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Entertainment - Wednesday, April 22, 2026

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Entertainment headlines for Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Summary of this day news

Entertainment headlines for 2026-04-22 focused on 3 major developments:

  • 1) ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Renewed for Season 35; Maura Higgins and Ciara Miller Set as First Celebrity Contestants (Variety)
  • 2) ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Renewed For Season 35 With Reality Stars Maura Higgins & Ciara Miller Revealed As First Contestants (Deadline)
  • 3) Alan Osmond, Who Led His Brothers in a Boy Band, Dies at 76 (NYT Arts) 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 2026-04-22, 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.

Key Points

3 highlights

  1. ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Renewed for Season 35; Maura Higgins and Ciara Miller Set as First Celebrity Contestants

    Sources: #1 Variety

  2. ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Renewed For Season 35 With Reality Stars Maura Higgins & Ciara Miller Revealed As First Contestants

    Sources: #2 Deadline

  3. Alan Osmond, Who Led His Brothers in a Boy Band, Dies at 76

    Sources: #3 NYT Arts

Top 10 Stories

Ranked by daily score
  1. ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Renewed for Season 35; Maura Higgins and Ciara Miller Set as First Celebrity Contestants
    #1 Score 80
    ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Renewed for Season 35; Maura Higgins and Ciara Miller Set as First Celebrity Contestants

    “Dancing With the Stars” is back for its 35th season — and it’s leaning into the women who may have been wronged by men on reality TV. The ABC reality competition series will return in the fall, they announced during the Get Real event on Wednesday. The first two cast members were revealed to be […]

    Variety 95 days ago
  2. ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Renewed For Season 35 With Reality Stars Maura Higgins & Ciara Miller Revealed As First Contestants
    #2 Score 80
    ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Renewed For Season 35 With Reality Stars Maura Higgins & Ciara Miller Revealed As First Contestants

    Dancing with the Stars will return for Season 35, and ABC is already giving viewers a taste of what to expect this fall. The Traitors and Love Island breakout Maura Higgins and Summer House favorite Ciara Miller will both compete on the upcoming season of DWTS, the network revealed at Disney’s Get Real unscripted TV […]

    Deadline 95 days ago
  3. Alan Osmond, Who Led His Brothers in a Boy Band, Dies at 76
    #3 Score 79
    Alan Osmond, Who Led His Brothers in a Boy Band, Dies at 76

    He was the eldest original member of the Osmonds, a family singing group that hit it big in the 1970s with songs like “One Bad Apple.”

    NYT Arts 95 days ago
  4. ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Spinoff Confirmed: ABC Sets Summer Premiere For ‘The Next Pro’ Competition Series — Watch
    #4 Score 73
    ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Spinoff Confirmed: ABC Sets Summer Premiere For ‘The Next Pro’ Competition Series — Watch

    The Dancing with the Stars television franchise is officially expanding. ABC debuted a promo Wednesday at Disney’s Get Real unscripted TV event confirming Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro will arrive later this year. The spinoff will be hosted by DWTS Season 34 champ Robert Irwin, just as Deadline reported on spec in February. […]

    Deadline 95 days ago
  5. Review: At the Met, a Polished and Polite ‘Onegin’ Returns
    #5 Score 70
    Review: At the Met, a Polished and Polite ‘Onegin’ Returns

    A strong cast led by the soprano Asmik Grigorian lifts Deborah Warner’s production, which never quite convinces.

    NYT Arts 95 days ago
  6. ‘The Testaments’ Actor Brad Alexander on Garth’s ‘Restrained Affection’ for Agnes, What His ‘Riskier Position’ Means for Her After the Ball
    #6 Score 70
    ‘The Testaments’ Actor Brad Alexander on Garth’s ‘Restrained Affection’ for Agnes, What His ‘Riskier Position’ Means for Her After the Ball

    SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Episode 5 of “The Testaments,” titled “Ball,” now streaming on Hulu. While the girls in Gilead don’t get a prom, they get as close as possible to the quintessential teen experience on this week’s episode of “The Testaments.” In the new installment of “The Handmaid’s Tale” sequel series, aptly […]

    Variety 95 days ago
  7. ‘FBI: International’ Star Luke Kleintank Joins Stephen Fry In Fox Drama Series ‘The Interrogator’
    #7 Score 65
    ‘FBI: International’ Star Luke Kleintank Joins Stephen Fry In Fox Drama Series ‘The Interrogator’

    EXCLUSIVE: FBI: International alum Luke Kleintank is set as a series regular opposite lead Stephen Fry in Fox’s upcoming drama series The Interrogator. The project, from Lionsgate Television and Fox Entertainment Studios, has a 12-episode straight-to-series order for the 2026-27 season. The Interrogator centers on former MI6 agent Conrad Henry (Fry) and his elite team. […]

    Deadline 95 days ago
  8. Judge Dismisses Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s $100 Million Defamation Suit Against NBC
    #8 Score 63
    Judge Dismisses Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s $100 Million Defamation Suit Against NBC

    The music mogul, now imprisoned, had sued after NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock aired the documentary “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy” last year.

    NYT Arts 96 days ago
  9. ‘Imperfect Women’ Star Elisabeth Moss on Mary’s Suspicions About Howard and Why Her Kids Matter Most: ‘Who Gives a S— About the Affair?’
    #9 Score 62
    ‘Imperfect Women’ Star Elisabeth Moss on Mary’s Suspicions About Howard and Why Her Kids Matter Most: ‘Who Gives a S— About the Affair?’

    SPOILER ALERT: This post contains stories from Episode 7 of “Imperfect Women,” now streaming on Apple TV. Elisabeth Moss is no stranger to portraying a desperate mother on TV. The “Imperfect Women” star spent almost a decade playing June — the lead character of “The Handmaid’s Tale” who recently made a reappearance in the spinoff series […]

    Variety 96 days ago
  10. Reese Witherspoon Clarifies AI Stance After Backlash: “I Don’t Believe Computers Should Replace Humanity”
    #10 Score 60
    Reese Witherspoon Clarifies AI Stance After Backlash: “I Don’t Believe Computers Should Replace Humanity”

    Reese Witherspoon has been met with the expected industry backlash following her recent interest in artificial intelligence. After the Oscar winner expressed her intention to “learn as much as I possibly can about AI,” noting that women’s jobs are “more likely to be automated by automated by AI,” Witherspoon explained her comments and her stance […]

    Deadline 96 days ago

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