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Exclusive: Department M, the independent studio founded by Mike Larocca and Michael Schaefer, has acquired the film rights to the acclaimed nonfiction book Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War, by Marty Skovlund Jr. and Joe Kent and tapped Jessica Goldberg to adapt the script. Department M will produce the feature adaptation alongside Patrick Newall.

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The best in country music was celebrated at the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards!

Shania Twain hosted the show live from the Grand Ole Opry House on Thursday (September 26) in Nashville, Tenn.

Make sure to check out all of our posts about the event and the best red carpet photos!

The show mainly consisted of performances instead of handing out all of the awards. Many of the main categories of the night, including the top awards, were not announced on TV.

Head inside to check out the full winners list…

You can see the full winners list below though!

People’s Choice Country Awards Winners

The People’s Artist of 2024:

1. Beyoncé

2. Jelly Roll

3. Kacey Musgraves

4. Kane Brown

5. Lainey Wilson

6. Luke Combs

7. Morgan Wallen – Winner

8. Zach Bryan

The Female Artist of 2024:

1. Beyoncé

2. Carly Pearce

3. Dolly Parton

4. Kacey Musgraves

5. Kelsea Ballerini

6. Lainey Wilson – Winner

7. Megan Moroney

8. Miranda Lambert

The Male...

Shaboozey, Mgk, and Morgan Wallen were among the winners at the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards. Hosted by Shania Twain, the fan-voted awards were held in Nashville at the Opry House, the home of the Grand Ole Opry.

2024 People’s Choice Country Awards winners list:

The People’s Artist of 2024

Beyoncé

Jelly Roll

Kacey Musgraves

Kane Brown

Lainey Wilson

Luke Combs

Morgan Wallen – Winner

Zach Bryan

The Female Artist of 2024

Beyoncé

Carly Pearce

Dolly Parton

Kacey Musgraves

Kelsea Ballerini

Lainey Wilson – Winner

Megan Moroney

Miranda Lambert

The Male Artist of...

It’s the night of the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards, so let’s take a moment to look at everyone expected to attend!

Shania Twain is hosting the show live from the Grand Ole Opry House Tonight (September 26) in Nashville, Tenn.

The show is airing live on NBC at 8pm Et/Pt and E! will air a red carpet special beginning at 6pm Et/Pt.

In addition to all of the celebs who are performing on stage at the event, plenty of stars will also be there to present to the winners.

Head inside to see the full list of performers and nominees…

Keep scrolling to see the full list of performers, presenters, and nominees…

People’s Choice Country Awards Performers

Shania Twain

Brad Paisley

Machine Gun Kelly (mgk)

Miranda Lambert

Kane Brown

Keith Urban

Kelsea Ballerini

Lady A

Parker McCollum

The War and Treaty

People’s Choice Country...

The People’s Choice Country Awards, first held in 2023, will return for a second edition on NBC in September, with a list of nominees announced Thursday that includes some of the biggest names crossing over between country and the pop mainstream, including Beyoncé, Shaboozey, Zach Bryan, Kacey Musgraves, Morgan Wallen and Jelly Roll.

Bryan led the nominations with 19, followed by Beyoncé with 17 and Musgraves with 15. Notably, none of those three artists had a huge year at country radio, despite their outsized presences as mass-media superstars. That may be one way in which this awards show is looking to distinguish itself from two of its most obvious competitors, the country-music-industry-voted CMA Awards and ACM Awards.

The fan-voted awards show will be telecast on NBC and Peacock on Sept. 26 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt from the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, with Shania Twain hosting.

Shaboozey, the newcomer whose “A Bar...

Zach Bryan and Beyoncé lead a crowded, star-studded pack of nominees for the 2024 People’s Choice Country.

Bryan picked up 19 nominations total, Beyoncé followed just behind with 17, and Kacey Musgraves picked up the third most with 15. All three artists will vie for the night’s top prize, The People’s Artist of 2024, alongside Jelly Roll, Kane Brown, Lainey Wilson, Luke Combs, and last year’s winner Morgan Wallen.

Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter and Bryan’s self-titled album will also compete for The Album of 2024, as will Musgraves’ Deeper Well,...

The 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards nominees have been revealed!

Beyonce and her country album Cowboy Carter are up for a whopping 12 awards including the top prizes People’s Artist of 2024, Female Artist of 2024, and Album of 2024! Top nominees also include Zach Bryan, Kacey Musgraves, Shaboozey, Kane Brown, Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs.

The 2024 People’s Choice Awards are set to air live from Nashville, Tennessee on September 26. They’ll be hosted by Shania Twain, and it’ll air on both NBC and Peacock.

We’ve gathered the full list of nominees here for you to see!

Keep reading to see the full list of nominees for the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards…

2024 People’s Choice Country Awards Nominations List

The People’s Artist of 2024

• Beyoncé

• Jelly Roll

• Kacey Musgraves

• Kane Brown

• Lainey Wilson

• Luke Combs

• Morgan Wallen

• Zach Bryan

The Female Artist of 2024

• Beyoncé

• Carly Pearce

• Dolly Parton...

The 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards nominations are out, and Zach Bryan, Beyoncé, Kacey Musgraves, and Shaboozey lead the list.

Beyoncé’s first country album has her up for 12 awards, including the People’s Artist of 2024, Female Artist of 2024, and Social Country Star. The singer also scored nods in The Song of 2024 category for “Texas Hold ‘Em” and The Album of 2024 category for Cowboy Carter.

Other country stars nominated include Kane Brown, Morgan Wallen, and Luke Combs.

Shania Twain is set to host the 2024 People’s Choice Awards live from the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville on September 26 at 8 p.m. Et, airing on NBC and streaming on Peacock.

The 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards is produced by Den of Thieves, with Jesse Ignjatovic, Evan Prager and Barb Bialkowski serving as executive producers, along with Rac Clark as executive producer and showrunner.

2024 People’s Choice Country Awards Nominations...

Joe Kent — the far-right Republican congressional candidate who lost his race in a shocking upset two years ago — has some thoughts about abortion. Kent thinks that years from now we, as a society, will look back on the current debate over access to reproductive care in this country in horror and disbelief.

And it’s hard to argue with that when there are women in Texas who, instead of being provided routine care, have been forced to give birth to stillborn children; when the state of Idaho is fighting for...

Tucker Carlson has a type. He likes hardline nationalists who can cosplay anti-elitism while pretending they didn’t go to an Ivy, or have an heiress mother, or have the richest people in the country funding their campaign. He likes the kind of candidate who blends hateful nativism and a fear of the impending collapse of Western Civilization, with mockery of blue-haired, cat-owning coastal liberals.

Turns out Tucker’s type may not be super electable.

As Republicans scramble to find an explanation for their poor midterm showing, finger pointing abounds.

When far-right Republican Joe Kent announced he was running for Congress in February of 2021, he also signed up for Gab — a social meda platform that even fellow Republicans have called a “cesspool of bigotry and anti-semitism.” But for almost a year after Kent’s announcement, his Gab his account didn’t exactly take off, languishing at a couple thousand followers well into the summer.

Then something funny happened. In December, months after he’d announced his candidacy, Kent’s Gab account saw a sudden spike of over 7,000 new followers, according...

Exclusive: The BBC has greenlit a landmark documentary film and 10-part podcast on Shamima Begum – the teenager who travelled to Syria to join Isis before trying to return and having her citizenship revoked – from the team behind the multi award-winning I’m Not A Monster.

For the past 12 months, Begum, now 22, has been giving her side of one of the most debated stories in the British media in recent years to investigative journalist Josh Baker.

In the as-yet-untitled doc and podcast series for BBC Two, iPlayer and 5 Live, Baker, who was making a documentary in an East London Mosque when she fled, will retrace her steps and tell the story.

