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On Thursday 4 September 2025, Channel 4 broadcasts The Dog House!

Season 8 Episode 2 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “The Dog House” on Channel 4 promises heartwarming moments and emotional connections. This week, the show introduces a fluffy abandoned Pomeranian that may just be the missing piece for a family looking to complete their puzzle. Viewers will see how this little dog could bring joy and companionship to a household searching for love.

In another touching storyline, Reverend Alex seeks to fill an empty nest with a furry friend. The episode will explore his hopes and prayers for the right pooch to come into his life. Mushy, a Maltese cross, is introduced as a potential match.

Joan O’Brien, the actress and singer who shared a submarine with Cary Grant in Operation Petticoat and a romantic relationship with Elvis Presley in It Happened at the World’s Fair, has died. She was 89.

O’Brien’s death was confirmed Wednesday by her daughter, Melissa, in a brief phone call with The Hollywood Reporter. She did not wish to provide any details.

A onetime contract player at MGM, O’Brien also appeared alongside John Wayne in The Alamo (1960) and The Comancheros (1961) and starred in four films released in 1962: It’s Only Money, Six Black Horses, We Joined the Navy and Samar, opposite Jerry Lewis, Audie Murphy, Kenneth More and George Montgomery, respectively.

After making her big-screen debut as the girlfriend of Dean Jones’ overzealous law student in the drama Handle With Care (1958), O’Brien played the embarrassingly clumsy Second Lieutenant Dolores Crandall in the World War II comedy Operation Petticoat (1959), directed by Blake Edwards.

We have seen the next winner of American Idol — we just don't know who it is yet.

Season 23 of ABC singing competition wrapped up the audition phase on Sunday night as judges Carrie Underwood, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan traveled to New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville to find music's next superstar. The two-hour episode aired Sunday, March 30 (8 p.m. Et/Pt) with Ryan Seacrest hosting.

Brooklyn native JMarie was the first contestant to "slay" with her saucy rendition of Carrie's own "Before He Cheats," breathing new life into what she called a "hood anthem." The Haitian-born soul singer had Idol's newest judge smiling ear-to-ear as she riffed around the country original. "I was a little worried that people would sing my songs to me," Carrie said. "But you made it your own. I forgot about myself ever having sung that song. It was like I had heard it for the first time.

The Masked Singer season 12 has just revealed another NFL player, Kobie Turner, as quarterfinalist Goo, and there have been several other football players who've competed in the mystery celebrity singing competition through the years, with varying degrees of success. While it's always exciting when professional singers are unmasked on the show, there's something so thrilling about the surprise of an athlete being behind some of the best performances of the season. Those reveals are often unexpected, and therefore the most memorable.

As Goo in The Masked Singer season 12, Kobie was the tenth football player to be unmasked. His unmasking was a shock to the panelists--Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg, Ken Jeong, and Rita Ora--but they, and former panelist Nicole Scherzinger, have been fooled before by athletes who appeared to be professional singers. Here are all of the NFL players who've competed in The Masked Singer, ranked by their singing voices and their performances.

From the very first episode of MGM+'s From, the jukeboxes that decorate the diner tables have played various songs at random. According to the Town's self-appointed sheriff, Boyd Stevens (Harold Perrineau), "they do that sometimes." However, the fact that the jukeboxes seem to have a mind of their own isn't the only unsettling part of their autoplay abilities. Every time a song plays on one of From's jukeboxes, it's painfully on the nose in terms of underscoring a scene's meaning or larger themes. Now, viewers are wondering what the jukebox songs really mean for From's cast of characters.

While the sci-fi horror series doesn't boast a traditional soundtrack, the jukebox selections definitely paint a grim-but-accurate picture of the show. Although the location of From's Town remains a mystery, the series makes one thing abundantly clear: Once someone arrives in the Township, they can't leave. At night, terrifying monsters lurk in the streets,...

A while back, C​ocaine Bear surprised everyone with its box office haul. For fans of animal attack movies, this is not a shock. People love animal attack films and can’t get enough of them. I’m not sure if it’s the man vs. nature theme of the films, the animals themselves getting revenge on humans, or just the all-around fun these films bring. No matter what, they are enjoyable for audiences in theaters. T​here has been a long history of animals attacking humans on film. Some films that are classified as ‘classic’ cinema fall into the animal attack category. We can always use more movies of animals rampaging through humans on the big screen. What are some of the best animal attack movies?

