Snapchat has launched a new feature called Lens Challenges, which allows users around the world to take part in challenges with other users.

Participants create and send "Snaps" that use a lens tied to a song, dance, holiday, event or the like. One holiday-themed example debuting along with Challenges is a sing-along t…

No doubt about it: NBC has set a new Christmas special featuring Gwen Stefani to air at 9 PM December 12. The network calls Gwen Stefani's You Make It Feel Like Christmas “a modern take on the traditional Christmas specials that we all grew up with and love.”

Stefani will perform several songs from her same-titled new …

There’s a new addition for Season 12 of NBC’s The Voice. Multi-Grammy winner Celine Dion is joining the latest season of the Emmy-winning singing competition series as an advisor to Team Gwen.

Gwen Stefani rejoins The Voice as judge after her previous stints on Seasons 7 and 9. She takes over the chair from Miley…

NBC’s The Voice is reshuffling its panel of coaches just a bit for next season. Veterans Adam Levine and Blake Shelton will be back for their 12th consecutive tours of duty, along with current new addition Alicia Keys. Fellow new Voice coach Miley Cyrus, credited with bringing younger viewers to the ongoing eleventh…

James Corden’s latest Carpool Karaoke video is careening toward its first 1 million YouTube views this morning, featuring Gwen Stefani, while demonstrating how to grow the franchise being sold as a syndicated series. This time, it’s about the back seat. James picked up two pals in order to take advantage of the HOV+4…

Here’s the funniest sketch from last night’s Peter Dinklage-hosted SNL: Built on the lame foundation of a Mafia encounter at a restaurant between a pair of knee-whackers and a couple of deadbeats short on the big (the evening’s superstar Bobby Moynihan, Beck Bennett<img class="alignright size-dl-article-body…

There will be one tweak in the coaches roster for the upcoming ninth season of NBC’s The Voice, with Gwen Stefani, who made her debut in the spinning chairs last fall, returning. Original coach Christina Aguilera, who had been taking regular breaks from the show, will sit out Cycle 9 after appearing in the most recent…

The last time that Pharrell Williams lent his exceptional voice to a movie tune, kids went nuts and adults endured the irresistible Happy until our ears bled as the song helped drive Despicable Me to blockbuster status. Now, he's teamed with his fellow The Voice judge Gwen Stefani in hopes of doing the same for The…

People Magazine got into the awards business with its first ever People Magazine Awards, which aired on NBC on December 18 at 9 p.m. The show actually was the third such event that was broadcast that night, and ratings-wise it came in third, after the American Comedy Awards and the iHeart Radio Music Awards. Despite be…

TWC has commandeered half the judging panel of The Voice for its upcoming pic Paddington. Pharrell Williams and Gwen Stefani  will co-write and perform the original song Shine for the family film that gets released January 16 in the U.S. and Canada after a qualifying run in December. Before he made parents wish for…

Stephen Colbert — whose Comedy Central program was named winner of the Emmy for best variety series at Monday night’s ceremony (actually, presenter Gwen Stefani said the winner was The Colborg Report, but we figured it out when Colbert came on stage to accept) — is not doing original episodes this week, but found a…

This morning Primetime Emmy Awards executive producer Don Mischer announced 13 presenters for the upcoming 66th telecast on Monday August 25,  and from the bevy of film talent scheduled to appear onstage, one would think it’s a kudo ceremony for cinema. However, it’s just a further indication of how television…