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Upscale Officially Launches As One-Stop Shop For Microdramas
Upscale Media Films, which is producing a slate of vertical shows with Hartbeat, has formally launched as a full-service production company for the microdrama market. Founder and CEO Malik Davis is building the business around owning a portfolio of published book properties paired with an in-house crew that develops, casts, shoots and edits content, aiming…
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Anthropic researcher quits as colleagues warn of AI existential risk
Three researchers at AI company Anthropic have publicly warned that artificial intelligence could cause human extinction within the next decade, with one of them, Jacob Coxon, resigning in protest at how Anthropic and OpenAI are handling the risk. Coxon accused both firms of racing towards self-improving superintelligence while gambling with humanity’s future, and claimed that…
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Mother, 31, who falsely accused 10 men she met on dating apps of raping her has ‘lenient’ sentence increased
A woman who falsely accused ten men of raping her has had her prison sentence increased from four-and-a-half to seven years after the Court of Appeal ruled the original term “unduly lenient.” Stacey Sharples, 31, from Farnworth in Bolton, met the men in Greater Manchester via Facebook and dating apps Plenty of Fish and Badoo…
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Mario Kart World is getting a bunch of courses from the SNES original
Nintendo is releasing a free update for Mario Kart World that introduces ten retro courses adapted from the original Super Mario Kart on the SNES, including favourites such as Choco Island, Mario Circuit and Ghost Valley. These tracks had already existed within the game’s open world but were previously used only for exploration rewards and…
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‘Rivals’ Sets Season 2 Part 2 Release Date; First-Look Photos & Teaser
Hulu has announced that the second half of Season 2 of “Rivals” will premiere on 11 November, with three episodes released on that date. The show, based on Jilly Cooper’s Rutshire Chronicles, stars David Tennant, Alex Hassell and Aidan Turner, and the announcement comes alongside new first-look images and a teaser trailer ahead of the…
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Martin Herlihy of Please Don’t Destroy Exits ‘SNL’
Martin Herlihy, one-third of the comedy trio Please Don’t Destroy, is leaving Saturday Night Live after five seasons, primarily served as a writer on the sketch show. His departure follows that of fellow group member John Higgins, who left roughly a year earlier, meaning Please Don’t Destroy’s SNL sketches have already ended, though the trio…
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More voters think Restore Britain’s Rupert Lowe is doing a good job as leader than Greens’ Zack Polanski, new poll shows
A new poll from More in Common has found that more Britons view Restore Britain’s Rupert Lowe as doing a good job leading his party than think the same of Green Party leader Zack Polanski, despite the Greens polling higher overall in voting intention. The finding comes as Polanski faces an internal party challenge over…
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Reporter’s Notebook: 9/11 is just a history chapter for a new generation of Americans
A Fox News reporter’s notebook reflects on how 9/11 is becoming a distant historical event rather than a lived memory, as roughly a third of Americans who were alive on that day are no longer around for the 25th anniversary. The piece argues that, much like Pearl Harbor Day or the Kennedy assassination, younger generations…
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Martin Herlihy Leaving ‘Saturday Night Live’ After 5 Years
Comedian and writer Martin Herlihy is leaving Saturday Night Live after five years, marking the end of his run on the NBC sketch show. He joined in 2021 as part of the Please Don’t Destroy trio alongside Ben Marshall and John Higgins, becoming known for the group’s pre-taped comedy videos before staying on solely as…