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Entertainment - Sunday, March 22, 2026
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Entertainment headlines for Sunday, March 22, 2026
Entertainment headlines for 2026-03-22 focused on 3 major developments: 1) ‘Dhurandhar’ Bollywood Sequel Breaks Out, Animated ‘The Pout-Pout Fish’, Met Opera Live — Specialty Box Office (Deadline) 2) For ‘Buffy’ Fans, Nicholas Brendon’s Xander Was a Complicated Everyman (NYT Arts) 3) What’s in the ‘Hannah Montana’ 20th Anniversary Special? Surprise Guests, a New Miley Cyrus Song and More (Variety) Across these stories, coverage emphasized high-impact updates, policy shifts, and events with broad audience relevance. Together they provide a representative view of the day in entertainment news before diving into each full report.
Why it matters: This snapshot shows where entertainment attention concentrated on 2026-03-22, highlighting the themes, entities, and geographies that dominated publisher coverage. Because ranking blends freshness, engagement, and source diversity, it helps separate signal from noise. Use it as a quick daily briefing and then open the top stories for fuller context.
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‘Dhurandhar’ Bollywood Sequel Breaks Out, Animated ‘The Pout-Pout Fish’, Met Opera Live — Specialty Box Office
Sources: #1 Deadline -
For ‘Buffy’ Fans, Nicholas Brendon’s Xander Was a Complicated Everyman
Sources: #2 NYT Arts -
What’s in the ‘Hannah Montana’ 20th Anniversary Special? Surprise Guests, a New Miley Cyrus Song and More
Sources: #3 Variety
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Ranked by daily score- #1 Score 79‘Dhurandhar’ Bollywood Sequel Breaks Out, Animated ‘The Pout-Pout Fish’, Met Opera Live — Specialty Box Office
Dhurandhar: The Revenge from Moviegoers Entertainment cleaned up with a $10 million weekend and a no. 3 ranking on 987 screens for a gross of $14 million (including Wed. peeks and Thursday shows) for one of the biggest opening weekends ever for a Bollywood film in North America, beating winner Pathaan (2023) which opened to […]
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#2 Score 75For ‘Buffy’ Fans, Nicholas Brendon’s Xander Was a Complicated EverymanThe actor, who died on Friday, was a fan favorite on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” even as his character mixed quiet heroism with hostility toward the show’s women.
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#3 Score 73What’s in the ‘Hannah Montana’ 20th Anniversary Special? Surprise Guests, a New Miley Cyrus Song and MorePut on your wig and grab all the accessories you can find: The “Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special” is airing on Disney+ on March 24. In the one-hour streaming special, Miley Cyrus revisits Miley Stewart’s Malibu home, reunites with some Disney Channel icons and dusts off a few hit songs from the series, which aired […]
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#4 Score 72‘Project Hail Mary’ Co-Directors Break Down How They Got Meryl Streep On Board With Surprise Cameo Voice RoleMeryl Streep truly can do anything — including provide an automated voice to a spidery-rock-like alien in Project Hail Mary. The Ryan Gosling sci-fi film from co-directors and collaborators Chris Miller and Phil Lord, which bowed in theaters March 20 to positive audience and critic reactions, features a school teacher-turned-astronaut who wakes up aboard a […]
- #5 Score 66Taylor Frankie Paul and the Downfall of the ‘Bachelor’ Empire
As competing dating shows flaunt modern norms, the ABC franchise finds itself mired in scandals and stymied by its traditional approach to love.
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#6 Score 62Raviv Ullman Would “Of Course Say Yes” To A ‘Phil of the Future’ RevivalAfter 20 years, Raviv Ullman is open to traveling back in time to the Disney Channel show that launched his career. The Phil of the Future actor said he’s “a big fan of what we did” with the sitcom that ran from 2004 to 2006, about a futuristic family from the year 2121 whose time […]
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#7 Score 61Sam Kieth, ‘The Maxx’ and ‘Sandman’ Comic Book Artist, Dies at 63Sam Kieth, the comic book creator of “The Maxx” and co-creator of “Sandman,” died March 15. He was 63. Kieth’s lifelong friend and collaborator Scott Dunbier confirmed that the artist died of Lewy Body Dementia to Bleeding Cool. Born on January 11, 1963, Kieth began his career in comics at the age of 17, publishing […]
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#8 Score 58‘Saturday Night Live UK’ Sets US Debut Time On PeacockAs Saturday Night Live UK makes a splash for Sky TV, the British spin-off of the NBC sketch comedy show is making its way across the pond tonight. With Peacock set as the US home of the series, the first episode of SNL UK will be available to stream Sunday night at 9pm ET/6pm PT […]
- #9 Score 57Two Revivals, ‘Tru’ and ‘The Fever,’ Tackle the Contagion of the Rich
Two monologue revivals — Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Truman Capote and Wallace Shawn’s solo — reveal how wealth warps our perceptions. Only one pays dividends.
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#10 Score 56Jason Momoa & Family Evacuate O’ahu’s North Shore Amid Worst Flooding In 20 Years: “We’re Safe For Now, But There’s A Lot Of People Who Weren’t”Jason Momoa and his family were among thousands forced to flee O’ahu’s North Shore amid the state’s catastrophic floods. The storm, part of Hawaii’s Kona lows, or seasonal cyclones, is the second to hit the archipelago in one week, with authorities saying it has resulted in the worst flooding the area has seen in the […]