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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic With the 60th ACM Awards now six weeks away, the Academy of Country Music and Dick Clark Productions have announced the first rollout of performers for the Prime Video webcast, with Blake Shelton, Eric Church and Lainey Wilson set to perform from Texas on May 8. All three are in demand, each of them also having just been seen on the highly rated “Opry 100” special. Shelton is currently back on the scene with “Texas,” his first single for Big Loud after decades with Warner Nashville.

Coachella, which will return to the famed Empire Polo Grounds on April 11th and again for Weekend 2 on April 18th. A week later, pop will be swapped out for country at Stagecoach, featuring headliners Zach Bryan, Jelly Roll and Luke Combs. Every music festival has a different vibe.

Blake Shelton, Lainey Wilson and Eric Church are the first group of performers set for the 60th Academy of Country Music Awards.

Annika Pham 10 years after taking the helm of Yle drama’s department and contributing significantly to Finnish drama’s hike in quality and international reach, Jarmo Lampela continues to broaden his network of international partners. Italy and Canada are the latest countries to be conquered by the visionary Finn who is attending Lille’s Series Mania confab with several projects. “Torna a Surriento” will be Yle’s first co-production with Italian pubcaster RAI.

EXCLUSIVE: As the drama biz convenes in Lille for Series Mania, Marco Bassetti, CEO of Europe-based indie production and distribution heavyweight Banijay Entertainment, tells Deadline about his billion-dollar ambition in scripted.

Naman Ramachandran BAFTA has tapped multi-hyphenate talent Alan Cumming to host the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards. Cumming’s decorated career spans stage and screen, from his Tony and Olivier award-winning turn in “Cabaret” to his Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-recognized performance in “The Good Wife,” where he also served as an executive producer.

EXCLUSIVE: Heading into the weekend, Disney‘s Snow White was being nicknamed Snow Woke in vitriol online circles, which begged the question how this princess movie would fare at the box office in a Trumpian era country that’s divided by blue and red states.

Ghosts is coming to an end later this Spring. But don’t worry! It’s coming back for more. In fact, it’s renewed for not one, but two seasons!

Holly Jones Argentine multi-hyphenates Tamae Garateguy (“Auxilio”), Sant Giralt (“Before Opening Night”) and Camila Toker (“La danza del impacto”) reunite to debut the fourth installment of their sardonic and timely Upa! Saga, “Upa! A Spring in Athens” (“Upa! Una primavera en Atenas”), its world premiere set to open the 26th edition of the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (Bafici), running April 1-13. Produced by Giralt and Fede Carol’s Los Griegos Films and Garateguy, Giralt and Toker’s upafilms alongside associate producer Hildegunn Wærness — who reprises the role of exotic ingénue Hilde, the project offers a satirical look at the independent film circuit.

The Trump White House bade an unceremonious goodbye to actress and Trump-critic Rosie O’Donnell after she fled the United States. O'Donnell, who has been feuding with President Donald Trump since 2006, left the country days before his return to the Oval Office.The comedian announced on social media she is living in Ireland and is in the process of applying for Irish citizenship. "It’s been pretty wonderful, I have to say," the 62-year-old said in a TikTok video posted earlier this month.

AI applications and a live showcase of Hong Kong’s film music legacy, FilMart proved once again why it’s considered Asia’s premier film and TV marketplace. Here are the top takeaways from this year’s edition. 1. ASEAN Presence Explodes as Southeast Asia Takes Center Stage One of the biggest headlines this year was the rise of ASEAN countries as strategic players in both market scale and content ambition.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Istanbul-based distributor Madd Entertainment has released the international trailer for English-language drama “El Turco,” in which Turkish megastar Can Yaman plays a legendary historical figure that bridges Turkey with the Western world. The hotly anticipated six-episode “El Turco” series — featuring a starry cast of actors from nine different countries and combining history, action-adventure and romance – is set to rollout today, March 21, on Voyo in Romania, on IVI in Russia, and on Globoplay Brazil. It will then go out March 23 on Teleonce in Honduras, on March 27 on Mediaset in Italy, and on April 2 on Gaín in Turkey.