Begum’s story is known across the UK and was also charted in 2021 feature The Return: Life After Isis.

In 2015, she travelled from the UK to Syria via Turkey with three friends aged just 15 to join Isis and was the...

All seven House Republicans who are seeking reelection after voting to impeach former President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol are faring well financially, campaign disclosures filed this week with the Federal Election Commission show.

The New York Times points out that despite drawing Trump’s wrath, the seven Republicans are out-raising their primary opponents. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), for instance, raised a war chest of around $6.5 million in 2021, and is entering the 2022 election year with just under $5 million, while her opponent, Harriet Hageman,...

After the nation’s capital spent weeks girding for a repeat of the insurrection, the small crowd who came to the national mall in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol on Saturday to show support for the rioters who stormed that very same building seemed like an embarrassing sideshow. While the paltry crowd made no new attempt to breach the Capitol, they also didn’t have to. The extremist contingent has already established themselves inside the Republican Party, as evidenced by the multiple candidates who were in attendance at their event.

Exclusive: For the first time, BBC Panorama and Frontline (PBS) are collaborating to co-produce a new investigative podcast for BBC Sounds.

I’m Not A Monster will chart the story of Sam Sally, the American mom who left behind a comfortable life and travelled to the heart of the Islamic State group caliphate with her family. Her husband became an Isis sniper, and her 10-year old son, Matthew, appeared in an infamous propaganda video threatening President Trump.

Sally, previously Samantha El Hassani, has said that her husband tricked her into traveling to Syria. She eventually fled Raqqa with her children after her husband was killed fighting for the terrorist organization.

The pod is fronted by journalist and host Josh Baker who in 2016 narrowly survived a suicide bombing. While he was recovering he got the tip-off about Sally’s story. He pieced it together from Indiana to Isis and back, via...

It’s been a few weeks since we’ve heard anything regarding further casting for Quentin Tarantino’s Slave Era spaghetti Western, Django Unchained. Our last update involved Jamie Foxx getting cast as the lead character, Django. Now Deadline is reporting that Kevin Costner is “in talks” to play Leonardo DiCaprio’s henchman, Ace Woody, which frankly sounds more like the name of a character in Boogie Nights. Perhaps Costner is looking to balance his good guy-bad guy roles in upcoming features. The 56-year-old actor has already been cast to play Joe Kent in Zack Snyder’s upcoming Man of Steel Superman reboot. Woody is described as, "a sadistic trainer of the male fighting slaves who entertain the white patrons of Candyland as well as the...

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It’s been a few weeks since we’ve heard anything regarding further casting for Quentin Tarantino’s Slave Era spaghetti Western, Django Unchained. Our last update involved Jamie Foxx getting cast as the lead character, Django. Now Deadline is reporting that Kevin Costner is “in talks” to play Leonardo DiCaprio’s henchman, Ace Woody, which frankly sounds more like the name of a character in Boogie Nights. Perhaps Costner is looking to balance his good guy-bad guy roles in upcoming features. The 56-year-old actor has already been cast to play Joe Kent in Zack Snyder’s upcoming Man of Steel Superman reboot. Woody is described as, "a sadistic trainer of the male fighting slaves who entertain the white patrons of Candyland as well as the...

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The Good Wife set up a fascinating scenario and an interesting moral debate on "VIP Treatment."

It then let its characters off the hook by speeding through a cop-out of an ending. Wouldn't it have been riveting to watch Dianne suffer through an actual lawsuit against Joe Kent? Or to see how this Nobel Prize winner's endorsement of Peter would be affected by the latter's wife making Kent out to be a sexual deviant?

The show did a wonderful job setting these dilemmas up... only to drop them in a rushed final scene that didn't feel true to the accuser. She started the episode fully aware of the weight of her allegations. So what made her finally realize that she'd essentially be placed on trial if she pursued a lawsuit?

The only conclusion I can draw: the writers needed a way out of the corner they had boxed themselves into.