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'American Pickers' star Mike Wolfe, girlfriend split

"American Pickers" star Mike Wolfe and girlfriend Leticia Cline are no longer together.

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Oct 16 • 3:11 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Joy Behar calls some past “The View ”cohosts ‘mean girls,’ reflects on Meghan McCain feud

The longtime host said that the current roundtable is “very good.”

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Oct 16 • 2:13 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Luxury Yachts, Entertainment, and a Cause: Yacht Rendezvous Returns to Fort Lauderdale

Some of the world’s most spectacular superyachts will arrive at the iconic Pier Sixty-Six for the 37th Annual Boys & Girls Clubs Yacht Rendezvous. The exclusive weekend will bring together yacht owners, business leaders, philanthropists, and special guests for unforgettable experiences, live entertainment, and networking opportunities, all in support of programs that help empower local youth throughout Broward County.

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Oct 16 • 1:36 PM EDT • Entertainment • nbcmiami.com
Burgers, Hugo Spritzes & Global Domination With Say Now

NYLON talks to girl group Say Now about their next EP, 'Say What You See,' their viral song "Met My Match," their childhoods, and dreams of pop stardom.

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Oct 16 • 12:48 PM EDT • Entertainment • nylon.com
Miranda Lambert exhibit coming to Fort Worth’s National Cowgirl Museum

FORT WORTH, Texas — One of country music’s biggest stars is getting an exhibit at a Fort Worth museum. The National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame announced Tuesday that

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Oct 16 • 11:49 AM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
Registration is open for high school winter sports

Registration is now officially open for high school winter sports for the City School District of Albany! Any student in grades 9-12 who is interested in trying out for boys' basketball, girls' basketball, bowling, cheerleading, boys' indoor track, girls' indoor track, spirit team, boys' swimming and diving, boys' wrestling and girls' wrestling is invited to register via Final Forms. Important: please note that registration for winter sports ends on Friday, Nov. 13. Practices and tryouts for winter sports begin on Monday, Nov. 16. FINAL FORMS Each season, the following must be done prior to the first day of tryouts and practices: A parent or guardian must initiate the registration process for their student-athlete in Final Forms, filling out the required forms such as Interval Sports Health History and the Athletic Consent Form. The student-athlete must sign and complete their required forms. A reminder that all students who would like to play an interscholastic sport need to have a current physical conducted within a year on file. PHYSICALS A physical conducted within the last 12 months is mandatory for any student interested in trying out for an athletic team and must be uploaded into the Final Forms platform. Families are encouraged to get a completed physical from their child's physician. If you are unable to get a physical from your child's physician, you can schedule a free physical with Whitney Young's school-based health center by calling (518) 573-2556. Additionally, the district physician will also be available to facilitate sports physicals at Albany High in room 4253 on the following dates: Thursday, Nov. 12 from 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13 from 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Sports physicals on Nov. 12 and 13 are free and no appointment is necessary. ACADEMIC ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS Please note that students must have a good attendance record and be in good standing academically to be eligible to participate in an athletic team. Eligibility is determined based on quarterly grades, and interim progress reports will serve as an important academic checkpoint for all student‑athletes. For additional details about academic eligibility, please see our Athletic Code of Conduct. For our winter teams, academic eligibility to start the season will be based on final first-quarter grades. The first marking period ends Nov. 13. Albany High offers free tutoring facilitated by Albany High teachers Monday-Thursday from 3:30-5 p.m. for students who need extra help with their academics. See this flyer for additional details. IMPORTANT DATES Seniors, please mark your calendars for Senior Media Day for winter sports, which will take place on Monday, Nov. 30. All student-athletes playing winter sports will also participate in our winter sports picture days, which will take place Tuesday, Dec. 15–Thursday, Dec. 18. Specific dates and times for each team will be shared once rosters are finalized. OPEN GYM SESSIONS Student-athletes are encouraged to check out our open gym sessions as they prepare for upcoming sports seasons. We’re looking forward to a rewarding winter sports season this year! If you have any questions, please contact the Athletic Department at (518) 475-6310. Go Falcons!

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Oct 16 • 10:44 AM EDT • Sports • albanyschools.org
Fandango Orders 'Bad Girls Club: Unfinished Business' as First Original

Fandango has ordered the two-part special 'Bad Girls Club: Unfinished Business' as the Versant-owned streamer's first original program.

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Oct 15 • 4:00 PM EDT • Business • variety.com
IP Saves the Day On Streaming

