Spotify Cancels 11 Original Podcasts, Trimming Slate as Part of Focusing on Bigger Shows

hell out of a suit. Menswear is her quintessential look for career-defining moments, from her first red carpet appearances in the '90s to countless premieres and awards shows she's attended since.

Let's be honest - not even Pinocchio would have predicted a Hearts win over his hometown club Fiorentina.

Stephanie Sibounheuang is speaking out.

ScotRail is urging commuters in Lanarkshire to check their journey before travelling as a RMT overtime ban gets underway.

Helen Skelton put on a brave face on It Takes Two tonight just hours after news broke that her estranged husband is expecting a baby just six months after their split.

Robbie Neilson admits Hearts ’ mentality wasn’t right in the first half of of their 5-1 defeat to Fiorentina.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic As it’s gone on, Ryan Murphy’s Netflix deal has revealed how many topics fascinate him — and how rigidly fixed in the past are his manners of addressing them. Has he been able to get beyond the franchises he started on FX? Consider, for instance, his recent smash “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”; the surfeit of punctuation in the title seems to suggest a sublimated desire to call it what it is, another installment of the true-life “American Crime Story” in all but name. “Halston’s” gilded retelling of recent-ish celebrity culture recalled “Feud,” with the adversaries, perhaps, being the designer and his own ego. And now, with his new series “The Watcher,” Murphy has reverse-engineered an “American Horror Story,” taking a true story and finding within or beyond its nuances some Murder House melodramatics.

Elizabeth Taylor The premiere of Ryan Murphy’s latest true crime Netflix series, “The Watcher,” comes on the heels of the huge success of his “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.” “The Watcher” is a haunting limited series based on the real-life, unsolved mystery about a family being stalked in their home. “I think there’s a real appetite for it right now,” star Naomi Watts told Variety at the show’s New York premiere at the Paris Theater on Wednesday. “I’m trying to figure out what it is, but I can theorize. But these are really dark, chaotic things going on in the world right now. I think you want to understand why these things happen and who would you be and how would you cope.”

Owen Hargreaves says four players currently have their positions nailed down in the Manchester United team.

Selome Hailu Karis Jagger and Fabienne Toback have entered a first look deal with Lionsgate Television. Under the deal, they will develop and produce unscripted and documentary programming under their production banner Hey Sistah Productions. Lionsgate’s Pilgrim Media Group, which focuses on unscripted programming, will provide development support and serve as production services entity for sold projects.     Jagger and Toback are best known for producing “High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America,” a Netflix documentary series based on Dr. Jessica Harris’ book of the same name. The series follows food writer Stephen Satterfield on a culinary journey alongside chefs, historians and activists that celebrates the courage, artistry and resourcefulness of the African American people.

“Sell/Buy/Date” opens in US theaters Oct. 14 and on demand Nov. 1 via Cinedigm.

Kwasi Kwarteng did not commit to nor rule out a U-turn on corporation tax, despite growing pressure to abandon even more parts of the recent mini-budget which caused market turmoil.

Hundreds of Omonia Nicosia fans were videoed making their way to Old Trafford ahead of their side's Europa League clash with Manchester United. Droves of Cypriot supporters were seen heading for the Theatre Of Dreams in footage captured by Twitter user Alex Roberts.

Variety. “Leslie Grace was fantastic.

KIM Kardashian has shown off her real waist in an unedited clip from behind the scenes at her Variety cover shoot earlier this year. The reality superstar joined her sisters Kourtney and Khloe, as well as mom Kris Jenner, for the shoot and showed off her famous curves in a high-waisted black leather maxi skirt.

A TikTok video using artificial intelligence has predicted how the infamous Kardashian-Jenner family would look without their cosmetic procedures.

