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Gunn and Safran are stepping down from their leadership roles effective Dec. 1, four years after taking over the job to much fanfare. The duo released three movies during that time (Superman, Supergirl and Clayface), as well as three live-action TV shows (The Penguin, Peacemaker season 2 and Lanterns), and had a decade’s worth of plans in the works. In an Instagram post in which he talked about the highs and lows at DC, Gunn acknowledged that being an exec was “trying, to say the least.” He added: “I dislike the at-times corporate nature of the job (thanks to Peter for taking the brunt of that.).”
It’s unclear if Gunn is leaving altogether, or will stick around and focus on filmmaking. Bigger questions remain regarding the future of the DC shows, including Lanterns, Peacemaker, and the upcoming The People v. Gorilla Grodd.
Skydance has announced that a Paramount+/HBO Max bundle will launch in early 2027. As for when it all becomes a singular streamer … that might take a minute.
Happy birthday, Sesame Street! For your present, I hope we get your federal funding back.
The Harry Potter portion of Daniel Radcliffe’s life is probably over, and who can blame him.
Will Ferrell stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! to support Andy Richter’s new book about Elf.
Yeah, about that Stranger Things prequel: I saw the Stranger Things stage play a couple of months ago, and it wasn’t great. Good luck with all that!
Emma Roberts didn’t like American Horror Story 13, either.
HEY, DAX: IF YOU DON’T WANT PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT YOUR MARRIAGE TO KRISTEN BELL, STOP TALKING ABOUT YOUR MARRIAGE TO KRISTEN BELL. I WANT TO KNOW LESS ABOUT YOUR RELATIONSHIP, IN FACT, BUT YOU INVITED US HERE, BUDDY.
I need a gang of therapists to kidnap Love is Blind‘s Erika Ellis.
Pay Ian Ziering his money, Great American Road Rally!
So that was Natalie Harp laughing at the beginning of President Denture’s call to C-SPAN, right?
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a liar.
It is extremely unlikely Ioan Gruffudd is sending you nudes.
#MeToo
After being found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault in a London court last week, Russell Brand was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison.
Brand intends to appeal the conviction, but his bad luck might have only just begun. Brand is under investigation for two more alleged rapes, including one victim who was 16 years old at the time. And his former partner, Jemima Goldsmith, came forward accusing Brand of abuse during their relationship.
I am going to describe some painful and personal things in relation to Russell Brand because I have been put in a position now where I feel that I have no choice other than to do so, given the misleading reports and speculation around the facts of a harassment injunction that was taken out to protect me and my family.
Firstly, and most importantly, I am and have always been strongly and unequivocally on the side of all of Brand’s victims. I am in awe of the courageous women who came forward at Brand’s trial, told their stories, testified and ensured justice was done. I have had my own personal experience of his violence, coercive control and abuse. I had to call the police to have him removed from my house in 2014 during a violent incident. I chose not to press charges at the time and not to go public with this, as I was worried about the impact of the press attention on my then teenage children. I have neither seen nor spoken to Brand since that period in 2014. Whilst my pain in relation to this, pales in comparison to what the women have testified in court have suffered, this was a difficult period in my life which has had a lasting impact.
Over several years, I assisted the journalists who finally exposed him; Ros Urwin, Louisa Compton and Dorothy Byrne. I also undertook to testify in court to his abusiveness, if the newspaper that published the victims’ accounts were ever to be sued.
I have spent much of my professional career trying to support unfairly demonised and silenced women, such as Monica Lewinsky and defending free speech.
In 2014, a harassment injunction was taken out against a woman called Szilvia Berki which was made final in 2015.
I fully understand the good intentions of those now advocating on her behalf online and agree with their demand for this harassment injunction to be varied, as my lawyer made clear to Berki’s lawyer in December last year.
However, the commentary and media reporting this week has presented an untrue narrative, which has opened me up to vile hatred and abuse online.
For this reason, and to correct the record, I am providing the factual background to that injunction to explain why The High Court found the campaign of harassment by Berki against me to be, “oppressive and unacceptable” and made the order permanent.
The background to this is that Ms Berki came to my house for roughly 30 minutes in June 2014, after I booked her to give a massage to Brand. By the time she arrived he had decided he didn’t want a massage and asked her to leave. She was clearly offended. I was present the whole time he was with her, and I did not see anything untoward, despite the fact that he was later found guilty of sexually assaulting other women and he later physically assaulted me. If I saw any man abuse any woman under any circumstances, I would do my utmost to stop them, without hesitation.
Ms Berki later reported to the police that Brand had pushed her in the back whilst she was leaving the house and that she also said she was “attacked” by my dog, which she described in her police statement as my dog licking her face. The police rightly investigated Ms Berki’s complaint. I cooperated fully with the investigation, provided a truthful statement about what I saw and also provided CCTV footage, which showed my overly exuberant but totally unaggressive dog jumping up.
