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  • Deon Cole returns to host NAACP Image Awards, says BAFTA disruption will be addressed

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    LOS ANGELES — As Deon Cole returns to host the NAACP Image Awards, the comedian-actor is focused on celebrating Black achievement and responding to a recent onstage disruption at the British Academy Film Awards.

    Cole called the incident “terrible” and said the matter would be addressed at the 57th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday, airing live across multiple Paramount networks including BET and CBS. The disruption occurred Sunday when a racial slur was shouted from the audience by Tourette syndrome advocate John Davidson while “Sinners” starsMichael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting during a ceremony that had been prerecorded earlier in the day.

    The NAACP Image Awards honor achievements in entertainment, culture and public service. This year’s ceremony will include tributes to Viola Davis, who will receive the Chairman’s Award, and Colman Domingo, who will be presented with the President’s Award.

    Known for his roles on the sitcoms “black-ish” and “The Neighborhood,” as well as his stand-up comedy, Cole told The Associated Press that he is preparing for both celebration and the unpredictability of live television. Responses have been edited for clarity and brevity.

    COLE: Just amping up the ante, man. Last year was phenomenal. We had a great time. And anything you do, you always go, “Man, what if we could have did this? We should do this and do that.” And so, this year we gonna do that. We just gonna go there, and just make it fun, make it exciting, spontaneous. It’s going to be a good look.

    COLE: It’s just about balance. It’s almost like cooking. You know how much seasoning to put in there. You know how long to let it cook. It’s the same thing when it comes to comedy, putting the right amount of seasoning in and knowing the right temperature and letting it cook for the right amount of time, and then knowing when to pull it back. I’m glad that they trust me to steer that ship.

    COLE: It happened last year. Kerry Washington went way off script, but it was so great, and it was fun. You can’t have these huge moments and expect people to really stick to the script. They’re gonna act the way that they’re gonna act. So it’s good to see that… My comedic mind is always like, “How do I piggyback on this? How do we make it even funnier, up the ante on it?”

    COLE: It was terrible. I felt like it was terrible. They never really gave an apology. An official apology straight to our brothers. So, tune into the award show. We’re gonna deal with that. We’re gonna touch on that.

    COLE: We live in discomfort. That’s our job to make something uncomfortable comfortable, make you look at it a certain way, make you think of it a certain way. Every comic that’s on stage is talking about something that’s discomfort at some kind of level and trying to bring some normalcy to it. We live in that. We don’t live in everything’s amazing.

    COLE: Viola is from another planet. We are blessed to have her. We don’t know what planet she’s from, but she’s from another planet. She is one of the most powerful actors we have in this game ever. Giving her flowers is everything. She’s winning. She’s so incredible. Colman Domingo is my brother. I’ve worked with him on several projects, and we have a brotherhood. I am so happy that my brother is getting his just due, getting his flowers and everything. He deserves it, and he has so much to offer. I just can’t wait for that moment.

    COLE: It means a lot. It shows the versatility that one has. Being on television with certain TV shows, having success with at least four sitcoms that are still in syndication, I guess people know that I can handle network funny. It’s different than stand-up funny. It’s a whole different ball game. There’s no coincidence that Steve Harvey can do what he does on “Family Feud,” and then he can go over here and destroy a room if he wants to. It’s two different funnies. So for people to trust me to handle it, I appreciate it. I guess it shows that we can do it all.

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  • ‘Traitors’ Star Colton Underwood Finally Faces His Dark ‘Bachelor’ Past

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    What I would say is, unfortunately, a lot of closeted men end their life by suicide. That easily could have been me. I could have been part of that statistic. Instead, I’m here. I will have a lot of sadness and shame about things that I did in my past, and I will have to live with that for the rest of my life. That is on me 100%.

    Even going through this six years later, [The Traitors] was my favorite show I’ve ever done. I didn’t really expect people to draw a line from how I showed up and played Traitors to my past, but that happened. Unfortunately, now I have to relive what happened six years ago with my husband and with my kid, as a father. As somebody who’s changed so much, to see things pop up on social media and to hear certain things—it’s challenging, right? That was such a traumatic time for a lot of people. It’s something I’m gonna always sort of have to own moving forward.

    There are some people in the world—and online—that will simply never forgive you. Why do you keep putting yourself on TV?

    It’s a great question. “Why do you keep putting yourself through this, dude? Like, go away if you don’t want it.” (Laughs.) I love the entertainment industry. I love representing same sex couples who want to have kids, hosting Daddyhood [Underwood’s podcast]. Having some of my gay friends reach out and be like, “It was so cool to watch you grab Rob’s backpack [on The Traitors]. Like, that representation on television was epic to see from a gay man. Oftentimes we have to shrink ourselves when we enter these masculine spaces, and the fact that you like put your chest out was really cool to see.”

    What gets me to show up every single day is the lives that I’ve saved. I say that because I’ve received messages from people across not only our country, but like, because of Netflix, the world, saying, “I didn’t see a path out. I didn’t know what my life was, but watching your story and watching what you went through helped me come out and saved my life.” Those are the ones that I hold onto dearly and that motivate me, that make my skin a little thicker.

    But don’t get me wrong, I still have days where I just want to go away. (Laughs.) I wanna live on a farm. I never want to be seen. I texted my team after the reunion—I was like, “I need to go away and get off camera.”

    Okay, last question: the banquet outfit. What were you thinking?

    I stand by it.

    Really? Defend it.

    Alan Cumming went on Watch What Happens Live and called it “castle couture.” Like, if I have Alan Cumming’s stamp of approval…. By the time of that banquet, the dog pile was already happening on social media. I was an easy target, low-hanging fruit. We did receive a mood board from production of what that night was gonna be. And if you saw the mood board, you’d be like, “Okay, he showed up. He delivered. He is the mood board.” You’re in Scotland playing Traitors, and it is one of the gayest shows on television. I wanna lean into it.

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  • Luke Grimes Returns as Fan Favorite Kayce Dutton in New ‘Yellowstone’ Spinoff, ‘Marshals’

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    In the hit show’s fifth and final season in 2024, Dutton rode off into the proverbial sunset at peace, building a new life ranching on his own terms with his wife and son.

    “I thought, ‘This is it,’” says Grimes. “I love the way this ends for him. He kind of got what he always wanted, which is just a simple life.”

    Luckily for fans — somewhat less so for Dutton — that simple life is upended as Grimes once more slips into the role for the prime-time spinoff “Marshals,” which premieres Sunday on CBS and streams on Paramount+.

    In an artful piece of writing, showrunner Spencer Hudnut takes Dutton from a neo-Western family drama to a Western law enforcement procedural, giving him a badge and having him join a band of U.S. Marshals in Montana.

