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Forget ‘The Pitt,’ One of TV’s Most Underseen Medical Dramas Is Coming to Netflix
A new Fox medical drama, “Best Medicine,” has arrived on Netflix, offering a gentler alternative to intense hospital dramas like “The Pitt.” The series is an American remake of the long-running British show “Doc Martin,” relocating its story from Cornwall to a fictional fishing village in coastal Maine, and blends light comedy with small-town charm…
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PaperAirplane Promotes Amanda Rufener to SVP Exhibitor Marketing & Operations
PaperAirplane, an exhibitor relations firm, has promoted Amanda Rufener to Senior Vice President of Exhibitor Marketing & Operations. In her expanded role, she will lead the company’s account team, managing partnerships with studios, exhibitors and marketplace partners while helping to grow exhibitor media channels across the theatrical sector. Rufener joined PaperAirplane in April 2021 after…
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Democrats call on Interior Office of the Inspector General to probe Reflecting Pool controversy
Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) are pressing the Office of the Inspector General in the Department of the Interior to investigate recent issues with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. “We write to request that the Office of Inspector General investigate what employees of the Department of the Interior (DOI) knew—and when they…
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Reform pledges new ‘Deliveroo Law’ that would imprison bosses using illegal migrants and announces plans to set up a ‘Turkish Barbers tip line’ for Brits to report suspicious high street shops
Reform UK has announced two new policy pledges as part of its hardline stance on immigration: a so-called “Deliveroo Law” that would see employers imprisoned for knowingly using illegal migrant labour, and a “Turkish Barbers tip line” allowing members of the public to report high street shops they suspect of illicit activity. The announcements come…
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How to get a portal pod in Pokémon Pokopia
Pokémon Pokopia’s portal pod acts as universal storage, letting players access shared items from any pod placed anywhere in the game world, but obtaining one requires meeting specific in-game requirements. Players without the Bubbly Basin DLC must raise their Environment Level in Palette Town, likely to level 10, though Polygon has yet to confirm this.…
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Yngwie Malmsteen Announces New Album, Unveils “Now or Never”: Stream
Guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen has announced a new studio album, *Hell or High Water*, due for release on 13 November via Music Theories Recordings/Artone Label Group. It marks his first record in roughly five years, the longest gap between studio albums in his four-decade career, and arrives alongside the release of the lead single “Now…
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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Merch Expands With Lego Set Designed in Record Time
Lego has released its first set based on Netflix’s hit animated film KPop Demon Hunters, adding to the franchise’s rapidly expanding range of merchandise. The Derpy Tiger and Sussie Bird build arrived less than a year after the film’s debut, with designers saying it was one of the fastest turnarounds for a licensed Lego project,…
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Search for Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane reignites with ambitious new expedition
Researchers from Purdue University are preparing to resume the search for Amelia Earhart’s long-lost aircraft, nearly 90 years after the pioneering aviator vanished over the Pacific Ocean. The renewed expedition, delayed by earlier setbacks, will focus on investigating a satellite-imaged anomaly that some believe could be the wreckage of her Lockheed Electra plane. The team…
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Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup Atoms taps former Uber finance chief as CFO
Travis Kalanick’s robotics and industrial AI startup Atoms has hired Gautam Gupta, Uber’s former chief financial officer, for the same role, marking the latest reunion between Kalanick and his former Uber colleagues. The appointment comes weeks after Atoms raised $1.7 billion, a round Kalanick described as “unfinished business” continuing the path from Uber through CloudKitchens…
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Francesca Hong says Thanksgiving is her favorite holiday: ‘I don’t want to cancel it’
Democratic socialist and former Wisconsin state Rep. Francesca Hong (D) walked back on her previous social media post calling to “cancel Thanksgiving,” telling Politico’s Irie Sentner in an interview Wednesday that the holiday is her “favorite.” Hong, a professional chef and Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate, added that she “actually loves” Thanksgiving. The former state representative originally…