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Sabtu, 16 November 2019

How to Add Disney Plus If You Already Have a Hulu or ESPN+ Subscription - IGN - IGN

In the extremely unlikely event you didn't already know, Disney+ launched and you can sign up for the service starting right now. If you just want Disney+, the service is $6.99 and has every Disney show and movie you can imagine available on-demand.You can also sign up for a risk-free, 7-day Disney+ free trial if you're on the fence about it. If you decide you like Disney+ (and after a day, I'm sold), you can add it to your existing Hulu or ESPN+ subscription as by following the simple steps below.

Here's the TL;DR version of signing up for ad-free Hulu as part of the Disney+ bundled package:

Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ Bundle

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How to Sign Up for Disney Plus Bundle With Ad-Free Hulu

Signing up for the bundle is as easy as following the instructions on the sign-up page. If you don't already have one of the other services, it's the easiest way to get yourself started with all three. However, the Hulu sub in the bundled deal is the base Hulu subscription, rather than the commercial-free $11.99 version (which I personally feel is worth the extra couple bucks).

If you want to upgrade your Disney+ and Hulu bundle to the superior ad-free version, sign up for ad-free Hulu BEFORE you sign up for the Disney+ bundled deal. From there, choose the $11.99 version with no ads, or upgrade your existing Hulu subscription package. I cannot stress enough how much better Hulu is with no ads, so it's really worth the extra $6 a month

There are two ways to upgrade to the more expensive, $11.99 version: you can sign up separately for the commercial-free version as explained above, or you can visit your Hulu account page and upgrade from there.

Can I Upgrade my Hulu Account If I Subscribed Through the Disney Plus Bundle?

The bad news is you CANNOT upgrade to ad-free Hulu if you subscribe through the Disney+ bundled deal. According to Hulu's help page, if you create a new Hulu account and are billed through Disney+ "you won’t be able to switch to a different Hulu plan or sign up for any add-ons." The bottom line is if you want ad-free Hulu you need to create the account before you sign up for the Disney+ bundled deal.

How to Sign Up for the Disney+ Bundle If You Already Have Hulu or ESPN+

It's extremely easy to get the bundle if you're already subscribed to one of the other services. Visit the Disney+ bundle sign-up page and use the same email address you use for your Hulu or ESPN+ account. That's it.

Disney+ will then credit you $5.99 for your existing Hulu account and "a credit against the bundle price in an amount equal to the effective monthly price of your existing subscription." If you're a monthly ESPN+ subscriber, that means you'll get credited $4.99 a month too. The important thing is you sign up for Disney+ with the same email address as the other two. Do that, and your monthly bill will be reduced.

Should I Get the Bundle if I Don't Want ESPN+?

If you subscribe to Disney+ and Hulu separately, you're paying $12.98, so for literally just a penny more you can bundle it and get ESPN+. I'm a fan of ESPN+ for the simple fact it has Formula 1 racing, the entire 30 for 30 documentary series, and classic boxing matches like Ali vs. Frasier: The Thrilla in Manilla. I'm not going to change your mind if you have zero tolerance for all sports, but it's essentially the exact same price, so... why not sign up for the full bundle?

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There's an excellent deal if you're looking for a new data plan through Verizon: you sign up for an unlimited data plan from Verizon Wireless, or sign up for Verizon Fios (check the website to see if your area has Verizon Fios coverage), and get one-year of Disney+ for free. If you already signed up for Disney+, your bill goes on hold until the free year is up, at which point it starts up again. That means if you're one of the Disney+ super-fans who signed up for the three-year package deal, you get to keep the deal, you just get an extra year for free through Verizon. Nice.

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2019-11-16 09:02:02Z
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How to Add Disney Plus If You Already Have a Hulu or ESPN+ Subscription - IGN

Here's the TL;DR version of signing up for ad-free Hulu as part of the Disney+ bundled package:

Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ Bundle

On Disney+

How to Sign Up for Disney Plus Bundle With Ad-Free Hulu

Can I Upgrade my Hulu Account If I Subscribed Through the Disney Plus Bundle?

