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Yet the young Maxwell’s coolheadedness couldn’t undo the damage that his father may have wreaked upon the family’s media empire. In a stunning disclosure, the Daily Mirror revealed last week that Robert Maxwell had apparently made questionable loans and looted pension funds of Mirror Group Newspapers, the public company whose stock he controlled, all in a desperate attempt to keep other parts of his debt-laden conglomerate afloat. The amount of the freshly discovered debt now totals about $1....

The hit series dramatizing the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II and her family has come under criticism in the U.K. ahead of the highly anticipated release of its fifth season. The Crown’s latest installment will debut on Netflix on November 9 and will cover the turbulent royal events of the 1990s, including the public breakdown in the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, the 1992 fire at Windsor Castle and Diana’s bombshell 1995 BBC Panorama interview....

Will there be another season of The Flash? The Flash was confirmed for Season 7 earlier this year as part of a mass renewal that saw The CW order new seasons for a dozen of its shows, including fellow Arrowverse shows like Batwoman, Black Lightning, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl. “These early orders for next season give our production teams a head start in plotting out story arcs and a jump on hiring staff, and this also provides us with a strong foundation of established, fan-favorite CW shows to build on for next season,” said CW president Mark Pedowitz in a statement announcing the renewal....

All of Washington knows DeLay as “The Hammer.” But when the Congress returns in January, he will become an entire toolbox–and one that the president will have to handle with care. As the new majority leader (Dick Armey retired), DeLay will control the flow of legislation and committee assignments in the one chamber–the House–that can actually be controlled. (Running the Senate, says Lott, is like trying to haul bullfrogs in a wheelbarrow....

A Lionel Messi hat-trick led Barca to an entertaining 4-2 win at Deportivo La Coruna to seal the club’s seventh league title in 10 seasons. Valverde said his players’ desire to win was key to their success, which was sealed with four games remaining in the campaign. “It is the most complicated. Win once, we all have moments when we win once,” he told Movistar . “The hard part is winning many times....

How The L Word: Generation Q is different from the original “The show introduces all these new characters, a new generation,” Beals told Forbes, “and what’s exciting about that new generation is the way they so boldly and unapologetically present themselves and their identity.” Speaking about this new generation of cast members, she said: “They don’t allow other people to define who they are, so we get to tell those kinds of stories within the show....

The Line is the story of front-line workers coping—or not—during the pandemic. It starts off, innocently enough, with a series of interviews, à la Studs Terkel in Working. These are articulate, thoughtful, intelligent people, similar to those who you might see on the local news after a catastrophe who have had a mic thrust in their face and been asked for a comment. They introduce themselves; then, gradually, we start to hear the words that have become ominously imprinted on our collective unconscious: fever, cough, cases, intubation, ventilator, China, Wuhan, closures, words that have since taken on a weight they may not lose for a long time....

“What could happen in the 30 years between celebrating the defeat of the Empire and then the First Order?” Favreau, The Mandalorian creator, told Entertainment Weekly. “You come in on Episode VII, [and the First Order are] not just starting out. They’re pretty far along.” “Pretty well equipped,” Filoni said. Filoni’s previous experience, with animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels and Star Wars Resistance points to several ways The Mandalorian might flesh out the rise of the First Order....

The artists performed against each other in groups of two, after which show host Nick Cannon revealed the contestant with the highest votes. With Crocodile, Mushroom and The Sun leading with votes, that left their rivals Seahorse, Jellyfish and Popcorn having to unmask themselves and finally reveal their identity. Popcorn, who delivered a rocking cover of Tina Turner’s “Better Be Good To Me,” was the first celebrity to remove their mask....

Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult and Ralph Fiennes, the hilarious yet unsettling movie follow the story of a young company that visits an exclusive restaurant, run by a mysterious chef. The movie comes from Seth Reiss and Will Tracy with Succession’s and Entourage’s Mark Mylod behind the camera. The Big Shot’s Adam McKay also serves as an executive producer on The Menu. Newsweek has everything you need to know about the movie, including the release date, cast, trailer, plot and more....

The movie is delayed indefinitely. This has led many X-Men fans to wonder whether the movie will skip cinemas and get a release onto streaming services owned by Disney like Disney+ or Hulu. Compared to other major movie releases that have been delayed, like No Time To Die or Fast & Furious 9, The New Mutants is more likely to go to streaming services. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney considered putting New Mutants onto Disney+ or Hulu when they acquired the movie as part of their acquisition of 20th Century Fox in spring 2019....

