Entertainment - Monday, August 24, 2026

Prime Video’s God of War video game adaptation has not gone on without some bumps in the road, but development on the show continues. First eyed for a TV series adaptation by the producing studios in March 2022, the casting for the show gained momentum at the beginning of January 2026 after some creative shuffling. […]

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Taylor Swift opened up about the process of writing and recording her 2012 hit “I Knew You Were Trouble,” revealing that it was initially penned as a “really sad ballad” before she was encouraged to incorporate dubstep. Swift reflected on the song’s creation during a Q&A at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles last week, […]

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The State Department recently removed the painting of Dominicans from a U.S. embassy, noting it was by the artist who made Barack Obama’s presidential portrait.

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EXCLUSIVE: On the 35th anniversary of Ukrainian Independence Day, Field of Vision is launching a new documentary on Ukraine’s valiant fight to maintain its freedom. When It Started to Burn debuted on the Field of Vision platform Monday, the third in a trilogy of short films from director Anders Hammer that examine “conflicts and civilian […]

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Peacock is digging into the well-mined world of former radio host and TV talk show star Wendy Williams, greenlighting the three-part documentary “Clap If You Care: The Wendy Williams Show” (which is a working title) to air in 2027. Williams is not involved in the new docuseries, but her former producer is spearheading the project. […]

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The ever-lively rapper discusses showmanship, rap’s generational connections and sorting through an archive of J Dilla beats for his new album.

NYT Arts • 20 days ago

Peacock has greenlit a documentary celebrating Wendy Williams and her daytime talk show. The three-part docuseries tentatively titled Clap If You Care: The Wendy Williams Show is set to air in 2027. Suzzanne Bass, an EP on The Wendy Williams talk show who often appeared on camera reacting to Williams’ hot takes, will be an […]

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Azerbaijan is very upset about a June 5 report on CNN that Israeli troops had used the country as a staging area for attacks on Iran. The country’s government says that the report, based on anonymous sources, is both completely wrong and dangerous, as it risks drawing Azerbaijan into the conflict. In this situation, most […]

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WildBrain, the Canadian animation studio that owns and manages a huge library of family entertainment including Teletubbies, Strawberry Shortcake, Yo Gabba Gabba! and Inspector Gadget, has acquired 100% of Personality AI, a generative AI startup focused on bringing character experiences to life. The immediate purchase price was USD $11 million in cash plus 1 million […]

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The eight best basketball dunkers in the world are coming to primetime television this week as the Dunkman World Championship final airs on TNT. The final eight take center court August 25 at 8 p.m. ET, live on TNT and TruTV as part of Dunkman, the first-ever professional league dedicated to dunking. Launched this summer […]

Variety • 20 days ago

Fluency in a variety of movement techniques — street dance, acrobatics, parkour — allows site-responsive dancers to shape seemingly unbounded interactions with their environments.

NYT Arts • 20 days ago

Blumhouse Atomic Monster will continue to be in business with their Insidious: Out of the Further filmmaker Jacob Chase on the upcoming Universal large scale horror pic, Sleepover. The pic will hit theaters on Oct. 8, 2027; Uni already having that date on reserve for an untitled Blumhouse Atomic Monster pic. The news comes in […]

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