Universal Pictures has picked up the rights to some of Prince’s classic songs, which will be the backdrop to a narrative feature. No word on what songs will be used and the studio is affirming that the film is not a Prince biopic.

Atom Factory's Troy Carter, the entertainment advisor of Prince's estate will executive p…

Ava DuVernay directed the film that opened the Smithsonian's National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., back in 2016, and now the 13th and Selma helmer is aiming for another type of history with a documentary about Prince for Netflix.

"Prince was a genius and a joy and a jolt to the se…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Players has optioned Chris Lee’s Daily Beast story When Prince Made a Chambermaid His Queen for a Day. Elizabeth Banks plans to star in Queen For A Day, and she is producing it with Max Handelman through their Brownstone banner along with Josh Stolberg and David Klawans. Scott Neustadter & Michael…

If the recently ratings-challenged NFL wanted to avoid any semblance of controversy with the Super Bowl LII halftime show, today's performance by Justin Timberlake certainly succeeded – kind of.

Back at the big game for the first time since the infamous Nipplegate wardrobe malfunction with Janet Jackson in 2004, the ma…

A Prince themed birthday party on Empire (1.8/7) and Taraji P Henson's Cookie as the deceased musical genius in his Raspberry Beret phase seems like the most obvious turn on the Fox drama

As the L.A. Dodger's failed to make it a clean sweep to the World Series in the NLCS last night, that homage to the Purple One was p…

Showtime is ready to let Sign o’ the Times mess with your mind. The premium cable net has acquired Prince’s 30-year-old concert film, which hasn’t run on U.S. TV in more than a decade, and will air at 9 PM Saturday, September 16.

Shot as a companion to Prince’s 1987 double album, Sign o’ the Times features live…

There was a showstopper of an opener by Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar on the BET Awards last night, plus a passionate call to action from Grey's Anatomy's Jesse Williams, a full tilt tribute to Prince performed by Bilal, Erykah Badu and The Roots, and strong words for Donald Trump from Best Actress winner Taraji P…

UPDATED, 1:15 PM: Music icon Prince died from a self-administered overdose of fentanyl, a powerful painkiller. Minnesota authorities confirmed today. The Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office released its autopsy report on the musician Thursday, citing cause of death from accidental fentanyl toxicity. The coroner’s…

Saturday Night Live made the programing change last-minute, announcing on Friday afternoon that the scheduled rerun episode on Saturday would be replaced by a “Goodnight Sweet Prince” tribute episode to the legendary musician who died Thursday at age 57.

The remembrance scored big ratings, stronger than any SNL encore…

Saturday Night Live was supposed to have been a repeat, but instead the producers put together Goodnight Sweet Prince, a hasty tribute to Prince following his shocking death last week. It was worth the work they put in. Jimmy Fallon hosted a look back at multiple numbers Prince performed as musical guest over the…

The life and times of the artist always to be known as Prince deservingly got the full network news mag treatment from both ABC and NBC last night. With the acclaimed musician and Oscar winner's sudden passing on April 21, 20/20 (1.3/5) aired “Prince: Death of a Legend” at 10 PM and Dateline (0.9/3) had the Lester…

UPDATE with more specials: NBC’s Dateline and Saturday Night Live, ABC’s 20/2o and Oprah Winfrey’s OWN are among the networks who have set aside special programming this weekend focused on Prince, the iconic rocker and filmmaker who died yesterday at age 57.

Prince was declared dead Thursday morning at his Paisley Park…