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Digital entertainment program BUILD Series takes its popular and extensive live interview show to the next level, adding a new, daily morning talk show “BUILD Brunch," as BUILD Series continues its commitment to bring its fans closer to culture. Airing weekdays at 11am live on BUILDseries.com/Brunch, it will feature a roundtable of diverse, young and influential personalities speaking to breaking news, hot topics and the latest in entertainment.

Picture this. A fashion-forward and confident pop maverick rocks the stage with seismic vocal range, contagiously sexy dance moves and wonderful, wild, and wailing solos—on the trumpet. That’s the Spencer Ludwig experience. Spencer Ludwig, the Los Angeles-born half-Filipino vocalist-instrumentalist, goes rogue, adding a new dimension of possibility to not only his sonic weapon of choice, but popular music as well. Featuring award-winning Latin rapper MC Davo, in his new album, "My Trumpter," Ludwig brilliantly fuses the infectious grooves of pop and funk with dance-inspiring splashes of Latin heat, resulting in a tune that is sure to evoke some sensual feelings. Ludwig came to BUILD to talk about his single, "My Trumpet," and play a few songs.

A quarter-century after stunning the theater world, one of the greatest theatrical journeys of our time returns to Broadway in an acclaimed new production from the National Theatre. A politically incendiary play at the center of the American Canon, "Angels in America" also manages to be, at turns, hilariously irreverent and heartbreakingly humane. It is also astonishingly relevant, speaking every bit as urgently to our times as it did when it first premiered. Tackling Reaganism, McCarthyism, immigration, religion, climate change, and AIDS against the backdrop of New York City in the mid-1980’s, no contemporary drama has succeeded so indisputably with so ambitious a scope. Watch actors James McArdle & Denise Gough discuss the Tony-winning play.

In Sony Pictures Animation's "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation," viewers join their favorite monster family as they embark on a vacation on a luxury monster cruise ship so Drac can take a summer vacation from providing everyone else's vacation at the hotel. It's smooth sailing for Drac's Pack as the monsters indulge in all of the shipboard fun the cruise has to offer, from monster volleyball to exotic excursions, and catching up on their moon tans. But the dream vacation turns into a nightmare when Mavis realizes Drac has fallen for the mysterious captain of the ship, Ericka, who hides a dangerous secret that could destroy all of monsterkind. Fran Drescher stopped by BUILD to chat about the new animated movie.

NCT stands for Neo Culture Technology, a term coined by S.M. Entertainment to describe the group’s concept of having an unlimited number of members divided into multiple sub-units all over the world. NCT 127 is NCT’s Seoul team, the home of K-pop. NCT 127's American-focused single, "Cherry Bomb," has over 38 million views on YouTube and counting. The band is currently on Billboard’s Social 50 and are in NYC for KCON New York. Watch our time with NCT 127 when they stopped by BUILD.

After clearing his name, Luke Cage has become a celebrity on the streets of Harlem with a reputation as bulletproof as his skin. But being so visible has only increased his need to protect the community and find the limits of who he can and can’t save. With the rise of a formidable new foe, Luke is forced to confront the fine line that separates a hero from a villain. Simone Missick who plays Misty Knight dropped by BUILD to tell us all about the new season of the hit Netflix Original series, Marvel's "Luke Cage."

Jack Davenport (“Pirates of the Caribbean,” “White Famous”), is the star of Sundance Now’s newly announced gripping international thriller, "Next of Kin." The series follows whip-smart General Practitioner Mona Shirani who lives a charmed life at the heart of a loving family in London. Unfortunately, she is left grief-stricken when her beloved brother is brutally murdered while working for a medical charity overseas. As the death brings buried family secrets to light, Mona is drawn into a tangle of betrayal, conspiracy and murder. One way or another, she must find a way to protect herself, her family and her career as they are all put at risk.

Gabrielle Dennis is having an awesome year! Dennis portrays the role of Dr. Tilda Johnson, a holistic doctor with a troubled past in Harlem who becomes the alias criminal mind Nightshade, in the second season of Netflix's popular series, Marvel's "Luke Cage." You can also see her as Whitney Houston in BET’s television film, "The Bobby Brown Story," coming out in September. Watch when Dennis visited BUILD.

Digital entertainment program BUILD Series takes its popular and extensive live interview show to the next level, adding a new, daily morning talk show “BUILD Brunch," as BUILD Series continues its commitment to bring its fans closer to culture. Airing weekdays at 11am live on BUILDseries.com/Brunch, it will feature a roundtable of diverse, young and influential personalities speaking to breaking news, hot topics and the latest in entertainment. Comedic talent Jamie Lee of HBO's "Crashing" joins the table.

The path to Dr. Dog's album, "Critical Equation," was an unusual one for the Philadelphia five-piece (McMicken, Leaman, guitarist Frank McElroy, keyboardist Zach Miller, and drummer Eric Slick) and it stretches all the way back to 2014, when the band completed work on an album titled "Abandoned Mansion." Instead of releasing the record the following year as planned, they temporarily shelved it in favor of an opportunity to partner with the celebrated Pig Iron Theatre Company on a reimagining of "The Psychedelic Swamp," a long lost McMicken-Leaman collaboration that actually predated Dr. Dog’s debut album. Guitarist/singer Scott McMicken of Dr. Dog took the BUILD stage to speak on their latest album.