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Jared Goff Makes NFL History During Detroit Lionsβ Win Over Cardinals
Detroit Lions QB Jared Goff joins Russell Wilson as the only NFL quarterbacks with 12+ touchdowns and zero interceptions through five games.
HealthSource, UC Health partner on $60M Clermont County medical office
Construction officially begins later this month at the site in Southwest Ohio.
Malik Willis runs for score in Week 5
Miami Dolphins quarterback Malik Willis completed 15 of 27 passes for 137 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions in Week 5
Ja'Marr Chase totals 77 yards, TD in Week 5
Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase registered six receptions for a game-high 77 yards and a touchdown on 10 targets in Week 5
Joe Burrow tosses four TDs in Week 5
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow completed 23 of 32 passes for 190 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions in Week 5
Garrett Wilson goes over century mark
New York Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson posted seven receptions for 104 yards and a touchdown on 11 targets in Week 5
Tyler Shough has ugly outing in Week 5
New Orleans Saints quarterback Tyler Shough completed 16 of 25 passes for just 96 yards, no touchdowns and two interceptions in Week 5
Five receptions for Nico Collins
Texans WR Nico Collins continues productive play with 56 yards
Justin Jefferson scores TD in Louisiana return
Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson posted six receptions for 79 yards and a touchdown on seven targets in Week 5
Bears bench Tyson Bagent, turn back to Case Keenum after two interception game vs. Packers
The Bears will have to hope Caleb Williams can return in Week 6.
Brian Thomas Jr. blanked in Week 5
Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Brian Thomas Jr. went without a reception on three targets in Week 5
The Peugeot E-T16 Concept Is An Electrified Group B Rally Homage
The E-T16 concept packs 816 hp, three electric motors, and outrageous styling inspired by the legendary 205 T16 rally car
Makai Lemon finishes Week 5 with five receptions
Eagles WR Makai Lemon catches five of his seven targets in Week 5
Parker Washington has first two-TD game of career
Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Parker Washington registered six receptions for 124 yards and career-high two touchdowns on nine targets in Week 5
Trevor Lawrence goes over 300 yards in win
Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence completed 24 of 39 passes for 331 yards, two touchdowns and one interception in Week 5
Inside California Politics: State Senate candidate Brian Goldsmith
(Inside California Politics) β Californiaβs top-two primary system often leads to same-party general election races, often between two Democrats, and this year is no exception. This week on Iβ¦
Kalshi scrutinizing longshot bets that correctly predicted Trumpβs next press secretary
The trades surrounding Zachariaβs selection as press secretary took place on so-called βknowable markets,β which experts say are more susceptible to insider trading.
South Texas Health System (@stxhealthsystem)
3 likes, 1 comments - stxhealthsystem on October 10, 2026: "Serving Health, Healing & Hospitality: Proper nutrition plays an important role in the healing process, helping patients recover, regain strength and achieve better outcomes. Across South Texas Health System's acute care facilities and behavioral hospital, our Nutrition & Dietary Services teams work diligently each day to provide nutritious meals and exceptional service to patients, visitors and staff. During National Healthcare Foodservice Workers Week, STHS proudly recognizes the dedicated Nutrition & Dietary Services teams at STHS McAllen, STHS Edinburg, STHS Children's, STHS Heart and STHS Behavioral for their hard work, professionalism and commitment to excellence. From developing specialized meal plans that support patient recovery to serving every meal with care and compassion, these team members play an essential role in creating a positive healthcare experience. Their dedication to both nutrition and hospitality is felt throughout our hospitals and contributes to the quality, compassionate care our patients receive every day. Thank you for the care, kindness and pride you bring to your work. Your commitment helps nourish our patients, support our caregivers and strengthen the communities we serve.".
Apple's All-New Home Hub Will Be Revealed October 13: What to Expect
Apple reportedly plans to unveil an all-new smart home hub as part of the "Welcome home" product launch it announced for Tuesday, October 13. Our image above is just a rough concept based on rumored design details, so be prepared for the device's actual appearance to be different. The device will likely be unveiled in a press release shared on the Apple Newsroom website at around 9 a.m.
Maresca: Man City players can shut out controversy against Liverpool
Enzo Maresca has no concerns about his players' mentality as Manchester City brace themselves for a hostile reception at Liverpool. City travel to Anfield on Sunday for their first match since it was announced the club had been found guilty of breaching the Premier League's financial regulations.
Leclerc Praises Hamilton: 'He Is Driving at an Exceptional Level'
The Monegasque highlights his teammate's performance in his second season with Ferrari and notes that he is a seven-time world champion. Despite the on-track friction, the two's relationship remains solid, and Ferrari arrives in Singapore with moderate expectations.
Donnie Wahlberg tears up over βhealingβ reunions with βBlue Bloodsβ costars on βBoston Blueβ
Donnie Wahlberg warned heβd need to βget the Kleenexβ before tearing up while discussing his βBlue Bloodsβ costarβs warm reception of his new βBoston Blueβ family: βThereβs something healing that happens.β
Netflixβs Summer of Bummer
(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like todayβs article. Please subscribe.) Today, Iβve got a guest post from longtime friend of the newsletter, Brandon Katz. Iβve been trying to find time all summer to look at Netflixβs straight-to-streaming film slate, but between a pre-planned trip and Nielsen moving up their streaming data timeline, Iβve been swamped. So I reached out to Brandon, one of my favorite fellow analysts, to write about it. And I feel like he captured the tone and data focus of the newsletter perfectly. You can connect with Brandon on LinkedIn and Twitter. Enjoy! Donβt worry, folks. Youβre in safe hands with me. To ease any anxieties about an interloper in ESGβs domain, Iβll start by stealing one of his best framing devices: headlines. Box office flops are covered in the same way the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles eye pizza: with cartoonish insatiability. I would know. Iβm a former reporter who wrote nearly identical headlines: Yet, intentionally or not, streaming misses get treated with kids gloves, filtered through a rosy lens: In the last six years, U.S. streaming viewership has become nearly as transparent as the box office, but the data often arrives weeks later, in a number of less intuitive metrics, and with nary an official budget to be found. This plays into the Wall Street-whispering narratives major streamers have been cultivating for years. They get a pass in a way that theatrical studios simply donβt. Subscribe Netflixβs Summer Slate Not a single Netflix original film released between May and August this year opened above 20 million U.S. TV hours, per Nielsen. That benchmark usually serves as the EntStrategyGuyβs floor for a streaming hit on Netflix. None of these films enjoyed a hit-cementing single week of 20-plus million hours during their runs. Netflixβs two best films were true crime docs, Maternal Instinct (16.5 million hours) and The Crash (19.7 million), the best overall week for a film this summer. Great for most other streamers, but not necessarily what weβre used to seeing from Netflix. For an overly-dramatic comparison, Happy Gilmore 2 opened last summer to around 47 million hours (celebrity cameos, baby!). Zooming out, the picture looks even worse. In 2026, Netflixβs five biggest scripted summer films posted the lowest average (28.6 million hours) and median (28.8 million hours) eight-week viewership totals of the past four years. Now, itβs unrealistic and unfair to expect Netflix to deliver a _KPop Demon Hunters-_sized hit every year. But itβs also not ideal to see the size of their hits shrinking over the last few summers. Letβs quickly run through some of the notable summer misses. Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldsteinβs perfectly fine romcom, Office Romance, fell off the charts after 20 million hours in its first two weeks. Top films usually last for four-plus weeks. Starry titles ideally donβt decay that fast either. Homegrown star Millie Bobby Brown couldnβt prevent the snappy Enola Holmes franchise from diminishing returns. At 14.3 million U.S. hours, the third film posted roughly half of what the first two films did in their first two weeks. Whatβs on Netflix calculated that per-day global views were down nearly 60% from the second movie. The Whisper Man did okay with more than 36 million hours over its first four weeks. But I expected a little more juice from a film featuring Robert De Niro, Michelle Monaghan, and Adam Scott. Kevin Hartβs Ladies First collected just 11.2 million hours total across two weeks. Thatβs a big miss for one of Netflixβs go-to stars. Plopping into the same bucket are Sunny Sandlerβs Donβt Say Good Luck (10.3 million in two weeks) and John Cenaβs Little Brother (17.5 million). Meanwhile, English-language originals Color Book (June 19), In the Hand of Dante (June 24) and Heartstopper Forever (July 17) never sniffed Nielsenβs Top 10 at all, despite needing only 2 to 5 million hours to land in the top ten most weeks. (By my count, eleven English-language scripted original films released between May and August did chart). Itβs only fair to mention that Swapped (1-May) posted nearly 42 million U.S. hours over five weeks (the longest Netflix original run this summer) and is currently their eighth most-watched English-language film ever worldwide. Remarkably Bright Creatures (37 million, 4 weeks) and Voicemails for