How to Sign Up for the Disney+ Bundle If You Already Have Hulu or ESPN+

Should I Get the Bundle if I Don't Want ESPN+?

Get 1-Year of Disney Plus Free With Verizon

1-Year of Disney Plus for Free

On Verizon

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2019-11-16 08:27:39Z
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Jumat, 15 November 2019

Review: 'The Crown,' Untarnished - NPR

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The third season of The Crown drops on Netflix on Sunday, November 17th.

"One just has to get on with it."

That's Elizabeth II (played by Olivia Colman, taking over from Claire Foy), in the first scene of The Crown's third season. She's addressing her assistants, there, who have just unveiled to her the more-current portrait of the Queen set to replace her younger self on a postage stamp.

Except, she isn't really addressing them. She's talking to herself, in the resigned, practical, stiff-upper-lip manner that the series ascribes to her. This is The Crown's Elizabeth — grounded, unflashy, unexpressive, a portrait in thwarted desire and strangled emotion. Colman slips into Foy's sensible brown shoes easily, her large, expressive eyes constantly struggling to keep from betraying her thoughts. But Colman's so good at keeping Elizabeth fully present in any given scene that the roiling going on below her surface politesse becomes as much The Crown's subject as that studied, implacable surface itself.

"One just has to get on with it."

She's also talking to us, of course. She — and series creator Peter Morgan — are saying, "Yes, we've replaced the cast, but don't worry — we've kept the formula. Relax. We've got this. Pip-pip."

That formula, a focus on the burden of privilege, on the misery of the obscenely rich, on the despair occasioned by wielding only purely ceremonial power — call it "heavy hangs the (figure)head that wears the crown" — is a tricky one to pull off. As much as we as a culture adore the soap-opera agonistes of the wealthy and powerful, the world of The Crown is as plain and grounded as Elizabeth herself. Its determination to graft its narrative onto select moments in recent British history means it's not interested in heedless, soapy excess — you won't catch Liz and Princess Margaret (a wild-eyed, more-melancholic-than-baseline Helena Bonham Carter) tossing each other into a lily pond.

Though that would — let us stipulate, as fellow reasoned adults — be awesome.

But as The Crown's first two seasons showed amply, there is greatly satisfying drama to be mined from the fundamentally undramatic. The Crown season three doubles down on the series' practice of treating the tiniest diplomatic faux pas as something bearing the immediate potential to threaten the Empire to its veddy core.

In episode after episode, it's Elizabeth's reaction — or pointed lack of same — to various events of the day (a financial crisis, a mining disaster, nationwide strikes, Prince Charles becoming Prince of Wales, the moon landing, a scandal involving Margaret) that drives the plot. It takes a good deal of maneuvering from Morgan and his writers to embed the British royal family more centrally in these events than they actually were, but it's impossible to begrudge them that fact, because it means we get more of this stellar cast, mooning about for our enjoyment.

Whether it's Tobias Menzes' insufferable Prince Philip (taking over jaw-clenching duties from Matt Smith this season) experiencing what he would be loath to call an identity crisis, or the hangdog Prince Charles (embodied, in all his gangly, stoop-shouldered gooniness, by Josh O'Connor, an actor whose protuberant ears must have freed up some of the series' hair-and-makeup budget for more Princess Margaret wigs) longing after young Camilla Shand (Emerald Fennell), there is something sublimely comforting about the whole affair: all those plummy vowels, all those rooms tufted and draped and antimacassar-ed in ways that still somehow manage to seem vaguely industrial, all that gray light filtering through leaded windows, all those Prime Ministers expressing a slowly-dawning respect for Elizabeth's diplomatic acumen and horse-sense, because of course they do.

