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Abigail Lee SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 9 of “Severance,” now streaming on Apple TV+. “Severance” is known for its precise visual aesthetic, and that’s seen nowhere more clearly than within the surveilled halls of Lumon. Part of Lumon’s institutional power arises from its ability to make every employee adhere to the ethos of its founder, Kier Eagan, instilling a strict dedication to a mythology that blurs the lines between corporate culture and religion.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “Long Bright River,” now streaming on Peacock. Two years before Liz Moore’s novel “Long Bright River” ever hit shelves in 2020 and became a bestseller — and one of Barack Obama’s top books of the year — she was approached by different producers. Now, it’s an eight-episode Peacock series starring Amanda Seyfried.

Gone are the days of crammed caravan parks and deafening arcades being the only way to spend a family holiday. Now, you can trade the mundane for the magical with plush options that cater to every family member – just like we found at New Park Manor.Tucked away in the heart of the New Forest, New Park Manor - recently crowned 'best family-friendly hotel' in The Times' Best Places to Stay in the UK for 2025 list - is a luxury hotel with a strong family focus, offering an elevated holiday experience.

Joey Bada$$ is opening up about his surprising return in Power Book III: Raising Kanan!

Percy Jackson and the Olympians has received a very early Season 3 renewal.

The second season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians doesn’t air until December 2025, but we’ve learned that a third season has already been ordered!

EXCLUSIVE: John Wick and Nobody franchise scribe Derek Kolstad‘s Planet Death from Bad Idea and Lunar Distribution has sold 655,000 copies before hitting store shelves, a milestone for an independent comic book and the best sales since 1992’s WildC.A.T.s #1 from Jim Lee.

EXCLUSIVE: The series adaptation of Raven Kennedy’s fantasy novels is picking up steam with Kate Rorick attached to serve as showrunner of the project.

It was three years ago today that Fox News senior correspondent Benjamin Hall was severely injured when his crew vehicle was struck by incoming fire in Ukraine.

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Kim Kardashian was denied a purchase on a bible her late father Robert gifted.

Every work of narrative builds on those that preceded it. In the case of Steve Oney‘s On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR, two books cited by the author as inspirations are illuminating as to his approach to the sprawling, decades-long story of public radio.

Matthew Macfadyen has booked his next TV role!

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor The mayor of Miami Beach is asking the city to end a lease agreement and withdraw financial support from an independent theater that is screening the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” Mayor Steven Meiner characterized the film as “a false one-sided propaganda attack on the Jewish people that is not consistent with the values of our City and residents” and has introduced legislation to terminate the O Theater’s lease for the city’s old City Hall building. Despite winning the Oscar and numerous other awards, “No Other Land” has faced controversy for its depiction of Palestinian homes and villages in the West Bank destroyed by the Israeli military.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com Duke Johnson knows he doesn’t have any of the answers. But that doesn’t stop him from asking “the same questions that a lot of people are interested in” through his films. Universal questions about reality, art and love are posed in the ‘50s-set “The Actor,” which follows Paul (André Holland), an actor who wakes up one day in a small town in Ohio and can’t remember the first thing about who he is.

EXCLUSIVE: Black Label Media has taken rights to Patrick Hoffman’s debut crime novel The White Van to develop as a feature for filmmaker Grant Singer.

EXCLUSIVE: Rebelle Media, founded and run by former CAA film finance and sales agent Laura Lewis, is getting into business with MGM Television. The company has signed a first-look deal with the studio and set its first project, a series adaptation of The Sicilian Inheritance, Jo Piazza‘s bestselling novel of the same name.

It's the biggest week of Barry Ferguson's managerial career at Rangers so far - and tonight his side have the chance to book their place in the last eight of the Europa League.

EXCLUSIVE: New York International Children’s Film Festival has announced its 2025 jury, including Lake Bell, Seth Meyers, Bob Odenkirk, Matthew Modine and Guillermo Martinez, Director and Head of Story at Sony Pictures Animation. Scroll down for the full jury.

Netflix documentary speculates he may have been influenced by government agents.Directed by Errol Morris, Chaos: The Manson Murders covers several conspiracy theories tied to the 1969 killing spree, including how it might relate to secret experiments by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI) at the time.The documentary is based on the 2019 book Chaos: Charles Manson, The CIA, And The Secret History of The Sixties, written by journalist Tom O’Neill who appears in the film.The film’s title relates to the CIA project Operation Chaos, which was an initiative to spy on anti-war groups and other protest movements within the US between 1967 and 1974 during the Cold War.MKUltra was a human experimentation program conducted by the CIA to find drugs and procedures which could be used as forms of mind control, whether to force confessions akin to a “truth serum” or to make people forget things from their past.According to NPR, MKUltra was created by CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb in 1953 and ran until the early 1960s. The project began during a period of Cold War “paranoia” at the CIA, when many feared communists had perfected some kind of mind control drug.The experiments conducted by the CIA involved administering mind-altering substances such as LSD, often on unsuspecting individuals.

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner David E. Kelley, who created Netflix‘s The Lincoln Lawyer based on Michael Connelly’s novels, is helping bring another popular book character by a bestselling author to the streamer. The prolific writer-producer has teamed with Harlan Coben to adapt his Myron Bolitar novels as a TV series, sources tell Deadline.