Super Bowl is headed to Nashville: Will country music return to the halftime show? / Stephen Colbert will have an “extended” finale / Shrinking stars visit Sesame Street
PLUS: Original Survivor winner Richard Hatch says he wasn’t invited to the Season 50 finale, despite CBS saying “all of the winners” were invited.
Nashville officially lands the 2030 Super Bowl: Will country music return to the halftime show?
NFL owners voted today for the 2030 Super Bowl LXIV to be played in Nashville’s new Nissan Stadium, in the first-ever Music City Super Bowl. “Given Nashville’s status as Music City, time will tell what musical offerings the 2030 Super Bowl will highlight,” says Billboard’s Jessica Nicholson. “Nashville, of course, is well known as a central hub for the country music industry, but it is also home to contemporary Christian/gospel, hip-hop, R&B and bluegrass artists. Country singers have regularly performed the national anthem at the Super Bowl, especially in recent years, with artists including Chris Stapleton, Mickey Guyton, Eric Church and Reba McEntire doing the honors. However, country artists have been a rare sight on the Super Bowl Halftime Show stage. In 1994, country music was the centerpiece of the halftime show, when The Judds, Clint Black, Tanya Tucker and Travis Tritt performed a full country halftime show, including songs such as ‘It’s A Little Too Late,’ ‘Love Can Build a Bridge’ and ‘T-R-O-U-B-L-E.’ Shania Twain headlined the halftime show in 2003.” As Whiskey Riff’s Aaron Ryan notes, “country music is as popular as it’s ever been right now, and it seems like we’re well overdue for another country halftime show. There are also more artists than ever before who are capable of putting on a performance like the one necessary to headline the Super Bowl – one that appeals to a wide audience and features a worldwide superstar,” including Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs. “An unpopular choice for country fans, though maybe the natural pick for the NFL and Nashville, would be Taylor Swift,” says Ryan. “She’s from Music City (or at least Hendersonville, which is close enough), and got her start in country music. If the NFL doesn’t want to go pure ‘country,’ maybe they try to compromise and get 2030 to be the year they finally land Taylor as the headliner.” ALSO: Minneapolis to host the 2028 NFL Draft.
Original Survivor winner Richard Hatch says he wasn’t invited to the Season 50 finale, despite CBS saying “all of the winners” were invited
CBS Mornings announced today that “all of the winners from the previous 49 seasons have been invited to attend” Wednesday’s live Survivor 50 finale. That prompted Hatch to tweet: “CBS Mornings lied this morning saying all Survivor winners were invited to (the) Season 50 finale!” He added: “I’m the Original Winner, and I WAS NOT INVITED!” CBS told Page Six in a statement: “All winners were invited to the Survivor 50 finale to celebrate the show’s legacy.”
Jennifer Beals joins Amazon’s Bishop
Beals will recur as Maggie Loftin, a psychologist with the San Francisco Police Department, in the drama series starring Joel Kinnaman as brilliant, battle-scarred homicide detective Bishop Graves.
Creed spinoff series Delphi sets its main cast, including Wood Harris, Demián Bichir, André Holland, Sofia Black-D’Elia and Andre Royo
Benji Santiago, Juan Castrano and Victoria Vourkoutiotis have also joined the Amazon Prime Video drama series. Wood Harris, who played Delphi Gym trainer Little Duke in all three Creed films, will recur in that role.
Stephen Colbert will have an “extended” The Late Show goodbye on Thursday night
CBS is describing Thursday’s The Late Show as “the extended Late Show series finale.” ALSO: Jon Stewart gives Stephen Colbert a Daily Show “Moment of Zen” Daily Show-Colbert Report sendoff.
Nina King laughs at her Euphoria return being reduced to one line, reveals a scene she filmed didn’t make the final cut
“I just watched the episode that I’ve been promoting all week — and my mom over here is clowning me!” King, who plays Rue’s mother Leslie, said with a laugh in an Instagram video. “She said the internet waited all this time for me to just say one line.” King added that “you better be glad I have a sense of humor. You better be glad I’ve got thick skin.” In a separate post, King added: “This scene didn’t make the cut but when I walked on set and saw this Bible on the table, I got emotional. Not as Leslie, but as Nika. Because there have been so many times in my life where all I could do was sit down, open the Word and ask TMH to help me keep going.”
The Roast of Kevin Hart was slightly down from The Roast of Tom Brady
About 13.5 million watched the live Kevin Hart roast on Netflix, two years after the live Tom Brady roast drew 13.8 million.
