Will and Grace 8 Seasons will on HULU Beginning Tomorrow

The streamer, which beat Netflix for the show, will share the library and upcoming revival episodes with NBC in a deal similar to 'This Is Us.'
Hulu and NBC are reteaming again following their groundbreaking SVOD dealfor This Is Us.

The streaming service and NBC have inked a massive SVOD deal to bring Will and Grace into the digital age. Hulu, fresh off its Emmy win for best drama for The Handmaid's Tale, has secured all 194 episodes of Will and Grace and will air new episodes of the NBC revival each week following their initial broadcast this fall.

The original eight-season run will be available on Hulu starting Sept. 21 — a week before the revival launches on NBC. Like Hulu and NBC's deal for last year's freshman breakout This Is Us, the network will also retain the library to stream on the NBC App as well as pay TV providers with authentication.

"As we gear up for the launch of the upcoming season premiere, I can’t think of a better way to reintroduce Will and Grace to the cultural zeitgeist than by giving audiences the opportunity to watch this historic and hilarious series wherever and whenever they want,” said NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt. “With its witty comebacks, pop-culture references and social commentary, Will and Grace is one of the most binge-able comedies in television history, and I am certain fans both old and new will jump on this opportunity to devour it."

Sources tell THR that Netflix was also bidding for the library, with Hulu coming out on top for its willingness to share the rights. Retaining at least some stacking rights has become increasingly valuable as networks look to monetize expensive scripted fare in an era of dwindling lilve viewership.

"There’s no question that Will and Grace has resonated with audiences since the series made its broadcast premiere. To be able to bring such an iconic show into the streaming universe for the first time ever is an opportunity we couldn’t pass up,” said Hulu's newly installed chief content officer Joel Stillerman. “This landmark deal will allow fans to rewatch their favorite moments ahead of the series premiere, as well as bring Will and Grace and its cast of characters to a whole new audience.”

NBC revived Will and Grace for a ninth season after the original cast reunited for a Hillary Clinton-themed election ad. The 16-episode season launches Sept. 28 with the show — created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan and directed/exec produced by James Burrows already renewed for another season of 13 episodes.

Speaking with THR earlier this summer, Greenblatt said that he hoped to have a streaming deal for the library before the show returned, confirming that conversations with Netflix and Hulu were underway at the time.

"It's a little bit of a tricky bet. If the show goes on the air and blows up and we've pre-sold it, then we're kind of stuck. If it over-performs and we've left money on the table, that's a negative," Greenblatt said of the deal making process. "If it goes on the air and does OK and we've turned away from deals that are already on the table, we may lose money there. We're trying to look at the different scenarios of what could happen and bet on the best scenario. There's lots of estimating going on and things to try to make sure we've thought through what could happen. The new episodes are separate from the 198 that already exist. Or we could put them all together. The new episodes command a different price than the library episodes. It's looking at all of these different possibilities. But there's Hulu, Netflix and our own version of that that we're in the middle of."

The executive noted that retaining on-demand rights to the series was a key factor in making a deal for the library, one of the last remaining proven hits that had not yet been sold.  

Will and Grace was nominated for 83 Emmys, taking home 16 — including best comedy. It joins a Hulu library that also includes The Golden Girls and Seinfeld, among others.

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Demi Lovato Talks more about her new album and reveals some more of the tracklist

01. Sorry Not Sorry
02. Tell Me You Love Me
03. Sexy Dirty Love
04. You Don't Do It For Me Anymore
05. Daddy Issues
06. Ruin The Friendship
07. Only Forever
08. Lonely
09. Cry Baby
10. Games
11. Concentrate
12. Hitchhiker
13. Instruction
14. TBA
15. TBA
16. TBA - Target bonus track
17. TBA - Target bonus track
 

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Demi Lovato: Fans will know 'exactly who I'm talking about' on my new album
 
