Top 5 moments at Roland Garros: Rafael Nadal"s matches
AP 12:36 p.m. EDT May 22, 2016
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PARIS (AP) The Latest on the French Open (all times local):
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6:30 p.m.
Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic has closed out a comfortable 6-0, 6-2 win against Vitalia Diatchenko, getting back to the warmth of the locker room just as rain picked up again at the French Open and forced the cancellation of all remaining matches Sunday.
The runner-up to Serena Williams last year at Roland Garros made light work of the Russian ranked 210 spots below her.
Safarova didn"t let a mid-match rain delay of nearly three hours throw off her rhythm. The 11th seed closed out the first-round match as umpires on other courts were pulling players off court again for more rain.
Organizers announced that because players were sliding on the tramlines, it was too risky for them to continue and that play wouldn"t resume before Monday morning.
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5:50 p.m.
Heavy showers have stopped and play has resumed under still overcast skies at the French Open.
The rain delay of nearly three hours has forced the postponement of matches that were scheduled for later Sunday, the tournament"s opening day.
But fifth-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan is back on Court Philippe Chatrier, resuming his match against Simone Bolelli of Italy, with a 6-1, 5-4 lead.
Other matches that were interrupted mid-flow are also resuming. But all other matches on Sunday"s schedule that had yet to start are postponed.
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3:50 p.m.
With an eye on the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Serena and Venus Williams are entered in women"s doubles at the French Open their first Grand Slam tournament as a team since 2014.
In the doubles draw for Roland Garros, announced Sunday, the sisters will open against Jelena Ostapenko and Yulia Putintseva.
The Williams-Williams pairing has not appeared in a bracket at a major since the U.S. Open two years ago. They hadn"t played together anywhere since then until this month at the Italian Open, where they lost their first match.
The American siblings already have won three gold medals in doubles, at the 2000, 2008 and 2012 Summer Games. They also own 13 Grand Slam titles as a pair, most recently at Wimbledon in 2012.
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3:10 p.m.
Play is being delayed on all courts at the French Open because of rain.
Among the matches in progress, fifth-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan leads Simone Bolelli of Italy 6-1, 5-4 on Court Philippe Chatrier, and No. 23 Jack Sock of the United States leads Robin Haase of the Netherlands 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 2-1.
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1:55 p.m.
Nick Kyrgios was warned by a French Open chair umpire for shouting at a ballkid to retrieve a towel, leading to a prolonged and angry monologue by the 21-year-old Australian.
Otherwise, the 17th-seeded Kyrgios did just fine in his first-round match Sunday.
Kyrgios wound up with a 7-6, (6), 7-6 (6), 6-4 victory over Marco Cecchinato, a 23-year-old Italian ranked 124th who has lost all four Grand Slam matches in his career.
In the first-set tiebreaker, umpire Carlos Ramos gave Kyrgios a code violation warning over the way the player called for a towel between points. That prompted a string of curse-filled arguments from Kyrgios.
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1:40 p.m
Petra Kvitova is through to the second round of the French Open after battling more than 2 hours on Court Philippe Chatrier.
Danka Kovinic came close to creating the first upset of this year"s tournament but failed to build on her momentum when she served for the match in the deciding set.
She broke for a 5-4 lead after Kvitova hit three double faults but the two-time Wimbledon champion won the next three games to seal the match. The 10th-seeded Kvitova won 6-2, 4-6, 7-5.
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12:50 a.m.
Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova is having trouble on Court Philippe Chatrier.
The 10th-seeded Czech looked in control after breaking Danka Kovinic twice to win the first set 6-2 but dropped the second 6-4.
Kovinic has never gone beyond the second round at any Grand Slam tournament while Kvitova"s best result at the French Open is a semifinalist spot back in 2012.
Earlier, 24th-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova became the first player to advance to the second round with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Sara Sorribes Tormo.
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11:35 a.m.
Despite rain much of the morning, the French Open has started.
The forecast calls for showers on Sunday, but a break in the weather allowed two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova onto Court Philippe Chatrier to face 59th-ranked Danka Kovinic of Montenegro in a first-round match.
