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RuPaul Drag Race queen Jackie Cox has joined Peacock’s Days Of Our Lives: Beyond Salem in a guest-starring role, it was revealed in the first trailer for the spin-off above. Jackie impersonated returning Days star Lisa Rinna on RuPaul’s Drag Race season 12 for Snatch Game.
The video also features Charles Shaughnessy’s return as Shane Donovan.
The first original Days of Our Lives limited series will bring together past and present residents of Salem including the return of Rinna as Billie Reed, along with Deidre Hall as Dr. Marlena Evans, Drake Hogestyn as John Black, Jackée Harry as Paulina Price, James Reynolds as Abe Carver, Victoria Konefal as Ciara Brady, Robert Scott Wilson as Ben Weston, Billy Flynn as Chad DiMera, Lamon Archey as Eli Grant and Sal Stowers as Lani Price. Eileen Davidson is also set to appear.
Beyond Salem is a limited series premiering Sept. 6 with new episodes dropping daily culminating with the finale on September 10.
Over a long weekend, John and Marlena take a trip to Zurich, Ben and Ciara have a romantic getaway in New Orleans, Chad visits some old friends in Phoenix, and Abe, Paulina, Lani, and Eli vacation in Miami. All find themselves embroiled in a mystery involving stolen jewels which, in the wrong hands, could cause dire consequences for Salem. It’s a race against time for ISA agent Billie Reed as she crosses the globe in search of this missing treasure.
So, it appears Jeopardy! game show execs were playing a real game with LeVar Burton’s emotions.
According to TMZ, a source inside the production team revealed that Burton was never truly in the running as an actual host of the popular game show as a permanent replacement for the late Alex Trebek.
The outlet goes on to share that while Sony Studios executives “loved” the legendary Reading Rainbow and Roots icon, they actually didn’t think he was a “right fit.” They instead talked with Burton about other possible projects they still hope he will sign on for.
Burton served as a fill-in Jeopardy! host the week of July 26, but the icon didn’t make the cut and instead network officials bypassed Burton and a host of others to officially name the show’s executive producer, Mike Richards, as host and Blossom and The Big Bang Theory actress Mayim Bialik as guest-host.
This caused a major uproar among the Jeopardy! faithful and among Burton’s legion of fans.
But since God don’t like ugly, Richards ended up stepping down as host after he got called out over his past sexist comments about women, Jews, and poor people.
While many on social media petitioned to have Burton serve as the new host, somehow Richards who was also the show’s executive producer, hired himself, was selected to fill the spot. But not too long after Richards was announced as the new host did critics dig into his past and unearth some of his old insensitive comments.
And Still No Mural of Bob Eubanks
The late television icon Alex Trebek just got a fitting tribute in his hometown of Sudbury, a few hours' drive north of Toronto.
After losing a 20-month battle with pancreatic cancer in November, Trebek’s subsequent fade from the airwaves has resonated around the world, hitting even harder in the veteran game show host’s birthplace of the Big Nickel.
Best known for a 37-year stint as the host of Jeopardy!, Trebek spent his formative years in Sudbury, attending Sudbury High School since renamed Sudbury Secondary School.
On the exterior of this very school, artist Kevin Ledo has created a gorgeous three-storey mural paying tribute to the locally-born star.
Styled in colourful 1970s pastels and framed by the curved square outline of a classic cathode-ray tube television, the mural depicts Trebek in his prime, its imagery harkening back to the golden era of weeknight game shows.
"When I was researching images to represent Alex Trebek in a mural, I came across so many eras in his life. There are numerous images of him from the 70s that I just loved, and it inspired me to go all out on a retro design," Ledo tells blogTO.
"I definitely watched Jeopardy! a lot more when I was younger. It has just been around my whole life, and so has Alex Trebek. For me, he is a symbol of knowledge and learning, and in a fun way."
Ledo worked for 90 hours across ten days, using brushes and rollers to carefully apply wall paint to the brick facade. A video on Ledo's Instagram details the process.
Trebek just might have become a Canadian TV icon for very different reasons than his career on US game shows.
