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IOL News
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- IOL News
Joe Thomas to headline Ndlala Mall grand opening concert in South Africa
Joe Thomas was in South Africa for a performance on Women's Day and now will perform at the grand opening of Ndlala Mall. The opening of Ndlala Mall keeps getting grander; organisers have now added international star Joe Thomas to the lineup. Thomas is known for his hits such as 'I wanna know', 'Good Girls', and 'If I Was Your Man'. He was already in South Africa at the time of the announcement, fresh off the Vertex Events and Soulful Nights Women's Day Concert. Thomas joins the grand opening as he headlines Friday's Grand Opening ceremony and Donell Jones headlines Saturday's line-up. Thomas announced that he is staying in a video on social media: 'South Africa, I have a surprise for you, I am staying to support my friend Thami Ndlala,' said Thomas.
Yahoo
03-08-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
World Dog Surfing Championship returns to Pacifica
The World Dog Surfing Championship returned to Pacifica for a "pawsitively" joyful day on the waves. Good boys and good girls from up and down the Pacific Coast Highway and around the world participated in this year's event. From the littlest of mutts to the biggest pups, each competitor handled the "ruff" waves like a true pro.
Yahoo
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Fans Saddened After NBC Cancels Popular Show
Fans Saddened After NBC Cancels Popular Show originally appeared on Parade. Put down your shovels and pruning shears, because NBC has made the surprising decision to cancel the suburban, gardening-centric mystery series Grosse Pointe Garden Society after only one season. While there was a glimmer of hope that the series might be picked up by NBC streamer, Peacock, it seems that Peacock officially passed. The season one finale is now the series finale, and fans are nothing short of devastated. Grosse Pointe Garden Society was created by Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs, a duo best known for the hit series Good Girls, which was also cancelled despite its loyal following. Good Girls, however, made it four seasons before NBC dropped the hammer. Grosse Pointe Garden Society centers around four friends who have two things in common: they are all members of the local garden club and they are all entangled in a complex murder mystery. The series amassed a small, but mighty following during its short-lived stint on NBC, as did its ensemble cast starring Melissa Fumero Aja Naomi King, Ben Rappaport, and AnnaSophia Robb. Fans are sad to say goodbye, but sadder still to never know how the series' massive end-of-season cliffhanger was meant to resolve. "Damn. Hard to get invested in shows anymore," one disappointed fan wrote on X. "I thought for sure this show was getting renewed," commented another. It's never easy when a series jumps from one network to another, or to a streamer, for that matter. Peacock reportedly struggled with how difficult it would be for Grosse Pointe Garden Society to widen its audience on the streaming platform, ultimately sealing the show's fate. Fans Saddened After NBC Cancels Popular Show first appeared on Parade on Jun 27, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 27, 2025, where it first appeared.
Digital Trends
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
3 underrated Netflix shows you should watch this weekend (June 20-22)
Watching shows on Netflix has become the way that many people wind down after long and stressful days. The trouble is that Netflix offers so many options that you might unwind by scrolling through the pages instead of actually picking something. If you'd like to avoid that problem, we're here to help. We've compiled a list of three underrated shows you can check out on the streaming service, with each offering something totally different. Recommended Videos Need more recommendations? Then check out the best new shows to stream this week, as well as the best shows on Netflix, the best shows on Hulu, the best shows on Amazon Prime Video, the best shows on Max, and the best shows on Disney+. BoJack Horseman (2014-2020) An animated horse cartoon doesn't necessarily scream excellence, but BoJack Horseman was one of the most acclaimed shows on Netflix. The series tells the story of a former sitcom actor who, while still wealthy, is now a narcissistic alcoholic who alienates everyone who tries to get close to him. The show explores BoJack's bad behavior and his attempts to improve over the course of six seasons, and it's one of the more inventive, fascinating shows they've ever produced. It's been over for five years, but now is the perfect time to check it out if you missed it back in the day. You can watch Bojack Horseman on Netflix. Good Girls (2018-2021) A brilliant show about three women who take control of their own lives, Good Girls follows two sisters and their best friend as they decide to hold up a grocery store to get each of them out of some financial difficulty. Because they're new to this whole 'doing crimes' thing, the holdup doesn't go perfectly. The trio realizes that the only way they can escape is by working together. Good Girls is hilarious, occasionally thought-provoking, and a wonderful showcase for its three central performers. You can watch Good Girls on Netflix. Narcos (2015-2017) Narcos was a phenomenon when it first aired, but that was almost a decade ago now. The series, which lasted just three seasons, tells the story of the rise of the cocaine trade in Colombia in the late 1980s and follows real-life drug kingpins, including Pablo Escobar. The show, which also followed law enforcement efforts to combat the drug trade, was often riveting drama and anchored by a slew of great actors. Narcos was the type of cop show that we rarely see, and its focus on a particular time period in history gave it the kind of heft few shows can fake. You can watch Narcos on Netflix.
