Nexstar’s Political Ad Sales Skyrocket in Q4 With Midterms as Core TV Ad Revenue Dips 3% Following the CW Purchase

The battle to takeover Manchester United rumbles on this week following the drama of the last few days.

In a Broadway season that might be remembered for a lovely, pared-down minimalism – the intriguing starkness of A Doll’s House with Jessica Chastain, the less-is-more near-concert-style presentations of Into the Woods and Parade – director Thomas Kail’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street will stand out for, among many other attributes, its full-on, unabashed ambition. A prodigious theatrical event that aims for greatness and achieves it, this revival of the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler masterpiece is not to be missed.

James Gunn is now running things at DC alongside Peter Safran but he has one final film at Marvel with the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Word is out that the runtime for the third installment will be the longest of the trilogy clocking in at about two and a half hours.

EXCLUSIVE: In one of the wildest book rights auctions the town has seen in some time, Warner Bros. production co-heads Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy tonight landed screen rights to the upcoming T.J. Newman novel Drowning: The Rescue Of Flight 1421. Studio paid $1.5 million against $3 million, and there were five seven-figure bids on the table, sources said.    

Oliver Hudson is well-known for leaving his fans split with his comedy on social media, and such was the case with his latest social media upload.The actor posted a picture of himself sporting a lock of hair that had flopped over one side of his face while reclining on his couch, wearing nothing but a pair of sunglasses.Goldie Hawn's son added an almost philosophical bent to his caption, writing: "I'm not sure who I am anymore…," although his fans offered their own take. Oliver's new hairstyle had fans split on who he resembled mostSeveral wrote something along the lines of: "With that hair, Corey Feldman?" while another said: "Lookin' a little retro there but I feel like you identify more as a rock n roll cowboy type."A few also noticed in the reflection of his shades that he was surrounded by more people, quipping: "Ask one of the 3 people in the reflection on the glasses." His sister Kate was left speechless enough to simply share a few laughter emojis.MORE: Goldie Hawn's son Oliver Hudson praised as he shares hospital selfieMORE: Kate and Oliver Hudson's comments on their biological father Bill HudsonIt's been a busy week for the Nashville star, though, as he got to celebrate his son Bodhi's 13th birthday on Monday and usher him into teenagedom.Bodhi is Oliver and wife Erinn Hudson's middle child.

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Maroon 5‘s residency in Las Vegas has begun and fans who checked out the first weekend of shows got to enjoy a night full of hits!

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Stephen Sondheim’s horror-musical in which throats are gruesomely slashed and cannibalism is positively hilarious. 2 hours and 45 minutes with one intermission. At the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 W.

Naveen Kumar The cannibalist startup in “Sweeney Todd” kills two birds: For Sweeney, the ruined barber who holds a grudge as steadily as he does a blade, it means turning enemies into actual mincemeat. For Mrs. Lovett, who laments that alley cats were too quick and meager to carve up anyway — well, it’s a living, innit love?  Slitting throats and baking bodies into pies is a wild and wicked business. But in the stately and star-filled revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s macabre 1979 musical that opened on Broadway Sunday night, the people-to-pastries pipeline quickly assumes a grim air of mundanity.  For its stars Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford, this lushly orchestrated and opera-scale production, from “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail, proves a magnificent showcase for their respective, jaw-dropping talents. Groban’s weighted-blanket baritone makes the prospect of reclining in his company and never waking up again seem like a great way to go. And Ashford’s fleet, agile instinct for comedy, which earned her a Tony Award for “You Can’t Take It With You,” is like a dippy bird for dopamine. But only one of them is a genuine thrill.

Chris Pratt and Charlie Day, providing the voices for Mario and Luigi in the hotly anticipated scored them some real «cool» points with their kids.Pratt and Day sat down with ET's Matt Cohen over the weekend at a press day for the forthcoming animated adventure — based on the iconic video game franchise — and opened up about what their children thought of them being a part of bringing the iconic Mario brothers to the big screen.«We're cool again,» Day said with excitement. «We're back into cool dads status.»Day and his wife, actress Mary Elizabeth Ellis, share one son, 11-year-old Russell, and the star said, «This is a big deal in the Day household. This is no joke this, this gig.»For Pratt, he says his 10-year-old son Jack — whom he shares with ex-wife Anna Faris — was excited, but specifically because he's «a Luigi fan.»«Like he plays and he's like, 'Dad, I own at , I own everybody at.

was crushed by his own snowplow in a terrible January accident, shared a video of himself walking on an anti-gravity treadmill Sunday. As he strolls, he tells another man in the room that he’s walking while putting down less weight on his legs — akin to using a cane.“I now have to find OTHER things to occupy my time so my body can recover from my will,” Renner, 52, tweeted along with the footage of his physical therapy.The “Hawkeye” star was left in critical condition after he tried to stop the snowplow from sliding and hitting his nephew before it crushed his leg in Lake Tahoe.

After a surprise-filled season 1 finale, is finally back with new episodes — and the season 2 premiere did not disappoint, delivering one shocking moment after another. And the biggest one was the return of Ella Purnell as Jackie Taylor, the captain of the soccer team who initially survived the plane crash before freezing to death in the wilderness at the end of season 1. While the series did not resurrect Jackie, she was fully alive as part of the visions Shauna Shipman (Sophie Nélisse) was having of her late best friend while sitting with her dead body in the meat shed.

