Walker Hayes knew how music dreams died in Nashville. He’d lost his deal with a major record label. With a wife and six kids to support, he was making ends meet stocking shelves at Costco.
Then – just when he’d decided it was time to get “a real job” – the phone rang. On the other end? Shane McAnally, the Grammy-winning songwriter and hit-making producer.
McAnally’s question: Did Hayes want to sign a record deal?
A year later, Hayes, 37, is now basking in the glow of the upcoming album’s first single, “You Broke Up with Me,” an irresistibly...
Then – just when he’d decided it was time to get “a real job” – the phone rang. On the other end? Shane McAnally, the Grammy-winning songwriter and hit-making producer.
McAnally’s question: Did Hayes want to sign a record deal?
A year later, Hayes, 37, is now basking in the glow of the upcoming album’s first single, “You Broke Up with Me,” an irresistibly...
- 7/7/2017
- by Nancy Kruh
- PEOPLE.com
Viceland, the new channel from Vice Media and A+E Networks, is rolling out three new series as part of its winter programming slate and has renewed its series King of the Road and Weediquette. The new shows include Payday, which airs Fridays at 9 Pm after premiering November 11. It follows four twentysomethings over the course of a single pay period to see how they live, spend, struggle and thrive, tracing the fortunes of this emerging generation. Each episode focuses on…...
- 11/15/2016
- Deadline TV
Seb Patrick Aug 23, 2016
We look back fondly at the innate weirdness of Nickelodeon's 90s show The Adventures Of Pete And Pete...
At some point in the early 1990s – I forget the exact year, but research tells me it must have been somewhere around late 1993 or early 1994 – something unbearably exciting happened in our suburb of Merseyside. The rumours went around the school playground in hushed whispers: “Have the cable vans been to your street yet?” Yes, cable TV was on its way to Crosby, meaning that for the first time, a world of viewing beyond the ordinary four terrestrial channels was available to homes without a whacking great ugly satellite dish glued to the outside.
Aside from the three major Sky titans – the football, the movies and The Simpsons – by far the biggest reason we all wanted to get cable was access to not one, not two, but three channels dedicated...
We look back fondly at the innate weirdness of Nickelodeon's 90s show The Adventures Of Pete And Pete...
At some point in the early 1990s – I forget the exact year, but research tells me it must have been somewhere around late 1993 or early 1994 – something unbearably exciting happened in our suburb of Merseyside. The rumours went around the school playground in hushed whispers: “Have the cable vans been to your street yet?” Yes, cable TV was on its way to Crosby, meaning that for the first time, a world of viewing beyond the ordinary four terrestrial channels was available to homes without a whacking great ugly satellite dish glued to the outside.
Aside from the three major Sky titans – the football, the movies and The Simpsons – by far the biggest reason we all wanted to get cable was access to not one, not two, but three channels dedicated...
- 7/21/2016
- Den of Geek
As much as filmgoers seem to agree that "Crash" was an undeserving Best Picture winner over "Brokeback Mountain," it feels like everyone has forgotten why "Brokeback" -- an epic still-life of sexual repression in the deep West -- actually ruled. I remember Richard Roeper, a film critic I usually love and agree with, saying that "Brokeback Mountain" is "a classic love story" regardless of the gayness at the film's center. Can't say I know any other straight romance complicated by emotionally battered wives, brutal homophobia, and the fatalism of two conflicted, secretive lovers who call their bond "a goddam bitch of an unsatisfactory situation." Yes, we'd seen forbidden love tales prior to the debut of "Brokeback Mountain" in 2005, but we hadn't seen a more vivid, IMAX-sized portrait of a specifically gay and tragic affair. For that reason it remains one of a kind and -- somehow -- underrated. The synopsis...
- 7/28/2015
- by Louis Virtel
- Hitfix
Are you a big R.E.M. fan? Is one of your loved ones an R.E.M. fan? Is your arch nemesis an R.E.M. fan and by proxy you can become an R.E.M. fan just to spite them? Then this contest is for you: HitFix is giving away a special prize this holiday season. R.E.M.'s new vinyl singles boxed set, "7In – 83-88" (Capitol/I.R.S.), will be out next Tuesday, and we have one box to give away! The set contains 11 7" records of singles released by the Athens, Ga.-bred band from 1983 to 1988, with replicated sleeve art. It includes a couple of titles never-before released in the U.S.: “Finest Worksong” / “Time After Time” (live) and “Wendell Gee” with “Crazy,” “Ages of You,” and “Burning Down," originally out in the U.K. We will choose one winner at random from those who enter the contest below, with the contest ending on release day,...
- 12/4/2014
- by Katie Hasty
- Hitfix
WWE.com
Between evil authority figures conspiring like Wile E. Coyote attempting to rid the WWE Universe of the Road Runner that is Daniel Bryan and Kane resorting to abduction and hellfire to become the World Heavyweight Champion, it would appear as though WWE has rebooted 1998′s favorite storyline tropes in an attempt to re-create Daniel Bryan as “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. The latest in this line of out-sized and completely absurd developments came on Sunday night as in his title match at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view, Bryan used a forklift with attached pallet to carry an unconscious Kane back to ringside (from backstage where they had been brawling). As the pallet was lifted ten feet into the air and Kane was dropped to the mat, Bryan then mounted the forklift, stood atop the now empty pallet and executed a swan dive headbutt onto the “Devil’s Favorite Demon.”
