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Entertainment - Saturday, May 9, 2026
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Entertainment headlines for Saturday, May 9, 2026
Entertainment headlines for 2026-05-09 focused on 3 major developments: 1) Riley Green Joins ‘The Voice’ As A Coach For Season 30 (Deadline) 2) ‘SNL U.K.’ Weekend Update Takes Aim at Katy Perry’s Met Gala Mask, Which Symbolizes ‘What It’s Like To Live Life as a Stupid Moron’ (Variety) 3) Paul Klee’s ‘Angelus Novus’ Joins Show at Jewish Museum in New York (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 2026-05-09, 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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Riley Green Joins ‘The Voice’ As A Coach For Season 30
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‘SNL U.K.’ Weekend Update Takes Aim at Katy Perry’s Met Gala Mask, Which Symbolizes ‘What It’s Like To Live Life as a Stupid Moron’
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Paul Klee’s ‘Angelus Novus’ Joins Show at Jewish Museum in New York
Sources: #3 NYT Arts
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#1 Score 77Riley Green Joins ‘The Voice’ As A Coach For Season 30The Voice will have some new blood for Season 30. Country singer Riley Green will join Kelly Clarkson and Adam Levine as a coach on the NBC show. Season 29, which just ended, saw Clarkson, Levine and John Legend as the three coaches. Season 30, which returns in the fall, will feature four coaches with […]
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#2 Score 75‘SNL U.K.’ Weekend Update Takes Aim at Katy Perry’s Met Gala Mask, Which Symbolizes ‘What It’s Like To Live Life as a Stupid Moron’“SNL U.K.’s” Weekend Update took aim at Met Gala attendees this week for Episode 7, with co-host Ania Magliano saying that this year’s theme “was people you’d like to see exploded.” “Beyonce looked amazing,” she said, adding of the singer’s elaborate silver headpiece: “Someone’s made the most of the Claire’s closing down sale” (a reference […]
- #3 Score 71Paul Klee’s ‘Angelus Novus’ Joins Show at Jewish Museum in New York
“Angelus Novus,” an artwork with a fascinating back story, including most recently a wartime delay, is a late addition to an already impressive Klee survey at the Jewish Museum.
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#4 Score 66‘SNL U.K.’ Cold Open: Peter Serafinowicz Guest Stars as Nigel Farage in Time-Traveling Downing Street SketchPeter Serafinowicz, who has starred in “Guardians of the Galaxy” and Star Wars prequel “The Phantom Menace,” opened “Saturday Night Live U.K.” with a guest appearance as right-wing politician Nigel Farage. The cold open began with a voice-over explaining that the year is 1946 as it zoomed into the British Prime Minister’s residence of Downing […]
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#5 Score 65‘Saturday Night Live UK’ Finally Takes On Nigel Farage With Cold Open Cameo From Well-Known British ComicIt took Saturday Night Live UK seven episodes to take on Donald Trump’s good pal Nigel Farage but we finally have it from British comic Peter Serafinowicz. Making a cold open cameo depicting the Reform UK leader, Serafinowicz played Farage in a sketch set in 2046 when he is Prime Minister and the monarch is […]
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#6 Score 60‘The Lost Boys’ Helped Define the ’80s in More Ways Than OneThe film that’s been adapted into a new musical created a memorable aesthetic with its cast and outfits. Its ideas about the nuclear family also made it a movie for its time.
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#7 Score 56Television Academy Endorses Post-Production Tax Credit Bill as Assemblyman Nick Schultz Rallies Support in Burbank: ‘We Should Have Done This a Decade Ago’The drive to pass a post-production tax credit bill in the California legislature received a boost Friday night when the California Post Alliance announced that the Television Academy has joined the fight. News of the TV Academy’s decision was revealed at the California Post Alliance (CAPA) town hall that featured California Assemblyman Nick Schultz, who […]
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#8 Score 54Nicolas Winding Refn Claims ‘Neon Demon’ Inspired NEON’s Name, Says Founder Has Been “Very Instrumental In My Life”As Nicolas Winding Refn teams with NEON Rated for his Cannes return, the film marks an important collaboration ahead of the indie banner’s 10th anniversary. The co-writer and director of Her Private Hell, debuting May 18 at Cannes before its July 24 U.S. premiere, recently explained how his 2016 film The Neon Demon inspired the […]
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#9 Score 50‘Buffet Infinity,’ A Surreal Horror Film Told Entirely Through Commercials, Is a Must-Watch for Midnight Movie FansThe best midnight movies conjure a community experience, pleasing audiences who want to see reactions to the insanity onscreen. While many touchstones of the genre consist of notoriously strange and subversive visions that are primed for indie theaters — “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “The Room,” the works of David Lynch — the rise of home video, […]
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#10 Score 47Eric Kripke Reacts To ‘The Boys’ Accidentally Predicting Trump’s Gold Statue: “Seriously What The F*ck?”With Eric Kripke’s depiction of an all-powerful fascist in The Boys, its been impossible not to find parallels in certain current events, and the latest episode continues to serve as an eery prediction. Following the unveiling of a gold Donald Trump statue during last month’s Cadillac Championship at Trump National Doral Golf Club, the creator […]