Kylie Jenner is sharing details about her “hair health journey” with her fans, giving an update on her natural hair, as she is known for using a variety of wigs and hair extensions, which are rumored to affect growth. “Over a year into the hair health journey and this is how we’re doing,” the reality star and entrepreneur wrote, showing off her healthy looking hair, while wearing a black Skims bra from her sister’s brand Kim Kardashian.Kylie started her hair journey back in April 2020, discussing the process with her friend Stassie Karanikolaou during an Instagram Live, while on lockdown.“This is the first time I’ve worn my natural hair,” she said at the time, explaining to her fans that she had been using hair masks and “a lot of argan oil.” Kylie began her “hair health journey for the full quarantine,” admitting that it was the perfect time to focus on herself, and take some time to repair some damage in her hair.“This is such a good time to take your hair out and your nails out, no lashes,” she said.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Netflix has taken peak TV to a new peak. In a data point sure to fuel more quantity-versus-quality debate, Netflix broke its own record for number of original episodes released in a single quarter — with 1,026 in the third quarter of 2022, according to a tally by Wall Street firm MoffettNathanson. That’s more than five times any other streaming rival: Amazon Prime Video and Hulu released 223 and 194 episodes, respectively, and Disney+ debuted 140 original episodes, per the report. HBO Max, now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, released 114 episodes in the third quarter — significantly fewer episodes than usual and comprising the lightest slate for the service since Q2 2020, the second quarter after launch. WBD has been paring back HBO Max’s content slate in recent months as it looks to cut costs.

“The Whale,” but he’s also mourning an upcoming project that won’t be seeing the light of day: “Batgirl.” The “Mummy” actor played Ted Carson aka Firefly, the villain of the DC film, and is just as dismayed by its cancellation as fans are.“It’s tragic,” Fraser told Variety. “It doesn’t engender trust among filmmakers and the studio. Leslie Grace was fantastic.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Both Brendan Fraser and Darren Aronofsky have had some high-profile setbacks when it comes to the comic book genre. The two men, who are collaborating on the acclaimed indie drama “The Whale,” opened up about their struggles during recent interviews with Variety. Fraser spent months in Glasgow, Scotland portraying Firefly, a pyromaniac who faces off against Leslie Grace’s costumed heroine in “Batgirl.” That film was supposed to debut on HBO Max, but it was scrapped, a victim of the merger between Discovery and WarnerMedia, the streaming service’s parent company. “It’s tragic,” Fraser told Variety as part of a cover story on “The Whale.” “It doesn’t engender trust among filmmakers and the studio. Leslie Grace was fantastic. She’s a dynamo, just a spot-on performer. Everything that we shot was real and exciting and just the antithesis of doing a straightforward digital all green screen thing. They ran firetrucks around downtown Glasgow at 3 in the morning and they had flamethrowers. It was a big-budget movie, but one that was just stripped down to the essentials.”   

TNT is looking to a British drama series – The Lazarus Project – to plug its scripted gap as Kathleen Finch maintains that the cable network remains in the scripted business.

Dune: Part Two‘s release date has been changed again.

Warner Bros has shifted the release date by two weeks next year for Dune: Part Two going from Nov. 17 to Nov. 3 and still hanging onto Imax screens for the Denis Villeneuve directed sequel.

Layoffs are underway at Warner Bros. Television Group. The cuts include the closing of digital shortform programming division Stage 13 and of the famous Warner Bros. Television Workshop, which has been around for more than 40 years.

Entertainment Tonight” that he has no plans to be on any of his former “Friends” co-stars’ new TV shows any time soon.“I’m taking some time off right now,” LeBlanc, 55, said when asked if he’d be appearing alongside his former castmates on any of the new shows.“I’m just enjoying not having to do anything — it’s been kinda nice. Sorry, I’ll let you know when I do.”The actor and his co-stars have all gone on to star in many different movies and TV shows since the iconic sitcom.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Tito Puente, the influential Nuyroican musician and entertainer, is being honored in a new animated Google Doodle. The animated doodle highlighting Puente’s musical career, illustrated by New York-based Puerto Rican artist Carlos Aponte, will be visible on the main page of the search engine throughout Tuesday (Oct. 11). The doodle coincides with U.S. Hispanic Heritage Month and also comes on the one-year anniversary of the unveiling of the Tito Puente Monument in New York City’s East Harlem. Puente was a percussionist, composer, songwriter, recording artist and bandleader whose career spanned five decades. Puente has been called “El Rey de los Timbales” and “The King of Latin music,” having recorded some 118 albums and being credited on dozens more — more than any other timbales bandleader to date.

