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NASA’s Webb Captures Commotion From Nebula’s Stellar Jets

A cauldron of cosmic creation is being revealed in a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Webb has unveiled numerous stars formerly hidden by

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Oct 6 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
Thunder’s Reported Preseason Gamble Is Exactly Right

Prioritizing health and development, Mark Daigneault’s decision to bench established stars for hungry prospects offers a crucial evaluation of the roster’s next generation of potential contributors.

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Oct 6 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Phillies need a new identity, and Japan offers a path forward

Japanese-born stars have become fixtures in October. This winter, the Phillies have another opportunity to enter a market that has been out of reach.

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Oct 6 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • nbcsportsphiladelphia.com
Musical residencies: Business is booming, but who pays the most for pop stars playing in Europe?

Musical residencies are on the rise in Europe for major pop stars, but costs are increasingly being heaped upon audiences with travel, accommodation and extras pushing up ticket prices, according to S...

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Oct 6 • 12:14 AM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
Two Overlooked Stars Keeping Packers Alive

The 2026 Green Bay Packers look and feel like a bad team that has miraculously beaten even worse teams. The coaching and scheme have not consistently aligned with the players’ abilities to execute, while gut-wrenching injuries have left Green Bay relying on backups across multiple position groups. And it is only Week 5. For a …

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Oct 5 • 10:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Carson Daly returning for huge “TRL” reunion special with surprises in store — and it’s not for MTV (exclusive)

EW has exclusively learned that Daly will return to reunite with major “TRL” personalities and music stars in the original Times Square studio.

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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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Oct 5 • 3:42 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com
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Chelsea Duo Nominated For 2026 Golden Boy Award

Two Chelsea stars headline the 2026 Golden Boy awards for a second consecutive season as the Blues hunt for a winner of the award for the first time.

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Oct 5 • 2:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Lawrence brothers take on missing ’90s stars in graphic novel, ‘The Lawrence Brothers Detective Agency’

Joey Lawrence and his brothers, Matthew and Andrew, take on missing ’90s stars and nostalgia prisons in the new graphic novel, ‘The Lawrence Brothers Detective Agency.’

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Oct 5 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Italy’s Meloni follows pop stars in seeking to trademark her voice to combat AI deepfakes

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has applied to trademark her voice with the European Union intellectual property office in a bid to bolster protections against AI-generated deepfakes | KNSS Radio

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Oct 5 • 10:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Back to The Ballroom: Yacht Rock Night

On Sept. 29, 2026, the “Dancing with the Stars” ballroom transformed into relaxing vibes and good times for yacht rock night. While there was smooth sailing, the 13 couples experienced some turmoil on the dance floor.

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Oct 5 • 8:01 AM EDT • Entertainment • wcuquad.com
Are aliens real? Here’s what science can and can’t prove

Some scientists believe the sheer number of stars, planets and potentially habitable environments in space makes extraterrestrial life plausible. But plausibility is not proof. Despite decades of sear...

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Oct 5 • 7:17 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Alex Scott Injury Raises Fresh Bournemouth Fears After England Break

Alex Scott's dream England breakthrough has been overshadowed by injury, with the Bournemouth midfielder potentially facing two months out. After a brilliant start to the season, his absence comes at the worst possible time, while his injury raises familiar frustrations around AFCB's rising stars.

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Oct 5 • 5:24 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
2026 BFI London Film Festival Preview: Political Messages, Animation

Kristy Matheson previews key highlights and stars featured in the 70th edition and why she doesn't agree with people having "a grumble about how it doesn't seem like a big or a good year for cinema."

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Oct 5 • 4:00 AM EDT • Politics • hollywoodreporter.com
3 Most Disappointing Cubs Players In 2026

From high-priced free agents to a botched blockbuster trade, these three struggling stars derailed Chicago's championship aspirations and fueled a premature postseason exit against the Padres.

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Oct 4 • 7:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
'Dancing with the Stars' Week 5 theme revealed: It's Super Bowl Night

The Week 5 theme for "Dancing with the Stars" has been revealed. Here's what to know about Super Bowl Night and what viewers can expect from the remaining celebrity contestants.

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Oct 4 • 5:03 PM EDT • Entertainment • lohud.com
Celebrities Front Row at Lacoste Spring 2027 Ready-to-Wear Show [PHOTOS]

See photos of celebrities front row at the Lacoste Spring 2027 Ready-to-Wear Show. Stars like: Uma Thurman and more.

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Oct 4 • 5:52 AM EDT • Technology • wwd.com
Cavan Sullivan, Julian Hall lead USMNT to Mexico rout

By Dylan ButlerGoals by two of Major League Soccer's youngest and brightest stars helped lift the US men's national team to a 3-0 win over rival Mexico at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. on Satu...

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Oct 4 • 12:17 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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2026 Saw Breakout Stars and Return of Vintage Sandy

Sandy Alcantara reclaimed his ace status and shattered franchise records, leading a resurgent Miami pitching staff fueled by Max Meyer’s All-Star emergence and Eury Pérez’s dominant growth.

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Oct 4 • 12:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pochettino laughs off claims USMNT stars disrespected Mexico's Gilberto Mora
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Stars react to Ryan Seacrest posting shirtless thirst trap: ‘Ryan relax!’

“Ok Seacrest, save some for the rest of us.”

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Turnover issues, Jalen Washington highlight Tennessee basketball scrimmage

Jalen Washington, Manny Green and Terrence Hill Jr. were stars of Tennessee basketball's open scrimmage on Oct. 3 at Food City Center.

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Oct 3 • 2:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Eagles Star Given Strong Prediction Entering Rams Week 4 Game

One of the stars of the Philadelphia Eagles has been given a strong prediction entering the team's game against the Los Angeles Rams.

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Oct 3 • 2:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
3 Raptors Players to Watch in Preseason Opener vs. Heat

From defensive anchors to breakout rookies, discover which rising stars will lead Toronto’s revamped rotation as the new-look roster finally takes the floor against Miami.

