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Twelve fan-favorite global glamazons will return to the stage of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” to compete for the title of “Queen of the Mothertucking World.”

With at least one season under their belts, the queens are back with more confidence, glitz and glamour than ever before. The twelve all stars told TheWrap what they’re bringing with them into the new franchise of “Drag Race.”

Alyssa Edwards, the all-American queen from Texas, said, “as soon as I left season five, my pumps hit the ground running.” The sassy, Southern queen returned for “All Stars” season two and said that joining the “Drag Race” family changed who she was at her core.

“Walking into this Werk Room not only changed my idea of drag, but who Justin is – the man behind the magic of Alyssa Edwards,” she said, adding that her experience is what she is bringing into the new franchise.

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Racers, start your engines! Fan favorites from around the "RuPaul's Drag Race" world, including "Drag Race" and "All Stars" mainstay Alyssa Edwards, "RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under" Season 2 runner-up Kween Kong, and more, compete to become the true "Queen of the Mothertucking World," in addition to a grand prize of $200,000 and a spot in the International Pavilion at the Drag Race Hall of Fame. The all-new "RuPaul's Drag Race Global All Stars" will premiere exclusively on Paramount+ on Friday, Aug. 16 with two all-new episodes. You can watch with 7-Day Free Trial of Paramount Plus.

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BBC's "Boarders" Will Return to Tubi For Season 2

It's almost back-to-school time: Tubi has announced it will continue to bring the critically acclaimed BBC Three coming-of-age series "Boarders” to North American subscribers for the series’ second season.

Written by BAFTA nominee Daniel Lawrence Taylor (“Timewasters)”, “Boarders” follows the lives of five talented Black teenagers from inner-city London as they navigate life at St. Gilbert’s, an elite boarding school. The second season reportedly will see a new era for the students at the school with an acting headmistress who wants them gone.

Watch the trailer for “Boarders” Season 1 below:

Josh Tedeku (Jaheim), Jodie Campbell (Leah), Sekou Diaby (Toby), Myles Kamwendo (Omar), and Aruna Jalloh (Femi) will reprise their roles in the second season with Taylor returning as their mentor, Gus. The returning cast also includes Harry Gilby, Tallulah Greive, Rosie Graham, Assa Kanouté, and Niky Wardley.

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“Loot” Renewed at Apple TV+

Apple TV+’s “Loot” is in the money: the comedy series, starring and executive produced by Maya Rudolph, has been renewed for a third season at the streamer.

Created by Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard, “Loot” stars Rudolph as Molly Wells, who, after divorcing her tech billionaire husband (Adam Scott) after 20 years, must figure out what to do with her $87 billion settlement and turns her attention to running the charitable foundation she forgot she started to connect with the real world.

Watch the trailer for “Loot” Season 2 below:

The series also stars Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Nat Faxon, Ron Funches, Joel Kim Booster, Meagen Fay, and Stephanie Styles, with Season 2 guest stars including O-t Fagbenle, Benjamin Bratt, Ana Gasteyer, Hayley Magnus, John Lutz, Pam Murphy, Jim Rash, and Allan Harvey among the guest stars in Season 2.

The second season of “Loot” debuted this past April and...

Practice those tongue pops, America, because Alyssa Edwards is officially representing the good ol’ U-s of A in the first-ever edition of RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars, which revealed its full cast on Monday.

The iconic queen, best known for her unforgettable turns on Drag Race Season 5 and All Stars 2, will face off against 11 queens, each from one of the reality competition’s many international iterations, when the Paramount+ series premieres on Friday, Aug. 16 with back-to-back episodes. Along with a $200,000 grand prize, the fan favorites will also compete for the title of “Queen of the Mothertucking World.”

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Kelly Clarkson’s covers of other artist’s songs have been getting a lot of attention lately. Her most recent rendition of one of Katy Perry’s greatest hits has the American Idol judge questioning if she should ever sing the song again. Several other musicians chimed in with their support as well. Keep reading to see what song they’re talking about and what got Kelly Clarkson started doing cover songs.

