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Entertainment - Sunday, May 31, 2026
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Entertainment headlines for Sunday, May 31, 2026
Entertainment headlines for 2026-05-31 focused on 3 major developments: 1) ‘Off Campus’ Star Antonio Cipriano Previews How Grace & Logan’s Romance Will Factor Into Season 2 (Deadline) 2) DirecTV and Scripps Locked in Retransmission Battle, as 54 Local TV Stations Go Dark on the Service Across 36 Markets (Variety) 3) Young Moviegoers Power ‘Backrooms’ to $82 Million in Ticket Sales (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 2026-05-31, 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
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‘Off Campus’ Star Antonio Cipriano Previews How Grace & Logan’s Romance Will Factor Into Season 2
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DirecTV and Scripps Locked in Retransmission Battle, as 54 Local TV Stations Go Dark on the Service Across 36 Markets
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Young Moviegoers Power ‘Backrooms’ to $82 Million in Ticket Sales
Sources: #3 NYT Arts
Top 10 Stories
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#1 Score 79‘Off Campus’ Star Antonio Cipriano Previews How Grace & Logan’s Romance Will Factor Into Season 2Prime Video’s serialized adaptation of Off Campus may be skipping ahead of Elle Kennedy’s source material, eschewing The Mistake couple of John Logan (Antonio Cipriano) and Grace Ivers (India Fowler) for The Score pairing Dean Di Laurentis (Stephen Kalyn) and Allie Hayes (Mika Abdalla), but that doesn’t mean audiences won’t get a glimpse of the […]
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#2 Score 79DirecTV and Scripps Locked in Retransmission Battle, as 54 Local TV Stations Go Dark on the Service Across 36 MarketsThe retransmission battle between Scripps and DirecTV has escalated, with 54 local Scripps stations in 36 Nielsen-designated markets going dark as of 7 p.m. ET on Sunday. Both sides blamed the other for the blackout, which DirecTV noted comes just before several state and local primary elections in June, as well as the upcoming NBA […]
- #3 Score 75Young Moviegoers Power ‘Backrooms’ to $82 Million in Ticket Sales
The horror film, which cost $10 million and came from a 20-year-old filmmaker, added to evidence that young people will go to theaters for the right offering.
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#4 Score 72M.I.A. Sues Kid Cudi for $2.8 Million After She Was Kicked Off His Rebel Ragers TourM.I.A. is suing Kid Cudi for $2.8 million after the British rapper was kicked off his Rebel Ragers Tour for “making offensive remarks” during her opening act. “Kid Cudi’s attempts to silence freedom of artistic expression and speech on his ‘Rebel Rager’s Tour’ cannot go unchallenged,” read a statement from M.I.A.’s team. “Kid Cudi claimed […]
- #5 Score 66‘The Four Seasons’ Co-Creator Explains How David Tennant Was Cast In “Romantic Cliffhanger”
SPOILERS: This post contains details about The Four Seasons, Season 2 finale ‘Maratona’ Although vacation is over on Season 2 of The Four Seasons, the finale sets up a new travel companion. Tracey Wigfield, co-creator of the Netflix series, recently explained how fellow creator Tina Fey chose David Tennant to play Gianpiero in the season […]
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#6 Score 63R&B Star Peabo Bryson Suffers StrokeVeteran R&B singer Peabo Bryson, best known for his duets from the Disney films “Aladdin” and “Beauty and the Beast,” has suffered a stroke and is undergoing treatment, according to a statement from his rep to Variety on Sunday. “Two-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and balladeer, Peabo Bryson — the voice behind the Oscar-winning Disney […]
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#7 Score 58Mark Duplass Says ‘Obsession’ And ‘Backrooms’ Box Office Wins Offer A “Glimmer Of Hope” In “Fractured” IndustryBackrooms star Mark Duplass sees the overwhelming box office successes of horror entries Obsession and Backrooms as a beacon for a struggling industry. “I just want to take a moment to celebrate the glimmer of hope that Obsession and Backrooms are bringing to our industry,” he said in a video posted to X. “And I […]
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#8 Score 58Vasana Montgomery, ‘Love Island USA’ Contestant, Dismissed After Using Racial SlurLast season, two contestants were also kicked off the reality show when videos showing them using racial slurs surfaced during filming.
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#9 Score 5625 Tons Of Propane, 314 Shooting Days & Lots Of Practical Naval Warfare: How Ryan Condal & Team Pulled Off ‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 3 — ATX TV FestivalRyan Condal is pulling out all the stops for House of the Dragon Season 3. Producing the third season of the Game of Thrones prequel series took 314 shooting days, more than 25 tons of propane, hundreds of actors and countless practical sets. The first episode is expected to dive right into the Battle of […]
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#10 Score 55Sadly, the Stars of ‘Heated Rivalry’ Turned Down Actors on Actors — And Here’s WhyIn all the years that I’ve produced Variety‘s Actors on Actors conversations, I’ve resisted the temptation to divulge how exactly the sausage gets made. When fans gripe on social media, for instance, about how our magazine didn’t pair two obviously compatible actors together, I haven’t taken to X to explain that we really tried, but […]