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Lisa Rinna Returning to Days of Our Lives Next Year

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:42 AM PST

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Lisa Rinna will return to her Days of Our Lives stomping grounds this spring, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Rinna, 48, will reprise her role as Billie Reed beginning….


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Fla. group in Lowe’s flap has history of protests

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:41 AM PST

photo The conservative group that got Lowe’s to pull its ads from a reality TV show about American Muslims has been fighting for more than two decades against gay rights, strip clubs and most anything else that offends evangelical Christians.


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Top Chef’s Stephanie Makes Good Gravy for Taylor Swift, CMT Artists of the Year

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:41 AM PST

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As a longtime country music fan, Top Chef Season 4 winner Stephanie Izard was more than willing to serve as executive chef at the 2011 CMT Artists of the Year gala airing Tuesday (9/8c, CMT) but looked to the honorees for inspiration when designing the evening’s menu.

“I got a list from each of them, of the different things they like to eat and don’t like to eat,” Izard tells TVGuide.com


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Inside American Horror Story’s Murder House: 16 Secrets and Spoilers from the Set!

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:41 AM PST

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What do brains taste like? Does Jessica Lange do her Tennessee Williams thing when the cameras aren’t rolling? (Yes!) How difficult is it to cut an umbilical cord, Dylan McDermott? Who doesn’t approve of Connie Britton screaming about vaginas outside Murder House when there is a real-life convent across the street? Is the place really haunted?

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When TVGuide.com snooped around visited the Harmons’ haunted house on a mighty chilly day last month, just as the cast and crew of American Horror Story put the final touches on filming “Birth,” the season’s penultimate episode (Wednesday at 10/9c on FX), creepy, gross and bizarre things were going down


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The Good Wife: Can Alicia and Kalinda’s Friendship Come Back Stronger Than Before?

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:41 AM PST

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That sigh of relief coming from fans of The Good Wife Sunday was not over an Alicia (Julianna Margulies) and Will (Josh Charles) reunion, nor even a possible rekindling of the passions between Alicia and Peter (Chris Noth)


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Selena Gomez, Mac Miller To Ring In New Year On MTV

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:41 AM PST

Demi Lovato will host ‘NYE in NYC 2012,’ also featuring performances from J. Cole and Jason Derülo.
By Gil Kaufman






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MTV will ring in the new year with a little help from our friends, including Mac Miller, J. Cole and Jason Derülo. “NYE in NYC 2012″ will air live at 11 p.m. ET on December 31 from Times Square and will also boast performances from Selena Gomez and co-host Demi Lovato.

“Teen Wolf” star Tyler Posey will be on hand to help Lovato count down the minutes to midnight on the show, which will also feature special appearances from Vanessa Marano and Katie Leclerc of “Switched at Birth.” The night’s ultimate dance party will be beamed out from MTV’s Times Square studio, and we’re preparing fans for the big party with the launch of an “NYE in NYC 2012″ page looking back at blasts from the past featuring photos, special moments, performances and other highlights.

For the first time ever, staffers from MTV News, MTV.com and MTV Music & Talent will collaborate on three different year-end lists. Beginning Monday (December 12), from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. ET, during MTV’s morning music hours, editors will take part in a spirited debate, where they will reveal their collective choices for Best EDM Artists of the Year, joined by MTV Iggy. On Wednesday, we’ll unveil the Song of the Year, and on Thursday, we’ll name our Artist of the Year.

The panel will count down their selections from #10 to #3. Each day at 4:59 p.m. ET, MTV News’ Sway Calloway will reveal the top choices and present the award to the #1 pick. The winners’ acceptance speeches will air during MTV’s primetime hours. The debates will also be featured on mtvU and MTV Hits, and stories will be featured on MTV News and various MTV.com sites.

Beginning Wednesday, fans can get in on the action by heading over to our “NYE in NYC 2012″ page to cast their votes for their favorite songs of 2011, which “America’s Best Dance Crew” winners the Jabbawockeez will perform to during the show. Voting continues through December 29.