Isabelle (27 million, 4 weeks) werenβt bombs either. Still, overall, I think itβs fair to say this was a quieter summer season than weβre used to seeing from the market-leader. You might not realize that given the language commonly used in public analysis. The Twist Despite the starkly black-and-white tone of the coverage, hereβs the twist: when many box office bombs arrive on streaming, their viewership looks a whole lot like many of Netflixβs supposedly successful summer releases. Hmm, where have we heard that one before? Masters of the Universe topped out at $65 million stateside against a $170 million budget_._ Iβll admit, Skeletor ripping sleeveless curls as a gym bro and bodyslamming Adamβs co-workers was funny. But, much to the chagrin of my bank account, my laughter doesnβt launch franchises. Yet the He-Man reboot opened to 19.6 million hours (from a Wednesday five-day opening instead of just one weekend), on par with Hoppers on Disney+ (19.4 million). It put up nearly 47 million hours over its first six weeks, bigger than all of Netflixβs summer releases. Pretty darn healthy and likely to land among the 25 most-watched movies on streaming this year. Sticking with Amazon, The Sheep Detectives just barely broke even at the box office with $133 million worldwide (and only $66 million domestic). I never expected cloven-hooved, cud-chewing mammals to be able to bring me to tears. Yet thatβs exactly how I found myself at the end of this surprisingly affecting movie (#NoShame). It was likely the unexpected quality in a family-friendly film that powered its streaming over-performance. Sheep Detectives delivered a solid run for Prime video netting 26.2 million hours! How about franchise IP? Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu had the lowest opening ($81 million) and lowest-grossing Disney-era live-action Star Wars film ($178 million domestic). One day before release, its Heat score (19.8%)βaudiences who list their interest as a 7/7βfell behind blockbusters Wicked (21%), Superman (23%), Fantastic Four: First Steps (23%), Michael (23%), Toy Story 5 (26%) and Avatar: Fire and Ash (27%), according to Greenlight Analytics. The urgent enthusiasm just wasnβt there. On streaming, Mando opened to weeks of 12.1 million, 6.1 million and 2.7 million hours (21 million total) over its first three frames. Not the numbers Lucasfilm was hoping for nor the numbers of a streaming hit. But theyβre in the same vicinity as some Netflix summer releases with $345 million at the global box office to offset a smidgen of the pain. Final Thoughts So why oh why does this nuance gap exist? Four key reasons: Data Literacy: A β$100 million openingβ just makes sense. After decades of box office reporting, even casual movie fans are well-versed in the benchmarks of hits and home runs. Thereβs an immediate shorthand. But β16.5 millionβ hours doesnβt land nearly as cleanly. Despite leaps of progress, the streaming ratings era is still in its infancy compared to theatrical. The EntStrategyGuy and I met thanks to a late 2010s group chat of data nerds hungry to find a shred of certainty in nebulous streaming performance. Iβm not surprised to see βNo. 1 on Netflixβ still getting misconstrued out in the wild. Timing: By Friday morning, we have the box officeβs Thursday night previews totaled, allowing us to better project the weekendβs expectations. From there, ticket sales are reported daily. By Sunday, the filmβs fate is usually finalized, at least in terms of public perception. In streaming, Nielsen recently improved its delay toβ¦two weeks. The medium isnβt forced to contend with instant gratification as harshly. Financials: Theatrical film budgets are a mere Google away. Profit and loss is calculated in the cold and unforgiving naked light of day for all to see. But finding the vast majority of streaming exclusive movie budgets requires the forensic investigation skills of a Criminal Minds detective. Also, itβs very difficult to calculate how much revenue/value a straight-to-streaming films provides a streamer. This is why there are so few stories about streaming original movies βlosing X amount of moneyβ. On top of that, marketing budgets are far greater for theatrical movies than streaming exclusive movies, which leads to earlier and better awareness. This then translates to a wider pool of potential interest. Narrative Control: Netflix is the only major streaming service to publish weekly first-hand viewership data and annual engagement reports. Naturally, some headlines borrow their first-hand framing**.** Other streamers benefit from their comparative lack of transparency. They may occasionally announce vague performance platitudes such as Apple TVβs Mayday becoming its βbiggest film debut on the platform to date over its first 18 days,β and that it ranked No. 1 with left-handed viewers in its first weekend. (Fine, I made up that second one). But, for the most part, they keep first-hand viewership shrouded in mystery to avoid bad press. Especially for outlets that demand multiple articles per day from their writers, itβs an easy (and understandable) way for some reporters to hit their daily article quota by just repeating what the streamers have told them. TL:DR version: Streaming-exclusive movies are asked to do different things than theatrical movies, but that doesnβt mean they should escape judgment. Both still need to draw enough eyeballs to justify their cost within the proper performance contexts. The more cleanly we can inject a little nuance into streaming analysis, the better weβll understand the audience and content trends that drive this industry. And thatβs what all of this is really about: knowing what audiences actually want! Brandon Katz is the Director of Insights & Content Strategy at Greenlight Analytics where he focuses on evaluating the ever-fluid media landscape to unearth understanding, opportunity and value. Greenlight Analytics is the entertainment intelligence consulting company redefining how Hollywood finds, understands, and activates audiences. Prior to joining Greenlight Analytics, he served as the senior entertainment industry strategist at Parrot Analytics, and as a full-time entertainment industry reporter covering the Xs and Os of Hollywood, most notably with TheWrap and the Observer.
Florida citrus forecast projects a nearly 25% orange production drop
The 2026β2027 Florida citrus forecast from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows declining production with one exception.
The biggest changes Anthropic just made to Claude's rules
Anthropic spelled out a series of new usage provisions about deceptive campaigns, elections, weapons development, and surveillance.
Former funeral home director who overcharged families to live lavish lifestyle gets probation sentence for crimes
ANDERSON, Ind. β A former Madison County funeral director who overcharged customers tens of thousands of dollars in order to furnish her lavish lifestyle has avoided prison time thanks to acceptingβ¦
Adidas sues White Fox fashion label over four stripes design
Sportswear giant Adidas has filed a lawsuit against popular Australian online fashion brand White Fox Boutique for selling and promoting clothes featuring a four-stripe design that Adidas claims is deceptively similar to its own three-stripe trademark, CNN affiliate 7News reported.
Crew on Ben Shapiroβs Pro-ICE Film Say They Felt Ambushed
βIf I had known this, then I would not have even accepted the job.β
What reception awaits Man City at Anfield?
Bus welcomes, banners and flags expected as Man City head to Liverpool on Sunday for their first game since they were found guilty of breaching Premier League rules.
Gasperini ready to rely on Mora in Como showdown
Roma played a test match against Sorianese yesterday at Trigoria to maintain their rhythm and prepare for Sundayβs 12:30 pm match away to Como. The final score was 20-0. Everyone was present except ...
Dak Prescott tosses two picks in upset loss
Dak Prescott passed for over 300 yards for a second straight game but was also intercepted twice in a Week 5 loss to the Bucs.
Physician Organizations Oppose Legislation That Gives Health Insurers Unilateral Control Over Out-of-Network Payments
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and American College of Radiology (ACR) today expressed strong opposition to the Lower Premiums, Faster Payments Act, legislation introduced by Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) that would eliminate the independent dispute resolution (IDR) process established under the No Surprises Act (NSA) and replace it with payment rates calculated by health insurance companies.
2027β2028 Harvard LEAD Fellowship for Promoting Women in Global Health application is now open
The LEAD Fellowship, a one-year fellowship designed to advance leadership skills among individuals from low- and middle-income countries, is now accepting applications. The program supports the continued development of leaders in global health. Deadline: November 15, 2026
Stony Brook Brings AI Expertise to Long Island Small Businesses Through LIA-AI Growth Academy
Artificial intelligence can seem like a big concept for a small business. For 49 Long Island businesses, five months of training with Stony Brook University experts helped turn that concept into a plan. On September 24, the inaugural class of the LIA-AI Growth Academy gathered at Stony Brookβs Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information
The Nobel boys club (again)
All six Nobel awardees in physiology or medicine, physics, and chemistry this year were men. Women make up 4% of laureates since the awardβs inception.
FEATURE | Mezian Mesloub β Lensβ star in the making
RC Lens are no strangers to departures. And this summer was no exception, as they let Mamadou SangarΓ©, Adrien Thomasson, Malang Sarr, Wesley SaΓ―d, and Allan Saint-Maximin leave their Coupe de France...
To the Trump Administration, Childrenβs Health Is an Acceptable Sacrifice
On Children's Environmental Health Day, here's a look at how the Trump administration isn't living up to its promises to protect children's health.
To the Trump Administration, Childrenβs Health Is an Acceptable Sacrifice
On Children's Environmental Health Day, here's a look at how the Trump administration isn't living up to its promises to protect children's health.
