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If you're a fan of Mike Flanagan's The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, check out Midnight Mass, available on Netflix.

What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend watching, listening and reading

2:00pm October 08, 2021

Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's a new French horror movie, Titane, Netflix's Midnight Mass, and the web series Dimension 20.

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'Ted Lasso' Season 2 finale recap: A big game, a big decision and a heel turn

12:28pm October 08, 2021

by Linda Holmes

It's a wrap on Season 2, as Ted leads his team through one last game, Roy and Keeley feel their way through some challenges, and Sam makes a decision.

Bradley (Reese Witherspoon) has a lot on her mind.

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'The Morning Show' recap, Season 2, Episode 4: Why drag Neil Diamond into this?

6:00am October 08, 2021

by Linda Holmes

Bradley and Laura are sitting in a tree, T-A-L-K-I-N-G. Alex doesn't want to moderate the debate, and even though Bradley and Daniel both desperately want to moderate it, Cory only wants her.

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'Top Chef Junior' competitor Fuller Goldsmith has died at age 17

6:36pm October 07, 2021

by Elizabeth Blair

The Alabama native has died after battling leukemia. Goldsmith won the top prize on Chopped Junior when he was 14, before moving on to Top Chef Junior.

In No Time to Die, Daniel Craig shows us a James Bond who's gone fishing.

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Daniel Craig is the bookend Bond, giving 007's story a beginning — and an end

6:49pm October 06, 2021

by Chris Klimek

The last James Bond movie to star Daniel Craig is out today; Chris Klimek argues that Craig is the "bookend Bond," showing us 007 at the beginning and end, but never the prime of his career.

Jeanna de Waal plays Diana, the princess, in Diana, The Musical.

'Diana, The Musical' mixes camp with sincerity. Here's where every song ranks

3:55pm October 05, 2021

by Linda Holmes

The songs in the widely panned Netflix musical that sings and dances its way through Princess Diana's tragic life are not all alike — and we're here to put them all in their proper place.

(L-R): Sprite (Lia McHugh), Druig (Barry Keoghan), Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani), Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry), Karun (Harish Patel), Sersi (Gemma Chan) and Ikaris (Richard Madden) in Marvel's Eternals.

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5 things to know about the MCU's first openly gay super-powered character

3:57pm October 04, 2021

by Glen Weldon

A new trailer confirmed that Eternals will feature Phastos, a gay character played by Brian Tyree Henry, who's married with a kid. Never heard of him? You're not alone.

The Netflix series Maid is out this weekend, starring Margaret Qualley — and as her mother, Qualley's actual mother, Andie MacDowell.

What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend watching, listening and reading

2:05pm October 01, 2021

Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's a profile of Will Smith in GQ, cooking videos from Sohla El-Waylly and The Turnout by Megan Abbott.

Bradley (Reese Witherspoon) and Laura (Julianna Margulies) do some talking at the Iowa caucuses.

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'The Morning Show' recap, Season 2, Episode 3, featuring kissing and lying

9:19am October 01, 2021

by Linda Holmes

Shiny new guest star Julianna Margulies shows up to interview Alex and Bradley about their impending reunion, while Mitch enters the heart of his redemption arc.

Tommy Kirk, here with his canine co-star in 1957's Old Yeller, has died. Kirk appeared in a string of hit Disney movies such as Swiss Family Robinson and The Absent-Minded Professor.

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Tommy Kirk, The Fresh-Scrubbed Face Of Disney As A Child Actor, Dies At 79

5:23pm September 30, 2021

by Bill Chappell

Generations of children, and more than a few adults, cried along with Kirk when his character Travis Coates tearfully pulled a rifle trigger in Old Yeller.