Also, viewers have until Sunday to bid on exclusive items and experiences brought together by MTV Act, including two tickets to “NYE in NYC 2012.” Proceeds will benefit the FWD Campaign, an East Africa relief effort.

All this week, watch “AMTV” on MTV every day at 8 a.m. ET for our Best of 2011 lists. Then, come to MTVNews.com at 5 p.m. as we reveal our top picks of the year!

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Lady Gaga Doesn’t Take Credit For EDM Explosion

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:40 AM PST

‘I was just one of a few artists at a certain sort of time in radio where more dance music was being played on top 40,’ she tells MTV News.
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Matt Elias






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Lady Gaga burst on the scene in 2008 declaring that the world should “Just Dance.” From there, everyone kind of did.

A few years back, the pop star was one of the few singers infusing mainstream pop records with electronic dance music influences. In the years since her breakthrough, Gaga’s use of the musical form has certainly gotten darker and more in-depth, especially on 2011′s Born This Way.

These days, she’s hardly in the minority. EDM is all over pop and urban radio. Performers like Rihanna, Usher, Chris Brown and Nicki Minaj are working with some of the top EDM producers and DJs in the game, some of whom MTV has recognized as the Best EDM Artists of 2011, churning out chart-topping, genre-busting tunes.

When MTV News caught up with the Mother Monster earlier this month in L.A., she weighed in on 2011′s EDM/pop explosion, noting that she was hardly the main factor in the recent blast of crossover hits.

“I think that radio has had the biggest influence on the rise of electronic dance music,” she said. “I was just one of a few artists at a certain sort of time in radio where more dance music was being played on top 40, but I’m not the person to thank for that. The people to thank for that are at KIIS-FM and at the other stations around the country who gave dance music a chance.”

Not only is radio taking note, but also the whole music industry. Just last month, EDM star Skrillex was nominated for a Best New Artist Grammy, the first DJ recognized in that category ever. Gaga thinks there’s still room for growth.

“I think we have some more work to do, especially with the different academies that honor music,” she said. “I think that dance music should also be credited as pop music where it’s due and vice versa, the way that country and pop is, the way that R&B and pop are. So we still have a ways to go, but it’s moving in a wonderfully fast and interesting direction.”

Do you think Gaga influenced the popularity of EDM? Let us know in the comments!

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Skrillex Is MTV’s EDM Artist Of 2011!

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:40 AM PST

DJ/producer cements his breakthrough year with five Grammy nominations, including Best New Artist.
By Akshay Bhansali






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Back in late 2010, EDM superstar DJ/producer deadmau5 told MTV News a star was on the rise. He said his friend and former post-hardcore/emo rocker Sonny Moore — producing and performing under the name Skrillex — was going to be a force to be reckoned with.

“He’s taking over — I think he’s going to outdo me,” deadmau5 told MTV News at the time. “I think he’s going to be the first artist on Beatport to eat my lunch and take over the top 10. I don’t think anyone in Beatport history has ever done it, but if he does it, I’ll be so proud of him, the little goblin!”

Now, the ever-prophetic ‘mau5 has more to be proud of. A lot more. In our Best Electronic Dance Music Artists of 2011 coverage, MTV’s roundtable has named Skrillex the #1 EDM Artist of 2011, underscored by his most recent series of accolades: He scored a whopping five Grammy nominations, including being the first DJ to land a Best New Artist nod.

Indeed, Moore’s musical background — both on his own and as a member of his former group, From First to Last — has carried over into Skrillex’s brand of fiery electronica. Skrillex has garnered an audience the world over that includes ravers, house heads and rockers alike. In today’s laptop generation of music, Skrillex is the new “rock.”

From his remix of Benny Benassi and Gary Go’s “Cinema” to the recent Avicii pop song “Le7els” (not officially released yet), Skrillex dropped massive re-workings in ’11, in addition to his More Monsters and Sprites EP. He scored video games, produced records for Korn, launched his own OWSLA label and hit almost every major festival in the States, including Coachella and Lollapalooza. An exceptional catalog of releases coupled with an incessant touring schedule has made Skrillex the biggest EDM star of the year. In 2012, he plans to tour 322 of the 365 days.

