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Business Upturn
4 hours ago
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- Business Upturn
Dept. Q Season 2: Latest updates on renewal status, release date, cast and plot details
By Aman Shukla Published on August 19, 2025, 18:00 IST Last updated August 19, 2025, 10:38 IST Fans can't get enough of Dept. Q after its first season on Netflix. Based on Jussi Adler-Olsen's hit Danish novels, the crime drama has everyone buzzing about what's next. Here's the full rundown on Dept. Q Season 2—renewal news, release date guesses, who's in the cast, and what the story might hold. Has Dept. Q Season 2 Been Confirmed? Good news: Netflix gave Dept. Q the green light for a second season. A post on X from whatonnetflix on August 19, 2025, spilled the beans, confirming Matthew Goode will be back as the moody Carl Morck. The show's a hit, with an 86% critic score and 93% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, plus it climbed the Top 10 in 72 countries. Netflix even pushed it for Emmy nods in the Best Drama Series category, showing they're all in. That said, fans might need to chill for a bit, since Netflix often takes its time with new seasons. When Could Dept. Q Season 2 Drop? No official date yet for Dept. Q Season 2, but some detective work on production timelines gives a rough idea. Season 1 filmed from February to June 2024 and hit screens on May 29, 2025—about 15 months later. If Season 2 starts shooting in early 2026, expect a premiere sometime between late 2026 and early 2027, maybe September 2026 to March 2027. A few folks online are hoping for May 2026, but that's probably too soon. Figure on waiting at least 18 months from Season 1's debut, so late 2026 or early 2027 feels right. Who's Coming Back for Dept. Q Season 2 Cast? The cast is a big reason Dept. Q shines, and Season 2 should bring back the main players who made the first season click. Based on how Season 1 wrapped and what the actors have said, here's the likely lineup: Matthew Goode as DCI Carl Morck Jamie Sives as DCI James Hardy Alexej Manvelov as Akram Salim Leah Byrne as Detective Constable Rose Dickson Kelly Macdonald as Dr. Rachel Irving Chloe Pirrie as Merritt Lingard Mark Bonnar as Stephen Burns Expect some fresh faces too, especially if a new case brings in new suspects or victims, which is par for the course in crime shows. What to Expect in Dept. Q Season 2? Season 1, drawn from The Keeper of Lost Causes , followed Carl and his team cracking a four-year-old kidnapping case involving prosecutor Merritt Lingard, uncovering corruption along the way. The finale tied up that mystery but left the Leith Park shooting—where Carl got hurt, Hardy was paralyzed, and a rookie cop died—wide open, setting up a juicy thread for Season 2. If the show sticks to Adler-Olsen's books, Season 2 will likely tackle The Absent One , the second novel. It's about a 20-year-old double murder of a brother and sister, with a killer already behind bars. Carl smells something off about the confession and starts digging, linking the case to a fancy boarding school and a homeless woman named Kimmie who knows too much. Big shots want her quiet, which ramps up the danger. Scott Frank told Collider they'll mix this cold case with a current investigation, maybe tying it to corruption or the team's personal baggage. The Leith Park shooting could weave in too, with Carl chasing leads on whether it was a hit tied to gangster Eugene Errington. Fans can expect more of Carl's guilt, Hardy's comeback, Akram's secrets, and Rose's rise, all from their dingy basement HQ, now funded. Word is Season 2 might be shorter, maybe six episodes instead of nine, for a tighter story. Ahmedabad Plane Crash Aman Shukla is a post-graduate in mass communication . A media enthusiast who has a strong hold on communication ,content writing and copy writing. Aman is currently working as journalist at
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Conjoined Twins Abby and Brittany Hensel Seen Out with Newborn Baby Over a Year After News of Abby's Marriage Became Public