G​rizzly (1976)

S​ince bears seem to be on everyone’s brain this weekend; then we might as well start with this classic.

General Hospital star Maurice Benard spoke with Sarah Joy Brown, who originated Carly, on his YouTube show, State of Mind, on Sunday, September 1, 2024. You can check out their difficult conversation below.

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Most Difficult Conversation Of Her Life

During their discussion, which was her second with Benard, Brown revealed that she’d had a miscarriage in her Gh dressing room, which is what she drew from when Carly lost a baby. She also noted she had celiac disease and dyslexia. She also spoke about reinjuring her neck during scenes on Gh.

On Instagram, Benard shared a clip from the episode. He wrote, “The timing of me putting together this [State of Mind] with the brave [Sarah Joy Brown] is Amazing. I’m watching something on [Netflix] called Worst Ex Ever…. But...

The Bikeriders has a blues, rock, and R&b soundtrack that authentically reflects the late 1960s and midwestern motorcycle culture. The movie's cast, led by Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, and Tom Hardy, captures the conflicts within the Chicago-based motorcycle club. With era-appropriate sets, costumes, and songs like "Lonely Room" and "Road Runner," The Bikeriders immerses viewers in a gritty, realistic world.

The Bikeriders has a soundtrack filled with blues, rock, and R&b songs. The 2024 movie from director Jeff Nichols tells the true story of a Chicago-based motorcycle club and the lives of a few members. The Bikeriders' cast is led by Austin Butler as Benny, Jodie Comer as Kathy, and Tom Hardy as Johnny. Although the movie is largely narrated by Kathy as she recounts the past through interviews, it is Benny's evolving role with the Vandals and the conflict from Kathy and Johnny pulling him in different directions...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Actors (Betsey Brown)

With its central storyline revolving around a male actor (Peter Vack) adopting a phony trans identity in order to secure roles, Betsey Brown’s Actors is engineered to court controversy. But the film is more than empty provocation. Actors is about the inherent vulnerability it takes to be a working actor, and we catch glimpses of the ceaseless cycle of auditions and self-tapes listed as private on Vimeo. This includes one very funny early sequence in which Brown’s mother and father (played by her actual parents) walk her through a self-tape for a lewd part. It’s a role Brown knows she has little chance at landing, so why go through with the humiliation? Because born performers have no choice.

I sat in silence for a while after finishing Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days and then ended up on Spotify, searching for the film’s soundtrack. The latter is ironically funny, given our lead, Mr. Hirayama, doesn’t have a clue what “Spotify” is. The man lives in 2023, but he belongs to an old world. On the surface, Wender’s Japanese drama appears to be a celebration of the mundane, much like Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, but underneath the surface, there lie layers of melancholy, heartbreak, and hope. It’s also a portrayal of working-class people, something that we saw very recently in Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves, but the treatment is much different here. Wender’s signature style, which involves a lot of silence, cynicism, and the use of striking imagery as tools of storytelling, fits this story and its central character perfectly.

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Dimension 20 has distinguished itself from other series in the Ttrpg scene by embracing the inherent comedy of Dropout as a brand with genre-bending adventure, intrigue, and drama. Shifting from setting and genre with each storyline, the show's twentieth season -- corresponding with Dropout's fifth anniversary -- brings back Aabria Iyengar as Dm for Burrow's End.

Taking cues from dark children's literature like Watership Down, the season focuses on a family of Stoats as they try to survive a dangerous and ever-changing world. During an interview with Cbr, Aabria Iyengar discussed the biggest surprises of the new season, how Burrow's End evolved into an emotional exploration of motherhood, and if she'd want to return to the worlds seen in the seasons she previously Dm'ed.

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Cbr: First off, congrats on Burrow's End!

Aabria Iyengar: Oh my gosh, thank you so much.

Few horror sub-genres are as divisive as exorcism movies. For some, they are silly to the point of high camp, outrageous stories about invisible creatures that can take control of normal people and make them do outrageous things. For others, exorcism movies reveal a hidden realm of evil that has a very real impact on our world.

That tension allows a wide variety of approaches within the sub-genre, despite the dominance of one monumental film from the 70s. Exorcism movies can be ridiculous crowd-pleasers, stately dramas, or lowbrow comedies. Whether it’s because of the power of Christ or a really good script, you should feel compelled to watch these great exorcism movies.

