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PIcture Credit: Wolf Entertainment / Universal Television Dick Wolf’s flagship procedural is officially making its way to Netflix, and it looks like we might be getting a massive batch of episodes. In a last-minute surprise addition to the April release roster, Netflix has struck a deal with NBCUniversal to bring the classic, original Law & Order series to the streaming platform for the very first time. Episodes of the iconic courtroom and police drama will begin streaming this coming Monday, April 20th. International subscribers will have to sit this one out, however, as this licensed pickup is strictly for Netflix…

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Moroccan French actress Nadia Farès, who last week was found unconscious in a swimming pool and has been in a coma ever since, died yesterday at the age of 57. Her daughters confirmed her death, caused by cardiac arrest, in a statement to Agence France-Presse. “It is with immense sadness that we announce the death this Friday of Nadia Farès. France has lost a great artist, but for us, it is above all a mother that we have just lost,” Cylia and Shana Chasman wrote. The Marrakesh-born actress is best known for her breakout role in 2000’s The Crimson Rivers,…

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The season finale of HBO’s medical drama “The Pitt” has sparked a divide among viewers, pitting the show’s gritty medical realism against a vocal online fanbase that is calling the latest plot points discriminatory. The drama has tackled controversial storylines in previous episodes, but it now faces criticism from viewers on social media who argue the show’s focus on realism conflicts with expectations around diversity and inclusion. At the center of the controversy is Hollywood veteran Noah Wyle, with some viewers calling his character’s focus on patient safety discriminatory and others directing criticism at the actor himself. The season 2 finale saw months of…

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Nicole Kidman is opening up about the “harrowing” way she learned about her mother’s death. The Oscar winner lost her mother, Janelle Ann Kidman, at the age of 84 in September 2024. She had just won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for Babygirl when she learned her mom had passed away. “This seems to be such a common theme through my life,” Nicole explained to the audience at the Marian Anderson Hall at the Kimmel Center on Saturday (April 18) as part of HISTORYTalks 2026 (via The Hollywood Reporter). “I was about to go on stage, and I found…

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After over a year since the first season premiered, Running Point season 2 arrives to bring Academy Award nominee Kate Hudson back into the world of basketball. In the comedy’s first season, Hudson’s Isla Gordon became the unexpected new president of the Los Angeles Waves basketball team and facing all kinds of challenges from her brothers, the public, and the players.Running Point, which comes from Mindy Kaling, also navigated the complicated revelation that Isla and her three brothers have a half brother they never knew about. Between the complex situation the franchise faces on the court to the various behind-the-scenes…

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A documentarian who’s been working with Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson is providing a little direction into rumors of a reignited feud. Nicola Marsh—the director of an upcoming Netflix docuseries following the One Direction alums—weighed in on a report that Zayn, 33, and Louis, 34, had gotten into a physical fight while filming the project, resulting in the former bandmates allegedly falling out once again. Sharing an image of The Sun’s recent issue with the front page headline reading “Louis Punched by Zayn,” Nicola wrote on her Instagram Story April 18, per a screenshot published by The Independent, “And there…

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Polly Holliday began her career as a professional actress in the early 1960s, but she had her big mainstream breakthrough in 1976, when she was cast as wisecracking and flirtatious waitress Florence Jean Castleberry — but you can call her Flo — on the CBS sitcom “Alice.” The series, which was based on a Martin Scorsese film, ran for nine seasons, but Flo was such a popular character that she earned Holliday three Emmy nods for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and was spun off into her very own show. Entitled — you guessed it —…

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Nathalie Baye, a French actress known for her roles in the film Downton Abbey: A New Era and Catch Me If You Can, has died. She was 77. Baye died on Friday at her home in Paris from complications of Lewy body dementia, her family told the Agence France-Presse. Born on July 6, 1948, in Mainneville, Eure, Normandy, Baye began her career in the 1970s, appearing in more than 80 films. She graduated from France’s Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique (National Academy of Dramatic Arts) in 1972. Baye made her film debut that same year in Robert Wise’s Two People.…

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Juno Temple hiding by a freezer.Image via Briarcliff Entertainment It wasn’t a great start to the year for sci-fi films until Project Hail Mary came along and shattered expectations. Before Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s blockbuster, which has grossed more than $500 million worldwide so far, two sci-fi movies came and went without making much of an impact in theaters. Neither of those two films was able to recoup its budget, and only one of them received positive reviews. The other was Mercy, starring Chris Pratt as a Los Angeles cop accused of murdering his wife, and Rebecca Ferguson as…

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