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There's something different about the "Heated Rivalry" online fandom from what I typically see - something strange brewing in the feeds, something I haven't seen in a long time, or maybe ever. It's easy for a topic to suddenly take over my Instagram Reels or TikTok feeds - those algorithms seem so sensitive that interacting with just a handful of posts on a topic can instantly send you down a rabbit hole.

Unlike most people, fainting at work is a rite of passage; she moderates videos on social media that have been reported for violating the terms of service. That means watching everything from horrible porn to horrible politics to horrible accidents and everything in between, a non-stop diet of videos with titles such as fetus in blender or strangulation but she doesn't die.

After a 'short and sweet' appearance on the reality show in 2022, Ronan Keating's Jack son has wracked up a decent social media following ahead of returning to series three of Love Island All Stars for his 'revenge tour' - here's what you need to know

It's hard to make peace with the end of a new Star Trek show, especially after years without any Star Trek on the small screen at all - and especially when it comes to a great show like Lower Decks. The Trek franchise is always searching for a new corner of the final frontier to explore, but the animated comedy felt like the freshest addition to the world in decades.

The original Star Trek TV series debuted in 1966, so trying to get your head round all the sequels, prequels and timeline-splitting spin-offs can often feel like homework. It was only a matter of time before the venerable sci-fi franchise used a school as a setting. But Starfleet Academy, the latest streaming series, is not some random cosmic polytechnic for aliens to study humanities or vice versa.

The video podcast will release episodes weekly, beginning January 30 at 12:01 a.m. PT. Each episode will feature a "candid, no-holds-barred" conversation between Davidson and a pal that takes place in his garage, per Netflix. "Netflix was the home of one of my first stand-up specials," Davidson said in a statement, "so it felt right to bring the podcast there, too. It's me and my friends talking about anything and everything. It's going to be a great time."

At the end of Season 3, all signs pointed to "Industry," if renewed, journeying to the U.S. for Season 4, as two of the three series leads seemed set on moving their business across the Atlantic. In the finale, Harper (Myha'la) discussed setting up her new fund in New York, and Robert (Harry Lawtey) was in Silicon Valley raising money for his psilocybin mushroom venture.

A Thousand Blows returns for its second season darker, bruised, and more inward-looking than before, and when Steven Knight and Malachi Kirby sat down with Kyle Meredith, it was clear that shift was intentional. The Disney+ series, set in the brutal underbelly of 1880s London, picks up with its characters stripped of bravado and fighting to survive the consequences of Season 1.

"When we left to get in the car to come to the premiere, I was saying that I really wish I could be in every one of these episodes," she said. "I definitely would love to keep at it. I think when people see this show, they will remember that I'm able to do stuff like this."

Not so for Willard Carroll Smith II, the Academy award, Bafta and Grammy-winning actor and rapper who enjoyed an uninterruptedly stellar career from the late 80s until 2022, when he put a crimp in things by lamping the Oscars' host Chris Rock for insulting Smith's wife. This was followed by a tour violinist suing him for alleged predatory behaviour, unlawful termination and retaliation, which is working its way through the California legal system now. Smith has categorically denied all allegations.

"RJ Decker" is inspired by the Carl Hiaasen novel "Double Whammy." According to the official synopsis, RJ Decker is a "disgraced newspaper photographer and ex-con who starts over as a private investigator in the colorful-if-crime-filled world of South Florida. The series follows him tackling cases that range from slightly odd to outright bizarre with the help of his journalist ex, her police detective wife and a shadowy new benefactor - a woman from his past who could be his greatest ally...or his one-way ticket back to prison."

After Andy doles out the usual hellos and introductions to the ladies on the couch, he asks Meredith, who is of course in the hot seat this season, what her goal is heading into the reunion. But before she can answer, she says she has a question of her own for Whitney that will determine the trajectory of the day, and asks about an exchange they had at BravoCon in which Whitney said she wanted to clear things up.

If the first four episodes of sometimes felt meandering, indulgent, lost in the Wasteland's desert, then the showdown between House and Coop in the fifth episode, "The Wrangler," comes as a thrilling course correction. The fantastically acted duel between Walton Goggins and Justin Theroux rearranges Fallout's chessboard and makes it feel like the series is finally pushing itself in a new direction regarding what we do, or don't, know about how the U.S. stumbled into a nuclear holocaust.

Though most assumed that Silver had been replaced, he returned as Mr. House - or, at least, a version of him - in the very first episode of Fallout's new season. So did Theroux; while Silver's House appears on television, his House looks on from a seedy New Vegas bar. The truth becomes clear before long, but in Episode 5, Fallout finally lays it out plain.

Kenan Thompson's been acting for most of his life. Cast in both All That and D2: The Mighty Ducks in 1993, when he was just 15, Thompson came of age onscreen. Maybe that's why, when he joined Saturday Night Live, just ten years after he started on Nickelodeon, Thompson felt like a fully formed comedian, sure of his own voice and style and able to deliver in just about any situation. He might have been relatively young, but compared to his fellow cast members, he had more credits and (arguably) more experience.

The first Monday Night RAW of 2026 came live from the Upside Down, and the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The Stranger Things themed episode of Monday Night Raw aired on what was the first anniversary of WWE's flagship show airing on Netflix. The show, which featured three title matches, two title changes and a showstopping main event, gave a small glimpse into what 2026 could look like for WWE and Monday Night RAW.

As noted in a recent New York Times interview with Harington, nearly 2 million people signed a viral petition that called showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss "woefully incompetent," and asked for HBO to remake "a final season that makes sense." Harington was "genuinely angered" by this, he told the outlet in his profile published on Jan. 11. "Like, how dare you? Sorry, that's just how I feel. I think it was a level of idiocy that can only come about through social media."

LOS ANGELES -- The NAACP has announced its list of "57th NAACP Image Awards" nominees.