Episode
What Castle in the Sky is based on, in Miyazaki's own account of the film's origins
Studio Ghibli's first release began with a comic Hayao Miyazaki read as a schoolboy, a satirical novel from 1726, and a research trip to South Wales. Where each piece of Castle in the Sky came from, in the director's own account — plus the four titles it nearly had.
September 20, 2026 5:03 pm
How accurate is The Pacific? Checked against the two Marines' memoirs it was built on
HBO's The Pacific was adapted from two Marine memoirs and a third man who never wrote one. Where the series follows Eugene Sledge and Robert Leckie exactly, where it merges and rearranges them, and which of its hardest scenes came straight off the page.
September 20, 2026 4:02 pm
James Gunn teased 'the blackest night is yet to come' with three Lanterns episodes left — the comics event where dead heroes rise
Gunn’s post on Threads quoted the Lantern Oath, and fans now expect Sinestro, a bigger Blackest Night saga or Hal Jordan’s return.
September 20, 2026 2:11 pm
Jalen Brunson won the Knicks their first title since 1973 — on 5 November he guest-stars in Law & Order: SVU
The Knicks guard makes his first scripted appearance in episode 5 of SVU’s 28th season. NBC hasn’t said who he plays.
September 20, 2026 12:53 pm
Six Emmys later, Vince Gilligan's Pluribus is back among the biggest shows on streaming
Vince Gilligan’s series with Rhea Seehorn won six of its 18 Emmy nominations and is back at No. 7 among Apple TV’s most-streamed series worldwide.
September 20, 2026 11:36 am
Strange New Worlds season 4 episode 9 sends La'an into a fairy tale where her prince has Kirk's face
In ‘Once La’an a Time’, the Elysian Kingdom anomaly from season 1 returns with dragons, wizards and doppelgängers, and La’an finally talks to the real Kirk.
September 20, 2026 10:44 am
DC's Flash is back in live action, and it isn't Barry Allen — Jay Garrick turns up in The Big Bang Theory spin-off
Episode 9 of Stuart Fails to Save the Universe traps the gang in a comic, where they need the Cosmic Treadmill and get the Golden Age Flash instead.
September 20, 2026 9:55 am
NCIS: why did Jimmy's wife die? The off-screen death, and the writers' reason for it
Breena Palmer was already gone by the time NCIS came back to her, and the show delivered the news in a single line of dialogue. Here is when it happened, what the episode said out loud and what it left to inference, and the reason the writers put the loss on Jimmy rather than anyone else on the team.
September 19, 2026 6:41 pm
Tracker season 4 returns on 4 October, but Justin Hartley says Russell's secret deal stays buried
Justin Hartley told TV Insider that Russell’s deal from the season 3 finale stays secret for now, while season 4 digs into the Shaw family’s past.
September 19, 2026 3:43 pm
What does NCIS use for dead bodies? The autopsy-room method, straight from producer Mark Horowitz
Executive producer Mark Horowitz casts every corpse on NCIS himself, and the job is far stranger than it looks from the sofa. Here is how the show fills its autopsy table week after week, and why living actors usually beat the very expensive dummies.
September 19, 2026 2:37 pm
The Big Bang Theory spin-off wanted Green Lantern — DC kept him for Lanterns, so the episode got the Flash
Co-creator Zak Penn explains why Stuart Fails to Save the Universe went to Gotham and Central City instead: DC would give them anyone but Green Lantern.
September 19, 2026 11:33 am
Superman's Jimmy Olsen says the DCU's Gorilla Grodd murder trial happens before Man of Tomorrow
Skyler Gisondo, back as Jimmy Olsen, says HBO Max’s true-crime mockumentary sits between Superman and its sequel, out on 9 July 2027.
September 19, 2026 9:52 am
Eddie is Conrad's son, raised as his grandson: the MobLand family tree you need for season 2
MobLand season 2 is streaming on Paramount+ from 18 September. Who’s who among Conrad, Maeve, Kevin, Bella, Eddie and Seraphina Harrigan, and how they’re related.
September 19, 2026 9:07 am
Who was on NCIS from the beginning? Only one of the original cast is still in the credits more than two decades on
NCIS premiered on CBS in September 2003 with five names in the main titles. Twenty-three seasons later, only one of them still turns up for work — and the man usually called an original cast member technically wasn't one.
September 18, 2026 9:01 pm
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
The Big Bang Theory spin-off gave Amy a new husband instead of Sheldon — the Flash, his favourite superhero
TBBT just tore up the playbook in 'Stuart Fails to Save the Universe', introducing Sheldon's replacement and unveiling Amy’s new husband.
September 18, 2026 1:30 pm
Angourie Rice is filming a beach-set Pride and Prejudice she wrote with her mother — Netflix is making its own version at the same time
Austen fans, take note: Pride & Prejudice is getting a TV spin starring Spider-Man star Angourie Rice, adapting her and her mum’s buzzy BookTok take.
September 18, 2026 3:19 am
Thirty-three years after the X-Files pilot, Mulder and Scully still beat Sherlock and Watson — Holmes had a sidekick, Mulder had an equal
Convinced Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman’s Sherlock double act is unbeatable — meet the characters who top them.
September 17, 2026 11:34 pm
MobLand season 2 is at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes two days before it premieres — off all five reviews filed so far
Tom Hardy and Guy Ritchie’s MobLand Season 2 has critics swooning — and a Rotten Tomatoes result to match — even before its streaming debut.
September 17, 2026 10:51 pm
How did Ginny die in Dead City? Negan raided Bellevue Hospital trying to stop it — the finale shows the rest
Dead City season 2 sends Negan alone into a walker-infested Bellevue Hospital, and the finale settles what that trip was worth. Here's the full chain of events behind the storyline, plus what Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Mahina Napoleon have said about filming it.
September 17, 2026 9:04 pm
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