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We’re already falling for this casting news: Oscar winner Anne Hathaway and Emmy winner Tina Fey are among the (many) additions to Amazon’s Modern Love anthology series, TVLine has learned.

Based on the New York Times column and podcast of the same name, Modern Love will span eight half-hour episodes, with each one exploring “love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms,” per the official description.

Also cast in the project (deep breath!): John Slattery (Mad Men), Dev Patel (The Newsroom), Catherine Keener (Kidding), Andy Garcia (Ballers), Cristin Milioti (Black Mirror), Brandon Victor Dixon (Power), Olivia Cooke (Bates Motel), Andrew Scott (Sherlock), Julia Garner (Ozark), Shea Whigham (Homecoming), Gary Carr (The Deuce), John Gallagher Jr. (The Newsroom) and Sofia Boutella (Fahrenheit 451).

Character details have not yet been disclosed for any of the newly cast stars.

“It’s like I woke up in the actor candy store. We’ve managed to assemble a dream cast of my favorite actors,” said showrunner John Carney. “It’s a testament to the reach of the original column and of how, now more than ever, love is the only certainty.”

This is not the first time a Modern Love project has enlisted big names: The podcast frequently features celebrities (including TV stars like Sandra Oh, Ellie Kemper and Giancarlo Esposito) who read real-life love stories that have appeared in the Times column.

Additionally, Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe) and Emmy Rossum (Shameless) have been tapped to direct episodes in Modern Love‘s first season. The show is currently in production in New York.

A lack of promotion did little to impede Eminem‘s album sales as the rapper’s surprise LP Kamikaze opened at Number One with the fourth-best sales week of 2018.

Kamikaze sold 434,000 total copies – including 252,000 digital-only traditional copies; the physical version followed a week after the album’s unannounced arrival – to give Eminem his ninth Number One album. Only the Beatles, Jay-Z, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and Elvis Presley notched more Number One LPs, Billboard reports.

Every Eminem solo album since 2000’s The Marshall Mathers LP – including the 8 Mile soundtrack – has debuted at Number One on the Billboard 200.

Only three albums – Drake’s Scorpion, Travis Scott’s Astroworld and Post Malone’s Beerbongs & Bentleys – posted better 2018 opening week numbers than Kamikaze. However, on a purely traditional sales standpoint, Kamikaze was only bested by Dave Matthews Band’s Come Tomorrow and Astroworld this year.

The week’s Top 10 included two more newcomers: Troye Sivan established a new Billboard 200 high as his sophomore LP Bloom debuted at Number Four and 72,000 copies, an improvement on the Number Seven peak of 2015’s Blue Neighbourhood. Why Don’t We’s first album 8 Songs dropped in at Number Nine.

Travis Scott’s Astroworld once again led the returnees at Number Two, a spot ahead of Drake’s Scorpion. Ariana Grande’s Sweetener finished Number Five, followed by Beerbongs and Bentleys (Number Six), Nicki Minaj’s Queen (Seven), BTS’ Love Yourself: Answer, which fell to Number Eight after debuting at Number One last week, and Juice WRLD’s Goodbye & Good Riddance at Number 10.

New releases competing for next week’s Number One include Paul McCartney’s Egypt Station, Lauren Daigle’s Look Up Child and Lenny Kravitz’s Raise Vibration, as well as an influx in sales and streams for Mac Miller following that rapper’s death Friday at the age of 26.

Get ready to laugh, cry and cringe!

SEX EDUCATION

Launches Globally on Friday, January 11, 2019, only on Netflix

Today, Netflix unveils the premiere date and the first images of Sex Education, a distinctively honest and witty look at the universally awkward coming-of-age experience. Launching globally with eight, one-hour episodes on January 11, 2019, the dramedy delivers a healthy dose of nostalgia, taking you back to your high school days, with a fresh postmodern take on young adult life, friendships, and attitudes towards sex, identity, love and everything in between.

Set in the fictional English town of Moordale and shot entirely in Wales, UK, Sex Education is a contemporary British love-letter to the classic American high-school story starring Asa Butterfield ("Ender's Game," "Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children" and Martin Scorsese's "Hugo") as Otis Milburn, the only child of two sex therapists, and award-winning actress Gillian Anderson ("The X-Files," "American Gods," "The Spy Who Dumped Me") as Jean Milburn, his mother, a larger-than-life sex therapist with no filter. Newcomers Ncuti Gatwa and Emma Mackey star in key roles throughout the series -- Gatwa as Otis' best friend "Eric" and Mackey as "Maeve," the mastermind behind Otis' underground sex therapy clinic. The series also features Kedar Williams-Stirling ("Jackson Monroe"), Aimee-Lou Wood ("Aimee Gibbs") and Connor Swindells ("Adam Groff") as Otis, Maeve and Eric's Moordale classmates.

SEX EDUCATION SYNOPSIS:

Meet Otis Milburn - an inexperienced, socially awkward high school student who lives with his mother, a sex therapist. Surrounded by manuals, videos and tediously open conversations about sex, Otis is a reluctant expert on the subject. When his home life is revealed at school, Otis realizes that he can use his specialist knowledge to gain status. He teams up with Maeve, a whip-smart bad-girl, and together they set up an underground sex therapy clinic to deal with their fellow students' weird and wonderful problems. Through his analysis of teenage sexuality, Otis realises he may need some therapy of his own.