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m 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.) Before we get started, I wanted to highlight a new idea I saw from Real Good AI, proposing a ratings system for AI use. (H/T to Anthony Kaufman’s article highlighting this.) It would look something like this: In general, I think that this is a solid, middle-ground solution that should appease both the pro-AI camp (who love AI) and the anti-AI camp (who wants to know if what they’re watching didn’t come from humans). Regardless of your feelings on AI/LLMs—I’ll never use it for my writing—transparency is often the best solution to many problems. In general, I think way more media outlets need to be using way more AI disclosures. My quick “Yes and...” to this idea: what about ads? In particular, I hate it when I see or hear ads that are obviously AI-generated, but a person or voice says, “I used this product”. AI doesn’t use products! Just today, I watched a YouTube ad where a “person” said they use some sort of rain wind chime...but that’s not a real person! They didn’t use this product. (Especially since the video of the wind chime itself also appeared to be AI-generated...) I believe most traditional advertising already has standards like this anyway.1 Okay, on to this week’s issue. We’re covering the week of 14-Sep, and then next issue, I’ll be fully caught up with Nielsen’s new release schedule. In the future, I plan to put out Streaming Ratings Reports each Monday after Nielsen’s Thursday releases. Overall, we had some big new shows this week, like Prime Video’s Reacher spinoff_, Neagley_, which is off to a big, big start, and Netflix’s latest in its Monster anthology, which is their largest opening since June and the second-largest since One Piece came out in March. All that, plus Slow Horses returns, the trio of returning shows (Lioness, Reacher and Ted Lasso) continue to dominate the top tens, Paramount+’s latest crime drama, a big whiff for a Netflix original film and a precipitous drop for Netflix film charts, all the flops, bombs and misses, and a whole lot more. Let’s dive right in! (Reminder: The streaming ratings report focuses on the U.S. market and compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly top ten viewership ranks, Luminate’s 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, Nielsen’s data covers the weeks of September 14th to September 20th 2026. You can find a link to my terminology here.) Subscribe Television - IP For the TV Win Can I use the dirty word of entertainment journalism right now? IP. Shhh. Don’t tell anyone I said it. But IP works at the box office, and we’ve seen some evidence it works in TV too. Not as well, and not all the time—no absolutes here!—but often enough. And glancing at the Nielsen top ten…it worked this week! Take Prime Video, who has a monster hit in the crime drama Reacher. Would a spinoff work for that show? Yep! They binge-released Neagley, about a detective from the original Reacher series, and its eight episodes debuted to 29.6 million hours. Here’s how it stacks up to Reacher, one of Prime Video’s biggest shows: That’s great. Nearly as strong as Reacher’s opening! (Both shows started with eight, binge-released episodes, so this comparison is apples-to-apples.) Notably, Prime Video scheduled the debut of Neagley to overlap with Reacher’s most recent season, to help drive tune-in. Obviously, I love smart release strategies like that. And even though I wrote “obviously”, it’s not really that obvious, since streamers don’t often take advantage of natural overlaps like this_._2 Other data backs how well Neagley performed. It opened at second place on Samba TV for two weeks and got 51.7 million hours on Luminate. That’s the eleventh biggest opening on Luminate since May of 2024 and tied with Bridgerton’s third season opening. That’s a huge opening! Its IMDb is solid too, a 7.7 on 24K reviews. Netflix’s latest edition in the “Monster” series—which started with Jeffrey Dahmer and comes from Ryan Murphy—did well too, opening to 24.7 million hours. That’s the biggest opening for Netflix since I Will Find You in June, and second biggest since March. Unlike the Reacher series, this franchise is trending downward, though. The first Monster show—Dahmer - Monster—was giant. More than anything, I think this reflects that Netflix running out of extremely popular—if that’s the right word?—serial killers to feature. Still, the data says this is a very good opening. It made it to third place on Samba TV for two weeks. It also opened to 40.0 million hours on Luminate. That’s not quite as elite as Neagley, but still very, very strong. I’ll be honest: my priors coming into any given week are that IP works to help drive buzz for new shows, but TV shows need to stand on their own even more than movies, so they will succeed or fail based on their quality. But these two spinoffs definitely worked. Quick Notes on TV The top show, film or special this week? Football, again. Specifically, Prime Video’s season opener of Thursday Night Football. The games run long (three hours) but mainly a lot of people watch each game. That adds up to a lot of viewership. Paramount released the second season of MobLand on an unusual day for that service, a Friday! Often, they put their new shows out on a Sunday, as they did last year with a run of shows (Lioness, Tulsa King and Landman). MobLand didn’t make Nielsen in its first week, but on Samba TV it got to eighth and seventh place. Luminate had a smaller opening too, only 5.3 million hours. MobLand missed the Nielsen charts for its first eight weeks, so this season is off to a stronger start. (Bonus note: the first season streams on both Prime Video and The Roku Channel, but I only have it as Paramount+ on those charts.) I’ve mentioned a few times that foreign-language originals do lower numbers than English-language originals on Netflix most of the time. But I don’t usually emphasize what country those originals come from, and observationally, they tend to be from Western or Northern European countries, in general. So credit to Not a Stranger, a Turkish Netflix original, for breaking through on Luminate, getting to 7.9 million hours in its first full week on those charts. As I mentioned last issue, Crew Girl ended up making the Nielsen charts in its second week. That’s still a soft performance compared to many shows, but again this, one looks affordable. And if you’re curious, here’s how it stacks up to some other sports romance shows: We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… …about a new data source and how it drives streaming viewership… ...what reality show is struggling in its latest season…. ...what Netflix film bombed…. ...How Reacher, Ted Lasso, and Lioness are doing on the charts… ...what obscure sport put up great viewership numbers… …how far streaming films are falling… …all the flops, bombs and misses for the last week… …and more… ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. If you want an idea of just how much content you’d get in a full issue, check out this older issue. Coming Soon! Next week, we’ve got a double issue, then we’ll be all caught up with Nielsen’s data. Yes! The goal is to have my report out on the Monday after I get Nielsen’s data. So next issue, I’m looking at East of Eden, The Great British Baking Show, a Willy Wonka game show (that people are upset uses AI, but viewers might not care), and a Cosby show spinoff reboot on Netflix, and Brothers on Apple TV (starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey). That’s about it for TV, but who’s going to win the streaming week, The Breadwinner or Backrooms on streaming? Answer: Toy Story 5. Plus Netflix has a Unabomber film and a new Tyler Perry film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma tries to repeat The Substance’s run on MUBI, and Paramount+ has Jackass: Best and Last. Long term, Netflix is remaking Lonesome Dove. I love this choice, but man, there are a lot of westerns on TV right now. And they’re making Sega TV shows, including a Crazy Taxi TV show and Sonic show with an “edge”.

Most reboots are nostalgia slop. 'Girls' might be the exception.

Lena Dunham's show has seen a resurgence in recent years, but that's not the only reason it's primed for revisiting.

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Oct 15 • 2:51 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
'Coastal Cowgirl' Payton Sullivan to open for Sugarland at AMSOIL Arena

The show is Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at AMSOIL Arena. Doors open at 6 p.m., and the show starts at 7 p.m.