Everyone knows Demi Lovato can sing, but with her upcoming sixth studio album, the 25-year-old will prove to listeners that she can sang. “I wanted to make sure that this album showcased my voice,” says Lovato, who’ll release Tell Me You Love Me on Sept. 29. And if you couldn’t already tell from the album’s sassy belt-athon of a first single, “Sorry Not Sorry,” songs like the gospel-tinged title track and the funky “Sexy Dirty Love” will cement Lovato’s status as one of her generation’s most powerful vocalists.
Instead of rushing to follow up 2015’s Confident, Lovato took a year and a half to pursue a more soulful sound with a new batch of producers, including Warren “Oak” Felder (Kehlani, Alessia Cara) and John Hill (Phantogram, Santigold). “Growing up on the Disney Channel,” she says, “we cranked out an album every year for three years, so this time around I took as much time as I needed.”
 
And with a new sound — “I think what’ll surprise fans the most for this new album is how R&B I’m going,” she says — comes new subject matter. The singer, who split from actor Wilmer Valderrama in June of 2016 after a six-year relationship, says she’s getting real about her love life in unprecedented ways. “I have never really been so honest,” Lovato says. “You can just hear it through the lyrics. I think my fans are gonna know exactly who I’m talking about.”
 
Tell Me You Love Me isn’t the only project Lovato has in the works this fall. On Oct. 12 she’ll release the feature-length YouTube documentary Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated, which chronicles the making of the album as well as her activism and philanthropy outside of her music career. Bringing a camera crew into the studio to capture her creative process wasn’t easy: “It’s definitely a challenge, because you just want to be completely open and free, and when you have cameras on you, you don’t feel like you can do that,” she says. “But you get used to it. And once you get past that mentality, you forget the cameras are there and you’re able to be completely vulnerable.”
 
Lovato also says it may not take another two years for her to release new music. She says that Tell Me You Love Me will be a “living album” and that she may release new tracks as a part of the project even after its September release date. “If you create another song that you like, you put out another song,” she explains. “It doesn’t have to be a single. It can just be added to the mass of music that you’ve already released.”

Taylor Swift Gets her 5th #1 for Look What You Made Me Do

Swift scores her fifth Hot 100 No. 1 and breaks the weekly streaming record for a song by a woman. "Look" also stops the record-tying 16-week reign of "Despacito."

Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" blasts from No. 77 (where it debuted) to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated Sept. 16), following its first full week of data tracking. After its Aug. 25 release, the song soars to the top with the highest weekly streaming and sales sums for a track in 2017 and breaks the record for the most weekly streams ever for a song by a woman.
"Look" -- released on Big Machine/Republic Records and the first single from Swift's album Reputation (her first since 1989 in 2014), due Nov. 10 -- is her fifth Hot 100 No. 1. It also dethrones Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito," featuring Justin Bieber, which a week ago tied the record for the most weeks spent at No. 1 (16) in the Hot 100's 59-year history.
Let's run down the numerous achievements for "Look" as it crowns the Hot 100, which blends all-genre streaming, airplay and sales data. Highlights of the rest of the top 10 will post on Billboard.com later today (Sept. 5), and all charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Sept. 6).
Record-breaking streams: Following its first week of streaming, "Look" blasts onto the Streaming Songs chart at No. 1 with 84.4 million U.S. streams in the week ending Aug. 31, according to Nielsen Music. The total is not only the highest for any song this year, passing the 69.6 million with which "Despacito" peaked on the June 17-dated chart, but the highest ever in a week for a song by a female artist, surpassing the debut week of Adele's "Hello" (61.6 million, Nov. 14, 2015).
Only one song has posted a greater weekly total than "Look" on Streaming Songs (which began on March 2, 2013): Baauer's "Harlem Shake," which peaked with 103 million, powered heavily by user-generated clips featuring the song's audio (the week that the survey debuted).
Swift adds her third Streaming Songs No. 1, following "Shake It Off" and "Blank Space." She ties Miley Cyrus for the most by a woman; among all acts, only Bieber has earned more No. 1s (four).
Best weekly sales of 2017: "Look" also launches with the top weekly download sales this year: 353,000 in the week ending Aug. 31, as it starts at No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart. That tops the 240,000-download start for Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" (Jan. 28). "Look" sports the highest weekly sales since Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop the Feeling!" bowed with 379,000 on May 28, 2016 (and the best total for a woman since Adele's "Hello" sold 480,000 in its third week, reflected on the Nov. 28, 2015-dated Digital Song Sales chart).
Swift scores her 12th Digital Song Sales No. 1, passing Katy Perry (11) for the second-most; Rihanna leads with 14 toppers on the tally.

