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TV shows and streaming video
All the latest news, reviews and interviews about your favourite television series, as well as shows and films on Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+ and other streaming platforms.
Korean singer and actress Lee Hye-ri has been approached for a lead role in the coming K-drama Caution, Hazardous Wife. Photo: Instagram/hyeri_0609
K-drama news

Latest K-drama casting news about Lee Hye-ri, Choi Hyun-wook and more

Lee Hye-ri is eyeing a role as a spy in Caution, Hazardous Wife, while Choi Hyun-wook is considering the baseball-themed Green Light.

Celebrity children

Meet Chris Rock’s daughter Zahra Rock, who’s in Netflix’s Roommates

South Korea

In hi-tech South Korea, AI shamans take place of traditional human practitioners

Fame and celebrity

Meet Aimee Carrero, who stars in Apple TV’s Your Friends & Neighbors

Carrero, who rose to fame voicing Disney’s first Latina princess, reprises her role in the Jon Hamm-led show’s second season.

Aimee Carrero at the Your Friends and Neighbors season two premiere in New York City. Photo: Getty Images/AFP
Korean drama reviews

Yumi’s Cells season 3: Kim Go-eun returns for a final romantic chapter

Yumi’s Cells season 3 begins with the main character living on autopilot. Then, her life gets a jolt when a new love interest appears.

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Fame and celebrity

Meet The Testaments actress Lucy Halliday, who’s already won a Bafta Scotland

Halliday plays Daisy in The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, alongside Elisabeth Moss who reprises her role as June Osborne.

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Netflix

Q&A | Asian-American Sheng Wang likes to be bored. His best jokes come from it

The Taiwanese-American talks about how jokes in Purple, now on Netflix, were inspired by small everyday events, and his bond with Ali Wong.

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Sheng Wang performs in Los Angeles in November 2022. The Taiwanese-American stand-up comedian talks about his new Netflix special “Purple” and finding humour in “fleeting” everyday moments. Photo: Getty Images/TNS
Netflix

Review | Beef season 2: Netflix’s chaotic follow-up is more overcooked than well done

Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Cailee Spaeny and Charles Melton star as two feuding couples in a follow-up lacking what made season one great.

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Viu

Hong Kong-set series The Season depicts the dark side of city’s high society

Jessie Mei Li, Toby Stephens and Karena Lam talk about playing cutthroat wealthy socialites in revenge drama The Season, coming out in June.

Fame and celebrity

Meet Robin Dearden, wife of Malcolm in the Middle star Bryan Cranston

Cranston is reprising his role as Hal in Hulu’s Malcolm in the Middle reboot, and just attended the Olivier Awards with Dearden – they are also the parents of The Pitt’s Taylor Dearden.

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Bryan Cranston and Robin Dearden have been married for almost 40 years. They’re pictured here at the Olivier Awards 2026 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Photo: EPA
Fame and celebrity

Who is Hacks actress Jean Smart’s boyfriend, Joe Pacheco?

The first episode of Hacks’ final season just dropped – and Smart, who stars as Deborah Vance, thanked her beau at the Golden Globes this January.

Joe Pacheco and Jean Smart – who plays Deborah Vance on Hacks – at the Los Angeles season five premiere of the HBO Max show. Photo: AFP
Korean drama reviews

Perfect Crown: IU, Byeon Woo-seok lead romance K-drama far from perfect

A love story about a chaebol heir and a modern-day prince, Perfect Crown follows a winning formula but is let down by unrelatable characters.

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Fame and celebrity

Meet Isabel Gravitt, who plays Tori in Your Friends & Neighbors

The 22-year-old – whose acting journey began with a Walmart trip – plays the daughter of Jon Hamm’s character in the Apple TV series.

Celebrity Families

Meet Grace Van Patten’s younger sister, Anna – who’s in Euphoria Season 3

The Tell Me Lies star’s sister is joining the new season of the HBO hit, alongside Sydney Sweeney, Zendaya, Jacob Elordi and Hunter Schafer.