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Oct 3 • 12:13 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jordan Hall Out, Brady Pretzlaff In: Michigan State Availability Report

Reinforcements arrive in Madison as the Spartans regain key defensive depth, leaning on freshman standout Brady Pretzlaff to anchor the linebacking corps despite devastating injuries to two stars.

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Oct 3 • 11:13 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Issey Miyake and Givenchy: Art and Science

Satoshi Kondo and Sarah Burton show us why they’re BoF500 cover stars.

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Oct 3 • 11:01 AM EDT • Science • businessoffashion.com
Why 'East of Eden' Star Mike Faist Looks Familiar

Mike Faist stars as Charles Trask in the Netflix limited series adapatation. Here's where you may have recognized him before.

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Oct 3 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • purewow.com
‘Brave from the beginning’: 20 years of Friday Night Lights – the sports drama that dared to be different

It launched the careers of Jesse Plemons and Michael B Drama, and let its stars improvise in a way that was fresh and new. This show about smalltown US football was confident, trailblazing – and wonderful

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Oct 3 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • theguardian.com
Willi Orbán Helps Hungary Secure First Nations League Win

Milos Kerkez’s maiden international goal and a resolute defensive masterclass led by Willi Orbán silenced Georgia’s stars, revitalizing the Magyars’ promotion hopes with a crucial clean sheet.

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Oct 3 • 5:11 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Scientists connect cosmic fingerprints of the universe's first stars with MEGATRON simulation

Sorry Optimus... The connection comes courtesy of MEGATRON.

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Oct 2 • 5:00 PM EDT • Science • space.com
Studying Science in an Anti-Scientific Time

