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When it comes to TV, the complaint used to be “there’s nothing on.”

Now, with streaming the norm, the problem is everything’s on all the time — and that’s stressing people out.

In fact, according to a new poll, 2 in 3 Americans say they fear they’ll never be able to catch up with the titles they’ve earmarked.

In fact, 73% of respondents said they have a list of shows they’re looking to see — but only 58% have checked them all off.

Of those who failed to catch up, 42% complained they don’t have the time.

Forty-three percent say they can’t get the list under control because so many new shows get added to it. Twenty-nine percent say it’s too overwhelming to watch everything on their list.

The most popular shows on Americans’ to-do list, according to the survey, are Stranger Things, followed close behind by Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead.

Breaking Bad and Squid Game rounded out the top five.

And with the average American having access to four streaming services, it takes an average of a half hour for respondents to find something — even if they have their handy list.

Survey questions, methodology and results have not been verified or endorsed by ABC News or The Walt Disney Company.

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Sean Kanan has finally made it back to the Valley. The actor, known for playing the villainous Mike Barnes in The Karate Kid III, reprised the role in season 5 of Netflix’s hit series Cobra Kai. He told ABC Audio that when he got the call to return, he wasn’t surprised at all.

“I was relieved,” Kanan said. “I was thinking to myself, ‘Alright, this is season 5 here, it’s getting a little late in the game. Come on, guys, we’re in the fourth quarter here, how about putting me in!’”

While he was eager to play the character again, Kanan said he made sure he wasn’t giving a repeat performance.

“I just wanted to be sure that we brought some different colors and some different dimensions to the character, because Mike Barnes was very much a one-dimensional bad guy in the film,” Kanan said. “I wanted to make sure that I was going to come up with something that was going to be interesting on different levels.”

This thought process aligns closely with Kanan’s view of the show as a whole. He says that the Cobra Kai cast and crew “have done their level-best to make sure that what they’re doing is in no way derivative or redundant of the original films.”

All that being said, Kanan acknowledges the role nostalgia has played in the show’s success.

“You’ve got the guys my age who like it for the nostalgic factor, and then you’ve got the younger kids who like it for what’s going on with the younger kids, and, effectively, the show has become a magnet,” Kanan said. “It attracts both generations and it’s something that they can do together.”

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For the cast of Black Panther, shooting the sequel without the star, the late Chadwick Boseman, was very painful.

“Every day, someone else would manifest their grief, and we’d have to come together to help soothe them and take care of them,” Winston Duke tells E! News.

Duke portrays M’Baku, leader of the Jabari tribe. In the original film, he saved the life of King T’Challa, played by Boseman, after a near fatal battle for the throne with Michael B. Jordan’s character, N’Jadaka.

“We had to overcome this grief and create something really beautiful and special, and we did,” Duke adds. “I think we accomplished that.”

The sequel picks up after the death of T’Challa, as the country of Wakanda looks to crown a new leader and new Black Panther. Most of the stars of Black Panther return for Wakanda Forever, including Angela Bassett, Lupita Nyong’o, Letitia Wright and Dania Gurira.

As previously reported, last weekend, Boseman, who died in 2020 from cancer, was named a Disney Legend.
The Disney Legends Award is given to an individual who has made an extraordinary contribution to the Disney legacy.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever premieres in theaters November 11.

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If you ever wondered what advice one Hollywood heartthrob would have for another, wonder no more, because Timothée Chalamet just dished on the career advice given to him by Leonardo DiCaprio.

In the cover story of the October 2022 issue of British Vogue, Chalamet, 26, shared that what DiCaprio told him was simple: “No hard drugs and no superhero movies.”

The advice came during the actors’ first meeting in 2018.

The Dune star, who makes history as the first solo man to be on the cover of British Vogue, also discussed his rise to fame, stating, “I had a delusional dream in my early teenage years to have, in my late teenage years, an acting career.”

“And in my late teenage years, working on Homeland and starting to do theatre in New York, I felt like I reduced my goal to something more realistic, which was to work in theatre and hopefully make enough money doing either a TV show or something I could sustain myself [with],” Chalamet continued. “And then it felt like every dream came true, exponentially. And then life is moving at six million miles per hour.”

