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Alice Estes Davis, who went from designing women’s lingerie and undergarments to coming up with costumes for Disney theme park attractions, films and TV shows, has died. She was 93.

Davis died Thursday at her Los Feliz home in Los Angeles, a spokesperson for Walt Disney Animation told The Hollywood Reporter.

Named a Disney Legend in 2004, she was married to animator Marc Davis — one of Disney’s legendary “Nine Old Men” — from June 1956 until his death in January 2000. (He became a Disney Legend in 1989, and the couple have their names on side-by-side windows on Main Street at Disneyland.)

The fourth of the five children, Alice May Estes was born on March 26, 1929, in Escalon, California. Her father, Bishop, was a public school principal, and her mother, Naomi, was an art teacher and craftswoman.

Davis went to high school in Long Beach, California, and in

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Aaron Carter, singer, television personality and younger brother of Backstreet Boys star Nick Carter, died Saturday. He was 34.

A source confirms his death to The Hollywood Reporter, and it was also reported by TMZ. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told THR that a suspicious death took place at Carter’s address but could not confirm the identity.

Carter got his start opening for the Backstreet Boys on a 1997 tour, and his debut album, Aaron Carter, was released later than year, reaching gold status.

His follow-up album, Aaron’s Party (Come and Get It), was released in September 2000 and went triple platinum. It featured the singles “I Want Candy,” “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It)” and “That’s How I Beat Shaq,” and he supported the album as an opening act for Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears on the Oops!… I Did It Again Tour.

For the 56th Annual CMA Awards, airing on ABC on Wednesday, November 9, they brought in the “reliever,” the “heat,” according to hosts Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning. “For me and this guy to be hosting the biggest night in country music, the CMA Awards, it’s fun. I got to do this by myself last year, and obviously, I didn’t do a good enough job, so we had to go to the big guy here,” Bryan quips in our exclusive first look at the event featuring the country and NFL superstars. Manning calls on what he knows (sports) to indicate just that, noting, “It’s different for me because Luke is one of them, right? Luke is in the arena with all of these entertainers. For me, I’m a fan. I have a great appreciation for the talents all these men and women have and to see them

Prime Video has revealed the premiere date for the final season of Carnival Row, which is set to debut on February 17, 2023, with ten episodes and a weekly release. The streaming service also debuted a first-look trailer and key art. The second and final trailer of Carnival Row “picks up with former inspector Rycroft Philostrate a.k.a. Philo (Orlando Bloom), investigating a series of gruesome murders stoking social tension,” according to Prime Video. “Vignette Stonemoss (Cara Delevingne) and the Black Raven plot payback for the unjust oppression inflicted by The Burgue’s human leaders, Jonah Breakspear (Arty Froushan) and Sophie Longerbane (Caroline Ford). Tourmaline (Karla Crome) inherits supernatural powers that threaten her fate and the future of The Row. And, after escaping The Burgue and her vengeful brother Ezra (Andrew Gower), Imogen Spurnrose (Tamzin Merchant) and her partner Agreus Astrayon (David Gyasi) encounter a radical new society which upends their plans.

Ryan Murphy has indeed created a Monster at Netflix.

Following the breakout success of Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, the streamer has ordered two additional installments of the serial killer-tinged anthology series. Netflix is not revealing which real-life villains will anchor Seasons 2 and 3, beyond saying that they will be “monstrous figures who have impacted society.”

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Some good news, Carnival Row fans: We finally know when new episodes will arrive. The bad news? It’s not returning for Season 3 at Prime Video.

TVLine has learned that the fantasy series starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne will end with Season 2, which is set to premiere on Friday, Feb. 17, 2023; new installments of the 10-episode final season will stream weekly. (Season 1 was previously released on Aug. 30, 2019.)

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Netflix is going the anthology route with “Monster,” with the streamer ordering two additional seasons of the series. Netflix has also ordered Season 2 of “The Watcher.”

Both shows were created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. “Monster” launched Sept. 21, while “The Watcher” debuted on Oct. 13.

The first season of “Monster” was officially titled “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” and followed the life and crimes of the infamous serial killer. The two new installments will each focus on “other monstrous figures who have impacted society,” per Netflix.

