A WHOLE CARNIVAL WILL KISS ARNOLD'S ASS ON NBC.

"The New Celebrity Apprentice" premieres on January 2 at 8 p.m. EST on NBC.

The world's largest leisure travel company, today announced it will sponsor the two-part finale of the upcoming season of NBC's "The New Celebrity Apprentice" airing next year on

With "The New Celebrity Apprentice" featuring a component that brings attention to worthwhile charities, the Charity Challenge will give viewers of the hit program opportunities to win cruise giveaways each week while also supporting the charities chosen by the celebrity participants. The initiative will go live in December and run through the duration of the program's eighth season. Further details on the Charity Challenge will be released by Carnival Corporation in mid-December.

Carnival Corporation and its four North American brands – Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises and Seabourn – will be featured in the show's two-part season finale, details of which will be shared in the coming months. These brands and Carnival Corporation's six other global cruise line brands, comprise the world's largest cruise company.

"Cruise vacations are growing faster than ever in popularity, but there are still many people who have not discovered why cruising is such a great vacation and exceptional value," said Arnold Donald, CEO of Carnival Corporation. "We expect 'The New Celebrity Apprentice' will be a big hit with viewers, and being able to reach millions of people watching the program is a powerful way for us to generate awareness of cruising and help inspire people to consider cruising when they are planning their vacations. We are also looking forward to generating awareness of and support for several well-deserving charitable groups by offering cruise giveaways that will create a lot of excitement."

Carnival Corporation's sponsorship of NBC's popular program is the latest initiative in the company's ongoing strategy to find innovative ways to expand the market and inspire consumers to consider a cruise for their next vacation.

Carnival Corporation recently launched three original television programs that showcase adventures aboard each of the company's 10 cruise line brands, which includes "The Voyager with Josh Garcia," airing on NBC nationwide on Saturday mornings. Additionally, Carnival Corporation exposed a broader consumer audience to cruising with its first-ever Super Bowl commercial in 2015, also on NBC, and an initiative this year with AT&T and Samsung to allow consumers to take a fully immersive virtual reality cruise.

Former two-term California governor, successful businessman and international movie superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger will host the show and work with world-class business leaders as boardroom advisors. The list includes investment guru Warren Buffett, one of the most successful businessmen in the world; former Microsoft CEO and Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer; Tyra Banks, a supermodel, actress, TV host, producer, and CEO of the Tyra Banks Company and cosmetics brand, TYRA Beauty; actress, author and entrepreneur Jessica Alba, founder and chief creative officer of The Honest Company and Honest Beauty; and Schwarzenegger's trusted confidante and nephew, prominent entertainment attorney Patrick Knapp Schwarzenegger.

This season's 16 celebrity contestants vying for the title of Celebrity Apprentice and a $250,000 check to support their designated charity include the following:

Four-time boxing world champion Laila Ali; actress, host and entrepreneur Brooke Burke-Charvet; Pro-Football Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson; Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Boy George; American Ninja Warrior host and comedian Matt Iseman; actress, producer and writer Carrie Keagan; Emmy Award-winning television star and celebrity stylist Carson Kressley; four-time Olympic gold medalist and WNBA champion Lisa Leslie; comedian, film and television star Jon Lovitz; Mötley Crüe lead singer Vince Neil; reality TV star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi; actress and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards; former UFC standout mixed martial artist Chael Sonnen; co-host of Dish Nation and Real Housewives of Atlanta star Porsha Williams; Heisman Trophy winner, College Football Hall of Fame inductee and ESPN sports analyst Ricky Williams; and singer and television host Carnie Wilson.

HAMILTON'S DRUNK HISTORY LESSON...

EXPOSE: SHOULD GSN PULL A CW, AND CATER TO MORE MALE FANS?

The CW network is seeing a renaissance of creativity and decent  ratings ,since the UPN and  CW merged the best of their former networks. Under Mark Pedowitz who succeeded Dawn Ostroff who turned the  female driven channel,in a sea of female networks (Oxygen,OWN, Lifetime,WE, & ABC Family/Freeform,which had become the new WB) into the DC Superhero network. He also been able to continue to extend a hand to the ladies with the horror show that will never die, Supernatural, Jane the Virgin and white soul sister series, Crazy EX Girlfriend. Should the competition based GSN, which has pathetically chased female demo for years, create more guy centric games and save the network, like the CW did?

GSN time slot's are 70% filled w/ Steve Harvey's Family Feud, thanks to binge watching its the ONLY show that averages about 500,000+ viewers all day long. The recent episodes, give the channel an allure of relevance.

Currently president Amy Introcaso-Davis, keeps trying to run the channel ,like its the Oxygen network and only wants to launch women based shows, yet failed to be female compassionate and give away parting gifts to the losers on her shows. She even cancelled: Emmy nominated quiz marathon game (hosted by a woman!) The Chase & a less dark version of often reran series Chain Reaction, which still gets good numbers that exceed or nearly matched the Feud runs.

The self produced hits now, only include Idiot Test (the smartest show ever produced on the channel) and reality show clone Skin Wars.Wars success is troubling, since the network spent almost 20 years to find a reality show hit. Once they did, they just tried to clone Wars,with Steampunk-ed and a spin-off show called Skin Wars:Fresh Paint. Even worse for GSN, Wars numbers are cooling with woman, and men tiring of the non-sexualized female models being painted on this show, not being showcased like a Deal or No Deal model. This is the height of Davis's reign, other than being smart enough to buy the Feud reruns, in the first place.