It's a comfort to know — or at least, to convince yourself, aided by the doughty work of some of the best actors on the planet — that the Royals, a class of pampered, protected, egregiously privileged people for whom the term privilege was coined, experience one iota of the everyday existential dread the rest of us do.

"Things work themselves out in the end," chirps Elizabeth, in season three's final episode.

It's just something she tells herself to allow herself to carry on. One just has to get on with it. Things work themselves out in the end. She says these things, but Colman shows us she doesn't buy them. We don't, either. But as you binge these ten episodes, you ensconce yourself in the hermetic, protective world of The Crown, and in that brief span of hours, you almost believe her.

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2019-11-15 12:00:00Z
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‘The Crown’ Executes a Peaceful Palace Coup - The New York Times

Salisbury, ENGLAND — The corgis just wouldn’t behave. Mid-take, they ran off, causing general hilarity. “Sit, sit!” Olivia Colman called out.

“Strong voice!” prompted the dog handler, standing nearby.

“Yes, thenk you,” said Colman demurely, in her best Queen Elizabeth accent. She frowned imperiously at the frolicking dogs. “SIT!” They sat.

It was a chilly November day last year, and the new cast of the Netflix series “The Crown” were arrayed across the gilded couches and crimson velvet chairs of a sumptuous state room at Wilton House, a 16th-century stately home standing in for Buckingham Palace. A precisely composed group — the Queen (Colman), Prince Philip (Tobias Menzies), Lord Mountbatten (Charles Dance) seated; Princess Anne (Erin Doherty) and the Queen’s aide Michael Adeane (David Rintoul) standing behind them — faced Prince Charles (Josh O’Connor). Like the central figure in the van Dyck painting of an aristocratic family hanging behind him, Charles cut a lonely, isolated figure, setting the tone for an episode in which he is obliged to leave university in Cambridge, and go to Aberystwyth to learn Welsh, in preparation for his investiture as Prince of Wales.

With its artful interweaving of British history and domestic angst, the scene was vintage “Crown.” Created and written by Peter Morgan, the series has spent two acclaimed seasons exploring the nation’s politics and social mores through the prism of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign, while offering a voyeuristic glimpse of the lives behind the royal family’s impassive facade.

The eagerly awaited third installment of “The Crown” debuts Sunday on Netflix, and much will be familiar: the exacting historical detail, the sumptuous interiors of palaces and manor houses.

But one major aspect will not. The actors who play the principal characters have all been replaced for Seasons 3 and 4.

It’s the first manifestation of what has been the show’s plan from the beginning: to regularly recast Elizabeth, Philip and other royals to better reflect the characters’ advancing ages.

“I think that the longest you can believe an actor in an aging part is about 20 years,” Morgan said in a telephone interview. “Right from the start, we decided that if it all worked and kept going, we would recast every two seasons.”

But it still feels unsettling, at least at first. “The Crown” winks at this by opening Season 3 as the Queen reviews her image on a new stamp set alongside the previous one, which shows the profile of Claire Foy, who played Elizabeth for the first two seasons.

“A great many changes, but there we are,” Elizabeth says, swatting away an underling’s compliments. “Age is rarely kind to anyone.”

The swap is also something of a gamble for a series that achieved rapturous acclaim for its principal actors, notably Foy, who won a Screen Actor’s Guild award and was nominated for an Emmy. But Morgan and his producers found a pretty sure casting bet in Colman, who is adored by the British public, and last year found broader fame when she won an Oscar for her portrayal of another English queen (Anne) in “The Favourite.” (There is at least one person who didn’t approve of the choice: Charles Moore, a well-known journalist and Margaret Thatcher biographer, wrote in The Daily Telegraph that Colman’s “distinctly left-wing face” made her unsuitable for the part.)

“Olivia has a similar, uncannily intuitive understanding of the role, and a stillness that Claire has,” Suzanne Mackie, an executive producer on the series, said in a telephone interview. “They feel like everyday women, that we should somehow know them, yet as they become the sovereign, they become unknowable and aloof.” (In a review of the new season, The Independent wrote that “there is something dazzlingly banal” about Colman’s portrayal of Elizabeth.)

