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With only days to go until  LL Cool J hosts the 2025 MTV VMAs from New York's UBS Arena on Sunday, Sept 7th, we've got another update on a night that's so big that it's going live across CBS, MTV, and Paramount+ Here's a look at what was announced earlier today regarding who's presenting (so[...]

With LL Cool J hosting the 2025 MTV VMAs from New York's UBS Arena on Sunday, Sept 7th, we've got a new update on a night that's so big that it's going live across CBS, MTV, and Paramount+ Earlier today, it was announced that Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and actress Lady Gaga is set to[...]

With LL Cool J set to host the 2025 MTV VMAs live from New York's UBS Arena on Sunday, Sept 7th, we're learning who the next wave of performers are who will be gracing CBS, MTV, and Paramount+ screens during the big night. Multiplatinum, Grammy, and five-time VMAs winner Doja Cat returns to the stage for[...]

Nearly 35 years after making her debut with a show-stopping performance of "Emotions," Grammy Award-winning singer Mariah Carey will be receiving the MTV VMAs' Video Vanguard Award and will perform a medley of her biggest hits at next month's show Awarded to artists for their outstanding contributions and profound impact on music videos and popular culture,[...]

Earlier this month, we learned that entertainment icon and Grammy Award winner LL Cool J would be hosting the 2025 MTV VMAs on CBS, MTV, and Paramount+, airing/streaming live from New York's UBS Arena on Sunday, Sept 7th at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT Now, we're starting to learn who is set to join LL[...]

With less than a month to go until the 2025 MTV VMAs hit CBS, MTV, and Paramount+ screens live from New York's UBS Arena on Sunday, Sept 7th at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, it was announced on Thursday morning that entertainment icon and Grammy Award winner LL Cool J has agreed to host the[...]

The 2025 MTV VMAs are going even bigger this year, airing live on both CBS and MTV (and streaming on Paramount+) from New York's UBS Arena on Sunday, Sept 7th at 8 PM ET (5 PM PT) But what good is an awards show if we don't have awards? Of course, to do that, we[...]

This year's Megan Thee Stallion-hosted MTV VMAs had a ton of great performances – from our host and Eminem to Shawn Mendes, Sabrina Carpenter, Karol G, Halsey, Benson Boone, and many more But if there was one person who made a statement – who made the biggest impact in what was their very first VMAs[...]

The year's Megan Thee Stallion-hosted MTV VMAs got things started with some other heavy hitters First up, Rap icon Eminem brought some twisted nostalgia to the opener, leading an army of lookalikes (ala 2000's VMAs) for a performance of "Houdini" – the lead-off single from his most recent album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de[...]

With MTV's 2024 VMAs taking place tonight, we thought we would pass along our own viewing guide to tonight's festivities We're talking about who's hosting (Megan Thee Stallion), who's opening the show (Eminem), who's set to perform and present, and a whole lot more In fact, "Best New Artist" is now down to three finalists[...]

As we inch closer to MTV's three-time Grammy-winning superstar Megan Thee Stallion (She-Hulk: Attorney at Law)-hosted 2024 Video Music Awards (or VMAs) – live from New York's own UBS Arena – it looks like we're going to have none other than "Slim Shady's" alter-ego to kick things off That's right, rap icon Eminem isn't just[...]

On Wednesday, September 11th (8 pm ET/PT), three-time Grammy-winning superstar Megan Thee Stallion (She-Hulk: Attorney at Law) will take the stage as the official host of MTV's 2024 Video Music Awards (or VMAs) – live from New York's own UBS Arena So far, we know that Benson Boone, Camila Cabello, Chappell Roan, GloRilla, Halsey, Karol G, Lenny[...]

As if we needed yet another reason to love Thursdays, MTV just made out September a little brighter with the news that Jersey Shore Family Vacation would be returning to the network for the second part of Season 7.  The top-rated Thursday night cable series will be bringing more madness to our screens beginning on Thursday,[...]

With less than a month to go until MTV rolls out its annual Video Music Awards (or VMAs) live from New York's own UBS Arena (on Wednesday, September 11th at 8 pm ET/PT), three-time Grammy-winning superstar Megan Thee Stallion (She-Hulk: Attorney at Law) will take the stage as the official host of this year's awards[...]