This Chronicle Review Deep Cut was first published in 2025. By Julianne Werlin Thanks for reading The Chronicle Review! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribe The last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science had to be understood in its human context — were encountering the funhouse-mirror version of their own views in right-wing critiques of climate scientists. It was enough to give some prominent scholars pause. “Was I wrong to participate in the invention of this field known as science studies?” asked Bruno Latour, the most famous sociologist of science in the world, in 2003. “Should we apologize for having been wrong all along? Or should we rather bring the sword of criticism to criticism itself and do a bit of soul-searching here: What were we really after when we were so intent on showing the social construction of scientific facts?” In response, Latour proposed a change of method and attitude. Science studies, now chastened and contrite, would no longer seek to strip facts of their authority, but to enrich and enhance them. What this meant in practice was never fully clear. But his diagnosis of problems resonated, even if his solutions did not. Latour’s exercise in public hand-wringing signaled a shift in mood. By 2016, with the first election of Donald Trump, the idea that skepticism of science was a right-wing position, not a left-wing one, had become a commonplace, discussed eagerly in The New York Times. For liberals, vaccine denial during the Covid era and Trump’s second-term attacks on the funding of scientific research, covered extensively in these pages, added a new urgency to the defense of science on both practical and principled grounds. There was little appetite for a sociology or philosophy of science that emphasized the messiness and missteps of the scientific process rather than its integrity and triumphs. The distinguished historian of science Peter Dear’s new book, The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science (Princeton University Press, 2025), which seeks to tell the story of 18th- and 19th-century science for a general public, may seem comfortably remote from these bitter contests. In its 16 short chapters, Dear draws swift, sure sketches of major discoveries from Newton to Einstein, ably guiding the reader through debates on stellar nebulae, animal taxonomy, atomic chemistry, evolution, and other flashpoints in the history of science. But though a work of history, Dear’s book must still negotiate our polarized present. In a blurb on its back cover, the historian of biology Lynn K. Nyhart alludes to the “present moment, when scientific knowledge is being swamped by misinformation and its institutions are under siege.” Dear himself, in his conclusion, refers to the “yard signs” and “bumper stickers” that proclaim “Science Is Real.” One antidote to both anti-science propaganda and to reductive slogans in science’s defense is a robust history and philosophy of science: exactly what Dear’s scholarship has long offered. But his new book illustrates how difficult such work has become. Dear, an emeritus professor of history at Cornell University, is best known as a creative and philosophically minded historian of the Scientific Revolution. His edited volume The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument (1991) analyzed the rhetoric of Galileo’s thought experiments to brilliant effect. Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution (1995) was a major contribution to the analysis of scientific experiments in early modern Europe and beyond, while Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge in Transition, 1500-1700 (2001), now in its third edition, remains one of the best overviews of the profound epistemological upheavals of 16th- and 17th-century science. But Dear has also ventured into later periods. Nearly two decades ago, in The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World (2006), he turned to the 18th and 19th centuries to sketch a history and theory of scientific knowledge. Aimed at a generalist audience, Dear’s simple prose belied serious philosophical ambitions. Science, Dear argued, has two aspects: “natural philosophy,” the quest to understand the true nature of the universe, and “instrumentality,” the applied skills and technologies that allow us to manipulate the world for human advantage. Both strands are ancient, but the innovation of the phenomenon we call “science” was to yoke them together. As Francis Bacon wrote, “Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known, the effect cannot be produced,” an insight typically abridged to “knowledge is power.” Or, in Bertrand Russell’s characteristically blunt phrase, science has two functions, “1. to enable us to know things, and 2., to enable us to do things.” So far, so conventional. But Dear took issue with this familiar story in one respect. Bacon’s formula implied that theory and practice could be fused in a single method. In fact, Dear argued, the quest to understand nature and the desire to manipulate it were coupled only loosely. They could come together, but they could also pull apart. Focusing on natural philosophy, the “knowing” half of the scientific circle, he used a series of case studies from cosmology, taxonomy, chemistry, electromagnetism, and quantum theory to show how theories changed over time, in dialogue with practice, but never reducible to it. Take the case of matter, the basic substrate of the physical world. In the 18th and 19th centuries, scientists not only disagreed about what it was, but also about how well it could be known. In 1789, the chemist Antoine Lavoisier dismissed speculation about the atomic composition of chemicals as “discussions entirely of a metaphysical nature,” as he sought to orient chemistry away from philosophical abstraction and toward laboratory results. But in the 19th century, atoms returned with a vengeance in the atomic chemistry of John Dalton, who wanted to explain the underlying structure of nature. It was not just that Dalton and Lavoisier had a different set of experimental results, or even a different theory, Dear showed. What counted as an explanation had changed. In arguing that scientific theories depended on their intelligibility to human beings with complex arrays of beliefs and commitments, Dear was in sympathy with science studies. Key figures such as the sociologist Steven Shapin emphasized the importance of psychological mechanisms like trust in the formation and acceptance of scientific ideas. But in focusing on the scientific pursuit of knowledge, not its politics or economics, Dear resisted the more cynical perspective of some of his colleagues. The Intelligibility of Nature strikes a very different note than Shapin’s collection of a few years later, Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If It Was Produced by People With Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority (2010), to name just one example. Walking a very fine line, Dear depicted science as driven at once by complex social dynamics and by the intellectual power of real discoveries. It was a testament not only to his own acumen but also to the vitality of the field that he was able to do so. Nearly two decades later, The World as We Know It returns to the questions broached in The Intelligibility of Nature. Like Dear’s earlier study, it begins with the Newtonian cosmos and ends with debates between Einstein and Bohr on quantum physics. Beyond its terminal figures, many of the same characters appear in both studies, including the naturalists John Ray and the Comte de Buffon; the chemists Étienne François Geoffroy, Antoine Lavoisier, and John Dalton; as well as Charles Darwin and Michael Faraday, among others. Its subject is nearly identical: As in The Intelligibility of Nature, The World as We Know It considers natural philosophy as opposed to instrumentality, here defined as the “desire to create a picture of what the world is really like — the world as God knows it — rather than simply having instrumental or operational control over it.” The two books also overlap in insights — and sometimes even in language. The reader who has learned in The Intelligibility of Nature that Buffon’s method of classifying animals “reflected his belief in the importance of the senses and empiricism in learning about nature (a doctrine associated with Newton and the philosopher John Locke)” will experience a sense of déjà vu on reading, in The World as We Know It, that the classification “reflects Buffon’s commitment to the epistemological stance of Newton and his philosophical underlaborer John Locke, who stressed the role of the senses in creating natural knowledge.” Later in the passage, we read that, “because of its stress on understanding the ways of life of animals in their environments, Buffon’s approach could almost be labeled (anachronistically) as ‘ecological.’” And again, “an anachronistic way of putting it would be to say that Buffon recommends an ecological mode of understanding.” Likewise, in The Intelligibility of Nature we read of Dalton that he was initially drawn to meteorology, and that: He did a bit of experimental work on these things, especially having to do with the water-holding capacity of gases, but his real interest lay in understanding what, at an underlying natural-philosophical level, was really going on physically.” Whereas, in The World as We Know It: He did experimental work on these things, especially concerning the water-holding capacity of gases — although not at a very refined level quantitatively — but he was continually trying to develop a theoretical conception of what was happening physically. The final full chapter of each book closes on the same resigned note. Intelligibility: These days, most serious work on the natural philosophical underpinnings and implications of quantum mechanics is performed not by physicists but by philosophers of science. Among scientific practitioners themselves, Bohr’s attempt to use instrumentality as sufficient grounds for a respectable science has met with a high degree of success. And again, in The World as We Know It: Bohr’s and Einstein’s concerns are now questions that are mostly discussed by philosophers of science rather than by physicists themselves. The marginalization of these sorts of questions amounts to the demise of natural philosophy, at least in physics, in the 20th century. Quantum mechanics “works,” and that’s good enough for most scientists who encounter it. Examples could be multiplied. When handling the same subject matter, some echoes are inevitable. Scholars should not feel that because they have written “Isaac Newton died in 1727” in one book, in the next they must describe him as perishing, expiring, or meeting his maker. But the repetitions of language and arguments (not to mention six reproduced images) threaded throughout The World as We Know It are more extensive than that. They should have been caught by Princeton University Press or its reviewers, and revised. Because the two books have so much in common, it is easy to see where they diverge. The World as We Know It is a less theoretical work than its predecessor. The sociology of knowledge that organized The Intelligibility of Nature has been reduced in scale and folded into readings and examples. The taut interplay between history and theory, which gave the earlier study so much interest, is there, but it is subtle. In the earlier book, the case studies demonstrated theoretical claims about the character and development of science. In the later work, each narrative of discovery is an end in itself. Insights emerge from the history, but they do not control the organization of the study. With the theory muted, it can be hard to understand the logic uniting Dear’s sprawling history of more than two centuries of scientific knowledge. The 16 brisk chapters cover an enormous amount of material. But the closer the volume edges to comprehensiveness, the more obvious the missing elements become. A chapter on “Institutions and Pedagogy,” describing the birth of the research university, illustrates the problem. Inserted roughly halfway through the book, the unnumbered chapter is designed as an “entr’acte,” in acknowledgement that it does not fit the study’s organization around scientific discoveries. Yet as Dear is well aware, no general history of the development of modern science can bracket its 19th-century institutionalization and professionalization. It was the 19th-century university, after all, that gave us the “scientist,” a term coined by the Cambridge philosopher William Whewell. Dear’s history of scientific discoveries implies a wider social and institutional history, but it remains largely subterranean, only occasionally extruded under the pressure of the narrative. It must be said that the balance is not all on the side of the earlier study. There are some advantages to the more historical, less theoretical organization of The World as We Know It. Dear’s accounts of paradigm shifts are remarkably lucid, no small accomplishment given that they span fields and centuries. He makes excellent use of the wealth of new scholarship on Darwin and his influences, to which he has himself contributed. It is satisfying to see puzzle pieces from Buffon’s natural history, Georges Cuvier’s animal taxonomy, Thomas Robert Malthus’s demography, and Charles Lyell’s geology recombined seamlessly in the Darwinian jigsaw. Likewise, Dear’s discussion of stellar nebulae, divided between chapters two and 15, shows vividly how Newton, Kant, Herschel, and Hubble reimagined insights and observations as they sought to discover whether the diffuse light that filtered through early telescopes was a glowing, gaseous substance or discrete but distant stars. Yet despite such pleasures, the book remains a more modest work than The Intelligibility of Nature. Dear has clearly not changed his views about the history of science. But in the two decades that have elapsed, the discipline and the world around it have changed, making it harder to write a sociologically and philosophically ambitious history of science for the general reader. That is a shame, because in the age of Silicon Valley and biotechnology, both the reciprocity and the tensions Dear identified between the epistemological and instrumental ambitions of science are more evident than ever. In recent years, some of the most exciting new books on the history of science in early modernity have focused precisely on this pressure point. Important studies such as Pamela H. Smith’s From Lived Experience to the Written Word (2022), James Poskett’s Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science (2022), and Vera Keller’s The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge (2023) all shed new light on how early modern science negotiated the relationship between its instrumental and epistemological ambitions, or in Russell’s phrase, knowing and doing. There is every opportunity for a philosophically informed approach to draw new insights from this wealth of material. Dear, unfortunately, has not done so in The World as We Know It. But for future scholars of the history of science, his body of work over nearly four decades may provide just the model. Julianne Werlin is an associate professor of English at Duke University. 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OG ‘Hocus Pocus’ cast reunites in Salem, recreates iconic scene 33 years later