The network hoped to find more comedy based,knock-offs, that succeed like Feud.This lead to failed clones like, Mind Of A Man with Empire alum Dee Ray Davis or Top Ten Fact Stacker, Winsanity with former Scrubs star Donald Faison.


Putting a man back in charge proves, "that Wu Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with" and launch games that appeal to men without running off the ladies,like in the glory days of Head TV programmer Bob Boden. His reign lead to a Renaissance of gaming. It included critical acclaimed and popular games: quizzers Russian Roulette, Friend or Foe and the rerun abused Whammy!,the all new Press Your Luck w/ Emmy winner Todd Newton. Three shows that need to be relaunched, pronto.

The new guy can launch the Feud clones properly with outright looking, like their doing that. This could lead to buying reruns of Wipeout- the hilarious Double Dare style game show, hosted by John Henson & Anderson. Also, another show in this vein, Oh Sit!, basically an indoor knockoff of Wipeout, but as big money musical chairs. The new guy can also launch sex based puzzle games in untried territory, like late night or bring back the prime time interactive games (phone/web) that kept viewers glued to see if they won, during the commercials.

Scum-bag elect Donald J. Trump said, about Hilary Clinton.....on the Epic Rap Battles of History. "We need a STRONG male leader" who deliver games that's appealing to men that satisfy woman- without making stupid,youth chasing programming decisions- that alienate everyone (like Trump himself) and as the Cinema Sins YouTube site deduced, ".....Reasons?!"

IS KIMYE ON THE ROCKS ?

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JUSTIN BIEBER'S PUNCH-OUT!!

JOHN LEGEND SPEAKS FOR KAYNE WEST.

KAYNE WEST: WTF?

THE AMAs ON THE V.P HAMILTON DEBATE.

A BLACK COUPLE WINS ON A NEW CW GAME SHOW!

THE GREAT MUSIC AT THE AMAs'16.

IS GIGI HADID THE NEW KHLOE KARDASHIAN, OF HOSTING?

TODAY,MARK WAHLBERG CELEBRATES HIS PATRIOT'S DAY!

PEOPLE FINALLY ATTACK JUSTIN BIEBER!

AN OJ LIKE CIVIL VERDICT, IN THE BOBBI KRISTINA CASE.

AN ALLIED ACCENT.

AMERICA DROWNS ITS SORROW OF TRUMP'S WIN,WITH FILMS.

The major motion picture industry picked up millions of unexpected customers this past weekend as Americans flocked to the box office in the wake of the U.S. Presidential election, and there is evidence the surge could last for several weeks. 

According to industry reports, the overall box office was just over $157 million, significantly higher than predicted. 

"America went back to the movies this weekend," said Jack MacKenzie, EVP of PSB, a leading entertainment market research firm. "It appears we collectively left work Friday or woke up Saturday and chose movies as the way to deal with whatever was on our minds. This upheaval bump could very well last throughout the important holiday season."

Nearly every movie in theaters outperformed expectations, including movies that had opened on previous weekends. "The performance of Dr. Strange and Trolls was stunning," MacKenzie said. "It suggests America held its collective breath the last week of the campaign and exhaled this weekend. It was opening weekend all over again."

According to Box Office Mojo, Trolls took in $34 million, only a 24% drop from opening weekend.  Dr. Strange took in $42.9 million, a little more than half of its opening weekend performance of $84 million.  Other strong performers included Hacksaw Ridge ($10.6/-30%) and The Accountant, which raked in $4.4m—down only 25% from the prior week.

Leading the opening weekend pack was Arrival, which far exceeded expectations and tracking predictions by bringing in $24 million.  According to exclusive exit poll data, VeriTES data shows that more than half of Arrival's customers decided to see it same day. "Not only did nearly 33% more people make the sudden decision to escape to the movies this weekend than normally would – most of them chose to see a film about communicating with an alien species," said Jeff Neuman, President of VeriTES. "While audiences have ever expanding platforms for entertainment, movies remain the most egalitarian and immediately accessible way for social escapism, a collective change the subject narrative." 

According to PSB and VeriTES analysis, the weekend performance is a repeat of prior box office performances following social upheaval. "If you go back to the economic crisis of 2009 and more recently the Brexit vote in the UK, movies have served as the nation's salve before, said MacKenzie. "Our data tells us it is happening again."

Given the historical data, combined with the continued social unrest, MacKenzie says it's likely the US box office could be in for a good run. "The studios have tent-poles and big budget moves lined up over the next six weeks.  This could be a situation where 1+1 equals more than 2 and could help Hollywood end the year in positive territory," MacKenzie said.

WHO'S WHO AT THE AMAs.

HOLLYWOOD: AFTER TRUMP'S TRIUMPH.

MEET THE NEW HAN SOLO!

NOW YOU KNOW WHY, GIRLS LOVE HORSES.

TAYLOR SWIFT'S STALKER BUSTED!

BRUCE CAMPBELL: BLOOD NOTICE.

AN EVIL BIGOT NOW WANTS PEACE, AFTER HE CAUSED A DIVISIVE ELECTION.

TOO MUCH TV, MEANS MORE JOBS FOR ALL.

GET MORE FOLLOWERS, FROM THEM.

CELEBRITY CANADA OR BUST?!

BEYONCE CRASHES- THE WHITEST NIGHT IN TV,THE COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS!

SAM AXE ON GIVING THE LADIES ALL THE SIR RICHARD HE CAN!

THE COSBY BASTARD, STARRING BILL COSBY.