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Entertainment - Tuesday, June 2, 2026
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Entertainment headlines for Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Entertainment headlines for 2026-06-02 focused on 3 major developments: 1) ‘The Hunting Party’ Canceled By NBC After 2 Seasons, Will Be Shopped (Deadline) 2) ‘The Hunting Party’ Canceled After Two Seasons at NBC (Variety) 3) Peabo Bryson, Soul Singer Known as the Voice of Love, Dies at 75 (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 2026-06-02, 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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‘The Hunting Party’ Canceled By NBC After 2 Seasons, Will Be Shopped
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‘The Hunting Party’ Canceled After Two Seasons at NBC
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Peabo Bryson, Soul Singer Known as the Voice of Love, Dies at 75
Sources: #3 NYT Arts
Top 10 Stories
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#1 Score 79‘The Hunting Party’ Canceled By NBC After 2 Seasons, Will Be ShoppedThe Hunting Party took the scenic route but arrived at the same destination as fellow sophomore NBC drama series Brilliant Minds: a cancellation after two seasons. NBC sibling Universal Television, the studio behind the crime drama procedural starring Melissa Roxburgh, is expected to shop it to other outlets. Netflix, which currently licenses the show in […]
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#2 Score 79‘The Hunting Party’ Canceled After Two Seasons at NBC“The Hunting Party” has been canceled after two seasons at NBC. The series, which aired its final episode on May 7, starred Melissa Roxburgh as former FBI profiler Rebecca “Bex” Henderson, who led a small team of investigators that was “assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers the world has ever seen, […]
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#3 Score 77Peabo Bryson, Soul Singer Known as the Voice of Love, Dies at 75He was admired for impassioned duets with singers like Roberta Flack and Celine Dion and for the Disney hits “Beauty and the Beast” and “A Whole New World.”
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#4 Score 71Ernest Chambers, ‘The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour’ Showrunner, Dies at 97Ernest Chambers, the writer and producer known for variety TV shows like “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” and “Click,” died on May 28 at home in Los Angeles following a brief illness. He was 97. Chambers produced, wrote and executive produced over 1,000 hours of TV over the course of his 50-year career, earning 11 […]
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#5 Score 70Peabo Bryson Dies: R&B Singer Of ‘Aladdin’s “A Whole New World” & “Beauty & The Beast” Was 75Peabo Bryson, the two-time Grammy-winning R&B singer and songwriter, died June 2. He was 75. He reportedly had suffered a stroke days prior. The artist was known for singing soul ballads, including “A Whole New World” from Aladdin with Regina Belle and the title song from from Beauty and the Beast, a duet with Celine Dion. […]
- #6 Score 66MoMA Names Makeda Best as New Photography Chief
Makeda Best, a deputy director of the Oakland Museum of California and a photographer, will lead the department.
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#7 Score 63Curry Barker’s ‘Anything But Ghosts’, Next Pic With Focus Features & Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, Adds Chris ReinacherEXCLUSIVE: Curry Barker’s Anything But Ghosts, his next movie from Blumhouse-Atomic Monster and Focus Features, will also star Superstore and The Mindy Project actor Chris Reinacher. Spooky Pictures and Divide/Conquer are also producers on the pic. The news comes in the wake of Barker’s current pic in cinemas, Obsession, becoming Focus Features’ highest-grossing movie at […]
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#8 Score 62Peabo Bryson, Veteran R&B Singer of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Whole New World,’ Dies at 75Peabo Bryson, the veteran R&B singer best known as the singer behind the Disney film hits “Beauty and the Beast” and “Whole New World,” has died, according to a statement from his family. No cause of death was cited, although the family announced on Sunday that he had suffered a stroke “With broken hearts and […]
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#9 Score 60‘Stargate’ Series From Martin Gero Not Moving Forward At AmazonStargate has become a high-profile likely casualty of the regime change at Amazon MGM Studios. The reboot of the popular MGM IP from Stargate veteran Martin Gero, which received a series order by Prime Video in November 2025, will not be going forward, Deadline has confirmed. The decision to pull the plug is made late […]
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#10 Score 60‘Wolverine’ Game Developers Break Down New Footage, X-Men Cameos, ‘Low-Gore’ Option, Claw Combat and How Logan Can DieIf there’s one key thing that PlayStation’s Insomniac Games wants you to take away from the new gameplay footage for its upcoming “Marvel’s Wolverine,” it’s that this video game will be as bloody as promised. “It’s planting our flag that this is a mature game,” Insomniac Games’ creative director Marcus Smith told Variety. “There was […]