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The QM9K is available in four different sizes: 65 inches ($2,999.99), 75 inches ($3,499.99), 85 inches ($3,999.99), and 98 inches ($5,999.99). It was the first TV to launch with Google Gemini, it has a presence sensor that can turn on its ambient mode to show artwork (much like an art TV), and TCL claims it's capable of up to 6,500 nits of brightness.
The eight-member Arkansas Educational Television Commission, made up entirely of appointees of the governor, announced in a news release Thursday that it planned to disaffiliate from PBS effective July 1, citing annual membership dues of about $2.5 million it described as "not feasible." The release also cited the unexpected loss of about that same amount of federal funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which was targeted for closure earlier this year and defunded by Congress.
These broadcasts are pure, unfiltered glamour. Hosts in peak-lapel dinner jackets greet viewers by name as they appear in the chat, champagne corks pop on cue, and the set - all black marble, gold trim and crystal chandeliers - pulses with 300,000 people watching from London postcodes and beyond. The feeds have become so iconic that entire round-ups now exist ranking the very best, such as the widely-shared UK online casinos list that Londoners in the know check religiously for the sharpest rooms in town.
"I'm not proud of the fact that one time in Chicago, I had a bucket full of hundreds of live worms that perished. But I did that. I did it and I regret it," she says. "I think that's why I love practical effects and props and stuff - it's been an adventure on how not everything has to be real."
The L.A. County district attorney's office decided in April it would not prosecute Cory Palka for warning CBS executives in 2017 that a woman had walked into the LAPD's Hollywood station and accused then-Chief Executive Les Moonves of sexual assault, according to a document provided to The Times in response to a public records request. Although heavily redacted, the declination memo includes details and a timeline that match up with the findings
Julian Markston has been a ticking time bomb throughout this Matlock season. Ever since Olympia found the damning Wellbrexa documents in his safety-deposit box in the season-one finale, he's been scrambling, trying to stay out of jail and save his job (and maybe even to get back together with his ex). Because the Kingstons' grudge against Julian has kept Olympia from telling him everything he needs to know,
On Saturday Night Live, Sarah Sherman has played a woman covered in singing meatballs, a Jewish Elvis, and - last week - a drunk raccoon ribbing Colin Jost. But for Squirm-heads, she's in her truest, most delightful form when she's taking us through her own head: talking about some kind of disarmingly nasty body horror, complete with guttural sounds, clad in her famously bright, patterned, clown-adjacent wardrobe.
It hasn't been long since the 16-year-old actor auditioned for the role of Percy Jackson, the lead of Rick Riordan's Greek mythology-inspired book series and the Harry Potter to swaths of loyal Zillennials (this writer included). Scobell was only 12 when Riordan hand-picked him to play the Son of Poseidon, but so much has changed since - he starred alongside Ryan Reynolds in The Adam Project, a film that inducted him into the new class of promising young actors; and he's acted opposite Hollywood veterans like Michael Douglas and Owen Wilson. But, most importantly, he's lived up to being the face of Disney's long-awaited, blessedly book-accurate Percy Jackson adaptation.
Their long-distance, slow-burn situationship is well portrayed through a montage at the beginning of the episode that spans 2014 to 2016. We see them continue to text, Ilya partying and Shane shooting brand deals, and both checking their calendars for the next game they have against each other. Those games are intercut with glimpses of the sex they're having afterwards, and after Shane wins two cups, Ilya texts him, "The only cup you'll have next year is the one I'll take off with my mouth."
Those flashbacks featuring pre-ghoulified Cooper Howard take place around 2077. Specifically, the flashback showing the nukes falling on America takes place on October 23, 2077. The recap also claims that Lucy goes with the Ghoul at the end of the Fallout season finale because she has to choose between life and death. Wrong again, you dumb robot. She actually goes because she wants to track down her father and learn the truth. Something the Ghoul is interested in, too.
It's nearly impossible to describe the "Queen of all Media" in one sentence. Oprah Winfrey is a multihyphenate: A daytime talk show host who changed the business. A producer. An author. A philanthropist. An actress with accolades. A billionaire. An avid gardener. A champion of books and education. A media powerhouse. In 2014, a few years after ending the talk show that catapulted her to international renown, she was asked about the secret to her success.
Five years in the making, "Pole to Pole with Will Smith" follows the Oscar-winning actor's journey through the planet's most extreme environments from the South Pole to the North Pole. The 57-year-old celebrity travels across all seven continents, taking him from the icefields of Antarctica to the jungles of the Amazon, the mountains of the Himalayas, the deserts of Africa, the islands of the Pacific and the icebergs of the Arctic.
It will feature 12 celebrities teaming up with a professional dancer to perform a live routine every week, with each pair having just seven days to practice. They will be scored by four judges: Oti Mabuse, who replaced Loraine Barry after she departed the series, Brian Redmond, Arthur Gourounlian and Karen Byrne, as well as the viewing public at home, with the winning couple claiming the Glitterball Trophy.
"When I run into people in the street, they're very respectful," he went on. "They connect with my work, they recognize me, but they talk to me like you would talk to a person you don't know."
In the last episode, Steven read the description of his Block-A-Vote, and he said he plays it before tribal council to say whose vote he wants to block. That is a detail we had not heard before when talking about the A-Vote family, so I figured it would be important later. In the "Previously on Survivor," he mentions it again, which signals it will also be important this episode.
Among those who responded to Younger's assertion that Netflix is full of "gay porn" (we can't see any) was one person who wrote, "now you know how I feel when I'm subjected to watching heterosexual couples kiss on any TV programme." To that, Younger replied: "Heterosexuality is normal. Gay isn't." Someone else added: "'Porn' is overstating it a *bit* much," to which Younger cited " Mr. Robot, S1E3" as evidence (despite the fact the Rami Malek-fronted show originally aired on USA Network during its original run from 2015-2019).
TV's best ever video game adaptation screamed back to life with the year's most traumatic killing off of a beloved character. Losing one half of the show's central duo was no easy thing to move past, but The Last of Us morphed into a touching meditation on grief, loss and the pain of love left unspoken with added mushroom monsters. What we said: A gutsy and thoughtful rendering of humans on the edge. Read more
Come gather around The Ghoul Log, a festive video that the Fallout TV show has created in the lead-up to Season 2. Starting with The Ghoul (Walton Goggins), this holiday special features Dogmeat and shows a human arm--"specifically, a fat man's"--burning in a fireplace for roughly an hour and a half. On YouTube, Prime Video released the officially titled Fallout: The Ghoul Log, which can be seen below. The Ghoul makes a couple of revelations about the wasteland early on.
And, really, who deserves one of these more than Simon Cowell? Because here is a man who, as the face of The X Factor and Pop Idol, spent the first part of the 21st century at the top of the entertainment tree. He could make and break careers with a flick of his wrist. Discounting sport, royalty, Covid and (weirdly) Gavin & Stacey, the 2010 X Factor finale remains the most watched British TV show of the last 15 years.
Everything in life is just the fragile result of something that could have been so easily different. None of this would've been possible had my parents not emigrated out of China. My parents were the first class of students after Mao's death that were allowed to leave the country to pursue higher degrees. My sister was born in Australia. I would not have been born if they had stayed in China.
A rock could technically be nicer than Nate Jacobs was in for the past two seasons. Still, Jacob Elordi promises there have been some positive changes to Nate with the time jump for the upcoming season. Gwyneth Paltrow asked Elordi on Actors on Actors if his character was "nicer" than in previous seasons, as she became a fan after her kids recommended it to her. He gave us a little hope for Nate's character development.