“Monster” proved to be a massive success, debuting atop both the Netflix and Nielsen streaming charts.

The late Leslie Jordan will be a panelist on The Masked Singer Season 8 this week for “Hall of Fame Night,” the series has announced. The episode was filmed prior to the beloved actor’s death on Monday, October 24. He was 67 years old. Jordan’s posthumous appearance on The Masked Singer will air Wednesday, November 9 at 8/7c on Fox. Community alum Joel McHale will also be a guest panelist in the episode. Jordan previously appeared as a guest panelist on the singing competition show in Season 7. The Will & Grace and Call Me Kat star died in a car accident in Hollywood, California. Law enforcement suspected he experienced a medical emergency while driving, leading to him crashing his car into a building. An autopsy was scheduled to help determine law enforcement’s theory, but the autopsy was not able to determine a cause of death, per The Los Angeles Times. The Los

In the latest TV ratings, NBC Sunday Night Football‘s broadcast of the Chiefs/Titans game averaged 14.8 million total viewers and a 3.9 demo rating, down about 8 percent from the early numbers for last week’s Packers/Bills match-up.

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When CNN’s famous “Magic Wall” comes out for an election newscast, it’s all hands on deck. No one knows that better than John King.

The longtime CNN correspondent grew up left-handed, he explains during a recent meeting in the network’s Washington bureau, but the demands of CNN’s popular interactive map are so great that he has trained himself to be ambidextrous so he can work the screen with either hand. Each flick of a finger or wrist by King, who Is likely to work at least 14 hours Tuesday night during coverage of the 2022 midterm elections, can

Yellowstone‘s Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler are one of TV’s best power couples. Their fiery commitment to each other — and patriarch John Dutton and their family legacy – is unshakable. There’s a softer side to the couple that only comes out in their private moments on the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch. Kelly Reilly tells us “one of the most gorgeous things about this show” is who Beth and Rip “become when they’re with one another.” Reilly has been playing the red-hot Dutton daughter opposite Cole Hauser’s deadly ranch foreman since Yellowstone began production in 2017. Adds the star, “Beth has always thought that she’s at war, except when she’s with Rip.” In the brutal war to protect the ranch, Rip is a first lieutenant. Hauser agrees that the couple find rare peace in each other’s company. “Beth is soft with Rip, and vice versa,” says the actor.

Elon Musk has only owned Twitter for a little over a week, but the billionaire is already making new enemies on the social media site.

On Sunday, comedian Kathy Griffin was banned from Twitter after she changed her display name and profile picture to match Musk’s, and wrote several satirical tweets mocking the Tesla and Space X CEO. The “impersonation” was paper-thin — her handle remained @kathygriffin and could be seen on all her tweets — but the suspension was accompanied by a tweet from Musk stating that “any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended.”

Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be permanently suspended

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2022

While the general policy against impersonation has already been a part of Twitter’s rules and policies for users, immediate action against offenders is new. The policy also goes

HBO’s “The White Lotus” is back — which means that viewers, once again, have a murder on their hands.

Season 2 opens with Daphne (Meghann Fahy) going for a swim on the last day of her holiday in Sicily, when she bumps into a dead body (or part of a body?) and swims, screaming, back to shore.

The second installment of Mike White’s buzzy limited series explores taut sexual politics in one of the world’s most romantic and storied locales, all while building up to not just one death, but multiple. As White Lotus Sicily manager Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore) learns in the cold open, there are more bodies out there, which sets this death definitively as a murder — unlike Season 1’s arguable accident.

With a mostly new cast and so many possibilities, IndieWire is breaking down the life-and-death odds every week, updating to reflect developments of the latest episode.

On Election Night, NBC News will split its own ticket.

Yes, viewers can see Lester Holt, Savannah Guthrie Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell hold forth on NBC proper. But they might also seek out a growing array of programming on digital venues.

Though NBC News has had a presence on TikTok since 2019, the unit is for the first time dispatching personnel to provide real-time reporting to the venue’s users says Catherine Kim, senior vice president of global digital news. NBC News can tap any of its journalists to deliver a quick hit, recut a piece of video that ran elsewhere,

There’s a host again. Thank God, there’s a host again. Not three hosts, like at this March’s misbegotten Oscars ceremony. One host. And it’s the same host as the last time we had just one host, almost five years ago: Jimmy Kimmel.