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Swift ascent: With its 77-1 vault on the Hot 100, "Look" makes the fifth-greatest leap to No. 1 of all-time. Kelly Clarkson's "My Life Would Suck Without You" leads with its 97-1 surge (Feb. 7, 2009). Swift replaces herself for the fifth-biggest jump to the summit: her first leader, 2012's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," rocketed 72-1. (Both "Look" and "Never" debuted from initial airplay before bounding to No. 1 following their first full weeks of streaming and sales tracking. Streaming and sales follow a Friday-Thursday measurement week, while airplay is tracked Monday-Sunday for the Hot 100's tabulation.)
High(est) five: Swift first led the Hot 100 with "Never" for three weeks in 2012. She added her second, third and fourth No. 1s from 1989: "Shake It Off" (four weeks, 2014), "Blank Space" (seven, 2014-15) and "Bad Blood," featuring Kendrick Lamar (one, 2015). With "Look" leading in its second week on the Hot 100, all five of Swift's No. 1s have reigned in four or fewer chart weeks.
Swift is the 13th woman (her favorite number!) with at least five Hot 100 No. 1s. Mariah Carey leads all women (and soloists) with 18 No. 1s, second among all artists only to the Beatles' 20.
First singles ranking first: Swift has now topped the Hot 100 with the first single from each of her last three albums. "Look" introduces Reputation; "Shake," which debuted atop the Hot 100, ushered in 1989, and "Never" was released as the first single from Red.

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'Look' and listen: As it leads Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales, "Look" charges 23-14 on the Radio Songs chart with 64 million all-format audience impressions following its first full week of airplay tracking. (It debuted a week ago with 46 million in its first three days.) Most notably, "Look" roars 21-9 on the Pop Songs chart (which is based on total weekly plays on a 164-station panel of mainstream top 40 stations), marking Swift's 14th top 10. It makes the fastest flight to the chart's top 10 since Timberlake's "Feeling" flew 24-10 on May 28, 2016.
Leading lady: More than nine months into 2017, Swift is the first woman to top the Hot 100 this year. She's the first since Halsey reigned, as featured on the Chainsmokers' "Closer," which wrapped its 12-week rule on Nov. 19, 2016. Until "Look," no woman had topped the Hot 100 in a lead role in more than a year: since Sia's "Cheap Thrills," featuring Sean Paul, led for four weeks from Aug. 6 through Aug. 27, 2016.
Further, "Look" is the first song by a woman unaccompanied by a male artist to rule the Hot 100 since Adele's "Hello" led for 10 weeks (Nov. 14, 2015-Jan. 16, 2016). The only other such No. 1s since the start of 2014: Swift's "Shake" and "Space" and Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass."

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Atop the Hot 100, "Look" supplants "Despacito," which on the Sept. 9-dated chart logged its 16th week at No. 1, matching Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day" (16 weeks, 1995-96) for the longest command in the chart's archives. On the new Sept. 16 list, "Despacito" dips to No. 2.
Again, highlights of the rest of the Sept. 16-dated Hot 100's top 10 will post on Billboard.com later today (Sept. 5), and all charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Sept. 6).


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