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Oct 15 • 12:23 PM EDT • Entertainment • fox21online.com
Toyota and espnW Recognize 11th Class of Everyday Heroes at the 2026 espnW: Women + Sports Summit

PLANO, Texas (Oct. 15, 2026) – Toyota honored the 11th class of Toyota Everyday Heroes last night at the 2026 espnW: Women + Sports Summit in Ojai, California. Toyota’s Everyday Heroes program recognizes individuals making a difference for women and girls in their local communities through sports.

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Oct 15 • 10:58 AM EDT • Sports • pressroom.toyota.com
Freedom, Little Chute lead area teams in football playoff matrix

Freedom, Little Chute lead area teams in football playoff matrix; plus area girls volleyball and boys soccer rankings in Prep Xtra.

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Oct 15 • 9:17 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Georgia girls excel in school but face loneliness, mental health struggles
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Oct 15 • 7:50 AM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Four teams remain in Indiana girls flag football state title hunt. State finals schedule

Here is the schedule for the 2026 Indiana high school girls flag football state finals in Westfield.

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Oct 15 • 4:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Cook review: You’re better off finding horror entertainment other than ‘Other Mommy’

A skilled cast is wasted on “Other Mommy,” a silly horror movie that stars Jessica Chastain in the story of a little girl haunted by an entity that looks like her mother. I expected bet…

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Oct 14 • 11:06 PM EDT • Entertainment • ourquadcities.com
Kaley Cuoco and Tom Pelphrey welcome second baby girl: ‘Welcome to our family youngest queen!’

The couple named their daughter Philomena Carmine Bobby Pelphrey.

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Oct 14 • 4:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Girls flag football rankings: USA TODAY Sports Super 25, Week 10

JSerra remains No. 1 in the USA TODAY Sports girls flag football Super 25 rankings as Evanston surges into the top 15 and playoff action heats up.

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Oct 14 • 3:53 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Meet Haute & Freddy, the band that inspired ‘Carrie’ with breakout song ‘Shy Girl’

Who are Haute & Freddy, and what is ‘Shy Girl’ about? Meet the pop band that inspired the ‘Carrie’ soundtrack and the episode 8 song the band tells EW holds deep meaning about ‘religious trauma.’

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Oct 14 • 3:40 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Horse Girls and Gays Rejoice! Mamdani Says “Neigh” to Carriage Industry

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the New York City Council have reached an agreement to end the use of horse-drawn carriages by June 2028.

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Oct 14 • 12:50 PM EDT • Politics • them.us
Lena Dunham's 'Girls' is making a comeback — but 1 key character is missing from the announcement

The Emmy-winning show is returning for a limited run at HBO.

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Oct 14 • 11:17 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Neenah girls volleyball the focus on Varsity Roundtable

The Rockets are ranked 6th in the state in Division 1. We'll review their season so far and more as team members join us on Varsity Roundtable.

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Oct 14 • 10:57 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
New research shows migrant girls among hardest hit as teen mental health declines across Canada

Data show that Canadian adolescents have faced serious mental health challenges in recent years. Now, a new national study suggests migrant girls may be among those most in need of support. While mental ...

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Oct 14 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • medicalxpress.com
In run for schools chief, Shaw touts ‘basics’

But barring trans girls in female sports is top issue.

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Oct 14 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • sfexaminer.com
8-year-old girl’s slime business opening at RiverTown Crossings mall

An 8-year-old girl and her family are working together to bring a slime shop to RiverTown Crossings mall in Grandville.

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Oct 14 • 4:30 AM EDT • Business • woodtv.com
High school sports roundup for Oct. 12, 2026

Volleyball Lynnwood defeated Mountlake Terrace 3-2 22-25, 23-25, 25-19, 27-25, 15-13 Lynnwood top individual stats: Evelyn Hall: 4 aces, 11 kills Jordana Leme Pezzano: 3 aces, 30 assists Audrey Williams: […]

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Oct 13 • 9:31 PM EDT • Sports • myedmondsnews.com
Fifth Grade Girls Conduct Science Experiments During STEM Day

1 (Photo by Shelley Hanson) Fifth graders Victoria Stumm and Saydie Cain watch as their homemade lava lamps begin to bubble during the CTE Girls STEM Day at John Marshall High School on Tuesday. The girls attend Sand Hill Elementary School. 2 (Photo by Shelley Hanson) Central Elementary School fifth graders Nova Howard, at left, […]

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Oct 13 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • theintelligencer.net
Poudre Community Academy vs. Aurora Science & Tech: Colorado High School Girls Volleyball, Oct. 14, 2026

Poudre Community Academy at Aurora Science & Tech, Colorado high school girls volleyball, Oct. 14, 2026, 5:30 PM. Records, rankings, rosters and head-to-head.

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Oct 13 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • chsaanow.com
Future aviators learn aircraft skills during local event

Girl Scouts from across Southwest Florida explored the world of aviation Saturday, climbing into airplane cockpits, learning aircraft marshalling signals and hearing firsthand from female pilots and paramedics during Girls

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Oct 13 • 6:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • floridaweekly.com
Lena Dunham to bring back 'Girls' for a 5-episode run on HBO 10 years after its finale

“Girls” will return for a limited five-episode run a decade after its finale | WWL

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Oct 13 • 3:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Lena Dunham to bring back 'Girls' for a 5-episode run on HBO 10 years after its finale

“Girls” will return for a limited five-episode run a decade after its finale | WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM

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Oct 13 • 3:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Marshall County schools host girls STEM event to spark interest in science

Fifth-grade girls from Marshall County Schools spent Tuesday getting hands-on with science, technology, engineering and math during a STEM day designed to spark

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Oct 13 • 1:33 PM EDT • Science • wtov9.com
Rosé, part of the K-pop group Blackpink, will perform at LACMA

Rosé, a member of the K-pop girl group Blackpink, is also a successful solo female artist. She'll perform at LACMA's Art+Film Gala this year.

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Oct 13 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Kyle MacLachlan says he was ‘trying to keep’ Elizabeth Berkley ‘steady’ during “Showgirls” pool sex scene

MacLachlan spoke about the infamous scene during a NYCC discussion.

