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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.

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.

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.

Tierney said "we did not expect this level of reaction to this show." He also said, "I thought by the end maybe we'd have a cult following." Discussing the show Letterkenny that he worked on previously the showrunner said he was used to "a slow burn," with that show taking four seasons to find its audience. "This has been the complete opposite," he remarked of Heated Rivalry.

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.

I have seen my mother slit her wrists. I have lived a life, my whole life of chasing her into bathrooms, trying to catch her throwing up. I've been around guns, the mafia, the racetrack. I've been through everything. I've seen her beaten with an inch of her life with a phone. Nothing compares to what my divorce was for 10 years.

On The Red Carpet caught up with Rodriguez on board the Disney Destiny cruise ship. Rodriguez reacted to the Season 2 news, "I'm so excited to see where these characters go. We left off on a huge cliffhanger at the end of season one, so I think myself and everybody who loved and watched the show are very anxious to see what happens next."

The visualised podcast, which is hosted by Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards, currently releases three episodes a week but will run daily on Netflix throughout the World Cup. The deal marks the streamer's first significant foray into football coverage and an expansion of its podcast portfolio, which is seen as an effort to rival YouTube. Lineker said the deal was a "fantastic opportunity for the three of us to do what we love - talk football every day - but on a truly global stage".

Sarah Paulson has finally responded to critics who savaged Ryan Murphy's new legal drama All's Fair, which she starred in alongside Kim Kardashian. In the nine-part drama, Paulson plays foul-mouthed divorce lawyer Carrington Lane, the rival to Kardashian's wag and fellow lawyer Allura Grant. Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts and Teyana Taylor also star as lawyers working with Grant, while Hollywood giant Glenn Close plays the leads' early mentor, Dina Standish.

Landman might hook viewers at first with its all-star cast, but the Texas oil drama starring Billy Bob Thornton, Sam Elliott, and Demi Moore really hits its stride every time the series tackles the real-life dangers of working on an oil rig. Creator Taylor Sheridan first explored the risky job in the season 1 premiere when a pipe explosion shockingly killed three oil patch workers. Ever since then, the Paramount+ series has explored every facet of the hazardous industry.

Alan Carr has announced a huge 93-date tour of the UK with a brand new show, Have I Said Too Much? The announcement on Wednesday (3 December) follows Carr's victory on the first series of The Celebrity Traitors, in which he claimed £87,500 ($115,000) for Neuroblastoma UK as a Traitor. Posting on Instagram on Wednesday (3 December), Carr shared the tour's poster as well as information about the stops and tour dates.

Martin Scorsese is heading back to Vegas. The director of Goodfellas and Casino will serve as executive producer for a new Netflix series set in Las Vegas from Billions creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien. The series is currently untitled (probably because the title Casino was already taken), but here's the official description:

They're still reeling from the failure of their business with Whitney blaming Justin for taking them down the MLM rabbit hole. She resents him and is mad at herself for trusting him. Part of the reason this show is a success is that the women at its center understand that the secret formula is brutal honesty. Whereas lesser Housewives try to present the best version of themselves and hide the embarrassing skeletons in their closets,

I know what every gay guy in your life did last weekend. No, it wasn't cooking Ina Garten's stuffing recipe for Thanksgiving, listening to the new Rosalía album on repeat, or posting "like for the alt" on X. (Okay, they probably did those things too). What every gay guy did last weekend, at least those with HBO Max subscriptions, was watch Heated Rivalry, a slutty romance about two hockey players if not in love then at least in very graphic lust.

Netflix's Diddy docuseries "Sean Combs: The Reckoning" features many shocking revelations, but one of the most emotional ones comes from singer Aubrey O'Day. In the doc, O'Day describes receiving sexually explicit messages from the disgraced music mogul and reads an affidavit of an eyewitness account of her being sexually assaulted by Diddy and another man while she looked "very inebriated." "Does this mean I was raped?" O'Day says in the docuseries. "I don't even know if I was raped, and I don't want to know."

The embarrassingly bad dub of the action-packed yaoi was a first for Amazon and was labeled as an "AI Beta" in the series' language options. Instead of hiring voice actors with all of Jeff Bezos' fuck you money, Amazon uploaded an AI voice track that is monotone, weirdly mixed, and makes even the most exciting scenes sound like a boring text-to-speech demonstration. Anime is known for its dynamic voice performances, and this shit sounds like it barely gets above a whisper.