The second installment of the fifth and final season of Stranger Things began with “The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler,” but those episodes were really the arrival of Nell Fisher.

Jing Lusi waves a notebook in front of the camera on Zoom. It’s chock-full of Korean.

2025 was the year that advertising dealt with shocks to the system: AI disruption reverberated across every part of the ecosystem, Omnicom completed its $13 billion megadeal for IPG, creating a marketing Goliath, and tariff uncertainty threw certain sectors into chaos.

Victoria Jones, the daughter of Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones, who appeared alongside her father in multiple films in the 1990s and on red carpets, was found dead in San Francisco on New Year’s Day, according to local authorities.

Cinemark is giving AMC CEO Adam Aron’s love for popcorn a real run for its money. This year’s National Popcorn Day event at Cinemark is being expanded to two days (from one), and the mountains of popcorn are being piled even higher — for certain Lowe’s customers that is.

RuPaul’s Drag Race has officially RuVealed the cast for its upcoming 18th season.

Braving frigid temperatures outside of City Hall in lower Manhattan, newly inaugurated New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani in a rousing speech resisted calls for him to take a more moderate approach to governing than the one he took during his campaign.

Tony Dokoupil has a New Year’s Day message for CBS Evening News viewers: He knows that legacy media has failed to retain that trust Americans once had in its work, and he intends to try and fix that.

Seven A-list actors from around the world — all on the hunt for their first Oscar. Adam Sandler Dwayne Johnson Jacob Elordi Jeremy Allen White Mark Hamill Michael B. Jordan Wagner Moura The Actor #THRRoundtable is here: bit.ly/49iPbls

If you’ve already seen Hamnet, you might want to savor that Paul Mescal performance.

Stranger things have happened before when it comes to Netflix and its often strained relationship with theater owners, but no one could have predicted the two sides would ring out 2025 as the best of frenemies.

Palme d’Or-winning director Jafar Panahi has set a hearing date in Iran after filing an appeal against his sentencing for “propaganda activities against the regime” by the Tehran Revolutionary Court.

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Betty Boop and Blondie are joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain.

John Mulrooney, the stand-up comedian from Brooklyn who hosted Comic Strip Live on Fox and performed at venues including the Improv, the Laugh Factory and Dangerfield’s, has died. He was 67.

A new feature-length Chevy Chase documentary is coming to the small screen on New Year’s Day.

French Government Defends Granting Citizenship to George and Amal Clooney

Richard Smallwood, a gospel singer and recording artist nominated eight times for Grammy Awards, has died. He was 77.

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Before Ryan Seacrest hosted Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve for the 21st time, he celebrated the New Year by ringing in Nasdaq’s closing bell.

Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper are chiming in on Heated Rivalry, Canadian streamer Crave and HBO Max’s gay hockey series that became a surprise breakout hit at the end of 2025.

The Kennedy Center is defending the ratings performance for the 2025 Honors, hosted by Donald Trump, which saw the show reach an all-time viewership low.

Braving frigid temperatures outside of City Hall in lower Manhattan, newly inaugurated New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani in a rousing speech resisted calls for him to take a more moderate approach to governing than the one he took during his campaign.

George Clooney is punching back after President Donald Trump attacked the politically-outspoken actor for securing French citizenship alongside his wife, the human rights attorney Amal Clooney.

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The countdown is officially on, with less than six hours until it’s time to ring in the new year and the annual New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square.

John Mulrooney, the stand-up comedian from Brooklyn who hosted Comic Strip Live on Fox and performed at venues including the Improv, the Laugh Factory and Dangerfield’s, has died. He was 67.

Tony Dokoupil has a New Year’s Day message for CBS Evening News viewers: He knows that legacy media has failed to retain that trust Americans once had in its work, and he intends to try and fix that.

If you’ve spent time this holiday season catching up on the season’s movies and TV shows, chances are you’ve seen a couple of dogs. But it’s less likely you saw something directed by a dog.

A new feature-length Chevy Chase documentary is coming to the small screen on New Year’s Day.

If 2025 was the year that the makers of TV series (re)discovered that releasing new seasons of a show every year is a good thing, 2026 will be the year that philosophy starts to pay off. bit.ly/4qqT6Ua

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Titanic is the most popular disaster-survival film of all time.

CBS News boss Bari Weiss is sending a message to George Clooney after the actor criticized her management of the news network.

Representation for women in the director’s chair dipped to a seven-year low in 2025, according to the annual study from USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.

Right-wing talking heads like Megyn Kelly and Mark Levin once reserved their sharpest slings for liberals, immigrants and Joe Biden. But suddenly they’re dropping their biggest bombs on each other.

A Disney World worker sustained injuries on Tuesday while running into the path of a giant prop boulder that veered off track as part of the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando.

Before Ryan Seacrest hosted Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve for the 21st time, he celebrated the New Year by ringing in Nasdaq’s closing bell.

Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper are chiming in on Heated Rivalry, Canadian streamer Crave and HBO Max’s gay hockey series that became a surprise breakout hit at the end of 2025.

The Kennedy Center is defending the ratings performance for the 2025 Honors, hosted by Donald Trump, which saw the show reach an all-time viewership low.

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Ryan Seacrest is ringing in 2026 alongside co-hosts Rita Ora, Chance the Rapper, Rob Gronkowski and Julianne Hough, plus performances by Diana Ross, Chappell Roan, 50 Cent, Mariah Carey, Post Malone and dozens more (all listed below).

Comedian Bert Kreischer and country music star Hardy are ringing in the new year alongside Jason Aldean, Lainey Wilson, Bailey Zimmerman, Dierks Bentley, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban and live performances from more of country’s biggest names (all listed below).

The countdown is officially on, with less than six hours until it’s time to ring in the new year and the annual New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square.

Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen are toasting to 2026 with their fan-favorite, booze-fueled annual special, New Year’s Eve Live.

Terry Sweeney broke ground as Saturday Night Live‘s first out gay castmember during that program’s 1985-86 season.

Educated guesses, smart takes, and back-of-the-napkin math on what entertainment industry insiders will be talking about in the next 12 months. bit.ly/491DhO0

Meyer Gottlieb, the Holocaust survivor who helped relaunch Samuel Goldwyn Films, where he produced features including Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and the 2013 remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, has died. He was 86.

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