The Monday Wine Down🍷 (11-29)

The One Where It’s Veteran’s Day

Headlines

• RIP Virgil Abloh, Artistic Director of Luis Vuitton & Off-White Founder Dies of Cancer At Age 41 (Rolling Stone)

  • Drake, BTS, Justin Timberlake & More Reactions (Billboard)

  • Kanye West’s Choir Dedicates Easy On Me At Sunday Service To Virgil Abloh (Billboard)

• RIP To Musical Theater Icon, Steven Sondheim. 91 (TVLine)

• Adele Has Year’s Biggest Week In Music Propelling Her To #1 On Billboard Hot 200 (Billboard)

• OMG Rona Has a New Mutated Cousin From South Africa, Omicron Causing Chaos (Rolling Stone)

  • Live Nation Stocks Drop Amid Omicron Concerns (Billboard)

• Tom Ford Was Not All That Impressed With The House of Gucci (EW)

• Encanto Sings Its Way To Top Of Weekend Box Office (THR)

• Jussie Smollet’s Trial Begins In Chicago (Deadline)

What’s Really Going On

• Republicans Always Wanting To Play The Blame Game Are Scrambling To Make Waukesha Dems Fault (Rolling Stone)

• Matthew McConaughey Officially Decides Not To Run For Texas Governor (THR)

• Ghislaine Maxwell Trial To Begin Monday (The Independent)

• More Than $1M Raised For Kevin Strickland Who Spent Over 40 Years In Prison After Wrongful Conviction (The Independent)

DEALS DEALS & More DEALS!!!

• 400+ Cyber Monday Deals

• Amazon’s Cyber Monday Sale

• Sony Headphones & Sound Sale

• Amazon’s Holiday Decor Section

• Stocking Stuffers For Everyone On Your List

• Best Gifts Topping The Wish Lists

• 35 Black Friday Sales Not to Be Missed

• These Are A Few Of Oprah’s Favorite Things

• Disney’s Friends & Family Sales

• Wal-Mart’s 30 Best Early Black Friday Sales

• New Amazon Deals

• Early Black Friday Sales (People)

• Check Amazon’s Size-Inclusive Fashion Guide

• Best Buy Deals

• Target Deals

MUSIC NEWS & NOTES (11-28 thru 12-4)

• Pitchfork’s 25 Artist To Keep An Ear Out For (Ptichfork)

• Best Music Books of 2021 (Pitchfork)

• Chance The Rapper & Dionne Warwick Team Up For a New Song “Nothing’s Impossible” (Rolling Stone)

• The GOAT: What’s The New All-Time #1 Song? (Billboard)

• Bad Bunny Working on New Album For Summer ‘22 Release (Billboard)

• Lucky Daye Talks Second Studio Album (VIBE)

• Ranking Adele’s 30 (Billboard)

• Maxwell Goes “OFF” As He Closes Out blacksummerNIGHT Album Trilogy (Billboard)

• Marilyn Manson & The Monster Within (Rolling Stone)

  • Big Take Aways From Rolling Stone Interview (Rolling Stone)

Sports Talk

• Tampa Bay Beats Colts In A Down To The Wire Thrill Ride (USA TODAY)

• Turnovers Costly For Rams In Packers Loss (Yahoo Sports)

• Patriots Return To Top Of AFC Standings (Yahoo Sports)

• Lincoln Riley Leaving OU For USC (USA TODAY)

  • Bob Stoopes Will Be OU’s Interim Coach (USA TODAY)

• Michigan Rises In The Polls; Ohio State & ND Fall (USA TODAY)

• Curry Gets Mad Uses It As Fuel To Lead Warriors Past Clippers (ESPN)

• The Bucks Boogie: DeMarcus Cousins Set to Sign With Bucks (USA TODAY)

• Bowl Projections: Predicting The College Football Playoff (USA TODAY)

• Iman Shumpert Is The King of Dance (ESPN)

• Rory Dames Latest NWSL Coach To Resign Due To Abuse Allegations As Coaching Scandals Continue To Rock The League (USA TODAY)

SPORTS

Scores & Schedules

• Week 14 College Football Schedule (ESPN)

• Week 12 NFL Schedule (ESPN)

• NBA Schedule 11-28 thru 12-4 (ESPN)

• Sports Scoreboard 11-28(Sports Illustrated)

• Week 13 College Football Scoreboard (ESPN)

• NBA Scoreboard 11-28  (ESPN)

• Men’s College Hoops Scoreboard 11-28 (ESPN)

• Women’s College Hoops Scoreboard 11-28  (ESPN)

• NHL Scoreboard 11-28 (ESPN)

• NFL Scoreboard 11-28 (ESPN)

• Global Soccer Scores 11-28(ESPN)

• Complete College Football TV Schedule For Entire Season (USA TODAY)

Rankings

• College Football Playoff Rankings #3 (CFP.com)