The photos come four years after Abby Hensel married her husband Josh Bowling in 2021 NEED TO KNOW Abby and Brittany Hensel were photographed carrying a newborn baby The conjoined twins were seen carrying a car seat with a baby in it as they entered a Tesla News broke last year in March that Abby had married a man named Josh Bowling Abby and Brittany Hensel were seen carrying a newborn baby while out running errands. The conjoined twins were photographed holding a newborn baby as they carried its car seat into their waiting car, according to photos first published by TMZ. The sisters were seen in a parking lot in Arden Hills, Minnesota, on Thursday, Aug. 14, as they loaded the car seat into a black Tesla. Abby and Brittany did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment. Last year, news broke that Joshua Bowling had married Abby. Though the couple tied the knot in 2021, their wedding was not made public until March 2024, when Today obtained records confirming that the nuptials had taken place. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. After news of their marriage went public, Bowling changed his Facebook profile photo to feature both his wife Abby and her conjoined twin sister, Brittany. The picture was a cozy, smiley selfie featuring the trio, and appeared to have been snapped in cooler weather. Bowling wore a dark gray jacket and purple sweater, while the twins appeared to be wearing a dark, v-neck sweater. Prior to the selfie, which Bowling shared on Sept. 5, his past profile photos on Facebook have not included his wife or her conjoined twin, according to what is shared publicly on his account. In June 2024, the twins posted a TikTok of Abby and Bowling's wedding dance, which was set to an upbeat remix of "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele. In the clip, the TLC stars swayed side to side with their arms around Bowling's neck as his hands rested on their waist. Abby and Brittany also posted another TikTok video the same day, with the caption, "We know you think you know us🖤❤️🔥 #sisterhoodgoals #abbyandbrittanyhensel #happy." It included various clips of the two sisters together and featured Justine Skye's track "Collide," as the soundtrack. The two are dicephalic conjoined twins and share the same bloodstream and organs below the waist. Abby controls their right arm and leg, while Brittany controls the left. The twins first gained fame after they appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1996, as well as gracing the cover of LIFE, and went on to star in a TLC reality show, Abby & Brittany, which showed their journey as they graduated from Minnesota's Bethel College and traveled over Europe. Read the original article on People Solve the daily Crossword
See - Sada Elbalad
6 days ago
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- See - Sada Elbalad
Angelina Jolie and Doug Liman Reunite for Movie "The Initiative"
Yara Sameh Angelina Jolie is attached to star in the new spy thriller 'The Initiative,' reuniting with her 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' director Doug Liman. Universal is in talks to land the hot project with F. Scott Frazier ('Collide,' 'xXx: The Return of Xander Cage') tapped to write the screenplay — plot details for which are being kept under wraps — and Jeff Kirschenbaum to produce for Roth/Kirschenbaum Films. Like Liman, RK Films also has a solid relationship with Jolie as the company backed Disney's hit 'Maleficent' movies, in which she played the title role. While plot details are being kept under wraps, 'The Initiative' witnesses Jolie's return to the slick action thrillers that made her a box office megastar, including 'Salt,' 'The Tourist' and 'Wanted.' If the deal with Universal closes, executive VP of production development Jay Polidoro and director of development Tony Ducret will oversee the pic for the studio. Jolie was most recently seen in Pablo Larraín's 'Maria,' where she earned rave reviews for portraying famed soprano Maria Callas. Upcoming, she stars in Alice Winocour's bilingual drama 'Couture,' which she also produced, and is set for the film adaptation of 'Anxious People' from Marc Foster. Liman — who most recently helmed 'Roadhouse,' a huge hit for Amazon MGM Studios, and 'The Instigations' on Apple TV+ — continues his run with Universal after he directed 2002's 'The Bourne Identity' and 2017's 'American Made,' starring Tom Cruise. Liman and Cruise are currently developing a movie for the studio, which will be filmed entirely in space. read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha Videos & Features Story behind Trending Jessica Radcliffe Death Video News Israeli-Linked Hadassah Clinic in Moscow Treats Wounded Iranian IRGC Fighters Arts & Culture "Jurassic World Rebirth" Gets Streaming Date News China Launches Largest Ever Aircraft Carrier News Ayat Khaddoura's Final Video Captures Bombardment of Beit Lahia Business Egyptian Pound Undervalued by 30%, Says Goldman Sachs Videos & Features Tragedy Overshadows MC Alger Championship Celebration: One Fan Dead, 11 Injured After Stadium Fall Arts & Culture South Korean Actress Kang Seo-ha Dies at 31 after Cancer Battle Lifestyle Get to Know 2025 Eid Al Adha Prayer Times in Egypt Arts & Culture Lebanese Media: Fayrouz Collapses after Death of Ziad Rahbani