Other players scheduled to play on Day 1 of the clay-court tournament include 2014 U.S. Open runner-up Kei Nishikori, eighth-seeded Milos Raonic, and 2015 Wimbledon finalist Garbine Muguruza.
The French Open is the only Grand Slam tournament that begins on a Sunday.
About six months after the deadly attacks in Paris, heightened security at Roland Garros was noticeable, including extra bag checks and patdowns that led to longer-than-usual waits at the entrance gates.
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Calvin Harris Reportedly Skips Medical Care After Bad Car Accident Click photo to enlarge
FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2015 file photo, Calvin Harris performs at the We Can Survive Concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Harris is resting after he was involved in a car accident Friday, May 21, 2016 and sustained minor injuries. His publicist said Saturday that Harris was a passenger in a vehicle that was struck ?in a collision? in Los Angeles. Further details were not provided.(Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP,file)
NEW YORK (AP) Popular DJ-producer Calvin Harris is resting after he was involved in a car accident Friday night and sustained minor injuries.
His publicist said Saturday that Harris was a passenger in a vehicle that was struck "in a collision" in Los Angeles. He was examined by doctors at a hospital and released. Further details were not provided.
Harris canceled a performance in Las Vegas and a Saturday performance at the Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama.?
Born Adam Richard Wiles, Harris is known for the electronic dance music hits "Summer," ""Sweet Nothing" and "We Found Love" with Rihanna.
MTV News | Kylie Jenner"s Sex Tape "Leak" & Harry Styles" Solo Career Dont be surprised if Kylie Jenner keeps really quiet about her split from Tyga. The teenager definitely wont be bashing her ex publicly, because he knows WAY too much about her and even has some major leverage in the form of the pairs alleged s*x tape!
Kylie Jenner, 18, is totally freaking out about whatTyga, 26, might tell or show the world now that theyre broken up! But whats worried the reality star the most is that she and Tyga allegedly have a s*x tapeand shes scared it could get into the wrong hands, HollywoodLife.com has EXCLUSIVELY learned. Yikes!
Tyga will not sign off on releasing it to the masses, but Kylie is scared that a s*x tape could get in the wrong persons hands with one of his buddies and they could put it online to embarrass her, an insider tellsHollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. She is freaking out that something like that will happen, especially if she starts bashing Tyga in any way. If the Kardashians bash him, it would open the door for something like that to happen. He has a lot of power right now.
As we previously reported, Kylie and Tyga split before the Met Ball on May 2, and even though they spent time together at the event, things were very tense. But the 18-year-old has been living life as normal at least on social media and we definitely shouldnt expect her or her family to say anything negative about the rapper.
Hes ready to talk about it all. Hes ready to do it through upcoming raps and he would also consider a book, an insider toldHollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. He knows a lot and he knows that everyone from Kris down is scared about what he could and would say. Theyre hoping he doesnt spill some major family secrets.
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This isnt the first time Kylie and Tyga have broken up, but it seems like this time it might be for good. The 26-year-old even took a hot new model to Mothers Day lunch with his mom, according toTMZ could he already be moving on?!
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Meanwhile, Tygas ex and baby mama,Blac Chyna, 28, recently got engaged to Kylies brother,Rob Kardashian, 29, and now theyre expecting their first child together! Perhaps this tangled, complicated web is what drove Kylie and Tyga to their breaking point?!
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Accidental president. Vietnam. Civil Rights Act. Bully. This is Lyndon B. Johnsons legacy, or at least how hes often remembered. New HBO film All the Way seeks to illuminate many sides of the man who stepped into the highest office in the land after John F. Kennedys assassination.
Bryan Cranston plays LBJ in the film, premiering on HBO tonight, following his Tony-winning turn as the president in All the Way on Broadway.
After hed already done extensive research and study of the plays text (itself thoroughly researched by playwright Robert Schenkkan), Cranston went on a second visit to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, TX, and thats where the person of LBJ really clicked for the actor.