• College Football USA TODAY  Coaches Poll [11-28]- (USA TODAY)

• College Football AP Poll [11-28]- (AP News)

• College Football Power Rankings Wk 12 [11-21]-(ESPN)

• Week 11 NFL Power Rankings [11-22]- (ESPN)

• NBA Power Rankings Wk 6 [11-22] -(ESPN)

• Countdown To March Madness: Bracketology

  • Men’s Bracket

  • Women’s Bracket

• Ranking the NBA’s Top 100 Players 21-22 Season (Sports Illustrated)

• NBA Reveals Full List Of Top 75 GOATS (CNN) Who Got Snubbed? (USA TODAY)

• NBA Top100: Snubs Edition (Sports Illustrated)

• The Best Players In WNBA History (ESPN)

• 75 Greatest NBA Players of All Time, So Far (ESPN)

MUSIC & BOOKS

What’s Charting & Playing

• New This Week On The Radio [11-14] - (Wine Down Radio)

• Who Won The Week In Music [11-14] - (Billboard)

• Songs To Get You Through The Week [11-22] (Billboard)

• Week’s Freshest R&B/Hip Hop Joints [11-22]- (Billboard)

• Best Moments In Latin Music This Week [11-14]

• Billboard Hot 100 [11-27] (Billboard)

• Billboard Hot 200 [11-27}-(Billboard)

• 2021 Album Release Calendar (Metacritic)

BookEnds

• The November Reading List (EW)

• NY TIMES Best Seller List [11-28]  (NY TIMES)

• Best Music Books of 2021 (Pitchfork)

• Hot Romance Featuring Keanu Reeves, not monks, witches and so much more (EW)

• October’s Best Comics (EW)

• Fall’s Must-Read Thrillers (EW)

• Akwaeke Emezi Is Turning Her Attention To Romance, With New Book Coming In Summer 2022 (EW)

• Read First Chapter of Legal Thriller All Her Little Secrets, Coming This Fall (EW)

  • Chapter 2 of All Her Little Secrets (EW)

  • Chapter 3 of All Her Little Secrets (EW)

• Read Excerpt FromThe Lost Dreamer, Coming Next Spring (EW)

• In Real Life: Fall’s Best Memoirs (EW)

• Best Books of the Year, So Far (Barnes & Noble)

THE WATCHOUT

Highlights

• Classic Christmas Movie Watch Calendar (TVLine)

• Ho Ho Ho! All Aboard The 2021 Christmas Movie Train (TVLine)

• Hallmark Christmas Movie Guide (EW)

• What’s Leaving Netflix In November (THR)

• The Best Movies Streaming In November (EW)

• 2021 Movie Release Calendar (Cinemablend)

• Look At Fall’s New & Returning Shows (EW)

• Fall TV Schedule (TVLine)

• Most Anticipated Movies of 2021 (Variety)

• 2022 Awards Season Calendar (EW)

• Fall TV Premiere Dates (EW)

What’s Poppin’

• New #1 Song of All Time (Billboard)

• 100 Greatest Sports Photos of All Time (Sports Illustrated)

• Ranking All The Movies In The MCU (EW)

• Ranking MCU Post Credit Scenes (Variety)

• 75 Best Horror Films Of This Century

• Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (Rolling Stone)

• The Top Showrunners 2021 Edition (THR)

• Meet The TIME 100 (Time Magazine)

• 100 Greatest Movie Quotes of 21st Century (Thrillist)

• Esquire’s 40 Best Books Of The Year So Far (Esquire)

• 100 Best Sitcoms of All Time (Rolling Stone)

• 50 Best Teen Dramas of All Time (EW)

• Billboard Team Ranks The Top 50 Albums of The Year So Far (Billboard)

• 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time (Rolling Stone)

WINE DOWN TV

The Latest In Streaming

• This Week’s Comings & Goings (11-28) (TVLine)

• Guide To The Christmas Classics

• CW Midseason Premiere Dates (THR)

• TV Freshman Report Card (TVLine)

• 9 Must-Watch Shows This Fall (EW)

• What’s Streaming In November (Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Amazon, etc…) (TVLine)

• Christmas Movie Premiere Dates (EW)

• What’s Leaving Netflix In November (THR)

• The Best Movies Streaming In November (EW)

TV Listings

• EW Monday  Listings

• TVLine Monday Listings

• TV Guide Monday Listings

Tonight’s Focus

• The Black Pack: We Three Kings -8E/7C (The CW)

• The Voice -8E/7C (NBC)

• CMA Country Christmas- 8E/7C (ABC)

• NCIS: Hawai'i -10E/9C (CBS)

• That’s My Jam - 10E/9C (NBC)

🎬 Trailer Park- 🎬

Nightmare Alley (Willem Dafoe; Cate Blanchett; Bradley Cooper) In Theaters (Dec 17th)

Sing 2 (Matthew McConaughey; Taron Egerton; Reese Witherspoon) In Theaters (Dec 22)