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"(JD) is older and wiser. He's got a couple of kids and he's now going to be set up to be the teacher, to be a great teacher to these young interns,"

I particularly love it when fictional characters have visibly aged. There's a broken humanity that you don't get with flawless, collagen-rich skin. You sense you could talk to them about your sciatica and they'd get it. I got that feeling with the new series of Scrubs (Disney+, from Thursday 26 February), a show I once mainlined on E4. Scrubs was as comforting as tea and toast. Surprisingly malleable, too.

What should she do, Charli wonders, now that the clock on her relevance is ticking? Even though "people are getting sick of [her]," should she "go even harder," as Kylie Jenner advises her, and continue to celebrate "brat summer forever"? Or should she stop harping on the same string and, instead, recede, regroup, and attempt to remake herself into an avatar for a new era?

Because you want it to be great, you want it to be extra great, because we're in it together and you only get a few opportunities to do that. It's going to live on forever, and you can't change it once it's out.

Let's start off by admitting something: Snatch Game has been a challenge with diminishing returns for years now. Last year's version had two good performances, in Onya and Jewels, and was otherwise a total dirge. The season before that was the same thing with Plane and Sapphira being totally good (not thrilling, though) and everyone else just trying to get by.

Welcome to the latest issue of Stream On, the weekly newsletter from Consequence that answers the eternally confounding question: What films and TV shows should you be watching? (Subscribe here!) We're looking at all the new and recent releases from Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Prime Video, Paramount+, Peacock, HBO Max, and more for ideas - not to mention a Blast From the Past and streaming suggestions from this week's special guest: Midwinter Break star Ciarán Hinds!

Tell Me Lies actor Cat Missal has confirmed that she is gay, revealing that she is currently in a relationship with a woman. The 26-year-old American actress plays Bree in hit Hulu series Tell Me Lies, which came to a close following the recently-released third season. Speaking to Teen Vogue about the show's end - the last episode aired on 17 February - Missal succinctly explained why she won't have to deal with the types of toxic men that defined Tell Me Lies.

"It was very surreal," Dave tells Bustle. "The world is shut down, and we're over Zoom talking about this book that I've spent a decade with."

When Laëtitia Hollard showed up for medical boot camp with her fellow on-screen nurses ahead of filming The Pitt Season 2, she didn't realize the show's doctors would be doing their prep on the same day. "It was literally everybody there. ... Noah [Wyle]'s leaning on his chair, squeezing a stress ball," she tells Bustle over Zoom. "It gave '80s cool-kid corner from a movie. And I was walking in like the geek with my notebook, like, 'Hi, guys!'"

We went to a restaurant the other night, and the waitress kept calling me by my name. She was like, 'Khloé, do you want another drink?' Whatever. And True was going, 'How does she know who you are?' And I go, 'Oh, I just come here all the time.' Which I don't, but they don't realize that we're on TV. Like, they don't know the difference, 'cause I'm not talking about it," she recalled on the On Purpose podcast.

"I couldn't hear her. She was walking away," she explained. "And I was like, 'Oh, she's kind of a comedy queen. She's just being funny.' Like, 'I love you. Wah, wah, wah.' Like, I thought that would be something she would do. And so I was like, 'Oh, my God, that's cute and funny.' Turns out she didn't say that."

Claudia Winkleman's new chatshow will land next month, and its enthusiast army are already excited. Winkleman herself, who doesn't come off at all breathy, said: I can't quite believe it and I'm incredibly grateful to the BBC for this amazing opportunity. Kalpna Patel-Knight, who commissioned The Claudia Winkleman Show, observed: Claudia is a true national treasure warm, witty and endlessly entertaining.

The head of the sports division of the Italian public broadcaster Rai has resigned after his gaffe-strewn commentary of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony provoked protests among its journalists. Paolo Petrecca, appointed director of Rai Sport last year, handed in his notice on Thursday after a board meeting, a source within Rai confirmed. The controversy has been seized upon by members of the Italian opposition, who called his appointment an example

For multiple generations of Americans, Johnny Carson is closely linked with the concept of home. Whether his name conjures fuzzy memories of drifting off to the quiet soundtrack of television static and a parent's laughter, or brings to mind tuning in to hear his take on the news after a long work day, many remember Carson as a nightly ritual.

A '90s runway coach who taught supermodels like Naomi Campbell and Kimora Lee Simmons how to walk a catwalk, Alexander shifted careers in 2003 when one of his pupils, Tyra Banks, tapped him to join her on a little UPN show called America's Next Top Model. As a judge and runway coach for a passel of wannabe supermodels, he transformed into "Miss J," bringing drag to the screen at a time when queerness was vanishingly rare on American TV screens.