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The Sun
an hour ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Love Island final date confirmed – and it's just days away
LOVE Island's final date has been confirmed - and it's just days away. VIewers don't have long to find who will be crowned the winners of the summer series, as the finale is fast approaching. It will air on Monday Aug 4, from 9pm to 10.35pm. With less than two weeks to go, Maya Jama has been shaking things up and entered the villa last night to send two stars home last night. In a major twist, two previously dumped Islanders were announced to return and will enter the villa tonight.


Bloomberg
17 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Bloomberg
CBS Cancels Stephen Colbert's ‘Late Show,' Citing Costs
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will air its last episode in May of next year, marking the end of the franchise, Paramount Global's CBS network said. Colbert, who has hosted the program for a decade, announced the show's end during a taping on Thursday. He said he learned about the network's decision the day before. Colbert replaced comedian David Letterman, who created and hosted the program for 22 years. 'This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night,' CBS executives said in a joint statement. 'It is not related in any way to the show's performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.' Audience members at the Thursday taping booed at the news of the show's demise. 'I'm not getting replaced,' Colbert said in an Instagram clip of his announcement, where he thanked all his supporters. 'This is all just going away.' Bloomberg News Media and Entertainment Editor Felix Gillette reports. (Source: Bloomberg)
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Soap star Alan Fletcher says Neighbours is finishing ‘at its peak'
Actor Alan Fletcher said Neighbours is coming to an end while the Australian soap is 'at its peak'. The programme had its final day of filming earlier this month after its two-year Prime Video revival which followed it being dropped from broadcast by Channel 5 in 2022. Fletcher, 68, who has played Dr Karl Kennedy for 30 years, said it is 'fair to say' he is now more famous in the UK than Australia due to the popularity of the show here. He told ITV's Good Morning Britain (GMB): 'It's extremely popular. It sits in the top five programmes (on Amazon). View this post on Instagram A post shared by Neighbours (@neighbours) 'Amazon gave us an extra 400 episodes, and we are eternally grateful. 'I have to say to you, when we finished filming, rather than the sadness we had the first time, I sat back and thought, 'Do you know what? We've been given the opportunity to make the best Neighbours we ever could have made'. 'That's where we finished up. I reckon Neighbours is at its peak.' The cast wrapped filming on July 11 at Nunawading Studios and the soap's final broadcast after 40 years will be in December. The programme, which launched the careers of Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Margot Robbie and Guy Pearce among others, has followed the lives of people living and working in the fictional Melbourne suburb of Erinsborough since 1985. Neighbours was dropped by Channel 5 in 2022 after it failed to secure new funding, with a finale episode in July that year attracting an average audience of 2.5 million when several well-known characters returned to the show to say goodbye. The soap's return was announced in late 2022, with a social media clip featuring some of the characters being told the news. In February this year it was announced the programme would end after reports production company Fremantle failed to secure a deal with Amazon.


The Review Geek
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
Good Boy – K-drama Episode 16 Recap, Review & Ending Explained
We Are The Champions Episode 16 of Good Boy begins this finale with a reminder from Yeon-ha of just how powerful and unpredictable Ju-yeong actually is. In fact, he has enough explosive power to obliterate Insung City. This catches us up to the moments we left off from yesterday, where the truck completely explodes and the team scramble to safety. They get away just in time, as the whole thing explodes into an inferno. However, this isn't the end of it, as 3 other trucks around Insung City detonate. Ju-yeong really has nothing to lose here and that makes him incredibly dangerous. Meanwhile, Man-sik has seen his whole life flash before his eyes after the explosion. He's just thankful he can go back to see Jeong-a but Dong-ju is not happy. He shows up to see the Commissioner and demands he take some accountability for his actions. Pan-yeol eventually concedes and admits that dozens of high-ranking officials in Insung have been in bed with Ju-yeong all these years and it's not going to be easy to unravel those ties. What does Yeon-ha reveal? However, there are more pressing issues to attend to right now. There's another undetonated truck out there and they need to track down where it is. The only person who may know is Yeon-ha so once again we get a touch of deja ju as the gang question Yeon-ha about what she may know. Yeon-ha unravels a surprising connection to Kim