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(CNN)There is simply a batch of woman vigor successful the aerial close now.
With Amazon's "Harlem" "The Sex Lives of College Girls" connected HBO Max, and play 2 of Netflix's "Emily successful Paris," shows featuring pistillate relationship astatine its halfway are a vibe — which is wherefore we indispensable wage homage to 1 of the biggest of the genre.
That leads america close into what to ticker this week.
Three things to watch
'And Just Like That...'
Welcome to the fantastic satellite of the reboot sequel.
"And Just Like That..." brings america back into the fabulous "Sex and the City" satellite of Carrie Bradshaw (played by Sarah Jessica Parker) and her friends successful the Big Apple.
But this clip around, Kim Cattrall arsenic Samantha Jones won't beryllium toasting with cosmos (she and Parker are NOT friends).
Not to worry, arsenic determination are a fewer caller characters, including Nicole Ari Parker arsenic Lisa Todd Wexley to circular retired the celebrated quartet of Parker arsenic Bradshaw, Cynthia Nixon arsenic Miranda Hobbes and Kristin Davis arsenic Charlotte York Goldenblatt.
"And Just Like That..." is streaming connected HBO Max.
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'Welcome to Earth'
Will Smith is inactive trying to prevention the planet.
Unlike the battling with aliens helium did successful the 1996 blockbuster movie "Independence Day," this clip astir the histrion has embarked on an "extraordinary, once-in-a-lifetime escapade astir the satellite to research Earth's top wonders and uncover its astir hidden secrets."
One of the ways to get radical to attraction astir the situation is to punctual them astir the wonderfulness of the world.
The six-part constricted bid from National Geographic is streaming connected Disney+.
'Anne Boleyn'
There is often treatment and statement astir color-blind casting.
That was besides the lawsuit aft "Queen & Slim" histrion Jodie Turner-Smith was formed arsenic Henry VIII's woman Anne Boleyn successful a constricted series, named aft the tragic British queen who was executed connected her husband's orders.
Turner-Smith regally embodies the doomed royal successful her past days successful this communicative that is arsenic overmuch a intelligence play arsenic it is historical.
"Anne Boleyn" is streaming connected AMC+.
Two things to perceive to
Since we started with the aboriginal aughts vibe of "Sex and the City" and girlfriends, let's enactment successful that lane.
The caller ABC bid "Queens" headlines immoderate stars from that era, singers Brandy and Naturi Naughton, on with rapper Eve, arsenic members of a miss radical who effort to enactment their past problems down them to reunite for fame and fortune.
Music is astir similar different quality connected the show, truthful I was thrilled erstwhile the soundtrack came retired because, naturally, it's fire.
It's presently streaming connected assorted euphony services.
Awwww, Kelly Clarkson.
Having gone done her matrimony ending, "The Voice" manager knows that this clip of the twelvemonth isn't casual for immoderate people.
She has released a caller Christmas single, titled "Merry Christmas (To the One I Used to Know)," and explained during her caller NBC peculiar "Kelly Clarkson Presents: When Christmas Comes Around" that "when I wrote this adjacent song, I was crying my look disconnected — which happens adjacent astatine Christmastime, everyone."
She added, "It has been a truly pugnacious twelvemonth for a batch of us. And I wrote this opus for me, but besides due to the fact that determination aren't galore vacation songs for radical feeling unsocial oregon mislaid oregon conscionable plain sad."
The opus to sooth immoderate melancholy psyche is presently streaming.
One happening to speech about
Taylor Swift continues to beryllium a people act.
With each of her monolithic success, she took a infinitesimal to nonstop flowers to Don McLean after her opus "All Too Well" broke the grounds for the longest opus to apical the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
It was a saccharine motion to grant McLean, whose iconic hit, "American Pie," took the rubric successful 1972.
His opus runs astir 8 minutes and 37 seconds, portion hers is conscionable implicit 10 minutes.
Way to wage homage to an elder, Tay.
Something to sip on
Speaking of Swift, Prince William sounds similar helium has inactive ne'er gotten implicit singing unrecorded with her and rocker Jon Bon Jovi astatine a 2013 fundraising gala.
"To this day, I inactive bash not cognize what came implicit me," the British royal confessed connected an occurrence of the "Time to Walk" audio bid from Apple Fitness+.
"Honestly, adjacent present I'm cringing astatine what happened next, and I don't recognize wherefore I gave in," helium recalled. "But, frankly, if Taylor Swift looks you successful the eye, touches your arm, and says, 'Come with me. ...' I got up similar a puppy and went, 'Yeah, OK, that seems similar a large idea. I'll travel you.'"
So helium hopped connected the microphone and tried to marque the astir of it.
What a prince of a guy.
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