As the award for best-limited series suggests, there is little chance of the show returning for more episodes. For those without a grasp of TV lingo, a limited series is a show which only has a limited number of episodes across one season, with a definitive ending. This is something that Taylor-Joy brought up in an interview shortly after her Golden Globe win. Asked by Entertainment Tonight about the prospect of a Season 2, the New Mutants actor said: “Not to disappoint anybody, but we just never thought about it....

Williamson announced that she had quit the Nathan Fillion-led show in early August, claiming in an Instagram post that she was subjected to sexual harassment by a guest star and persistent “racist commentary & bullying” from the show’s hair department. In Sunday’s Season 2 premiere, Williamson’s training officer Talia Bishop was briefly mentioned by Fillion’s main character, John Nolan, to explain her absence in the new season. In a scene between Nolan and his girlfriend Jessica Russo—played by Sarah Shahi—it was revealed that Bishop had taken a job at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) after the events of Season 1....

In a now-viral thread that has received nearly 20,000 votes and over 1,100 comments, u/TheGreatCharta wrote that they learned something disagreeable about their mother. Explaining that their mother was telling them about her day at work, u/TheGreatCharta detailed how she came down hard upon a grieving employee. “On her way to work one of her employees called off. The employee called off because their boyfriend died after failing to find a heart donor,” they wrote....

It will be second against third when United welcome Liverpool to Manchester, with Mourinho’s men two points clear of Jurgen Klopp’s high-flying Reds. The strengths of both teams are contrasting — United boasting the second-best defensive record, having only conceded 22 goals in 29 matches, while Liverpool’s prolific attack have netted 67 times, only second to champions-elect Manchester City. While acknowledging United’s own weaknesses, Mourinho highlighted Liverpool’s vulnerabilities. “They are a very good team, but they are a very good team with some weaknesses,” Mourinho said....

On Netanyahu’s defeat: Since the assassination of [former prime minister Yitzhak] Rabin [in 1995], there simply was no chance of the wounds of the country being healed by Benjamin Netanyahu, because he had been seen at demonstrations protesting against Rabin, because he had actually walked in front of a [symbolic] coffin which had the words RABIN THE MURDERER OF ZIONISM on it… The assassination [was] without any question the major traumatic event in Israel in the ’90s....

The new installment, called The Tiger King and I, was announced by Netflix Thursday. According to a Twitter post from the streaming site, this episode will feature new interviews with a list of the show’s featured people including “John Reinke, Joshua Dial, John Finlay, Saff, Erik Cowie, Rick [Kirkham], and Jeff and Lauren Lowe,” the tweet said. Comedian Joel McHale will host the reunion-like episode, which will speak with the aforementioned people about how the series has changed their lives....

The remains were reported instead to be that of a small animal, according to Oklahoma’s Garvin County Sheriff, a reporter for Oklahoma’s KFOR-TV, Taylor Adams, confirmed in a post on her official Twitter account. “EXOTIC UPDATE: The Garvin County Sheriff says no human remains were found on site at the GW Zoo tonight. Instead…a small animal. He says the investigation is over. @kfor @joe_exotic,” Adams wrote on Friday. The dogs were reported to be at the park as part of the filming of an episode for the Travel Channel reality television show Ghost Adventures, during which handlers believed the dogs had picked up the scent of body parts, according to Jeff Lowe, the current owner of the zoo, Oklahoma’s KOCO-TV reported....

WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for the entirety of Tiny Pretty Things. Does Cassie die in Tiny Pretty Things? Though it is touch and go for much of the Netflix series, Cassie is still alive when the finale of the Netflix show rolls around. By Episode 8, things are so bad that her parents even decide to take her off of life support, thinking there is no way that she will ever wake up....

The sprint king has been copping plenty of criticism during his trial with Australian club Central Coast Mariners, even after scoring twice in a trial match. Former Republic of Ireland striker and current Perth Glory player Andy Keogh was the latest to question Bolt’s ability, describing the trial as ‘farcical’ for the A-League. Despite the doubters, Bolt has earned a modest contract offer from the Mariners which the Jamaican is still considering taking....