UP Greenlights ‘Last Hope With Troy Dunn’ Series

UP has announced its latest series — and it certainly fits its 'Feel Good TV' positioning. Casting is underway for working-titled Last Hope With Troy Dunn, in which author and motivational speaker Dunn tracks down lost loved ones and facilitates reunions. The series will launch in the fall. Meanwhile, the network also has acquired all 44 episodes of Dunn’s reality series The Locator, which it will bow on June 1.

Creed's Scott Stapp Reveals He Has Bipolar Disorder

In an interview with People, the Creed lead singer candidly discussed his breakdown last year and his bipolar disorder diagnosis.

Last November, Stapp made headlines when he released a rambling video in which he declared that he was broke and “under some kind of vicious attack.”

"I had a psychotic break that was brought on by alcohol and drug abuse," he says. "I was hallucinating. I drove around the United States for a month, following an angel that I saw on the hood of my car."

"In my delusional thinking, I thought my family was involved in ISIS, and that millions of dollars had been taken from me to support terrorism," he continues. "All of it was nonsense. I was out of my mind."

Eventually Stapp began getting treatment and received the surprising news that he was struggling with bipolar disorder, a condition that causes sharp shifts in energy and mood swings.

“It was hard to process,” Sapp confesses. “There’s a stigma associated with it. But Jaclyn [his wife] kept telling me, ‘Embrace it. We love you.’ It became a big sigh of relief, because finally, we had an answer.”

Stapp he is now sober, in a 12-step program, on medication for his disorder and says, “Nothing is more important than my sobriety.”

Newsboys Earn First Platinum Single with God's Not Dead

Newsboys’ anthem, “God’s Not Dead (Like A Lion),” has been certified Platinum by the RIAA. Signifying single sales in excess of 1 million units, the award marks a career milestone for the Grammy-nominated group and is one of the first Platinum single certifications in Christian music this year.  

Written by Daniel Bashta, “God’s Not Dead”  helped inspire the blockbuster Pure Flix film of the same name. Both the God’s Not Dead album and single earned RIAA Gold certifications last year.

Newsboys have sold more than 8 million units, amassing eight Gold certifications, 33 #1 radio hits, four Grammy nominations.

Bradley Cooper's New Film Aloha Features Needtobreathe

The new trailer for Aloha, starring Bradley Cooper , Emma Stone, and Rachel McAdams features Needtobreathe's The Heart.

TFK Continues Its Climb Up Rock Charts

TFK continues its rise into mainstream arenas with sales as an independent artist that the major labels aspire to ascertain. With well over one-million albums sold, more than one-million likes on Facebook, featured performances on major rock festivals internationally, numerous sports programming placements and hundreds of millions of streams online (300,000+ weekly at Spotify alone), Thousand Foot Krutch has also scored two back-to-back Billboard Hard Rock No. 1 albums (OXYGEN:INHALE,The End Is Where We Begin), and nine Active Rock radio hits.

The most recent hit single from OXYGEN:INHALE, "Untraveled Road," has not only topped SiriusXM Octane's Big Uns Countdown for two non-consecutive weeks, but for the first time in seven years, launches TFK this week into the Top 20 at both BDS Mainstream Rock (at No. 20) and Mediabase Active Rock (at No. 19) charts as the song continues to climb. "Untraveled Road" follows the album's No. 1 hit "Born This Way."

Having already hit No. 2 on the iTunes Rock Song sales chart and racking up more than 1.2 million views and 10,800 likes on YouTube, "Untraveled Road" has further been embraced by the sports entertainment world to fire-up faithful fans. Adopted by the NHL's Ottawa Senators as their 2014-15 anthem and used as the "pump-up" video for the Montreal Canadiens' 2014-15 season, the song was also played for the crowd April 13 at PNC Park after the Pittsburgh Pirates' Corey Hart hit a home run, helping lead his team to a home opener win against the Detroit Tigers.

"'Untraveled Road' is about not being afraid to take the first step, or be the first voice," says McNevan. "It's about having the courage to be unashamed, and the faith you need to take a step before you can see the ground. The 'untraveled road' is symbolism for being at a crossroads, and having to decide which path you're going to take. Sometimes it takes everything."