Shortly after his passing, it was revealed that Trebek was in the running for what could have been a memorable role on Hockey Night in Canada back in 1971. He was ultimately passed over because the producer did not want a host with a mustache. Not wanting a mustached host in 1971 seems a bit limiting, no?
Trebek may be gone, but his densely mustached likeness will continue to smile over Sudbury through Ledo’s art.
In the meanwhile, Jeopardy! has been in turmoil since Trebek's passing. Attempts to fill his shoes have landed the show in hot water, with controversy threatening to tarnish the show's legacy.
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New “Jeopardy!” host Mayim Bialik is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 despite social media chatter labeling her an anti-vaxxer.
“She has been fully vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus and is not at all an anti-vaxxer,” a spokesperson for Bialik told TheWrap on Aug. 11, the same day she and Mike Richards were announced as hosts for the popular game show. (Richards stepped down a week later after backlash over his past disparaging comments in a podcast and involvement in sexual harassment lawsuits.)
After news broke that Bialik had the gig, her past comments about vaccinations resurfaced.
In a parenting book Bialik wrote in 2012 titled “Beyond the Sling,” she admitted she hadn’t gotten a vaccine in 30 years. This led people to question whether the “Big Bang Theory” star had also decided not to vaccinate her children; Bialik later clarified in an October 2020 YouTube video titled “Anti-Vaxxers and Covid” that yes, she and her children have the proper shots.
Bialik, who has a doctorate in neurobiology in addition to her tenure as a television star, said she does still have some questions about the efficacy of vaccines and noted in the 2020 video they’re “never 100% effective. Still, she said in the 2020 video that she thinks its “very disturbing” people are deciding not to get COVID shots.
“This year I’m going to do something I literally haven’t done in 30 years. I’m going to get a vaccine. And guess what? I’m actually going to get two,” Bialik began, clarifying she would get the coronavirus vaccine and a flu shot. She also said that her children (aged 12 and 15 at the time of the video) had never gotten a flu shot.
“You might be saying, ‘Hey, wait a second, you don’t believe in vaccines! You’re one of those anti-vaxxers,” Bialik said in the video. “Let’s finally talk about it. I wrote a book about 10 years ago about my experience parenting and at the time my children had not received the typical schedule of vaccines. But I have never, not once, said that vaccines are not valuable, not useful, or not necessary because they are.”
Bialik went on to say in the video that she felt the media’s coverage of her comments was “inaccurate.”
“The truth is, I delayed vaccinations for reasons that you don’t necessarily get to know about simply because you follow me on social media,” Bialik said. “As of today, my children may not have had every one of the vaccinations that your children have but my children are vaccinated. I repeat, my children are vaccinated.”
“Black Mirror” creator Charlie Brooker and his collaborator Annabel Jones have set their next Netflix project: a comedy special about Hollywood clichés, hosted by Rob Lowe.
Launching on the streaming service on Sept. 28, “Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!” is described as “a one-off special featuring some of the most famous films in cinematic history along with a plethora of Hollywood A-Listers, Screenwriters, Academics and Critics as they guide us through the funny, weird and controversial clichés which appear on our cinema screens.”
“Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!” will be led by former Brat Pack member, movie star and “handsome devil” Lowe, who will be wearing a “classic crisp suit” while inviting “viewers to examine the Hollywood clichés filmmakers can’t help but use, time and time again.”
Lowe will have the “help of the experts” to analyze the “origins and evolutions of everything from ‘Walking Away from an Explosion,’ to the ‘Meet-Cute,’ and ‘Females Running in Stilettos’ — there’s also a ‘Wilhelm Scream’ montage for real movie buffs. “
“Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!” is produced by “Black Mirror” team Brooker and Jones’s Broke and Bones production banner. Executive producers include Lowe, Jon Petrie, Brooker and Jones. The comedy special is produced and directed by Sean Doherty, with Alice Mathias and Ricky Kelehar also serving as directors.