Following an investigation into Ms Berki’s allegations, police concluded that there was no case to answer and that no criminal offence had been committed.
According to the police, at no time did Ms Berki ever state to them that she had been assaulted, threatened or falsely imprisoned.
There was also a subsequent review of the investigation by the IPCC and Thames Valley Police Professional Standards which found that the original police investigation had been correct in its findings.
In the meantime, several untrue stories appeared in the tabloid papers. Ms Berki forwarded an email to me confirming a payment for one such story she had received from The Sun newspaper. Articles were also published in The Telegraph, The Mail and The Mirror at Ms Berki’s instigation which contained her account of the alleged incident.
Then having at first said in a story published by the Daily Mail that she had found me to be “really very nice, very, very nice,” she later embarked on a campaign of vicious antisemitic and threatening abuse online and in emails.
Below is just a sample of some of those tweets and messages sent over many months (which were submitted to the judge who granted the harassment injunction)-
(Jemima is a) “deeply rotted JEWISH Bitch”
“Did you know that if your life is in danger you can LAWFULLY kill your attacker as defence?! … by now I could have lawfully kill at least 5-6 people who were hurting me”
“Also happy birthday (Jemima). I hope you have more. In other words I hope you don’t die this year.”
EMAIL- “If you make me very upset…you can expect the worts from me – I think you know this – without that I need to remind you”
“What is going on in Britain is a dictatory of J evils. English Jewish Evil dictatory”
“Would like to see justice, and I do not think that I should do it myself but what can I do when every organisation is scared of Jevils! ;)”
“They say … Do not hate all Jews because you know a few Jewish evils. They are on top always decadent and evils”
“Fortunately there are many mansions outside of the UK where Jewish money aristocrats are still not welcomed
#Germany #Austria #Italy #Hungary”
“Judge on High Court: I ordered her to shut up Jew. Do I have a case or not? soon we will kill her then”.
“A pity that I was in the UK. BB In Hungary if you would report the Police they would for sure find it without an investigation already that the Jews are guilty. Sad”
“Every organisation is scared of JEVILS”
“When my great grandparents see what Jews did to me they do something in heaven to solve this. I will not make my hand dirty with Jews.”
“J evils … Rob, lie, crime”
“I am so happy I am free from the English Jewish Evil dictator and outside of England the High Court cannot rule”
“Probably I wait a bit more and than go public. What is going on in Britain is a dictatory of J evils.”
She sent an enormous volume of similarly disturbing emails and tweets to or about me, to my family, to my workplace, to journalists from the national media to members of my family, to UNICEF UK where I had been a goodwill Ambassador for decades, and to organisations my ex-husband was associated with, and to MPs.
She began disseminating on social media wild and untrue allegations about me, ranging from kidnap to cyberhacking, to having someone bump into her and laugh at her in the tube station, having her followed by two men, bribing the police, paying off a judge, and other false and alarming conspiracy theories based on my Jewishness.
The number, tone and content of these messages was extremely frightening. It was distressing for my then teenage children and my family. I was concerned that Ms Berki was potentially a real danger to my family and me. I have had stalkers before and this behaviour felt similarly threatening.
Although I was at this point no longer in contact with Brand, I agreed to the suggestion by his lawyer of a harassment order. My sole reason was to stop Ms Berki targeting me and my family. The harassment injunction was upheld by the High Court and Court of Appeal on several occasions.
I engaged a lawyer of my own when I was made aware that Berki was applying to the court to vary the terms of the injunction. And I instructed my lawyer in December last year to approach Ms Berki’s barrister to say that I agreed to vary the injunction so that she could speak to the police again if she wanted to. I also instructed my lawyer to engage on her other requests.
I did this despite my real fears that the harassment would re-commence and that her threatening antisemitism, if again unleashed, might exacerbate the danger to my children and me that we continue to face because of our Jewish heritage and their father’s political career and incarceration in Pakistan.
Her barrister has not responded to my lawyer since May of this year despite trying to engage him. I was informed by her lawyer that any change to the injunction must also be agreed by Brand. I have no ability to compel Brand in this matter, as I have not seen or spoken to him in over a decade.
I hope this information will help clarify speculation about my involvement in the anti-harassment order.
I am glad and relieved that Russell Brand has finally faced justice.
— Jemima Goldsmith (@Jemima_Khan) November 9, 2026
Oh, and obviously Megyn Kelly is out here being on brand by defending Brand.
The question remains: what took so long to bring this predator down, and is 10 years nearly enough?