Original ‘Hocus Pocus’ stars Omri Katz, Larry Bagby, and ‘Monster’ actor Tobias Jelinek reunited in Salem to recreate an iconic scene in a cemetery: ‘Did we get most of the lines?’

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Are hypernovas real?

Uneven supernova explosions may explain the unusual mix of elements in Milky Way stars once thought to be evidence of hypernovas.

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Oct 2 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencenews.org
In brief: 'Reacher' spinoff gets a second season and more

We’ve got an official trailer for NBC’s Newlyweds, the new sitcom starring real-life married couple Tim Daly and Téa Leoni. The show, co-created by Jamie Lee Curtis, follows a later-in-life love story between a free-spirited woman and a professor who marry after a quick courtship. It premieres on Oct. 23 …The Reacher spinoff Neagley is getting a second season, just two weeks after the first season debuted on Prime Video. Maria Sten stars as the fan-favorite character Frances Neagley, a private investigator from Chicago and the former protégé of Jack Reacher, in the action series. The original Reacher series, starring Alan Ritchson, was picked up for a sixth season earlier this week … TNCMS.AdManager.render({region: 'fixed-big-ad-top-asset', slot: 1, fold: "above"}); Bradley Cooper is gearing up to star in Paramount’s new G.I. Joe film. He’ll be playing Duke, the leader of the Joes. Danny McBride is on board to direct. Further details on the project have not yet been revealed …Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved. Thank you for reading kmaland.comAt KMA, we attempt to be accurate in our reporting. If you see a typo or mistake in a story, please contact us by emailing kmaradio@kmaland.com.

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'War' stars Dominic West and Sienna Miller on episode 1's red carpet gone wrong

"I was acting my ass off!"

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Oct 1 • 10:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com
Jason Priestley explains why he was No. 1 on the ‘90210’ call sheet: ‘Highest quotes’

Actor Jason Priestley, of ‘Beverly Hills, 90210,’ explains why he and Shannen Doherty were considered the stars of the show.

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USA TODAY Sports Top IX flag football players of Week 6

These high school flag football stars redefined high-reel material in Week 6.

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Oct 1 • 4:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Caitlin Clark and the strange phenomenon of puking sports stars

The WNBA star delivered a match-winning performance after being ill at halftime Wednesday, but is far from alone

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Ed Helms Stars In 'The Streak' For Lion Forge Entertainment

Ed Helms toplines 'The Streak,' a sports comedy from Steve Byrne that marks Oscar winner Lion Forge Entertainment's expansion into live-action.

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Oct 1 • 12:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • deadline.com
“Dancing With the Stars ”season 35 week 4 songs revealed: Which Mariah Carey hits are taking center stage?

The ABC competition series is honoring the pop icon with dances set to some of her biggest songs.

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Oct 1 • 12:13 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Michigan State's Injury Report Looks Like a Christmas Shopping List

A wave of sidelined stars and season-ending blows leaves the Spartans dangerously thin as they prepare to face a surging Wisconsin team with a depleted roster.

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Oct 1 • 11:52 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Reaching for the STARS: CT Plus

UT Southwestern’s STARS program marks 35 years of inspiring high school students.

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Oct 1 • 11:43 AM EDT • Science • utsouthwestern.edu
Losing Baleba and Champions League ambition

Colin asked: Has the departure of Baleba helped team spirit and what can the club do to start retaining our stars so that we can take the next step to trophy success? Johnny: The midfield has coped really well without Baleba. If he progresses at Manchester United it may be seen as a loss, but in terms of team spirit, I don't think he had a detrimental effect.

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Oct 1 • 11:19 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
At Paris Fashion Week, Chloé bets on stars, lingerie and lace in a tougher luxury market

Chloé's latest show at Paris Fashion Week features lingerie, lace and fishermen’s coats, drawing attention amid a challenging time for luxury brands | WWJ Newsradio 950

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Oct 1 • 11:03 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
The ultimate cozy fall watchlist: 26 TV shows and movies for every autumn mood

'Tis the season to curl up on the couch with a classic fall film and pretend we're in Stars Hollow.

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Oct 1 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Sporting scandals that shook the world: Lance Armstrong, Hansie Cronje, 'Crashgate'

Manchester City are far from the first. The lure of glory and riches on the biggest stages have tempted plenty of other sports stars to break the rules.

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Oct 1 • 7:32 AM EDT • Sports • bbc.com
I went to America’s largest gathering of astrologers. It was a battle over how to read the stars

Now a $15bn industry, astrology is more mainstream in the US than ever. But its practitioners are still debating: who gets to have authority on the celestial bodies?

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🗞️ Today’s back pages: Cristiano’s farewell, City stars in limbo

October begins with a whole host of big news, so let’s take a look at the front pages of the sports newspapers for this Thursday, 1 October.MARCAASSPORTMundo DeportivoEstadio DeportivoA BolaO JogoRe...

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Dance for heroes lights up palm beach for veterans

Palm Beach Ray of Hope hosts “Dancing with the Palm Beach Stars” at Mar-a-Lago on February 27, 2027, supporting local veterans through their partnership with Tunnel to Towers Foundation.

