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WTF with Marc Maron is coming to a close. The podcast, which launched in 2009 and has produced almost 2,000 episodes, is set to end this fall. Maron made the announcement in an episode released Monday. “Sixteen years we’ve been doing this, and we’ve decided that we had a great run. Now, basically, it’s time, folks. It’s time. WTF is coming to an end. It’s our decision. We’ll have our final episode sometime in the fall.” …

The upcoming Prime Video series Carrie has announced its cast. Deadline reports Summer Howell has been cast as the titular Carrie White, while Matthew Lillard also joins as Principal Grayle. The show will be a TV adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name. It’s described as a reimagining of the story we know about high school misfit Carrie White and the emergence of her mysterious telekinetic powers …

Andrew Scott has joined Michelle Williams and Daisy Edgar-Jones in the upcoming legal thriller A Place in Hell, according to Deadline. Chloe Domont wrote and will direct the film, which follows two women who work at a high-profile criminal law firm …

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Your Friends & Neighbors aired its season 1 finale Friday on Apple TV+.

The show, which stars Jon Hamm as fired hedge fund manager and thief Andrew “Coop” Cooper, was renewed for season 2 before the first episode dropped on April 11.

ABC Audio spoke to Hamm and his co-star Amanda Peet about what fans can expect in the second season, which is currently in production.

“We were very pleased to get that news from Apple,” Hamm said of the season 2 renewal.

Hamm said to prepare for things to get even more outrageous in the next season.

“I think we’ve established … over the course of the first season Coop trying to manage so many things that seem to be unmanageable. And I think that will hopefully continue in season 2. I think his life will become a little more stable. And yet at the same time, his situation will become a little more outrageous for sure.”

Peet said she was thrilled about returning for another season of the show.

“I feel so lucky that we got renewed. I just have never had that happen in my life,” Peet said.

At the time of the interview, Peet said she hadn’t been told what was going to happen in season 2, and that she was “dying to know myself.”

Peet offered up a few ideas and themes for where the series could go.

“I really like stories in which there is this constant theme or conceit where it’s like, ‘Do I really know you? Do I really? Is the person lying next to me — or who I’ve known for this many years — really who I think they are?’ So I think that’s really fun. How is that gonna unfold between Mel and Coop? I really, I can’t wait.”

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Thirty years of Clueless? That’s totally buggin’!

Paramount Pictures has announced a global celebration for the 30th anniversary of the iconic ’90s comedy film Clueless.

The Amy Heckerling-directed movie was first released on July 19, 1995, and continues to have a strong fan base as the years go by. Because of this, Paramount Pictures has announced a slew of celebrations for the anniversary it’s dubbing Summer of Clueless, which includes a theatrical rerelease.

Clueless will return to the big screen nationwide in the U.S. on June 29 and June 30. Additionally, the film will head back to theaters in Ireland and the U.K. on June 27.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will also host an anniversary screening of the film on June 7 as part of its limited series Teen Movie Madness! A star-studded panel of guests will participate in a conversation after the screening, including Heckerling, stars Alicia Silverstone, Elisa Donovan and Breckin Meyer, costume designer Mona May and casting director Marcia Ross.

The legacy of Clueless will also be acknowledged by the city where the film is set. Sharona Nazarian, the mayor of Beverly Hills, California, is declaring July 19 to be Clueless Day. The celebration will feature a street festival with themed photo ops, a costume contest, food trucks and more.

“While many iconic films have been set in our city, CLUELESS stands out, not just as a defining film of the 1990s, but as a cultural touchstone that continues to resonate with new generations,” Nazarian said in a statement. “Its legacy endures because it’s both stylish and sincere, and because it’s rooted right here in Beverly Hills.”

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It’s time to say goodbye to the Crawley family in the teaser trailer for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.

Focus Features released the teaser for the upcoming film on Monday. It shows off the cinematic return of the Crawleys and their staff as they step into the 1930s.