Study finds simulation game helps students grasp complex health economics concepts
In Phillip Zane's classroom, students weigh an invitation to jump out of an airplane. The skydiving lesson and jump are free, and the exercise assumes there is zero risk of death. But an injury could ...
Gallery Eleven featured artist for October to hold reception at Elk City gallery
CHARLESTON β Gallery Eleven has announced its featured artist for October.
Ipsos Health Service Report 2026
Since 2018, Ipsos has been tracking perceptions of the quality of healthcare systems, the biggest health issues and the biggest public health problems.
Real wages set to fall in major European economies, except Germany
Italy, Spain, France and the UK are projected to see declines in real wages between the first quarters of 2026 and 2027, while Germany is expected to record growth. Euronews Business looks at what is driving the divide.
Scientists report worldβs first working nuclear clocks
In two papers in Nature, scientists from Europe and China have now reported the worldβs first working nuclear clocks. While teams from Beijing and Shanghai embedded thorium-229 nuclei in calcium fluoride crystals and fired an ultraviolet laser at them, the effort from Austria, the Czech Republic, and Germany realised a similar nuclear clock and used it to look for dark matter.
Scientists Identify a Small Village in Italy Where Women Live Exceptionally Long Lives
The intriguing mystery of Bolotana.
Scientists Identify a Small Village in Italy Where Women Live Exceptionally Long Lives
The intriguing mystery of Bolotana.
Who Won August and September: Original Films or Franchises?
(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like todayβs article. Please subscribe.) I just heard someone say that if youβre reading a pundit or data analyst, and they donβt tell you that they got anything wrong, theyβre not a pundit but an βinfluencerβ. I agree with that. You have to tell your audience when you get things wrong, or they wonβt (or shouldnβt) trust you as much. Today, weβve got another edition of βWhat I Got Right, What I Got Wrongβ. In general, Iβm patting myself on the back (and patting very hard) about a few things like IP at the box office, LIV golf, horror films, crowdfunding movies, superheroes, and old people going to the theaters. That said, I also made a couple of data mistakes on the streaming bubble popping and HBOβs datecdotes, so Iβm not perfect. But first, I need your feedback... Subscribe Follow-Ups: What Should We Call Mid-Budget Movies Which Arenβt Cinematic Enough for Theaters But Are Too Expensive to Make Money on Streaming? After I asked for feedback on what we should call straight-to-streaming films that are too big to pencil out on streaming but not really big enough to resonate in theaters, I got some great suggestions from you all, including... βMoldilocksβ from John Aboud βLittle Big Indieβ from Travis Frick1 βMidflicksβ from Jonathan Funke. βExtra-Mediumβ from Jona Nwuke. (Read the explanation in the footnote.) Between these and Brandon Katzβwho suggested βBermuda Budget Triangleβ, βThe Platform Gapβ and βThe Distribution Deadzoneββweβve got some excellent suggestions. And theyβre better than my suggestion, the βStreaming Budget Dead Zoneβ, so letβs take a poll! The winning entry becomes the new term. Loading... RIGHT: LIV Golf is Fully Bankruptβ¦Is Anyone Else Next? A few years ago, I was always a bit perplexed at all the articles Iβd read praising LIV Golf and their strategy to disrupt the PGA. LIV Golf, a brand new professional golf league, offered PGA stars ten times what they made on the PGA Tour to join their new league. And folks praised this strategy for its initial βsuccessβ in that a lot of big names did indeed leave the PGA. Yeah, of course the players came over. LIV Golf paid them so, so, so much more! But LIV Golf hadnβt discovered a way to increase potential revenue. So think about this in basic business termsβ¦ They paid much more in costsβ¦ β¦but had no real way to increase revenue. Thatβs not a strategy! Thatβs deficit financing. It wonβt work unless you bankrupt the competition (and then turn around and pay those same golfers much, much less). Itβs not a sustainable strategy and only lasts as long as the company/person/nation backing it decides theyβre cool with losing money. For LIV Golf, that meant Middle East oil wealth, in particular Saudi Arabian money. Clearly, the current Iran War has hurt Middle East finances, so they need to trim their more exorbitant spending. And LIV Golf was part of that trimming. This should be a major warning for others. TGLβs parent company, TMRW Sports, just got a $1 billion valuation, despite TGLβs (the indoor golf league) horrible TV viewership of less than half a million viewers per match. Unrivaled, the womenβs basketball league, just secured a $650 valuation, despite its horrible TV viewership and a new rival (Project B) entering the scene next year. To relate this to streaming, Hollywood should ask which streamers may have wealthy patrons funding their losses. (Letβs be clear: Google, Amazon and Apple.) Could those patrons lose their appetite? For Amazon, probably not. But Apple has a new boss, so maybe! WRONG: My Analysis of the Streaming Bubble Was Missing a Week Iβm going to be congratulating myself a lot today, but I make mistakes too, like this data goof. When I last compiled the data on the decline in TV shows, I was missing one week at the end of June. If you look at the first image, you can see that one week was mislabelled as βJulyβ. Mainly, this image got updated to show a 27% decline, not 29%: This change doesnβt really impact the overall analysis, but it is two percent better. By the way, through the third quarter, the decline increased and itβs now a 30% decrease since 2022. (Iβll write/visualize this in an upcoming article.) But I want you to trust me and my data. Especially these days, when many people are using LLMs that I know are inserting faulty data into their charts, I want to keep earning my audienceβs faith. So thatβs the accurate data. RIGHT: IP Remains Very, Very Popular In July, I wrote a giant (and I mean giant) article on Backrooms, Obsession, and the box office, going over what we know, what we donβt know about what works in theaters, looking at YouTubers, IP, the horror genre, comic book movies, and a whole lot more. The month of August really tested a lot of my theses and, being honest, mostly supported my arguments. Letβs start with IP. Looking at 8-Aug (the weekend after Spider-Man: Brand New Day came out) to 18-Sep (the weekend that Resident Evil came out, which I think provides a nice bookend to this time period), there were seven films based on pre-existing IP: Resident Evil (2026) ($126 million) Practical Magic 2 ($65 million) _Insidious: Out of the Furthe_r ($65 million) Coyote Vs. Acme ($59 million) Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie ($53 million) Tony ($15 million) Super Troopers 3 ($7 million) Compare those to the notable original films from the past monthβI actually could have included more movies, but here are just thirteen, bringing us to an even twenty filmsβincluding.... The End of Oak Street ($54 million) Buddy ($26 million) Mutiny ($15 million) By Any Means ($15 million) The Dog Stars ($14 million) Runner ($14 million) One Night Only ($11 million) Hope ($8 million) Spa Weekend ($7 million) The Uprising ($6 million) Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ($6 million) Onslaught ($3 million) Eli Rothβs Ice Cream Man ($2.8 million) Hereβs that in chart form: Five of the top six films in this time period were all based on IP. I made a big chart of films that grossed over $200 million at the box office before Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey hit theaters. Letβs update that chart! By the way, if you want to see how I categorized each filmβso another bar chartβhere it is: I know that many of my fellow critics/pundits/analysts dislike films based on IP and how Hollywood is making so many of them. And Iβm sympathetic to this point of view. As Iβve written many, many times before, you need a balance between existing franchises, new IP, and original films. And Hollywood clearly needs to make more films like Resident Evil (a well-made film from a visionary director) and fewer Practical Magic 2βs (which didnβt get critical or customer buzz). But at some point, critics and pundits need to contend with what audiences are telling them: Movie-goers arenβt showing up to original films. Audiences are speaking with their dollars, telling you they want more IP and franchises. You can try to convince studio heads to make fewer IP-based films and franchises, but the data and numbers arenβt there. Instead, critics need to work harder to convince audiences to show up for original films. Aim your ire/concern at the average person, not studio heads.2 Because theyβre just making the films that audiences are telling them to make. WRONG: Original Horror Films Didnβt Break Out Iβll be honest, even though I wrote an article casting some skepticism on the horror genre in July, if you asked me to make a prediction, I would have predicted that, in August, a new, original horror film would have blown up. No, seriously, I just assumed that Obsession and Backrooms presaged a change in audience behavior. But none of the buzzy new original horror films from AugustβTeenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Onslaught (not an action film in spite of the ads), The End of Oak Street, Eli Rothβs Ice Cream Man, or _Buddyβ_broke out. To be clear, exactly one of those films (Buddy) had good βROIβ, but againβI try to be specific in my languageβnone were βpopularβ in any broad sense of the word. None of them will be βsavingβ movies theaters like Backrooms or _Obsession_helped save the summer. The new Insidious film and Resident Evil, both based on IP, were far and away the biggest horror films since July. (Weβll see if this changes in October/Halloween season.) RIGHT: Stay Skeptical about Crowdfunding... Iβve long been skeptical about crowd-investing platforms as one of Hollywoodβs saviors, mainly because thereβs so much hype/buzz. People need to stay more skeptical about more things, explaining both the potential upside but also the downsides. In particular, the media often hypes crowdfunding at the start and never checks in on the actual results after theyβve come in later. And August gave us our first update! _Ice Cream Manβ_directed by Eli Rothβgrossed $6 million off of a $5.5 million budget. This is a production of The Horror Section, which was one of the first βcrowd investingβ studios with 2,400 investors, which means that 2,400 investors probably lost money. They certainly arenβt getting as great of returns as if they had just invested their dollars in the stock market. Hopefully Stiletto (Tagline: βSomeoneβs Going to Make it Rain Blood!