Hamilton Spectator
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
Hockey romance novels are booming, and readers are bringing the cheeky spirit to NHL playoffs: ‘It's a book girl thing'
A few years ago, Sig Gauthier was a third-round draft pick who limped onto the Boston lineup after a near-career-ending injury in the AHL. Now, he's a two-time NHL All Star predicted to score an eight-figure contract when he's a free agent at the end of the season. He's got just one problem, and it's cheering him on in the stands wearing a bedazzled pink jersey with his name on the back: His soon-to-be-step-sister, Chloe, with whom he had a steamy encounter hours before they both realized their parents were getting married. Gauthier is not a real NHL star but the protagonist of romance author Tessa Bailey's bestselling 'Big Shots' series, which chronicles the world of hockey with the same breathless enthusiasm as any play-by-play announcer, though most of the, uh, stickhandling happens off ice. Welcome to the thriving sub-sub-genre of hockey romance novels . Stories of spice-on-ice have more longevity than any post-season bandwagon: Searches for 'hockey romance' on Amazon Canada are up 20 per cent year-over-year. The sports romance genre posted its highest ever sales going into 2025 and in 2024, 70 per cent of the bestsellers in that category were about hockey, up from 30 per cent the year before. A post shared by 𝒈𝒂𝒃𝒃𝒚🍒 (@gabbyycore) While the Toronto Maple Leafs' playoff run may be over, heartbroken fans can take refuge in an alternate universe where the roster is perennially stacked with jacked-but-emotionally-evolved-stars who worship the feisty women they fall for. During the playoffs, fans have been posting cheeky videos from the stands, like a popular Instagram reel of players doing slightly suggestive on-ice stretches, captioned, 'Not sorry for enjoying. It's a book girl thing.' Hockey romance author Bal Khabra says readers send her photos of themselves holding her books at games. 'It's the ultimate full-circle moment,' she says. 'I love knowing that this story can spark a real-world connection to the game.' Khabra's collegiate hockey romance novel 'Collide' was the top-selling sports romance novel of 2024. 'Readers are obsessed with the tropes like 'wear my jersey' or the bang against the plexi-glass for an intimate moment between the two characters in a packed arena,' she says. Khabra grew up watching hockey and was in the Boston arena the last time the Leafs lost in a playoff series game seven. She says there's just something 'magnetic' about the sport. 'The atmosphere, the playoffs, the drama. Even if you're not a diehard fan, the appeal is in the athletes themselves. There's a mix of intensity and drive in each player,' she says. 'They're so skilled at what they do, and I think that dedication makes it hot.' 'Collide' by Canadian author Bal Khabra was the top sports romance novel of last year. Staff at Toronto's Hopeless Romantics Books have seen quite a few shoppers browsing in-store before games this season, wearing their team jerseys. But not all hockey followers are into this sub-genre. 'I've heard from lots of hockey fans that they can't quite get into hockey romances, because they're not quite sure if hockey players are this romantic in real life,' said the store's bookseller Shelly, who asked not to disclose their last name. 'Some readers also occasionally tell us the actual hockey-playing in the books is not quite accurate or realistic enough.' Ontario author Becka Mack is behind the BookTok-viral 'Playing For Keeps' series. 'If they're not already a hockey fan, I don't think readers understand just how inherently sexy hockey is,' she says. 'It's fast, it's aggressive, it's sweaty, and hockey players are incredibly skilled with their hands. What's not to love? Hockey's one of those sports that gets your blood pumping when you watch it, and a good hockey romance can do the same thing.' But there's more to these books than eight-packs and puck-based innuendo. 