“As the beloved cast of characters navigates how to lead Downton Abbey into the future, they must embrace change and welcome a new chapter,” according to its official synopsis.

This marks the third and final film based on the PBS period drama series created by Julian Fellowes. Simon Curtis directed Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale from a script written by Fellowes.

The familiar cast of characters includes Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael and Michelle Dockery, joined by Paul Giamatti, Alessandro Nivola, Dominic West and Simon Russell Beale.

The late Maggie Smith‘s presence looms large in the trailer. A portrait of her character, Violet Crawley, hangs prominently in the mansion. We see an emotional moment where Dockery’s Lady Mary poignantly gazes up at it.

The trailer ends with Robert Crawley, played by Bonneville, kissing his hand and placing it on the side of Grantham Estate in a farewell gesture.

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale arrives in theaters on Sept. 12.

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Everybody wants this.

Netflix has announced the release date for season 2 of Nobody Wants This. The second season of the rom-com series arrives Oct. 23 on the streaming service.

Kristen Bell and Adam Brody are set to return as lovebirds Joanne and Noah in the second season, which has finished shooting. Justine Lupe and Timothy Simons also return for season 2 as Morgan and Sasha. They’re joined by newcomers Leighton Meester, Miles Fowler, Alex Karpovsky and Arian Moayed.

Meester, who is married to Brody and co-starred with Bell in Gossip Girl, will guest star as Abby, Joanne’s nemesis from middle school. Fowler will play Lenny, Noah’s Matzah Ballers teammate, while Karpovsky recurs as Big Noah, a rabbi at Noah’s temple. Moayed plays Dr. Andy, a psychotherapist who is interested in Morgan.

Season 1 of Nobody Wants This followed the courtship of the unlikely couple Joanne and Noah, an agnostic podcaster and a kindhearted rabbi.

Erin Foster created Nobody Wants This. She told Netflix the show will forever be a career highlight for her.

“The incredible cast, crew, producers, and executives all made this into the show it is today, and to experience viewers’ reactions to this series now that it’s out in the world has been more than anything I could have dreamed,” Foster said.

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We now know the premiere date for the King of the Hill revival. Season 14 of the show will premiere Aug. 4 on Hulu. The 10-episode season will drop in its entirety. It picks up several years after the Hill family was last seen in the season 13 finale. A now-retired Hank and Peggy Hill return to find a changed Arlen, Texas, after years of working in Saudi Arabia, while Bobby has turned 21 and is navigating his adult life as a chef working in Dallas …

Rob “Gronk” Gronkowski is set to act alongside Sistine Stallone and Mischa Barton in the upcoming mafia crime thriller Bad News on the Doorstep. Deadline first reported the casting news on the upcoming film, which is set in the 1950s and follows a coming-of-age story about Frank and Gino, two Italian-American high school football prodigies …

Issa Rae will star in and produce the upcoming comedy-thriller Good People, Bad Things. According to Deadline, the film follows a woman who gets lost inside a seemingly infinite parking garage before discovering she is not alone …

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After a record-breaking Memorial Day weekend, Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning retained the top two spots at the box office this past weekend, with both setting new milestones in overall earnings.

Disney’s live-action remake of the beloved animated classic grossed another $63 million, which according to Variety brings its worldwide total to $610 million. That makes it the second-biggest movie of 2025, following A Minecraft Movie, which has taken in $947 million worldwide.

Meanwhile, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning — supposedly the last outing for Tom Cruise‘s superspy Ethan Hunt — earned $27.3 million, good enough for #2 this weekend, and bringing its worldwide total to $350 million, Variety reports. The vampire thriller Sinners also topped the $350 million mark worldwide this weekend; it’s currently at #6 on the box office tally.

As for new entries, Karate Kid: Legends debuts at #3 with $21 million, as per Box Office Mojo. The film is set three years after the end of the TV series Cobra Kai, itself a spinoff of the original Karate Kid films. The horror thriller Bring Her Back debuts at #5 with $7.1 million.

