LIL REL HOWERY

As the temperature drops (in many places), the holiday TV calendar is heating up with a variety of festive options.

This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from Tears for Fears, that familiar “cha-CHUNG” sound effect signals the return to TV of NBC’s “Law & Order” and Tyler Perry’s gun-totting grandmother Madea in a fresh Netflix film.

This week’s new entertainment releases include a Sturgill Simpson's concept album called “The Ballad of Dood & Juanita” and TikTok star Addison Rae making her acting debut in a gender-flipped remake of the 1999 Freddie Prinze Jr and Rachael Leigh Cook teen comedy “She’s All That.”.

“Free Guy,” an action comedy starring Ryan Reynolds as a background character in a videogame, opened better than expected over the weekend.

It was a family affair at the Billboard Music Awards: Pink twirled in the air in a powerful performance with her daughter, and Drake was named artist of the decade, accepting the honor alongside his 3-year-old son.

The 93rd annual Academy Awards were always going to be a bit surreal this year.

The premise was simple at the Oscars.

NEW YORK The Comedy in Color standup franchise will soon be expanded to audiobooks. Simon & Schuster Audio and Laugh Out Loud announced Wednesday that Laugh Out Loud Presents Comedy in Color, Volume 1 will go on sale Sept. 29. The host is Lil Rel Howery of Get Out fame, who said in a statement that he hoped to take listeners on a hilarious ride with a diverse set of comedians who got jokes.Comedians featured will include Chris Distefano, Aida Rodriguez, Vir Das, Ronny Chieng and Nate Bargatze. Laugh Out Loud is an entertainment company founded by Kevin Hart.

He's hoping that will be the case for his next film, the Ryan Reynolds-starring action-comedy Free Man. Which is why Levy, Reynolds and the entire Free Guy cast -- including Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Taika Waititi -- were especially cautious teasing the movie during their NYCC panel on Thursday. Free Guy centers on Guy (Reynolds), a bank teller who realizes he's actually a non-playable background character in the video game, Free City. "Guy wakes up and we come to learn he might not be a video game character, at all. Free Guy hits theaters on July 3, 2020.