'You've got this team, this group of tight-knit players who go through so much together and would do anything for each other. It's so refreshing to read about men who aren't afraid to love their friends and be vulnerable with each other,' says Mack. 'When I write about hockey players, they're communicating, they're feeling what they need to feel, and they're asking for and accepting help. If they're not, the journey to that point becomes part of their story.' Hockey fan and author Helena Hunting's series about a team called the 'Toronto Terror' is climbing the leaderboard at the moment. Her readers often talk about the comradeship in her hockey novels, whether that's between players or the WAGs around them. 'We all want a group of friends who will show up for us when things get tough, and a partner who will support us and our own goals,' she says. 'Romance, and sports romance in particular, does that well in a natural way.' 'If You Need Me' by Toronto hockey romance author Helena Hunting. There are other ways that sport lends itself to romance. 'There are a lot of fit people that are very sweaty,' says Kitchener-born Kayleigh Platz, co-creator of the book club and blog Romance by the Book and lifelong Rangers fan. 'Hockey captures readers because, unlike football or even basketball, it's a very physical sport. There's fighting. There are big, burly men. They're kind of the bad boys of sport, who make a ton of money, but then it's like, who are they in real life? Are they sweethearts? Are they a single dad who's looking for a nanny?' (Here she's nodding to the first book in Tessa Bailey's hockey series.) 'I love to see the clash of the drudgery of training and the risk when they are in the games, and the peeling back of the shell and seeing what they're like as humans,' she says. 'Hockey, more than other sports, is like wrestling in that they have these personas that they put on one ice. He's the fighter, he's the stick master. You don't really know what they look like half the time either. There's this mystery.' A post shared by Cara & Clara 📖☕️ (@ It is also an exploration of fantasy, one that is separate from the reality where athletes have made headlines for domestic and sexual violence against women. Recently, readers reacted in horror to the news that Sean Avery, a former NHL player who once referred to his ex-girlfriend Elisha Cuthbert as 'sloppy seconds' and who has been who has been accused of abuse by his ex-wife Hilary Rhoda, is co-writing a romance novel due out this fall. 'I don't think it's landing the way the publishing company thought it would, because a lot of the target market are women my age who remember the headlines. He is a bad boy, but he's a bad boy who hasn't redeemed himself,' says Platz. 'That breaks that bond of fantasy, that trust relationship with a romance author.' That trust is something authors are considering too. 'It's a weird time to be a reader or writer of hockey romance. The ongoing Hockey Canada sexual assault trial has forced us as a nation to confront the ugly underbelly of hockey culture,' says Jenny Holiday, the London, Ont.-based author of 'Canadian Boyfriend,' which centres around a widowed NHL player. 'At the same time, Canadians have embraced the 'elbows up' rallying cry in our response to economic and existential threats from the United States. I think the takeaway is that hockey is woven through how we collectively define ourselves as Canadians.' Take her book's hero: 'He plays hockey, considers himself a hoser, and wears a toque, not a hat. I was having fun with leaning into Canadian stereotypes, and the hockey player part of his identity was part of that,' she says. 'But one of the main themes of the book is that people are always more complicated than our ideas of them. So I knowingly sidestepped most of the stereotypes of the hockey player.' In the fantasy world of hockey romance, too, queer love can flourish in a sport with a history of homophobia, as in Rachel Reid's popular 'Game Changers' series. Khabra also delights in upending stereotypes in her stories, like the way the dismissive term 'puck bunny' is used to refer to women who like hockey. 'Personally, I avoid using that unless it's in a cheeky, harmless way that doesn't target women. I think it's important to recognize that women can — and do — genuinely love the sport,' she says. 'My friends and I are walking proof of that. Hockey isn't just a guy thing, and I love showing female characters who enjoy it without being reduced to a stereotype.'
