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Not every former series regular returns for “Ted Lasso” Season 4, but Hannah Waddingham, Jeremy Swift, and Juno Temple are front and center from the jump, as Rebecca, Higgins, and Keeley arrive on Ted’s Kansas City doorstep hoping to convince him to coach AFC Richmond’s newly formed women’s team. The trio relished kicking off Season 4 together in the city where the series’ title character first took shape, with Temple even pitching a Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz”-inspired entrance for Keeley that made its way into the premiere. But beneath the excitement of filming in Kansas City lurked a lingering…
In The Purge and its endless franchise spawn, an annual felony free-for-all allows for a single night of unlawful acts, including murder, in a United States of Grim that’s otherwise crime-free the rest of the year. Similarly, in the contemporary New York City world of One Night Only, tight-sphinctered conservatives have outlawed sex for anyone unmarried, lifting the ban for just a single 12-hour window per year, protection required. You might think CVS would plan ahead and stack the shelves with condoms during the countdown period. But removing that prophylactic shortage would rob Travis Braun’s silly script of one of many hindrances in…
‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ Actor No Wonder Disney 86’d Revival … Where Were The OGs?!? Published August 5, 2026 8:45 AM PDT One “Wizards of Waverly Place” star is ripping the reboot … he thinks if producers had performed a “presto chango” on the cast, the whole show might’ve been better off. David DeLuise — who played Selena Gomez’s character’s father in the hit Disney show back in the day — blasted the show’s direction in a merciless Instagram post … claiming that if they’d brought all the OG wizards back for the revival, then it might not have ended…
When David Harbour signed on for HBO’s dark comedy DTF St. Louis, he knew he was venturing into unfamiliar territory. After building a career playing rugged, larger-than-life figures — from his Emmy-nominated performance as the gruff Chief Jim Hopper in Stranger Things to the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Red Guardian to the hard-drinking Santa Claus of Violent Night — the new role demanded one of the biggest creative leaps of his career. Created and directed by Steven Conrad, DTF St. Louis stars Harbour stars as Floyd Smernitch, a tenderhearted ASL interpreter entangled in a fatal suburban love triangle involving his wife,…
Whitney Leavitt & Connor Leavitt: MarriedWhitney Leavitt found the perfect dance partner in Connor Leavitt, whom she wed in 2016. But it wasn’t always smooth sailing for the couple—who share kids Sedona, Liam and Billy—as they navigated life in the spotlight. For instance, the Dancing With the Stars alum had to shut down rumors about her husband’s sexuality. “Do I need to put out a sex tape, or something? Like, trust me,” she said on the Off the Vine podcast in October 2024. “We’re good. Everything’s fine.” “I think it’s because when we were going through our personal stuff—and I…
Magic realist love story “Chapa 100,” absurdist political allegory “A Vineyard for a Lobster” and cross-continental queer drama “Hibiscus by the River” look like some of the potential standouts at Locarno’s talent-deep, wide-ranging 2026 Africa-focused Open Doors, unspooling on-site at Locarno over Aug. 5-10. Winner of a 2025 Atlas Workshops Development Award no less, moving from observational social realism to – literally – flowering magical realism, love story “Chapa 100” is set in Mozambique capital Maputo. It marks scribe-helmer Ique Langa’s follow-up to “The Prophet,” a 2026 IFF Rotterdam main competition entry. Beginning with an impossible snowfall blanketing a…
If you love fried chicken as much as British comedian Mo Gilligan, you might—like him—think that there’s nothing that can turn off from those savory, crunchy, finger-licking-good tenders. But I challenge viewers to get through Gilligan’s new Netflix documentary, Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy, without second-guessing every Popeyes, KFC, or Wingstop order for their rest of their lives. (Or at least, for the next week.)Produced by Mindhouse, the same production company behind the Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere documentary, and directed by Liana Stewart, Big Chicken is pretty much a redo of Morgan Spurlock’s 2004 documentary Super Size Me,…
When American actor and writer Austin Jennings Boykin brought his hotly tipped solo show, “A Gay Masseur’s Guide to Happy Endings,” to Edinburgh’s famed Festival Fringe this week, the performer ran into one unforeseen obstacle in promoting the project. Like something out of an Edinburgh Fringe play itself, Boykin’s show has found itself going up against a coffee-brewing evangelical Christian group to get noticed. Explained a Fringe insider: “A bunch of evangelical Christians have blocked the poster to Boykin’s play.” The poster for the show, “A Gay Masseur’s Guide to Happy Endings,” has been blocked by missionaries in Edinburgh.…
Sean O’Neill / BACKGRID Billie Eilish is on set, filming for the upcoming film adaptation of The Bell Jar! The 24-year-old Grammy Award winning singer was photographed in period piece attire filming a scene on Tuesday (August 4) in Toronto, Canada. Billie will be playing Esther Greenwood in the adaptation of Sylvia Plath‘s famous novel. The movie will mark her feature film acting debut, though she’s already a two-time Oscar winner thanks to her music. Variety reports that the story will follow “a young woman’s descent into mental illness amid the stifling societal expectations for women in the 1950s.” Sarah…
Picture Credit: ChuChuTV Netflix’s push to bring the biggest stars of YouTube over to its streaming platform continues. Next up is ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs, the wildly popular Indian edutainment network, which is setting up shop on Netflix globally in August 2026. If you’ve got young children, you almost certainly know the name—or at least the incredibly catchy tunes. Originating in India, ChuChu TV has grown into one of the most-watched kids’ networks on the planet. According to SocialBlade stats, their flagship channel boasts an eye-watering near-100 million subscribers, placing it comfortably in the upper echelon of YouTube…