Kim Kardashian's new podcast has shot to number one on Spotify. The reality star and trainee lawyer's 'Kim Kardashian’s The System: The Case of Kevin Keith' launched on October 3 with two episodes, and it's proved so popular, it's overtaken the likes of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's 'Archetypes' and 'The Joe Rogan Experience'. The first season of the true crime podcast explores a triple homicide, and Kim's aim with the podcast is to show the "other side" of cases so often go unheard.

Kim Kardashian’s new podcast is taking Spotify by storm.

KIM Kardashian has flaunted her curves in a tight catsuit from her brand Skims. The reality star is continuing to put her famous figure on display on social media despite her ex-husband Kanye West’s recent meltdown.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Spotify terminated at least 38 employees across the Gimlet and Parcast studios as the company canceled 11 original shows, according to the unions representing employees of the divisions. In a joint statement Friday, the two unions said the layoffs represented about 30% of their members. “These aren’t small cuts, they are massive restructurings,” the Gimlet and Parcast unions said. Some Spotify employees were given as little as an hour to close out their work, according to the unions. The statement does not allege that the company violated the terms of its agreements with the unions. “Yesterday, Spotify chose to create chaos instead of treating employees with the dignity and respect they deserve,” said the Gimlet and Parcast unions, both of which are affiliated with the Writers Guild of America East. “The fact that Spotify chose to handle these cuts in this way shows their disregard for both their employees and their audiences.”

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Spotify has appointed new managing directors for its Gimlet and Parcast podcast studios — Nicole Beemsterboer and Liliana Kim, respectively — coming amid the company’s cancellation of 11 original podcasts from the two divisions. Spotify elevated Beemsterboer (above left), a former longtime NPR exec who joined Spotify this year, to the role of Gimlet’s managing director. She takes over for Lydia Polgreen, who left Spotify this spring to rejoin the New York Times as an opinion columnist. Prior to joining as Gimlet’s head of news and knowledge in March, Beemsterboer spent more than 15 years at NPR as a producer where she led the creation and reorganization of the public media org’s first longform podcast unit, the Enterprise Storytelling Unit. At NPR, Beemsterboer worked on shows including “Embedded,” “Invisibilia” and “White Lies.”

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Google is showering Velma with confetti and gay-pride flags after the longtime member of the “Scooby-Doo” crew has officially been confirmed as a lesbian. In a new Easter egg that appeared Wednesday, Google Search queries for “Velma,” “Velma Scooby-Doo” “Velma Dinkley” (the character’s full name) and even “Dinkley” yield a regular search-results page — along with a cascade of multicolored confetti and various LGBTQ flags. The Google Search page then pops up two buttons at the bottom of the page: one to replay the animation, and another to share the search result via Facebook, Twitter or email (along with a trio of gay pride flag icons).

Kanye West can’t help himself when it comes to Kim Kardashian’s style. The Kardashians star revealed on the Thursday, October 6, episode of the Hulu show what her ex-husband texted her about her looks from her trip to Milan with Kendall Jenner.

Kim Kardashian's fans have gone wild after she announced her brand new podcast with Spotify.The 41 year old billionaire is adding yet another string to her bow with the new podcast, which inspired by her interest and work on criminal justice reform. She will narrate the series as she looks into the case of Ohio man Kevin Kieth who was sentenced to death in 1994 for committing a triple murder, before former governor Ted Strickland commuted his sentence to life without parole in 2010.