Rihanna receives the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award and performs at the 33rd annual bash. Other performers include Britney Spears with G-Eazy; Nick Jonas and Ty Dolla $ign; Future; Ariana Grande with Nicki Minaj; and the Chainsmokers with Halsey. Nominees include Beyoncé, Adele, Drake and Ariana Grande. From Madison Square Garden in New York.
Original Sin looks at the “sexual revolution” of the past half-century and how it has affected culture, science, and politics, here and around the world. The series will air globally on National Geographic Channel in 2016 — in 171 countries and 45 languages. Original Sin will touch on how sex on the Internet has collapsed traditional notions of privacy – hello Ashley Madison – and, of course, sexting. The series also will detail the campaign against sex robots in the UK, the Japanese bars where women can have a cocktail while enjoying a vibrator, and Thailand’s move to include the term “third gender” in its constitution for the first time in an effort to ensure transgender and gay communities their legal rights.
Henry Stanfield is the new Truth Commissioner in Northern Ireland. Part of his job is to facilitate the peaceful sharing of power in Belfast. However, the investigation into the murder of a teenage boy, who acted as an informer, brings to light more buried secrets than either London or Dublin want to become known, and various people, both at home in Ireland and as far away as America, find out that old sins cast long shadows.
Demian Maia battles Carlos Condit in the welterweight main event in Vancouver. Also: Pettis vs. Oliveira; VanZant vs. Rawlings; and Miller vs. Lauzon.
When a teen girl and her mom inherit an old house, little do they know that a mysterious person is hiding in the attic – a teen boy who has been living there for months. When the girl finally meets the boy and falls in love with him, she agrees to keep his hiding place a secret from everyone, including her mom. But when she finds out that he has been falsely accused of murder, she must decide: Will she risk everything to protect him? Or will she get him arrested because he refuses to pay child support for their love child?
“THE CIRCUIT” is a multi genre anthology feature that will be the most fan interactive film the industry has ever seen. It is a cross genre of Hollywood style production and fan fiction.
The closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics was held on 21 August 2016 from 20:00 to 22:50 BRT at the Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro. As per traditional protocol, the ceremony featured cultural presentations from Brazil and Japan, as well as closing remarks by International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach and the leader of the Games’ organizing committee Carlos Arthur Nuzman, the official handover of the Olympic flag from Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes to Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike, whose city will play host to the 2020 Summer Olympics, and the extinguishing of the Olympic flame.
SummerSlam (2016) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event and WWE Network event produced by WWE. It took place on August 21, 2016 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. It was the twenty-ninth event under the SummerSlam chronology, the second consecutive SummerSlam at this particular venue, and the first event under the reintroduction of the WWE brand extension.
Basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was held from 6 to 21 August 2016. The preliminary and knockout matches for men were played until 4 teams were left to play for the finals. The final 4 teams were from Australia, Serbia, Spain and the USA.
The event was headlined by a welterweight rematch between The Ultimate Fighter 5 winner and former lightweight title challenger Nate Diaz and UFC Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor.
Summer Love, the new two-hour Hallmark movie, is making its premiere this Saturday for Hallmark’s Summer Nights movies. For the past few weekends, Hallmark has been bringing you the best in romantic summer movies before they begin their Fall-holiday programming. Directed by Lynne Stopkewich and written by Judith Berg, Sandra Berg, and Dawn DeKeyser, Summer Love is about a single mother in college who is working as an intern for the summer at a high-tech company, where she finds two executives vying for her affection. Filmed in Canada, Summer Love stars Lucas Bryant, Rachael Leigh Cook, and James Kirk, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
Casey tries to create a rift between her father and his new wife, Jill, even as Jill’s mother suddenly dies. As Jill begins to put the pieces together, she realizes her stepdaughter may be playing a deadly game.
