TV news - Page 12
Hannah Whitlock
September 22, 2026 1:16 pm
Where does Stranger Things: Tales From '85 fit in the timeline? Netflix wedged a "lost season" between two you've already watched
Netflix put ten animated episodes into a stretch of Hawkins history the live-action series skipped over completely. Pinning down exactly where they sit takes two dates, and both of them are already on screen in the original show.
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Daniel Okafor
September 22, 2026 12:53 pm
Jensen Ackles will play Lucas Davenport for MGM+, the third actor in the role and the first to start at book one
A detective invented in 1989 has been on screen twice, both times as a one-off television film, and both times starting somewhere in the middle of a thirty-five-book shelf. The third attempt goes back to the first page, runs eight episodes, and starts shooting in Toronto within weeks.
Daniel Okafor
September 22, 2026 11:53 am
Hayden Panettiere's death was ruled an accident five weeks after she was found, and the investigation is still open
Five weeks passed between the morning she was found and the sentence that names what happened. The office in South Carolina has now published its conclusion, and it closes one question while leaving the one the federal agents are working on wide open.
Tatiana Santos
September 22, 2026 9:02 am
General Hospital's most shocking character deaths, ranked: one of them literally gave her heart to her cousin
Port Charles has been killing beloved characters for four decades, but a few exits were so brutal that fans still bring them up like personal grievances — and the worst one involves a school bus.
Tatiana Santos
September 22, 2026 8:38 am
Why is Kevin Atwater leaving Chicago PD? LaRoyce Hawkins' exit comes with a replacement already cast
One of the last original faces of the Intelligence Unit walks out the door in October — and the show had his successor's job description written before fans finished reading the news.
Tatiana Santos
September 22, 2026 8:13 am
Resident Playbook finale ending explained: season 1 breaks records, ends with a ring — and Netflix already filed it under “limited”
Korea's coziest medical drama saved its biggest numbers and its softest gesture for the very end — and then one word in Netflix's fine print ruined the afterglow.
Tatiana Santos
September 22, 2026 7:24 am
Sam Richardson joins the Elsbeth season 4 cast as Cody Baxter — a competitive eater whose appetite turns deadly
The killer-of-the-week carousel has loaded its next batch of famous suspects, and one casting choice is so perfectly cursed it deserves its own press tour.
Tatiana Santos
September 22, 2026 6:58 am
Gilmore Girls made the NYT best shows of the century, and Alexis Bledel's interview admits Rory was nearly someone else's
Twenty-six years on, the show landed on a very fancy list — and its star used the occasion to remind everyone how close the whole thing came to going sideways in the casting room.
Tatiana Santos
September 22, 2026 6:07 am
Production wrapped on A Hundred Percent — Nick Kroll's Netflix cast plays wellness gurus who fall apart off camera
Netflix just finished shooting a comedy aimed squarely at the smoothie-brained thought-leader class, and the cast list reads like a group chat you'd pay to be added to.
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 8:20 pm
Adele Zaikman won a spinoff for the right to be a DWTS pro, then went out first on a night the voting site crashed
Two men in this cast have the same first name spelled one letter apart, and American fans vote by texting a first name to a five-digit number. On premiere night the online ballot collapsed and those texts were all that counted. The professional who went home has finally given her account of it.