    “We wanted to make it feel organic and we wanted there to be enough of the sort of ethos of ‘Yellowstone’ in there that the original fans could have something to hold on to getting into the show, but then have it have somewhere to go that felt like its own thing,” says Grimes.

    During the pilot, Dutton meets with an old comrade from his days as a Navy SEAL who gradually recruits him into their four-person Marshal team.

    “May look like God’s country but the devil’s running free out here,” Dutton’s friend tells him. “I’m guessing you got your own demons to conquer, and I could sure use another door-kicker.”

    “Marshals” allows the show’s creators to explore the military backstory of Dutton, a combat veteran with Special Forces skills. In the first episode, viewers will see Dutton smartly unlock a cellphone with a dead man’s eyes, a talent that wasn’t exploited on the Taylor Sheridan-led “Yellowstone.”

    “We barely scratched the surface of that,” says Grimes. “In a way, it was kind of a blessing because we have all that stuff to explore now without it feeling like we just made some stuff up.”

    Grimes says Dutton looks beyond the ranching life to take the job as a U.S. Marshal as a way to come out of his shell, help people and recover from personal tragedy.

    “Clearly he’s making an effort to do something different here and change his life and change his son’s life at the same time,” says Grimes. “Because whatever dream that he had is over now, he’s never getting it back.”


    A non-traditional procedural

    The series also stars Logan Marshall-Green, Arielle Kebbel, Ash Santos and Tatanka Means, as well as familiar faces from “Yellowstone,” including Gil Birmingham, Moses Brings Plenty and Brecken Merrill as Dutton’s son.

    Hudnut says the show has twists and turns each week but isn’t a regular crime-of-the-week show: “CBS really wanted this to be a non-traditional procedural, which really allowed us to lean heavily into character.”

    “Marshals” joins a slate of potential future “Yellowstone” spinoffs, including “6666,” “1944” and “The Madison.” Three other “Yellowstone” spinoffs — including “1883,” “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” and “1923” — have already debuted.

    Grimes gets to spend more time inside the mind of fan favorite Kayce Dutton, a watcher and a protector who only speaks when absolutely necessary and, when he does, only speaks the truth.

    The actor says creating Dutton’s persona reflects what Grimes liked watching while growing up, namely actors who told a story without overdoing it, with still excellence, like Paul Newman.

    “He could sort of just sit there and have a flicker in his eye and you knew what he was saying,” Grimes says. “I just was always drawn to those kinds of actors who could do a lot with a little. And so, maybe, that’s just me trying to sort of emulate my heroes in a way.”

    “Marshals” promises plenty of action each week, with the team battling gangs, drug cartels, race warriors, human traffickers and polluters, among others. The pilot kicks off with a bombing.

    “This show is some good people going after the bad people. And if you like that sort of thing, it’ll be right up your alley,” Grimes says.

    The series also marks both Grime’s rise to lead a prime-time TV network show for the first time and also his debut as a producer. He jokes that he’s a little closer to how the sausage is made.

    “I’ve been working professionally as an actor since I was 20 and I’m 42 now, so it’s been 22 years,” he says. “I’ve had plenty of time to think about if I ever do get the opportunity to be No. 1 on the call sheet of something that’s a big investment for some company, then I’ll know how to handle it, not only learning my craft, but by watching professionals be professional.”

    Grimes, a new father, also has an album coming out in April, but won’t be able to tour this year due to his commitments. Fans can hear one of his new songs playing over the emotional final scene of the pilot.

    Hudnut says he’s proud to extend the “Yellowstone” legacy, which has attracted Old West lovers, whether they’re urban dwellers or rugged, outdoor types.

    “Really, at its heart, it’s a show about family. It’s a show about legacy,” he says. “There’s something in there that we can all relate to, whether it’s being the father or being the son or being a sibling.”

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  • ‘Scrubs’ Revival Brings Back the Old Goofy Gang, but Now They’re, Gulp, in Charge

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    NEW YORK (AP) — Early in the first episode of the “Scrubs” revival, Dr. John Dorian jumps onto Dr. Christopher Turk for a piggyback ride down the corridor of Sacred Heart Hospital like nothing’s changed in over a decade. But a lot has.

    For one, Turk, now a father of four, suffers from sciatica, cutting the tomfoolery short as they tumble to the ground. And, two, Dorian needs reading glasses. Turns out plenty has changed in the 17 years since “Scrubs” last ended its run.

    “They’re still 12 years old every time they’re together, but they’re also still both leading very big, responsible adult lives,” says Bill Lawrence, the show’s creator who has returned for the revival. “It just felt like it was time to revisit the old gang.”

    “Scrubs” — whose first two episodes premiere back-to-back Wednesday on ABC and stream next day on Hulu — picks up with the same characters all these years later, but this time, in addition to some physical wear and tear, the one-time interns are the teachers to a group of rookie doctors.

    “We were new and we were scared as interns and scared in this new element of medicine and insecure and unsure of what we were doing,” says Sarah Chalke, who plays Dr. Elliot Reid. “So to get to come back, we really have grown and really become great leaders and great teachers.”


    Back to reality for “Scrubs”

    The revival retains Lawrence’s voice for “Scrubs” — pop culture-hyper-aware and surreal but always with sentiment. The cast admits the show became a little too cartoonish in later seasons, with an ostrich wearing a Kangol hat and J.D. stuffed into a backpack to sneak into a movie theater.

    “Bill Lawrence would be the first to say that what he really wanted to do was sort of ground it again and start back with the based-in-reality thing that we had in the first couple years of the show,” says Zach Braff, who plays Dr. Dorian. “We still have a mix of drama and comedy, but reset to based completely in reality.”

    One thing that had to change was Dr. Perry Cox, the head of medicine played by John C. McGinley with stone-faced rage and fiery contempt. Back in the old days, he could humiliate and berate his interns.

    That won’t fly in 2026: “I can’t work them crazy hours or even abuse them anymore,” Cox complains in the revival, calling the new interns “fragile little Christmas ornaments.” One of the new interns says to him: “You’re giving mean football coach vibes.”

    Lawrence in anticipation of the relaunch consulted medical residents to find out how hospitals and medicine had changed over the years and was told that administrators would have no patience with a brutal Cox in 2026.

    “All the residents we talked about told us that Dr. Cox would be fired immediately nowadays,” says Lawrence. He also added Vanessa Bayer to the cast, playing an HR officer quick to suggest sensitivity training.

    The first seven seasons of “Scrubs” originally aired on NBC, but after Season 7 — which was shortened due to a writers strike — the series moved to ABC for Season 8. A ninth season with J.D., Turk, and Cox was called “Scrubs: Med School.”

    Braff and Faison — real friends offscreen — kept the show in fans’ minds with a string of T-Mobile commercials and a podcast that explored the episodes, Fake Doctors, Real Friends.