In at #10 is j-hope Tour ‘Hope on the Stage’ in Japan: Live Viewing, a live movie theater broadcast of a May 31 concert in Japan by j-hope, a member of K-pop superstar group BTS.

Here are the top 10 films at the box office:

1. Lilo & Stitch — $63 million
2. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning — $27.3 million
3. Karate Kid: Legends –– $21 million
4. Final Destination: Bloodlines –– $10.8 million
5. Bring Her Back –– $7.1 million
6. Sinners –– $5.2 million
7. Thunderbolts* –– $4.8 million
8. Friendship –– $2.6 million
9. The Last Rodeo –– $2.1 million
10. j-hope Tour ‘Hope On the Stage’ in Japan: Live Viewing –– $939,173

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Stranger Things 5 officially has a release date – three of them, to be exact.

The fifth and final season of the Netflix hit will air in three parts, with the first four episodes debuting November 26; the next three episodes dropping on Christmas Day, December 25; and the final episode streaming on New Year’s Eve, December 31. Each volume will release at 5 p.m. PT.

The news was revealed during Netflix’s fan event Tudum 2025, along with a new teaser for season five. The teaser mixes footage from previous seasons with some quick glimpses of the new episodes, ending with a shot of Noah Schnapp‘s Will Byers screaming “Run!” as he faces an unknown horror.  

A synopsis for season five says the episodes pick up in the fall of 1987, with Hawkins dealing with the aftermath of the opening of the Rifts and our group of heroes uniting to find and kill Vecna.

“The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before,” the synopsis reads. “To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.”

Stranger Things stars Millie Bobby Brown, Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp and Sadie Sink.

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Loretta Swit, known for her role as Maj. Margaret Houlihan on M*A*S*H, has died at age 87. She died at home in New York City of suspected natural causes, her rep Harlan Boll confirmed.

Swit was nominated for the Emmy for best supporting actress in a comedy series from 1974 to 1983. She won the award in 1980 and 1982.

She was born Loretta Jane Szwed on Nov. 4, 1937, in Passaic, New Jersey, to Polish immigrant parents.

Along with her Emmys, Loretta also won a People’s Choice Award, The Genie Award, The Silver Satellite Award, The Jean Golden Halo Award and the Pacific Broadcasters Award.

Her long career included roles in over 25 made-for-TV movies, including the original Cagney and Lacey. She also appeared in Games Mother Never Taught You, Hell Hath No Fury, The Execution, Dreams of Gold and A Killer Among Friends.

On the big screen, Swit acted in films such as Stand Up and Be Counted, Freebie and the Bean, Race With the Devil and S.O.B.

Swit married actor Dennis Holahan in 1983; they divorced in 1995.

In addition to her acting career, Swit was passionate about animals. She set up the SwitHeart Animal Alliance in order to prevent cruelty toward animals, and to promote nonprofit organizations and programs to protect, rescue and care for those in need.

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Sydney Sweeney is selling soap made from her bathwater.

The actress has partnered with Dr. Squatch to create a soap that was made using water she bathed in.

“You kept asking about my bathwater after the @drsquatch ad… so we kept it,” Sydney wrote in a post shared to Instagram. “Introducing Sydney’s Bathwater Bliss! A very real, very limited-edition soap made with my actual bathwater.”

This new soap was inspired by her ad for Dr. Squatch Natural Body Wash, which featured Sweeney promoting the product while bathing in a tub filled with bubbles.

The product description on Dr. Squatch’s website says the soap combines “the two best places on the planet: The outdoors and Sydney Sweeney’s bathtub.” It is described as having a blend of outdoor serenity, with notes of pine, Douglas fir, earthy moss and a bit of Sweeney’s bathwater.

Sydney’s Bathwater Bliss soap will have a limited launch on June 6. Only 5,000 bars of the soap will be made. They sell for $8 each. Dr. Squatch is running a giveaway where 100 winners will receive the bar of soap before the official drop in early June. 

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