Author: Michael

If there’s one thing an Amazon teen series is going to do, it’s have a killer soundtrack. And if you thought Mike Flanagan’s “Carrie” series would be an exception, you couldn’t be more wrong. The latest Stephen King adaptation from the “Doctor Sleep” and “The Life of Chuck” filmmaker translates King’s famously brief book into an ambitious paranormal teen drama series, and each episode drops one fantastic track after the next. Of course, you’d expect some music for the big dance – the iconic centerpiece of King’s horror story, which “Carrie” builds to across its eight episodes. But the needle…

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The season openers for CBS’ “Survivor” and “The Amazing Race” soared double digits over last year in delayed viewing, TheWrap can reveal exclusively. Following its milestone Season 50, the Season 51 debut of “Survivor,” which dropped on Wednesday, Sept. 23, brought in 6.9 million viewers across three days of multiplatform viewing, according to Nielsen figures. That’s up 13% over the Season 49 premiere, which brought in 6.1 million viewers in fall 2025. Likewise, as “The Amazing Race” premiered its 39th season the following Wednesday on Sept. 30, the opener scored 4.6 million viewers across three days of viewing, rising 21%…

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Professional wrestler El Hilo de Fishman has been arrested and faces a potential manslaughter charge after a move he executed during a match resulted in the death of a referee. The incident occurred in Hidalgo, Mexico on Wednesday, October 7, when Fishman, 36, performed a preplanned piledriver on referee Gerardo German Pineda, known as El Buho. A piledriver is a pro wrestling move in which an individual turns someone upside down and slams them head-first into the mat. Pineda, 75, went into the mat and never got back up, according to Cageside Seats. Reports from the event indicate that he…

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Scott Bakula will make his return to CBS with an untitled procedural detective drama from Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment. The “NCIS: New Orleans” alum is set to star and executive produce the high-concept detective procedural set in Los Angeles, which is still in early development at CBS. Michael Sussman will write and executive produce the series, reuniting with Bakula after working together on “Star Trek: Enterprise.” The series has been described as quite a “leap” from his character on “NCIS,” nodding to his four-time Emmy-nominated performance in “Quantum Leap.” Bakula played a Special Agent Dwayne Cassius Pride in the CBS…

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