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While You Were Sleeping, Beyonce Started Sharing Her New Music Videos On YouTube

Now you can watch them even if you're poor. Also, HBO revealed a (very) short first look at Game Of Thrones Season Four, Family Guy's whole dead dog thing was a hoax, and more.

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Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are back for 22 Jump Street

Well, this was probably unnecessary: Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are donning their teenage cool clothes again for a follow-up to last year’s surprise hit, 21 Jump Street.

The sequel’s red band trailer was released earlier this morning, and it looks… exactly like the original film? After making their way through high school last time, the clueless cops go undercover at a local college to bust a drug operation, and get caught up in co-ed shenanigans along the way. It’s basically Never Been Kissed, but with guns and endless bro-hugging.

The film’s due in cinemas in June 2014.

Beyonce’s now kindly sharing those music videos she sprung on the world last Friday

Last week, Beyonce shocked the world by dropping her fifth album on iTunes without any prior marketing campaign, media access, or social media spam. The trick worked: in the three days since its surprise release, Beyonce: The Visual Album sold 828,773 copies worldwide, already making it the year’s third biggest album in terms of first-week sales (behind Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience Part 1 and Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2… Somewhere, Lady Gaga is teary), and proving that if you’re a massive superstar, great opportunities lie in successfully exploiting your fanbase’s insane FOMO.

As we all know, the album included an accompanying package of 17 music videos, which until now, only those who purchased the thing could’ve copped a peek at. Thankfully, for the rest of us cheap-arses, Queen Bey started to make those clips available on YouTube overnight.

Here’s the fun video for her new single ‘XO’, surprisingly directed by legendary creep Terry Richardson, in which Beyo lives out your ultimate amusement park dreams:

And here’s the video for ‘Drunk In Love’, directed by hip-hop video legend Hype Williams, in which B and her hubby Jay Z seductively cavort on a beach at midnight. Ah, looks cold:

No doubt these’ll keep dropping throughout the week, so if you’re poor but still wanna keep up with Beyonce’s mad new eyebrow game, keep an eye on her official Vevo page.

So, turns out that whole dead dog thing on Family Guy was just a publicity stunt

Good one, Family Guy. Just two weeks after controversially killing off beloved talking family dog Brian Griffin, replacing him with a dog named Vinny (voiced by The Sopranos‘ Tony Sirico) and sparking widespread anger amongst pea-brained morons, the show got into the holiday spirit (Easter holidays?) and resurrected the character on yesterday’s Christmas special.

“And thus endeth our warm, fuzzy holiday lesson: Never take those you love for granted, for they can be gone in a flash,” wrote show creator Seth MacFarlane on Twitter. “I mean, you didn’t really think we’d kill off Brian, did you? Jesus, we’d have to be fucking high.”

Next time this guy says he’s being chased by wolves, just let him die, everybody.

HBO’s end of year promo gives you your first look at Games Of Thrones Season Four

It’s only five seconds of footage (“Aargh, Tyrion’s walking!”), but we’ll take what we can get at this point. You’ll just have to sit through a lot of shit about last year’s Boardwalk Empire first.

I don’t know about you, but John Leguizamo’s ‘Ghetto Klown’ just became my new favourite thing.