The October issue of British Vogue hits newsstands September 20.

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While promoting the latest installment of ABC’s Celebrity Wheel of Fortune to Entertainment Tonight, longtime host Pat Sajak seemed to say he was ready to hang it up after 40 seasons.

“Years go by fast,” Sajak said, adding of himself and co-host Vanna White. “We’re getting near the end. It’s been a long [time]. We’re not gonna do this for another 40 years.”

“Happy and proud” of the reception he gets from the studio audience at every show, Sajak said, “It’s an honor to have been in people’s living rooms for that long.”

He continued of his 40-year run, “In most television shows by this time, you would have said, ‘That’s probably enough,’ but this show will not die.'”

The 75-year-old host added with a laugh, “it appears I may go before the show.”

That said, Sajak is still having fun with the celebrity installments of the show, which began in 1975.

He admits to having one bucket list star in mind to spin the wheel. “I’m still pulling for Meryl Streep ’cause I wanna see her say, ‘Come on, big money!'” he said.

He added with a laugh, “That’s all I want, but she won’t come on because she found out you can’t win an Oscar for this.”

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune returns Sept. 25 on ABC.

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Jeff Bridges is reflecting on his recent health battles with cancer and COVID-19.

The True Grit actor, 72, announced in 2020 that he’d been diagnosed with lymphoma. In March 2021, while undergoing chemotherapy treatments, he contracted COVID-19.

“The chemo wipes out your immune system and when COVID hit me, I had nothing to fight it,” Bridges told E! News. “I was just really at death’s door a couple of times there.”

“I remember the doctors saying to me, ‘Jeff, you gotta fight,'” he recalled. He said he thought he was “in surrender mode” but was able to change his mindset thanks to his medical team, trainers and family who “brought me back.”

The Old Man star shared in September 2021 that he’s in remission.

Having survived both cancer and COVID-19, Bridges said he is prioritizing his wife, Susan, whom he married in 1977 and calls “the love of my life,” as well as their three daughters and their three grandchildren.

“So often things are right on our nose that we don’t appreciate,” he said. “But it turns out there are many positive sides in my life that came out of that experience.”

Bridges just began appearing in commercials touting monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19, which he said helped him.

Strumming a guitar as he walks through the woods, he declares, “I love being alive, man!”

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The second season of HBO’s absurdist comedy Los Espookys kicks off Friday. The show, produced by and co-starring SNL veteran Fred Armisen, Ana Fabrega, and Julio Torres, is primarily in Spanish but quickly found a mainstream audience.

That said, it’s a little hard to describe, even for its creators. “I mean, the basic [pitch] is like sort of like, ‘Four friends put together a group that are hired to fool people,'” Armisen tells ABC Audio, admitting that falls short.

“I know, it feels so hard to distill,” Fabrega agrees.

“That’s why the elevator pitch would need, like, an emergency stop and like, ‘Okay, I need a few minutes to describe this,'” she says with a laugh.

The basic premise is sort of like if the Scooby-Doo gang pulled off hauntings instead of solving them, but the comedy quickly built its own madcap world.

“The show just kept evolving and evolving…and it just got more and more absurd because that’s our shared sensibility,” Torres explains.

For Armisen, who is partially of Peruvian descent, producing the show gave him a unique opportunity to bring a different comedic voice to a mainstream American audience.

“It was mostly about just wanting to see a culture in a part of Latin American culture that we don’t see very often, which is something a little more fantastical…,” he explains. “That was the thing that was a sort of launching pad. But from there, it just became something…much deeper.”

Fabrega agrees, adding she’s happy the show is restarting during Hispanic Heritage Month. “It is really fun to kind of show…like a different take of Latinx representation,” she says. “…I think it’s very freeing to show like, yeah, there’s all different sort of walks of life under the enormous umbrella that is ‘Latinx.'”

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The Emmy-winning series M*A*S*H debuted on CBS 50 years ago this Saturday. It first aired September 17, 1972.

