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Saturday Night Live UK review: it didn’t fail and could improve

In the end it’s a feeling: the inaugural episode of Saturday Night Live UK did work. Eleven actors and a 20-strong writing team drawn from more than 1,200 applicants gave a show that began with George Fouracres’s Keir Starmer cold open and ran into a guest monologue

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Showrunner on Daredevil and Kingpin's Rivalry in Born Again Season 2

Charlie Cox returns as Daredevil for a second season of Daredevil: Born Again, reunited with Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk and other MCU veterans. The story picks up almost directly where Season 1 left off, with Matt on the run from Mayor Fisk and his Anti-Vigilante Task

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Alan Ritchson’s War Machine Falls to Bob Odenkirk’s Nobody 2 on Netflix

Bob Odenkirk’s sequel Nobody 2 has climbed to the top of Netflix’s charts after an earlier run on Peacock, placing Alan Ritchson’s new sci-fi action film War Machine in second. War Machine is described as a Predator-esque tale of a man’s fight to survive against an

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Eleanor Abbott and the creation of Candy Land

Eleanor Abbott contracted polio around age 38 while working repairing watches and recuperating in a San Diego hospital. Polio had swept the United States in the 1940s; by 1948 it was a full-on epidemic, producing 42,173 cases and 2,720 deaths in 1949 alone. Abbott was struck by how

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Baldur's Gate 3 writer: 'I wish I could have done more' for Wyll

Wyll has become one of Baldur's Gate 3's more criticized companions, with many players feeling he lacks content compared with other party members. He still has a compelling storyline — Mizora and all — but his romance options and overall arc come across as thinner, and Larian Studios

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Lost Mystery Science Theater 3000 Episode Uploaded After 37 Years

Mystery Science Theater 3000 has 230 episodes and has hopped between KTMA, Comedy Central, Sci‑Fi (now Syfy), and Netflix over nearly 40 years. The series’ focus on robots riffing on feature‑length B movies has made long‑term rights complicated, and some early episodes ended up without home release

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This 10/10 'Office' Quote Was Completely Improvised by Steve Carell

More than a decade after the series ended, The Office still circulates countless iconic lines, and not all the best laughs came from the writers. Steve Carell supplied many of Michael Scott’s most memorable moments with on-the-spot choices that fit the character perfectly. One subtle example comes in the

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Property Brothers offer 4 homebuying tips for a tough market

Drew and Jonathan Scott, known as the Property Brothers, guide buyers on their HGTV series "Property Brothers: Under Pressure." After renovating more than 1,000 homes and making over 600 TV episodes, they say today's buyers arrive with tighter budgets and fewer nonnegotiables. First, think about

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Crimson Desert developer to patch awkward control scheme

Crimson Desert has drawn criticism for an unintuitive control scheme, and Pearl Abyss says it is "currently preparing a patch" to address player complaints. "Since launch, we have been listening closely to your feedback and doing our best to make improvements to the game," the developer

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Chris Stuckmann's 'Shelby Oaks' Finally Sets Streaming Release Date

Five months after its theatrical debut, Shelby Oaks will arrive on Hulu beginning Apr. 17. Released last October by Neon, much of the film's $1 million-plus production budget was secured through Kickstarter by writer-director Chris Stuckmann, who is best known for his YouTube channel with more than 2

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Hulu’s The Dropout hits harder on a 2026 rewatch

The Dropout, Hulu’s eight-part American crime drama, grows more compelling on a 2026 rewatch. It digs into the Theranos scandal and features an all-time great performance by Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes while asking probing questions about the flaws in the American healthcare system that let a manipulative influencer

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Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord casts Maul as 'a bad guy fighting worse guys'

We're just a few weeks out from the return of former Sith lord Maul — he ditched the "Darth" bit a while back — to our screens in a new animated show. Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord is a 10-episode series that puts the sinister Zabrak front and

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Nathan Fillion Won't Continue Firefly Past Serenity