β) does better next month. WRONG: Another Data Goof Hereβs another data error. When the first episode of House of the Dragon came out, HBO put out that it had 21.5 million viewers in the first three days, and I read that to mean in the USβ¦but no, it was global. So my US-only datecdotes charts shouldnβt have included it. We never got US-only numbers for the first episode, but for the final episode, HBO put out that it had 11 million US viewers. (And that global dropped to 21 million viewers.) Hereβs the updated chart (which Iβve since used in the Streaming Ratings Report): Still, this show is absolutely huge. RIGHT: Superhero Films Remain Very, Very Popular After Supergirl flopped, I read a few takes that βcomic book movies are going the way of the Westernβ. Post-Spider-Man: Brand New Day, that take didnβt age well. To be fair, I have a very nuanced take on the superhero genre right now; itβs down right now, for a lot of reasons. But itβs not βdeadβ. Maybe _Spider-_Man is just a really popular character? I saw that take, and itβs a fair counter-argument. (But pundits arguing that superhero movies were dead should have mentioned this $1.5 billion counter-argumentβ¦) But is it just Spider-Man? The next Avengers film already has $50 million in pre-sales (and I was skeptical that that film would do well) and the Avengers: End Game re-release topped the box office two weekends ago (over three original films). And I wouldnβt bet against Batman or Superman. So maybe itβs just Spider-Man, Batman, Superman and the Avengers. Oh, and Deadpool, of course. And Black Panther. And Wolverine. And probably the X-Men. Plus a well-made Wonder Woman or the Hulk film could break out. But thatβs it! Itβs just those ten characters/teams. Oh, whatβs that? Lanterns is also doing well on HBO? (See previous sectionβ¦) To be fair, Iβm actually pretty sympathetic to the argument that more popular charactersβlike Spider-Man and Batmanβanchor more popular films. In fact, I made that exact argument three years ago when I first wrote about the βMarvel-cessionβ. In many ways, you can blame The Guardians of the Galaxy for fooling Marvel Studios (and the rest of us) into believing that any character could pop. It turns out, the list of iconic characters is probably smaller than most people think. But itβs probably too early to say that superhero films and comic book movies are dead unless βdeathβ means a slight decline over a longtime. RIGHT: Who Killed Theaters? Old People I get frustrated whenever I see headlines or analysis about how young people are βreturningβ to theaters. As Iβve detailed(for years), young people have always powered the US box office, despite narratives about βkids these daysβ and their βphonesβ. Really, whatβs changed post-2020/pandemic is that old people arenβt going to the movies nearly as much. This summer, I saw a movie (from an older director) in a theater near a retirement community, and multiple older people at the theater were talking about how this was their first time seeing a movie in years. I dislike personal anecdotes, so YouGov can fill in the data, best summarized by this headline: βWho killed movie theaters? Not the youthsβ. According to them, 64% of people aged 18-29 have seen a movie in the last year, but only 30% of 65-and-older. 20% of 18-29 have seen a movie in theaters in the last week and 42% in the last month. Hereβs the polling data: Most concerning? Many Americans (17%) think theaters are a worse or much worse experience than watching films at home. Slight WRONG: Hadestown Opens Big A live theater capture of the Broadway musical, Hadestown, made $20 million at the US box office, which begs the question: was I wrong to be skeptical about musicals a few years ago? Yes and no. On the one hand, $20 million is a far cry from being βpopularβ, so yeah, the genre isnβt that popular overall and Hadestown is one of the more popular musicals from recent years (i.e. the βTaylor Swift Data Fallacyβ in action). On the other, I doubt filming this cost all that much, and I donβt think that they spent much on marketing, so this is a good source of ancillary revenue. Smaller Updates WRONG: As I mentioned in a Streaming Ratings Report, I underestimated the budget for Enola Holmes 3. It probably cost more like $50 million, if not more. But... Iβm not sure that it really matters? At sub-10 million hours, prices have to come down to make this work. WRONG: Netflix is giving Ink a 27-day in theaters! To quote the kids/YouTubers these days, letβs go! Now I might actually have a chance to see Danny Boyleβs latest in theaters. Iβd complained about this in a βComing Soonβ section, but I was heartened to read that Netflix is giving multiple films longer theatrical windows this year. RIGHT: Netflix is sending 4-5 films per year to theaters. Netflix is slowly but surely sending more and more films to theaters, as I cautiously predicted earlier this year. For now, itβs just three big films and a number of awards contenders, but still, this is great news. And theyβll be releasing box office grosses! Just this week, Ted Sarandos confirmed that KPop Demon Hunters 2 will come to theaters (and my guess is it performs in the box office top ten at a minimum). WRONG: Angel has 3 million subscribers! How do I know this? Well, they told Deadline, who reported it. I marked this as βwrongβ, since theyβve doubled their subscribers in one year but, you know, they donβt really have a hit film to speak of and theyβre still losing money. WRONG: Furious was only renewed for one more season. I accidentally wrote βtwo more seasonsβ in my latest βRenewals, Cancellations, Un-Orders and Removals Updateβ. RIGHT: House of David is ending with its third season. In July, Prime Video renewed House of David for a third season, as I just wrote in my latest βRenewals and Cancellationsβ report. Well, now itβs ending after that third season. Why? As Iβve been writing, its viewership wasnβt great. I got feedback that this show didnβt cost very much, but it cost enough that its limited viewership didnβt save it. WRONG: Adults was a Hulu original! So I missed Adults when it first came out last year; I saw that it aired on FX and just assumed that it was a linear-first program. Turns out, it aired three episodes on FX, but binge-released the rest of its episodes the next day on Hulu. Huh. So I should have covered it last year! 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That will make it easier to assemble the majorities needed to amend the Constitution or impeach Supreme Federal Court justices. If elected, FlΓ‘vio Bolsonaro could appoint four members of the Court, substantially altering its internal balance of power. What produced these results? How can the far right be prevented from consolidating them into a prolonged political hegemony? And what is the essential change of direction the left now needs? Explaining the Disaster Across the commercial media and the exuberant chaos of digital platforms, interpretations are multiplying. Some focus on specific episodes: Lulaβs absence from the Globo debate, his very close relationship with Alexandre de Moraes, or his emphasis on issues supposedly remote from most peopleβs everyday concerns, such as rare earth minerals. Among the more systemic interpretations, three seem especially questionable. One argues that the principal defeat was not the leftβs, since its congressional representation declined only slightly. The decisive movement captured at the ballot box, according to this view, was a shift within the right itselfβfrom the more moderate and transactional forces of the CentrΓ£o toward the more ideological and radicalized forces of the PL and Novo. A second interpretation holds that the nature of electoral and political processes has changed. The material interests and aspirations of society, it argues, no longer play the central role they once did; they have given way to forms of subjective self-identification that the left has yet to understand. And a third concludes that, because of these two developments, we should expect a political winter: a prolonged period in which the far right and the broader right dominate Brazilian political life. There are important elements in all three interpretations. The problem lies in what they deny or leave out: Lulaβs third government was a small-bore government. It offered the majorities that elected it neither a clearly better life nor reasons to believe again in politics and its power to transform society. These failures flowed from two fatal accommodations, which I will examine below. As a result, the government suffered a slow but steady erosion of support. And, as has happened in so many Western countries, it gave the far right the opportunity to present itself as anti-system and to benefit from popular frustration and distress. The interpretation that emphasizes the migration of votes from the center-right and traditional right toward the far right has been advanced, among others, by the courageous journalist Leonardo Sakamoto. In his UOL column on Monday, October 5, he highlights the miserable behavior of the traditional conservative parties. Over the past four years, they repeatedly joined forces with the βneoβ-fascists, helping to βnormalizeβ themβa criticism that could equally