Sex Education is created and written by Laurie Nunn and executive produced by Jamie Campbell, and co-executive produced by Sian Robins-Grace. The series is a production of Eleven Film for Netflix, and was directed by Ben Taylor ("Catastrophe") and Kate Herron.

www.netflix.com/sexeducation

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Lana Del Rey has released a new song, “Mariners Apartment Complex.” It’s produced and co-written by Jack Antonoff. Listen below. “Mariners Apartment Complex” is the first of “two end of summer jams” that Lana recently teased. According to a press release, Lana will release “Venice Bitch” (the second of those “two end of summer jams”) next Tuesday, September 18. The press release also states that she is due to release a new album—the follow-up to Lust for Life—in 2019.

Read Pitchfork’s features “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: A Conversation With Lana Del Rey” and “Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff Is Your Favorite Pop Star’s Secret Weapon.”

Police in Australia are offering a reward of AU$1 million (the equivalent of $720,000 in the U.S.) for information that will lead them to the killer of Scott Johnson, a gay man forced off a cliff 30 years ago.

The reward, announced Sunday, is 10 times what was previously offered, The New York Times reports.

Johnson was 27 when he died December 8, 1988. His body was found at the base of a cliff in Sydney. He was an American who had moved to Australia to be with his partner and was a doctoral student in mathematics at Australian National University in Canberra.

The cliffs were known to be a gathering spot for gay men, several of whom were killed by being pushed or otherwise forced off the cliffs by groups of young people in the 1980s and ’90s. The attackers sometimes beat, raped, or robbed the men, sometimes chasing them off the cliffs. Police later admitted the crimes had not been investigated adequately.

Johnson’s death was initially ruled a suicide. His brother, Steve, eventually called for the case to be reopened. A 2012 inquest reversed the original verdict of suicide but left open the possibility that Johnson’s death was accidental. But last year the coroner for New South Wales, the state that includes Sydney, ruled unequivocally that he “died as a result of a gay hate attack.”

“I have never believed Scott killed himself,” Steve Johnson, a technology entrepreneur, wrote in The Advocate in 2014. “Scott was one of his generation’s brightest academic stars, with a promising future. He was out to our family and living happily in Australia with his Australian partner. The day before he went missing, he had received news that he had finished the final proof for his mathematics Ph.D — a day for celebration, not suicide.”

Police have reopened the investigation, and they expect the increased reward will spur witnesses to offer information. “Scott’s death is possibly one of the most challenging investigations I’ve seen — and it’s believed one of the greatest hindrances has been an unwillingness for witnesses to come forward,” Mick Fuller, the police commissioner for New South Wales, told the Times.

Steve Johnson said he was “very encouraged” by the reward. “The million-dollar reward is speaking to the community that the police are taking this seriously and they need people’s help,” he told the paper.

Scott Johnson was a highly intelligent man who “just effortlessly understood things,” his brother said. “He was also the most modest person I’ve ever known.” Steve Johnson added that he thinks Scott’s killers are still alive and probably residing in Sydney.

An elusive VHS tape will bring Sheldons both big and small together for the first time next month. CBS has revealed the first details of December’s unlikely crossover between The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon, and it appears a piece of ’80s TV technology will play a pivotal role in the mashup.

Earlier this month, it was announced that Young Sheldon‘s titular star, Iain Armitage, would make a guest appearance on Big Bang opposite his older alter ego (Jim Parsons). At the time, the network declined to say how it would pull off the crossover, which also features Armitage’s Young Sheldon co-stars Lance Barber (Sheldon’s pa, George) and Montana Jordan (Sheldon’s older bro, Georgie).

Well, in a programming update issued Monday, CBS shed new light on the Dec. 6 episode, titled “The VCR Illumination.” Per the installment’s logline, “Sheldon and Amy are still down about their theory being disproven, but a VHS tape from Sheldon’s past inspires him not to give up.”

The release also dropped a fresh piece of final-season casting news: The Good Fight‘s Christine Baranski will reprise her role as Leonard’s mother Beverly in the episode. And in another interesting footnote, the outing’s story was conceived by all three of Big Bang‘s current (Steve Holland) and former showrunners (Steven Molaro and Bill Prady).

Music industry veteran Mike Chester has joined Warner Bros. Records as executive vice president of promotion, overseeing the label's promotional initiatives and strategies. Based in Los Angeles, Chester will report to WBR COO and co-chairman Tom Corson.

For the past few years, Chester has served as senior vp of marketing/promo at Scooter Braun's SB Projects. Before joining Braun & Co., Chester spent a decade at Island Def Jam, ending his tenure there in 2015 as vp of top 40 promotion. He started his career at Arista Records, followed by a stint at Atlantic Records before joining IDJ in 2004.

"Over the past two decades, Mike has played a central role in breaking countless hit records and building the careers of a string of iconic artists," commented Corson. "As the media landscape continues to shift and evolve, his experience, passion and ingenuity will be invaluable in helping shape our artist development strategies."

Added Chester, "I’m thrilled to be joining this iconic label and the incredible promotion department at such an exciting time in the company’s evolution. WBR has a fantastic roster of incredible new talent and legendary artists, and I’m looking forward to doing my part to give their music world-class exposure, devotion and support."

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