Annika Pham As Lille’s giant Series Mania confab kicks off March 21, REinvent International Sales has announced a fresh pick up in the crime show “The Pushover.” The six-parter is based on author Lone Theils’ sixth book in her best-selling Nora Sand franchise, published in more than 20 countries, including the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Scandinavia. The series is the second TV adaptation featuring high-flying Danish journalist Nora Sand after the hit show “Fatal Crossing,” sold by REinvent to multiple territories, including Global Series Network/Walter Presents for the UK/Ireland, Lumiere Group for Benelux, TV4 for Sweden/Finland, Encripta for Latin America and Telepool for France and Germany.

The World Happiness Report has released the 2025 ranking of the happiest countries in the world… and the United States didn’t make the Top 20 list.

Dolly Parton has said that she is “doing better” than expected following the passing of her husband Carl Thomas Dean.The country legend shared the news earlier this month that her husband of nearly 60 years had died at the age of 82. “Carl and I spent many wonderful years together,” she wrote in a heartfelt tribute.

Mariah Carey has been cleared in the lawsuit over her 1994 festive classic ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’.The country singer Andy Stone – who performs under the stage name Vince Vance – first filed a suit against Carey in a Los Angeles federal court in November 2023. He alleged that Carey’s song infringed the copyright of his 1989 song of the same name and that the pop singer had exploited his “popularity” and “style”.“If you look at both songs, you can see that about 50 per cent of the words are the same, in almost the same order.

Fire Country Season 3 is coming to an end – but don’t worry, the show is continuing on for another season!

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Apple‘s video streaming business is still firmly in the red, according to a new report. The Apple TV+ premium subscription service is losing more than $1 billion per year, according to an anonymously sourced report by The Information published Thursday. The tech giant is spending around $4.5 billion on content annually, down from $5 billion in past years, according to the article.

Beyoncé has added a second Las Vegas date to her upcoming ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour due to “incredible” fan demand – see all the dates below.The pop star announced the huge run of US gigs last month, before going on to add further dates in the States, the UK and France in the following days.Earlier this week, Queen Bey responded to fan demand by adding in a show at Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium on July 25 to close out the tour, but it has now become clear that even that did not satisfy the public’s appetite for tickets.Now, a second Allegiant Stadium show has been added onto the end of the tour, to take place on July 26. A BeyHive presale is open until Sunday (March 23) at 10pm local time (find more information on that here), while an artist presale begins at 12pm on Monday (March 24), until 11am on Tuesday.

Dolly Parton has revealed that she laid down some ground rules to Sabrina Carpenter before agreeing to appear on their collaborative version of ‘Please Please Please’.The singer teamed up with the country icon on the joint fresh take of the hit single for the deluxe edition of Carpenter’s latest album ‘Short N’ Sweet’, which was released last month.In an interview with Knox News, Parton said she told Carpenter before agreeing to the collab: “I told her, I said, ‘Now, I don’t cuss, I don’t make fun of Jesus. I don’t talk bad about God, and I don’t say dirty words on camera, but known to if I get mad enough’”.Parton expressed praise for Carpenter, but she did point out that the singer “can talk a little bad now and then.”On the original version of the song, Carpenter sings: “I beg you, don’t embarrass me motherfucker.” For their collaboration the lyrics were altered to: “I beg you, don’t embarrass me like the others.”When they first shared their team-up, Parton posted a clip of herself meeting with Carpenter.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic It’s probably safe to say that “Opry 100: A Live Celebration” is the first three-hour special in the history of country music television to feature nothing but first-rate performances over the course of an entire prime-time block. But then, producers for the show did have a built-in programming advantage in celebrating the 100th anniversary of Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, with theoretically a century of picks to draw upon and not just a year’s worth of recent radio fodder.