Now that has returned with season 2, there's been a renewed search for answers to the biggest questions about the show, including everything from when the young survivors will become cannibals in the past to what's going on with Adult Lottie (Simone Kessell) in the present. While at its core, the Showtime drama is about what happened to a group of teenagers after a plane crash stranded them in the wilderness for 19 months and how a few of the grownup survivors are reckoning with the secrets that amassed both then and now, it's a puzzle box series that introduces new pieces with each episode. And as a result, fans have run wild with theories and ideas about every detail of the series, much to the delight of its creators, Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, who admitted to ET that they «have been, along with the entire cast and most of our EPs, trolling Reddit a little bit and watching Twitter.» And in doing so, they noticed during season 1 that «somebody out of the thousands of comments that have come up has rightly predicted almost everything.»That said, there are still many (new and old) questions to be asked, theories to be addressed and answers to be debated. And as season 2 continues to roll out, this article will be updated with information from each new episode as well as additional insight from the creators and the cast, including the adult players, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Melanie Lynskey and Tawny Cypress, and their younger counterparts, Courtney Eaton, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Liv Hewson, Sammi Hanratty, Sophe Nelisse and Sophie Thatcher.

Chaka Khan's 70th birthday was a meeting of musical greats!In a video captured by an attendee, Khan was seen signing alongside fellow music icon, Stevie Wonder, as she rang in the big 7-0 Thursday at the Vortex recording studio in Hollywood.Per  the duo belted out Khan's hit, «Tell Me Something Good,» before joining forces for a few of Wonder's tracks, including «Signed, Sealed, Delivered,» and of course, his famous rendition of «Happy Birthday,» which had the packed party singing along.The couple hundred guests included a few other famous faces as well, with Khan's longtime friend and collaborator, Joni Mitchell, and comedian, Mike Epps, coming out to honor the songstress. Tiffany Haddish, who was also in attendance, showed off her musical chops — and a few dance moves too — with her take on Tina Turner's «Proud Mary.» According to the outlet, the party continued late into the night, with guests celebrating Khan's milestone birthday well past 1:00 a.m. ET spoke to the 10-time GRAMMY winner last month, where she reflected on her career and shared the biggest life lessons she's learned ahead of turning 70.«I've got five generations in any given audience,» Khan, who last summer dropped "Woman Like Me," her latest single, said, «Five generations of people, and I think that's significant.»With so much under her belt, Khan offered her perspective to those who want to follow in her footsteps.«I keep telling these kids, they want to know what should they do if they have a calling or a dream,» she said. «The thing is, if you have a calling or a dream, you're either going to realize it or you're going to crash and burn; kill yourself or kill somebody else or something, you know? You're gonna have to do it, it has to be done.

The New York district attorney charged Jonathan Majors with multiple counts of assault and harassment following his arrest in an alleged domestic dispute Saturday. In documents obtained by Fox News Digital, Majors, 33, was charged with two counts of assault in the third degree, aggravated harassment in the second degree, attempted assault in the third degree and harassment in the second degree.

Leonardo DiCaprio spent some quality time with his friends this weekend!

Jen Shah‘s prison release date has seemingly been moved up from 2029 to 2028, cutting a year off of her sentence.

Taylor Swift is pulling out all the stops on her Eras Tour!Taking the stage in Las Vegas, Nevada Saturday, Swift treated the sold-out crowd at Allegiant Stadium to a special surprise from Marcus Mumford. The «Anti-Hero» singer was joined on stage by the Mumford & Sons singer for a special performance of «Cowboy Like Me,» off Swift's 2020 release, e.Explaining the origin for e to her fans, Swift revealed that it was Mumford who lent his home studio to her during the COVID-19 pandemic, to help her record the sister album to folklore.«I could not find a studio, essentially, and so Aaron was like, 'OK, let me call around and see if there's anyone who's cool and nice and generous and might be willing to offer up their home studio — if you do the right amount of testing, you're totally locked down, you're fully quarantined,» Swift shared. «So I was like 'Please, I really hope somebody comes through.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Nexstar is bringing together two of its prized properties this spring with the debut of a daily “The Hill” program on NewsNation. Chairman and CEO Perry Sook revealed that the long-gestating series based on the political news outlet, acquired by Nexstar in 2021, will premiere in April and run Monday-Friday. “Next steps for us, obviously, Elizabeth Vargas is going to the network in April,” Sook said. “And by the end of April we will have a program schedule that will be news 24/5. So we will be a 24-hour news network Monday-Friday by the end of April and that will include the daytime expansion, the addition of ‘The Hill,’ the addition of the ‘Elizabeth Vargas Reports’ show at 6 o’clock Eastern, Monday-Friday. And at that point, obviously, we’re getting higher cost per thousands in news programming than we did in off-network programming. We’ve been able to substantially grow our distribution revenue because of news content and being one of five networks rather than one of a hundred general entertainment networks.”

Nexstar CEO Perry Sook said the company’s acquisition of the CW has already paid for itself in terms of adding muscle to the company’s distribution negotiations.