Broadcast dates set for star-studded tribute to Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen’s tribute concert will air on CBC radio platforms on Tuesday and on CBC-TV in January.
The concert takes place at Montreal’s Bell Centre on Monday featuring musical guests including Sting, Elvis Costello, k.d. lang, Feist, Lana Del Rey and members of The Lumineers.
CBC will mark Tuesday’s one-year anniversary of Cohen’s death with the radio broadcast of Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen on CBC Radio Two. It will also stream at CBCMusic.ca. A televised version of the concert will air on Jan. 3, 2018, on CBC-TV.
CBC also partnered with Montreal’s contemporary art museum on the new documentary Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, which explores his influence on a generation of artists. It airs Dec. 3 on the CBC Documentary channel.
LION KING Beyoncé to voice Nala
Beyoncé is joining the cast of The Lion King to voice the role of Nala.The Walt Disney Studios revealed Wednesday the main cast for its upcoming live-action and CGI film adaptation of its 1994 animated classic, confirming the months-old rumour that the singer would lend her voice to the project.
Some cast members had been previously announced, including Donald Glover as Simba and James Earl Jones as Mufasa.
Others include Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar, Alfre Woodard as Sarabi, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa, Billy Eichner as Timon and Keegan-Michael Key as a hyena. Jon Favreau is set to direct. The film is slated for a July 19, 2019, theatrical release.
TELEVISION Peters series date set
Russell Peters’s four-part dramedy series The Indian Detective will premiere on CTV on Nov. 23. The series stars the Canadian comedian as a Toronto cop who gets caught up in a murder case while visiting his father in Mumbai.
The cast also includes William Shatner, Bollywood veteran Anupam Kher, and Suits actress Christina Cole. The series was filmed on location in Toronto, Mumbai and Cape Town. It will be Peters’s first starring role in a scripted TV show.
The series will air Thursdays after top-rated Big Bang Theory and the spinoff Young Sheldon.
MEMOIR Comey book gets title
James Comey’s upcoming memoir has a pointed title: The former FBI director is calling his book A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, Flatiron Books announced Thursday.
Comey was fired last spring by U.S. President Donald Trump and later testified before Congress that Trump had met with him privately and asked for his loyalty. Comey’s book is scheduled to come out next May, roughly a year after his firing. He will cover everything from his brief time serving under Trump to his controversial handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation to his time as deputy attorney general during the George W. Bush administration.
MUSIC Snoop targets Trump
An album cover image posted to Snoop Dogg’s Instagram account showing the rapper looking down on what appears to be the dead body of U.S. President Donald Trump has been removed from the platform.
The cover of the Make America Crip Again EP shows the rapper looking on as a body covered with a U.S. flag lies on a gurney with a toe tag reading “TRUMP.”
The photo was shared by Snoop Dogg Tuesday and later removed.