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Daniel Okafor
September 17, 2026 6:06 pm
Netflix handed its new Monster season to an actress with two screen credits
Ella Beatty is 26, left Juilliard in 2022 and had been on screen exactly twice before Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan handed her eight episodes and the first female lead the anthology has had. Her parents are Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, and that is the smaller half of the story.
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Hannah Whitlock
September 17, 2026 5:04 pm
What do they win on The Great British Bake Off? The actual prize — and how one winner turned it into an estimated £3.7 million
Somewhere out there is a television executive who has never once considered giving Bake Off winners money, and honestly? I respect the commitment to the bit.
Tatiana Santos
September 17, 2026 4:14 pm
One night after an Emmy for the show CBS killed, Stephen Colbert made his first return — on Jimmy Kimmel Live
The revenge arc wrote itself, and Stephen Colbert simply showed up to perform it. On Monday, The Late Show — the program CBS canceled while it was the most-watched show in late night — won the Outstanding Variety Series Emmy, part of a seven-trophy haul for its final season.
Tatiana Santos
September 17, 2026 3:49 pm
Industry season 5 adds Ben Platt and Russell Tovey to HBO's farewell cast
Industry, HBO's beloved drama about beautiful people doing cocaine near Bloomberg terminals, is filming its fifth and final season, and the guest list for the funeral keeps getting better. Ben Platt and Russell Tovey are the latest additions.
Daniel Okafor
September 17, 2026 3:37 pm
Sarah Paulson plays a woman executed in 2002 in Netflix's Monster season set in 1892
The Lizzie Borden season landed on Thursday with a second woman inside it: Sarah Paulson as Aileen Wuornos, in scenes set decades after the murder trial. Wuornos was executed in Florida in 2002, and there is already a film called Monster about her — the one that won Charlize Theron an Oscar.
Tatiana Santos
September 17, 2026 2:47 pm
Stranger Things: Tales From '85 season 2 review — what happens when Hawkins meets its first-ever ghosts
Hawkins, Indiana cannot have one normal holiday. Not Halloween, not Christmas, and — as of season 2 of Netflix's animated spinoff, all eight episodes of which dropped today — definitely not Valentine's Day.
Daniel Okafor
September 17, 2026 2:40 pm
Debby Ryan says her fifth concussion took six months out of her life, and some things never came back
Ryan told a YouTube food show that a brain injury took six months out of her life and six more in neurological rehab, and that some things never came back. The episode went up on Monday. It took about 51 hours for anyone to notice what was in it.
Tatiana Santos
September 17, 2026 2:24 pm
Why Judge Judy is retiring as Judy Justice ends — her 30th anniversary special airs first
Judith Sheindlin has spent three decades telling grown adults to stop talking, and now she's telling television itself to stop talking. On the literal 30th anniversary of the day Judge Judy first aired — September 16, 1996, for those of us who were home sick from school a lot — she went on Good Morning America and announced she's done.
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.
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.