While he didn’t expect to become recognized as this year’s biggest success story, Skrillex’s peers say the swell of critical and fan support is fitting.

“He definitely deserves it,” former OWSLA tourmate, DJ/producer Porter Robinson, told MTV News. “I’ve been saying it all year: He’s the most influential musician of this year, in any genre. Incredible sound designer. Incredible songwriter. Amazing performer.”

“He’s been in bands before,” EDM artist and collaborator Sofi told us. “He’s an excellent songwriter. He can sing. He’s just so versatile that I think that comes through in his music. He kind of brought this ‘rock,’ ‘raw’ element into electronic music. He’s the punk rock of the new generation.”

Even industry veteran David Guetta, who lands at #2 on our list of the Best EDM Artists of 2011, agreed with all the praise heaped on Skrillex.

“He’s extremely talented, and I’m very happy for him,” Guetta said of Skrill’s Grammy noms. “It’s a statement: I think it’s really good that an artist from our community is nominated just as ‘an artist.’ Not as a ‘dance’ artist, you know? I think that it’s good that [our] music is now getting the attention and the respect that all the other styles of music, like hip-hop, are getting.”

MTV will reveal the best artists, songs and movies of the year. Come to MTV News each day to see more big reveals and check out more of MTV’s Best of 2011 music, TV, movies and news coverage.

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Will ‘Star Trek’ Sequel Include Khan?

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:40 AM PST

Actor Simon Pegg and producer Bryan Burk talk to MTV News about the infamous villain and other details.
By Kara Warner, with reporting by Josh Horowitz






J.J. Abrams and the cast of “Star Trek”


Photo: Zade Rosenthal

The dedicated fan following of J.J. Abrams knows that the talented writer/director is great at keeping secrets — particularly when those secrets revolve around the highly anticipated and heavily guarded “Star Trek” sequel. And while a few details have started to emerge about the 2013 release, including cast additions (like Alice Eve) and villain speculation, we don’t know much.

When MTV News caught up with Simon Pegg and producer Bryan Burk when they were promoting “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” we asked what they know so far and if they’d seen or heard any official talk about Khan, the rumored fan-favorite villain.

Pegg swore he doesn’t know anything about new characters that have joined the story, but he does know that his Scotty will have a particularly creative sex scene.

“There is a large group sex scene with Scotty and some green chicks. That’s all I know; that’s all I’ve been told. It was a sweetener,” he joked. “That was my condition for doing the film.”

While Pegg assured us that what he had read of the script is, in fact, really “good,” he knows nothing about Khan.

“I haven’t heard the name Khan come up. Not to say it won’t come up, but I have heard no mention of him whatsoever,” he said. “He is a great villain. I don’t want to say too much and then have to eat my words as I often do, but we’ve seen Khan [in a 'Trek' movie before]. To see him again, how much value is there in that? I don’t know.”

Burk was equally coy about the superhuman tyrant’s place in “Trek 2.”

“There are amazing villains all throughout the ‘Star Trek’ universe as well as new villains,” he said when asked for his thoughts on whether Khan belongs in the new film. “As we did in the last film, there’s a lot of directions you can go with the film. In this case, we chose to do something we thought would be original and unique and different, and I think on paper, we made the right choice. Now we have to go shoot.”

Burk also promised that the second film will pick up where things left off.

“Unlike the last film, where we were restarting and setting up the characters … we’re going to jump right back in, and we don’t have to set up everybody and we can go right in it,” he explained. “We’re kind of in a mad dash at the beginning of the film. In all of our conversation, we reference a lot of our favorite films and how ‘Empire Strikes Back’ was spectacular and how they were able to pick up and keep going.”

Abrams’ “Star Trek” sequel starts shooting in 3-D in January and is scheduled to be released May 17, 2013.

Check out everything we’ve got on “Star Trek 2.”

For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com.

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DC Comics Recharges Static Shock

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:40 AM PST

Get an exclusive look at Static Shock #4 [6 photos]

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American Country Awards Arrivals 2011

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:40 AM PST

See what your favorite stars wore on the ACAs red carpet. [15 photos]

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