The character is always outside of you until you hopefully allow it to seep in. Then it becomes a part of you, Cranston told HitFix.
He found something in the museum hed missed on his first visit: A letter from Jackie Kennedy to Johnson, dated November 26, 1963, four days after JFKs death. She thanks Johnson for always treating her well, for walking with the Kennedys three-year-old son at thefuneral, and for writing letters to the boys who had just lost their father.
That hit me like a ton of bricks, Cranston said of his realization that Johnson had written letters to the Kennedy children just a couple days after the shock and chaos of suddenly becoming head of state. The entire burden of being the president of the United States, and all that implies here he is, writing to two children. That was his emotional core. I was able to build from there. His emotional core was true desire and appreciation and concern for others. Yeah, it got muddied up with ambition and agenda and that sort of thing, and ego and politics. Everything is added to the soup [and] you forgot the original stock.
Cranston has been getting to know all the ingredients that madeLBJ for about four years now, both in what he said was daily discovery of the man during filming and, before that, in prep for the Broadway production that was staged in 2013. It was five years before that when Schenkkan began his own deep dive into life of LBJ when the Oregon Shakespeare Festival commissioned him to write a play for their program called American Revolutions. The line-up of new plays strives to do with American history and American writers what William Shakespeare did with English history.
Photo credit: Hilary Bronwyn Gayle/HBO
Alison Carey, director of OSFs American Revolutions program, told HitFix that Schenkkan, who also wrote the HBO films screenplay, has a very, very thorough approach to history but a remarkable capacity to essentialize it down to those most important moments that tell a story super effectively.
The Vietnam War, several pieces of civil rights legislation, enacting Medicare, and the act that created PBS and NPR are all part of LBJs time in office. All the Way focuses in on just some of that. The film begins with Kennedys assassination just the sounds of it while the opening credits appear onscreen:the cheers of the Dallas crowd, three gunshots, then those cheers turned to screams and takes the viewer through election night in 1964. It delves into LBJs campaign for the presidency and his calculated methods of persuasion to pass civil rights legislation without jeopardizing his campaign. There is one intense scene dealing with Vietnam, featuring somefraught but quick decision-making by Johnson and a clash with his eventual vice president Hubert Humphrey (played Bradley Whitford). More of the film deals with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
A second play by Schenkkan, The Great Society, which also premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, covers Johnsons first elected term.
Photo credit: Hilary Bronwyn Gayle/HBO
Constantly on display in the film is Cranstons portrayal of LBJs strategic approach, alternately bullying and beguiling, to get the Civil Rights Act of 1964passed. In one Oval Office scene, the president tells Martin Luther King, Jr. (Anthony Mackie)that hes taken the section protecting voting rights out of the bill. Were gonna take care of segregation and public accommodations first, the president says. The scene featuring that meeting was filmed on Mackies first day of shooting.
I dont know if [director] Jay Roach brilliantly did this or if it just happened, Mackie said of that scheduling that ended up being helpful to the two actors. That first opportunity with another actor is always hesitant. And you see that hesitance in the scene. But it works in the scene because thats how they were with each other in real life at that moment.
Mackie filmed All the Way last summer two weeks after wrapping shooting on Captain America: Civil War. His Avengers hero, Falcon, certainly doesnt have the same build as Dr. King. While Cranston spent more than two hours in the makeup chair each day of filming to become LBJ, Roach and Mackie decided to forego prosthetics and any kind of body suit in Mackies transformation into the civil rights activist.
I didnt want to disrespect him and his legacy by being the actor that tried to look like him instead of capturing his essence, Mackie explained during his phone call withHitFix while he was in a car taking him fromAtlantas airport to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library for an All the Way screening and Q&A on Thursday.
A play launching political conversation
Events like that one in Atlanta are what Roach has thoroughly enjoyed in the process of promoting the film.
I like talking about a movie thats about something because you can extend the story beyond the boundaries of the actual film. You sort of hope thats what happens, that it triggers conversations, said Roach, who previously directed political dramas Recount and Game Change for HBO. He also directed Cranston in last years Trumbo, which earned the Breaking Badalum an Oscar nomination.