Francesca Scorsese boards Mr. and Mrs. Smith Season 2 — Donald Glover to direct multiple episodes
This will be the first TV role for Scorsese, daughter of director Martin Scorsese, since HBO’s We Are Who We Are. Her role is being kept under wraps. Glover, who starred in Season 1 and who is expected to appear in Season 2, is set to direct multiple episodes.
Shrinking stars visit Sesame Street
Jason Segel, Brett Goldstein, Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams, Christa Miller, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell and Ted McGinley taped six segments with the Sesame Street gang earlier this month.
Jimmy Kimmel uses Taylor Frankie Paul’s scrapped Bachelorette season to debunk conspiracy that Cavaliers-Pistons NBA playoff series was rigged
“Some believe the series was rigged in favor of the Cavaliers by the league because of this promo that aired on our network ABC the day before Game 7 took place,” Kimmel said. “ABC said they ran the promo by mistake and I believe them,” he added. “If ABC could predict the future, we wouldn’t have wasted $20M on a canceled season of The Bachelorette.”
Ariel Winter reveals she and Modern Family brother Nolan Gould are roommates
“It’s funny because I spend more time out here now and I rent a house with Nolan,” Winter tells People of splitting her time between California and Nashville, where she had been living with her ex-boyfriend Luke Benward and their four rescue dogs. “People ask me about a Modern Family reboot, but Nolan and I are real roommates now,” she says. “So it’s like we’re having our own little Modern Family reboot, but it’s just the two of us living together. So I see him every day.”
Black Dahlia docuseries is in the works, promising “startling” new leads
The brutal 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short has been the subject of numerous books, documentaries, movies and films including Brian De Palma’s 2006 feature film The Black Dahlia starring Scarlett Johansson and Josh Hartnett and the Chris Pine-led 2019 TNT limited series I Am The Night. “The team behind a new docuseries that is in the works has claimed that they have uncovered a series of ‘startling’ new leads, including a primary suspect and evidence proving the location of the murder, and is currently pushing the LA Police Department to release key pieces of evidence that have been withheld for nearly eight decades,” says Deadline’s Peter White. “The project, Deconstructing Dahlia, comes from production company Talestorm. The team behind the series said that they have discovered a ‘major bloodshed event and a concealed, walled-up room at a location tied to the investigation’, evidence suggesting that the original crime scene was ‘altered’ and new witnesses that never came forward as well as other new information.”
Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent adds Luke Kirby for Season 4 as Aden Young exits
Three-time Emmy-nominated The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel alum Luke Kirby is joining the Citytv series, while series star Aden Young is departing the show. Kirby joins the show as Detective Sergeant John Darcy, who “is called up from Guns & Gangs to partner with Detective Sergeant Frankie Bateman (Kathleen Munroe) in Homicide.” Young is departing after playing Detective Sergeant Henry Graff since Season 1.
AMC+ orders a The Vampire Lestat companion show
Hosted by Lizzie Bassett and featuring interviews with the cast, The Vampire Lestat: After Dark will premiere June 7.
Jeff Foxworthy to star in a Fox Nation standup special
The special, titled The Joke’s On Me, will debut on June 1.
HBO unveils the trailer for Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult
The three-episode docuseries follows Hoyt Richards — one of the first male supermodels of the 1980s — who becomes involved in a cult called Eternal Values led by a guru named Frederick von Mierers. It was fellow model Fabio Lanzoni who eventually took Richards in when he finally broke free. Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult will air over three nights: June 1, 8 and 15.
Raq Thomas is back in Power Book III: Raising Kanan’s Season 5 trailer
“If you didn’t hate me before, you’re gonna hate me now,” Kanan Stark says in a voiceover at the beginning of the trailer for the fifth and final season, premiering June 12.
Michael Fassbender is a man on a mission in The Agency’s Season 2 trailer
The Paramount+ spy thriller returns June 21.
The Capture gets a Season 3 Peacock premiere date and trailer
The BBC British conspiracy thriller returns to Peacock on June 18.
Ciara Miller confronts Amanda Batula over West Wilson in Summer House reunion trailer
The Season 10 reunion will air in three parts, beginning on May 26.
Watch Netflix’s trailer for Rafa
The four-episode docuseries on tennis icon Rafael Nadal premieres May 29, promising an unprecedented look into the life of one of sport’s all-time greats.
Amazon releases final Spider-Noir trailers in “Authentic Black & White” and in “True-Hue Full Color”
The Nicolas Cage-led superhero noir series premieres May 27.