    The end of Season 8 — the following season is not considered “Scrubs” cannon — had J.D. having all his fantasies come true — marrying Elliot, having children and keeping up his friendship with Turk, who is married to head nurse Carla. That neat bow had to be jettisoned for 2026.

    “We knew from the start that we couldn’t live in a world that all of his fantasies had come true,” says Lawrence. “Life throws you some blows and throws you to some victories. You drift from people you care about. Sometimes your world gets smaller. Sometimes things get harder and there still have to be mountains to overcome. So we really wanted to thematically show that journey of what the second stage of life looks like.”


    The central bromance of “Scrubs”

    Central to the success of “Scrubs” is the bromance between J.D. and Turk, which doesn’t end when the cameras are turned off. The revival arrives as the topic of male loneliness and friendship is being debated.

    “It’s a half hour comedy, but it takes head on the idea of the joy that you can still find in being silly and having love in your life that isn’t just your romantic love — the joy and love you have with your friends as a man in 2026,” says Braff.

    Faison adds: “I value my friendship. I don’t have many of them, but he’s the one friendship that I do have that I know I can count on, at least right now. Maybe in 10 years, he might change his mind on how he feels about me.”

    “We’ll see how you behave,” Braff jokes.

    Lawrence says he often writes about male friendships because he grew up in a family that wasn’t very demonstrative emotionally. His other current titles include “Shrinking” and “Ted Lasso,” which also explore bonding and mentoring.

    “I started very young writing about friendships and, maybe on some level, the wish fulfillment of how personal I truly hoped they could be,” he says. “I crave those friendships and I craved that mentorship so I maybe write about them too much.”

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  • Industry’s Myha’la and Marisa Abela on Fighting, Friendship, and Platonic Kissing in the Club

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    “We are old now,” Myha’la says with a smile to her Industry costar Marisa Abela on Zoom. Considering the fact that both actors are 29 years old, that sentiment is far from true. However, four seasons into the buzzy British banking drama, it does feel like we’re a long way from the early days of Industry when their respective characters, Harper Stern and Yasmin Kara-Hanani, were first-years on the trading floor at Pierpoint & Co, diving headfirst into the wild world of finance.

    In the penultimate episode of Industry’s fourth season, “Points of Emphasis,” Harper and Yas run through the gamut of human emotions. They begin the episode as business adversaries, hurling insults at one another, and end the episode as friends dancing till dawn in a perfect girl’s night out, sealed with a kiss—a fact that makes both actors giggle, recalling the shoot. For Abela, the club scene was both sentimental and nostalgic. “It felt like season one of Industry in that we’re just two girls dancing in a club,” she says. “It felt like that time in Berlin in season two, or all the season one stuff with Robert. It really felt like, ‘Oh yeah, this is the show that we set out to make.’”

    But before they can get to that point, the frenemies have to hash it out. “I really resented you for being a breathing example of how I was less than,” Harper says to Yasmin, over drinks at a pub. “And I choose to love you for being a breathing example for how I can be more,” Yasmin responds. That conversation was “the most honest and vulnerable conversation that they ever have” in Myha’la’s opinion. “They both ask for each other’s comfort in a way that there’s no hidden agenda, there’s no nothing,” she continues. “It’s pure, platonic need for comforting each other.”

    Many important characters have come and gone from the Industry universe—Gus (David Jonsson), Robert (Harry Lawtey), and most recently Harper’s mentor Eric Tao, played by Ken Leung. But throughout all the shifts and changes, Harper and Yasmin’s friendship—flawed though it may be—has served as the anchor of the buzzy HBO series. Below, Marisa Abela and Myha’la go deep on Yasmin and Harper’s complicated relationship, their sometimes toxic tether, and what we can expect for Industry’s season four finale.

    Spoilers for Industry below.

    Vanity Fair: After a season of being either separate or at odds, at the end of episode seven, we finally get to watch our girls together again, dancing at the club. What was it like filming that moment?

    Myha’la: It was so special. As much as we know the audience wants our girlies together and to have their dancing at the club moment, we really wanted it too. It does feel like an accumulation of all the seasons, everything they’ve gone through together. It’s the most intimate they could possibly be—that they’ve ever been. It was also really fun. It was a very fun shoot day.

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  • Netflix Releases a Posthumous Interview With Eric Dane After His Death From ALS

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    “I think when the lights go out, it’s over,” he said in an interview for “Famous Last Words,” a Netflix series that’s available now. “I do believe that once we go to sleep or however it is we — we go, once we’re gone, we’re gone.”

    He also hoped in the interview that his two daughters, Billie and Georgia, would remember how he was present in their lives. He went to beach volleyball games and dance recitals, adding that he’d seen “The Nutcracker” many times and his review was, “That thing drones on, man.”

    “Famous Last Words” is based on a show that originated in Denmark. The premise is that a person is interviewed — executive producer Brad Falchuk does the questioning in the Netflix show — and it will not be released until their death.

    Dane’s interview is the second episode. The first was with primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall, who died last October. Falchuk tells The Associated Press he’s recorded five conversations already with plans for more.

    No one else was present on set for the taping last November and even the camera operators were in a different room.

    “The guest needs to be totally safe to speak honestly and say whatever they want and know that they’re leaving something for people to experience with them not here,” Falchuk said on Friday. Only a small number of people work on the production of the show afterward. “Very, very few people have seen it and very, very people even know whose done it,” explained Falchuk.

    “Famous people don’t often get an opportunity to speak honestly about themselves and about what they think in the world,” said Falchuk who is married to Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow. “They have to be very protective, especially nowadays. They say things and it goes everywhere and it gets misinterpreted and they also want to keep working or keep you know doing what they do, so this is an opportunity for them not to have to be guarded.”


    Dane’s ALS advocacy lives on

    After his ALS diagnosis, Dane became an advocate to raise awareness and money to fight the disease. After his death, the organization I AM ALS released clips of him recorded for an upcoming documentary.

    “It’s a tough thing to respond to, it’s a tough thing to live with, yeah. But it’s really hard for the people around me too. And it’s almost like — in a weird way, it’s to some benefit, because I spend a lot of my time consoling others,” he said in a clip released Friday.

    Filmmaker Chris Burke also captured Dane on a trip to Washington D.C. where he lobbied politicians for a bill that would help accelerate research, expand access to treatment and secure one billion dollars in federal funding for ALS patients.

    “He understood that ALS is not just a diagnosis; it is a call to action for families, for answers, and for change,” the organization said in a statement after Dane’s death.


