Believe it or not, it’s been 15 years since MTV first blessed our television screens with the iconic cast of “Jersey Shore” — and starting on May 29, the whole gang will be back together in “Jersey Shore Family Vacation” Season 8. In TheWrap’s exclusive first look at the teaser out Thursday, Angelina, Deena, DJ Pauly D, Jenni “JWoww,” Mike “The Situation,” Nicole “Snooki,” Ronnie, Sammi “Sweetheart” and Vinny reunite while looking back at some of their less-than-stellar life choices. But hey, they paid off in the end, so no regrets. “This season, the family is celebrating 15 years since their first wild summer in Seaside Heights with an epic reunion at the OG shore house. They’re putting the NEW in New Jersey, diving deeper into the passion projects and personal lives of each cast member,” per the logline. And as the trailer puts it, the entire group is still DTF… Down to fist-pump. It’s also worth noting the show ended Season 7 as the No. 1 cable series on Thursday nights. “‘Jersey Shore’ is the gift that ke
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow referred to President Donald Trump’s administration being found liable for contempt of court to the metaphorical phrase “the thing right on the edge of the abyss,” saying the camp’s failure to adhere to a judge’s deportation order is pushing the country closer to the brink of peril. “If you want to know where contempt of court is on the map of the death of the republic, it’s that thing right on the edge of the abyss,” the host said after reading U.S, District Judge James E. Boasberg’s ruling on Wednesday night’s episode of “The Rachel Maddow Show.” On Wednesday, Boasberg stated he had found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court, warning that he could prosecute officials for not following the orders he issued back in March that directed the camp to turn planes around that were transporting deportees to a prison in El Salvador, per AP News. “You’re approaching the cliff, there’s the signs telling you you’re getting close to the edge and then you go p
Patrick Adiarte, the Philippines-born actor and dancer best known for his roles in “The King and I,” “M*A*S*H” and “Flower Drum Song,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles from pneumonia. He was 82. His death was confirmed on social media by friends and family members Wednesday. Born in Manila, Adiarte was imprisoned along with his sister Irene and their mother Purita by the Japanese in 1945 during World War II. Their father was killed that same year while he was working as a captain for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Over a year later, Adiarte and his surviving family members emigrated to New York. In 1952, he joined the Broadway cast of “The King and I” and toured with the show alongside fellow cast members Yul Brynner and Gertrude Lawrence. When the Broadway production was adapted a few years later in 1956 into a feature film by 20th Century Fox, Adiarte was cast as Prince Chulalongkorn, the eldest son of Brynner’s King Mongkut of Siam. Adiarte starred five years later in another Hollywood adaptation of a Rodger
The iconic PPG trio from “Love Island USA” Season 6 is headed to reality TV, again. Leah Kateb, JaNa Craig and Serena Page are among the Season 6 cast that will be featured in a new “Love Island” spinoff series, which follows a handful of former islanders as they trade the villa for Los Angeles. The new Peacock show, titled “Love Island: Beyond the Villa,” will also feature Aaron Evans, Miguel Harichi, Kaylor Martin, Connor Newsum, Kenny Rodriguez, Liv Walker and Kendall Washington, as well as more guest appearances. About a year after they met last summer, the new series will follow everyone’s favorite Season 6 Islanders around Los Angeles as they navigate new careers, evolving friendships, newfound fame and complex relationships outside of the Love Island villa, per the official logline. The new series will premiere this summer alongside a new season of “Love Island USA.” While flagship series “Love Island U.K.” has long dominated the cultural conversation, Season 6 of “Love Island USA” broke into the zeitg
Fatma Hassona, the Palestinian subject of the forthcoming Cannes 2025 documentary “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,” was killed Wednesday by a direct Israeli missile strike on her home in Gaza. The Palestinian photojournalist and artist was just 25 years old. Hassona, who was known as “Fatem” by her friends and loved ones, died just one day after Cannes sidebar ACID announced it would be showing Iranian director Sepideh Farsi’s new documentary, “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,” as part of its 2025 lineup. A co-production between Iran, France and Palestine, the documentary explores Farsi’s relationship with Hassona and the “window” she provided to “see fragments of the ongoing massacre of Palestinians.” The attack on Hassona’s home killed her, as well as nine members of her family. “We, filmmakers and members of the ACID team, met Fatma Hassona when we discovered Sepideh Farsi’s film ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,’ during the Cannes program,” the ACID team wrote in a statement posted Thursday o
