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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.
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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.
Tatiana Santos
September 16, 2026 6:32 pm
Who killed Anais's father in A Remarkable Place to Die? Two men were already in prison for it when episode one began
Let's get one thing straight about Queenstown: the mountains are gorgeous, the lake is gorgeous, and absolutely everyone is lying about something. That's the deal A Remarkable Place to Die offers you in its very first episode, when Detective Anais Mallory rolls back into her hometown wearing the specific facial expression of a woman who does not believe a single word of the official record.
Daniel Okafor
September 16, 2026 5:43 pm
Reacher's spinoff Neagley opened at 89% — the lowest score in the franchise, and the reason isn't the cast
Eighty-nine per cent is a good score. It is also the lowest anything in the Reacher universe has posted, and the two rotten reviews that pulled it there both go after the writing rather than Maria Sten.
Tatiana Santos
September 16, 2026 4:51 pm
Where does A Remarkable Place to Die take place? The real New Zealand town it's both set and filmed in
Some shows invent a town, some shows borrow one, and some shows just point a camera at a real place so photogenic it feels like set dressing. A Remarkable Place to Die is firmly in category three.
Daniel Okafor
September 16, 2026 4:31 pm
The first person to win The Voice has died at 43. The show that made him spent four years off air
Ben Saunders is being written up in America this week as the first person ever to win The Voice, which is true and still slightly misleading. He won the Dutch original in January 2011, months before NBC put its version on the air, and he was found dead in a lake near Arnhem on Tuesday at 43.
Tatiana Santos
September 16, 2026 3:23 pm
What is a ghost in Ghost in the Shell? The meaning, and the 1967 philosophy book the term was lifted from
There are people who have watched Ghost in the Shell four times and still couldn't tell you what, precisely, a "ghost" is. I know because I was one of them, nodding along while cyborgs whispered about their ghosts like it was obvious.
Tatiana Santos
September 16, 2026 3:09 pm
Bravo offered RHOSLC's Mary Cosby a year off after her son died. She took three weeks
Mary Cosby went back to work three weeks after burying her only child. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City starts its seventh season tonight, and hours before the premiere she gave her first long account of why she turned down the year off Bravo had offered her.
Tatiana Santos
September 16, 2026 2:44 pm
Four days from the Lioness finale, Paramount+ still hasn't ordered a season 4 of its biggest show
Lioness closes season 3 this Sunday as the most-watched title on Paramount+ anywhere in the world. Its lead spent last week’s episode escaping captivity, and the streamer still hasn’t said whether any of it continues past the finale.
Tatiana Santos
September 16, 2026 1:49 pm
Where does Best Medicine take place? The fishing village is fictional, but it was modelled on a real one — and shot in a different state altogether
Fox's Best Medicine — the American Doc Martin remake where Josh Charles glowers at lobster traps — is set in the postcard fishing village of Port Wenn, Maine. Before you start planning a foliage-season pilgrimage: you will not find Port Wenn on any map.