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Sep 30 • 5:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • floridaweekly.com
Help Overlap Zoo Reveal Cosmic Dust

Galaxies, vast collections of billions of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity, are scattered across the immensity of space. But every so often, a

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Sep 30 • 5:19 PM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
Stars sign goalie Casey DeSmith to 2-year, $5 million extension

DeSmith has a 29-16-8 record with a .911 save percentage.

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Jan Ravnik reacts to not being nominated for Sexiest ‘DWTS’ Pro: ‘Guys, are we blind?’

Jan Ravnik reacted to not being nominated for the Sexiest ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Pro poll, which was announced during week 3.

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Sep 30 • 12:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Tulsa native Taylor Hanson eliminated in Week 3 of 'Dancing with the Stars'

Oklahoma native Taylor Hanson was eliminated from Dancing with the Stars, sparking fan frustration.

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Sep 30 • 12:18 PM EDT • Entertainment • oklahoman.com
‘DWTS’ pro Alan Bersten addresses rumors of tension with Giada De Laurentiis

Alan Bersten denied rumors of tension between himself and Giada De Laurentiis, following their ‘Dancing With the Stars’ elimination.

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Sep 30 • 11:57 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Pasha Pashkov gives update after that ‘DWTS’ injury that left Amber Glenn in tears

‘Dancing With the Stars’ pro Pasha Pashkov gives an update after that brutal injury he sustained while rehearsing the foxtrot with Amber Glenn for Yacht Rock Night.

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Sep 30 • 11:36 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Julia Stiles and Ezra Sosa put ‘final touches’ on ‘DWTS’ routine at last minute, after rib injury

Julia Stiles and Ezra Sosa explained how they put ‘final touches’ on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ routine at the last minute, following the actress’ rib injury, as shown in the ‘DWTS’ rehearsals.

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Sep 30 • 10:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
‘DWTS’ cast reacts to Taylor Hanson and Britt Stewart’s shocking elimination

The ‘Dancing With the Stars’ cast shared their feelings about Taylor Hanson and Britt Stewart’s surprising elimination while speaking with EW after Tuesday’s live show: ‘Wanna see her do a freestyle.’

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Sep 30 • 10:02 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Small Gym September: Meet Step Ahead All-Stars

Hear more about the story of Step Ahead All-Stars, a Miami-based program that is 7x NCA National Champions, World Champions, & D2 Summit Champions!

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Sep 30 • 10:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Arnold Schwarzenegger is Santa in Prime Video's 'The Man with the Bag' teaser trailer, coming this Christmas

Schwarzenegger stars alongside Alan Ritchson in this holiday heist movie premiering on Prime Video December 2.

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Sep 30 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • aboutamazon.com
A record-breaking X-ray flash may reveal the birth of a magnetar

Astronomers have found strong evidence that some mysterious, minutes-long X-ray flashes are produced when two neutron stars collide and create a magnetar. One record-setting event glowed in X-rays for nearly 10 minutes, potentially opening a new way to find these extreme cosmic mergers.

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Sep 30 • 8:22 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
'Dancing with the Stars' Yacht Rock Night ends in surprise elimination

"Dancing with the Stars" continued its star-studded 35th season Tuesday with a surprise elimination.

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Sep 30 • 7:47 AM EDT • Entertainment • cincinnati.com
Why astronomers make fake stars with huge lasers

For the first time in 2026, the Very Large Telescope in Chile is operating with up to seven lasers that fire up into the atmosphere. But why do astronomers need them?

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Sep 30 • 5:01 AM EDT • Science • bbc.com
Manchester City stars now fearing Premier League relegation

Manchester City players are worried that they face relegation, after the Premier League’s confirmation of the guilty verdicts from their financial rule breach hearing.Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Imag...

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Sep 30 • 4:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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‘Wonka the Golden Ticket’ winner talks ‘nerve-wracking’ finale and big plans for winnings

‘Wonka’s the Golden Ticket’ season 1 stars Garrison Wilson, Gabrielle Wright, and Taylor Schilling were the final three contestants competing for a lifetime supply of money.

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Sep 30 • 3:01 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Knicks Stars ‘Heartbroken’ and ‘Hurt’ by Offseason News

Less than a month after winning the NBA Finals, the New York Knicks learned that Mitchell Robinson would be departing for the Boston Celtics. The post Knicks Stars ‘Heartbroken’ and ‘Hurt’ by Offseason News appeared first on HEAVY.

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Luka Doncic Offers Massive Compliment To Stephen Curry

The questions on NBA media day often force superstars to show respect to others around the league. Luka Doncic received a question at the Los Angeles Lakers media day event about the toughest players to guard in the league. The Lakers superstar wasted no time and had Stephen Curry ready as his answer before the […] The post Luka Doncic Offers Massive Compliment To Stephen Curry appeared first on HEAVY.

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Derek Hough gets frustrated after being cut off by ‘DWTS’ producers while giving feedback

Derek Hough appeared frustrated after being cut off by the ‘Dancing with the Stars’ producers while giving feedback to Jenna Dewan and Val Chmerkovskiy during week 3’s ‘Yach Rock Night.’

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Sep 29 • 10:32 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Jenna Johnson hints Harry Shum Jr. is getting low scores on ‘DWTS’ because of his experience

Jenna Johnson made a shady comment about her and Harry Shum Jr. getting scored low on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ because of his previous experience.

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Sep 29 • 9:50 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Julia Stiles breaks down in tears, injures rib rehearsing for “Dancing With the Stars”’ ‘Yacht Rock Night’

Stiles staged a major comeback on week 3 after a disappointing sophomore outing, dancing to “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)” by Hall & Oates.

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Sep 29 • 9:14 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Amber Glenn sobs after giving partner Pasha Pashkov brutal bloody injury in rehearsal

Amber Glenn broke down after giving partner Pasha Pashkov a brutal and bloody injury in ‘Dancing With the Stars’ rehearsal for ‘Yacht Rock’ night.

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Sep 29 • 8:56 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Tottenham Step Up Interest in Bayer Leverkusen’s Ibrahim Maza

North London rivals are monitoring the versatile Algerian playmaker as Premier League heavyweights weigh up a move for one of the Bundesliga’s most technically gifted rising stars.

