While his NFL playing days are over, Jason Kelce is still finding ways to pop up on our television sets.
While he’ll be joining ESPN’s Monday Night Football coverage this fall, Kelce surprised viewers of Wednesday night’s Jeopardy! Masters to introduce the category, “The world revolves around Jason Kelce.”
This specific clip shows Kelce using the Philadelphia Eagles’ infamous “tush push” play to segue into a prompt surrounding the iconic hip-hop duo Salt-N-Pepa and their song, “Push It.”
Kelce even goes as far as quoting the lyrics to the catchy tune, which is as delightful as you could possibly hope.
All times Eastern; live broadcasts unless noted. Thursday, May 23 Taupo 2 9:00-10:00pm (D) Friday, May 24 Shanghai practice 1 4:55am Monaco practice 1 7:25-8:30am Monaco practice 1 7:25-8:30am Monaco practice 2 10:55am- 12:00pm Monaco practice 2 …
Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell are hitting the green at Netflix with two golf-centric projects.
Netflix is doubling down on golf comedy with a sequel to the 1990s classic Happy Gilmore and a new television show starring Will Ferrell.
On Wednesday, the streamer confirmed that Adam Sandler will return as the raucous professional golfer Happy Gilmore in a new movie. The golf comedy cemented Sandler as a bankable movie star with its 1996 debut.
While no talent and director are attached as of yet, actor Christopher McDonald, who played the conniving golfer Shooter McGavin in the original film, talked about the potential sequel earlier this year, hinting at his involvement.
Meanwhile, Ferrell will star in a new Netflix comedy series titled GOLF, where he will play a legendary fictional golfer. Ramy Youssef (Poor Things) will co-star on the series and is credited as a co-creator with Ferrell and Josh Rabinowitz.
While no release date is planned for either project, it’s possible both projects will go into production this year and will hit the green sometime in 2025.
All times Eastern; live broadcasts unless noted. Thursday, May 16 Indy 500 practice 10:00am-6:00pm Taupo 9:00-10:00pm (D) Friday, May 17 Imola practice 1 7:25-8:30am Imola practice 1 7:25-8:30am Imola practice 2 10:55am- 12:00pm Imola practice 2 …
All times Eastern; live broadcasts unless noted.
Thursday, May 16
Indy 500
practice
10:00am-6:00pm
Taupo
9:00-10:00pm
(D)
Friday, May 17
Imola
practice 1
7:25-8:30am
Imola
practice 1
7:25-8:30am
Imola
practice 2
10:55am-
12:00pm
Imola
practice 2
10:55am-
12:00pm
Indy 500
practice
12:00-6:00pm
N. Wilkesboro
practice
3:00-4:00pm
N. Wilkesboro
All-Star practice
4:00-5:00pm
N. Wilkesboro
All-Star Open
qualifying
5:00-7:30pm
Joliet
qualifying 1
7:30-9:00pm
(SDD)
Saturday, May 18
Imola
practice 3
6:25-
7:30am
Imola
practice 3
6:25-
7:30am
N. Wilkesboro
All-Star qualifying
7:30am-
9:30am
Indy 500
practice
8:30-9:30am
N. Wilkesboro
qualifying
9:30-11:30am
Imola
qualifying
9:55-
11:00am
Imola
qualifying
9:55-
11:00am
Indy 500
qualifying
11:00am-
6:00pm
N. Wilkesboro
All-Star Open
practice
11:30am-
1:00pm
Laguna Seca
12:00-1:00pm (D)
North
Wilkesboro
1:00-1:30pm
pre-race
1:30-4:00pm
race
Laguna Seca
1:00-3:00pm (D)
COTA
5:00-6:00pm
Pro Stock
All-Star Callout
7:00-8:30pm
(SDD)
Sunday, May 19
Imola GP
7:30-
8:55am
pre-race
8:55-11:00am
race
Imola GP
7:30-
8:55am
pre-race
8:55-11:00am
race
COTA
10:35-11:20am
Indy 500
practice
12:00-2:00pm
Berlin
Race 1
12:00-1:00pm (D)
Berlin
Race 2
1:00-2:00pm (D)
Joliet
qualifying 2
1:00-2:00pm
(D)
Barber
1:00-2:00pm
Race 2
4:00-5:00pm
Race 3
Indy 500 pole
qualifying
3:00-6:00pm
COTA
3:15-4:45pm
Joliet
eliminations
Round 1
4:00-5:00pm
North
Wilkesboro
5:00-7:00pm
All-Star Open
7:00-8:00pm
pre-race
8:00-10pm
All-Star Race
Joliet
eliminations
Round 2
10:00pm-12:00am
(SDD)
Key: SDD: Same day delay; D = delayed; R = Replay
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Fans wanted to see the Bears on Hard Knocks this summer, and they still might.
The New York Giants will be featured on an upcoming season of HBO’s Hard Knocks, it was announced Wednesday, leaving fans less than enthused about the prospects of watching a team void of much excitement.
As a Giants fan myself, even I can admit to hardly caring to see Big Blue featured in the overly-edited BTS show. It’s just not a fun time to care about the Giants.
