gravity), Judi Dench (Philomena), and Academy fave Meryl Streep (August: Osage County). And while winning was expected, Blanchett’s Oscar acceptance speech led to a lot of questions including why she said “Julia, #suckit” followed by “You know what I mean.”
Backstage in the press room, Blanchett was asked about that specific statement in an otherwise eloquent speech. And apparently, what happens between Blanchett and Roberts, stays between Blanchett and Roberts (although it likely didn’t occur in Vegas). Blanchett offered only a tiny clue to the origin of the hashtag statement in response to the question. “It happened in the bar with Ms. Roberts, and that’s all I am prepared to say,” said Blanchett.
Blanchett also spoke about the pressures of being an Oscar frontrunner. “What kind of pressure? An intense, unbearable pressure which I’m so glad is over,” explained Blanchett. “I mean, look, it has been every year. And having been in theatre primarily for the last six years, I can say this objectively. Every year I watch this thing remotely, and every year there are 5, 6, 10, 12, 20 performances by women that I am gobsmacked by and inspired by. And you know, it gets whittled down to five ‑‑ is it five of us? And I mean, to be in conversation with those women, you know, by proxy, because we are all crammed together into one category, I mean, that’s the privilege. And the rest is just chocolate.”