Yu-na, one of the girls from the Custom Office. She actually has a crush on Ju-yeong so if they can track her down, they may be able to get Ju-yeong too. The group do find Yu-na, who admits that she was encouraged to leave the country with Ju-yeong. They were due to meet at the Victory Hotel, so the group use this as a way of luring Ju-yeong in. They're not the only ones after him though, as the Yakuza are sniffing around too. After Ju-yeong tried (and failed) to strike a deal with them, the gangs are desperate for blood and that means anyone aligned with Ju-yeong is on the backfoot now. Ju-yeong is also holding a shareholder meeting at the Victory Hotel (which he owns and they're currently at). What is Ju-yeong planning at the hotel? When Ju-yeong doesn't show, Dong-ju senses something fishy going on and tells the group that they need to be vigilant here. Yu-na may not be completely truthful and unfortunately, we get confirmation of this just after. With sodium cyanide powder on the floor of the hotel and Yu-na suddenly scarping off in a taxi, it seems Ju-yeong intends to blow up the hotel. If this happens, it'll occur during the shareholder meeting, killing all the officials outright. The group realize they need to evacuate the building and try to get them out. Unfortunately the shareholders don't believe them, until the lights all go out and gas sprays down from the ceiling. The group do eventually manage to get out, thanks to Dong-ju throwing himself through a window and the group taking the emergency stairwell. However, they're not alone here, as Han-na manages to call in reinforcements, making Pan-yeol seem like a hero by saving all of Insung. What happens with Ju-yeong? He's also going to do the right thing and stand up to crime and corruption, declaring war on the city and, by extension, Ju-yeong himself. However, it's not the police who find Ju-yeong first, it's the Yakuza. The Yakuza goons catch up to Ju-yeong down on the dock as he looks set to flee on a foreign boat. They beat him down until Jong-hyeon and Dong-ju arrive in the same warehouse and decide to take him in to custody. After a fight with the Yakuza (and also Mr Baek and the scrabble of goons left outside) Baek is taken in for questioning while Dong-ju continues to get outsmarted by Ju-yeong, who jumps overboard and tries to drown himself. Underwater though, Dong-ju handcuffs him and brings the guy to shore. I mean somehow they do this far away from the boat they just jumped off of but whatever. The most important thing is that Ju-yeong is captured. How does Good Boy end? In the aftermath of all this, Dong-ju does rehab to help his condition while Han-na is supportive of him the whole time. Dong-ju shows up to see Ju-yeong and rubs it in that he's going back to work and has also had a promotion too. Ju-yeong points out that nothing will change now that he's behind bars and everything is still just as corrupt as it was before. Dong-ju shrugs off his pessimism but that night it comes back to bite Ju-yeong, as a prison guard arrives and chokes him out. As for the others, the team are celebrated for their achievements and lean into their accomplishments. Everybody seems to be doing ok, while Man-sik also finds out that his wife is pregnant too, hooray! The Episode Review So Good Boy bows out with a finale that really hammers home that this show has coasted by on the talents of its cast and choreography, rather than the writing. These episodes have been a complete mixed bag and now that the dust has settled, it's worth commenting on some of the liberties the writers have taken with the entire plot and pretty much all the characters here. Dong-ju's persona began as a gung-ho, devil-may-care guy who throws himself into every situation without thinking. By the end, he's the exact same character. You'd think that something like CTE and Punch-drunk syndrome, (temporary blindness and blistering headaches notwithstanding) may have been enough to soften him out a bit but nope, he's the same guy he was at the start of the show. In fact, the annoying thing about this arc is he's basically given some pills from the doctor and a bit of rehab and now he's right as rain. He's even got a promotion too! While I wouldn't call for his death, a little more humility around his condition would have benefited him tremendously. We also don't have much follow-through with Jae-hong and his family life, juggling all these jobs for money and then… not needing to? Despite having one of the more interesting characters we could have exploded, Good Boy side-lines the big man for much of the show. Han-na is just here as a sharpshooter and her character hasn't really developed either across these 16 episodes, despite being the main female lead. However, this final episode does wrap up all the loose ends and explains a lot of the slipperiness that Ju-yeong has had all drama long. eeing his downfall has certainly been satisfying, even if it would have been good to see a bit more here. Overall, Good Boy has been a complete waste of great talent. It's a show that's frustratingly missed the mark on more than one occasion, and no amount of excellent action or acting can paper over that fact. Previous Episode Expect A Full Season Write-Up When This Season Concludes!