Colman, who plays a more experienced ruler with a chillier, more confident mien, said in a sit-down interview last fall that she was trying not to think about following in Foy’s footsteps. “I am a massive fan; Claire was just breathtaking in that part,” she said. Sounding rather like her character, she added, “But you just plow on.”

Ben Caron, a director and executive producer on the show, said in a telephone interview that it had been “pretty terrifying” for the new cast. “Not only do you have the real-life ghost of the character, you have the ghost of the previous actor,” he said.

Helena Bonham Carter, who took over the role of Princess Margaret from Vanessa Kirby, echoed that sentiment. “My first thought was that I don’t look much like Margaret and definitely nothing like Vanessa,” she said in a telephone interview. “I am about five feet shorter and two feet wider. But they didn’t seem perturbed.”

After reading some of the scripts, she said, she was captivated by Margaret’s complexities and contradictions, and she embarked on a period of “forensic” research, meeting friends of the princess and working through a list of books that Kirby had recommended.

“It’s very dynamic to be able to capture different aspects of a character through different people,” she said. “And I loved taking over the part from Vanessa, who was a huge help to me. We could compare notes and say: ‘What about this? How would she react to that?’”

(Sometimes there were more practical problems with the cast changes. The production initially attempted to use contact lenses and special effects to change Colman’s and Bonham Carter’s brown eyes to blue, like those of Foy and Kirby. “But then it didn’t feel like the actors we loved,” Caron said. “So much of their performance is through subtle facial expression that we decided to just live with it.”)

“The Crown” is both essentially historically accurate and also clearly fiction. “It’s not a documentary,” Morgan said. “But I try to make everything as truthful as possible even if I can’t know it’s entirely accurate.”

Or as Erin Doherty, who gives a memorably acerbic portrayal of the young Princess Anne, remarked on-set between takes: “After a while you have to drop your thoughts about who they are — you have to accept we are Peter Morgan’s royal family.”

“The Crown” was conceived from the start to span six seasons, each covering roughly a decade of Elizabeth’s life as a monarch, and it is Morgan’s particular take on each season’s epoch that has given the series its distinctive mix of the personal and the political.

Season 3 begins with the election of Harold Wilson and a Labor government in 1964 and ends with the Queen’s silver jubilee celebrations of 1977. Along the way, it layers globally monumental moments, like the 1969 moon landing, with lesser-known national events (the horrific avalanche of coal waste in Aberfan in Wales, which killed 116 children and 28 adults); political intrigue (the miners’ strike of 1973-74); and family drama, including the breakup of Princess Margaret’s marriage to Lord Snowdon and the thwarted romance of Prince Charles and Camilla Shand.

Each episode could be watched as a stand-alone drama, with overlapping plots that resonate in unexpected ways; these correspondences and echoes give the show its emotional heart, Morgan said. “Mapping out the season is the part I like best.”

Before writing begins, Morgan spends six months on a detailed timeline of the period that includes significant royal milestones like marriages and deaths, as well as major political and social events. Once Morgan has begun to write, a bigger team, including researchers, script editors and producers, are closely involved in the process.

“While we were making Season 3, we were probably at Peter’s house most days,” Mackie said. “It’s not enough to have the historical facts of the story; you have to find where the tension, the human side might be. When Charles goes to Wales, for example, it becomes not just about a young man learning Welsh for political expedience, but about a young man finding his own voice.”

Morgan said that when he considers an episode, he ponders what might have “intimately intersected” with the Queen. “You think about the Kennedy assassination, Carnaby Street, but what is the connection there?” he asked rhetorically. “But when I discovered that the astronauts from the moon landing had come to visit the palace with terrible colds, that was priceless.”