The special is Brooker and Jones’ most recent project for Netflix, following last year’s mockumentary “Death to 2020.” Brooker and Jones are best known for being the masterminds behind “Black Mirror,” which was created by Brooker, with Jones serving as his co-showrunner.
We know this is question is going to come up now, so we’ll just answer it: No, we have no update on a sixth season of “Black Mirror” yet. The last new episodes we got were the trio of Season 5 installments in 2019, which followed 2018’s interactive movie “Bandersnatch.” The dark anthology has yet to be renewed for a sixth season at Netflix, and Brooker previously said during the pandemic he doesn’t know if he’s capable of writing a dystopian story at the moment.
“Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!” launches Sept. 28 on Netflix.
Discovery+’s upcoming reality dating series “Naked and Afraid of Love” strips away some of the “comforts of modern dating” — mainly clothes — in order to give eight single men and eight single women a chance to find romance in the nude with just the bare necessities in their island paradise setup. And, no, that did not include soap, toothpaste, deodorant or any other personal-hygiene products.
“In terms of dating, if somebody is undesirable to somebody else, it doesn’t really lend itself to love, right?” “Naked and Afraid of Love” executive producer Jay Bienstock told reporters during a virtual panel for the show at the Television Critics Association’s press tour Monday. “So we did a very, very fast sort of like– they got to clean off in the water because the water was there and they would actually be able to just sort of rinse their mouths out real fast. So bad breath and whatnot. But other than that, there wasn’t much more than that in terms of the show. They didn’t get to cut their hair or anything like that. It was sort of real basic stuff in terms of, like I said, their breath and they can wash up in the water.”
“Naked and Afraid” cast member Bennett Murphy added: “I went into this really nervous about that. I was like, man, not only am I going to be making out with someone maybe who hasn’t brushed their teeth in a while or hasn’t been able to keep their self clean like they’re used to, I’m not going to be going into it confident as well. And that was really cool for me to be able to kind of shake away from that a little bit. Just kind of lose that standard that might be just unnatural and unrealistic. And I feel like it just helps you to prevent relationships.”
As a dating-centric spinoff of Discovery’s survival series “Naked and Afraid,” “Naked and Afraid of Love” had the added component of romance and intimacy for production to consider beyond the basic hazards of being unclothed in the wilderness that the parent show deals with. Bienstock says this meant adding additional protocols to make sure everyone on set — from the cast to the crew — never felt uncomfortable or experienced anything they did not consent to and, if they did, that they knew exactly how to report it.
“Because of the sensitive nature of a show like this, because not only is everybody naked and vulnerable, it’s a dating show,” Bienstock said. “So a couple of things. One is, with the cast, the cast was told that as a production, we will not tolerate any sort of unwanted advances, touching something without consent. Like, this was very, very important to us and to the cast and the crew as well.
“And by the way, on the crew, to make it more comfortable for everybody out there, we had a lot more women on the show, as part of the production, in terms of camera teams and producers, just to make it feel more balanced for everybody. And the crews were told as well, in terms of, everybody, take a step back, make sure nobody’s feeling uncomfortable. Our cast was told if they were feeling uncomfortable about something, to come to us. And even then, if they didn’t come to us… we told the crew, if someone’s even sensing anything, to go discuss it with the cast. So everybody felt protected and safe out there so they can focus on the goal, which was to find love.”
Murphy was cast as a contestant on Clare Crawley’s season of “The Bachelorette” but cut ahead of filming due to multiple pandemic-related production delays that shuffled up the men who could participate.
When asked by a journalist if he could compare the safety protocols on the set of “Naked and Afraid of Love” for “The Bachelorette,” he said without having been part of filming on the ABC reality dating series, he didn’t have enough information to weigh in.
“Unfortunately, I really can’t give an answer. I never participated in any filming up ‘The Bachelorette.’ I was cast for it and then sent home before filming,” Murphy said. “So I don’t really have any insight on what they do. I just know we were pretty thorough over here. And I always felt like if something was, you know, suspicious or something, I knew that we had people we trust who we could go to.”
He added, “I don’t believe so. I don’t really remember, it was a while ago.”
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