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
TVLine's Performer of the Week: Megan Stalter
THE PERFORMER | Megan Stalter More from TVLine TVLine Asks: Was Ballard Cameo Bittersweet? Will Colbert Go Scorched Earth? Your Superman Spinoff Pick? Did High Potential Cast Ex? And More! Star Trek: Strange New Worlds EPs Tease Spock and Chapel's Future - Does He Have a New Love Interest? Star Trek: Strange New Worlds EP Breaks Down Pike's Emotional Struggle in Premiere: 'It's an Opportunity for Him to Dig Deeper' THE SHOW | Netflix's Too Much THE EPISODE | 'The Idea of Glue' (July 10, 2025) THE PERFORMANCE | We already know Megan Stalter is flat-out hilarious from her supporting turn as overeager talent manager Kayla on HBO Max's Hacks. And she's certainly hilarious in her new Netflix show Too Much, too, but series creator Lena Dunham brought out a touchingly vulnerable side in her as well — and both of those were on full display in the season finale, as Jessica grappled with serious setbacks before stepping into her rom-com heroine destiny. As the finale opened, Jessica was still reeling from learning that her boyfriend Felix had slept with someone else, and Stalter's drained face and slumped shoulders conveyed the crushing heartbreak Jessica was stewing in as she declared, 'I guess I'll just have to get used to being alone.' Things got even worse for her when her beloved senior dog Astrid passed away suddenly, but she received a lifeline when her ex's new girlfriend Wendy reached out to her for a chat. Stalter dug deep and found a radiance inside Jessica as she bonded with Wendy and realized that this supposedly perfect woman actually had a lot in common with her. (Stalter is great at outlandish bursts of comedy, but her performance here let us see she can shine in the quieter moments, too.) Stalter then snapped into Bridget Jones mode as Jessica chased after her love Felix in classic rom-com fashion, tracking him down at a protest and gluing her hands to the road to demonstrate her commitment to him. It was weird and chaotic, but it was also kind of beautiful, and Stalter expertly channeled her wild energy into a swooningly romantic happy ending for Jessica and Felix, with them eventually walking down the aisle. Sure, the road for them got plenty bumpy along the way, but Stalter's endearingly messy work turned Jessica's flaws into strengths… and had us fully rooting for that happy ending. Scroll down to see who got Honorable Mention shout-outs this week… HONORABLE MENTION: Taissa Farmiga It's customary for a bride to cry on her wedding day, but in an ideal situation, she's shedding tears of joy — not ones of anxiety, uncertainty and impending doom. Gladys Russell found herself plagued by all of those emotions and more on Sunday's episode of The Gilded Age, haunting viewers with TV's most ominous wedding march since Game of Thrones. (What gives, HBO?) And while this ceremony didn't end in bloodshed, it did conclude with a powerfully unsettling moment in which Gladys reluctantly accepted her character's loveless fate before God and New York society. Speaking only with her eyes, Taissa Farmiga took viewers on a perilous journey through Gladys' fractured psyche until her shallow breathing and elevated heart rate began to mirror our own. Every ounce of air was sucked out of that church (and our living rooms) as the guests awaited Gladys' painfully drawn-out 'I do,' which Farmiga finally delivered with heartbreaking vulnerability. The duke and duchess' wedding may have been a larger-than-life affair, but it's often the smallest moments that leave the biggest impressions. — Andy Swift HONORABLE MENTION: Ethan Peck Since Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Spock is infamously free of emotion, Ethan Peck is naturally limited in how much traditional 'acting' he can do on Paramount+'s Trek prequel. But Peck found a way to slip some humor and heartache into Spock this week, as he learned that his beloved Chapel had returned to the Enterprise with a new boyfriend in tow. Peck had us giggling as Spock stiffly practiced ballroom dancing with La'an, and we felt for him as he gazed longingly at Chapel with her new man. (Vulcans can pine, too!) But when a mischievous alien gave Spock the gift of an alternate reality where he and Chapel were getting married, Spock nobly turned it down — and Peck let us see just how hard it was for Spock to let Chapel go. Spock is one of the most iconic characters in TV history, but Peck has found a way to make the role his own, and performances like this have us looking forward to many missions to come. — D.N. HONORABLE MENTION: Maggie Q Too often in media, a 'strong woman' character can be mistaken for 'impervious.' But in Ballard Episode 7 — the one after the home invasion/Ballard's brawl with Driscoll — Maggie Q found so many interesting layers to play by not concealing Renée's wounded state. Ballard had only barely survived a violent choking/attempt on her life, so Maggie Q affected a raspy voice and carried herself with a bit less swagger for an episode-plus. (Kudos to the make-up team for keeping Renée bruised/sporting a swollen eye for a realistic stretch of time.) Ballard is not easily sidelined, and when she returned to HQ to apologize to the team for keeping secret Driscoll's dirtiness, and then dive into a new case, Maggie Q made clear how passionately her character feels about cold case work. Strength comes in many forms, and character is an important one. — Matt Webb Mitovich Which performance(s) knocked your socks off this week? Tell us in the comments! 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