    Dane’s last message to his daughters

    In the Netflix show, Dane also reflected on the lifelong impact of losing his father at age 7 and subsequent struggles with addiction to drugs and alcohol. He said he immediately knew he would marry Rebecca Gayheart when he met her and shared a memory of a family vacation to France where he spent a car ride speaking with a “spot on” French accent that made everyone laugh.

    The most poignant part of the taping was at the end — when Falchuk left the room for Dane to look into the camera and deliver a final message which he dedicated to his daughters. Dane shared that his diagnosis with ALS taught him to be present. He also hoped the girls would “fall in love,” whether it be with a person or something that would make them want to wake up each morning.

    “I hope you won’t just listen to me. I hope you’ll hear me,” he said.

    Falchuk said this final message is something each guest has the opportunity to do. “People do all different kinds of stuff. Some people write it. Jane improvised hers. Eric wrote his,” said Falchuk, who was visibly emotional at the idea of Dane’s daughters watching his message.

    “It’s hard to think about that,” he said. “They’re grieving and he loved them so much. They loved him so much and they’re just a beautiful family. I don’t know. Maybe they’ll watch it. Maybe they’ll never watch it, whatever it may be.”

    Falchuk and Dane had dinner prior to filming and they didn’t know each other well, but a new friendship had developed from the experience.

    ”I’m grieving Eric a lot right now. It’s very hard. I was not expecting this to happen this soon. And I miss him,” said Falchuk. “It’s hard when they die. It is hard.”

    The exchange seemed to also have an impact on Dane, who told Falchuk, “This is probably the most revealing and in-depth conversation I’ve had with just about anybody.”

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  • Eric Dane, Who Played ‘McSteamy’ on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, Dies at 53

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    Feb 19 (Reuters) – Actor Eric Dane, ⁠who ⁠played the handsome Dr ⁠Mark Sloan on the hit television series “Grey’s Anatomy,” died on ​Thursday aged 53, his family said, less than a year after revealing that he ‌suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ‌or ALS.

    For 15 years, Dane played a plastic surgeon nicknamed “McSteamy” by ⁠female characters ⁠in the show. He also starred in the series “Euphoria,” and said after ​the diagnosis he would still return to the set for its third season.

    “Eric Dane passed on Thursday afternoon following a courageous battle with ALS,” his family said ​in a statement, according to People magazine and other media.

    “He spent his ⁠final days ⁠surrounded by dear friends, ⁠his devoted ​wife, and his two beautiful daughters, Billie and Georgia, who were the center ​of his world.”

    ALS is ⁠a progressive disease in which a person’s brain loses connection with the muscles. It is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease after the Hall of Fame baseball player who died from it in 1941 at age 37. 

    “Throughout his ⁠journey with ALS, Eric became a passionate advocate for awareness and research, ⁠determined to make a difference for others facing the same fight,” Dane’s family added.

    Dane and his wife, actor Rebecca Gayheart, the mother of their two children, separated in 2018 after 14 years of marriage.

    But last March, just before Dane announced his diagnosis, Gayheart sought to dismiss her petition for divorce, People said, citing court documents.

    Eric William Dane, the older of two brothers, was born on November 9, 1972, in ⁠San Francisco, to an architect father and homemaker mother, his biography on IMDB.com shows. 

    His first television role was in “The Wonder Years” in 1993, while 2005 brought his big break with “Grey’s Anatomy.” His big screen credits ​include “Marley & Me” and “X-Men: The Last Stand.”

    (Reporting by Daniel Trotta in ​Carlsbad, California; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

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  • Eric Dane, Star of Grey’s Anatomy and Euphoria, Dead at 53

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    Actor Eric Dane announced in April of 2025 that he had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. “I’m fighting as much as I can,” he said a few months later, shortly after finishing work on the third season of Euphoria, on which he played Cal Jacobs, the father to Jacob Elordi‘s Nate Jacobs. But ALS is an unrelenting and merciless degenerative disease, for which there is no cure. And on February 19, the 53-year-old actor died, after final days spent with friends and family.

    “With heavy hearts, we share that Eric Dane passed on Thursday afternoon following a courageous battle with ALS,” Dane’s family has said via a statement shared with media. “He spent his final days surrounded by dear friends, his devoted wife, and his two beautiful daughters, Billie and Georgia, who were the center of his world. Throughout his journey with ALS, Eric became a passionate advocate for awareness and research, determined to make a difference for others facing the same fight.”

    Dane was born on November 9, 1972, in San Francisco, California. He fell in love with acting as a youth, after he was cast in a high school production of All My Sons. He moved to Los Angeles after graduation to seek his fortune as an actor, but it took a while for Hollywood to catch on to his easy grin and athletic charm. Eventually, he started winning small roles in the TV shows of the day: Married… with Children, Saved by the Bell, and Roseanne.

    His big break was a recurring role in short-lived Y2K medical drama Gideon’s Crossing, followed soon thereafter by a central role in the later seasons of supernatural series Charmed. That combination of roles cemented Dane as the go-to for a certain type of sturdy and appealing television role, but it was his role as Dr. Mark Sloan beginning in the second season of Grey’s Anatomy that made Dane a household name—that, as well as his 2004 marriage to actor Rebecca Gayheart. Dane left the show six years later, in 2012, but reruns and syndication kept his lab-coated figure in the public eye long after that.

    While he worked consistently in the years since, it was his role on Euphoria that opened a new chapter in Dane’s career. As closeted Cal Jacobs, the seemingly perfect family man living a double life, Dane received some of the best reviews of his career. As Variety‘s Daniel D’Addario wrote in 2022, “Dane is simply spectacular” in the role, citing a Jacobs-centered episode as “a high-water mark for an exceptional series.”

    “I don’t know what it’s like to be Cal, but I know what it’s like to live a double life,” Dane told Vanity Fair in 2022. “I’ve had my own experience with drug and alcohol abuse. That’s a double life.

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  • ‘Cross’ Season 2 episodes list: release schedule, complete episode guide

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    “Cross” Season 2 is currently in full flow over on Prime Video.

    It’s definitely worth watching as well, even more than the first season. The crime thriller television series has an impressive 93% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, compared with “Cross” Season 1’s still reasonable 76%.

    In “Cross,” Aldis Hodge stars as Alex Cross, a Washington, D.C. police detective and forensic psychologist. Together with his partner, Detective John Sampson (Isaiah Mustafa), he’s tasked with taking down some of America’s most dangerous killers.

    Prime Video’s much-talked about TV show, based on the popular Alex Cross novel series written by James Patterson, premiered on Amazon Prime Video on Nov. 14, 2024. Its ratings led Prime Video to commission a second: that eight-episode second season premiered Feb. 11, 2026.

    Where to watch ‘Cross’ Season 2

    “Cross” Season 2 is exclusive to Prime Video, requiring a subscription to the platform in order to watch.