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Oct 12 • 9:11 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Kyle MacLachlan shares insight into ‘crazy’ pool sex scene in ‘Showgirls’: ‘I was trying to survive’

Kyle MacLachlan says he was just ‘trying to keep’ Elizabeth Berkley ‘steady’ during infamous ‘Showgirls’ pool sex scene.

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Oct 12 • 9:11 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Matthew Lillard calls Neve Campbell a ‘remarkable final girl’ weeks after sharing regret over “Scream 7” return

Lillard recently said he feels ‘ashamed’ for returning to franchise after the firing of Melissa Barrera.

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Oct 12 • 7:43 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Georgia high school girls excel academically but face mental health struggles, new report finds

While strides have been made for academic success for Georgia high school girls, a new study reveals the pressures they're under even with those wins.

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Oct 12 • 4:17 PM EDT • Health • wsbtv.com
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Fight to Unite turns the Belasco into a punk-rock benefit for families affected by ICE

Fueled by anti-ICE themes and a benefit for families affected by immigration enforcement, the festival at the Belasco offered a high-energy celebration of community as well as music.

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Oct 12 • 3:32 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
‘Play On!’ hits all the right notes

The English Renaissance meets the Harlem Renaissance in “Play On!,” a sparkling show that marries a loose adaptation of Shakespeare's “Twelfth Night” with the music of Duke Ellington. Conceived by Sheldon Epps, who also directed the original 1996-97 production (first in San Diego, then on Broadway), the show is getting a marvelous revival under his direction to open Chicago Shakespeare Theater's 40th anniversary season.While the title “Play On!” refers to the famous quote about music being the food of love and thus to the dozens of Ellington songs—among them “It Don’t Mean a Thing,” “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore,” “I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good),” “Solitude” and “I’m Beginning to See the Light”—incorporated into the plot, one of the highlights for me is the clever way Cheryl L. West's book reworks the story. Apparently, it's also been updated for this outing, among other things to give the women more agency. In the big opening number (there's a six-piece, horn-heavy onstage band), aspiring songwriter Vy (Hailee Kaleem Wright) is the one to “Take the 'A' Train” to “Drop Me Off in Harlem.” She wants to meet the famous Duke (Edred Utomi) — Ellington, not Orsino, that is — and she seeks the help of Jester (an engaging James Harkness) to find out how. When Jester tells her in no uncertain terms that the music industry is a man's world, she disguises herself as Vy-Man and persuades the Duke to listen to one of her songs. He's suffering from a creative block because he's pining for Lady Liv (Krystal Joy Brown), queen of the Cotton Club, and convinces Vy-Man to bring the Lady the song as if the Duke had written it, promising to reward her with employment. Vy reluctantly complies, and the predictable complications ensue. Lady Liv is attracted to Vy-Man, while Vy is attracted to the Duke and he to Vy, though it disturbs him because he thinks she's a man. The fallout when the deception comes to light bodes ill—at least for a while.Here's where West's book cannily diverges from Shakespeare. Vy's twin brother Sebastian really is dead, so West devises another love interest for Lady Liv basically by rehabilitating the Malvolio character, here named Rev (Alan H. Green), the Lady's uptight, self-important manager. His unrequited love for her is magically transformed after he gets his comeuppance (minus the torture) from Miss Mary (Alanna Lovely), her honey Sweets (James Earl Jones II) and Jester, the stand-in for Sir Toby, who has romantic problems of his own with a woman named CC (Kaylah Janssen). In other words, Rev gets the girl — and also a show-stopping yellow zoot suit from costume designer An-Lin Dauber. All the costumes are dandy, though those for the men have more pizzazz than the women's day dresses. The bilevel, slanted scenic design by Beowulf Boritt brings 1930s Harlem to life in a slightly expressionistic way with the help of Adam Honoré's lighting and Ray Nardelli's sound design. Edgar Godineaux's choreography adds to the period feel, though there could be even more of it.Most of all, the leads have splendid voices, and the performances are terrific. Green's Rev and Harkness's Jester get my vote for comedy chops, and Brown's Lady Liv probably will stay with me the longest for her complexity and big blues number, “I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues.”

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Oct 12 • 3:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • hpherald.com
Alysa Liu honored at Asian Health Service's Annual Gala in Oakland

The Bay Area’s golden girl Alysa Liu was honored at Asian Health Service’s Annual Gala in Oakland Saturday night.

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Oct 12 • 1:45 PM EDT • Health • nbcbayarea.com
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Joe Burrow’s model girlfriend Olivia Ponton reveals personal health battle

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow’s model girlfriend, Olivia Ponton, recently opened up about a personal health battle. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model admitted she struggles with the ea...

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Oct 12 • 1:25 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
John Cusack says Lloyd Dobler would probably be labeled a stalker if “Say Anything” was made today

The 1989 movie, which costarred Ione Skye, featured him making a romantic gesture to his ex-girlfriend.

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Oct 12 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Pasadena Forum to Bring Generations of Girls and Women Together for Political Conversation

Daily Newsmagazine and City Guide to Pasadena, California featuring local news, breaking news, events, weather, sports news, schools news, shopping, restaurants and more from Pasadena Now

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Oct 12 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • pasadenanow.com
I Finally Found A New Comedy Series I Like As Much As Friends And New Girl

Guys, I needed this.

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Oct 12 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Lee Soo-man returns to K-pop with A2O Soul, A2O Lite and 4D VR technology

Lee Soo-man is back with A20 Entertainment and its first girl group and boy band in Korea in a classic showcase by the industry legend.

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Oct 12 • 5:54 AM EDT • Entertainment • koreajoongangdaily.com
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Holly Madison has thrown her support behind the controversial Playmates movie.The 46-year-old beauty — who was the late Hugh Hefner's 'number one girlfriend' when they were together for seven years in the early 2000s — has shared her support for the film and its writer, Lorraine Nicholson, after the Playboy founder's third wife Crystal Harris recently called on Jessica Biel...

