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EXCLUSIVE: "I asked him about his process," says Denzel Washington of Fences playwright August Wilson in the documentary Giving Voice. "He talked about how he would shut the doors, and close the blinds and everything and the characters would come into the room and tell him what to write," the Oscar winner adds in the…

Musician, The Voice judge and EGOT recipient John Legend is set to host the Global Citizen Prize award ceremony on December 13 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The ceremony celebrates individuals taking action to end extreme poverty. The ceremony will be televised the following week on December 20 at 8 PM on NBC in…

Nick Jonas is set to take a seat in one of the spinning chairs at The Voice. The singer-songwriter joins the Emmy Award-winning series as a coach for the upcoming spring cycle, NBC announced today. Jonas has had a successful career as a solo artist and with his family members as one-third of the Jonas Brothers. "As a…

EXCLUSIVE: Sherman's Showcase has just wrapped up on IFC and Get Lifted Film Co. has hip-hop competition series Rhythm + Flow coming to Netflix next month, but right now the company is dropping some big hires. Michael McDonald has joined the John Legend, Mike Jackson, and Ty Stiklorius-led company as their Head of…

John Legend, who is an advocate for criminal justice reform, weighed in Saturday on Felicity Huffman's 14-day prison sentence for her part in the college admissions bribery scandal. A federal judge sentenced the Desperate Housewives actress Friday, and ordered her to pay a fine of $30,000 as well as perform 250 hours…

NBC can’t stop the music. The network has booked a return trip to Songland, renewing the summer songwriting competition series for a second season. Songland takes an inside look at the creative songwriting process. It provides one winner per episode the opportunity to have their song recorded for a global audience by…

Trevor Noah jumped on the celebrity feud bandwagon Monday night to offer his take on President Trump's Twitter war with John Legend and Chrissy Teigen. In case you’re not up on Trump’s latest celebrity beef, he went on a Twitter tirade Sunday, targeting the husband-and-wife musician and Lip Sync Battle co-host. The…

President Donald Trump has moved on to two other showbiz figures in another lash out on Twitter: John Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen. Legend and Teigen are pushing back, as Legend launched a hashtag #PresidentPussyAssBitch – quoting a tweet from his Lip Sync Battle-hosting wife – in hopes that it will trend on the…

I thought I'd figured out Hollywood's prevailing attitude toward firearms. Oscar winner John Legend seemed to sum it up at an appearance in Dayton this week when he said: "The NRA doesn't represent America," and "we're tired of bigotry and hate turning lethal because of easy access to guns." Then I saw the trailer for…

The 2019 BET Awards paid tribute to Nipsey Hussle by honoring the late rapper with its Humanitarian Award and a star-studded musical tribute. Heading into the ceremony, the stars walked a blue carpet in his memory. Near the end of Sunday night’s nearly four-hour show at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, rapper…

Sandra Bullock’s college experience is the inspiration for a dramedy series set in the world of music and dance, which is in the works at Amazon. Bullock is executive producing the project with fellow Oscar winners Akiva Goldsman and John Legend executive produce the project. Created and written by K.C. Perry (Constanc…

The first-look trailer from IFC’s new variety sketch series Sherman’s Showcase has been released. If you don’t watch it, you’re racist. At least, according to the trailer. The network's new comedy, a take-off combining elements of Soul Train, Solid Gold and Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in, was created by and stars Diallo Rid…