    ‘Cross’ Season 2 Release Date

    “Cross” Season 2 premiered with its first three episodes on Feb. 11, 2026.

    ‘Cross’ Season 2 Episodes List

    Here are the eight episodes of “Cross” Season 2 and when they air.

    • Episode 1 – “Harrow”
      Wednesday, Feb.11, 2026
    • Episode 2 – “Scatter”
      Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026
    • Episode 3 – “Feed”
      Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026
    • Episode 4 – “Episode #2.4”
      Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026
    • Episode 5 – “Episode #2.5”
      Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026
    • Episode 6 – “Episode #2.6”
      Wednesday, March 4, 2026
    • Episode 7 – “Episode #2.7”
      Wednesday, March 11th, 2026
    • Episode 8 – “Episode #2.8”
      Wednesday, March 18th, 2026

    ‘Cross’ Season 2 Episode Stream Times – Release Schedule by Time Zone

    Here is when new episodes of “Cross” Season 2 start streaming across all US time zones.

    • Pacific Time (PT): Wednesday, 12:00 a.m.
    • Mountain Time (MT): Wednesday, 1:00 a.m.
    • Central Time (CT): Wednesday, 2:00 a.m.
    • Eastern Time (ET): Wednesday, 3:00 a.m.
    • Atlantic Time (AT): Wednesday, 4:00 a.m.
    • Newfoundland Time (NT): Wednesday, 4:30 a.m. 

    ‘Cross’ Season 2 Cast

    Aldis Hodge stars as Alex Cross in “Cross” Season 2, alongside Isaiah Mustafa as Detective John Sampson.

    Here’s the full cast list for “Cross” Season 2:

    • Aldis Hodge as Alex Cross, a Washington, D.C. police detective and forensic psychologist
    • Isaiah Mustafa as Detective John Sampson, Alex’s Washington, D.C. Metro Police Department partner
    • Juanita Jennings as Regina “Nana Mama” Cross, Alex’s grandmother
    • Alona Tal as Kayla Craig, an FBI agent who helps Alex while secretly involved with Detective Sampson
    • Samantha Walkes as Elle Monteiro, Alex’s love interest and executive director of a nonprofit organization
    • Caleb Elijah as Damon Cross, Alex’s son
    • Melody Hurd as Janelle “Jannie” Cross, Alex’s daughter
    • Jennifer Wigmore as Chief April Anderson, Chief of Police, Washington, D.C. Metro Police Department
    • Ryan Eggold as Ed Ramsey , a powerful and wealthy man in Washington, D.C. with secrets
    • Eloise Mumford as Shannon Witmer, a woman Ed meets through a dating app
    • Jeanine Mason as Rebecca, a woman targeting billionaires tied to human trafficking
    • Wes Chatham as Donnie, Rebecca’s partner in crime
    • Johnny Ray Gill as Bobby Trey, a former cop who now works for Ed
    • Matthew Lillard as Lance Durand, billionaire CEO of Crestbrook Industries
    • Matt Baram as Detective Bill Hardy
    • Mercedes de la Zerda as Detective Amielynn Vega
    • Stacie Greenwell as Detective Shawna De Lackner
    • Dwain Murphy as Detective Akbar
    • Siobhan Murphy as Tania Hightower, a journalist covering the murder investigations
    • Jason Rogel as Chris Wu
    • Chaunteé Schuler Irving as Maria Cross, Alex’s deceased wife
    • Sharon Taylor as Lieutenant Oracene Massey, Alex’s direct superior
    • Karen Robinson as Miss Nancy
    • Michelle C. Bonilla as Clare

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  • Bowen Yang, Brittany Broski, and the 8 Other Hosts Who Are Shattering the Talk-Show Format

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    The new late night is lo-fi and unpredictable—and live, from your phone, all the time. As broadcast television recedes, we present a cast of digital creators who boldly go where no Jimmy has gone before.

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  • How many feet are in 500 miles? Nobody knows, at least Nate Bargatze doesn’t at the Daytona 500

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    DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Nate Bargatze considered squeezing a big, dumb joke into his command for drivers to start their engines at the Daytona 500.

    “At first, I thought about doing like, how many feet are in 500 miles,” Bargatze said. “Nobody knows.”

    Bargatze laughed when he said the proposed joke, which is a riff on his popular “Washington’s Dream” sketches on “Saturday Night Live,” fell flat when he tested it Saturday night during a gig in Indianapolis.

    “I was going to do another one with Jimmie Johnson being older to let the younger drivers know that his left blinker will be on the whole race,” Bargatze said. “Then when I got here and talked about it, it’s like, I think you just need to do, normal? You have all these hopes and dreams to do something funny.”

    Bargatze kept it straight in his role as grand marshal for Sunday’s Daytona 500.

    “It’s going to be insanity,” Bargatze said. “It’s been a dream to be asked to do this.”

    Bargatze’s day at Daytona — where he mingled with drivers such as Denny Hamlin — is just the latest dream job for one of the most popular stand-ups currently working. He hosted the Emmy Awards, released three Netflix specials and just won a Best Comedy Album Grammy Award for “Your Friend, Nate Bargatze.”

    His “Big Dumb Eyes World Tour” set a record for biggest one-year gross by a comedy performer in history and has set more than 40 arena attendance records.

    They served as warm-up acts for his first starring role in a movie, “The Breadwinner.” Bargatze co-wrote the script for the film he said was influenced by his stand-up and old-school funny, family movies such as “Mr. Mom” and “Home Alone.”

    “You want it to be broad, the whole family can come,” Bargatze said. “It’s like what I do with stand-up, you kind of just want everybody to come.”

    Mandy Moore plays Bargatze’s wife in the comedy, which also includes Colin Jost and Will Forte and opens May 29.

    “Obviously overwhelming,” Bargatze said. “I don’t know how to act. Learning that on the fly was a good time.”

    The 46-year-old Bargatze resumes his stand-up tour this week in Rockford, Illinois, and he’s set to host the ABC game show, “The Greatest Average American.”

    The title seemed fitting when Bargatze was gifted one of only 500 specialty Daytona 500 hats. The hat was numbered 302. Average.

    “It’s not bragging,” Bargatze said. “I’m right in the middle. That’s where the average American would be. It’s humility. It’s how you go.”

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  • Independent Spirit Awards celebrate indie movies and TV in Los Angeles

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    Ethan Hawke,Rose Byrne and Keke Palmer are just a few of the actors up for prizes at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles. Comedian and “Saturday Night Live” veteran Ego Nwodim is hosting the celebration of independent film and television, which will be livestreamed on YouTube starting at 5 p.m. ET.

    Top nominees going into the 41st edition of the show include Ira Sachs’ “Peter Hujar’s Day,” which recreates an interview with the 1970s photographer, played by Ben Whishaw; Clint Bentley’s lyrical Denis Johnson adaptation “Train Dreams,” with Joel Edgerton; and Eva Victor’s “Sorry, Baby,” about life after an assault.

