Zeta-Jones joins ‘Prodigal Son’

Catherine Zeta-Jones will star as Claremont’s newest psychiatric resident doctor, Dr. Vivian Capshaw, in the forthcoming Season 2 of Fox’s police procedural “Prodigal Son.”

No. 1 album of 2020

The eighth album by Taylor Swift, “Folklore,” has gone down as the No. 1 album of 2020, finishing the year with 2.3 million album units. It pulled ahead in the end over Lil Baby’s star-making sophomore effort, “My Turn,” which came in second with 2.1 million in the album-equivalent-unit derby.

Michael Apted dies

Michael Apted, the acclaimed British director of the “Up” documentary series and films as diverse as the Loretta Lynn biopic “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and the James Bond film “The World Is Not Enough,” has died. He was 79.

‘Nomadland’

The National Society of Film Critics on Saturday named “Nomadland” as its best picture of 2020. The film’s director Chloe Zhao picked up a win for best director, while Frances McDormand won best actress for her performance in the drama that explores the life of a nomad woman living in the American West.

Aespa makes YouTube history

K-pop group Aespa’s music video for their debut song “Black Mamba” made history on Friday as the fastest debut track from any K-pop group to surpass 100 million views on YouTube.

Grammy Awards ceremony

The 2021 Grammy Awards will no longer take place this month in Los Angeles and will broadcast in March due to a recent surge in coronavirus cases and deaths.

‘Locked Down’

Doug Liman will release “Locked Down” on HBO Max this week, a tale of a relationship soured in quarantine in the early days of COVID-19. Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor star as an estranged couple in London.

(SD-Agencies)