Based on the 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, written by former Army surgeon Richard Hooker, M*A*S*H was an adaptation of the 1970 big-screen film of the same name. Though set in the Korean War, M*A*S*H was also an anti-Vietnam War allegory, following the doctors and nurses of the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital 4077.

The show starred Alan Alda as surgeon Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce, Larry Linville as Maj. Frank Burns, Loretta Swit as head nurse, Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan and Jamie Farr as Cpl. Max Klinger, and it lasted on TV four times as long as the war in which it was set.

“Everybody on this show, all the writers and all the producers and directors and the actors were first class,” Farr told ABC Audio by phone. “They were just the top drawer.”

“They were the greatest bunch of people you could ever possibly work with. And we’re all honored to be a part of that series.”

M*A*S*H* earned 14 Emmy Awards in its 11-season run. TV executive and unofficial M*A*S*H* historian Dan Harrison explains the show broke the mold for television to come.

“It had … really form-busting episodes like ‘The Interview,’ which was shot in black and white and was done as a newsreel. There was an episode called ‘Lifetime,’ where it was done in real time trying to get an arterial graft done in 20 minutes …”

The result is “a show that feels a little bit more contemporary than today in 2022 than other shows that were produced 50 years ago,” Harrison says.

When M*A*S*H* ended on February 28, 1983, it broke the mold again, Harrison explains, when 105 million people tuned in. “While there are some Super Bowls due to population growth that have had more than 105 million viewers … that 60.2 rating is like Joe DiMaggio’s hit streak. It’s never going to be broken … by any show.”

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Chrissy Teigen is opening up about the pregnancy loss she suffered two years ago, now calling it an abortion. 

“Two years ago, when I was pregnant with Jack, John [Legend] and my third child, I had to make a lot of difficult and heartbreaking decisions. It became very clear around halfway through that he would not survive, and that I wouldn’t either without any medical intervention,” Teigen explained while speaking at social impact agency Propper Daley’s “A Day of Unreasonable Conversation” summit Thursday, per Entertainment Tonight. 

“Let’s just call it what it was: It was an abortion,” Teigen author continued. “An abortion to save my life for a baby that had absolutely no chance. And to be honest, I never, ever put that together until, actually, a few months ago.”

Teigen elaborated that it took the overturning of Roe v. Wade for her to come to the realization of what had actually happened, and explained that Legend was the one who initially brought it to her attention. 

“I fell silent, feeling weird that I hadn’t made sense of it that way,” the model recalled. “I told the world we had a miscarriage, the world agreed we had a miscarriage, all the headlines said it was a miscarriage. And I became really frustrated that I didn’t, in the first place, say what it was, and I felt silly that it had taken me over a year to actually understand that we had had an abortion.”

The admission comes a month after Teigen, 36, and Legend, 43, revealed they are currently expecting their fourth child. The pair are already parents to six-year-old daughter Luna and four-year-old son Miles.

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NBC’s Saturday Night Live unveiled some new faces Thursday for its upcoming 48th season. Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker will be added as feature players on the late-night comedy show, following the departures of longtime regulars Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon and Kyle Mooney at the end of last season. Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor and featured player Aristotle Athari joined them in departing over the summer. There’s no word yet on whether the remaining cast from last season will all return when the new season kicks off October 1…

Netflix on Thursday dropped the trailer for its new limited series From Scratch, starring Zoe Saldana. Based on Tembi Locke‘s memoir From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home, the series follows Saldana as Amahle “Amy” Wheeler, an American student studying abroad in Italy who enters into a complicated whirlwind relationship with Lino, a Sicilian chef, played by Eugenio Mastrandrea. From Scratch features eight episodes and premieres on Netflix October 21… (Trailer contains uncensored profanity.)

Bridgerton alum Regé-Jean Page and Top Gun: Maverick‘s Glen Powell are teaming up for Amazon’s untitled reimagining of Butch and Sundance from Joe and Anthony Russo, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Details are being kept under wraps, but sources tell the outlet series will take place in “an alternate America akin to Apple’s For All Mankind and Amazon’s former Man in the High Castle“…

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