The Exorcist (1973)

Of course, it starts with The Exorcist, directed by the late, great William Friedkin. Friedkin wasn’t writer William Peter Blatty’s first choice to direct the movie, which first went to Francis Ford Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich.

Cynthia Weil, a Grammy-winning lyricist of notable range and endurance who enjoyed a decades-long partnership with husband Barry Mann and helped write “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling”, “On Broadway”, “Walking in the Rain” and dozens of other hits, has died at age 82.

Weil’s daughter, Dr. Jenn Mann, said that the songwriter died Thursday at her home in Beverly Hills, California, “surrounded by her family.” Mann, the couple’s only child, declined to cite a specific cause of death.

Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, married in 1961, were one of popular music’s most successful teams, part of a remarkable ensemble recruited by impresarios Don Kirshner and Al Nevins and based in Manhattan’s Brill Building neighborhood, a few blocks from Times Square. With such hit-making combinations as Carole King and Gerry Goffin and Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, the Brill Building song factory turned out many of the biggest...

Cynthia Weil, a Brill Building songwriter, who along with her husband Barry Mann, wrote some of music’s most enduring works, has died at the age of 82.

Weil’s daughter, Jenn Mann, told TMZ that her mother passed away on Thursday, June 1st. “My mother, Cynthia Weil, was the greatest mother, grandmother and wife our family could ever ask for. She was my best friend, confidant, and my partner in crime and an idol and trailblazer for women in music,” Mann said in a statement.

Weil is an inductee of both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame, as well as a recipient of multiple Grammy Awards. Her writing credits include such classics as “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” which was made famous by The Righteous Brothers and ranks as among the most-played songs in the history of radio; “Make Your Own Kind of Music,...

Henry Silva, an actor with a striking look who often played villains and had credits in hundreds of films including “Ocean’s Eleven” and “The Manchurian Candidate,” died of natural causes Wednesday at the Motion Picture Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif., his son Scott confirmed. He was 95.

One of Silva’s most memorable roles came in John Frankenheimer’s classic thriller “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962), in which he played Chunjin, the Korean houseboy for Laurence Harvey’s Raymond Shaw — and an agent for the Communists — who engages in a thrilling, well-choreographed martial arts battle with Frank Sinatra’s Major Bennett Marco in Shaw’s New York apartment.

Silva appeared in a number of other movies with Sinatra, including the original, Rat Pack-populated “Ocean’s Eleven” (1960) with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr., where he was one of the 11 thieves, and 1962 Western “Sergeants 3.”

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Henry Silva, the rugged New York actor who portrayed heavies and heroes of various ethnicities in a career highlighted by turns in A Hatful of Rain, The Manchurian Candidate and Johnny Cool, has died. He was 95.

Silva died Wednesday of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, his son Scott Silva told The Hollywood Reporter.

Silva also played the Draconian commander “Killer” Kane in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), just one in a lineup of his bad guys seen in The Tall T (1957), The Bravados (1958), Il Boss (1973), Sharky’s Machine (1981), Above the Law (1988), Dick Tracy (1990) and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999).

“Henry Silva is one of those guys you most likely will recognize even if you don’t know his name,” onetime Crimespree magazine writer Dave Wahlman wrote in 2016. “His face is something straight...

Writer/Director Anita Rocha da Silveira discusses a few of her favorite films with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Medusa (2022)

Switchblade Sisters (1975) – Jack Hill’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Blue Velvet (1986) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Charlie Largent’s Criterion Blu-ray review

Mulholland Drive (2001) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review

Clueless (1995)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

All That Jazz (1979) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1964)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) – Darren Lynn Bousman’s trailer commentary

Last Night In Soho (2021)

Carrie (1976) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

Suspiria (1977) – Edgar Wright’s American and international trailer commentaries, Charlie Largent’s Blu-ray review

Kill Me Please (2015)

Blood and Black Lace (1964) – Joe Dante’s trailer commentaries, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Suspiria (2018)

The Virgin Suicides (1999) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Somewhere (2010)

Goodfellas (1990) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary,...

Michele Carey, Elvis Presley‘s former costar in Live a Little, Love a Little, has died. She was 75.

The actress, who retired in 1986, passed away on Nov. 21, according to spokesperson Michael Anthony, who confirmed the news on her Facebook page on Saturday.

“Today I have the saddest task, one I had never hoped to do during my lifetime, and that is to report to the many friends and fans of Michele Carey that what you have read online is terribly true,” the post read.

“Michele passed away on November 21st with her family by her side at the tender age...