Sydney Morning Herald
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Why Christina Hendricks turned 50 and changed her attitude
This story is part of the June 15 edition of Sunday Life. See all 15 stories. B ang on time, Christina Hendricks Zooms in from her sunlit Los Angeles living room. Cheekbones like summer peaches. Famous hair loosely scraped back. Disarming smile. Oh, and there's a small dog with its paws on her shoulder, a cockapoo named Triscuit. 'I just woke from a little afternoon nap,' says Hendricks, casually fabulous in a striped T-shirt. 'Today has been a lot of life maintenance. Getting the dogs groomed, a friend dropping by with styling things, dealing with the pool. Stuff that catches up with you.' It feels like Hendricks is cataloguing a non-glamorous day to put me at ease. It's 6am where I am, in a Thai hotel room, coming live with ghoulish lighting to one of the world's most-celebrated beauties. She waves away apologies for my wrinkled sundress and bed-hair: 'Don't worry. I'm flattered you got up so early to talk to me.' The warmth feels authentic. While her most famous character, Mad Men 's Joan Harris (née Holloway), moved through the world like a shark, Hendricks is charming, generous and funny. Old-school vivacious. Interesting and interested. The domestic admin is happening ahead of Hendricks and her husband, cinematographer George Bianchini, heading to their other home, in New York City. While Bianchini is nowhere to be seen when Hendricks twirls her screen to showcase their home – a wall of framed posters and photos, books, a comfortable sofa – he's on his wife's mind. 'We spend nearly every waking moment together and never get tired of each other,' she says. 'He leaves for an hour and I'm like, 'I miss you.' He's my absolute best friend.' The pair met on the set of crime-comedy Good Girls, in which Hendricks starred from 2018-21, but Bianchini is 'quite serious at work so we didn't really talk'. In 2020, they had a Cobb salad lunch at New York institution Barneys, and 'that's when the romance started'. Initially long distance, the relationship surprised them, she says. 'We didn't expect it.' With matching tastes in music, food and humour, they proposed to each other in 2023, and their New Orleans wedding in April 2024 was, the bride says, 'gothic, moody and sexy'. 'We spend nearly every waking moment together and never get tired of each other. He leaves for an hour and I'm like, 'I miss you.' He's my absolute best friend.' CHRISTINA HENDRICKS The couple's first wedding anniversary was followed weeks later by another milestone for Hendricks – she turned 50. Girlfriends threw a small party that left her weepy, 'looking around, seeing the support I've had for 20 years', then Bianchini masterminded a three-day extravaganza in Las Vegas. The birthday itself? Less great. Hendricks was 'not super pleased. I'm not like, 'Yeah, woo, 50!' I'm like, 'All right, here we are. Here we go.' ' For the dual Screen Actors Guild Award winner and six-time Emmy nominee, a half-century means 'a lot of introspection about where and how I want to be. I'm still unpeeling it.' The bittersweet part is less ''Oh, I look or feel older' and more, 'I really like it here. How do I want to spend the rest of this beautiful time?' ' Instead of a clichéd glow-up, Hendricks is letting go. 'There's been a shift – an 'I don't give a f---edness'. I'm less concerned about what other people think.' Along with a rich personal life, Hendricks is buoyant about season two of The Buccaneers, Apple TV+'s bold feminist drama. Based on Edith Wharton's unfinished novel, The Buccaneers follows five rich American girls crashing 1870s British society. Think corsets, chaos and estates, with a mostly female cast, all-female soundtrack and a female director, Susanna White. Filming took place in Spain and Scotland, and Hendricks says falling back into a rhythm with her younger co-stars, including Kristine Froseth, Aubri Ibrag and Mia Threapleton, was easy. 'Everyone came in wanting to make this series even better than season one.' Hendricks plays the unconventional, strong-willed Patti St. George, whose social standing as the mother of the Duchess of Tintagel clashes with her midlife reckoning with divorce, status and independence. 