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Will Thorne Staff WriterCBS had “A Holly Dolly Christmas” with Dolly Parton last night.The singer’s holiday special delivered around 6.2 million viewers and a 0.7 average rating among adults 18-49, a decent result for the network, especially considering it was up against “Sunday Night Football.” Later on, “NCIS: Los Angeles” scored a 0.4 rating and around 4.2 million viewers.A tight, yet not particularly thrilling game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos delivered a 3.8 rating and just over 14 million total viewers for NBC. Those figures are subject to adjustment later in the day once more accurate measurement become available.

Bob Dylan's entire catalog of songs, which reaches back 60 years, is being acquired by Universal Music Publishing Group. According to the, the price was not disclosed, but it is estimated at more than $300 million.The catalog contains 600 song copyrights, including «Blowin' In The Wind,» «The Times They Are a-Changin',» «Knockin' On Heaven's Door,» and «Tangled Up In Blue.»«Brilliant and moving, inspiring and beautiful, insightful and provocative, his songs are timeless—whether they were written more than half a century ago or yesterday,» said Sir Lucian Grainge, CEO of Universal Music Group, in a statement.Dylan's catalog may be the most prized in the music industry.

Manchester city centre has spoken out about the incident.  Owen Healy was left with cuts and blood dripping from his forehead following the violent bust-up at BrewDog last year.He was attacked for refusing to serve a group of men after they made lewd comments towards a female colleague.The 23-year-old had been working a quiet Monday night when the group entered the Peter Street bar. They had a few drinks before making “misogynistic” comments about a female member of staff who was collecting glasses at the time. When asked to leave, one member, Dean Campbell, became violent towards the manager and bar staff. The 25-year-old then walked around the side of the bar, put bartender Owen in a headlock and smashed a pint glass into his face.  Owen,

government inquiry into the impact of “the business models” operated by the likes of Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Google Play.Musicians including Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien, Elbow’s Guy Garvey, Nadine Shah and Gomez‘ Tom Gray told MPs on the DCMS committee that streaming payments are “threatening the future of music”.Over £1 billion in revenue was generated from 114 billion music streams in the UK last year, with the inquiry noting, however, that “artists can be paid as little as 13% of the income generated”.Tomorrow (December 8), Chic legend Nile Rodgers will address the committee, where he’ll be joined by songwriter Fiona Bevan and jazz saxophonist Soweto Kinch.Last week, Shah wrote an article criticising streaming services for

Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas has transformed her incredible home for Christmas, and the results are so stunning.The star took to Instagram with a series of photos showing different areas of the home and how they had been decorated for the festive period, and captioned it, "Huge thank you to @wayfairuk for transforming our home into a twinkling winter wonderland this Christmas. I love their wide range of unique festive décor, follow my stories to see more!"SEE: Strictly's Shirley Ballas brings LA glamour to her beautiful London home - see insideWATCH: Shirley Ballas shares incredible home tourThe first image shows her unique white Christmas tree.

Kate Garraway's husband Derek Draper sadly continues his battle with COVID-19 in hospital after being diagnosed in March. Good Morning Britain host Kate and her two children Darcey and Billy have been staying at their family home in London in the meantime, and while they will have a different festive period this year, they went all out on a former Christmas tree.SEE: Kate Garraway's stunning family home revealed - an inside tour Kate Garraway's former Christmas treeKate shared a photo back in 2017 as she posed alongside the feature for charity Save the Children's Christmas jumper challenge.

It has been over eight months since Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck confirmed their relationship. For the unversed, Armas shared a picture with Affleck as she celebrated her 32nd birthday.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentMilan’s venerable La Scala opera house on Monday will stage a globally distributed TV gala event featuring its mask-wearing orchestra in the empty venue and a multimedia medley of arias and other performances by opera, ballet, pop music and screen stars, substituting its canceled season opener.Due to the pandemic, La Scala has been forced to call off its traditional December opera opening, among the top events on Europe’s cultural calendar, for the first time since the Second World War. Until recently, the planned opener was Gaetano Doninzetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” with U.S.

