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Families can look forward to cheerful new adventures from "SuperKitties," "Marvel's Spidey and His Amazing Friends," "Marvel's Iron Man and His Awesome Friends" and "RoboGobo," all created to add a little extra magic to the season. Below is a sneak peek at the special holiday episodes: "SuperKitties" ("Kittydale Christmas Tree / Skating Buddies") - "Kittydale Christmas Tree" - The Kitties save Kittydale's stolen Christmas tree from the Glamsters.*Ginnifer Goodwin and Utkarsh Ambudkar recur as The Glamsters- "Skating Buddies" - The SuperKitties stop Cat Burglar from stealing the medals from a big ice-skating contest.- Available Dec. 17 on Disney+.

For a task this difficult, you need someone whose pleasant blandness can sell the fact that billions of mind-melded Others are going to be slurping down their liquified neighbors and there's nothing the dozen or so conscious and unchanged people can do about it. You need someone whose energy is that of an enthusiastic golden retriever, whose aura is a turquoise blend of compassion and comprehensibility, and whose dimples are as pleasantly textured as warm focaccia.

Widely considered one of, if not, the best anime series of all time, Cowboy Bebop is a sci-fi western about bounty hunters Spike and Jet, who eke out a living chasing down targets across the solar system. Throughout the series, their crew expands to include the femme fatale Faye Valentine, young hacker Ed, and a super-genius Welsh Corgi named Ein. As the ragtag group completes various jobs on behalf of shadowy clients, they eventually find themselves entangled in a multi-planetary conspiracy.

In the harsh light of day, it makes perfect sense that the last people of note out on the floor at New York's Culturati 50 event were cover star Parker Posey, making space to do high kicks in her flowy green dress, and the Dare, telling anyone who will listen that the first thing he did when he woke up that morning was listen to the new Audrey Hobert.

This isn't a new phenomenon. Hate-watching, which we'll generously call ironic viewing, has been documented since the 1990s, though it's probably always been around and has reached its peak thanks to social media and to streaming, which lets you binge-watch episodes. There's no longer time to wonder whether you really want to keep wasting your time on a show you only watch so you can mock it.

#heatedrivalry Heated Rivalry originally was gonna be a 2 hour movie so we would have only seen Hunter and Kip for 5 mins! Episode 3 was beautiful and perfectly done for a show that only has 6 episodes! Thank you so much Jacob for giving us a 1 hour episode about Hunter and Kip! pic.twitter.com/dCwcQga05S- John Cookson (@CooksonJoh88941) December 5, 2025

But Heated Rivalry's third episode, "Hunter," is a lovely stand-alone installment and stealthily a canny move for the series overall. It's a very swoony, romantic speedrun through Scott Hunter's backstory, but it's just as effective as a way to reframe and contextualize the entire series, as well as a strategy for addressing Heated Rivalry 's biggest challenge: It's a TV show with no interior monologue.

"I've seen her," Carr says on the episode. "It was very harsh and so grim killing her, but we are friends again now."

Ah, the trap of feminine likability. We're conditioned to believe there are only two options for how women are perceived, particularly in the workplace: we can either be liked or be respected. I'm always inclined to call bullshit on this kind of dichotomy. First of all, who says there are only two options? Who says what the options are, and who put those people in charge of determining the options we supposedly must choose between? Why do we have to choose at all?

At first glance, "Girl Room" looks like another surprise social media success story. Though the account launched a little over three weeks ago, it organically has over 90,000 followers across TikTok and Instagram with its most watched video hitting over 5 million views. In reality, "Girl Room" is the product of something far more impressive than a social fluke: it's proof that a shortform concept can be a franchise.

Jonathan Bailey has been paired with David Cornswet for Variety's Actors on Actors, and fans can't control their thirst for the duo. On Wednesday (3 December), Variety and CNN revealed the celebrity-packed lineup for the 23rd season of Actors on Actors, the Emmy-winning franchise that pairs the year's best performers in interviews about their careers. Among this year's parings is Wicked: For Good's Bailey and Superman's Corenswet.

He's the middle-manager who talks as if he's the CEO, a beacon of workplace inclusivity in his own head but a bigoted chauvinist as soon as he opens his mouth. And listening to him creates a mix of familiarity and embarrassment-by-proxy that turns out to be surprisingly pleasurable. Ricky Gervais's cringe-making general manager of a soul-destroyingly dull Slough-based paper merchant stopped being a regular presence on British TV over two decades ago, but the many comedic characters that he spawned across the globe have outlived him.

If you're an American Taskmaster fan who watches the five competitors on the British comedy series struggle onstage to come up with a steady stream of five-letter words, humanize drawings of sausages with their own doodles, or pop balloons with darts - no, not that balloon, the other balloon - and think you can do better, your time has come.

In a seminar room in Farkas Hall, senior Aiyanna Ojukwu stood before a rolling whiteboard lined with index cards, each representing a plot point from her TV pilot episode. The story, as she explained to classmates grouped around a nearby table, follows a high school senior whose life takes a turn after an heirloom - a watch her parents gave her - goes missing.

Microsoft has announced the next crossover collaboration for Microsoft Flight Simulator 24, and it's none other than Netflix's hugely popular Stranger Things. "Turn the skies upside down," Microsoft said in its announcement for a collaboration set to come to the game on December 9. The teaser video doesn't give much away, but one possibility is that the upcoming crossover will allow people to fly through Hawkins, the setting of Stranger Things.

The show will feature 12 teams of siblings aged from 8 to 14 competing in a series of challenges to win $25,000, as well as the title of Baking Champions. Previous additions to the franchise have included seasonal themes, such as spring, summer, holiday, and Halloween competitions, as well as a similar "Kids Baking Championship," but this time the franchise is breaking new ground with a familial focus.

For sure. I've less hands-on experience with the games themselves, but that being said, I knew what I was walking into. When we [Culkin and actress Brenda Song] were watching the show, I would pause it for her and catch her up on like, 'Oh, that's what this means, or that means, or that kind of thing.' Even some of the subtle subtext of the show.

McTavish sat down with IndieWire to discuss his most recent role, and what sets it apart from all the rest. The new 'Spartacus' series is a sequel to the original 'Spartacus,' and explores an alternate path where the gladiator Ashur did not die at the end of 'Spartacus: Vengeance.' McTavish stars as Korris, alongside Nick Tarabay's Ashur and Tenika Davis' Achillia. He opens up about playing his first gay character, the intense gladiator workout regime, and why one intimacy coordinator was not enough on set.

The seven remaining Survivors shuffle in, and Soph thinks she already has the challenge figured out. Jeff tells her to pretend she is him and introduce the challenge the way he would. She demurs, but eternal ham Steven takes up the mantle and starts explaining the challenge to Jeff. They're going to be connected to a line and they have to put blocks spelling "IMMUNITY" on a spinning platform. Whoever finishes the word first wins.

Wright and Woods were on air together covering the Lionesses, before Woods suddenly appeared to faint, with Wright needing to catch her and help her back to her feet before ITV cut to an ad break. Woods herself posted on social media later that evening to clarify that she was alright, and Wright himself has now also spoken about the incident. The Gunners legend explained on The Overlap that Woods messaged him to say she was fine, though he found the incident pretty worrying in the moment.