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Tatiana Santos
September 17, 2026 2:02 pm
The Traitors: New Blood premiere tonight — what to expect when 60,000 applicants boil down to 22 strangers in the castle
Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, NBC hands Alan Cumming's Scottish castle over to people you have never seen on television before, and I could not be more ready.
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Tatiana Santos
September 17, 2026 1:37 pm
Why Kit Harington joined Harry Potter as Lockhart amid backlash, explained
Kit Harington knows nothing, except apparently every word of the Harry Potter audiobooks, which he confessed to using as a nightly sleep aid on national television this week.
Daniel Okafor
September 17, 2026 1:14 pm
Netflix's Monster returned with the one subject in four seasons that a jury acquitted
Ian Brennan's anthology has spent four seasons on men the courts convicted. This one is about a woman a jury let go in 1893 — and the show's own synopsis says she did it anyway. The first reviews arrived an hour apart and could not agree on what they had watched.
Tatiana Santos
September 17, 2026 1:14 pm
Reacher season 5 character update: Kathleen Robertson on whether Elspeth returns for Make Me
Reacher season 4 wrapped this week the way all Reacher seasons wrap: our giant boy wins, buys a fresh toothbrush, and walks off toward the horizon like a Roomba with abs.
Tatiana Santos
September 17, 2026 12:26 pm
DWTS season 35 night 2 elimination results: Maura Higgins tops the board — a Traitors reunion did half the work
The women of DWTS season 35 finally got their turn Wednesday night, dancing to No. 1 hits from the year they were born, which is a theme designed specifically to make me feel ancient.
Hannah Whitlock
September 17, 2026 12:19 pm
Who pays for the renovations on Kitchen Nightmares? An executive producer has settled it on the record
Every episode of Kitchen Nightmares runs on the same beautiful arc: Gordon Ramsay finds a walk-in fridge that violates the Geneva Conventions, screams in a way that should be studied by linguists, and then — overnight, somehow — the entire restaurant is reborn with new decor, new equipment, and a menu that no longer causes food poisoning.
Hannah Whitlock
September 17, 2026 10:47 am
Who is Kat in MobLand? Janet McTeer's power broker whose single phone call halts a cartel execution
MobLand spent seven episodes convincing me the Harrigans were the apex predators of London — Pierce Brosnan glowering, Helen Mirren scheming, Tom Hardy's Harry Da Souza fixing everything short of the weather. Then episode 7, "The Crossroads," happened, and the show casually revealed that all of these terrifying people are, on the global org chart, middle management.
Daniel Okafor
September 16, 2026 7:52 pm
Jessica Chastain joins Netflix's Yale fertility series — the case where three quarters of the painkiller turned out to be saline
Netflix named a third star on Wednesday for the series it is making about the Yale fertility clinic, and the casting is the easy part. The case underneath it is documented in a federal court file, and the numbers in that file are worse than the logline suggests.
Daniel Okafor
September 16, 2026 7:12 pm
Slow Horses lost its showrunner after five seasons. Season 6 opened at 100% — and his replacement says she didn't take his job
Gaby Chiappe inherited a show that had run on one man's template for five seasons, and says she never tried to step into his shoes. The season she made opened at a hundred per cent — the third time in six seasons the show has hit a clean hundred.
Daniel Okafor
September 16, 2026 6:32 pm
SNL closed its season 52 cast ten days before the premiere — and one of the two new hires had already tried out in an earlier year
Both of the new hires came in through the casting showcases, and one of them had already auditioned in an earlier year. Add them to the five returning featured players and season 52 opens with seventeen people, exactly what the show carried into last season.