By Mikey CampbellSaturday, January 02, 2016, 04:27 pm PT (07:27 pm ET)
It appears Apple has made good on promises to roll out developer access to Apple TV universal search APIs, as tvOS now includes deep content links from both the PBS and PBS Kids apps.
The change was spotted on Saturday by AppleInsider reader Erik, who discovered a Siri query for "Curious George" surfaced the PBS Kids app as a viewing option alongside the usual iTunes and Netflix choices. A separate search for "Antiques Roadshow" returned a results page showing streaming availability through the PBS app, a separate title from PBS Kids.
Universal search is a tentpole feature for the fourth-generation Apple TV, a set-top box capable of streaming movies, TV shows, music and more from a variety of apps. With ties to Siri, universal search allows users to find content from multiple sources by typing in or speaking certain search terms. For example, a query for a popular TV series like "Scandal" returns a dedicated results page with matches from all apps and services through which that content is available, in this case iTunes, Netflix and Hulu.
Initially, universal search functionality was limited to iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, Showtime and HBO.
A month before fourth-gen Apple TV units hit store shelves, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company would open universal search APIs to third-party developers in the near future, but declined to comment on an exact time window.
"I think that many, many people will want to be in that search," Cook said. "And that"s great for users. Think about your experience today. Even if you"re fortunate enough to have the content you want to watch in an app, you sometimes don"t remember exactly where that show is, so you"re going to Netflix or Hulu or Showtime. You shouldn"t have to do that. It should be very simple."
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Another development. Caitlyn Jenner reportedly reached a settlement with Hollywood agent Jessica Steindorff on Wednesday, December 30, stemming from her car accident in Malibu back in February, TMZ reports.
As previously reported, the Olympian, 66 - known as Bruce Jenner at the time - crashed her Cadillac Escalade into a Lexus on the Pacific Coast Highway on February 7. The driver of the Lexus, Kim Howe, was pushed into oncoming traffic and killed.
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According to TMZ, Steindorff drove one of the four cars that were involved in the crash. (In June, Steindorff claimed that she suffered serious medical injuries from the accident.) On Wednesday, she reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount with Jenner, which was reportedly paid by Jenners insurance company.
Jenner, who will not charged with vehicular manslaughter, opened up about the incident back in September.
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"I was under the speed limit. I was going 46 in a 50. My airbag didn"t even go off. All I probably needed was half a second of time. I almost stopped, but couldn"t quite get it stopped. I was pulling a trailer, so, no, I don"t think it was speed or anything like that, Jenner explained to the Today shows Matt Lauer.
She continued: "I remember it happening [but] thats about it. A tragedy like this, youll never get over it. You just learn to live with it the best you possibly can.
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Her best friends Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid and Bella Hadid have all worked their magic in the online advent calendar so far.
And it was Hailey Baldwin"s turn to pose for Day 21 of the LOVE magazine calendar on Monday, putting on her best seductive display in the short video.
The 19-year-old model looks incredible as she bounds around in a black lace bustier, maximising her cleavage in the plunging garment.
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Glamorous: Hailey Baldwin stars in Day 21 of the LOVE magazine advent calendar, upping the s*x appeal in a lace bustier
The video sees Hailey pouting up a storm, blowing kisses at the camera while showcasing her vibrant shade of hot pink lipstick.
The blonde beauty"s look is completed by a pair of black shorts, making the most of her tiny waist thanks to the high-rise cut.
Hailey bounds around the place, flicking her hair back and forth as she twirls around.
Working it: The blonde bombshell certainly gives her pals Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid a run for their money
What a body: The 19-year-old beauty displays her model figure as she bounds around in her skimpy outfit
Pink pout: Hailey ensures the focal point of her video is her fuschia lined lips
Close-up: Hailey is sporting a heavy eyeliner and lashings of mascara in the short clip
The in-demand model is celebrating her second appearance for the calendar, which has become an annual event due to popular demand.
With over 4 million hits in less than three weeks, LOVE Video Advent 2015 launched on December 1 with Kendall Jenners Hitchcock alter ego screaming in a steamy shower.
Other videos include a frolicking Gigi Hadid in black lace, Pamela Anderson"s saucy kitchen antics, a lean and languid Irina Shayk.
Getting into the festive spirit: The in-demand beauty made the most of her tiny waist in the cropped bustier
Beauty: Hailey puts on a flirtatious display in the video, with creative direction by Jonny Lu
Festive treats in store: The likes of Ashley Graham, Cara Delevingne and Daisy Lowe are yet to appear in the LOVE calender
Annual event: The videos were styled by LOVEs executive fashion director Anthony Unwin and Ryan Hastings
Viewers then saw Caroline Flack having a good old boogie by the mirror, Immy Waterhouse slowly removing her shirt, Kris Jenner taking a glamour-fuelled dip and Emily Ratajkowski seducing the camera in her nylons, to name a few.