“At first you have all the same ideas as everyone else about the decade,” he added. “It’s like running a bath in an old house; at first all the rusty water comes out, then the clear.”

The moon-landing episode focuses strongly on Prince Philip, with a tour-de-force performance from Menzies as a man suffering from a crisis of identity, for whom the astronauts’ achievements come to represent his own missed chances. Other episodes focus on Princess Margaret, and the later part of the series gives considerable weight to the young Prince Charles, sympathetically portrayed by O’Connor as a sensitive and insecure young man at odds with the implacable imperatives of royal behavior.

“There is a difficult moral question at the heart of his life,” O’Connor said in a telephone interview. “Being a king in waiting means waiting for his mother to die.”

But the Queen is always the center of gravity, Morgan said. “Every time I try to write an episode that doesn’t involve her, it runs aground.”

What is different in Season 3, he added, is that “it has gone from being a story about a woman finding her way, navigating with her partner, to a woman at the heart of a family drama. I look at ‘The Sopranos’ or ‘Succession,’ and think, they are just different versions of what we are doing.”

Morgan said he tried not to write with a sense of retrospective knowledge of, say, Brexit. (In Episode 8, the Queen goes to Paris to petition President Georges Pompidou to allow Britain to join the European Union.) “I think the minute you write prescriptively, it loses power,” he said. He paused. “But there are times. In Episode 10, Philip makes a speech about politicians and I probably gave that one coat of extra paint that might angle towards the complete failure of the political class at the moment.”

But for the most part, he said, “what writing ‘The Crown’ teaches you is that Britain has been in a permanent state of crisis. We talk about a divided country, here and in the U.S., but moments of unity, when the majority of the country is in agreement, are really rare. We invent a settled past.”

But as Morgan wrote in his 2013 play “The Audience,” which inspired the series, the reigning monarch represents “an unbroken line, the constant presence” that represents that settled past and serene future. That’s the power of the crown — and “The Crown.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/arts/television/the-crown-netflix-season-3.html

2019-11-15 10:00:00Z
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Halsey Supports Taylor Swift Over Row With Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta: 'This is Just Mean' - Billboard

Halsey is in TayTay’s corner.

Hours after Taylor Swift took to social media to accuse Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta of blocking her from performing her older music, the “Without Me” singer has joined Team Taylor.

“Not only are we looking at an awful business move…but this is just mean. This is punishment. This is hoping to silence her from speaking about things by dangling this over her head,” Halsey writes in her Instagram Stories.

“These people are protected because they inspire complicity with fear. Banking on the illusion that people will not stand up for her. That the world will say she is over reacting. You’re barking up the wrong tree. It is her grace and patience in these moments that make her Artist of the Decade.”

-- | @halsey via her IG Story #IStandWithTaylor
“This is hoping to silence her from speaking about things by dangling this over her head.” pic.twitter.com/9LDcVNRDFo
— Taylor Swift Updates (@TSUpdatesNYBU) November 15, 2019

Halsey drove her point home by posting a clip of herself singing along to “Mean,” vintage Swift from 2010’s Speak Now.

halsey doing what taylor can’t. who else could we depend on more #IStandWithTaylor pic.twitter.com/6a9Be6Pta5
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Earlier, Swift claimed Braun and Borchetta wouldn’t allow her to access her back catalogue for a Netflix special and an upcoming American Music Awards performance, where she will be honored as Artist of the Decade.

In a lengthy social post, she wrote, "I've been planning to perform a medley of my hits throughout the decade on the show. Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have now said that I'm not allowed to perform my old songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music before I'm allowed to next year.”

Also, she called on her fans to get involved. “Please ask them for help with this. I’m hoping that maybe they can talk some sense into the men who are exercising tyrannical control over someone who just wants to play the music she wrote.”

It didn't take long for help to arrive. A Change.org petition started by fan Jade Rossi has raced past 50,000 signatures

Swift isn’t on best terms with Scooter and Scott. The “Shake It Off” singer had a very public spat with the pair in June with the news of Scooter Braun’s acquisition of Big Machine Label Group, and with it Swift’s six-album catalogue.

