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How did Festus leave Gunsmoke? Ken Curtis played him for close to 300 episodes — and then never once appeared in the TV movies
Ken Curtis played Festus Haggen for 11 years and 304 episodes of Gunsmoke, then sat out every one of the five reunion films CBS made between 1987 and 1994. Here's how the series actually ended for him, and what kept him out of the movies.
September 18, 2026 6:11 pm
Lady Gaga’s new baby’s name is out — and yes, it nods to her music
Lady Gaga has welcomed a baby girl with fiancé Michael Polansky — and, according to TMZ, picked a name that nods to her musical past.
September 18, 2026 11:30 am
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: what the title means — Kesey wrote the novel on night shifts at a psychiatric ward
The title of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest comes from a nursery rhyme, but the novel came from a night job at a Californian veterans' hospital and a CIA drug programme. Here's where Ken Kesey got both.
September 17, 2026 3:17 pm
Justin Baldoni has a film again after the Blake Lively settlement, and it is Gina Rodriguez's directing debut
Justin Baldoni’s lined up his next film after It Ends With Us — with Gina Rodriguez leading, and not just in front of the camera.
September 15, 2026 12:55 am
Christian Bale’s a hero off camera — he helped launch a foster care home
Turns out Batman wasn’t a phase for Christian Bale — after three films as the Dark Knight, he’s pulled off something properly heroic in real life.
September 14, 2026 10:43 pm
Dan Schneider's Quiet on Set appeal failed, because the court agreed it never called him an abuser
Dan Schneider has taken a hefty blow on appeal in his fight over Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV — and it’s hardly good news.
September 12, 2026 4:05 pm
What happens at the end of Fast and Furious 1? The final scene set up nine more films
How The Fast and the Furious (2001) ends: the final race, the decision that closes the film, the often-forgotten last scene after it — and how those few minutes grew into an eleven-film saga with a confirmed 2028 finale.
September 11, 2026 8:04 pm
Baywatch season 2: where renewal stands — and yes, we know before release
Fox’s Baywatch reboot doesn’t debut until January, yet off-screen wheels are already turning for Season 2—even as the network holds back on a formal decision.
September 10, 2026 3:56 pm
Why did The Grand Tour end?
Why Clarkson, Hammond, and May ended The Grand Tour after 2024's One For The Road — in their own words — and what Amazon has done with the name since September 2026.
September 9, 2026 9:27 pm
What book is Reacher based on? A different one each season — and nowhere near publication order
Prime Video's Reacher has adapted four Lee Child novels across four seasons, and has picked them out of a hat that contains 30 books. Season 4, which began on 12 August 2026, is the fourth novel it has used and the 13th Child wrote.
September 4, 2026 5:19 pm
Wondering who's playing Tupac Shakur in the Snoop Dogg biopic — it's a Panic actor
Universal’s Snoop Dogg biopic has nailed down its Tupac Shakur — and it’s a Panic actor taking us back to the Death Row days.
August 27, 2026 8:58 pm
Missing Mindhunter? This 18-year-old crime thriller scratches the same itch
Netflix’s beloved Mindhunter, about the FBI Behavioral Science Unit, is the crime thriller you’ll want to queue up next.
August 26, 2026 6:28 pm
Cue the lawyers: lawsuit says Taylor Sheridan took the Yellowstone idea from a writer’s pitch
‘Yellowstone’ is at the centre of a lawsuit alleging it pinched its premise from a 2016 pitch — and the complaint lands squarely at Taylor Sheridan’s door.
August 23, 2026 3:57 pm
So much for Hollywood: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are moving back — here’s why
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry plan to swap Los Angeles for the UK — and there’s a big question hanging over their Netflix partnership.
August 20, 2026 9:32 pm
Still hoping? Johnny Depp’s Pirates of the Caribbean 6 return just got good news
Speaking at D23, producer Jerry Bruckheimer teased progress and a surprising new course for Pirates of the Caribbean 6 — and Jack Sparrow’s return suddenly feels very real.
August 17, 2026 11:59 pm
Yes, really — Elizabeth Olsen welcomed her first baby with Robbie Arnett
Looks like the WandaVision star and husband Robbie Arnett have welcomed their first baby, going by new Los Angeles photos showing her carrying a newborn on an outing.
August 17, 2026 8:09 pm
New figures confirm Netflix horror The Last House is already a huge streaming hit
The Last House has quickly become a horror sensation on Netflix — the actual scale of its streaming audience is the real fright.
August 12, 2026 5:30 pm
Fresh update revives hopes for canceled Clueless sequel series
After years of stop-start drama, the once-cancelled Clueless TV sequel suddenly looks alive again — and there’s a concrete step suggesting it might actually happen.
August 11, 2026 7:48 pm
It’s official: Star Wars and Marvel will cross over
Marvel Comics is marking the 50th anniversary of 'Star Wars' with a five-issue limited comic series written by a very familiar name — one you probably didn’t expect.
August 11, 2026 6:31 pm
What is The Pitt hospital based on? What's real vs what's invented
The Pitt looks so authentic that plenty of Pittsburgh locals are convinced they've sat in that exact waiting room. Some of them sort of have. Here's what's genuinely real about the Emmy-winning HBO Max drama's hospital, and what was built from scratch.
August 11, 2026 3:41 pm
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