Adriana Lima, Ashley Graham, Cara Delevingne and Daisy Lowe are just some of the stars set to star in a clip throughout the month.
The videos were styled by LOVEs executive fashion director Anthony Unwin and Ryan Hastings, with creative direction by Jonny Lu, and will continue for the whole of December.
LOVE editor in chief Katie Grand explained: "Its not very religious in theme, so I thought it would be more appropriate to do the whole month rather than 24 days."
Out and about: Hailey looked incredible in a silver jacket and cropped jeans as she visited 1 Oak Nightclub
Keeping it casual: The star opted for minimal make-up and wore her hair in a top knot
NEW YORK - Secrets of "Downton Abbey" stars revealed!
Carson swears! Branson bolts Boston! Mrs. Hughes rocks sequined sneaks! Lord Grantham confesses to killing the hound! Dinner scenes detested! Molesley, footman of a thousand mopes and sighs, smiles!
Abbeyites, it"s beginning to look a lot like Downton. The sixth and final season of the PBS Masterpiece juggernaut debuts Jan. 3 to remedy post-holiday doldrums and agitate any latent Anglophilia that the 300th broadcast of "Love Actually" failed to excite.
A passel of "Downton" stars flew stateside to launch the beginning of the end of Masterpiece"s wildly popular series, averaging almost 13 million besotted fans each week. The manor"s newest sweethearts, Jim Carter (Carson the butler, blessed with owl-like eyebrows) and Phyllis Logan (housekeeper Mrs. Hughes) shared coffee at midtown Manhattan"s swank Lambs Club restaurant.
In the Season 5 finale, which aired last March, Hughes accepted Carson"s proposal with the immortal words, "Of course, I"ll marry you, you old booby. I thought you"d never ask."
The old booby believes that this was his doing.
Series creator "Julian Fellowes would probably deny this, but I wrote a note to him at the end of Series One saying, "You do know Carson and Hughes are going to have to get married,"" says Carter, 67. (In real life, he is married to Imelda Staunton, who played pink-suited Harry Potter tyrant Dolores Jane Umbridge.)
The romance "seemed quite evident early on, but it eked out at the pace of a glacier. Nice that downstairs got to have a love affair, especially an older pair," says Logan, 59. "Unlike American shows, where every character is told what their arc is, we are told nothing. We only know it when our script comes through the post. We"re kept in the dark like mushrooms and fed ...."
Logan starts to utter a very un-Hughesian term for fertilizer but stops herself. (Carter does not when dissing a rude fan.)
Fetching and sparkling down to her slip-on shoes, the Scottish actress says, "I think I would kill myself if I went about looking like Mrs. Hughes." She dons a dour wig for the role, little makeup and, during the initial season, one vintage dress that disintegrated from constant wear. "I"ve had my day of being the young ingenue, the romantic young lead or whatever," she says. "I"m a character actress nowadays. Bring it on, say I."
The pair are adored sweethearts in Britain, their fan base dubbed "Chelsies" for Charles (Carson"s rarely spoken first name) and Elsie (Hughes).
Though their characters are proper and reserved, the actors have no trouble dissing or sharing. Many of them tired, as did viewers, of the perpetual misfortunes of the original star-crossed downstairs lovers, Anna and Bates. He"s in prison. She"s in prison. Now ... oh, who cares?
To a person, the cast loathed the dinner scenes hot lights, shuttered windows, stinking fish, endless closeups and reaction shots, three days to shoot three pages of script to create three minutes of finished film.
"I will not miss them. They"re horrendous," says Allen Leech, 34, who plays Branson, the Irish former chauffeur who decamped to Boston but spoiler alert! returns this season to "Downton."
Over a beer, Leech reveals that Matthew rest in peace, dear Matthew was supposed to marry Sybil ditto, sylph-like Sybil who instead married his character and brought him upstairs to live a life of tweeds and dinner jackets. Then she died of eclampsia after the birth of their child.
"I had no idea I would marry her. I was literally hired to just come and drive Maggie Smith around," Leech says. During the first season, he almost hit the entire crew before performing a hand-brake turn in a 1910 Renault worth $750,000.
As for the unfortunately named yellow lab, Isis (after the Egyptian goddess), Hugh Bonneville, 52, who plays Lord Grantham, confesses, "I suggested killing off the dog. I was very fond of the dog, but in story terms, it was really quite old." The series begins in 1912 and finishes in 1925.