Nathan Fillion is developing an animated revival of the cult sci-fi western Firefly. He clarified that it won’t be a continuation of the existing story and takes place before the 2005 feature film Serenity rather than picking up where the movie left off. "It's called the

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The Count of Monte Cristo Review: Near-Perfect Eight-Part Remake

This English-language French–Italian limited series, overseen by Danish director Bille August and filmed in France, Malta, and Italy, reunites Sam Claflin and Jeremy Irons in an eight-hour adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic. The long-form format allows the production to breathe, and its location-based naturalism gives the drama a

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Invincible showrunners promise surprises and strong emotions in Season 4

Season 3 of Invincible closed on a high note: the finale was, at the time of the interview, the seventh-highest rated television episode of all time. Mark/Invincible (Steven Yeun) defeated Conquest (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Eve (Gillian Jacobs) reached her full potential, and a credit scene was left open to

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I vowed not to kill my kids' career dreams, then I became a mom

I carried a quiet grudge against my parents for steering me away from writing and toward a “real” career. They saw my journals and the essays my teachers praised and still urged me to study education or law, and for years I resented their lack of faith in a creative

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Melissa Peterman on Why Vacations with Reba McEntire Are the Best

Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman, co-stars on the sitcom Happy's Place, have forged a tight bond over decades and often travel together between projects. Peterman said, "We travel well together. We laugh a lot. We play a lot of games. We always bring games. We eat a

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Brenda Song slams Alaska Airlines after family split on first-class flight

Actress Brenda Song criticized Alaska Airlines after the carrier split her and fiancé Macaulay Culkin from their sons, Dakota, 4, and Carson, 3, during a family trip. She said the family had booked first-class seats together months in advance and that the seats were "given away" the morning

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Screamer review

Screamer is an immaculately presented arcade racer that piles on fresh ideas and a distinctive anime-infused style. Milestone has lavished care on its narrative-led structure and visuals, from Persona-style intro cutscenes to 2D character avatars that flow naturally into bombastic, dystopian races. Yet beneath the polish the driving feels discordant.

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Push packs a rich superhero universe into a single film

The opening credits of the 2009 film Push cram so much exposition and terminology that it feels like the filmmakers are introducing an entire superhero universe. Instead, the story ended with a single film. Part of the cape-free wave that followed 2006’s Heroes and preceded the dominance of the

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10 Most Exciting Apple TV Shows to Binge-Watch, Ranked

Apple TV has built an impressive streaming catalog, showing a deliberateness in its release schedule and a consistent commitment to quality across genres. Not every series aims for nonstop thrills, but several are entertaining and easy to binge. Bad Sisters, co-created by and starring Sharon Horgan, adapts the Belgian series

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The Wheel of Time to return as animated films, series and a game

Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time is getting a second life on screen after Prime Video canceled its live-action adaptation. The franchise will return as a series of animated movies and shows plus a video game, all developed by Arcane animated series producer Thomas Vu through his company

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Cooking with Angela Hartnett: ‘I love food, but I don’t need to talk about it 24/7’

Angela Hartnett’s east London basement kitchen combines the ease of a lived-in home with the exactitude of a Michelin-starred chef: every utensil where your hand expects it, everything the right size. Today she’s making poached chicken with spring vegetables, a dish that feels simple but leaves no room

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Minecraft World theme park with roller coaster slated for 2027

Mojang Studios and Merlin Entertainment are teaming up to open an official Minecraft theme park called Minecraft World. Announced during the Minecraft Live showcase, the park is tentatively scheduled to open in 2027 and will be integrated with the existing Chessington World of Adventures in Greater London. It will include

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Sci-Fi Survival Quiz: Which World Would You Survive?

A sci‑fi survival quiz presents five universes and ten questions designed to figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or wasteland your instincts were built for. The questionnaire probes how you respond to scarcity, threats, and authority—asking about the resources you guard, the threats that keep you up at night,