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Oct 12 • 5:04 AM EDT • Entertainment • asiaone.com
Taylor Swift Spends Her 100th Week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, as ‘Life of a Showgirl’ Stays on Top in Week 2 of ‘Encore’ Rebound

Taylor Swift is fond of the number 13, but here’s betting she also considers the numeral 100 lucky, too. She can now celebrate having 100 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, for all of her albu...

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Oct 11 • 4:22 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Albums with the most No. 1 hits: Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Drake, more

Taylor Swift's "The Life of a Showgirl" has yielded three No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, joining an elite list of blockbuster albums.

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Oct 11 • 10:32 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
FYI BR: Dustin Gaspard in concert and girls flag football league at Elite

The Voice’s Dustin Gaspard will perform at the Boots, Bayous and Blues Concert on Oct. 16 at ULL’s Angelle Hall. Tickets range from $60 general admission to $100 for a VIP meet-and-greet experience.

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Oct 11 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • theadvocate.com
SM Entertainment founder's A2O Entertainment to debut A2O Soul and A2O Lite

A2O Entertainment will debut boy band A2O Soul and girl group A2O Lite together, with former SM producer Yoo Young-jin overseeing their music and performances.

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Oct 11 • 3:22 AM EDT • Entertainment • koreajoongangdaily.com
Lee Soo-man’s A2O Entertainment debuts A2O Soul and A2O Lite

A2O Entertainment will debut boy band A2O Soul and girl group A2O Lite together, with former SM producer Yoo Young-jin overseeing their music and performances.

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Oct 11 • 3:22 AM EDT • Entertainment • koreajoongangdaily.com
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High school flag football: Friday and Saturday scores

CIF City Section and Southern Section high school girls' flag football scores for games played on Friday and Saturday.

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Oct 11 • 1:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘New Girl’ Stars Reunite — in a Slightly Different Way Than Max Greenfield Claimed

Zooey Deschanel, Max Greenfield, Jake Johnson, Lamorne Morris, Hannah Simone and Damon Wayans Jr. stepped out together as they were honored at the Chrysalis Butterfly Ball on Saturday.

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Oct 11 • 12:40 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Scientists Say the Secret to a Happier, Healthier Society May Begin in Childhood

How children are raised may matter for social well-being worldwide, with surveys across three culturally different countries linking supportive childhoods to adults’ trust and sense of belonging. At home, a child seeking comfort depends on a caregiver’s response, while time for free play offers room to explore. A University of Nottingham-led study linked these experiences,

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Oct 10 • 10:28 PM EDT • Science • scitechdaily.com
Saturday's Connecticut high school sports roundup: Lyme-Old Lyme girls soccer tops North Branford

A look at the Connecticut high school sports scene for Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026.

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Oct 10 • 7:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jaylen Brown Compares Celtics to an Ex-Girlfriend

Brown compared seeing the Celtics to an awkward encounter with an ex, sharing a candid analogy about moving on from a familiar relationship.

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Oct 10 • 12:39 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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​Rhonda Walker Foundation joins forces with Girls Inc. network to reach more Detroiters

The Detroit-based organization alker-- is affiliating with Girls Inc., a network of local organizations that works with girls and schools in communities across the United States and Canada.

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Oct 9 • 10:49 AM EDT • Business • crainsdetroit.com
Women’s golf is booming and Cleveland-area clubs are taking advantage

Cleveland-area golf clubs are adding women’s leagues, clinics and memberships as more women and girls take up the sport.

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Oct 9 • 5:45 AM EDT • Business • crainscleveland.com
Prop 134 fails Colorado board of ed good-policy standards

Somewhere in Colorado, a girl could be pulled aside by a coach or an official who thinks she looks “too strong” or “too tall” to be a girl. Under Proposition 134, that isn’t just a hypothetical. During the legislative session, the Colorado state Board of Education routinely takes positions on legislation but has not typically […]

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Oct 9 • 2:45 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
High school flag football: Wednesday and Thursday scores

CIF City Section and Southern Section high school girls' flag football scores for games played on Wednesday and Thursday.

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Oct 9 • 2:31 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sydney Godfrey shining in varsity debut for Williamston swimming

LSJ girls athlete of week winner Sydney Godfrey set a pool record in her first 500 freestyle race of the season.

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Oct 8 • 7:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
'The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All' is the sapphic anime to watch in 2027

Girl meets boy. Boy isn't a boy. Nirvana provides the soundtrack. Watch the trailer for one of 2027's most anticipated anime.

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Oct 8 • 5:57 PM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com
Brackets: 2026 Section 2 girls' tennis team tournament fields set

Play gets underway Friday. Championships are scheduled for next Wednesday and Thursday.

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Oct 8 • 3:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ben Affleck gets real about marriage drama

Ben Affleck has his share of crying scenes in movies, even early in his career. The gut-wrenching goodbye of “Armageddon,” for instance, or the dad of “Jersey Girl” talking with

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Colorado’s girls deserve same sporting lessons I had

I learned to swim at the Piney Creek Pool in Centennial. I was a kid chasing the girl in the next lane, with no idea that water was about to become my classroom. That pool led me to Smoky Hill High School, where I won back-to-back state championships in the 200 individual medley and set […]

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No on I-638: 'Witch hunt' of trans kids is a threat to all girls who play sports

Having grown up in rural Missouri, I’m all too familiar with the way some people exclude, bully and discriminate against people of different backgrounds, re ...

