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UPDATED, 9:16 AM: The final numbers are in and Super Bowl LVI was a big winner for more than just the Los Angeles Rams. NBC and the NFL are likely doing cartwheels in the end zone with Sunday’s championship game delivering a whopping 112.3 million viewers across NBC, Telemundo, Peacock, NBC Sports Digital, NFL Digital…

Hip-hop finally headlined the Super Bowl halftime show, and Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J Blige, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar came loaded for bear to represent. By the time the white boy-born Marshall Mathers took a knee in an unspoken salute to banished quarterback Colin Kaepernick's stance against racism and police…

When it comes to a weekend with the Super Bowl on, the choice of what to watch on the small screen should be pretty straightforward. Yet, despite Sunday's face-off between hometown Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium, there's a lot more on than just the NFL's big game – as you can see in the…

Snoop Dogg has acquired the brand that launched him, Death Row Records. He did so just days before he and the label’s co-founder Dr. Dre will take the stage during the Super Bowl Halftime Show before an estimated audience of close to 100 million people. Snoop purchased the Death Row brand for an undisclosed sum from…

Super Bowls have a reputation for being boring blowouts. While this year’s teams have yet to be determined for the February 13 event, one thing that won’t be boring this year is the halftime show. Pepsi dropped The Call today, an epic “official trailer” for the halftime show directed by Straight Outta Compton…

Jerry Longarzo, an entertainment lawyer and Grammy winner who co-founded and was managing partner of Longarzo Vance Klevan LLP, died January 11 in Los Angeles after a nearly year-long fight against pancreatic cancer. He was 58. "Jerry was a force," LVK Partner, Christian Vance said today of Longarzo. "He brought an…

Just more than a month before the Super Bowl kicks off in the Southland, the NFL and NBC are already doing an end zone victory dance. Capped by the strong ratings of the Las Vegas Raiders' wafer-thin 35-32 win over the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday, Sunday Night Football has again topped primetime for its latest…

Straight outta Inglewood comes word that Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem and Mary J. Blige will perform during the 2022 Super Bowl Halftime Show at SoFi Stadium near Los Angeles. The five artists have never before appeared together onstage, according to the official announcement of the show. Among them…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has landed What’s Going On, a biopic of iconic soul singer Marvin Gaye that Allen Hughes will direct, and produce with Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine and Andrew Lazar. The studio acquired a script by poet-playwright Marcus Gardley (he wrote the musical The Color Purple for WB) and the singer’s estate and…

Ice-T reports that rapper/producer Dr. Dre is “home, safe and looking good” after a FaceTiming session on Friday. Earlier this month, Dr. Dre was hospitalized in intensive care with a brain aneurysm at Los Angeles’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. But the 55-year-old Dre is now on the road to recovery. He suffered the…

UPDATE, 8:19 PM: Prolific music producer and music industry giant Dr. Dre said he is doing well after being hospitalized for a brain aneurysm. Dre addressed his friends, family and fans with a social media post shared on Tuesday night. “Thanks to my family, friends and fans for their interest and well wishes. I’m…

EXCLUSIVE: The Defiant Ones, the four-part documentary series from Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, is headed to Peacock. The streamer has acquired the exclusive U.S. rights to the series, which launched on HBO in 2017. It will launch on NBCUniversal's nascent service on September 4. Written by Allen Hughes, who directs…