TV news
Hannah Whitlock
September 27, 2026 5:41 pm
Deadliest Catch: how long are they at sea? Trip lengths for every season the show films
Discovery cuts a Bering Sea opener into an hour of television, and the arithmetic never adds up for anyone watching at home. The real number is closer to a month, and it used to be closer to three days.
Crush of the day
Hannah Whitlock
September 27, 2026 4:26 pm
Who killed the Frog in NCIS? The body opened season 5 — the name waited until episode 14
The last shot of the season 5 premiere is a corpse with a single hole in its forehead, sinking. The show then spent most of a year not answering the obvious question.
Hannah Whitlock
September 27, 2026 3:12 pm
Where is Crew Girl filmed? The real school behind Easton Prep takes visitors
Eagle's Cove, Massachusetts is an invention. The boarding school at the center of it has a street address, a gift shop, and a café.
Hannah Whitlock
September 27, 2026 1:58 pm
Why is Finn's voice different in Adventure Time: Side Quests? Everyone else in Ooo sounds exactly as you remember
John DiMaggio is back. So are Tom Kenny, Hynden Walch, Olivia Olson, and Niki Yang. The hero is the only role that got recast, and it was the first decision the show made.
Hannah Whitlock
September 27, 2026 12:47 pm
Why did Lisa Bonet leave A Different World? One season at Hillman, then a decision made off camera
A Different World was built around Lisa Bonet, and it worked immediately. One season later she was off the show, and the decision was not made in the writers' room.
Hannah Whitlock
September 27, 2026 11:33 am
What happened to Eris in Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation? Season 3 opens with her side of the years apart
Eris exits at the end of season one with a note and no explanation, and the anime has spent two seasons following the person she left. Season three does the opposite for two full episodes.
Hannah Whitlock
September 27, 2026 10:19 am
MasterChef season 4: where are they now? The season Luca won over Natasha — and the rest of the top ten, thirteen years on
Nineteen home cooks started the season in May 2013 and two were still standing in September. What the rest of them are doing now has almost nothing to do with food, and almost everything to do with it, depending on which one you pick.
Hannah Whitlock
September 27, 2026 9:08 am
What year is NCIS: Origins set in? Early enough that the agency isn't even called NCIS yet
The title of this show is technically an anachronism. In the year it opens, no such organization exists.
Hannah Whitlock
September 26, 2026 5:13 pm
Survivor 6 cast: where are they now? Starting with the youngest woman ever to win
Sixteen people flew into the Rio Negro in November 2002 for a season built around one gimmick: men against women. Twenty-three years later, the cast list reads like a spread sheet of completely unrelated American careers.
Hannah Whitlock
September 26, 2026 3:51 pm
Where was Last Seen filmed? The novel is set in East Texas, and the UK was the producers' first pick — neither made the cut
Apple TV's missing-child thriller moved countries twice before a single frame was shot. The version that made it to air is set and filmed entirely in one Australian state.