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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 today’s article. Please subscribe.) I just heard someone say that if you’re reading a pundit or data analyst, and they don’t tell you that they got anything wrong, they’re not a pundit but an “influencer”. I agree with that. You have to tell your audience when you get things wrong, or they won’t (or shouldn’t) trust you as much. Today, we’ve got another edition of “What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong”. In general, I’m 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 HBO’s datecdotes, so I’m not perfect. But first, I need your feedback... Subscribe Follow-Ups: What Should We Call Mid-Budget Movies Which Aren’t 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... “Moldilocks” from John Aboud “Little Big Indie” from Travis Frick1 “Midflicks” from Jonathan Funke. “Extra-Medium” from Jona Nwuke. (Read the explanation in the footnote.) Between these and Brandon Katz—who suggested “Bermuda Budget Triangle”, “The Platform Gap” and “The Distribution Deadzone”—we’ve got some excellent suggestions. And they’re better than my suggestion, the “Streaming Budget Dead Zone”, so let’s take a poll! The winning entry becomes the new term. Loading... RIGHT: LIV Golf is Fully Bankrupt…Is Anyone Else Next? A few years ago, I was always a bit perplexed at all the articles I’d 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 “success” 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 hadn’t discovered a way to increase potential revenue. So think about this in basic business terms… They paid much more in costs… …but had no real way to increase revenue. That’s not a strategy! That’s deficit financing. It won’t work unless you bankrupt the competition (and then turn around and pay those same golfers much, much less). It’s not a sustainable strategy and only lasts as long as the company/person/nation backing it decides they’re 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. TGL’s parent company, TMRW Sports, just got a $1 billion valuation, despite TGL’s (the indoor golf league) horrible TV viewership of less than half a million viewers per match. Unrivaled, the women’s 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. (Let’s 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 I’m 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 “July”. Mainly, this image got updated to show a 27% decline, not 29%: This change doesn’t really impact the overall analysis, but it is two percent better. By the way, through the third quarter, the decline increased and it’s now a 30% decrease since 2022. (I’ll 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 audience’s faith. So that’s 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 don’t 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. Let’s 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 month—I actually could have included more movies, but here are just thirteen, bringing us to an even twenty films—including.... 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 Roth’s Ice Cream Man ($2.8 million) Here’s 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. Let’s update that chart! By the way, if you want to see how I categorized each film—so another bar chart—here 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 I’m sympathetic to this point of view. As I’ve 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 2’s (which didn’t get critical or customer buzz). But at some point, critics and pundits need to contend with what audiences are telling them: Movie-goers aren’t 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 aren’t 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 they’re just making the films that audiences are telling them to make. WRONG: Original Horror Films Didn’t Break Out I’ll 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 August—Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Onslaught (not an action film in spite of the ads), The End of Oak Street, Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man, or _Buddy—_broke out. To be clear, exactly one of those films (Buddy) had good “ROI”, but again—I try to be specific in my language—none were “popular” in any broad sense of the word. None of them will be “saving” 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. (We’ll see if this changes in October/Halloween season.) RIGHT: Stay Skeptical about Crowdfunding... I’ve long been skeptical about crowd-investing platforms as one of Hollywood’s saviors, mainly because there’s 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 they’ve come in later. And August gave us our first update! _Ice Cream Man—_directed by Eli Roth—grossed $6 million off of a $5.5 million budget. This is a production of The Horror Section, which was one of the first “crowd investing” studios with 2,400 investors, which means that 2,400 investors probably lost money. They certainly aren’t getting as great of returns as if they had just invested their dollars in the stock market. Hopefully Stiletto (Tagline: “Someone’s Going to Make it Rain Blood!”) does better next month. WRONG: Another Data Goof Here’s 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 US…but no, it was global. So my US-only datecdotes charts shouldn’t 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.) Here’s the updated chart (which I’ve 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 “comic book movies are going the way of the Western”. Post-Spider-Man: Brand New Day, that take didn’t age well. To be fair, I have a very nuanced take on the superhero genre right now; it’s down right now, for a lot of reasons. But it’s not “dead”. Maybe _Spider-_Man is just a really popular character? I saw that take, and it’s a fair counter-argument. (But pundits arguing that superhero movies were dead should have mentioned this $1.5 billion counter-argument…) 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 wouldn’t bet against Batman or Superman. So maybe it’s 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 that’s it! It’s just those ten characters/teams. Oh, what’s that? Lanterns is also doing well on HBO? (See previous section…) To be fair, I’m actually pretty sympathetic to the argument that more popular characters—like Spider-Man and Batman—anchor more popular films. In fact, I made that exact argument three years ago when I first wrote about the “Marvel-cession”. 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 it’s probably too early to say that superhero films and comic book movies are dead unless “death” 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 “returning” to theaters. As I’ve detailed(for years), young people have always powered the US box office, despite narratives about “kids these days” and their “phones”. Really, what’s changed post-2020/pandemic is that old people aren’t 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: “Who killed movie theaters? Not the youths”. 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. Here’s 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 “popular”, so yeah, the genre isn’t that popular overall and Hadestown is one of the more popular musicals from recent years (i.e. the “Taylor Swift Data Fallacy” in action). On the other, I doubt filming this cost all that much, and I don’t 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... I’m 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, let’s go! Now I might actually have a chance to see Danny Boyle’s latest in theaters. I’d complained about this in a “Coming Soon” 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, it’s just three big films and a number of awards contenders, but still, this is great news. And they’ll 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 “wrong”, since they’ve doubled their subscribers in one year but, you know, they don’t really have a hit film to speak of and they’re still losing money. WRONG: Furious was only renewed for one more season. I accidentally wrote “two more seasons” in my latest “Renewals, Cancellations, Un-Orders and Removals Update”. 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 “Renewals and Cancellations” report. Well, now it’s ending after that third season. Why? As I’ve been writing, its viewership wasn’t great. I got feedback that this show didn’t cost very much, but it cost enough that its limited viewership didn’t 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! But I just wrote about it. 1 “When I was a kid in the 90s, if you wore a t-shirt to school that wasn’t too big and also wasn’t too small, but somehow didn’t quite fit, we’d say you were wearing an “extra-medium” shirt.” 2 As always, a huge exception is Disney, which barely makes anything original anymore.

