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Aubrey Plaza and Sam Smith laughed up a ratings record for Season 48 of Saturday Night Live. The January 21 episode hosted by Plaza with Smith as musical guest received a 0.98 rating in the advertiser friendly 18-49 demographic, which is the highest of the season. It also drew 4.8 million total…

Nominees Bad Bunny, Mary J. Blige, Brandi Carlile, Lizzo and Sam Smith are among those set to perform at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards. The Trevor Noah-hosted show will be broadcast live from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Feb. 5. Luke Combs, along with Steve Lac and Kim Petras are also…

UPDATED with Sharon Stone’s reaction: Sam Smith debuted the title track of their upcoming album “Gloria” on Saturday Night Live. There was a special guest for the occasion, Sharon Stone. The Oscar-nominated actor, the star of the Sidney Lumet-directed 1999 movie Gloria, a remake of John Cassavetes'…

The 88th Oscars ran the gamut from the expected to the surprises, with first-time winners including Leonardo DiCaprio, Brie Larson, Alicia Vikander and Ennio Morricone to repeaters like The Revenant helmer Alejandro G. Inarritu, who won the Best Director last year with Birdman. Most pundits would have thought Lady…

In a shocking win, the James Bond title song from Spectre, “Writing’s On the Wall” by Sam Smith and Jimmy Napes, took the best original song Oscar tonight. It’s the second time time that a 007 song has broken through at the Oscars, after “Skyfall” three years ago became the first Bond song to win. That title theme was…

Before the 88th Oscars are handed out inside, the competition gets underway outside on the red carpet at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland. Check out Deadline’s slideshow of the arrivals and keep checking back as we add more. Click on the photo to launch the…

When Sam Smith hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts with his Spectre theme song “Writing's On The Wall,” he not only beat Adele's previous effort, “Skyfall,” which reached No. 2, but it was the first No. 1 Bond theme in 30 years and second ever. Of this achievement, Smith says, "It was very, very, very, very surreal to…

After months of playing coy that, at one point, saw the singer-songwriter denying outright that he was even working on it, Sam Smith has put “Writing’s On The Wall,” the official theme song from the upcoming James Bond film Spectre, online following its UK radio debut earlier this morning. Haven’t heard it yet? Here…

The years have taught us that there are a number of elements every James Bond movie needs. One, a 007 – in this case, for the fourth time, Daniel Craig plays the British secret agent in Spectre, out later this fall. Among the other necessary components for a Bond movie to be a Bond movie is a high profile theme song…