TV news
Hannah Whitlock
September 25, 2026 5:47 pm
American Dad: every episode where Steve sings — Scott Grimes had a recording career before the show, and it's never gone to waste
Scott Grimes had a major-label album and a charting single before he ever voiced a fourteen-year-old. The writers figured that out early and have been spending it for twenty-two seasons.
Crush of the day
Hannah Whitlock
September 25, 2026 5:09 pm
MasterChef season 3: where are they now? The 2012 finalists, and the cooks who nearly beat them
MasterChef's third American season ran from 4 June to 10 September 2012 and produced the finale the show still leans on in its own promos. Fourteen years later, its top ten have ended up in kitchens, classrooms, real estate offices and, in one case, a Barbie-themed pop-up.
Hannah Whitlock
September 25, 2026 4:34 pm
Where is Best Medicine filmed? Port Wenn's harbour is real — it just isn't on the ocean
Port Wenn is written as a Maine fishing village on the Atlantic. The water in nearly every exterior shot is fresh, tidal, and about ninety minutes north of Manhattan.
Hannah Whitlock
September 25, 2026 3:58 pm
NCIS: what happened to Jimmy's wife? Brian Dietzen was told before the writers wrote it
There is no episode where Breena Palmer dies. The show skipped the scene entirely, which was the point, and the actor who had to carry it knew it was coming long before a script existed.
Hannah Whitlock
September 25, 2026 3:12 pm
How many seasons will Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation have? The novels finished years ago, so the maths can actually be done
Most long-running anime can't answer this question, because nobody knows how much source material is still coming. This one can, because the source material stopped six years ago.
Hannah Whitlock
September 25, 2026 2:39 pm
NCIS: Origins: what happened to Lala? Gibbs never once mentioned her in the original show — the prequel is explaining why
CBS's prequel gave 1991 Gibbs a partner the flagship series never acknowledged in twenty seasons. Two years in, the show has answered the question about her survival and left the bigger one alone.
Daniel Okafor
September 25, 2026 2:30 pm
'She went rogue': 911 audio from Tampa airport shows how long it took to find Milania Giudice
The last place anyone saw her was next to a 21-foot pink flamingo. The police radio traffic made public on Friday fills in what the deleted Instagram clip left out, and her father has now answered the clip too.
Hannah Whitlock
September 25, 2026 10:21 am
Who is the Scarlet Hand in Sisters Grimm? The books took seven volumes to name the one behind it
A red handprint turns up where a crime has happened, and nobody in Ferryport Landing will say what it means. Michael Buckley kept that answer sealed for four years of publishing.
Tatiana Santos
September 25, 2026 10:07 am
Youth review: Sharon Horgan follows Bad Sisters with an HBO show at 96% on Rotten Tomatoes
Alex is 50, divorced, a London book agent, and she has just done the actuarial math on her own romantic future. By her count, there's roughly a decade left to find someone before, as the show frames it, the Old You arrives — so she's dating with the focused energy of a woman clearing out an inbox.
Tatiana Santos
September 25, 2026 9:44 am
9-1-1 season 10 release date confirmed: an October premiere, with Nashville riding along the same night
ABC has decided that one hour of screaming sirens per week is for cowards.