Variety

Google Launches ‘Search Profiles’ for Creators and Companies, as AI Summaries Have Caused Steep Traffic Referral Drop-Off

Google is introducing a new way for creators and publishers to promote their content on the search engine with “Search profiles.” The new feature comes amid consternation from website operators and creators that Google’s AI summaries have eroded the volume of referral traffic coming from the search portal. The internet giant describes Search profiles as […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

Patricia Heaton Sets Legal Drama Pilot ‘Public Interest’ With Patricia Heaton and More (EXCLUSIVE)

Patricia Heaton is executive producing and starring in “Public Interest,” a legal drama pilot from producer-director David Barrett and MPI Original Films. Alongside Heaton, best known for playing Debra Barone in “Everybody Loves Raymond,” the cast includes Richard Schiff (“The West Wing”), James Wolk (“Mad Men”), Liana Liberato (“Scream VI”), Tiana Okoye (“Twisted Metal”), Carter […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

No Superheroes? No Problem. Inside the Making of ‘Wonder Man’

Marvel took a huge risk on a show that has more in common with a premium cable dramedy that swaps capes for character. It paid off.

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

The Guardian Culture

MC Escher review – hallucinatory insights from the master of the mind-bending staircase

Somerset House, London Escher’s paradoxical geometries and impossible gravities may baffle the mind – yet even his wildest works were never just fanciful, as this fun and gripping show makes clearWe think we know the world of Maurits Cornelis Escher with its mind-bending staircases and buildings that impossibly twist upon themselves. Yet a shocking glimpse of reality intrudes in Somerset House’s gripping journey through his metaverse. In 1945, Escher designed a diploma for students at a temporar

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

MrBeast on That ‘Survivor’ Crossover and Wanting a ‘Beast Games’ Movie: ‘If Amazon’s Down, I’ve Got Some Crazy Ideas’

Jimmy Donaldson is known to millions as MrBeast. And by “millions,” we mean 480 million. That’s the number of subscribers to his YouTube channel alone, and that continues to grow. Earlier this year, his reality competition show “Beast GamesMrBeast on That ‘Survivor’ Crossover, Collaborating with Starbucks, and Being Open to a ‘Beast Games’ Movie – […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

Rich Eisen’s ’This Was SportsCenter: Stories From the Set’ Gets Behind the Highlights of ESPN’s Flagship Show (EXCLUSIVE)

“SportsCenter,” launched in 1979 as the flagship show on the new cabler ESPN, is now a cornerstone of the sports station but has become part of pop culture as generations of Americans turn to the show to get updated on scores, highlights and news. Its “This Is SportsCenter” commercials are classics, and much copied — […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

‘The Burial’ Writer and Tony Award Winner Doug Wright Signs With Anonymous Content (EXCLUSIVE)

Doug Wright has signed with Anonymous Content for representation. Playwright, screenwriter and librettist, Wright, most recently wrote “The Burial,” directed by Maggie Betts and starring Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones. The legal drama premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival before its release on Prime Video. He is currently co-writing the book with Will […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘All Her Fault’ Team Reunites for Peacock Mystery ‘The Break-In’

The drama from showrunner Megan Gallagher is based on a novel by Katherine Faulkner.

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Netflix Renews ‘Devil May Cry’ for Final Season

"This was always Dante’s Divine Comedy with guns and a red coat. Season 1 was Inferno. Season 2 was Purgatorio. Season 3 will be Paradiso," showrunner Adi Shankar says.

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Industry’s Marisa Abela Knows How It All Ends for Yasmin

"I want her to be on the mountaintop somewhere, but I also know the show and I don't know whether that's possible," says the actress, who also reflects on working on the HBO drama's most popular season yet.

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

‘Devil May Cry’ Renewed for Third and Final Season at Netflix

The Netflix animated series adaptation of “Devil May Cry” has been renewed for Season 3, which will also be the show’s last. “For those of you who have been paying attention to the episode names, I have been showing you the structure the entire time,” showrunner Adi Shankar said. “This was always Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

Keith David Has Portrayed Some Unforgettable Characters, and He’s Not Even Close to Being Done: ‘I’m 47 Years Into This, and I Still Get to Do It’

The first time Keith David visited Venice, he remembers finding a corner inside the cavernous grandeurof Doge’s Palace. Back in Rome, he had been starstruck by the fact that Julius Caesar had walked the same streets. But at the Doge’s Palace, he wanted to feel that prestige for himself with the ancient acoustics of the […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Seehorn Breaks Down Filming the ‘Night of Hell’ Pilot: ‘The Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done in My Life’

Rhea Seehorn has had quite the lucrative TV career, from starring in “Better Call Saul” and “Whitney” — but the pilot episode of Apple TV’s “Pluribus,” which released last November, took her to new extremes as an actor. “This epic pilot that is the night of hell. It’s not like, ‘Just get through Thursday and […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

‘All Her Fault’ Team Sets Peacock Mystery Series ‘The Break-In’ Based on Katherine Faulkner Novel

The team behind “All Her Fault” is back in business with Peacock. Variety has learned the Peacock has greenlit a limited series adaptation of the Katherine Faulkner novel “The Break-In.” “All Her Fault” writer Megan Gallagher will write and executive produce “The Break-In,” while Nigel Marchant and Gareth Neame of Carnival Films — which produced […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

A Wheelchair User Directed the Film He Always Wanted to See: ‘Stand Up’

Mari Sanders' feature debut, premiering at Tribeca, follows a young woman navigating disability as a rite of passage, with characters with all their edges. "Who says people with disabilities are good people?"

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Fantasia Fest 2026 to World Premiere ‘Cape Fear’ Series Finale (Exclusive)

The first look at the Apple TV thriller’s concluding episode comes as the genre film festival unveiled its second wave of titles for its 30th edition.

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

Prince Estate to Release ‘Timeless,’ a Rarities Album Spanning the Artist’s Entire Career

Prince’s legendary “Vault” is so filled with unreleased recordings that it can be difficult to know where to begin — a deluxe boxed set focused just on his classic 1987 “Sign O’ the Times” album added up to eight CDs, and it didn’t even contain half of that album’s outtakes. The late artist’s estate has taken […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

Variety

Piers Morgan Says SXSW London ‘Could Have Stood Up’ More for Cenk Uygur After He Was Banned From Entering U.K.: ‘I’m a Bit Disappointed’

While speaking at SXSW London on Thursday, Piers Morgan said he was “a bit disappointed” in the organization’s reaction to broadcaster Cenk Uygur being barred from entering the U.K. Uygur and his nephew, Hasan Piker — who were both scheduled to speak at SXSW London — were barred from entering the U.K. by the Home […]

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Scary Movie review – spoof comedy returns but maybe it should have stayed in the 2000s

Successful jokes are thin on the ground in the musty sixth installment of the once-popular parody franchise, taking aim at everything from Scream to SinnersThe Scary Movie series has always depended on timing. Not necessarily in its gagcraft, which has oscillated between occasional sharp jabs and many beyond-broad blows, but in its position on the release schedule. This was especially true of the first installment, which arrived in theaters just a few months after the 2000 release of Scream 3, c

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026

The Guardian Culture

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan audiobook review – a grim life in China’s gig economy

This memoir of a man who moved around China chasing low-paid work for 20 years is an indictment of a shocking system, read in a suitably austere wayHu Anyan’s memoir about working in the Chinese gig economy began life as a blog before being turned into a wildly successful book that has sold nearly 2m copies in China. It chronicles the daily grind that is working a series of unskilled jobs for insultingly low wages and where there is no such thing as career progression.Hu is one of 300 million so

entertainment  Jun 4, 2026