Anna Van Patten and Grace Van Patten are both actresses – and Anna has just joined Euphoria season three. Photo: WireImage
Fame and celebrity

Meet Chloe Cherry, the former adult actress who plays Faye on Euphoria

Euphoria is back after 4 years – and so is Chloe Cherry, who was discovered by Sam Levinson on social media and has since starred in Charli XCX’s MV for ‘360’.

Chloe Cherry worked as an adult actress before being discovered on Instagram; she now plays Faye on Euphoria. Photo: @perfect_angelgirl/Instagram, Reuters
Netflix

Beef season 2 is ‘a bridge between West and East’, says director Lee Sung-jin

Lee Sung-jin shares how the new season of the hit drama, with Oscar Isaac and Charles Melton, explores a mixed-race character’s Korean roots.

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Fame and celebrity

Who is The Traitors’ Maura Higgins – and why is everyone obsessed with her?

The Irish reality star was in The Traitors Season 4, Love Island and I’m a Celebrity – and may have Disney and The Bachelorette gigs in the works.

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K-drama news

Profile | Who is Byeon Woo-seok, IU’s co-star in romance K-drama Perfect Crown?

Coming to prominence in shows like Record of Youth and Strong Girl Nam-soon, Byeon Woo-seok returns this weekend in a hotly anticipated role.

Byeon Woo-seok (left) and IU in a still from Perfect Crown. Photo: Disney+.
Fame and celebrity

Meet Gerran Howell, who plays Dr Whitaker in HBO Max’s The Pitt

The 35-year-old appears alongside Dr Michael ‘Robby’ Robinavitch (Noah Wyle) and Victoria Javadi (Shabana Azeez), and starred in Catch-22 with George Clooney.

American cinema

Zendaya’s Hollywood reign continues in 2026: what you’ll see her in

Zendaya has a busy year ahead, starring in The Drama with Robert Pattinson, Euphoria, and the latest in the Spider-Man and Dune franchises.

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Fame and celebrity

Meet Luke Tennie, the Shrinking star who just joined The Pitt

Before landing his role in the HBO Max medical drama, the father of 2 was already an avid fan – and named it as his dream show to star in.

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Shrinking’s Luke Tennie has joined The Pitt’s cast, playing Dr Crus Henderson. Photos: Getty Images/AFP, Handout
Disney+

Malcolm in the Middle is back – and the family is as crazy as ever

Frankie Muniz rejoins Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek 20 years later as a grown-up Malcolm with a teenage daughter, on Hulu and Disney+.

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Frankie Muniz plays an adult Malcolm in Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair, a reboot of the series 20 years after its last episode. Photo: AP
Fame and celebrity

Meet Joel Kinnaman, who plays ‘monster’ Robert in Imperfect Women

The Swedish-American actor also stars in For All Mankind and Detective Hole – and is known for blockbusters like The Killing and 2014’s RoboCop.

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Fame and celebrity

‘Ketamine Queen’ gets 15 years in jail for selling Matthew Perry deadly drugs

Jasveen Sangha allegedly ran an elaborate operation catering to high-end clients like the 54-year-old Friends star.

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Icons and Influencers

Meet Anthony Norman, star of Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat

The second instalment of Amazon’s hoax comedy show stars an unsuspecting Anthony Norman, who believed he was working a temp job and ended up heroically saving the day.

Anthony Norman attending a screening of Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat in California. Photo: Getty Images
Celebrity children

Meet Sophia Meloni, Christopher Meloni’s daughter, who directed his new film

Sophia debuts as writer/director with Chop Cheese, a New York coming-of-age film starring her father, Law & Order actor Christopher Meloni.

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star Christopher Meloni and his daughter, Sophia, who has directed a film that features her father. Photo: @chris_meloni/Instagram
American cinema

How Generation Alpha could save Hollywood as PG-rated films lead the way

As PG-rated films outperform other ratings at the US box office, studios are looking to cash in on a growing love of family-friendly films.

Asian cinema: Chinese films

How Gingle Wang went from clueless novice to one of Taiwan’s top young actresses

Wang’s first-ever scene took 33 takes, but now she is a ‘box office guarantee’ in Taiwan and an increasingly familiar face internationally.

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