be directed at almost the entire corporate media. Believing they could use the far right as a stepping stone, they instead ended up partly devoured by it. This was especially true in the Senate, where the PLβs gain of 13 senators and Novoβs gain of two came at the expense of the PSD, which lost nine; the MDB, which lost two; the PSDB, which lost two; and the PP, which lost one. Sakamotoβs observation is accurate and necessary, but it leaves uncomfortable questions unanswered. Why did the erosion of the CentrΓ£o benefit the far right rather than, for example, producing growth for the leftβas has happened so many times before, both in Brazil and elsewhere? The answer is not difficult. Throughout its four years in office, Lulaβs third government was almost invariably associated with the CentrΓ£o. Here lies its first accommodation: accepting the limits imposed by conservative institutions; avoiding, as much as possible, any attempt to strain those limits through popular pressure; and believing only in the modest changes that could be squeezed through openings in Congress. The failure of the campaign to end the six-day workweek is emblematic. Lula could have electrified the presidential race by pairing it with a popular campaign for passage of the measure. Instead, he chose to place his hopes in the hands of Senate president Rodrigo Alcolumbre. He generated no mass mobilization, did not force his opponents onto an uncomfortable defensive, and won no victory. In September 2025, the government squandered the greatest of its many opportunities to shake up conservative power in Congress. Popular opposition to the so-called Shielding Amendmentβwhich, if approved, would have restricted criminal proceedings against members of Congressβbrought crowds into the streets, mobilized primarily by artists and social movements. This opened the possibility for a broader political education: a campaign that could begin exposing the limits and dysfunctions of Brazilβs political system while putting Bolsonaroβs movement on the defensive for its predictable support of political privilege. The amendment was defeated. But the executive branch then backed away from the fight. It remained associated with an institutional world widely seen as corrupt, elitist, and indifferent to ordinary peopleβs struggles. In doing so, it forfeited its credibility as a vehicle for the protest vote. On Sunday, it reaped the bitter fruits. Are We Doomed? Taking a different approach from Sakamoto, the philosopher MoysΓ©s Pinto Neto and other writers have drawn attention, in their first analyses of October 4, to the fragmentation of the public sphere produced by Big Tech platforms. Through their algorithms, these platforms present each person with a different view of social reality. As a consequence, it becomes much harder to identify common material problems and demandsβfor example, the fight for labor rights or for a properly funded public health system. Voters no longer embrace such demands, these authors argue, because they no longer see themselves as part of a collective. Instead, they tend to value the identities assigned to them by neoliberal subjectivityβthe role of the entrepreneur, for example. On this interpretation, the leftβs possible error lies in clinging to outdated illusions. MoysΓ©sβs warning is highly relevant and resonates with arguments such as Naomi Klein and Astra Taylorβs βApocalyptic Fascism and the Billionairesβ Bet.β Unlike a century ago, the far right no longer promises a radiant future. It concentrates instead on resentmentβespecially that of young men. βThey belong to a generation that fears it may never own a home, but compensates with the pleasure it gets from constantly provoking progressives online. Convinced their future has been stolen, they share memes romanticizing historical authoritarian regimes,β the authors write. But MoysΓ©s seems to confuse this danger with inevitability. He fails to see that the leftβs answer cannot be adaptation. On the contrary, it must strengthen the possibility of politics as collective action. Nor does he recognize that precisely such a reversal is already becoming possible in some of the most promising mobilizations of the twenty-first century: the election, at the end of 2025, of the young Muslim Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York, on a platform centered on the intensely material fight for an affordable city; the Left Partyβs victory in Berlin two weeks ago, built around the demand to expropriate private real-estate corporations; and the very recent wave of demonstrations in Spainβincluding an occupation of Madridβs Puerta del Solβin which tens of thousands of young people mobilized by the Tenantsβ Union have demanded limits on rents. By putting itself in the straitjacket of the βfiscal frameworkβ in the first months of 2022, Lulaβs third government adopted the second fatal accommodation of its term. Faced with conservative institutions and a country devastated by four years of Bolsonaro, increased public investment was the governmentβs remaining weapon for offering a more dignified life to the majority and forging an anti-conservative pact with them. The same state that disburses 1 trillion reais a year to enrich a small class of rentiers could instead spend money to extend the Family Health Strategy to every Brazilian, at a cost of 30 billion reais; provide full-day public schooling and childcare to all adolescents and childrenβand, especially, relief to their mothers; achieve universal sanitation while cleaning up polluted urban rivers; multiply metro systems; begin transforming the urban peripheries; and undertake many other urgently needed projects. In April 2023, an article in Outras Palavras warned that the fiscal framework could βshrink the Lula government and preserve the forces that condemn the country to inequality and regression.β A year later, another article showed that restraints on public spending were strangling policies vital to ordinary people and undermining the presidentβs popularity. In November 2024 came a reality check, in the form of the governmentβs humiliating defeat in the municipal elections. Even then, the fiscal lock was neither removed nor loosened. On the contrary: throughout the governmentβs four years, fiscal restraint remained central to its political narrative. The administration proudly proclaimed that it had βput the stateβs accounts in order,β without grasping either how misleading that phrase wasβgiven the payment of 1 trillion reais in interestβor how badly the message was hurting it politically. Lula finally woke up in September 2026. The increase in Bolsa FamΓlia benefits, after four years of being frozen; the announcement that anti-obesity drugs would be offered through Brazilβs public health system; and the ban on online betting showed that the state has the power to act decisively on behalf of the majority when those in government are willing to confront obstacles. The huge marches that closed the campaign in Fortaleza, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, and SΓ£o Paulo on the eve of October 4 showed how such initiatives can mobilize activists and the broader public. But it was too lateβand too little to change the outcome of the first round. History has not ended The possibility of a turnaround in the three weeks leading up to November 25 cannot be ruled out. It will not be simple or easy. Lula must not only make up a deficit of 2.2 million votes; he must also offset the movement of voters who backed other right-wing candidates in the first round, most of whom are likely to move toward FlΓ‘vio Bolsonaro. Pulling that off will require a broad, grassroots effort to win over voters, potentially reinforced by new initiatives from Lula. The coming hours and days will be decisive. If Bolsonaroβs movement also wins the presidency, the result will create a high-risk situation for Brazilian sovereignty and democracy. The enormous challenges posed by such an outcome would require the left to reexamine, in depth and with a genuine willingness to engage in self-criticism, its political projectsβor its lack of themβand its practices. But would that mean we are condemned to the long winter of far-right hegemony that some analyses are beginning to forecast? It is far too early to say, suggests a recent text by Γlvaro GarcΓa Linera, the thinker who served as vice president of Bolivia under Evo Morales. His central hypothesis is that this political current will prove short-lived. At a moment when the entire world is once again talking about sovereignty and protecting national economies, the far right offers a stale, recolonizing neoliberalism. Its submission to the United States is as blatant and pathetic as FlΓ‘vio and Eduardo Bolsonaroβs overtures to Donald Trump. Its project amounts to something like every man for himself: greater inequality, capitalism without limits, devastation, and supremacism. Will it work? In the United States, just two years into his second term, Trump himself is reaching record levels of unpopularity and may be on the verge of losing Republican control of both the House and Senate in November. Every new beginning is difficult. Whatever the outcome of the second round, the defeats of October 4 show how profoundly the Brazilian left will have to rethink and rebuild. But just as it would be foolish to underestimate the seriousness of its mistakes, it would be equally foolish to conclude that rebuilding a political project is no longer possible. History has not ended. The times are moving faster than ever. Originally published in Portuguese by Outras Palavras. English translation by Eric Blanc; Iβve added the subtitles. More We canβt stop the far right at home or abroad without a revitalized labor movement, which is yet another reason why you should become a sustaining supporter of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) β one of US laborβs pivotal bright spots. Relatedly, Jacobin published a short piece of mine reflecting on a decade of Bernie Sanders inspiring a whole new generation of young worker organizers.
