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HBO is already looking ahead to Harry Potter’s second year at Hogwarts, and three characters who will play major roles in the Chamber of Secrets story have officially been cast. Lenny Rush will play Dobby, Billy Barratt has been cast as Tom Riddle, and Bonnie Hill will take over the role of Ginny Weasley beginning with Season 2. The casting news arrives months before HBO’s Harry Potter series even premieres, but with production on the second season expected to begin this fall

This article contains spoilers. The Paper is back for Season 2 with more laughs, more romance, and even more office tension. After ending last season with a bang, The Toledo Truth Teller sweeping the Toledo Journalism Awards and Ned and Mare kicking off an office romance, we had plenty to look forward to this season. One thing The Paper has completely nailed is simple comedy. You don’t always need a grand comedic gesture to make an audience laugh, and characters like Barry an

The Johnson family is officially getting bigger on Beyond the Gates, and Shanice is about to have some familiar faces around Fairmont Crest. Khiry Walker and Denzell Dandridge have joined the CBS daytime drama as Cedric Johnson and Lamont Johnson, the brothers of Shanice Johnson. The casting became apparent after the actors’ names appeared in the show’s closing credits, giving viewers confirmation that two members of Shanice’s family are headed into the story. Both Walker and

The DiMera Chess Mystery Is Going International! At the Brady Pub, Belle is on the phone with her brother Paul and fills him in on everything she and Chad have uncovered surrounding the mysterious DiMera chess puzzle. She has already sent over all the information they have found, but the deeper they dig, the stranger this mystery becomes. Marlena joins the conversation and gives her daughter a little history lesson because when it comes to the DiMeras and the Brady women, the

Bikini Bar: Katie Meets Darcy At Bikini Bar, Darcy wants to know why Dylan never told her that she was dating Will Spencer. Darcy is a huge fan of Katie and clearly knows plenty about the Spencer family. Katie, meanwhile, wants to know why Dylan has been so secretive about her life. And KATIE comes prepared to expose almost ALL of Dylan’s greatest hits: She lived in her car. She lived with Will while he was still dating Electra. And those are just the highlights! Darcy is gen

Friday has arrived, and if your weekend plans involve ignoring the outside world and finding something good to watch, television is more than willing to help. Apple TV has one of the day's biggest lineups with the Season 3 finale of Silo and another episode of Dark Matter, while Netflix invites viewers into Alix Earle's world with the premiere of Earle Meets World. Prime Video also has The Grand Tour back on the road, Paramount+ heads onto the football field with The Program:

The MasterChef: Global Gauntlet finale is officially set, but getting there required the remaining home cooks to survive one of the toughest nights of the season. Wednesday's semifinal began with Heidi Muston, Jake Kelley, Peter Egede, Basia Newman and Julia Cili still fighting for the title, and by the end of the episode, two cooks had turned in their aprons while the final three secured their places in the Season 16 finale. The semifinal also brought a twist to one of Maste

Edgewater is calling us back, but judging by the first official trailer for Sheriff Country Season 2, Sheriff Mickey Fox might need a vacation before she starts protecting anybody else. CBS has released the trailer for the sophomore season of the Fire Country spinoff, and Mickey (Morena Baccarin) is dealing with considerably more than the latest crimes hitting her hometown. Season 2 premieres Friday, October 9 at 8/7c, picking up after the family bombshell that closed out the

Edgewater is about to become a very busy place again. Sheriff Country and Fire Country are officially coming together for another major crossover, with CBS setting a two-hour event for Friday, November 6. The crossover will span the fifth episodes of Sheriff Country Season 2 and Fire Country Season 5, bringing Mickey Fox, Bode Leone, Manny Perez and plenty of familiar faces together for a story involving escaped convicts, a hostage crisis and a major fire event. The night beg

Sarah may be trying to build something with Brady, but her feelings for Xander aren't disappearing quite so easily. On the September 3 episode of Days of Our Lives, Sarah finally put those complicated emotions into words, unfortunately, Xander was close enough to hear them. The drama unfolded during the daddy-daughter dance, where several Salem families gathered for what should have been a relatively sweet event. Brady, however, couldn't ignore what he has been noticing betwe

There are bad ideas, and then there are Phyllis Summers ideas. On the September 3 episode of The Young and the Restless, Phyllis came up with a plan involving Sharon and Matt Clark that sounds like exactly the kind of scheme destined to blow up spectacularly in everyone's faces. Phyllis has managed to locate Matt, but she's keeping that information to herself. Instead of simply telling everyone where he is, she has decided Matt needs an opportunity to prove that he's changed.