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Sep 29 • 7:17 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘DWTS’ pro Witney Carson says she grew up idolizing Julianne Hough: ‘I wanted to be her’

Witney Carson explains how she felt about Julianne Hough as the ‘Dancing With the Stars’ pro and host were growing up in Utah.

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Sep 29 • 7:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
The Streamers Tried To Conquer Labor Day…and Whiffed

(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.) What? Another Streaming Ratings Report already? You betcha. Nielsen has moved up the release of their Streaming Ratings data by two weeks, which means I’ve got two extra issues to get out. But I love this change because it will make this report more timely and easier to publish regularly. This week—with the viewership data for the week of 31-Aug—we’ve got some huge, huge topics to discuss. On the film side, two theatrical films (The Mandalorian and Grogu on Disney+ and Scary Movie on Paramount+) contend with two non-Netflix straight-to-streaming films (Mayday on Apple TV and The Runner on Prime Video). The streamers went all in to win Labor Day weekend in America. And we have a bunch of TV shows to analyze, both new shows (Netflix’s The Gentleman, Hulu’s Chad Powers, and an Alix Earle reality show) and weekly shows like Reacher, Ted Lasso, House of the Dragon and Lioness. All that, plus nepotism in Hollywood, some eye-popping fantasy football stats, 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 August 31st to September 6th, 2026. You can find a link to my terminology here.) Subscribe Film - A Slew of Labor Day Disappointments? A lot of streamers released big new films this week, why? My theory is that the streamers know that four-day weekends can propel streaming films to glory. But if you’ve been reading more over the last two years, you know that big holiday weekends aren’t driving big viewership numbers the way they did post-Covid. And interestingly enough, Netflix didn’t put out a big new film this week. But four other streamers did, trying to take advantage of the holiday with some (not cheap) swings, including… The Mandalorian and Grogu on Disney+ (a Star Wars film that cost $165 million and made $177 million at the US domestic box office) Mayday on Apple TV (rumored $100 million budget, no theatrical release) The Runner on Prime Video (at least a $40 million budget, but likely $50 to $80 million, no theatrical release). Scary Movie on Paramount+ ($30 million budget, made $108 million domestically). (Paramount+ also released a made-for-streaming film based on the Thundermans IP, and I’ll discuss that later.) So…how’d they do? The Mandalorian and Grogu Leads The Way (But That Isn’t Enough) Let’s start with The Mandalorian and Grogu (which I’ll abbreviate to Mando for most of this article). 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 Mando, Mayday, The Runner and Scary Movie performed on streaming... How the powerhouse weekly released shows (Reacher, Ted Lasso and Lioness) have accumulate a LOT of viewership… How House of the Dragon finished its run… The latest Netflix show to have a sophomore slump… Whether top creators can drive viewers to their shows… Nepotism in Hollywood and the music business... All the flops, bombs and misses for the week… And more… ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. Coming Soon! Since Nielsen has accelerated their streaming data release schedule, I’ve got a lot of Streaming Ratings Reports coming your way! Next issue, I’ll be looking at the second season of Peacock’s The Paper, the latest season of Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and a very, very expensive Daily Wire fantasy series that’s now on Prime Video. Plus Crew Girl and Dang! on Netflix, a new Tyler Perry film, and one of the biggest bombs of the summer, Supergirl. In the next two issues, I’ll take a look at the return of the NFL to streaming, Toy Story 5 on Disney+, Backrooms on HBO Max, and The Breadwinner on Netflix. On the TV side, we’ve got Netflix’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, Dancing with the Stars on Disney+, Apple TV’s Slow Horses, a Reacher spinoff on Prime Video, and Paramount+’s MobLand, a Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey comedy on Apple TV, a sequel to a Cosby Show spinoff on Netflix, The Great British Baking Show, and the Unabomber film. And while doing all that, I want to take a look at adult animated shows, Ride or Die’s cancellation, and Netflix’s summer films. So much great stuff! Long term, two bits of comic book news. The X-Men cast has been announced, and go ahead and color me bull-ish, if not very, very bull-ish on this bit of comic book IP. In weirder news, HBO Max ordered a “true crime” show by Jimmy Olsen about Gorilla Grodd being falsely convicted of murder. I mean, what? I don’t know, let’s see what happens.

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RB Leipzig Receives €353,000 From UEFA for International Duty

The German side secured €353,000 for releasing sixteen stars, topping 611 European teams in a multi-million euro distribution recognizing the rising cost of international player availability.

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Sep 29 • 6:37 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
UWEC science hall to hosts last season of planetarium shows

EAU CLAIRE — During previous semesters at UW-Eau Claire, L.E. Phillips Planetarium was the place to spend nights kicking back and looking at the stars.

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Sep 29 • 6:30 PM EDT • Science • leadertelegram.com
Gambit's Best of New Orleans 2026: Entertainment