National high school girls soccer composite rankings

Indiana continues to dominate the latest USA TODAY Sports composite rankings for high school girls soccer this fall.

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Oct 7 • 1:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
High school flag football: Monday and Tuesday scores

CIF City Section and Southern Section high school girls' flag football scores for games played on Monday and Tuesday.

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U. Business School researchers find that girl dads are more attentive to their partners

Two Rutgers University researchers recently published a study that found having a daughter was associated with changes in fathers' psychology, including greater investment in the relationship he has with the child's mother.

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Oct 6 • 8:59 PM EDT • Business • dailytargum.com
Sheridan vs. Aurora Science & Tech: Colorado High School Girls Volleyball, Oct. 7, 2026

Sheridan at Aurora Science & Tech, Colorado high school girls volleyball, Oct. 7, 2026, 4:30 PM. 2A/3A league game: records, rankings, rosters and head-to-head.

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Oct 6 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • chsaanow.com
“Boy Meets World” star Matthew Lawrence recalls ‘dysfunction’ on “Girl Meets World ”set: ‘It was very weird’

Lawrence spoke to EW about reprising the role of Jack on a 2015 episode of the Disney Channel spinoff.

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‘Boy Meets World’ star Matthew Lawrence recalls ‘dysfunction’ on ‘Girl Meets World’

‘Boy Meets World’ star Matthew Lawrence spoke to EW about the ‘dysfunction’ on the ‘Girl Meets World’ set, and his ‘strange’ experience guest-starring on the spinoff.

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Oprah Winfrey taps a 'riveting' debut novel for her book club

Oprah Winfrey has chosen Amanda Rizkalla's debut novel, “Hungered,” as her new book club pick. The novel, released in May, follows a 12-year-old girl navigating poverty and family struggles. Winfrey

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Polling shows ban on trans girls in girls' sports could pass in November

Washington state voters will soon weigh in on a ballot measure to ban transgender girls from playing on girls’ school sports teams. The initiative is controversial, but national and local polling suggest it could have enough silent support to pass.

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Oct 5 • 8:05 PM EDT • Sports • kuow.org
Washburn’s Women in Science Day gives girls a hands-on look at STEM

Seventh-grade girls from across Topeka got a hands-on look at what it's like to work in science at Washburn University's annual Women in Science Day.

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Why I Don’t Think Ride Or Die Should Have Been Cancelled (And What Company Should Save It...)

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m 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.) So…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 don’t 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, you’re in the know. Okay, on to this week’s issue. I want to take a look at Prime Video cancelling Ride or Die and whether I agree with that decision. Overall, we didn’t 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, we’ll 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 Wire’s $50 million fantasy show, what TV show hit-maker can’t make streaming hits, CD sales, all the flops, bombs and misses, and a whole lot more. Let’s dive right in! (Reminder: The streaming ratings report focuses on the U.S. market and compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly top ten viewership ranks, Luminate’s 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, Nielsen’s 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 Hit…But It Got Cancelled? What The Data “Says” I hate the phrase “here’s what the data says”, 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 can’t actually use “data”, since it’s vastly too complicated to model. Anyways, I’ve been singing the praises of Prime Video’s Ride Or Die this summer, a show that did very well for them. And yet…it got cancelled. Now, usually when a show gets cancelled, a bunch of websites say “a hit show got cancelled”... Here’s the thing, though: in this case, they’re right! The data “says” that this show was a hit. Specifically, out of 522 first seasons to make a week on the Nielsen charts since 2020, it’s the 75th biggest. On Amazon, Ride or Die is eighth out of 41 first seasons: That’s top 15th percentile all time, almost exactly, which is my definition of a “hit”! 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 reason—which I’ll get to—but I’d break it down into three relevant questions: What is a given streamer’s reasoning? Is that reasoning sound? Could the stated reason not be the real reason? According to Deadline, Amazon felt the show “over-indexed” 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 don’t really need more shows like this. Now, it’s my job to ask if that’s a good reason, and I’ll be honest, in this case, I don’t think it is. Sure, this show may “over-index” in middle-aged women—I’ll just assume that’s the case here—but I think folks often oversell how important over-indexing actually is. When a show is a “hit”, it isn’t a bit bigger than its rivals; it’s 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 that’s 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. (I’ll try to explore this concept more in a future article.) And don’t get me started on how Ride or Die did compared to a certain (very, very popular, possibly the world’s most popular) YouTuber’s reality show…which didn’t 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 didn’t 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 (I’m tempted to say “never”) boil down to one variable. At its simplest, it’s 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 isn’t 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 doesn’t own Ride or Die. It’s 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 streamers…especially if he wants to rebuild goodwill in Hollywood. His name is on this list of exec producers of Ride or Die… If David Ellison needs some goodwill—and he does—rescue this female-led show tomorrow and grab some good headlines for a day. The data justifies it. Quick Notes on TV We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… 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 Wire’s $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 you’d get in a full issue, check out this older issue. Coming Soon! Oh man, we’re 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, I’ll be looking at the first two weeks of the NFL Thursday night games on streaming, a huge new spinoff, Reacher’s 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 I’ll 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 it’s not about the biker gang. No, it features the show’s cast playing themselves in a new “meta-thriller”. Huh. And a lot of the cast is coming back. Next, Ryan Gosling is producing a Flintstones movie about a “grown-up Bamm-Bamm Rubble”. Also, huh. This one is in “early development” so we’ll see what happens. Both projects are based on IP, but also seem to have crazy takes on the IP, which I like.

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Edison's Entertainment Complex Female Athlete Of Month: Jess Sever Has Made Important Contributions To Edwardsville Girls Flag Football Team

Edwardsville sophomore Jess Sever has five touchdowns as the undefeated Tigers girls flag football team advances in the IHSA postseason.

