John Cho. Yee-haw season is upon us, and the yee-haw agenda is strong. Next up: Netflix’s ten-episode live-action adaption of the space-Western anime Cowboy Bebop, which The Hollywood Reporter says will star John Cho. The Searching star will play Spike Spiegel, “an impossibly cool ‘cowboy’ (bounty hunter) with a deadly smile, a wry wit and style to spare. He travels the solar system with his ex-cop partner, Jet, pursuing the future’s most dangerous bounties with a combination of charm, charisma — and deadly Jeet Kune Do,” per Netflix.

The answer was no. No, Steve Perry didn’t perform with Journey at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony last night. And no, Steve Perry didn’t do any after-induction press with the band, either, choosing to eschew the standard press-room confab following their onstage reunion. While Perry’s absence didn’t come as a total surprise — numerous news outlets reported he wouldn’t be taking the stage to sing as early as Friday morning — fans, well, wouldn’t stop believing that perhaps Perry would pull a fast one on everyone and belt out some Journey classics for the first time since 1991.

Recording Artist Justin Bieber performs onstage during 93.3 FLZ’s Jingle Ball 2012 at Tampa Bay Times Forum on December 9, 2012 in Tampa, Florida. Presumably because Richard Branson — who runs Virgin Galactic — wants him to sing “Baby” at Kate Winslet Rock’nRoll’s space shower. (Somewhere Lance Bass is like, “I know the words to ‘Baby,’ too.” Poor Lance Bass. Kickstart Lance Bass to space already.) Sources People Justin Bieber Is Going to Space ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlobGdga3yrwdKtoKdlkp6yo7HRZqCsZZektq%2BzjK2mZquglrCmesetpKU%3D

After an attempted PS5 giveaway that led to the arrests of 65 people, 30 of whom were juveniles,in Union Square on August 4, 21-year-old Twitch streamer Kai Cenat is speaking out for the first time about the chaos that ensued at the mass gathering. Cenat, who is currently facing one felony charge and two misdemeanors for inciting a riot and unlawful assembly, went live on August 9 to address what went down.

Looks like Katy Perry has not strayed too far from her own Christian music roots after all. At least, that’s what a federal jury decided on Monday afternoon after a weeklong trial, ending the singer’s copyright lawsuit by concluding that elements of her 2013 bop “Dark Horse” are too similar to “Joyful Noise,” a 2009 Christian rap song by Marcus Gray. Gray, who was then performing under the stage name Flame, sued the singer five years ago, asserting that her track “Dark Horse” had lifted several elements from his song, but most important, the beat.

While we patiently bide our time waiting for the brain trust over at HBO to release the audiobook for Kenny Powers’s autobiography, You’re Fucking Out, I’m Fucking In, we would like to pass along our hearty thanks to YouTube user iWonDeRwHAtsneXt15 for compiling a highlight reel of the Eastbound & Down’s antihero. [Holy Taco] Kenny Powers Gets the Highlight Reel He So Richly Deserves ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWlncmdganyssc2nsJion6yys7%2B%2BoJytq4%2Bptaarx6KeoaSZnLVvtNOmow%3D%3D

“I’d like to work with NBC; I like that rainbow bird.” —Kristen Schaal [PopWatch/EW] “It is a kind of travelogue. You get some nuggets, you don’t get the full bible, though. You get some Genesis. Really, you just get Genesis. Phil Collins, there’s some great music. “Abacab.” You don’t even know that song.” —Jack Black on the teachings of Year One [MTV] “You go to these celebrity parties, and it’s a bunch of people who think that just showing up has made it a special event, so it’s kind of tedious, and the conversations with celebrities, you just keep repeating the same thing over, ‘What are you working on?

In between takes during a scene in Halt and Catch Fire’s final season, Lee Pace comes over and shows me a chimpanzee’s penis on his phone. He zooms in on the “pencil thing” thrust between the bars of a cage as the male chimp grinned widely. He then explains that he went to a chimpanzee sanctuary supported by Judy Greer’s husband, Dean Johnsen. The chimps were in heat. He chuckles softly and then goes back to shooting the scene — a somber one where his character Joe MacMillan has decided to end his company and is saying farewell to his employees.

“Thanksgiving,” the eighth episode of Master of None’s second season, is the most personal thing Lena Waithe has ever written. She and Aziz Ansari wrote the episode together in a hotel room in London, filtering her own coming-out experience through Denise, her character on the show. The episode is quietly epic, in large part due to the direction by Melina Matsoukas, who paid attention to the details from the cross on the wall to the plastic covers of the couch.

Roxana Hadadi is a TV critic who also writes about film and pop culture, with the closed captions on and motion smoothing off. Roxana Hadadi is a TV critic who also writes about film and pop culture, with the closed captions on and motion smoothing off. Spoilers follow for Robert Eggers’s The Northman. It’s not that Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgård haven’t kissed before or fought before.