Design by Dora Sison / Gambit Best Bounce Artist googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('ad-1492300'); }); 1. Big Freedia (Instagram: @bigfreedia)2. Ha Sizzle (Instagram: @hasizzlethevoice)3. Subtweet Shawn (Instagram: @subtweetshawn1) Trixie Minx Photo by Sophia Germer / The Times-Picayune Best Burlesque Performer1. Trixie Minx (Instagram: @trixienola)2. Bella Blue (Instagram: @bellablueforever)3. Miss Angie Z (Instagram: @missangiez) Best Casino1. Caesars New Orleans (8 Canal St., 800-427-7247; caesars.com/caesars-new-orleans)2. Treasure Chest Casino (4550 Williams Blvd., Kenner, 504-443-8000; treasurechest.com)3. Boomtown Casino (4132 Peters Road., Harvey, 504-366-7711; boomtownneworleans.com) Best Drag Performer1. Debbie with a D (Instagram: @debbiewithad)2. Katrina Waters (Instagram: @katrinawaters504)3. Laveau Contraire (Instagram: @laveaucontraire) Best Festival (that's still around)1. New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (nojazzfest.com)2. French Quarter Festival (frenchquarterfest.org)3. Hogs For The Cause (hogsfest.org) Best Food Festival1. New Orleans Fried Chicken Festival (friedchickenfestival.com)2. Oak Street Po-Boy Festival (poboyfest.com)3. New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (nojazzfest.com) Tipitina's Photo by Sophia Germer / The Times-Picayune Best Live Music Venue1. Tipitina’s (501 Napoleon Ave., 504-895-8477; tipitinas.com)2. The Broadside (600 N Broad St., 504-766-0871; broadsidenola.com)3. The Fillmore (6 Canal St., 504-881-1555; thefillmorenola.com) Best Live Music Club1. Maple Leaf Bar (8316 Oak St., 504-866-9359; mapleleafbar.com)2. Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro (626 Frenchmen St., 504-949-0696; snugjazz.com)3. Chickie Wah Wah (2828 Canal St., 504-541-2050; chickiewahwah.com)3. Blue Nile (532 Frenchmen St., 504-766-6193; bluenilelive.com) Best Local Blues Artist/Band1. Little Freddie King (littlefreddieking.com)2. Samantha Fish (samanthafish.com)3. Tab Benoit (tabbenoit.com) Best Local Brass Band1. Rebirth Brass Band (rebirthbrassband.com)2. Hot 8 Brass Band (hot8brassband.com)3. The Soul Rebels (thesoulrebels.com) Best Local DJ1. Paul Lakeway (Instagram: @paul_lakeway)2. DJ Soul Sister (Instagram: @djsoulsister)3. ANTWIGADEE! (Instagram: @antwigadee) Best Local Funk Band1. Dumpstaphunk (dumpstaphunk.com)2. Galactic (galacticfunk.com)3. Big Sam's Funky Nation (bigsamsfunkynation.com) Kaye the Beast Provided Photo by Catherine Debuys Best Local Hip-Hop Group/Artist1. Kaye the Beast (Instagram: @kayethebeast)2. La Reezy (Instagram: @lareezymusic)3. Pell (Instagram: @pellyeah) Best Local Movie Theater1. The Broad Theater (636 N. Broad St., 504-218-1008; thebroadtheater.com)2. The Prytania (5339 Prytania St., 504-891-2787; theprytania.com) googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('ad-1492297'); }); 3. The Prytania Theatre at Canal Place (333 Canal St., 3rd floor, 504-290-2658; theprytania.com) Best Local Music Artist/Band1. Robin Barnes & The Fiya Birds (robinbarnesmusic.com)2. Trombone Shorty (tromboneshorty.com)3. Sweet Crude (sweetcrudeband.com) Best Local Rock Band1. The Revivalists (therevivalists.com)2. Better Than Ezra (betterthanezra.com)3. Cowboy Mouth (cowboymouth.com) Best Wedding Band/ DJ1. The Mixed Nuts (themixednuts.com)2. Bucktown All-Stars (bucktownallstars.com)3. Warm Advice (warmadvice.com) Doreen Ketchens Provided photo Best Local Street Performer1. Doreen Ketchens (doreensjazz.org)2. Jourdan Blue (Instagram: @jourblue)3. Sariyah Idan (ariyahidan.com) Best Local Theater Company1. The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans (504-264-2580; twtheatrenola.com)2. Le Petit Theatre (616 St. Peter St., 504-522-2081; lepetittheatre.com)3. The NOLA Project (504-302-9117; nolaproject.com) Best Local Traditional Jazz Group/Artist1. Preservation Hall Jazz Band (preservationhalljazzband.com)2. Kermit Ruffins (@ruffinsbbq)3. Trombone Shorty (tromboneshorty.com) Best Marching Band1. St. Augustine High School Marching 100 (Instagram: @staugmarching100)2. Edna Karr High School Marching Band (Instagram: @theofficialkarrband)3. The Roots of Music Marching Crusaders (therootsofmusic.org) Best Mardi Gras Parade1. Muses (kreweofmuses.org)2. Iris (kreweofiris.org)3. Endymion (endymion.org) 610 Stompers Photo by Chris Granger / The Times-Picayune Best Mardi Gras Dance Krewe1. 610 Stompers (610stompers.com)2. Amelia EarHawts (aecabinkrewe.com)3. The Jamettes (Instagram: @thejametteskrewe) Best Place to See Burlesque/Drag1. The AllWays Lounge & Cabaret (2240 St. Claude Ave., 504-218-5778; theallwayslounge.net)2. The Original Nite Cap (1300 St. Bernard Ave., 2nd floor, 504-224-2854; Instagram: @originalnitecap)3. The Country Club (634 Louisa St., 504-945-0742; thecountryclubneworleans.com) Best Place to See Comedy1. Sports Drink (1042 Toledano St.; sportsdrink.org)2. The Howlin' Wolf (907 S. Peters St., 504-529-5844; thehowlinwolf.com)3. Big Couch New Orleans (1045 Desire St.; bigcouchnola.com) Best Local Comedian1. Ryan Rogers (ryanrogerscomedy.com)2. Mark Normand (marknormandcomedy.com)3. Cyrus Cooper (Instagram: @cyrusjcooper) Best Strip Club1. The Penthouse Club (727 Iberville St., 504-524-4354; penthouseclubneworleans.com)2. Rick’s Cabaret (315 Bourbon St., 504-524-4222; rickscabaretneworleans.com)3. Larry Flynt's Hustler Club (225 Bourbon St., 504-524-0010; neworleanshustlerclub.com) Best Performing Arts Center1. Jefferson Performing Arts Center (6400 Airline Dr., 504-731-4700; jeffersonpac.com)2. Saenger Theatre (1111 Canal St., 504-525-1052; saengertheatreneworleans.com)3. 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'Verity' puts Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett in a steamy Colleen Hoover thriller

Anne Hathaway stars in “Verity,” a psychological thriller where trust is elusive | KCBS All News 106.9FM and 740AM

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Cottagers on tour: Castagne, Charles in action

As the international break continues to rumble on, Fulham's stars continue to be involved and there were three players involved for Fulham on Monday night - find out who and how they got on below!