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(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to whatβs popular in streaming TV and what isnβt. Iβm the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Soβ¦I recently came across a Reddit thread, talking about films on streaming, wondering why there are no reliable sources out there for streaming ratings data. Sigh. Honestly, as annoyed as I am that so many still donβt realize that we have streaming ratings, I somewhat get it. Until now, there was such a long delay between when a show or film came to streaming and when we got its viewership data; I understand why people were confused. (But, as you know, this just changed.) Also, even back in the day, how many people knew how well films did on television? Luckily, as a reader, youβre in the know. Okay, on to this weekβs issue. I want to take a look at Prime Video cancelling Ride or Die and whether I agree with that decision. Overall, we didnβt have any breakout hits (no TV shows landed over 20 million hours according to Nielsen) but we have a lot of steady performers on the streaming charts. Plus, weβll look at where $50 million in missing box office dollars went. (Spoiler: straight-to-streaming.) All that, plus new episodes of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Supergirl heads to streaming, a new YA show does well on Netflix, the viewership for the Daily Wireβs $50 million fantasy show, what TV show hit-maker canβt make streaming hits, CD sales, all the flops, bombs and misses, and a whole lot more. Letβs dive right in! (Reminder: The streaming ratings report focuses on the U.S. market and compiles data from Nielsenβs weekly top ten viewership ranks, Luminateβs Top Ten Data, JustWatch and Reelgood interest data, Samba TV household viewership, company datecdotes, Netflix hours viewed data, Google Trends, and IMDb to determine the most popular content. While most data points are current, Nielsenβs data covers the weeks of September 7th to September 13th, 2026. You can find a link to my terminology here.) Subscribe Television - Ride or Die Is a Hitβ¦But It Got Cancelled? What The Data βSaysβ I hate the phrase βhereβs what the data saysβ, even though sometimes I find myself using it. If data just told us everything, we data folks would be out of a job! Data is often messy, complicated and nuanced. When it comes to strategy, many of the best decisions canβt actually use βdataβ, since itβs vastly too complicated to model. Anyways, Iβve been singing the praises of Prime Videoβs Ride Or Die this summer, a show that did very well for them. And yetβ¦it got cancelled. Now, usually when a show gets cancelled, a bunch of websites say βa hit show got cancelledβ... Hereβs the thing, though: in this case, theyβre right! The data βsaysβ that this show was a hit. Specifically, out of 522 first seasons to make a week on the Nielsen charts since 2020, itβs the 75th biggest. On Amazon, Ride or Die is eighth out of 41 first seasons: Thatβs top 15th percentile all time, almost exactly, which is my definition of a βhitβ! I mean, outside of Reacher, Amazon needed a hit this summer! (Admittedly, Off Campus did well for Amazon in the spring, but Ride or Die performed even better.) So what happened? Why did Amazon cancel one of their rare 2026 bright spots? Well, Deadline reported a reasonβwhich Iβll get toβbut Iβd break it down into three relevant questions: What is a given streamerβs reasoning? Is that reasoning sound? Could the stated reason not be the real reason? According to Deadline, Amazon felt the show βover-indexedβ in middle-aged women. (This was based on leaks from within Amazon.) The logic is this: Amazon already reaches this demographic because of unlimited two-day shipping bundled with Prime, so they donβt really need more shows like this. Now, itβs my job to ask if thatβs a good reason, and Iβll be honest, in this case, I donβt think it is. Sure, this show may βover-indexβ in middle-aged womenβIβll just assume thatβs the case hereβbut I think folks often oversell how important over-indexing actually is. When a show is a βhitβ, it isnβt a bit bigger than its rivals; itβs usually multiples bigger. For example, Elle only made the charts for two weeks at 8.3 million hours each. So Ride or Die was 80% bigger in its first two weeks, and likely had a much stronger hold, with its terrific 13 million hours in week three. Ride or Die was nearly three times bigger than Sterling Point through three weeks too. And that means that _Elle, Sterling Point a_nd other Amazon YA shows need to not just over-index a little with younger women (assuming thatβs who Amazon prefers over middle-aged women), but massively over-index. Otherwise, more people in that demo (and a bunch more besides) likely watched Ride or Die. (Iβll try to explore this concept more in a future article.) And donβt get me started on how Ride or Die did compared to a certain (very, very popular, possibly the worldβs most popular) YouTuberβs reality showβ¦which didnβt make the charts after its first week and likely cost much, much more than Ride or Die. All to say, Amazon-MGM Studios/Prime Video can tell reporters that this show didnβt reach the right audience, but that excuse feels weak to me. So this leads to the third question: could other reasons have come into play? Yes! Renewal or cancellation decisions rarely (Iβm tempted to say βneverβ) boil down to one variable. At its simplest, itβs two things: budget versus viewership. But often factors like critical acclaim, ownership and, yes, personal opinion come into play. In this case, Amazon has a new executive running things, and this show isnβt owned by Amazon-MGM Studios (unlike Elle). And yes, it may not have indexed with the right target viewers, too. Likely all of those factors came into play.1 My guess is ownership ended up mattering most. Amazon doesnβt own Ride or Die. Itβs actually produced by another major studio. Fortunately/allegedly, this show is being shopped around. I can think of one brand new CEO who should consider it for one of his two major streamersβ¦especially if he wants to rebuild goodwill in Hollywood. His name is on this list of exec producers of Ride or Dieβ¦ If David Ellison needs some goodwillβand he doesβrescue this female-led show tomorrow and grab some good headlines for a day. The data justifies it. Quick Notes on TV Weβre just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if youβd like to find outβ¦ How The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives latest season did on Hulu, post-controversy... Whether Supergirl soared on HBO Max... Why the box office is losing money due to the streamers... The viewership for the Daily Wireβs $50 million fantasy show... Updates on The Gentlemen, Lanterns, Outer Banks, King of the Hill and more... What former hit-maker has three streaming flops in a row... Whether The Mandalorian and Grogu popped in week two... All the flops, bombs and misses... And a whole lot more... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. If you want an idea of just how much content youβd get in a full issue, check out this older issue. Coming Soon! Oh man, weβre almost caught up! We just have two more issues, then the streaming Ratings Report will be coming out just two weeks after a TV show premieres! Next issue, Iβll be looking at the first two weeks of the NFL Thursday night games on streaming, a huge new spinoff, Reacherβs Neagly on Prime Video, and the latest edition of Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story on Netflix, the return of Slow Horses on Apple and MobLand (quietly one of their biggest shows) on Paramount+, and Dancing with the Stars on both ABC and Disney+. Plus Iβll take a look at animation for adults in 2026. The week after, a ton of movies are coming to streaming: Toy Story 5 on Disney+, Backrooms on HBO Max, Jackass: Best and Last on Paramount+ and The Breadwinner on Netflix, plus a Unabomber film on Netflix and a romcom on Prime Video. Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey have a show on Apple, along with a game show inspired by Willy Wonka that everyone seems to hate. Long term, some crazy (but hopefully crazy like a fox) IP news. FX ordered a new Sons of Anarchy show from Charlie Hunnam, but itβs not about the biker gang. No, it features the showβs cast playing themselves in a new βmeta-thrillerβ. Huh. And a lot of the cast is coming back. Next, Ryan Gosling is producing a Flintstones movie about a βgrown-up Bamm-Bamm Rubbleβ. Also, huh. This one is in βearly developmentβ so weβll see what happens. Both projects are based on IP, but also seem to have crazy takes on the IP, which I like.
Bladen Community College to host βSo You Want to Start a Small Businessβ class and preview Pitch It Bladen 2027
The Small Business Center at Bladen Community College invites aspiring entrepreneurs to attend βSo You Want to Start a Small Businessβ on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in Building 14, Room 104. This class will help participants explore what it takes to become an entrepreneur and take the first steps toward turning a business idea into reality.Participants will explore the entrepreneurial mindset and consider whether they have the interests, characteristics, motivation and willingness to take on the challenges of business ownership. The class will encourage attendees to examine their personal goals, expectations, strengths and readiness to pursue entrepreneurship.Attendees will also gain insight into the realities of starting and operating a small business, including the commitment, planning, decision-making and perseverance required to build a successful venture. Whether participants are just beginning to consider business ownership or already have an idea they want to pursue, this class will provide a foundation for determining their next steps.In addition to the class instruction, attendees will receive advance information about the upcoming Pitch It Bladen 2027 Business Competition, including the application form and details about the program. Individuals who are ready to move forward may submit their applications early and have the opportunity to receive advance acceptance into the program.Pitch It Bladen helps aspiring and emerging entrepreneurs develop their business ideas through structured instruction in business planning, financial management, cash-flow projections, marketing and operations. Participants work toward completing a business plan and preparing a business pitch, with the opportunity to compete for cash prizes.Last year's Pitch It Bladen program demonstrated the value of investing in local entrepreneurs by helping participants strengthen their business knowledge, develop their business plans and prepare to present their ideas. The competition showcased the creativity and potential of Bladen County's small-business community and provided participants with practical tools to move their business goals forward.Building on that success, Pitch It Bladen 2027 will provide another opportunity for local entrepreneurs to gain knowledge, build confidence and take meaningful steps toward launching or growing a business.βThe Small Business Center wants to help individuals make informed decisions about entrepreneurship before they take the leap into business ownership,β said Theresa Dennison, Small Business Center director, in a press release. βThis class gives participants an opportunity to evaluate whether entrepreneurship is right for them while also introducing them to Pitch It Bladen 2027 and the resources available to help them succeed.βRegistration: Visit www.ncsbc.net and search for the class by name, or contact the Small Business Center at 910-879-5572 for additional information.
Green party of England and Wales facing ostracism over βZionism is racismβ vote
European Green party says motion goes against its policy, with German Green co-leader calling it βintolerable and unacceptableβ
Orlando Science Schools begins enrollment process for six regional campuses
Orlando Science Schools is accepting applications for 2027-28, including new 11th grade spots at Seminole Science.