With the play premiering at OSF in an election year in 2012, and the film now debuting with another presidential election less than six months away, All the Ways creative team have watched the productions become part of political conversations. Parallels drawn between the civil rights movement and the unrest in Ferguson has further embedded All the Way and The Great Society in attention on #BlackLivesMatter. A 1964 campaign ad recently went viral for its uncanny relevance to the 2016 presidential campaign.
The play and now the film have definitely entered the national conversation about race and politics and presidential power, Schenkkan said. The issues about which we fight so stridently today have their origins in 1964. It doesn"t matter whether its budget deficits or immigration reform or race or institutionalized violence against black people, health care you can check them off the list one by one.
From stage to screen
Schenkkan and Roach, along with Steven Spielberg, whos an executive producer on the film, all agreed they werent simply going to shoot the play. They set out to make a cinematic telling of Johnsons first 11 months in office.
Cranston, not having to project to the 1445th seat in the back of the Neil Simon Theatre, could reveal different details about Johnsons emotional state in some moments where the camera comes in close, making this adaptation feel not at all like a play.
Some of those moments, Roach said, particularly the vulnerable moments,and also the threatening momentswhen he comes to Hubert Humphrey, one of my favorite moments, when he says, Cold comfort you are the cameras right there. Sometimes going smaller and closer and putting the audience almost too close you feel like it"s uncomfortably close can be very powerful.
Photo credit: Hilary Bronwyn Gayle/HBO
Among the changes Schenkkan made to All the Way in his screen adaptation was expanding the roles of Lady Bird Johnson and LBJs aide Walter Jenkins. The decision to give more screentime to the relationship between the president and the First Lady was in part born of LBJ experts responding to the play with the criticism that there wasnt enough of Lady Bird in it.
Then we got Melissa Leo [to play Lady Bird], and we just won the lottery as far as that goes, Schenkkan said.
Also a key setpiece that wasnt so doable onstage: LBJs Amphicar. The president was known to playa prank with the vehicle that looked like a car but also could travel on water. He would host friends and dignitaries at his Texas ranch, and hed take them for a drive, not telling them the car was amphibious. Then hed pretend to lose control of the car, and splash into the lake, and while everyone else was screaming, LBJ was cracking up.
Johnson driving his Amphicar in April 1965. Photo credit: LBJ Presidential Library
Schenkkan wrote that practical joke into the films script for a scene with Humphrey, and the production used a couple real Amphicars that Cranston learned to drive. In the scene, LBJ throws Humphrey off-guard with his crashing into the lake, and then the president springs on Humphrey his plan to have him be the floor manager of the bill for civil rights and, down the road, his running mate.
He needs Humphreys supportand by using this tactic it fits into the overall practice of manipulation affectionately known as the Johnson treatment or the Texas Twist, which was all about Johnson getting into somebodys physical space and upending them. Really putting them off balance to such a degree that he could then bend them to his will, Schenkkan said.
As for exactly how Schenkkan and the All the Way team got a meeting with HBO, that was in part thanks to the playwrights connection with Spielberg and the network after writing for the 2010 mini-series The Pacific. The journey from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to New York was made when theater producer Jeffrey Richards optioned the play for a Broadway staging during the playsrun in Ashland, OR.
While OSFsCarey noted that Schenkkans skill with writing history-based plays lies in his ability to show that history isnt inevitable, that it takes certain people making certain decisions and taking specific actions to direct the course of history, in this case, it felt like actually going all the way to Broadway and then going on to some kind of screen adaptation was, in fact, inevitable, Carey said. I was delighted and not the least bit surprised that the play journeyed from OSF to HBO.
Lightening the mood
While All the Way (which takes its title from LBJs campaign slogan) certainly has its humorous moments, its largely a serious drama.
So in between takes, the cast found opportunities for moments of levity were a bunch of big goofs, Mackie said.
When the cameras stopped rolling, Cranston had great fun ad-libbing as LBJ against Frank Langellas Richard Nixon. (Langella had starred in Frost/Nixon, also taking a presidential character from stage to screen. In All the Way he plays Senator Richard Russell.) Whitford joined in too.