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Keenum stars for Bears on first start since 2023

Veteran quarterback Case Keenum throws for two touchdowns and rushes for another as the Chicago Bears beat the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL.

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Jahmyr Gibbs, Amon-Ra St. Brown Make NFL History

Detroit Lions stars Jahmyr Gibbs and Amon-Ra St. Brown became the first teammates since 1962 to each score at least five touchdowns through three games.

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Sep 28 • 9:28 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Florida Basketball: 4 Stars Fuel a Powerful SEC Repeat Bid

The Florida Gators enter the 2026-27 season with a big advantage over other teams. The Gators return their already established core. With most of their frontcourt returning, the Florida basketball program has the size, physicality, and experience to finish at the top of the SEC. Continuity does not guarantee that Florida will win the conference. …

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Tom Cruise, Alejandro G. Iñárritu unveil new Ed Ruscha 'Digger' poster

Tom Cruise, Jesse Plemons and John Goodman — stars of Alejandro González Iñárritu's 'Digger' — attended the LACMA unveiling of a new film poster by Ed Ruscha.

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Sep 28 • 5:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
SpaceX's Starship reaches orbit for the first time, then returns early and blows up in a fiery explosion

SpaceX got its Starship rocket into orbit, but after a tense few minutes of comms and the loss of an engine, the call was made to end the mission early.

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9 reality stars who regret putting their lives on camera
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Sep 28 • 1:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
“Off Campus ”stars Ella Bright and Belmont Cameli address feud rumors

Fans began speculating about a rift between the costars after photos of Bright disappeared from Cameli’s Instagram grid.

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Sep 28 • 12:01 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
SpaceX’s Starship launches on 14th flight, first headed to orbit

SpaceX's Starship rocket launched from Texas on its 14th flight, marking the first operational satellite release and debut flight to orbit.

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Sep 28 • 11:07 AM EDT • Business • virginiabusiness.com
Denise Richards honors late ex Patrick Muldoon on his first birthday after death, posts photo of their ‘last hug’

Richards shared a tribute to her “Starship Troopers” costar and former partner on what would’ve been his 58th birthday.

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Sep 28 • 11:06 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
‘Starship is in orbit’: cheers go up as huge SpaceX rocket circles Earth for first time

Mission goes ahead despite some fears an initial engine failure after the Texas launch would scupper the attempt

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Sep 28 • 10:44 AM EDT • Science • theguardian.com
SpaceX launches Starship on 10-hour test flight, aiming to orbit Earth 6 times

SpaceX's massive Starship rocket lifted off from Texas Sunday morning on its most ambitious mission yet, marking its first attempt at orbit.

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Sep 28 • 8:57 AM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com
Yuva Dasara to feature five nights of music, entertainment

Five nights of Yuva Dasara 2026 in Mysuru showcase diverse musical acts daily, featuring Ajaneesh Loknath, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Sid Sriram, Sandalwood stars, and Jasmine Sandlas.

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Sep 28 • 8:54 AM EDT • Entertainment • thehindu.com
SpaceX’s supersized Starship launches toward orbit for the first time

SpaceX has launched its enormous Starship toward orbit for the first time, aiming for six full laps around Earth to prove its readiness for NASA's Artemis moon program.

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Sep 28 • 8:51 AM EDT • Science • seattletimes.com
Youngster Sullivan's numbers speak for themselves

Cavan Sullivan's performances, goals, and assists since the World Cup put him up there with the MLS's top individual stars, including Lionel Messi, Antoine Griezmann and Luis Suarez. Few players beyond those mentioned can match Sullivan's goal contribution rate in MLS since the World Cup, and there is a strong argument to say the youngster has been the best player in the league during that time. Sullivan has seven goals and five assists in MLS this season.

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Sep 28 • 7:46 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Starship Attempts Its First Launch To Orbit Today Carrying Big Dreams You Can Watch Take Flight

If the launch is successful, plans for humanity’s return to the Moon may look a touch less improbable.

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Sep 28 • 7:14 AM EDT • Science • iflscience.com
Taylor Swift turned up, Madonna let loose and everybody smoked: The 2026 MTV VMAs, from every angle

The 2026 VMAs gave us a Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter collab, a football-related delay and ... smoking rock stars.

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Sep 27 • 11:51 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Best and Worst Moments of the 2026 MTV VMAs: Madonna Slays Opening Performance and More

Snoop Dogg hosted the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, September 27, where Madonna, Taylor Swift and more stars were honored

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Sep 27 • 10:34 PM EDT • Entertainment • usmagazine.com
Mariota stars as Commanders end Seahawks' winning run

Marcus Mariota threw three touchdown passes as the Washington Commanders claimed a 33-31 victory over Seattle to end the Seahawks' long winning streak. Seattle had won a dozen games in a row, following up last season's Super Bowl triumph by starting their campaign with back-to-back triumphs, but Mariota starred in the absence of the injured Jayden Daniels.

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Sep 27 • 10:18 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Brutally honest reviews of every VMAs performance, including Madonna and Raye

The 2026 MTV Video Music Awards tapped one of the most legendary stars – Madonna – to open its 2026 soiree, but plenty of upstarts were on the performance docket.

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Sep 27 • 9:16 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
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Mariota stars as Commanders end Seahawks' winning run

Marcus Mariota threw three touchdown passes as the Washington Commanders claimed a 33-31 victory over Seattle to end the Seahawks' long winning streak. Seattle had won a dozen games in a row, following up last season's Super Bowl triumph by starting their campaign with back-to-back triumphs, but Mariota starred in the absence of the injured Jayden Daniels.

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Sep 27 • 6:48 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
VMAs 2026 Red Carpet: All the Fashion and Looks

The 2026 MTV VMAs are in full swing, and music’s biggest stars are showing up and out on the red carpet. Hosted by Snoop Dogg, this year’s Video Music Awards promises audiences a jam-packed program, i...

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Sep 27 • 6:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
See All the Stars Arriving on the Red Carpet at the 2026 MTV VMAs

Snoop Dogg hosts the 43rd edition of the iconic music awards show, airing live from Los Angeles on Sept. 27

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Sep 27 • 5:54 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com