    The show, which serves as a fundraiser for Film Independent’s year-round programs, is being held at the Hollywood Palladium for the first time, as its longtime beachside perch in Santa Monica undergoes renovations.

    The awards sometimes overlap significantly with major Oscar contenders and winners, as it did with “Anora,” and “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” and sometimes not. Organizers limit eligibility to productions with budgets less than $30 million, meaning more expensive films like “One Battle After Another” are not in the running.

    Byrne is one of the few actors nominated for both a Spirit Award and an Oscar, for her performance as a mother on the edge in Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.” In the lead performance category, she’s up against the likes of Edgerton (“Train Dreams”), Dylan O’Brien (“Twinless”), Palmer (“One of Them Days”), Tessa Thompson (“Hedda”) and Whishaw. The organization switched to gender-neutral acting categories in 2022.

    Supporting performance nominees include Naomi Ackie (“Sorry, Baby”), Zoey Deutch (“Nouvelle Vague”), Kirsten Dunst (“Roofman”), Nina Hoss (“Hedda”) and Archie Madekwe (“Lurker”).

    Films nominated in the international category include “Sirāt,”“The Secret Agent” and “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.” “Come See Me in the Good Light,” “My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow” and “The Perfect Neighbor” are also up for the documentary prize.

    Hawke, who is nominated for an Oscar for “Blue Moon,” is up for a Spirit Award for his leading performance in the television series “The Lowdown,” where other nominees include Seth Rogen for “The Studio,” Stephen Graham for “Adolescence” and Noah Wyle for “The Pitt.”

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  • Dearest Reader, This Cinderella Story Is Getting Sexier by the Minute

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    She would love “Cinderella,” by the Cheetah Girls.
    Photo: Liam Daniel/Netflix

    There may not be a pumpkin chariot, a fairy godmother, or any fun-loving mice, but hopefully this Cinderella story keeps the happy ending. Netflix just dropped the trailer for the second part of Bridgerton’s fourth season, and things are getting steamy in the Bridgerton household with both Sophie and Benedict in the same place. In part one, the lovers met at a masquerade ball, where she had to hide her identity from her stepmother, who treats her like a maid. Then, he got her a job at her own house and offered her the prestigious position of his mistress, which she turned down. Now, they’re still dealing with the fallout. “Being a mistress is the last thing I would ever want,” Sophie (Yerin Ha) tells her beau. “How else am I supposed to be with a woman that society has made it impossible for me to be with?” Benedict (Luke Thompson) asks.

    The trailer even teases what looks like will be Benedict’s big speech, à la Anthony’s beloved “bane of my existence and the object of all my desires” monologue in season two. “I cannot love a maid,” Benedict says. “And yet you have taken possession of me.” Then, while she’s still in her maid outfit, the two kiss. Shondaland’s version of Regency-era society can handle a lot, but it is not going to be able to handle that. “There is one sacrifice that you will have to make,” the typically sweet Mama Bridgerton says. “Your family.” That’s a tough one to stomach. Find out what big B.B. chooses when season four, part two premieres on February 26.

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  • ‘Love Story’: Inside Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s Final Days

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    Onassis began receiving chemotherapy in January of 1994. She publicly disclosed her diagnosis, saying initially that the prognosis looked good. She even continued to work as an editor at Doubleday. But by March her cancer had spread to her spinal cord and brain. When the cancer spread to her liver in May of 1994, doctors deemed her condition terminal. As “America’s Widow” depicts, Onassis decided to leave New York Hospital of her own volition on May 18, choosing to spend her remaining time at her Upper East Side home. The next evening, at 10:15 p.m., Jackie O died in her sleep with her children by her side.

    Love Story’s third episode eschews the fox-hunt accident, instead choosing to portray Jackie’s deteriorating condition at home. An early scene finds Watts as Onassis sitting by her lit fireplace, going through her old letters, rereading each one and then tossing them into the fire. “I don’t need my personal correspondence memorialized in The Smithsonian,” she says when Kelly’s John asks her why she is destroying her keepsakes. According to Jackie’s former lover, architect Jack Warnecke—whom she fell for while he designed JFK’s presidential grave memorial—Onassis really did make a habit of burning her old letters as her health declined.

    John F. Kennedy Jr, Caroline Kennedy, and Jacquline Onassis Kennedy at the rededication for the John F. Kennedy President Library and Museum in Boston on Oct. 29, 1993.John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe/Getty Images

    Journalist J. Randy Taraborrelli interviewed Warnecke in 1998 for his biography of the first lady, Jackie: Public, Private, Secret, which was released in 2023 and excerpted in People. Given Onassis’s fiercely private nature, Warnecke requested that Taraborrelli not publish their interview until 10 years after Warnecke’s own death, which occurred in 2010 when the architect was 91. “As I took my seat, Jackie handed me a stack of envelopes neatly tied together with yarn,” Warnecke told Taraborrelli. “My presence that evening was part of a ritual. Every night that week, she was inviting a trusted friend or family member to her home to take part in it.”

    According to Jackie: Public, Private, Secret, Jackie read each letter before placing it into the fireplace. “There were letters from Jackie’s children, John and Caroline…. There were also letters from Jack Kennedy, Aristotle Onassis, her father, Jack Bouvier, and even a few from me,” Warnecke told Taraborrelli. “She held one of the photographs and stared at it. It was her and Jack [Kennedy] on the day of his inauguration. ‘Keep this for me, will you?’ she asked.”

    Before she died, Jackie O wrote one final letter to her son. According to Us Weekly, in the three-episode CNN docuseries American Prince, family friend Gary Ginsberg revealed that Jackie O wrote a heartfelt letter full of words of encouragement to her then 33-year-old son. “I understand the pressure you’ll forever have to endure as a Kennedy, even though we brought you into this world as an innocent,” she wrote, repeated almost word for word in the Love Story episode. “You, especially, have a place in history. No matter what course in life you choose, all I can ask is that you…continue to make me, the Kennedy family, and yourself proud.”

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    Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and John F. Kennedy Jr. attends a tribute on the anniversary of the birth of John F. Kennedy, May 24, 1993.Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma/Getty Images

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  • Paul Thomas Anderson Wins at 78th Directors Guild Awards for ‘One Battle After Another’

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    NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Thomas Anderson won the top prize at the 78th Directors Guild Awards, putting the “One Battle After Another” filmmaker on course to potentially win his first Oscar.

    The DGA Awards, held Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, is among the most reliable Academy Awards precursors. In the last 10 years, nine DGA winners have gone on to win best director at the Oscars. In the guild’s nearly eight-decade history, only eight times has the guild not predicted the Oscar winner.