CARTI encourages women to prioritize breast health
As part of its annual breast health campaign, CARTI Cancer Center shared critical information regarding the importance of early detection and debunked common misconceptions about breast cancer riskβ¦
2026 Outstanding Women in Business
The 18th annual Outstanding Women in Business awards recognize a dozen well-accomplished professionals from across the region and in many industries who go above and beyond. The committee selected the winners from more than 80 nominations, all of whom were worthy. The criteria evaluated each nomineeβs professional achievements, community impact, ability to break the glass ceiling and mentorship of other professionals, particularly women. In addition to profiling these women in the following pages, the Worcester Business Journal will celebrate this yearβs Outstanding Women in Business at a special luncheon on Oct. 28 at the College of the Holy Cross. To join the celebration of these exceptional women, visit WBJournal.com and register. β Mark Conti, editor This Yearβs Judges Worcester Business Journal considered 54 Central Massachusetts professionals for the 2026 Outstanding Women in Business awards, based on 83 nominations. These nominees were independently evaluated by two volunteer judges, who scored each on their professional achievements, community contribution and mentorship of young professionals. Samantha P. McDonald is a partner at Bowditch. She is an experienced, client-focused real estate lawyer, concentrating on business and real estate property law. She has been recognized as a WBJ Power 100 in the Class of 2026 and a βTop Women of Lawβ in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. Dr. Kavita Babu is chief medical officer and vice president of medical affairs at Heywood Healthcare, where she provides strategic and clinical leadership to advance high-quality, patient-centered care across the organization. She is also a member of the WBJ Outstanding Women in Business Class of 2025.
Lexology Index Recognizes Five Hecker Fink Partners in 2026 Business Crime Defence Guide
Hecker Fink Partners Shawn Crowley, Jenna Dabbs, Mike Ferrara, Sean Hecker, and Amy Jeffress have been recognized in the Lexology Index guide for Business Crime Defence. The 2026 guide honors leading lawyers worldwide who βstand out among peers for their exceptional work representing companies, corporate officers, and individuals in criminal litigation arising from their business activities.β
Yale School of Medicine On the Science of Childhood Anxiety, Say, Anxiety Disorders Are the Most Common Mental Health Challenges In Youth
Credit: Matt Bradbury October 5, 2026 - By Isabella Backman - Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health challenges in youth. Left untreated, they can disrupt the lives of both children and their families. The good news is that with intervention, most children will overcome these conditions. Across Yale School of Medicine, scientists are working to understand anxiety at every level, from common anxious behaviors to molecular biomarkers in the brain. They are using their findings to develop and disseminate new evidence-based treatments for childhood anxiety. Today, the go-to treatment for childhood anxiety disorders is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). This is a form of psychotherapy that teaches children skills for confronting anxious thoughts and helps them practice managing situations that cause anxiety. While it is the gold-standard treatment backed by considerable scientific evidence, up to 50% of children will not see sufficient benefit from CBT alone. Wendy Silverman, PhD, Alfred A. Messer Professor in the Child Study Center, co-directs the Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program alongside Eli Lebowitz, PhD, associate professor in the Child Study Center. One of their main interests is learning how to improve outcomes beyond CBT. βWeβre developing cutting-edge, research-based knowledge that can reduce the suffering that anxiety causes children and their families,β says Silverman. Changing parent behavior YSM experts are investigating how to improve CBT outcomes for children by involving the parents. Silvermanβs research has uncovered two main components of parent intervention that improve childhood anxiety: not enabling children to completely avoid the things that make them anxious and taking steps to enhance their autonomy. Parents may unintentionally reinforce their childβs anxiety by allowing them to avoid what makes them anxious. They also may unintentionally limit the childrenβs sense of autonomy by being overly intrusive. βOne of the things that we take pride in is that weβve focused on trying to understand what parents need to do, and to test our ideas and see if changing the parentsβ behaviors is enhancing the effects of CBT,β Silverman says. βOur findings thus far suggest that they do." As much as CBT can be helpful, it can also be challenging to get oneβs child to do the necessary steps for CBT to work. This is one important reason why Lebowitz created a novel intervention program for parents named Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE). Existing intervention programs often teach parents to act as therapists for their child, such as training them on how to practice breathing exercises. βIt makes sense, but this doesnβt work very well in practice,β says Lebowitz. βAnd part of the reason, I think, is that itβs not easy to get your kid to do things, especially if theyβre not excited about doing it.β SPACE is unique because it focuses entirely on parent involvement and changing parental behaviorβchildren are not involved in the sessions. For example, parents learn how to use supportive messages that convey confidence that their child can tolerate and manage distress. βIt might sound like a parent saying to a child, βI get that this is really hard for you, but I know that you can handle it,ββ Lebowitz says. The program also works with parents to identify the ways in which they are accommodating anxious behaviors. βWeβll pick one thing that parents are doing that is an accommodation and help them make a detailed plan for how theyβre going to change that,β Lebowitz explains. Treating Anxiety in Children and Adolescents Much of the existing research on SPACE has focused on parents of children under age 14. Ongoing studies are now exploring its use with parents of older teens. βBoth anxiety and accommodation can interfere with normative developmental shifts during the teen years, including increased autonomy and individuation from parents,β says Rebecca Etkin, PhD, associate research scientist in the Child Study Center. βIn this sense, SPACE may be particularly well-suited for anxious teens and their parents. We want to see whether it is effective during this distinct developmental window.β Unfortunately, many families in need of CBT face barriers, including limited availability of services and geographic constraints. One way to improve access is digital interventions. Silverman and her team are developing an evidence-based digitized intervention program for parents that they can access directly from their computer or smart phone. βThe work weβre doing will be one of the very few parent interventions that is digitized and importantly tested for effectiveness,β she says. Creating interventions for anxiety-related challenges Silverman and Lebowitz recently received a generous gift to develop and test other interventions that help parents reduce other child anxiety-related behavioral and emotional difficulties, such as restrictive eating and unexplained somatic symptoms. One of these projects in particular focuses on understanding the risks of social media and its potential benefits, including offering a sense of connection. βA lot of research has focused on the idea that social media is harmful and the less of it the better,β says Lebowitz. βBut we actually see is that this is not quite rightβthere are negatives, but there are also positives. So, weβre trying to get a little bit more nuanced of a picture.β The team is working with teens with social anxiety and their parents over an extended period to better understand their social media habits and how their anxiety levels affect engagement with different platforms. The teens will answer questions sent to an app on their phones about mood and social media usage in an effort to capture emotional responses as they unfold. βWe hope to develop interventions that can help make the best of social media while protecting against the more problematic effects,β Lebowitz says. The brainβs role in anxiety Researchers are also testing therapies to address anxiety at the neurological and molecular levels. In collaboration with Dylan Gee, PhD, professor of psychology in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Hilary Blumberg, MD, John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine, Lebowitz and Silverman are using brain imaging to identify changes in a childβs brain before and after parents enroll in SPACE. In one study, children viewed anxiety-inducing images while undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); the researchers conducted scans with and without the childrenβs parents nearby. Before SPACE, childrenβs brains were better able to activate the regulatory circuitry needed to turn off an anxious response when their parents were nearby. But after SPACE, children could activate this circuitry even without the parent around. βAs parents work on gradually reducing some of their accommodations, you can see a child get better at regulating their own fear system in the brain,β Lebowitz says. βItβs remarkable.β Research into the molecular underpinnings of anxiety can also inform new childhood anxiety treatments. In a recent study, Lebowitz, Silverman, and Flora Vaccarino, MD, Harris Professor in the Child Study Center, discovered that a protein known as fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) could be protective from the toxic effects of stress. FGF2 levels in children and their parents were linked to the childrenβs risk of developing anxiety and depression, the study showed. The findings could help explain why some children who are exposed to early life trauma such as poverty or abuse are more prone to developing mental health disorders. And FGF2 could be a target for treatment. βThis is very novel because it starts to give a clue to what is the molecular chain that connects those lived experiences to the actual psychological outcomes,β Lebowitz says. New ways to study and treat childhood anxiety Michael Crowley, PhD, associate professor in the Child Study Center, collaborates with Silverman and Lebowitz to study the role that attention plays in development and maintenance of childhood anxiety. There is a large body of research that shows that anxious children, like anxious adults, are prone to focus on threatening stimuli such as angry faces compared with neutral faces. This has led to innovative interventions that involve attention retraining. The idea is that if experts train children to look away from threatening stimuli, it may reduce their anxietyβespecially children with social anxiety who are most prone to attend to threats. The researchers have just completed a clinical trial for attention retraining with 10- to 14-year-olds with social anxiety disorders and are currently analyzing the findings. Besides this innovative attention retraining research, as Crowly notes, βI like to design tasks that are engaging to kids,β Crowley says. βMy goal is to assess something without the kids knowing what we are assessing.