Bradley does an amazing Bill Clinton, but its like dirty Clinton. Everything he says is just dirty, and hes hilarious, Mackie recalled.
Cranston as LBJ in All the Way; Langella as Nixon in 2008"sFrost/Nixon.Photo credit: Hilary Bronwyn Gayle/HBO; Universal Pictures
Though Cranston began staying in character off-camera just for fun, he also found it helpfulto continually play with LBJs colorful way of speaking.
If you can get so comfortable with a character that you can ad lib in character, then you"ve got him, Cranston said. It was actually very beneficial. Something that you say might come out in the running of the scene, a look or a gesture or something that you can work out that you"ve discovered in the improv.
A sequel?
The Great Society picked up where All the Way left off for audiences at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and a handful of other theaters across the country. Its not clear yet whether Broadway and HBO will also continue LBJs story with Schenkkans companion script. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright told HitFix its certainly my hope that The Great Society will have a New York production. No official plans are in place to make that play into an HBO film.
As for whether Cranston would be up for reprising the role, he said, I have to just evaluate whether or not I have reached my fill of the character. I think I need to step away and see if I miss it.
HBOs All the Way premieres on the network tonight, Saturday, May 21, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
Van Gaal; Mourinho, Whoever! | Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United | FANCAM The ESPN FC crew discuss the upcoming cup finals and why a couple underdogs may triumph. Louis Van Gaal says he is only concerned with Manchester United winning the FA Cup, not the transition status of his club.
Manchester United legend Eric Cantona has compared striker Anthony Martial to Brazilian former Ballon d"Or winner Ronaldo.
Martial scored United"s late winning goal in the FA Cup semifinal against Everton to secure his club"s place in Saturday"s final against Crystal Palace.
Cantona -- a Cup final hero for United when he scored the only goal of the final against Liverpool in 1996 -- believes 20-year-old Martial was "very clever" to opt for a move to Old Trafford from Monaco.
The Frenchmantold MUTV: "He"s very mature for his age.
"I think he"s the same kind of player as Ronaldo. Of course Ronaldo is a Brazilian, but he"s as strong as him. Martial is skilful, he wants to score goals and he has good vision.
"At Manchester, it"s a great club for young players, when you are in the Academy and also when you are 18, 19, 20 years old.
"You need to work with people who will help you because you"re still a young player, just as [Cristiano] Ronaldo, the Portuguese Ronaldo, did when he came to play for United and for [Sir Alex] Ferguson.
"Ferguson helped him to be the player he is today. And I think he [Martial] has been very clever to choose Manchester United."
Speaking to reporters before the cup final, Martial said he had no plans to leave United despite the club"s frustrating season, which has seen them miss out on a place in the Champions League.
He explained: "You never know what happens in the future -- but certainly the fans have accepted me really well, and the fact they sing the song about me all the time shows they"re quite happy with me.
"I just do my best to try to pay back that support. I love Manchester and I love being here, and certainly I see myself being here for a good while yet."
Arindam is ESPN FC"s Manchester United correspondent. Follow him @ARejSport
Google Translate Sings: "Dangerous Woman" by Ariana Grande
May 2016 rolls right along with another jam-packed new music release week. Last week brought us Meghan Trainor, Jennifer Nettles and the highly anticipated return of Corinne Bailey Rae. This week remains intriguing with the third studio album by a pop standout, not to mention the tenth album by a country superstar, and a pair of legendary rock musicians. Here are seven albums to check out this week.
1) Ariana Grande, Dangerous Woman (Republic)
Grandes third studio album, Dangerous Woman, serves as the follow-up to her 2014 album My Everything, a no. 1, Grammy-nominated pop affair. Dangerous Woman features four guests: Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Macy Gray, and Future. Comprised of 15 tracks, four songs arrived prior to the album, including title track Dangerous Woman. Early single Focus doesnt appear on Dangerous Woman.