Kelly Clarkson & Katy Perry Have Worked Together In The Past

While Kelly Clarkson has plenty of her own hit songs, she started a segment on The Kelly Clarkson Show called “Kellyoke.” In the segment, she performs a cover of another artist’s song.

She released an official Kellyoke EP, which featured a number of her own personal favorites in June 2022. At the time, she said that she enjoyed performing covers and believed that Kellyoke was “the perfect way...

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” producers and World of Wonder co-founders Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato just snatched their fifth Emmy award for outstanding reality competition program and are riding high from Season 16 logging the series’ highest-rated season premiere in six years. Bailey can’t quite believe that the show is still gaining momentum.

“The more mature audience still loves it. They know they can count on falling in love with all these new artists and they can count on us as producers keeping it fresh,” Barbato says. “But young kids are discovering it. My 10-year-old kids have friends in their class who are watching it.”

The momentum for the show extends into its global ambitions. There are currently 20 international versions of “Drag Race” and counting. “UK vs. the World” Season 2 is close to launch, and later this year, the Mexico, Brazil, Germany and Italy show will be coming to Wow Presents Plus...

Say what you will about reality TV, but it's here to stay. It's a superstar genre! Since the days of The Real World, reality TV has pulled us in with new stories and formats.

For me, it's been 23 years since watching people vote each other out on Survivor stole my 10-year-old mind's attention. And I've been obsessed ever since!

With a decades-worth of TV explored, the genre isn't slowing down yet. 2023 was a landmark year that brought us new names, new iterations, and new obsessions that filled our reality TV thirst.

Don't believe me? Below, we looked back on the year for how the genre grew and reshaped itself. These themes brought several beloved new favorites that made 2023 one of the best years yet for new IPs (and some familiar names).

Check it out!

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After decades of reality TV, launching a new IP that attains widespread success and growth can be hard.

Super exciting news has been revealed for fans of Drag Race!

World of Wonder announced the renewal of three of it’s shows across the world at MIPCOM in Cannes, France this week.

Earlier this year, four US-based Drag Race shows were renewed, and, this year has also seen the premieres of Drag Race Belgique, Drag Race Sverige, Drag Race Mexico, Drag Race Brazil and Drag Race Germany.

Fans have been really loving the international versions, and there is also one in particular that fans have been begging for another season.

Keep reading to learn more…

At MIPCOM, it was announced that Drag Race France, Drag Race Phillippines and Drag Race Thailand have all been given renewals for a third season each!

Drag Race Thailand has not had a new episode since 2019, and co-host Pangina Heals has since gone on to compete for the first time on RuPaul’s Drag Race: UK vs the World.

Showtime has announced the release date of their upcoming limited series “Fellow Travelers,” starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey. The eight-episode drama will premiere on Oct. 27.

Created by Academy Award nominee Ron Nyswaner and based on Thomas Mallon’s novel of the same name, “Fellow Travelers” is both a romance and a political thriller, depicting the secret relationship between two men who meet in McCarthy-era Washington. Bomer plays Hawkins Fuller, a man with a lucrative behind-the-scenes job in politics, and Bailey plays an idealistic, religious young man. Their romance begins at the same time that Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on “subversives and sexual deviants.” The show tracks the protagonists over four decades, through the Vietnam War protests, the drugs and disco of the 1970s, and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s.

“Fellow Travelers” also stars Jelani Alladin, Allison Williams and Noah J. Ricketts. Daniel Minahan serves...

Festival

James Hawes‘ Holocaust drama “One Life” will be the American Express Gala at the 67th BFI London Film Festival.

The film tells the true story of Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to WWII, rescued 669 children from the Nazis. Fifty years later, in 1988, Winton is haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England. It’s not until a live television show “That’s Life” surprises him with the surviving children – now adults – seated all around him that he can finally make peace with the loss he had carried for five decades.

The cast includes Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Lena Olin, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp, Marthe Keller, Jonathan Pryce and Helena Bonham-Carter.

Hawes said: “This film pretty much begins and ends in London and says so much about the people of this city, its heart and its history.