However,...
Between evil authority figures conspiring like Wile E. Coyote attempting to rid the WWE Universe of the Road Runner that is Daniel Bryan and Kane resorting to abduction and hellfire to become the World Heavyweight Champion, it would appear as though WWE has rebooted 1998′s favorite storyline tropes in an attempt to re-create Daniel Bryan as “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. The latest in this line of out-sized and completely absurd developments came on Sunday night as in his title match at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view, Bryan used a forklift with attached pallet to carry an unconscious Kane back to ringside (from backstage where they had been brawling). As the pallet was lifted ten feet into the air and Kane was dropped to the mat, Bryan then mounted the forklift, stood atop the now empty pallet and executed a swan dive headbutt onto the “Devil’s Favorite Demon.”
However,...
- 5/7/2014
- by Marcus K. Dowling
- Obsessed with Film
It's a little weird to watch a trailer for an upcoming Disney cartoon like "Planes" and hear among the characters the voice of Dane Cook. What's a typically adults-only comic like Cook doing in the G-rated world of a Disney animated feature?
Well, maybe it's not that weird. After all, the family-friendly studio has a history, going back 60 years, of casting performers from the world of grown-up entertainment in its cartoons, and most have proved they can be fun and kid-safe in fantasy worlds far from smoky nightclubs. In fact, Disney and Pixar's classic cartoons are full of unlikely voice actors -- not just blue comics but also performers cast radically against type, and even people not considered actors at all.
Cook, then, joins a distinguished list of stars you'd never have expected to find in a Disney cartoon feature, as you can see from the gallery below.
Gallery | Unlikely...
Well, maybe it's not that weird. After all, the family-friendly studio has a history, going back 60 years, of casting performers from the world of grown-up entertainment in its cartoons, and most have proved they can be fun and kid-safe in fantasy worlds far from smoky nightclubs. In fact, Disney and Pixar's classic cartoons are full of unlikely voice actors -- not just blue comics but also performers cast radically against type, and even people not considered actors at all.
Cook, then, joins a distinguished list of stars you'd never have expected to find in a Disney cartoon feature, as you can see from the gallery below.
Gallery | Unlikely...
- 5/28/2013
- by Moviefone Staff
- Moviefone
It's a little weird to watch a trailer for an upcoming Disney cartoon like "Planes" and hear among the characters the voice of Dane Cook. What's a typically adults-only comic like Cook doing in the G-rated world of a Disney animated feature?
Well, maybe it's not that weird. After all, the family-friendly studio has a history, going back 60 years, of casting performers from the world of grown-up entertainment in its cartoons, and most have proved they can be fun and kid-safe in fantasy worlds far from smoky nightclubs. In fact, Disney and Pixar's classic cartoons are full of unlikely voice actors -- not just blue comics but also performers cast radically against type, and even people not considered actors at all.
Cook, then, joins a distinguished list of stars you'd never have expected to find in a Disney cartoon feature, as you can see from the gallery below.
Gallery | Unlikely...
Well, maybe it's not that weird. After all, the family-friendly studio has a history, going back 60 years, of casting performers from the world of grown-up entertainment in its cartoons, and most have proved they can be fun and kid-safe in fantasy worlds far from smoky nightclubs. In fact, Disney and Pixar's classic cartoons are full of unlikely voice actors -- not just blue comics but also performers cast radically against type, and even people not considered actors at all.
Cook, then, joins a distinguished list of stars you'd never have expected to find in a Disney cartoon feature, as you can see from the gallery below.
Gallery | Unlikely...
- 5/28/2013
- by Moviefone Staff
- Moviefone
WWE Extreme Rules is the time of year where stipulation matches take centre stage, so what better time to look back at some of the strangest gimmick matches in wrestling history.
Kennel from Hell
Watch It Here
So a retired prison guard steals your dog, invites you over and tricks you into eating him. How do you get revenge? Challenge them to a, “Kennel from Hell” that’s how! On paper it sounded intimidating. A cage surrounding the ring, a hell in the cell surrounding that and in between those rabid dogs. The only way to win was to escape both cages and outrun those angry dogs. Sounds exciting. Unfortunately it wasn’t.
The first (and last) “Kennel from Hell,“ took place at WWF Unforgiven 1999, between Al Snow and the Big Bossman. Unforgiven was already an odd event before the Kennel even came out. The first match of the evening...
Kennel from Hell
Watch It Here
So a retired prison guard steals your dog, invites you over and tricks you into eating him. How do you get revenge? Challenge them to a, “Kennel from Hell” that’s how! On paper it sounded intimidating. A cage surrounding the ring, a hell in the cell surrounding that and in between those rabid dogs. The only way to win was to escape both cages and outrun those angry dogs. Sounds exciting. Unfortunately it wasn’t.
The first (and last) “Kennel from Hell,“ took place at WWF Unforgiven 1999, between Al Snow and the Big Bossman. Unforgiven was already an odd event before the Kennel even came out. The first match of the evening...
- 4/29/2012
- by Patrick Farren
- Obsessed with Film
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