2) Blake Shelton,If I"m Honest(Warner Bros)
Incredibly popular country singer and The Voice judge Blake Shelton returns with his ninth studio album (tenth if you include his Christmas album),If I"m Honest. If I"m Honestfollows Shelton"s no. 1 debuting 2014 effort,Bringing Back The Sunshine. 15 songs in total, singles issued prior to If I"m Honestwere "Came Here To Forget" and "Savior"s Shadow." Interestingly, the album contains a duet with girlfriend Gwen Stefani ("Go Ahead and Break My Heart") as well as his soundtrack track fromtheAngry Birds Movie("Friends").
3) Bob Dylan, Fallen Angels (Columbia)
Bob Dylan may be far removed from his heyday, but when Bob drops a new album, its kind of a big deal. So should Dylans latest album Fallen Angels be regarded in the same manner? Yes, BUT for fans yearning for an album of originals this is another covers album like 2015s Shadows In The Night. All the Way and Melancholy Mood were released prior to Fallen Angels.
4) Eric Clapton, I Still Do (EPC Enterprises LLP)
Rock/Blues veteran Eric Clapton returns with his latest album I Still Do, his first new album in nearly two years. I Still Do follows Claptons J.J. Cale tribute album, The Breeze: An Appreciation of J.J. Cale. I Still Do is much shorter in duration (and tracks) than the album preceding it, comprising of just 12 tracks. Three songs arrived prior to the albums release: Cant Let You Do It, Catch the Blues, and Stones in My Passway.
5) Issues, Headspace (Rise)
Rock/Metalcore band Issues returns with their third studio album, Headspace. Headspace arrives two years after the bands self-titled album, which debuted at no. 9 on the Billboard 200. Headspace is comprised of 13 tracks, with four arriving prior to the album: The Realest, COMA, Blue Wall, and Slow Me Down.
6) Yuna, Chapters (Verve)
Malaysian pop singer/songwriter Yuna returns with her fourth studio album Chapters. While Chapters is Yunas fourth studio album, its her third released internationally, following Nocturnal (2013) and Yuna (2012). The album is comprised of 13 tracks in its deluxe edition and features two notable guests: Usher and Jhen Aiko. Crush, the song that Usher is featured on, was among pre-release singles.
7) Saosin, Along The Shadow (Epitaph)
Seven years! Thats how long it has been since post-hardcore band Saosin dropped a new album! Saosin"s third album,Along The Shadow, follows 2009s In Search Of Solid Ground, which was anything but planted on solid ground, commercially speaking. The bands 2006 effort self-titled debut performed sounder. Along The Shadow runs 13 tracks deep, with The Silver String and Racing Toward a Red Light among songs arriving ahead of its release.
8) Various Artists, Day of the Dead (4AD)
3 Disc compilation Day of the Dead is literally chocked full of musical talent. Artists featured on the ambitious 59-track effort include The National, The Flaming Lips, and Mumford & Sons. Tracks issued prior to the compilation include Touch of Grey (The War on Drugs), Sugaree (Phosphorescent & Jenny Lewis & Friends), Black Muddy River (Bruce Hornsby & DeYarmond Edison),New Speedway Boogie (Courtney Barnett) and, Morning Dew (The National).
Also Released: Brett Dennen, Por Favor (Elektra/Wea); Montana of 300, Fire in the Church (FGE/TSO Music Group); Mudcrutch, 2 (Reprise); Sick Puppies, Fury (DrillDown Entertainment Group); Ziggy Marley Ziggy Marley
WAYWARD PINES | Come Together | FOX BROADCASTING Wayward Pines returns to FOXWednesday
(FOX) The psychological thriller WAYWARD PINES is back for a second season, starting Wednesday 10 all-new episodes of the suspenseful drama are set to air.
From M. Night Shyamalan and based on Blake Crouchs international best-selling series of books, the second season will pick up in the wake of Season 1, when a new arrival in Wayward Pines finds himself in the middle of a serious rebellion, as the residents battle over how to preserve the endangered human race.
If you didnt watch Season 1, you can get caught up in seven minutes, by watching the video below. Viewer discretion is advised.