However, one fanbase in particular really thought this was a missed opportunity for HBO, and it was that of the Chicago Bears. With so many moving parts on a promising young roster featuring No. 1 overall draft pick Caleb Williams, NFL fans thought Chicago was an obvious choice for Hard Knocks.
I can't see many watching this. Where is the intrigue? Daniel Jones vs. Drew Lock? The Bears would have been must see tv. https://t.co/U8AlQtj5Mn
But everybody can calm down. The Bears may still end up on Hard Knocks this summer.
The Giants are being featured on a new version of the show that focuses specifically on the offseason, from January to July. Titled Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants, this iteration will give fans a behind the scenes look at things like the scouting combine, free agency and the draft.
As for the team to be featured on the traditional training camp version of Hard Knocks, that’s still to be determined.
Having a playoff appearance in the last two years was removed as something that can disqualify teams from appearing on the show, so the pool of potential teams is likely bigger than usual. But it still includes the Bears (for now), as they don’t yet meet any of the other disqualifying criteria, which includes:
Team has a first-year head coach
Team is participating in the in-season version of Hard Knocks this year or next year
Team appeared on Hard Knocks in the past eight years
The new offseason Hard Knocks featuring the Giants debuts July 2.
MTV won’t be holding its annual Movie & TV Awards this year. Here’s why.
Outside of the 2020 pandemic year, MTV has held some form of its Movie & TV Awards since 1992. Well, that’s changing in 2024.
The network confirmed to Billboard on Monday that it will not hold a Movie & TV Awards this summer, opting to pause the ceremony and “return with a reimagined format in 2025.”
While the irreverent annual spin on media award shows has dwindled in popularity over the years from its zeitgeist zenith of the 1990s and 2000s, MTV kept giving out golden popcorn buckets through the 2010s and added television to its roster of awards in 2017.
We’ll see how MTV reworks the awards show next year as it punts on the established format and goes without in 2024.
It’s time to head back into the kitchen with The Bear for the hit FX television show’s third season.
The network debuted a teaser trailer for the Emmy-winning dramedy’s third season on Thursday, with all episodes dropping on Hulu on June 27.
The tease features show star Jeremy Allen White perfecting his craft, as we’re all very curious as to where Chef Carmy and the rest of The Bear crew will wind up in the show’s hotly anticipated third season.
We’re guessing there will be plenty more awards and intrigue coming for one of the tastiest shows on television, as this will undoubtedly be one of the main pop culture events of the summer.
Have you watched Smiling Friends? If not, get to it!
Do you have nostalgic flashbacks to the simple days of hanging out in your family room, hopping on your PlayStation and helping Gwimbly and Mr. Millipede find the creamed corn and fight Count Groxia (with a “Oooh, ooooh, ooooh!” victory dance thrown in there for good measure)?
Okay, it’s not really nostalgia as much as it is something the internet has run wild with since the second season premiere of Smiling Friends debuted on Adult Swim last month.
Indeed, Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack’s gleefully deranged, painfully funny masterwork officially returns to televisions on May 12 for a new season, as Pim and Charlie venture into their strange world to bring smiles to the sad.
If you’re unfamiliar, imagine if the cartoon strip character Ziggy ventured into the hazy midnight block of early 2000’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force Adult Swim while trying to cheer up Superjail! versions of all those bizarre Flash cartoons you found on the internet in middle school.
Smiling Friends feels as anarchistic and violent as Rick and Morty and as sweet and oddly affirming as Inside Out. It’s an indelible blend of genuinely uncomfortable lurches into oddity with the scream-funny wit and shock of South Park. It’s ability to change animation design on a troubling whim feels very influenced by Courage the Cowardly Dog, and its quick-cut editing to heighten the punchlines and visual gags feel fresh and unexpected.
From the seismic hilarity of the Mouse Quest II-obsessed Shrimp trying to get over a breakup, to the dementedly brilliant send-up of celebrity scandal with Mr. Frog, Smiling Friends feels very attuned to the society around us and the very specific ways that a life on the web has shaped our world view.
Adult Swim is responsible for some of the most popular animated shows of the new century, but Smiling Friends feels special, even by the network’s lofty standards. Honestly, it’s probably the best adult cartoon show of the 2020s so far… and one of the best shows on right now, period.
Just watch this season two preview and this clip from “Shrimp’s Odyssey” to see why.
Some NSFW language to follow:
The Gwimbly-themed episode immediately took the internet by storm. Seriously, people have already turned this 11-minute character appearance that didn’t exist until a few days ago into its own pop phenomenon. The way it collectively commemorates and mourns a lost culture of 1990s video games is absolutely breathtaking in such a short time span, and fans on the internet have responded in kind.
Remember the iconic Gwimbly cameo in the Simpsons season 7 Episode 11 Marge Be Not Proud? Take it!! Take it!! Take it!! Take it!! Take it!! pic.twitter.com/TjZwZOGqIb
— PoloBlue (COMMS ON HOLD) (@TheRealPoloBlue) April 2, 2024
Few other television shows inspire internet culture like this.