The pop singer has some bad blood with Braun going back several years.

Braun and Borchetta have yet to respond to Taylor’s latest claims.

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2019-11-15 07:30:47Z
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Kamis, 14 November 2019

Disney+ warns viewers of 'outdated cultural depictions' in old movies - Engadget

'The Bachelorette': Tyler Cameron Told His Instagram Following That He's Looking For Love - Showbiz Cheat Sheet

Tyler Cameron was a fan favorite on Hannah Brown’s season of The Bachelorette. When the reality star broke off her engagement with her season winner Jed Wyatt, Bachelor Nation was hopeful that she and Cameron, her runner-up, would get together. But shortly after the season finale, Cameron began to pursue supermodel Gigi Hadid. The two spent a good amount of time together until recently, when Cameron hinted that he’s a single man.

Tyler Cameron | Emma McIntyre/E! Entertainment/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Thanks to his Bachelorette beginnings, Cameron’s fans will probably always be especially curious about his romantic relationships.

Tyler Cameron is looking for love

Recently, Cameron hosted a fan Q&A on his Instagram and one fan asked him if he’s currently “looking for love.”

“Of course,” he responded. “Can’t wait to have that person you tell the good news to first. For now it’s mama and Harley [his dog].”

The rest of Tyler Cameron’s Instagram Q&A

Another fan asked Cameron if it’s “hard having all [his] choices judged by the media.”

“It can be challenging but you have to make yourself happy first and foremost. You have to sleep with your decisions. No one else. I am doing my best to make my family proud, my friends proud, and everyone of y’all that support me proud. This life is uncharted waters for me and my family but with my values and beliefs, I know I’ll be alright,” he wrote.

“Best thing to come out of being on the bachelorette?” asked another fan.

“Being able to share special moments with the ones that mean the most to me. Got to take my brother to Paris. Show mom and pops the city and so much more,” responded the model.

Another Instagram user wanted to know what Cameron’s favorite physical feature about himself is.

“My long a*s toe. Can pick up anything with that finger looking thing. Can also pinch very hard with it,” he responded.

Another fan wanted to know about Cameron’s food touring company, ABC Food Tours.

“What is one of your favorite memories about abc food tours!?” they asked.

“So it was towards the end of our tour. We just got done doing the cha cha slide in the park and me and one of the students are eating some pizza together watching skateboarders in the park,” responded Cameron. “We were going back and forth in conversation and all of a sudden he looked up at me and said this is the best day he’s ever had. When he said that, my heart sunk. Just didn’t realize the impact we were having. It completely moved me. Forever grateful for that moment with that student.”

Cameron also told his following that he’s “going to be spending some time in LA.” But wouldn’t spill the beans as to why. When a fan asked he responded: “Got a great job walking dogs!”

So he may be stepping away from his ABC FT duties for the time being. In the meantime, We’ll have to keep an eye out for Cameron’s mysterious project in Los Angeles in the coming weeks.

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2019-11-14 13:03:09Z
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Sabtu, 16 November 2019

How to Sign Up for Disney Plus Bundle With Ad-Free Hulu

Can I Upgrade my Hulu Account If I Subscribed Through the Disney Plus Bundle?

How to Sign Up for the Disney+ Bundle If You Already Have Hulu or ESPN+

Should I Get the Bundle if I Don't Want ESPN+?

Get 1-Year of Disney Plus Free With Verizon

How to Sign Up for Disney Plus Bundle With Ad-Free Hulu

Can I Upgrade my Hulu Account If I Subscribed Through the Disney Plus Bundle?

How to Sign Up for the Disney+ Bundle If You Already Have Hulu or ESPN+

Should I Get the Bundle if I Don't Want ESPN+?

Get 1-Year of Disney Plus Free With Verizon

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