The Peabody Awards unveiled the final batch of nominees on Thursday. Nominations for the Arts, Children’s/Youth, Entertainment and Interactive & Immersive categories were announced by the Board of Jurors, recognizing “the most captivating and impactful stories released in broadcasting and streaming media” in 2024. Noteworthy contenders in the Entertainment category, which feature a dozen nominees, are led by Emmy-winning programs “Shōgun,” “Baby Reindeer,” “Hacks,” “Ripley” and “Alex Edelman: Just for Us.” Other nominees include “Clipped,” “Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office,” “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” “Say Nothing,” “Fantasmas,” “We Are Lady Parts” and a comedy special from Ramy Youssef. The Arts category is represented with one nominated program from NatGeo about traveling photographers, while titles from Disney+ and Netflix make up the Children’s/Youth category. In the Interactive/Immersive category, the eight nominees vary in platform and media, such as VR, Instagram, TikTok and 3D maps. Topics range fr
Padma Lakshmi is moving from the world of cable into network television. CBS has ordered “America’s Culinary Cup,” the working title of an upcoming cooking competition series from the former “Top Chef” host. The series is set to premiere during the 2025-26 broadcast season. Lakshmi will serve as the creator and executive producer of the series alongside Susan Rovner, CEO of Aha Studios. Rovner was previously the content chief for NBCUniversal, the parent company of Bravo. Contestants for “America’s Culinary Cup” will be invitation-only as the series will challenge some of the nation’s most decorated chefs. The competition is specifically designed to test their “creativity, endurance, presentation, leadership and more,” a press release for the series reads. “We’re inviting elite chefs from across the country to represent their unique culinary style and battle it out,” Lakshmi said in a Thursday statement. “This competition echoes the thrill of sports and the American spirit as we cheer on our favorite chefs. I
“The Daily Show” host Ronny Chieng is starting to suspect the United States may be on the wrong side of history when it comes to the tariff war between the U.S. and China. Wednesday night’s opening monologue was entirely devoted to the issue, starting with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s response to American Vice President JD Vance repeatedly calling Chinese citizens “peasants.” “Let those American peasants wail before the 5,000-year-old civilization of the Chinese nation,” Xi said. “F–k, that went so hard,” Chieng said on Wednesday night. “Oh no, are we the Drake in this beef? Are we the certified peasants?” The late night host then countered that Xi’s 5,000-year-old flex isn’t as intimidating as Xi may think it is. “Half the people here don’t even think the Earth is that old,” Chineg said. “Also, let’s just be real. There’s no way that Americans are the peasants here. Do peasants have medical debt? Didn’t think so. Checkmate, China.” As the segment continued, “The Daily Show” played a news clip discussing Ch
Netflix’s “Ransom Canyon” was never going to be revolutionary. The new drama, set in rural Texas and based on a series of books by Jodi Thomas, will naturally remind you of “Yellowstone” with its land-loving cowboys dedicated to keeping their ranches out of the hands of corporations and their water out of corporate pipelines. Its love triangles and small town soap plots give a bit of “Virgin River” and a million other small town soaps, and it’s not just the presence of Minka Kelly that will make you think of “Friday Night Lights,” because the local teens are embroiled in their own cheerleading-adjacent drama. Everybody’s hot, everybody’s got secrets, and everybody’s in love with somebody whether that somebody loves them back or not. Sometimes there’s not much more you could ask for from a TV show. “Ransom Canyon” shares its name with the small town it’s set in, a community fueled by ranches that have been run by the same families for generations. But times are tough for ranchers, and some, like Davis (Eoin Ma
Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind the president’s Truth Social app, is calling on the SEC on Thursday to immediately investigate a British hedge fund for taking a $105 million short position against it. The company, in a memo sent to the SEC, said the bet on Trump Media’s shares dropping is “suspicious” and a “potential manipulation” of its stock price. Trump Media is questioning why the hedge fund, Qube Research & Technologies, recently disclosed its roughly six million-share short position in Trump Media only in Germany; Trump Media trades on the Nasdaq exchange in the U.S. under the symbol DJT. “Neither Nasdaq, NYSE Texas, nor any other source has been able to confirm when the trades disclosed by Qube were conducted or if they were conducted at all,” the memo said. Trump Media added: “The above factors, especially when combined with the history of suspicious trading surrounding DJT stock — including DJT appearing on Nasdaq’s Regulation SHO Threshold Security List continuously for more than