Aubrey Plaza believes her “Happiest Season” co-star Kristen Stewart contracted the coronavirus while they were filming the movie earlier this year.  During a recent virtual appearance on “The Late Show,” Plaza was asked by host Stephen Colbert about filming the movie in late February just before the pandemic changed everyone’s way of life in March.  The actress noted that the virus was a topic of conversation on set, but it was not treated with the seriousness it deserved at first.  “Right before COVID, in fact, COVID was on our set,” she explained. “Kirsten got sick but we didn’t know.” Aubrey Plaza revealed that her 'Happiest Season' co-star Kristen Stewart got COVID-19 while filming.

Remember all the way back at the beginning of 2020, when we barely knew what coronavirus was? Apparently, Kristen Stewart was finding out pretty intimately.

Hulu sales executive Jim Keller is moving to Discovery to head the company’s digital sales efforts ahead of the January launch of streaming service Discovery+.

home in London is a minimalist Scandi dream, and Stacey Dooley's show of appreciation for his interiors expertise is certainly warranted. In a former Instagram Story, Stacey said she had come across food writer and journalist Nigel's home on his account and that it was now her "new inspo".

said on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” last week.Plaza added that a lot of people on the set got sick around that time and no one thought anything of it.“It was the last week of February so people were starting, it was like that zone where people were starting to talk about coronavirus, but people were laughing about it,” she said. “No one understood how serious it was.

Happiest Season last month, they likely just intended for the movie to be a cutesy rom-com about going home for the holidays to meet the parents with a queer spin, but as luck would have it, it has become one of the year's most highly contested contribution to lesbian pop culture.The long and short of it is that audiences have been very vocal about how badly they wanted one of the film's stars, Kristen Stewart, to ditch her character's girlfriend played by Mackenzie Davis for a tertiary character that arguably should have received far more screen time, played by Aubrey Plaza.

Naman Ramachandran The McCallister house immortalized in “Home Alone” (1990) is back after 30 years, this time in gingerbread form.Streamer Disney Plus commissioned artist and cake designer Michelle Wibowo to create a 1.7-meter edible version of the iconic house. Earlier this year, the BBC commissioned the artist to create a life-size confection version of Mr.

DANIELLE Lloyd has been spotted with painful-looking black bruises on her face following a trip to see a cosmetic surgeon in Turkey. The model had dark marks high on her cheeks as she pulled on a designer Givenchy shirt to wheel out her bins in Walsall.

Happiest Season. Aubrey Plaza revealed that Kristen Stewart contracted the novel coronavirus on the set of their new Christmas movie.“COVID was on our set.

Priscilla Presley has sold off her longtime Beverly Hills mansion for $13 million, three million less than her initial asking price.The palatial, Spanish-style 'sanctuary' has undergone several price cuts ever since Priscilla listed it over the summer for $15.995 million.Just four months after putting it on the market, Priscilla offloaded the property for $13 million this past week,Page Six reported on Thursday.Built in 1951, the estate listed by Hilton Hyland boasts seven bedrooms, eight and a half bedrooms, a tile lined swimming pool and tennis court, and was bought by Priscilla in the 1970s in order to be close to her ex-husband Elvis Presley.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorJim Keller is exiting Hulu after almost seven years to join Discovery as executive VP, digital ad sales and advanced advertising — coming on board less than a month before the debut of the cabler’s Discovery Plus direct-to-consumer service.In the new role, Keller will lead the strategic development of all Discovery’s U.S. digital ad sales, spanning Discovery Plus (launching Jan.

, but the set of the hit holiday romance wasn't exactly a happy place the whole time. Actress Aubrey Plaza revealed onthat the Hulu film's star, Kristen Stewart, as well as many others on the set got sick with what she believes to be COVID-19. Sharing that they filmed the moving in late February, Plaza noted, «Yes, right before COVID, in fact, COVID was on our set.

Aubrey Plaza has revealed Kristen Stewart contracted coronavirus while filming “Happiest Season”.