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Tatiana Santos
September 15, 2026 6:05 pm
The Gilded Age returns November 1 and drops the richest man in America into the Russells' world
Three seasons in, the Russells have out-spent, out-schemed and out-married everyone on Fifth Avenue, and season 3 left them sleeping in different houses. HBO has now put a date on the repair job — and season 4 brings in a man with more money than both families combined.
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Tatiana Santos
September 15, 2026 5:06 pm
Dancing with the Stars returns tonight, and last season's winning pro is dancing 5 months pregnant
Sixteen couples, two premiere nights, and one thing this ballroom has not had before: the pro who won the last mirrorball is dancing five months pregnant — and she said so before the season started, not halfway through it.
Tatiana Santos
September 15, 2026 4:52 pm
Hell's Kitchen winners: where are they now? All 24, including the ones who never took the job
Twenty-four seasons. Twenty-four chefs who survived Gordon Ramsay screaming into their soul at close range, took the $250,000, and walked out with a shiny head chef job offer.
Tatiana Santos
September 15, 2026 4:08 pm
American Idol is leaving Los Angeles after 24 seasons: California wrote a law last year to stop exactly this, and Idol didn't make the cut
California spent last year writing its first tax credit for unscripted television, partly so that shows like this one would stop leaving. Season 25 of American Idol is being built in Georgia instead, because the show could not use the credit that was written for it.
Tatiana Santos
September 15, 2026 3:27 pm
Romantics Anonymous star Yuri Nakamura has died at 44, and the news was held for two weeks
She played the therapist who tells other people to stop hiding. Yuri Nakamura died on September 1, and the audience that turned Romantics Anonymous into a global Netflix hit found out two weeks later — which turns out to be the shortest secret she ever kept.
Tatiana Santos
September 15, 2026 3:18 pm
Warner buried Coyote vs. Acme for a tax break — it just crossed $82 million in theaters
In November 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery looked at a finished, test-audience-approved Looney Tunes movie and decided it was worth more dead than alive — roughly $30 million more, in tax write-off form.
Tatiana Santos
September 15, 2026 3:17 pm
The Souffleur ending explained: what Lucius finally accepts after the hotel is sold out from under him
There is a specific genre of Willem Dafoe performance I would watch on a loop forever: Dafoe as a man clinging with both hands to something the universe has already decided to take from him.
Tatiana Santos
September 15, 2026 1:41 pm
Is Hanging by a Wire a true story? Where the footage inside the cable car actually came from
Every once in a while a documentary comes along that plays like a disaster thriller some studio exec would reject as "too much." Hanging by a Wire is that documentary.
Tatiana Santos
September 15, 2026 1:26 pm
A 13-year-old orphan wrote Aretha Franklin's greatest hit — and ended up a middle school music teacher
Pop history is full of songwriting origin stories, but this one deserves its own movie, and I'd like casting approval.
Tatiana Santos
September 15, 2026 12:53 pm
Tickets went on sale at noon for Artificial, the OpenAI movie that doesn't start with Sam Altman
Everyone has filed it as the Sam Altman movie: Andrew Garfield, the hoodie, the five November days that nearly ended OpenAI. Then the festival premiering it published a synopsis, and the film turns out to begin twenty years earlier, in a Toronto lab, with a different man entirely.