The iconic PPG trio from “Love Island USA” Season 6 is headed to reality TV, again. Leah Kateb, JaNa Craig and Serena Page are among the Season 6 cast that will be featured in a new “Love Island” spinoff series, which follows a handful of former islanders as they trade the villa for Los Angeles. The new Peacock show, titled “Love Island: Beyond the Villa,” will also feature Aaron Evans, Miguel Harichi, Kaylor Martin, Connor Newsum, Kenny Rodriguez, Liv Walker and Kendall Washington, as well as more guest appearances. About a year after they met last summer, the new series will follow everyone’s favorite Season 6 Islanders around Los Angeles as they navigate new careers, evolving friendships, newfound fame and complex relationships outside of the Love Island villa, per the official logline. The new series will premiere this summer alongside a new season of “Love Island USA.” While flagship series “Love Island U.K.” has long dominated the cultural conversation, Season 6 of “Love Island USA” broke into the zeitg
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Fatma Hassona, the Palestinian subject of the forthcoming Cannes 2025 documentary “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,” was killed Wednesday by a direct Israeli missile strike on her home in Gaza. The Palestinian photojournalist and artist was just 25 years old. Hassona, who was known as “Fatem” by her friends and loved ones, died just one day after Cannes sidebar ACID announced it would be showing Iranian director Sepideh Farsi’s new documentary, “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,” as part of its 2025 lineup. A co-production between Iran, France and Palestine, the documentary explores Farsi’s relationship with Hassona and the “window” she provided to “see fragments of the ongoing massacre of Palestinians.” The attack on Hassona’s home killed her, as well as nine members of her family. “We, filmmakers and members of the ACID team, met Fatma Hassona when we discovered Sepideh Farsi’s film ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,’ during the Cannes program,” the ACID team wrote in a statement posted Thursday o
The Peabody Awards unveiled the final batch of nominees on Thursday. Nominations for the Arts, Children’s/Youth, Entertainment and Interactive & Immersive categories were announced by the Board of Jurors, recognizing “the most captivating and impactful stories released in broadcasting and streaming media” in 2024. Noteworthy contenders in the Entertainment category, which feature a dozen nominees, are led by Emmy-winning programs “Shōgun,” “Baby Reindeer,” “Hacks,” “Ripley” and “Alex Edelman: Just for Us.” Other nominees include “Clipped,” “Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office,” “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” “Say Nothing,” “Fantasmas,” “We Are Lady Parts” and a comedy special from Ramy Youssef. The Arts category is represented with one nominated program from NatGeo about traveling photographers, while titles from Disney+ and Netflix make up the Children’s/Youth category. In the Interactive/Immersive category, the eight nominees vary in platform and media, such as VR, Instagram, TikTok and 3D maps. Topics range fr
Padma Lakshmi is moving from the world of cable into network television. CBS has ordered “America’s Culinary Cup,” the working title of an upcoming cooking competition series from the former “Top Chef” host. The series is set to premiere during the 2025-26 broadcast season. Lakshmi will serve as the creator and executive producer of the series alongside Susan Rovner, CEO of Aha Studios. Rovner was previously the content chief for NBCUniversal, the parent company of Bravo. Contestants for “America’s Culinary Cup” will be invitation-only as the series will challenge some of the nation’s most decorated chefs. The competition is specifically designed to test their “creativity, endurance, presentation, leadership and more,” a press release for the series reads. “We’re inviting elite chefs from across the country to represent their unique culinary style and battle it out,” Lakshmi said in a Thursday statement. “This competition echoes the thrill of sports and the American spirit as we cheer on our favorite chefs. I
“The Daily Show” host Ronny Chieng is starting to suspect the United States may be on the wrong side of history when it comes to the tariff war between the U.S. and China. Wednesday night’s opening monologue was entirely devoted to the issue, starting with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s response to American Vice President JD Vance repeatedly calling Chinese citizens “peasants.” “Let those American peasants wail before the 5,000-year-old civilization of the Chinese nation,” Xi said. “F–k, that went so hard,” Chieng said on Wednesday night. “Oh no, are we the Drake in this beef? Are we the certified peasants?” The late night host then countered that Xi’s 5,000-year-old flex isn’t as intimidating as Xi may think it is. “Half the people here don’t even think the Earth is that old,” Chineg said. “Also, let’s just be real. There’s no way that Americans are the peasants here. Do peasants have medical debt? Didn’t think so. Checkmate, China.” As the segment continued, “The Daily Show” played a news clip discussing Ch
Netflix’s “Ransom Canyon” was never going to be revolutionary. The new drama, set in rural Texas and based on a series of books by Jodi Thomas, will naturally remind you of “Yellowstone” with its land-loving cowboys dedicated to keeping their ranches out of the hands of corporations and their water out of corporate pipelines. Its love triangles and small town soap plots give a bit of “Virgin River” and a million other small town soaps, and it’s not just the presence of Minka Kelly that will make you think of “Friday Night Lights,” because the local teens are embroiled in their own cheerleading-adjacent drama. Everybody’s hot, everybody’s got secrets, and everybody’s in love with somebody whether that somebody loves them back or not. Sometimes there’s not much more you could ask for from a TV show. “Ransom Canyon” shares its name with the small town it’s set in, a community fueled by ranches that have been run by the same families for generations. But times are tough for ranchers, and some, like Davis (Eoin Ma
Note: This story contains spoilers from “The Wheel of Time” Season 3, Episode 8. “The Wheel of Time” capped a successful, momentum-gathering third season with Rand (Josha Stradowski) proclaiming himself to the Aiel, Mat (Dónal Finn) confronting the series’ “horror elves” for the first time and a second book-deviating death in as many weeks – all to showrunner Rafe Judkins’ plan. For many viewers, Season 3 of “The Wheel of Time” was a major leap forward in the series compared to the first two entries. With the show earning the strongest reviews of the show’s run by the end of the season, Judkins told TheWrap it was a part of his initial pitch that the series would really hit its stride in the third year — which is proving true. “This is the point in the books where they became an explosive worldwide success,” he said. “It’s the part of the books where some of the most uniquely ‘Wheel of Time’ things happen because you’ve done all this groundwork to set up this world so that you can do an episode where you’re f
Meta has quietly disabled support for Apple Intelligence’s Writing Tools across all its iOS apps, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads. The move removes one of Apple’s most practical new features from some of the most widely used social media platforms on the iPhone.
According to a report from Insider-Gaming, Ubisoft has another live service game in development following its shutdown of XDefiant, which will be gone forever this coming June 2025. The report claims that this game will be a battle royale and is currently in development under the codename “Scout. “One of Insider-Gaming’s sources says that “I…
Rumor mill: Bethesda has spent over a decade porting Skyrim to everything short of a smart fridge. So when early rumors hinted at an Oblivion remake, Elder Scrolls fans were quick to latch on. Now, a curious Xbox Support exchange suggests the long-awaited revival might be just around the corner.