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The Pitt leads Emmys race, but Stranger Things snubbed in top categories – see the nominations
US medical drama The Pitt and comedy Hacks have topped the nominations for the 78th Emmy Awards, America’s most coveted television honours, with 25 and 24 nods respectively. The announcement drew attention as much for its omissions as its front-runners, with the final seasons of the hit shows Stranger Things and Euphoria both missing out…
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Emmy Snubs and Surprises: ‘Stranger Things’ Shut Out of Major Races, Sydney Sweeney Misses and ‘Widow’s Bay’ Shocks With 19 Nods
On the morning of the 2026 Emmy nominations, ahead of the ceremony on 14 September, a number of high-profile shows and performers were left out while several unexpected contenders broke through. The biggest talking point was Netflix’s “Stranger Things”, whose final season was shut out of the Best Drama and acting categories despite picking up…
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Emmys: ‘Hacks’ Breaks Comedy Series Record In Final Season; Fellow Departing Shows ‘Euphoria’, ‘Stranger Things’ & ‘The Boys’ Also Get Nominations
HBO Max’s comedy Hacks has set a new Emmy record, securing 24 nominations for its fifth and final season — the most a comedy series has ever received in a single year. The tally surpasses the previous record of 23, held jointly by FX’s The Bear (2024) and Apple TV’s The Studio (2025), and marks…
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‘Things are going to get messy’ Murdered wife’s chilling voice notes sent days before she was raped and suffocated by her controlling estranged husband
Michael Thompson has been convicted of the rape and murder of his estranged wife, Kimberley Thompson, a 43-year-old civil servant and award-winning basketball coach, following a six-week trial. The “coercive and controlling” IT expert attacked her in the middle of the night at their marital home in Northampton in August 2025, while the couple were…
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Mother’s distress on realizing her little boy’s photos had been used in GoFundMe catfish scam telling donors that he’d DIED
A mother in Moreauville, Louisiana, has been left distraught after discovering that photographs of her young son had been used in an alleged GoFundMe “catfish” scam that falsely told donors the child had died. Denika Sampson learned of the deception on 1 July when almost 100 people contacted her on social media to say her…
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‘Evil Dead Burn’ Review: The Gonzo Comedy Is Gone, but the Series’ Sixth Entry Is an Effective Piece of Gross-Out Guignol
Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman has reviewed “Evil Dead Burn”, the sixth entry in the long-running horror franchise and the third since its 2013 reboot. The verdict is broadly positive but qualified: Gleiberman argues that the playful, “gonzo comedy” spirit of the earlier films — particularly “Evil Dead II” (1987) — has been stripped…
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ASRock showed off a Taichi 10th Anniversary RX 9070 XT graphics card and components that it apparently isn’t planning on actually releasing, and that’s just plain weird
ASRock used a recent event to display a special Taichi 10th Anniversary edition of its Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card, alongside matching anniversary-themed PC components, only for it to emerge that the company apparently has no plans to actually sell these products. The article’s author finds this behaviour distinctly odd, since showcasing eye-catching hardware…
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Chainsmoker Cat is a bizarre new anime that’s part harrowing drama and part poop jokes
Polygon has published a review of Chainsmoker Cat, a new Netflix anime whose first episode the critic describes as both compelling and “downright vile”. The show follows Yaniko (voiced by Yūko Natsuyoshi), a cat girl whose nicotine addiction has left her unable to function, and it swings jarringly between a raw, harrowing portrait of addiction…
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Back Page: After 40 Years, It’s High Time Link Got Some Pyjamas
In a light-hearted comedy feature for Nintendo Life’s “Back Page” column, writer Jim uses the recently revealed Ocarina of Time Switch 2 remake teaser as a springboard to complain, tongue firmly in cheek, that the Zelda series’ hero Link has spent 40 years going to bed in absurdly uncomfortable outfits. The piece is entirely a…
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TalkFuse afternoon briefing, 8 Jul 2026 14:55
Your afternoon briefing: a short audio round-up of 6 top stories, drawing on Daily Mail, Rock Paper Shotgun, Variety, Fox News.