β With this goal in mind, Crowley has created a virtual game, named Boom, to study threat processing in children with anxiety disorders. The game is similar to that of hot potatoβthe child and three digital players take turns virtually passing a ball to each otherβs gloves. At some point, the ball turns into a bomb, and as the bomb lands in each playerβs glove, the outline of the glove turns yellow. The goal is to avoid having the bomb go off in your glove. What isnβt obvious is that the game is designed to measure different types of threatening stimuli, both ambiguous and direct. In the game, the direct threat occurs as the bomb is traveling towards your glove. The ambiguous threat is the yellow outlined glove as it is unknown where the bomb will travel next. While children play the game, Crowleyβs team measures their brain activity using electroencephalography (EEG). The researchers have discovered that in kids with anxiety, the brain reacts more strongly to ambiguous threats than it does in their peers, but less strongly to direct threats. They believe that the initial abnormally large brain response to not knowing where the bomb is going impairs the brain's ability to properly respond when the threat is actually traveling the childβs way. βThe brains of children with anxiety are unable to differentiate between threats you need to do something about and those that are not your problem.β Michael Crowley, PhD, develops innovative games for studying anxiety in children and adolescents.Credit: Matt Bradbury Based on these insights, Crowley hopes to study whether interventions like attention training could restore appropriate threat processing. Crowleyβs team is also working on a test called the Balloon Risk Avoidance Task, which evaluates risk-taking and avoidance behaviors. It features a digital balloon that is full of air and about to burst. Kids have six seconds to let air out of the balloon. The more air they let out, the less risk they face that the balloon will pop. But at the same time, the balloon becomes less valuable as it deflates. βThe more air you keep in the balloon, the more points you get,β Crowley explains. So far, the researchers have found that when the balloons pop unexpectedly, teens with social anxiety show distinct brain responses. Studying these responses can help psychologists understand the underlying pathways driving the various manifestations of anxiety. The genetics of anxiety When Thomas Fernandez, MD, associate professor in the Child Study Center and of psychiatry, was still in training, there was a lot of excitement about understanding the genetics associated with autism spectrum disorder. Since then, scientists have identified around 250 genes associated with autism. The genetic contribution to anxiety disorders, on the other hand, has historically received less attention. Anxiety is less heritable than autism, but the genetic contribution for anxiety disorders that emerge in childhood may be higher than for anxiety disorders overall. While scientists estimate the heritability of anxiety disorders in general to be around 30% to 50%, some studies suggest higher heritability for certain childhood-onset anxiety presentations. βI saw firsthand how researchers in the field went about finding vulnerability genes for autism,β Fernandez says. βSo, weβre using a very similar playbook for childhood anxiety.β βI saw firsthand how researchers in the field went about finding vulnerability genes for autism. So, weβre using a very similar playbook for childhood anxiety.β Thomas Fernandez, MD Associate Professor In the Child Study Center and in Psychiatry Now, Fernandez and Emily Olfson, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Child Study Center, are studying children and their parents to identify genetic changes that are present in the child but not the parents, known as βde novo mutations.β βAll of us have some de novo mutationsβmaybe about 50 to 100 sprinkled throughout the genome,β Olfson says. βBut when they occur within the coding regions of genes, they can be really disruptive.β Previous research shows that people with autism have higher rates of damaging de novo mutations than the general population. In 2022, Olfson, Lebowitz, Silverman, and Fernandez published a study on 68 children and their families that found that children with anxiety had similarly high levels of these mutations. Studying de novo mutations can help point the researchers to where they should be looking for genes associated with anxiety. βThe end game is using the genes to steer us toward the right part of biology that we can then target to come up with better treatments,β Fernandez says. Building on those findings, the team is now studying more families to better understand how these de novo mutations, along with other genetic and environmental factors, shape pediatric anxiety disorders. They recently received a National Institutes of Health grant to enroll 750 new families over the next five years. Olfson is the principal investigator, with co-investigators Lebowitz, Fernandez, Silverman, and Shuangge Steven Ma, PhD, department chair and professor of biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health. Neurodevelopment, Risk Genes, and Mental Health Conditions - The Olfson Lab Joel Gelernter, MD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry, is interested in how different anxiety disorders differ genomically. βWe are studying social phobia, panic disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder, working to understand why people differ in their risk to these specific anxiety disorders and evaluating various risk factors,β he says. Gelernter was recently involved in one of the largest studies to date of the genomics underlying anxiety disorder. The study included around 122,000 people with anxiety disorders and around 730,000 without. It found that some genetic differences associated with anxiety were linked to signaling that helps reduce overactivity in the nervous system. Many anxiety medications available today work by targeting this process. βItβs nice when the biology that you get out of a large genome-wide study ratifies things that we already know because that can help increase confidence in further findings from the study,β Gelernter says. Uncovering the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders John Krystal, MD, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and chair of the Department of Psychiatry, is interested in the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), of which anxiety is a major symptom. In the late 1980s, Krystalβs team discovered that the drug yohimbine activated symptoms in patients with PTSD. βThis was the first time we could link a specific biological mechanism to the symptoms of PTSD,β Krystal says. At the time, he adds, this finding was highly controversial. βA lot of people felt that PTSD was a purely psychological syndrome that didnβt have an underlying biology.β Since then, Krystal has dived deep into understanding the neurobiology of PTSD to learn how to better treat it. His team is evaluating the use of ketamine and psychedelics. These would be among the first treatments to be developed specifically for PTSD. They may also be applicable for other disorders including anxiety disorders, Krystal adds. An important gap in PTSD treatment is the absence of biological tests that inform how to best help patients manage their PTSD symptoms. A doctor doesnβt diagnose cancer based on how they feel. Rather, they use tests of the biology of the cancer to determine the best course of treatment. βAnd we canβt do that in any psychiatric disorder other than Alzheimerβs disease,β Krystal says. βBut now we are building a foundation for this approach to the treatment of anxiety disorders for the first time.β Source: Yale School of Medicine
BagelUp Growth Lab Returns as Business Incubator for Emerging Bagel Entrepreneurs, Launching a Year-Round Partner Program
Great bagels may start with flour, water, yeast and skill, but building a successful bagel business takes much more. On Saturday, November 14th, 2026, BagelUp (which produces New York BagelFest) will present the second annual BagelUp Growth Lab, a business incubator designed to help promising bagel entrepreneurs gain the knowledge, connections and industry resources needed to turn their bagel concepts into sustainable businesses. Taking place at Loft 39 the day before New York BagelFest at Citi
RosCept Capsules Introduces Ros Cept Multi-Ingredient Dietary Supplement for Brain Health, Memory and Concentration
RosCept dietary supplement features Magnesium Beta Hydroxybutyrate, Calcium Beta Hydroxybutyrate, and Sodium Beta Hydroxybutyrate in a focused BHB formulation.Wilmington, DE, Oct. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RosCept has announced the introduction of RosCept, a multi-ingredient dietary supplement formulated with three mineral beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) compounds: Magnesium Beta Hydroxybutyrate, Calcium Beta Hydroxybutyrate, and Sodium Beta Hydroxybutyrate. Official Website: https://roscept.shop/
Tyler Higbee good for five catches
Los Angeles Rams tight end Tyler Higbee posted five receptions for 67 yards on six targets in Week 4
Davante Adams sees dip in production
Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Davante Adams registered four receptions for 32 yards on nine targets in Week 4
Puka Nacua registers nine receptions in Week 4
Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua nine receptions for 125 yards on 12 targets in Week 4
Matthew Stafford goes over 300 yards
Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford completed 32 of 51 passes for 317 yards, no touchdowns and two interceptions in Week 4
Dalton Kincaid shut down for second straight week
Dalton Kincaid held to season-low one reception in Week 4 against New England.
Allen laments not throwing ball away after interception seals Bills loss
In hindsight, Josh Allen knows he and the Buffalo Bills would have been better off if he threw the ball away.
Carnell Tate explodes for 145 yards in Week 4
Tennessee Titans wide receiver Carnell Tate registered nine receptions for 145 yards on 12 targets in Week 4
Mark Andrews scores first TD of 2026
Baltimore Ravens tight end Mark Andrews posted five receptions for 27 yards and a touchdown on six targets in Week 4
Seven receptions for Dohnte Meyers
Bengals WR Dohnte Meyers receives bigger role and posts seven catches and 82 yards
Brenton Strange nearly reaches 100 yards in Week 4
Jaguars TE Brenton Strange leads team in receptions, receiving yards and targets in Week 4
OpenAI's Altman says AI benefits warrant accepting some risks
OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said the benefits of artificial intelligence justify accepting some risks and argued the technology should remain broadly accessible to the public
Marvin Harrison Jr. scores TD in Week 4
Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. posted a single 12-yard reception for touchdown on four targets in Week 4
Trey McBride records seven receptions
Arizona Cardinals tight end Trey McBride registered seven catches for 31 yards on 12 targets in Week 4