Louis C.K. returns for fourth season
“Louie” is headed back to the air.
The FX network says the hit comedy is returning for its fourth season in May after a hiatus of 19 months.
It was fall 2012 when the hiatus was announced at the request of series star Louis C.K. He said he needed “a little breathing room” after wrapping its third season, a break “to feel hungry” again.
“Louie” will return May 5 for its new season of 14 episodes, airing two episodes back to back for seven weeks through June 16.
Louis C.K. created the series and is its executive producer, director and editor.
Hatch ordered to community service
Rapper Torence “Lil Boosie” Hatch was ordered Thursday to perform 100 hours of community service in New Orleans as part of his four-year probation term stemming from a 2009 guilty plea to a marijuana possession charge.
Hatch, 31, appeared Thursday before Louisiana District Judge Chip Moore, his first court appearance since his release from state prison last week.
Moore transferred his court supervision to New Orleans, where Hatch is now living, Baton Rouge attorney Lewis Unglesby said.
The judge congratulated Hatch for obtaining his GED while serving four years and four months in prison, said Unglesby, who also noted that Hatch had completed programs in substance abuse, anger management, parenting and victim awareness.
Hatch pleaded guilty in 2009 to third-offense marijuana possession and was expected to serve about a year for that conviction, but was sentenced to additional time after he failed to abide by certain requirements under his plea deal.
“He’s happy to move on to the next stage of his life,” Unglesby said of his client.
Drake wins best emerging artist
Drake has won top honors at MTV’s annual South By Southwest-based awards show.
The Canadian rapper-singer-actor won Woodie of the Year, given to music’s top emerging artist, during the Woodie Awards in Austin.
Lil Wayne, who founded Drake’s label Young Money, shocked the crowd when he officially kicked off the show and dropped a verse from his own 2008 smash “A Milli.” He later accepted Drake’s award for him.
The 1975 took the breaking Woodie for best new artist. Chance the Rapper got best video Woodie for “Everybody’s Something” and Ed Sheeran earned the performing Woodie.
The birthday bunch
Actor Michael Caine is 81. Composer-conductor Quincy Jones is 81. Country singer Michael Martin Murphey is 69. Rock musician Walt Parazaider (Chicago) is 69. Comedian Billy Crystal is 66. Actress Grace Park is 40. Actor Chris Klein is 35. Singer-musician Taylor Hanson (Hanson) is 31. Actor Jamie Bell is 28. Rock musician Este Haim (Haim) is 28.