    The award adds to a virtual awards-season sweep for “One Battle After Another,” which has won with critics groups, the Gotham Awards and the Golden Globes. It’s considered the favorite for best picture at the March 15 Oscars. Academy voting begins Feb. 26.

    The other nominees were Ryan Coogler (“Sinners”), Guillermo Del Toro (“Frankenstein”), Josh Safdie (“Marty Supreme”) and Chloé Zhao (“Hamnet”).

    As he’s often done through awards season, Anderson in his brief speech paid tribute to late assistant director Adam Somner, who died in 2024. “Obviously,” he said, “we are up here minus one.”

    “In 2024, our employment in our guild was down about 40%, and that was followed by another decline in ’25,” said Nolan. “The amount of money that people spend on our work, on entertainment, is very, very stable. Audiences are invested in us, we have to be sure that we’re able to repay that investment.”

    Other winners Saturday included “The Plague” filmmaker Charlie Polinger for first-time director; “2000 Meters to Andriivka” director Mstyslav Chernov for best documentary filmmaking; and “The Studio” directors Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for comedy series.

    Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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  • Trump praises Nexstar-Tegna broadcast television deal he once opposed

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    WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday endorsed Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2 billion purchase of broadcast rival Tegna, an apparent reversal from earlier criticism of the deal.

    “We need more competition against THE ENEMY, the Fake News National TV Networks,” Trump wrote on social media. “Letting Good Deals get done like Nexstar – Tegna will help knock out the Fake News because there will be more competition. … GET THAT DEAL DONE.”

    The acquisition, which Nexstar announced in August and requires regulatory approval, would bring together two companies with significant holdings in local broadcast media. Nexstar oversees more than 200 owned and partner stations in 116 markets nationwide and also runs networks like The CW and NewsNation. Meanwhile, Tegna owns 64 news stations across 51 markets.

    In November, Trump had criticized the purchase. “If this would also allow the Radical Left Networks to ‘enlarge,’ I would not be happy,” he wrote then.

    But the companies operate independently of the large broadcast networks such as ABC and NBC. In September, Nexstar, along with the right-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC late-night talk show for about a week after Kimmel’s comments on the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

    The deal has occurred as the Federal Communications Commission is seeking to reform rules that limit local TV station ownership. Some court decisions have also struck down regulations that limited the number of top TV stations in a single market that one company could own.

    Nexstar has sought to portray the deal as consistent with the Trump administration’s deregulatory moves.

    “The initiatives being pursued by the Trump administration offer local broadcasters the opportunity to expand reach, level the playing field, and compete more effectively with the Big Tech and legacy Big Media companies that have unchecked reach and vast financial resources,” Nexstar’s CEO, Perry Sook, said when announcing the deal.

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  • ‘Love Story’ Premiere Brings Carolyn Bessette and JFK Jr. Back to The Pool

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    It’s almost time to dive into Love Story. Ryan Murphy’s nine-episode series, which chronicles the whirlwind romance and tragic end of John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn Bessette- Kennedy, debuts on FX on February 12. On Tuesday, the Love Story cast and crew celebrated the premiere with a glitzy party at a New York hot spot befitting the ’90s It couple.

    Kelly and Pidgeon at the Pool

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    After a screening at Carnegie Hall, guests were bused over to The Pool, a storied event space and the former home of the Four Seasons restaurant located in Midtown’s historic Seagram Building. Designed by Philip Johnson and opened in 1959, The Pool’s mid-century modern aesthetic harkens back to the New York of the Mad Men age. It’s the birthplace of the “power lunch,” where notables like Barry Diller, Henry Kissinger, Barbara Walters, Nora Efron, Tom Wolfe, and yes, even Jackie O, were known to dine; it’s also where Love Story shot a pivotal scene for its second episode. (But more on that in a bit.)

    Love Story star Sarah Pidgeon, who plays Carolyn, was locked in a deep conversation with costume designer Rudy Mance at the after-party. “We were just talking about all the hard work that went into it,” Pidgeon says, still clutching her colleague’s arm. “From cast to creatives and crew, there wasn’t a moment that our foot wasn’t on the gas.”

    The team had to move quickly—especially Mance, who was brought on to the series after production had already begun. He was hired to fix Carolyn’s look after initial test shots of Pidgeon in character were torn apart on X and Instagram. “There’s no two other people, aside from her and I, that experienced what it was like to find this character through the clothes,” says Mance. “To really find who she was, and the story that we wanted to tell.”

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    It’s a family affair for Pidgeon, Gummer, Kelly, and Watts

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  • Spanish league offers 50 euros for each tip-off on establishments illegally broadcasting games

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    The Spanish league is stepping up its fight against audio-visual fraud by offering 50 euros ($59) for each verified tip on the establishments broadcasting games without proper permission, it said Wednesday.

    Bars, restaurants, betting places and similar establishments need to subscribe to a specific package to be able to show the games. The league said such broadcasts have a letter on the corner of the screen to identify them, allowing fans to tell whether they are legal or not.

    If people see that an establishment is showing an unauthorized broadcast, they should email La Liga with images to help it verify the infraction.

    The league also said it has a channel where fans can anonymously denounce illegal broadcasts.

    La Liga has been one of the most active European leagues fighting piracy and audio visual fraud.

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  • What to Stream: ‘Bridgerton,’ the Grammys, Chevy Chase, Rose Byrne and ‘The Wrecking Crew’

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    Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny live at the Grammy Awards and Rose Byrne’s Oscar-nominated performance in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

    Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: Highguard is the latest entry in the ever-growing field of multiplayer shooters, Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista star in “The Wrecking Crew” and the third season of “Shrinking” checks in on Apple TV.

    — If you haven’t seen Rose Byrne’s Oscar-nominated performance in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” Mary Bronstein’s psychological drama arrives Friday, Jan. 30 on HBO Max. Byrne plays the stressed-out mother of a young, unseen child who’s struggling with a mystery illness. In her review, the AP’s Jocelyn Noveck wrote that the film “has given Byrne, an actor of effortless appeal in lighter films, a chance to display versatility and grit in surely the toughest dramatic role of her career.”

    — Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista star in “The Wrecking Crew” (Prime Video, Wednesday) as estranged half brothers who reunite after their father’s mysterious death. The action comedy is directed by Angel Manuel Soto, who made 2023’s “Blue Beetle.”

    — Ira Sachs’ “Peter Hujar’s Day,” the lead nominee to the Independent Film Spirit Awards, is a marvel of historical yet intimate dramatic resurrection. The film (Criterion Channel, Tuesday) is based on a transcript from a 1974 interview by the writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall) and her friend, the photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw). Rosenkrantz had planned a book about how artists spend their time. But the book never happened, and Sachs, after coming across the transcripts, dramatizes their dialogue.

