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CBS Just Gave Network TV’s Best Show a Massive Season 3 Downgrade
CBS has delayed Matlock’s third season to early 2027, skipping the autumn 2026 slate entirely, and has trimmed the episode order to just 13 instalments, down from 19 in Season 1 and 16 in Season 2. The move is notable given the show’s strong performance, and it reflects a broader shift in CBS’s scheduling strategy…
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Young Aussies warned over Bali’s legal drinking age as expert reveals how ‘lax’ law could lead to fines
Young Australians travelling to Bali are being warned they could be fined or even jailed for drinking under the local legal age of 21, which is notably higher than Australia’s drinking age of 18. Finance expert Angus Kidman from Finder has cautioned that beyond legal penalties, breaching the law could also invalidate travel insurance, since…
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Robert Downey Jr.’s Bonkers Crime Thriller Is Now Forgotten — But It Helped Saved His Career
Robert Downey Jr.’s comeback in Hollywood is often traced to 2008’s Iron Man, but the groundwork was actually laid three years earlier by Shane Black’s 2005 film Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. At the time, Downey’s career had been derailed by well-documented legal problems and struggles with addiction, and the darkly comic crime thriller became the…
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Bob Hawke’s widow Blanche D’Alpuget dies aged 82: Her final message for Australia
Blanche D’Alpuget, the author and widow of former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, has died aged 82. Her family shared a final message on her behalf, calling on Australians to embrace love as life’s highest calling, marking the death of a prominent literary figure closely tied to one of the country’s most significant political dynasties.…
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Wife of top ex-Biden advisor easily advances to House showdown in November
Rep. Maggie Goodlander, a New Hampshire Democrat married to former Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan, comfortably won her primary and will now face a Republican challenger in November’s general election. The result sets up a contest in a district that has reliably backed Democrats for over a decade, in a state where Republicans have…
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The iconic 1984 movie Charlie Sheen wishes he hadn’t turned down: “I’ve never been more wrong”
Charlie Sheen has revealed his biggest career regret: turning down the lead male role in Wes Craven’s 1984 horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. He rejected the part after meeting Craven, telling him he didn’t believe audiences would take to the character of Freddy Krueger, a decision Sheen now admits was badly wrong given…
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Tiafoe consoles tearful Michelsen after remarkable US Open comeback
Frances Tiafoe fought back from two sets down to beat fellow American Alex Michelsen in a dramatic five-set quarter-final, sealing his place in the US Open semi-finals. The eleventh seed’s turnaround was particularly remarkable given Michelsen served for the match in the third set, and the emotional aftermath saw Tiafoe consoling his tearful opponent at…
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Caroline Bienstock, Former President/CEO of Carlin Music, Dies at 68
Caroline Bienstock, the former president and CEO of independent music publisher Carlin Music, has died in New York on 1 September after a long illness, aged 68. She led the company for decades, including through its roughly $250 million sale to Round Hill Music in 2017, and was a prominent figure in the American music…
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Glamorous mom walked down aisle with doting restaurateur son at his lavish Lake Como wedding… months later, she bled out on his apartment floor as he clenched the murder weapon, police say
A Miami restaurant manager has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his mother, whom he had walked down the aisle at his lavish wedding on Italy’s Lake Como only months earlier. Stefano Cremasco Cicero, 36, is accused of fatally stabbing his mother, Isabel Cicero Chavez, inside his 47th-floor Miami apartment, before being found in the…
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Paramount Argues That the States Post a $1.88 Billion Bond to Cover Warner Bros. Bills
Paramount is pressing California, eleven other states and the Writers Guild of America to post a $1.88 billion bond to cover the financial fallout of their lawsuits delaying its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The studio argues the litigation has already pushed the deal months past its planned late-September closing date, forcing it…