Plus, it allowed Grantham to openly grieve in the way that only a British aristo can for a noble hound and not, for instance, for one daughter marrying the help or another having a child out of wedlock.
Elizabeth McGovern, 54, the principal cast"s lone American, plays his wife, which permitted her to wear beautiful togs but do little else.
"I would often feel, over the course of the years, this feeling of being strangled. I didn"t have a voice as Cora," says the actress, whose first professional role was in the 1980 film "Ordinary People." "Nothing she said really mattered to anyone. She wasn"t in control of her own destiny."
Lady Grantham never speaks bluntly, like her mother-in-law or eldest daughter, Mary. McGovern"s release from such propriety was her rock band, Sadie and the Hotheads, "a real tonic. My personal way of escaping."
In Britain, most series run three years and, like "Downton," for nine episodes each season. Six years is rare. Over time, long-running television shows tend to smooth rough edges, create romance where little smolders, and transform sworn adversaries into eternal besties.
"Downton" is no exception. Mrs. Crawley and the Dowager Countess, who exchanged zingers over class and manners, became friends. (Though nothing has stopped the countess, played by the formidable Smith, from delivering such priceless quips as "What is a weekend?" and "I have plenty of friends I don"t like.")
Even Thomas Barrow nasty, duplicitous, blackmailing Thomas did good turns last season. What"s next? Squabbling sisters Lady Mary and Lady Edith growing to like one another?
Kevin Doyle grows philosophical discussing his role as poor, put-upon Molesley. The character was initially written to appear in only a few episodes as butler to Matthew and Isobel Crawley.
"Not everyone can be happy," says Doyle, 55. "There"s this fascination that people have for happy endings all the time. It doesn"t always work out." He arrived at the restaurant with takeout fruit salad, which seems so Molesley. (Bonneville feasted on pasta with crab.)
"Molesley and his parents knew that he had a brain. He wanted to use it, teach or something like that but, because of family circumstances, he couldn"t," the actor says. Molesley is his first servant.
"I play a lot of dark characters," says Doyle, who seems charming and sunny. "I"m normally cast as serial killers."
Does Molesley learn to stop moping and have a happy ending? His story is "really lovely," Doyle says, with an alluring smile. "It isn"t what you expect. It was grand. I"m really pleased with him."
The series occupied the cast"s lives for six months of every one of the past six years, unlike anything they"d experienced before.
"I"m incredibly grateful that it"s brought so much pleasure. And I"m quietly pleased that it"s come in sort of the autumn of my career, rather than early on," Carter says. "The kids, if it"s the biggest thing they do, it could be a bit disorienting."
Logan, his on-screen sweetheart and off-screen chum, laughs, "Oh, yes, it could be all downhill from here."
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Note: The following commentary was written in conjunction with AL.com for tonight"s College Football Playoff between Alabama and Michigan State. In honor of the Cotton Bowl, we"ve asked Alabama reporter Haley Laurence to give Spartans fans a guide to trash talking the Tide. See our guide on "How to trash talk a Michigan State fan" here.
Hi, Spartan fans. I hear you have a pretty big football game coming up on New Year"s Eve against a pretty formidable opponent. Y"all will definitely have to fight for a win against Derrick Henry and Co.
One thing you won"t have to fight hard for? A victory in the trash-talking game. Why is that? Well, because I"m about to help you with that. After living in the Crimson-clad state for almost three decades as an Auburn fan, I know exactly what to say to get Bama fans agitated and man, do their faces get red when they get mad. You really should see it for yourself. It"s almost kind of precious.
But enough of that. Here"s what you need to say to make sure you"re at the top of the trash-talking game.
Mention their mythical national championships
For some irrational reason, Bama fans love talking about their 15 national championships. If you talk to a Bama fan, he or she will probably say "Got 15?" multiple times in the first two minutes. (Pro tip: Just make a drinking game out of it. Every time a Bama fan mentions the number "15," just take a drink. You"ll need all the booze you can get to get through the conversation.)
The problem with all these national championships? No one else recognizes 15 except for the university. If you want to make the Crimson Tide fans really fume, just bring up 1941 when the team finished third in the SEC and 20th in the AP poll but still claim a national championship for that year. It really makes no sense, like the time Scarlett Johansson dated Sean Penn. (Really, ScarJo, what were you thinking?)
Tell them houndstooth is ugly
Legendary Crimson Tide coach Paul "Bear" Bryant was a fan of houndstooth, and no Bama fan will ever, ever forget that. Houndstooth is everywhere in Alabama. It"s on groomsmen cakes. It"s on Christmas trees. It"s on probably 5 percent of all clothing. I haven"t seen a houndstooth tombstone yet, but I"m pretty sure it exists and is located in the state of Alabama.