After back-to-back emceeing gigs in 2017 and 2018, including during the infamous Best Picture mixup that resulted in the “La La Land” team temporarily handed statuettes that rightfully belonged to “Moonlight,” the Academy decided to go three straight Oscars ceremonies without a host at all. The hope was for a leaner, faster-paced ceremony.

That never happened.

Meanwhile, ratings for the ceremony kept going down with each year until hitting rock bottom for the odd Covid-impacted ceremony in 2021 that took place at Los Angeles’ Union Station and tried to create a Rick’s Cafe Americain vibe from “Casablanca.” The only problem? There was no Rick. And so

Judge Derek Hough noted a while ago that Trevor Donovan just might be the “dark horse” in Season 31 of Dancing With the Stars. Based on last week’s impressive performance, it’s clear that Donovan and pro partner Emma Slater are out of the gate and running! The pair scored an impressed 39 points with their contemporary dance set to the tune of Justin Bieber’s “Ghost.” Donovan and Slater went on to earn an additional 39 points as part of “Team Scream” in the group dance competition. The duo wrapped up the night in the top spot, tied for first place along with Charli D’Amelio (The D’Amelio Show) and Mark Ballas. TV Insider chatted with Donovan and Slater right after the live stream of DWTS last week about their top score, Donovan’s emotional reaction to his and Slater’s dance, why Slater playfully booed judge Carrie Ann Inaba, and a

Steve Harvey has had a rollercoaster journey throughout his life and career and is now inspiring others by sharing how he persisted through hard times to find success. Taking to Twitter on Monday, November 7, the long-serving Family Feud host and comedian tweeted, “I didn’t get into comedy until I was 27. I was homeless from 30 to 33. I lived in a car for three years. Don’t give up on your dreams.” In 2020, Harvey revealed in an interview with People that after his first divorce, he lived out of his car and made 50 a week while he pursued comedy. He struggled to make ends meet for three years before eventually landing a gig as host of Showtime at the Apollo, which soon led to The Steve Harvey Show. People see me today, they don’t know where I come from. I tell young cats all the time, the key is you can’t ever give up…

Disney+ on Monday confirmed many a casting rumor for its upcoming Star Wars series The Acolyte, as production on the show officially got underway.

The full ensemble includes previously reported cast members such as Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place), Jodie Turner-Smith (The Last Ship) and Charlie Barnett (Russian Doll), along with new additions Dafne Keen (His Dark Materials), Rebecca Henderson (Inventing Anna), Carrie-Anne Moss (Marvel’s Jessica Jones) and Dean-Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones).

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The “Star Wars” series “The Acolyte” at Disney+ has announced its full cast as production gets underway.

In addition to previously announced lead Amandla Stenberg, the series will officially star Lee Jung-jae (“Squid Game”), Manny Jacinto (“Nine Perfect Strangers”), Dafne Keen (“His Dark Materials”), Jodie Turner-Smith (“Queen & Slim”), Rebecca Henderson (“Inventing Anna”), Charlie Barnett (“Russian Doll”), Dean-Charles Chapman (“1917”) and Carrie-Anne Moss (“The Matrix”).

Per the official series description, “The Acolyte” is described as “a mystery-thriller that will take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era. A former

As production begins in the U.K. on the upcoming Star Wars spinoff The Acolyte, Disney+ has officially announced the cast for the highly-anticipated sci-fi series, including Squid Game lead Lee Jung-jae and His Dark Materials star Dafne Keen. Keen and Jung-jae join the previously announced Amandla Stenberg (Dear Evan Hansen), alongside fellow new additions Manny Jacinto (The Good Place), Jodie Turner-Smith (White Noise), Rebecca Henderson (Sex Appeal), Charlie Barnett (Russian Doll), Dean-Charles Chapman (1917), and Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix Resurrections). Created by Leslye Headland (Russian Doll), The Acolyte is a mystery-thriller that takes viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era. It follows a former Padawan who reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes; however, the forces they face are more sinister than they ever anticipated. Headland serves as showrunner and executive producer on