Just when it seemed Drew couldn’t possibly make the Jack Brennan situation messier, he found a way. On the September 3 episode of General Hospital, Drew took his revenge against Nina to an entirely different level by planting evidence that could connect her directly to Brennan’s disappearance. Drew broke into Nina’s car with a very specific plan in mind. A flashback revealed that he had secretly taken Brennan’s wallet before he and Ava disposed of the WSB chief’s body, and Dr

It looks like viewers aren’t abandoning their rings anytime soon. Lanterns continues to build its audience, with Episode 3 delivering the HBO series its biggest numbers yet. The episode attracted 10 million global viewers during its first three days, including 7 million viewers in the United States, according to Warner Bros. Discovery. That gives the DC Studios drama a new series high and, perhaps more importantly, shows that the audience is growing rather than simply showing

There are certain subjects I tend to stay away from when it comes to movies, and stories centered on racism in the Deep South and the Ku Klux Klan are usually high on that list. It is not because those stories should not be told, they absolutely should but because they can be emotionally exhausting to sit through, especially when we already know how ugly this chapter of American history was. So I went into By Any Means knowing the subject matter probably wasn't going to be an

Nearly 50 years after Genie Francis first stepped into Port Charles as Laura, the General Hospital icon is receiving one of daytime television’s highest honors. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced Thursday that Francis will receive the Lifetime Achievement Honor at the 53rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, taking place October 30 in Hollywood, California. The honor arrives just months before another extraordinary milestone for Francis. In February 2027, sh

Gloria Steinem, the trailblazing journalist, author and activist who became one of the most influential voices of the modern women’s movement, has died. She was 92. Steinem died Wednesday at her home in New York City after experiencing declining health, according to the Associated Press. Her death was announced Thursday through social media accounts associated with Steinem and her foundation. For more than six decades, Steinem was a prominent advocate for gender equality, rep

The Harrigans haven’t even returned for their second round of family drama, bloodshed and power struggles, but Paramount+ is already making sure they’ll be back for more. Paramount+ has officially renewed MobLand for a third season ahead of the crime drama’s Season 2 premiere on Friday, September 18. Even better for fans, the Harrigan family’s biggest players aren’t going anywhere. Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren are all set to return for Season 3. Hardy will repri

Nothing says “trust me with your marriage” quite like hiding a murderous passion, apparently. Elsbeth is kicking off Season 4 with Nicole Scherzinger stepping into the guest-star spotlight as Serena Collyer, a renowned marriage counselor whose polished exterior is hiding something considerably messier and deadlier. CBS has revealed details for the Season 4 premiere, appropriately titled “Crazy in Love,” which will bring Elsbeth into Serena’s orbit as she begins looking beneat

Sheriff Mickey Fox is getting some backup when Sheriff Country returns, but we're already being warned not to trust the new guy too quickly. Ben McKenzie will guest star in the Season 2 premiere as Sheriff Wade, a neighboring lawman called in to help Mickey. CBS has revealed that Wade has “a few secrets of his own,” which is television language for please start being suspicious immediately. The episode, titled “Cyclone,” finds Mickey struggling to process a shocking revelatio

Fire Country has burned plenty of Edgewater over the years, so apparently Season 5 decided to try swallowing part of the town instead. CBS has revealed details for the Season 5 premiere, “Founders’ Day,” and the new season will begin with a catastrophic sinkhole opening beneath Main Street while residents are celebrating Edgewater’s annual Founders’ Day festival. Because of course it happens during a festival. Nobody on television is ever allowed to enjoy a community event in