The British celebrity who tried to get an injunction against The Guardian from running a story about him allegedly being a predator and harassing teen girls was, indeed, David Walliams. He has denied the allegations.
So who is David Walliams, Americans ask? He began as a sketch comedian in the 2000s on the series Little Britain, before becoming a judge on Britain’s Got Talent. He then became a popular children’s book author, publishing more than 40 titles and selling tens of millions of copies.
Walliams has been dropped by his literary agency, and the BBC has pulled Little Britain and other Walliams shows from iPlayer. The producer of Britain’s Got Talent encouraged anyone who feels like Walliams harassed or abused them to come forward.
And this is particularly timely.
As I mentioned last week, Married at First Sight U.K. was canceled after the BBC investigated three sexual assault allegations, and one man who was arrested for rape.
Thomas Markle has been arrested for possession of child sexual abuse material. His son is also being investigated.
Dustin Hoffman insists he did not sexually assault anyone, but admits that his behavior towards women might have been inappropriate (a realization he made thanks to his wife).
BREAKING: Infamous old perv was pervy.
Vince Neil’s girlfriend was arrested for domestic assault after attacking him.
If you or someone you know has experienced sexual assault, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673), which routes the caller to their nearest sexual assault service provider. You can also search for your local center here.
Renewals
- Outlast: The Jungle has been renewed for a fourth (or second, depending on how you count it) season on Netflix.
In Development
- Wild Life, a crime procedural set in Alaska, is in development at NBC.
- An Oakland-set police procedural is in development at ABC.
- Non-Refundable, a romantic comedy starring Millie Bobby Brown and Jack Innanen, is in the works at Netflix.
- The Other Elliot Sister has been ordered at BritBox.
- The Real Frozen, a natural history series with Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Goff and Josh Gad reprising their Frozen roles, has been ordered at National Geographic, Disney+ and Hulu.
- Grandiloquent, Gary Gulman’s one-man show has been ordered at HBO.
- Maya Jama has signed a deal with Netflix.
Casting News
- Christopher Meloni will guest star on Law & Order: SVU on NBC this week (it’s the series 600th episode).
- Breckin Meyer has joined the Clueless series on Paramount+.
- Kyle Soller, Phoebe Fox, John Macmillan, Belinda Bromilow, Liv Hill, Francis Magee, Phoebe Campbell, Akshay Khanna, Bamshad Abedi Amin, and Den Rasaq have been cast in Mosquito on Hulu.
- Retta, Vincent Kartheiser, and Daniel Ezra have joined the cast of The ‘Burbs on Peacock.
- Dorian and Simone Missick will guest star on Doc on Fox.
- Ayla Bullington has been cast as Avery Jerome-Corinthos on General Hospital on ABC.
- Alice Halsey is returning to Days of Our Lives on Peacock.
- Abby Livingston has joined MS Now as a political reporter.
- Carla Hall has left Food Network and the shows Halloween Baking Championship and Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking.
Mark Your Calendars
- Blade Runner 2099 will premiere on Prime Video on November 25.
- Maxton Hall – The World Between Us will return on Prime Video on December 9.
- Ink will debut on Netflix on January 8.
- The Circle will premiere on Hulu on November 17.
- Clashing Through the Snow premieres on Prime Video on November 23.
- One Night Only will debut on Peacock on December 4.
- Art Detectives will return on Acorn TV on December 7.
- The Trials of Karen Read will premiere on Netflix on November 23.
- The Well is now streaming on Hulu.
- Darius Rucker: They Called Me Hootie premieres on Hulu and Disney+ on November 16.
- Here Come the Irish will premiere on Peacock on December 14.
- The Unthinkable Daughter debuts on Netflix on November 11.
- “All I Watch for Christmas” returns on TBS and “Christmas Maximus” returns on TNT on November 13.
- The Later Daters returns on Netflix on December 30, and will include Christie Brinkley, 72; Margaret Cho, 57; Vivica A. Fox, 62; Caroline Rhea, 62; and Pebe Sebert, Ke$ha‘s mom.
- The Age of Innocence will premiere on Netflix on February 18.
- Overcompensating returns on Prime Video on February 17.
- Welcome to El Bulli will debut on Netflix on November 20.
- The Goop Guide With Gwyneth Paltrow will premiere on Netflix on November 11.
- Give Me the Ball! will premiere on ESPN and Disney+ on November 22.
- The Team: Michigan Football will premiere on Fox on November 27.
R.I.P.
Toukie Smith, Actress and model who appeared in 227, Miami Vice, Talkin’ Dirty After Dark, Joe’s Apartment, and The Preacher’s Wife, and the mother of Robert De Niro’s twin children
Donnie Dunagan, Former child actor who provided the voice of Bambi
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VisionQuest: Season finale. Disney+
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