    — In “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not,” the filmmaker Marina Zenovich profiles the irascible “Saturday Night Live” and “Fletch” star. For the film (HBO Max, Saturday, Jan. 31), Zenovich interviews the complicated and sometimes combative comedian about his career, with glimpses of his daily life. Perspectives are offered by Dan Aykroyd, Beverly D’Angelo, Goldie Hawn, Lorne Michaels, Ryan Reynolds and Martin Short.

    — AP Film Writer Jake Coyle

    — ’Tis the season — the 2026 Grammy Awards season, that is. On Sunday Feb. 1, the 68th annual award show will air live on CBS. Watch as Kendrick Lamar, Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga and many more go head-to-head in the top prize categories. Plus, the show doubles as a kind of bespoke live concert viewing experience — and who doesn’t like that? The 2026 Grammys can also be watched through live TV streaming services that include CBS in their lineup, like Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV and FuboTV. Paramount+ premium plan subscribers will be able to stream the Grammys live; Paramount+ essential subscribers will have on-demand access the next day.

    — California power pop-punk bands Joyce Manor return with their seventh full-length album Friday, the all-too-appropriately titled “I Used to Go to This Bar.” Spoken like a gently aging band whose penchant for hooks knows no bounds.

    — AP Music Writer Maria Sherman

    — Benedict, the second eldest Bridgerton, takes center stage in season 4 of the Netflix romance series, It’s about the love stories of a large family in London during the Regency Era. Season 4 has “Cinderella” vibes with Luke Thompson’s Benedict looking for an enchanting “woman in silver” who is actually Sophie, a housemaid (Yerin Ha) working for his family. Part 1 drops Thursday with the remaining episodes arriving in February.

    — The third season of “Shrinking” checks in Wednesday on Apple TV. The series follows Jason Segel as a therapist named Jimmy, a widowed dad to a teenage girl, who shares a practice with characters played by Harrison Ford and Jessica Williams. Between Jimmy’s colleagues, neighbors and friends, he forms a new kind of family. Season 3 features guest stars Michael J. Fox, Jeff Daniels, Sherry Cola, Isabella Gomez, and Candice Bergen.

    — School’s back in session. “School Spirits” starring Peyton List, that is. The Paramount+ series also returns for a third season on Wednesday. List stars as a teen trapped in the afterlife which happens to be her high school. She’s there with other ghosts who are also former students that help Maddie to investigate the circumstances surrounding her death.

    — Kaley Cuoco and Sam Claflin star in a new mystery for MGM+ called “Vanished.” Cuoco plays a woman whose boyfriend (Claflin) goes missing on a train to France. The four-part limited-series premieres Sunday, Feb. 1.

    — Alicia Rancilio

    — Highguard is the latest entry in the ever-growing field of multiplayer shooters, offering yet another way to get online with your friends and blow stuff up. In this case, you are Wardens — “arcane gunslingers sent to battle for control of a mythical continent.” Judging by the trailer, you’ll be able to ride mythical beasts and wield magical powers along with the typical arsenal of weapons. It comes from a new studio called Wildlight Entertainment, whose founders have worked on hits like Call of Duty, Apex Legends and Titanfall. And it’s free-to-play, so you might as well give it a shot Monday on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S on PC.

    — Bandai Namco’s Code Vein, from 2019, tried to answer the question: What if you took the demanding combat of Dark Souls and added vampires? The bloodsuckers — known here as Revenants — are back in Code Vein II, but a mysterious force is turning them into mindless monstrosities. Your job is to travel back in time and prevent the damage before all the Revenants get stupid. The good news is that you can still drain blood from your enemies and use it to upgrade your own fighting skills. Quench your thirst Friday, Jan. 30, on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S or PC.

    — Lou Kesten

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  • Geoffrey Mason, TV producer of 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis, dies at 85

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    Geoffrey Mason, who had a five-decade career in sports television and was best known as the coordinating producer for ABC’s coverage of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games hostage crisis, has died. He was 85.

    ESPN said Mason died Sunday in Naples, Florida. He died of natural causes, according to his family.

    “Geoff was a giant visionary in television, never seeking credit. He preferred leading and mentoring teams, connecting people to projects, and was devoted to people and recovery of all sorts. He was a great teacher and mentor to everyone who came in his orbit,” former ESPN President Steve Bornstein said.

    Over the course of his career, Mason worked on eight Olympics. As a young producer on Sept. 5, 1972, he was in the control room in Munich, Germany, when the Palestinian militant group Black September stormed the Olympic village and took Israeli Olympic team members hostage.

    ABC provided continuous coverage for 22 hours, culminating in a failed rescue attempt where six Israeli coaches and five athletes died. Jim McKay broke the news with, “They’re all gone.”

    Mason was a consultant on the script and every aspect of production for the 2024 feature film “September 5,” which recreates what it was like in the ABC control room that day. The international broadcast center in Munich was 100 yards away from where the hostage crisis was taking place in the Olympic village.

    The movie recreates the moment when West German police stormed the control room and pointed guns at Mason’s face. This happened because one of ABC’s cameras was showing a tactical squad taking position on the roof above the hostages. Mason ended up cutting off the camera’s feed.

    It is estimated that nearly 900 million people worldwide at some point viewed ABC’s coverage.

    “Geoff told me that day there was no chance to think. Their singular goal was to stay on the air to keep the story going, to do their job as sports broadcasters,” said John Magaro, who played Mason, in 2025. “Once the clock starts ticking, there’s no chance to think.”

    Mason’s career was largely spent with ABC and ESPN, but he also worked for NBC, Fox, NFL Network, and other television entities. He began as a production associate at ABC Sports in 1967, working on “Wide World of Sports” and the 1968 Winter and Summer Olympics. Over the years, he earned 24 Emmy Awards and was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2010.

    He also worked on Super Bowl 25, “Monday Night Football”, the World Series, horse racing’s Triple Crown, the Indianapolis 500, and the FIFA Men’s and Women’s World Cup tournaments.

    He is also known for his coverage of the 1986-87 America’s Cup from Fremantle, Australia.

    “Geoff Mason was a friend and a colleague who had a storied career, touching just about every corner of the sports television industry,” said Bob Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC and ESPN. “He had a passion for the business, which was evidenced in his prodigious work ethic and the constant love and enthusiasm he exhibited on everything he worked on.

    Mason was selected by Jim Valvano as a founding board member of the V Foundation for Cancer Research and a longtime board member of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. He delivered a eulogy during Betty Ford’s funeral in 2011.

    Mason was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology in 1963. Survivors include wife Chris, son Geoff Jr. and brother David.

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    AP Film Writer Jake Coyle contributed to this report.

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