The Price is Right is the longest-running game show in TV history and is celebrating its 50th season. To celebrate the milestone, contestants can win up to $1 million this week in a featured game each day. Announcer George Gray said, “This show is about how much a can of creamed corn is. That’s what’s great about it. Because whether you are just scraping by or you’re Martha Stewart, you probably bought a can of cream corn.”
Marty, Doc and the DeLorean are taking to the stage for a musical adaptation of Back to the Future. The biggest challenge was getting the car to fly and reach the speed of 88 mph. The effect is created through the use of screens, graphic projections and a firework of illuminations. The songs in the musical include new songs as well as renditions of “The Power of Love” and “Johnny B Goode.”
NORM MACDONALD, one of the greatest comedians of our time, passed away yesterday after nearly a decade-long battle with cancer. He was 61. Norm had been battling cancer for nine years, but he told almost nobody, including family and friends. His longtime producing partner said, “Norm was most proud of his comedy. He never wanted the diagnosis to affect the way the audience or any of his loved ones saw him. Norm was a pure comic. He once wrote that ‘a joke should catch someone by surprise, it should never pander.’ Norm got his break in Hollywood writing for “Roseanne” and “The Dennis Miller Show” in 1992. He joined “Saturday Night Live” a year later, and hosted its “Weekend Update” segment for three seasons. Although he was with the show through 1998, he lost the “Update” gig in 1997 . . . supposedly because he made jokes about O.J. Simpson, who was a good friend of an NBC executive named Don Ohlmeyer. Norm had his own sitcom, called “Norm”, which debuted on ABC in 1999 and ran for three seasons. He also appeared in several films, including “Dirty Work”, “Funny People”, “The People vs. Larry Flynt”, “Man on the Moon”, and “Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo”. He voiced Lucky the Dog in 1998’s “Dr. Dolittle” and its sequels. He also played Colonel Sanders in a few KFC ads and had a Netflix talk show in 2018 called “Norm Macdonald Has a Show”.
A “Twins” sequel called “Triplets” may start filming early next year. In this one, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito find out they have a third brother, played by Tracy Morgan.
ED SHEERAN says award shows in the U.S. aren’t fun, because there’s a vibe of “resentment and hatred.” But at U.K. award shows, “everyone gets drunk and no one really cares who wins or loses, it’s just sort of a good night out.”
LAUREN BUSHNELL has opened up about her struggles with postpartum anxiety. “This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Balancing work, a three-month-old, anxiety, lack of sleep, and finding time for me has been a challenge.” Lauren and CHRIS LANE’s son Dutton Walker was born June 14th.
Somebody asked Trace about his upcoming series “Monarch” and he said things are a little different this time around. “I pull a gun in this, but I don’t actually shoot anybody. I think that may be a first for me in a Western. I have shot people in every one, I think.” Trace has a leading role as the “reigning king of country music.” The star of a show usually doesn’t die, and that’s also the case here. “I didn’t get killed in this one either, which is unusual. I’ve been getting killed in every movie I do for the last couple of years, but they didn’t kill me in this one.” “Monarch” also stars SUSAN SARANDON as Trace’s wife. It premieres January 30th on Fox . . . after the NFC championship game.
RILEY GREEN announced the dates of his We Out Here tour. It’ll kickoff November 13th in Athens, Georgia . . . and run into next year.
ERIC CHURCH’s Gather Again Tour is his first time performing in the round. “There’s no ‘front of house.’ It’s kind of like a cage match. Once we get out there, the crowd’s everywhere. They’re behind you, they’re on the sides. And I love that.”
TIM MCGRAW made a young singer’s day. Her name is ALEXANDRA KAY and she went viral last summer with a TikTok video where she’s making iced coffee and singing Tim’s “Don’t Take the Girl”. Yesterday Tim posted a side-by-side video of himself watching her clip as HE makes his own iced coffee. He added captions like, “She’s really good. I love her voice.” And, “Somebody needs to sign her to a record deal.”
Cole Swindell’s mother, Betty Carol Rainey, passed away on Monday, September 13. Her cause of death was not revealed. He said she is who keeps him “humble.” Cole lost his father, William Keith Swindell, unexpectedly in 2013. He later released the song “You Should Be Here” in his honor.
A 23-year-old man was arrested outside ARIANA GRANDE’s house. He was demanding to see her, and showed a knife when security confronted him.
Prince Harry is 37.
