![]() ![]() Season 24 of “The Voice” airs new episodes on Monday on NBC. Reba McEntire joins the show as a coach alongside Gwen Stefani, John Legend and Niall Horan, who won last season with contestant Gina Miles. Blake Shelton left “The Voice” last spring after 23 seasons but another country star has taken a seat in a swivel chair. (For more autumn TV options, check out AP's fall preview here.) The show is based on Dan Ariely’s book, “Predictably Irrational” premiered Monday and streams on Peacock. This skill makes him an in-demand problem solver and translator-of-sorts for government agencies and big corporations. Martin returns to NBC in “ The Irrational, ” playing a behavioral science expert with a keen understanding of what makes people tick. AP Music Writer Maria Sherman NEW SERIES TO STREAM “This is the first time I’m putting stuff out there that I can connect with right now.” Always figuring things out,” Smith says of releasing new music in the current era. ![]() In 2021, she dropped a short EP, “Be Right Back,” as a sort of intermediary - but who knew the sophomore release of “Falling or Flying” would take her to new exploratory heights? Surprises abound, from the Bombay Bicycle Club and the Kooks-inspired English-indie track “Go Go Go” to the glossy, soulful title track “Falling or Flying.” “I like this world that I’ve just come into. It has been five long years since Jorja Smith ’s debut LP, “Lost & Found,” defined an era of R&B-pop-trip-hop. “When I went through a difficult time at the start of last year, writing songs helped me understand my feelings and come to terms with what was going on.” Prepare the tissues. After the heat of the summer, everything either calmed, settled, fell apart, came to a head, or imploded,” Sheeran said in a statement. “Last autumn, I found that my friends and I were going through so many life changes. Inspired by composer Edward Elgar’s “Enigma Variations,” in which every composition was about a different friend, Sheeran’s latest release centers on his relationships. (The first was his 2011 debut, “+.”) On “Autumn Variations,” Sheeran’s sixth album, produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner (Taylor Swift, Gracie Abrams), a divorce from the format has allowed for new freedoms. In May, the English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran released “−“, or “Subtract,” his fifth full-length album and the final installment of his series of releases named after math symbols. AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr NEW MUSIC TO STREAM earlier this year but will be available to stream now on MUBI and should not be missed. There are wonderfully comedic scenes and those that will pull on your heartstrings too - and, of course, Paris isn’t hard on the eyes either. The “new girlfriend” rarely gets this sort of nuanced, empathetic treatment and Efira brings life and lightness to a complex but never tragic character. Rachel has no children of her own, and is satisfied with her life, but also finds herself developing a strong attachment to the little girl as the three inch closer and closer to feeling like a family. “Other People’s Children,” an intelligent French gem from director Rebecca Zlotowski, follows a 40-year-old teacher Rachel, (played by the wonderful Virginie Efira) who embarks on a relationship with a man (Roschdy Zem) who has a 4-year-old daughter. Clocking in at just under 40 minutes, the glowingly reviewed film is and the first of four rolling out shortly after including “The Swan” (Thursday), “The Ratcatcher” on Fridayand “Poison” on Saturday. In addition to “Asteroid City” (on Peacock), Netflix has “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” a Roald Dahl adaptation starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the title character that starts streaming on Wednesday. It doesn’t seem real that we could have two Wes Anderson movies in a year, but sometimes good things do happen. “Hewson’s confident, charismatic leading performance has enough grit and spunk to light up the screen,” he wrote, adding that, “Carney, who wrote and directed the film, has a way of not hitting the cornball notes too hard and mixing in enough humor to keep the saccharine tones from overpowering.” AP Film Writer Jake Coyle wrote that it’s a star-making turn for Hewson. ![]() In an attempt to “change the narrative” she signs up for remote guitar lessons, with a California based instructor played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Eve Hewson stars as a single mother to a 14-year-old boy in Ireland who are both having a rough time of it. John Carney, the director of “Sing Street” and “Begin Again,” has a new musically inclined charmer in “Flora and Son,” arrives on Apple TV+ Friday. ![]()
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