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*Indie Wire is reporting that rapper Lil Mama, 23, has been cast as Left Eye in VH1′s in-development biopic of TLC, which the network announced in November. The website reported: Thanks to a tip from reader Cordell, in the red carpet video interview embedded below, MC Lyte reveals that, not only is she working with [...]
*After seven seasons, MTV has canceled its Randy Jackson-produced competition show “America’s Best Dance Crew,” reportedly due to dwindling ratings. The series, which featured Shane Sparks, Lil Mama and JC Chasez among its judges, debuted to strong numbers in 2008, averaging 2.7 million viewers a week. TVLine reports that despite its initially strong numbers, viewership [...]
*Randy Jackson has sold a siblings singing competition show to MTV, reports Deadline. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Basing itself off groups with siblings like the Jackson 5, the Beach Boys, Hanson and The Jonas Brothers, the untitled series will feature groups with siblings in them competing against each other. The Jackson-produced show, which is [...]
*Choreographer Shane Sparks has been ordered to stand trial on eight sex counts involving an underage girl in the 1990s. The former judge on MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew” is charged with six counts of lewd acts on a child and two counts of oral copulation of a person under 16. A Superior Court judge [...]
*Former “America’s Best Dance Crew” judge Shane Sparks today entered a “not guilty” plea to eight counts of child molestation. The choreographer’s Dec. 18 arrest in Los Angeles was for allegedly performing several lewd acts on an underage girl over a span of several years, beginning in 1994. Sparks, whose age was listed as 40 [...]
*Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe took a trip to the set of “America’s Best Dance Crew” this week where she got to meet one of her childhood crushes – former ‘N Sync member and “Dance Crew” judge JC Chasez. [See photos below.] Sidibe, a longtime ‘N Sync fan, finally got to hang out with the former [...]
“Why did I decide to go to a taping in spike heels (?), I don’t know. That must have aged me right away, clicket clacking around the sound stage.” *Good gracious, you have to be ready for a burst of energy like never before when you go to a taping of America’s Best Dance Crew. [...]
*MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew” returns for Season 5 this month with Omarion taking the place of choreographer Shane Sparks at the judges table. “I’m so excited to be a judge on MTV’s ‘America’s Best Dance Crew,’” the artist said in a statement. “Dancing and performing is what I do and being a judge on [...]
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