'Patti's story is a modern take on what someone in the 1800s would experience,' she says. 'But showing it in a relatable way to shed some light on how difficult it has been for women for this long. We are in 2025, seeing a very familiar courtroom-drama type of behaviour: the scrutiny, the doubt, the power play that can happen between men and women in the legal system.' Hendricks knows first-hand how staggeringly hard divorce is. She split from her first husband, Geoffrey Arend, in 2019 after a decade together. 'I've had that moment of being under someone else's sky and feeling disconnected from your heart,' she says. 'But there's also something empowering in saying, 'All right, we have made this decision. And now we have to move forward.' ' Resilience runs through her story. Born in Tennessee to a psychologist mother and a forest ranger father, Hendricks grew up in Oregon and Idaho. Her first jobs were in a beauty salon and menswear store, and by 18, her 'unusual and quirky' looks led to modelling work in Japan and Italy. Acting lessons helped her transition from commercials to TV. That's her hand (but not her stomach) on the poster for the 1999 Best Picture Oscar winner American Beauty. Early roles in TV series such as Beggars and Choosers and The Court led to her 2007 breakout part of Joan in Mad Men. At first, the character terrified her. 'I called [creator] Matt Weiner and asked, 'Is she just a bitch?' He said, 'No, she's trying to help.' Once I could see how hard she worked to be a wife, mother and great at her job, I started to relate to her more.' Audiences didn't just relate – they adored Joan. 'They were like, 'Go girl!' They found her honesty refreshing,' says Hendricks. 'I thought maybe this strong woman could be me, too. She gave me confidence.' That confidence helps Hendricks navigate an industry she believes is a struggle. She doesn't elaborate but says, 'Some things happened a few years ago that I'm still dealing with emotionally. I didn't feel I had power. I wasn't being heard. That's a power-play women still face.' Tougher now, Hendricks is more open and less afraid to speak her mind: 'I stick up for myself.' She does this for others, too, through supporting LA's rape-treatment centre, and mentoring women in film. Some of her best career advice came from Carol Kane, her co-star on Beggars and Choosers, Hendricks' first TV series, when the cast was told to run and form a tableau in front of the camera. 'She told me, 'Honey, you're just as important. Get up front and show your face.' ' The bigger life message from that moment? 'Be respectful of people who've been there longer. Learn from them,' Hendricks says. 'But also, you're there for a reason. Don't be afraid to say it out loud. Ask the questions you need to ask.' It's a cue to say I want to ask questions that might feel reductive, but what the hell – when will I get the chance again to find out what skincare products Christina Hendricks uses? She laughs and says she'll shut me down if we veer into 1950s housewife territory. Style first. Audiences have seen Hendricks in everything from 1960s chic to corsets. At home, it's 'easy-breezy, French girl' wide-leg jeans and striped tops. 'And you wouldn't believe how many silk floral soft things I own,' she says. That snowy complexion takes work, she says. 'I have dry skin, so I use balm, not cleanser. Thick, creamy things – I pile 'em on.' Exercise? 'The worst. I studied dance for many years so I respond to Pilates, as it uses body positions and stretching and strength that I understand.' While she works in an industry that worships youth, Hendricks doesn't feel she's judged or lost work because of her age, although she's self-aware enough to only go for roles she's right for. 'But I have noticed a difference [between cast members of various ages] when I'm on The Buccaneers set. We communicate differently, relate differently, work differently.' Loading One role she's played often is that of a mother. In real life, Hendricks is child free by choice (kids are 'a lot of work', she's said previously) but speaks with clarity and care about motherhood, especially as it relates to the mother-daughter relationships portrayed in The Buccaneers.