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Oct 5 • 3:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • riverbender.com
Governor Ivey Proclaims Alabama Girls in Sports Day -

MONTGOMERY – Governor Kay Ivey on Monday proclaimed Saturday, October 10, 2026, as Alabama Girls in Sports Day, recognizing the female athletes throughout the state and reaffirming Alabama’s commitment to ensuring women and girls have the right to participate, compete … Continued

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Oct 5 • 10:05 AM EDT • Sports • governor.alabama.gov
Inspired By My Love Of STEM, I Collaborated With 22 Teens To Write A Kids Picture Book About Science

Teen STEM student Eliana Miao wrote a picture book about the microbiome and empathy titled "The Brave Fuzzy: A Microbiome Story"

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Oct 5 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • girltalkhq.com
Girls flag football is a fast-growing high school sport

Participation has surged more than 550% nationally in the past four years.

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Oct 5 • 6:20 AM EDT • Sports • axios.com
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‘Gossip Girl’ 25th anniversary musings

The CW’s “Gossip Girl” recently turned 19 years old, making it the age of this year’s college freshmen. Despite being over a decade old, the show remains impressively relevant among

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Oct 5 • 1:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • valpotorch.com
FBI Director Kash Patel gets engaged to longtime girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins

FBI Director Kash Patel and longtime girlfriend Alexis Wilkins are announcing their engagement on social media | WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM

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Oct 4 • 8:55 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
FBI Director Kash Patel gets engaged to longtime girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins

FBI Director Kash Patel and longtime girlfriend Alexis Wilkins are announcing their engagement on social media | WWJ Newsradio 950

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Oct 4 • 8:55 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
FBI Director Kash Patel gets engaged to longtime girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins

FBI Director Kash Patel and longtime girlfriend Alexis Wilkins are announcing their engagement on social media.

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Oct 4 • 8:55 PM EDT • Entertainment • clickorlando.com
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FBI Director Kash Patel gets engaged to longtime girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins

FBI Director Kash Patel and longtime girlfriend Alexis Wilkins are announcing their engagement on social media | WWL

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Oct 4 • 8:55 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
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Weird girls, your next shelf collectible is a stack of Robert Pattinsons

Why A24’s nesting dolls are perfect.

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Oct 4 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • creativebloq.com
Girls win 3-1

Going into the international break on a high FC Red Bull Salzburg Women 3-1 First Vienna FC (H/T:1-1). Goals: Pamminger (13'), Plattner (65', 90+3') - Wasser (21')The side coached by Dusan Pavlovic -...

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Oct 4 • 4:28 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
High school flag football: Friday and Saturday scores

CIF City Section and Southern Section high school girls' flag football scores for games played on Friday and Saturday.

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Oct 4 • 12:17 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Thousands run in 2026 Nike XC Twilight Invitational

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — Thousands of runners from across the country participated in the 2026 Nike XC Twilight Invitational at Lavern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course. Terre Haute North’s Addyson Bautista took fourth place in the girls race. Terre Haute South’s Landon Crawn finished 17th in the boys race.

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Oct 3 • 11:42 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Saturday Scoreboard

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Here’s a look at scores from around the area: College Football:Northern St. 16 Bemidji St. 9 FSDSU 31 Illinois St. 14 FUSD 44 Indiana St. 14 FAugustana 37 USF 20 F Boys Soccer:Hot Springs 4 Douglas-New Underwood 0 FSt. Thomas More-Rapid City Christian 3 Belle Fourche 0 Girls Soccer:St. Thomas […]

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Oct 3 • 11:33 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Why October 3rd is 'Mean Girls' Day, explained
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Oct 3 • 4:13 PM EDT • Entertainment • usatoday.com
Women's Fund to honor four with Dream, Achieve, Inspire awards

NEW HARTFORD — The Women’s Fund of Herkimer and Oneida Counties is celebrating its work supporting women and girls with a dinner at the Yahnundasis Golf Club, 8639 Seneca Turnpike,

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Oct 3 • 2:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • romesentinel.com
Former Nurse Quits Healthcare to Launch ‘Girly’ Scrubs Business, Says Traditional Design ‘Felt Like a Big Paper Bag on Me’

“I took every penny I had and put it into this,” Ramina Ashfaque said of her scrubs business

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Oct 3 • 7:30 AM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
It’s “Mean Girls” Day! See 13 Rarely Seen Photos from the Making of “Mean Girls”, from Lindsay and Lizzy to the Iconic Mall Scene

Go behind-the-scenes and back to 2004 with these photos from the set of the forever-favorite film

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Oct 3 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Local girl overcomes health challenges, chosen to encourage runners at Columbus Marathon

The 7-year-old and former patient at Nationwide Children's Hospital was selected as a Mile Champion to inspire runners as the run over 26 miles through Columbus.

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Oct 2 • 4:13 PM EDT • Health • whio.com
Tigerlily Foundation's Pajama Glam Empowers Girls and Families Through Health Literacy, Self-Advocacy and Connection

/PRNewswire/ -- What began with a young girl imagining a different kind of breast cancer gathering has grown into a joyful, multigenerational health and...

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Oct 2 • 3:25 PM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
Theft at a laundromat, appletinis and a new Capitol Square cafe

This week in the newsletter, the Indigo Girls are coming to Madison (please don't steal their clothes), a pitch for appletinis and a new cafe takes shape downtown.

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Oct 2 • 1:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • captimes.com
Dutch Girl Donuts set to open New Center location

Dutch Girl Donuts is betting on New Center for its first expansion, which is slated to open next week.

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Oct 2 • 12:40 PM EDT • Business • crainsdetroit.com
Push for girls flag football as varsity sport in Mass. moves forward

The push to make all-girls flag football a varsity sport in Massachusetts is moving forward.

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Oct 2 • 11:39 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Can't stop thinking about 'Verity'? 12 thrillers with twists you won't see coming.

From "Gone Girl" to "Basic Instinct," these movies turn relationships and obsessions into games of deception.

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Oct 2 • 11:02 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com