Call them "Gumps"
Many Bammer fans are OK with being called Bammers, but there"s one no-no: They don"t respond well to being called a Gump. Here"s the definition straight from the world"s pre-eminent news source, Urban Dictionary: "A typical Alabama football fan. Usually so delusional that they think Bear Bryant is still alive. They also believe that Nick Satan actually likes the toothless fanbase. So, naturally, call them Gumps.
Ask them if they participated in the "Running of the Gumps"
OK, here"s some background. Each year, the University hosts Alabama Fan Day, where Bammers get to watch the Crimson Tide scrimmage and yada yada yada. Here"s the clincher: At the end of the day, the thousands of fans who show up get an opportunity to meet the players and coaching staff yes, including Nick Saban. The catch? They gotta run down the field to get to them.
This, of course, leads to an embarrassing, embarrassing scene. It"s what you would imagine if Apple offered new 1-cent Macbooks on Black Friday and Nick Saban is a Macbook. (Although, real talk: Saban is definitely more of a PC man.) But I"ll stop explaining and let you watch it. Seriously, it must be watched.
Remind them that this man runs their offense
(Photo by Vasha Hunt, vhunt@al.com)Gillian Van Stratt | gvanstratt@mlive.com Tell them you plan to storm the field and tear down the goalposts when you win
One thing that Bama fans are mighty proud of: The fact that, for all we know, no one has stormed the field after a victory at Bryant-Denny Stadium, and they"ve especially never torn down a goalpost there. They"re just so used to victory, according to them, that they"d never resort to anything so uncouth. (This is the perfect time to scroll back up to the Running of the Gumps.)
Once again, the logic really makes no sense, but by now we"ve established that very few things they do make sense. But the joke"s on them. Storming the field after a major win is fun, and who wants to argue with fun? Auburn had plenty of fun storming the field after the 2013 Iron Bowl which leads to ...
Ask them if they have a second ...
If there"s anything that a Bammer is tired of, it"s hearing about the 2013 Iron Bowl. In one second, all of their SEC and national championship hopes were obliterated for the season, and it ended all chances of a three-peat national championship.So, obviously ask them if they have a second.
Or just mention the Kick Six in general
See above.
Tell them Saban"s leaving Alabama after this season
Each year, rumors begin that Saban is ready to leave Bama. All of them have thus far been unfounded, but that doesn"t mean that the Crimson Tide faithful doesn"t get anxious near the end of each season.
The magic words to make it sound like you"re in the know? Tell them, "Miss Terry (his wife) is unhappy in Tuscaloosa and wants to move." Works every time.
Just say Cam Newton"s name
Noted Bama Arch Nemesis Cam Newton is in the news almost every day, and that displeases most Bammers. What displeases Bammers makes for excellent trash talk.
Sing a reverse "Rammer Jammer" to them
After each win, even to cupcake schools, Crimson Tide fans chant "Rammer Jammer" to the opposing team, which includes classy lines such as "We just beat the h**l out of you."Luckily, Auburn"s already created a reverse "Rammer Jammer" that"s up for use.
Call them "Harvey Updykes"
Updyke is known for poisoning Auburn"s famous Oak trees at Toomer"s Corner, and Bammers hate it when you compare them to him. So, obviously, call them that. A lot. Ask them if they plan on destroying any East Lansing landmarks. (But seriously, East Lansing: Guard your city.)
Thanks to Conservices remarkable growth, the local company founded in 2000 decided it needed a little more room to hold this years Christmas party/15th anniversary celebration.
So, rather than cram 1,200 employees into a convention center somewhere, president and CEO David Jenkins thought much bigger the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum at Utah State University and said he wanted to bring in a nationally known musical act to entertain his employees and some of their family and friends.
That led to the first appearance ever in Cache Valley by American Authors, an alt-rock band out of Brooklyn, New York, best known for its 2014 hit, Best Day of My Life.
Comprised of lead vocalist Zac Barnett, guitarist/banjo player James Adam Shelley, bassist Dave Rublin and drummer Matt Sanchez, American Authors took the Spectrum stage at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 17, and played for just over an hour.
Barnett, clearly a favorite with the young women in the crowd, had the whole arena including Jenkins and his family dancing, bouncing, clapping and singing along.
The bands set list included a guitar solo by Shelley and 13 songs, including Believer, Trouble, Go Big or Go Home and a cover of The Weeknds Cant Feel My Face. The group, which also performed a new song, Nothing Better, off its upcoming second album, closed its set with Best Day of My Life, then returned for an encore featuring Oh, What a Life.