With the European run of her "Eras Tour" over, Taylor Swift shared a heartfelt message where she addressed the Vienna shows being canceled.

That's right, MTV and Paramount+ are giving a green light to RuPaul's Drag Race Season 17, as well as new seasons of "All Stars" and the two respective "Untucked" series for each show World of Wonder Productions produces the long-running reality competition series and its spinoffs – with RuPaul executive-producing "Drag Race" with World of Wonder's[...]

Austrian Federal/State police arrested two men allegedly connected to a series of terror attacks in Vienna - including a Taylor Swift concert.

Set to air live from New York's own UBS Arena on Tuesday, September 10 at 8 pm ET/PT, MTV's rolled out the nominees for the 2024 Video Music Awards (or VMAs) – with Taylor Swift earning 10 nominations (including "Video of the Year") Other familiar names being nominated include Post Malone (9), Ariana Grande (6),[...]

Last week, reports hit that Paramount Global had purged the archives from the Comedy Central, MTV (including MTV News archives), CMT, TV Land, and Paramount Network websites In the image above, we've included screencaps of the pop-up message you receive when you visit each respective site (with much of the content that's gone MIA not[...]

We're offering some backstory because Paramount appears to be "scorched earth" when it comes to the pop culture archives that used to be housed on the Comedy Central, MTV, and CMT websites. Images/Screencaps: MTV, CMT, Comedy Central, Paramount Latenighter.com first reported – and TVLine confirmed earlier today – that Comedy Central had removed its archives of past[...]

No one could say that the "Grand Finale" of MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16 was epic in all of the right ways We had eight-time Emmy Award-winning host and executive producer RuPaul performing "Pink Limousine" from her album Black Butta, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Cassandra Peterson) receiving the "Giving Us Lifetime Achievement Award"[...]

If we're being honest? Half of the fun of last week's episode of MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16, S15E15: "Lip Sync LaLaPaRuza Smackdown – Reunited" was just trying to figure out the process behind selecting opponents and lip sync songs With Nymphia Wind, Plane Jane & Sapphira Cristál getting a break, our returning queens were[...]

MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16 reached this week's final episode before next week's "Grand Finale" with a mini-challenge involving an underwater lip sync performance of RuPaul's "Kitty Girl" and a main challenge that saw our four queens penning their memoir, posing for the cover, and taking part in a podcast interview to promote it[...]

That's how things stand heading into this week's round of MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16 Last time, our queens were challenged to give drag makeovers to Pit Crew dancers from RuPaul's Drag Race Live! as well as choreograph a dance & perform it to a special remix of RuPaul's song "Super Queen." Plane Jane would take[...]

During last week's round of MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16, our queens faced a mini-challenge involving designing a t-shirt using only make-up – and their faces When the designs were done, Plane Jane walked away with the win (and $5,000 worth of makeup products) Following that, the "Bathroom Hunties" saw our queens breaking up[...]

Last week's round of MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16 saw Sapphira Cristál walk away from "Spill the T" with top honors (and a big tip) for the mini-challenge before the main challenge saw our queens creating and presenting a drag awareness employee seminar For Plane Jane and Q, it was "Do you know your drag[...]

Heading into this week's round of MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16, we're happy to say that we didn't have to eliminate anyone from our updated profile guide The main challenge saw our queen writing and performing verses on the song "Power" and "True Colours" as the runway theme When the fierceness subsided, Plane Jane bestowed[...]

Welcome to our weekly preview of MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16 – and where do things stand heading into this week's round, "Werq the World"? After a spit-take mini-challenge that saw Nymphia Wind walk away with the win, it was time for the main challenge – "See You Next Wednesday." Our queens were challenged[...]

That brings us to the opening moments (above) from this week's episode of MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16, with "See You Next Wednesday" finding our queens creating a Neo-Goth look from scratch – using only black, white & gray fabric. Image: MTV Screencap RuPaul's Drag Race: Season 16 Overview WELCOME BACK! Of course, Emmy Award-winning host RuPaul[...]

With that in mind, we have a look at MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16 Episode 8 – and guess what it's time for? Yup, it's "Snatch Game" time, with guest judges Kyra Sedgwick & Carson Kressley – and there might just be a mini-challenge in the mix this week To check out some of the[...]