Just 10 episodes in, Smiling Friends is already a genuine achievement in the medium, something so wacky, obtuse, hysterical and creatively compact with so much inspiration and ingenuity. While it probably helps to have grown up online among the more depraved delights of the early millennium, all you really need to get into this show is an open mind and a healthy appreciation for the wilder side of what animation can do.
The first season (TV-MA for a reason) is available on Max, with the new season officially premiering on Adult Swim on Sunday. Crack open a fresh can of creamed corn and do your Gwimbly victory dance to celebrate the return of an outstanding program that pushes boundaries and makes you, well, smile.
🧵 With the news that TNT might lose the NBA, it’s time to share the story about Ernie Johnson and the @NBAonTNT halftime show he made for my Bar Mitzvah.
It began w my dad and ended w me being called a drug addict & ballhog (fair, tbh) in front of family & friends
With such uncertainty, fans of the show like author Ben Kaplan are paying tribute to Inside the NBA while it still exists.
Kaplan tweeted a thread about a Bar Mitzvah gift that he received from his father.
Back in 2000, Kaplan’s father called the folks at TNT to ask if they would record something for the occasion. Johnson was interested and sent back a VHS tape.
Here’s the first half of the report, featuring George Karl and Kenny. It’s cutesy and a neat thing for a teenage boy.
(Gonna cut this off before they get to Vecsey because that’s where the magic happens)
Johnson was joined by Kenny “The Jet” Smith, who is still a co-host of the show more than 20 years later.
They parodied an episode of Inside the NBA to report that Kaplan would skip high school and go straight to the pros.
While the two did not yet have Charles Barkley (who joined the show later that year) and Shaquille O’Neal (joined in 2011, this particular panel included former NBA head coach George Karl and veteran reporter Pete Vescey.
And here’s the second half. I still to this day have no idea how @PeterVecsey1 did this with a straight face. He knows he’s talking about a 13-yr-old on the biggest day of that kid’s life, with friends and family watching!
While the part of the story involving Vescey is very silly, there is also an incredibly heartwarming aspect as well. Kaplan shared that in 2022, his dad was fighting a rare cancer diagnosis and Johnson stepped up yet again.
Johnson recorded a special message for Kaplan’s father’s 72nd birthday, and he called it the best gift he ever received. The two began texting, especially while Kaplan’s father received treatments.
Ben, my friend. You think you do, but you have no idea what this series of events meant to me. My only explanation for the opportunity and the timing is, as @petermayermusic writes in his song “Loose in the World” is that this was all “the hand of the Divine.” Blessings on you and your family.
This is such a beautiful story the encapsulates what Inside the NBA means to so many people around the world.
All times Eastern; live broadcasts unless noted. Friday, May 10 Indy GP practice 1 9:30-10:45am Berlin practice 1 10:55am Indy GP practice 2 1:10-2:10pm Darlington qualifying 3:00-4:30pm Indy GP qualifying 4:20-5:50pm Darlington qualifying …
All times Eastern; live broadcasts unless noted.
Friday, May 10
Indy GP
practice 1
9:30-10:45am
Berlin
practice 1
10:55am
Indy GP
practice 2
1:10-2:10pm
Darlington
qualifying
3:00-4:30pm
Indy GP
qualifying
4:20-5:50pm
Darlington
qualifying
5:00-6:30pm
Indy GP
Race 1
6:10-7:25pm
Darlington
6:30-7:30pm
pre-race
7:30-10:00pm
race
Saturday, May 11
Berlin
practice 2
1:55am
Berlin
qualifying
4:00am
Spa start
6:30-8:00am
Berlin
Race 1
8:00am
Le Mans
Sprint
8:30-10:00am
Darlington
qualifying
10:30am-
12:30pm
Indy GP
warmup
11:15-11:45am
Spa finish
12:00-1:30pm
Darlington
12:30-1:30pm
pre-race
1:30-4:00pm
race
Indy GP
Race 2
1:00-2:15pm
Indy GP
3:00-3:30pm
pre-race
3:30-5:30pm
race
Laguna Seca
4:55-7:00pm
Indy GP
post-race
5:30-6:00pm
Laguna Seca
qualifying
7:30-8:15pm
Salt Lake
City
8:00-11:00pm
Laguna Seca
Race 1
8:35-9:30pm
Sunday, May 12
Berlin
practice 3
1:55am
Le Mans
7:30-10:00am
Berlin
Race 2
8:00am
Laguna Seca
Race 2
12:35-1:30pm
COTA
1:30-2:30pm
(D)
Darlington
1:30-3:00pm
pre-race
3:00-6:30pm
race
Salt Lake
City
2:00-3:00pm
(R)
Laguna Seca
3:00-6:00pm
Key: SDD: Same day delay; D = delayed; R = Replay
All NTT IndyCar Series stream live on Peacock Premium.
MotoGP is now airing live on TruTV and Max’s B/R Sports Add-On. Check your streaming provider for air times
A variety of motor racing is available for streaming on demand at the following sites:
