The Thick of It
Timing is everything. Which may help explain why, after a nearly three-year delay, BBC America is finally importing the third season (from 2009) of the blistering political satire The Thick of It to its "Ministry of Laughs" weekend franchise (Saturday, midnight/11c) — on the heels of HBO's launch of Veep, which springs from the same demented imagination of dark farceur Armando Iannucci.
Thick set the tone of deeply cynical, bitterly vicious, and scaldingly profane high-office shenanigans that Veep is adapting with some success.
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Alicia Keys, Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder
Some 1,500 invited guests descended upon Newark, N.J. to pay their final respects to music legend Whitney Houston on Saturday, with Kevin Costner, Tyler Perry, Stevie Wonder and Alicia Keys paying tribute to the pop diva. The funeral, called her "homegoing" ceremony on the invitations to the service, took place at New Hope Baptist Church, the same church where Houston first sang as a young girl.
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Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston is going home.
Her funeral, called her "home going" ceremony on the invitations to the service, is taking place Saturday morning at the New Hope Baptist Church in Houston's hometown of Newark, N.J.
Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder to sing at Whitney Houston's funeral; Clive Davis to speak
Among the expected guests...
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Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston's godmother Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder will perform at the late pop singer's funeral this Saturday in Newark, N.J., The Associated Press reports.
Houston's longtime mentor, Clive Davis, will speak at the private service, and longtime family friend, gospel singer Marvin Winans, will deliver the...
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Sharon Osbourne
Whitney Houston's death has brought out some strong emotions besides sorrow in her fans.
On Wednesday's episode of The Talk, guest Mark Steines of Entertainment Tonight stopped by to discuss the singer's death and upcoming funeral. He brought up how some people are not happy that record producer Clive Davis continued to hold his annual pre-Grammys party Saturday night despite learning of Houston's death only hours before.
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Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson will pay tribute to the late Whitney Houston at Sunday's Grammy Awards, producers for the telecast announced late Saturday.
"We are all pretty devastated. It hit us pretty hard," Grammy Awards executive producer Ken Ehrlich said in an interview that was fed to CBS affiliates Saturday. "A lot of us who worked on the show worked with her a number of times, so it's a very sad day for us and...
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Melanie Amaro
If Melanie Amaro was pinning her post-X Factor career hopes on her Super Bowl night Pepsi ad, then we probably weren't the only ones who were disappointed. The most iconic element of her $5 million prize package, this supposed ...
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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin has called off her engagement to William "Willie" Wilkerson.
"Will and I have decided we were moving a little too fast, and there were a number of things that had not been thought through thoroughly," Franklin said in a statement. "There will be no wedding at this time."
Aretha Franklin engaged to longtime friend
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Aretha Franklin and William Wilkerson
Aretha Franklin and longtime friend William 'Willie' Wilkerson are engaged, according to People.
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Astro, Steve Jones, Stacy Francis
Getting eliminated from any reality show is hard, but it was especially bitter for The X Factor's Stacy Francis. The 42-year-old mom from Los Angeles was ousted Thursday after an odd face-off with Astro, one of her competitors. The 15-year-old rapper refused to sing for his life, talked back to Simon Cowell and yet was still saved by the ...
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