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Zachary Quinto on Wolf in Hudson Oaks, Josh Romance, More (Exclusive)

by jummy84 September 23, 2025

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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Brilliant Minds Season 2 premiere “The Phantom Hook.”]

Brilliant Minds bookends its second season premiere with a flashforward to six months in the future, when Dr. Oliver Wolf (Zachary Quinto) is a patient himself. Plus, it delivers a heartbreaking blow to the doctor when he’s finally ready to talk to his father (Mandy Patinkin), whom he’d been avoiding despite letting him stay in his house.

Elsewhere in the Monday, September 22, episode, Wolf and Josh (Teddy Sears) are no longer together, Ericka (Ashleigh LaThrop) returns from a trip to Mexico seemingly better after her anxiety-inducing experience when her building collapsed last season, and the team gets a new member in resident Charlie (Brian Altemus), who seems to have a hidden agenda.

Read on for a breakdown of the Season 2 premiere (which picks up six weeks later from the finale) with insights on what happened and what’s next from Zachary Quinto, Teddy Sears, and showrunner Michael Grassi.

Why is Wolf a patient at Hudson Oaks?!

A flashforward reveals that Wolf is a patient at Hudson Oaks, a psychiatric facility run by Dr. Amelia Frederick (Bellamy Young), and he’s trying to escape. In the final moments, he’s caught and sedated as she checks, “He won’t be fighting back anymore. Isn’t that right, Oliver?”

We will catch up those six months, Grassi promises, though he won’t say when exactly (or when Young might show up in the present), and there won’t be flashforwards every episode, just “when it’s really pertinent to our storytelling and reflects our case and when we need to go, we go there.”

As the season progresses, the question will be, “What’s going to be the thing that breaks Wolf and sends him there? Is it going to be one thing? Is it going to be a combination of things?” asks Grassi. “There will be more surprises. Within this season, we will learn exactly what’s happening there at Hudson Oaks, and it’s going to be surprising.”

Quinto still doesn’t know fully what’s going on, he shares, since they’re writing and filming the season as it airs. “Michael and I talk about a lot of the catalysts for why Wolf ends up at Hudson Oaks and why he can’t escape, and all of that, but they haven’t been committed to a script yet. So it’s an ongoing collaboration, an ongoing conversation, and one that we’re having all the time so that I can be planting seeds that maybe pay off later,” he says. “That mystery is a real thrust of Season 2, not only for audiences, but also for the characters: What happens that leads Wolf to this place of needing to seek help and then getting trapped somehow in the place where he thought he was going to get some relief. There’s a lot simmering, and I’m excited to watch it boil over.”

Sears’ initial theory after reading the premiere’s script was it involved Noah and something Wolf had buried about his father. “That, to me, is overly simplistic, and I certainly don’t think it’s that,” he admits.

What’s in Noah’s letter? Will Mandy Patinkin return?

While Wolf is working on figuring out what’s medically wrong with his father — Noah shared that he hasn’t been able to get any answers, and that’s why he came to his son in the finale — he’s been sleeping in his office. But as his best friend Carol (Tamberla Perry) points out, if Noah was just another patient, Wolf would do everything in his power to get to know him, which means going home. But when Wolf does just that near the end of the episode, it’s to find that his father’s gone (and left a goodbye letter).

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“He was ready at the end of the first episode. I think that’s the tragedy of that turn of events is that he got advice from Josh, he got advice from Carol, and he finally felt like, ‘OK, if I’m going to move through the upheaval of this return of Noah, then I have to confront it,’” says Quinto. Unfortunately, instead of that conversation, “he was met with another disappointment and after all of the work that he did to forgive his father, to understand where his father may be coming from, I think it was a particularly impactful blow to be yet again abandoned, to be yet again left alone, to be yet again put in a position of longing for some kind of connection that he thought maybe was possible and then realized wasn’t so.”

So, what would Wolf want to say the next time he sees him? “Find somewhere else to stay? I don’t know,” Quinto admits.

“We spent so much of the first season dealing with Wolf’s issues around abandonment and around mistrust that was caused by this lie that his parents decided to tell him. And to have him welcome Noah back into his life only to have him once again pull a disappearing act, I think was really re-traumatizing for Wolf in a way that he had only two options: One was to confront that and face it and accept it and lean into it, and the other, which is the choice he makes, I think, is to kind of slam the door on it and say, ‘I’m done. I’ve tried. I have no more to give this person, and I’m going to channel my energy into the people who want and need me, my patients primarily, and my friends and the doctors that I work with,’” he adds.

“Is that the healthiest choice that someone could make for their own mental health? Maybe, maybe not, but considering where we find Wolf at the beginning of the second season, I think we know that the answer is maybe not. And how that’s all going to add up over the course of the season is something that I think audiences will hopefully be invested in,” Quinto teases.

Not only did it seem that “Noah got the message” his son sent by not being around, Grassi says, but we’re also going to see Wolf continuing to ask, as the season progresses and he deals with being left again, “‘Is Dad lying to me? Is he lying just to get back into my life?’ He’s done all these tests and he’s run all these things and he hasn’t found anything yet. So is he getting too close to the truth?”

Even without Noah around, he continues to weigh on Wolf. “So much of Season 1 and Wolf’s life has been processing this grief. What happens when somebody that you’ve grieved comes back and what happens when they leave again? Something tells me that the grief is just as painful, but we’re going to see how Oliver navigates that grief and follow, in 202 and onwards throughout the season, how do you move on and how do you deal with all of the feelings around that?” Grassi previews. “And it’s complicated.”

As for whether we’ll see Patinkin this season, “the story will definitely continue in very surprising ways and I can’t say whether or not we’ll see Mandy again this season yet,” according to the showrunner.

Will Wolf & Josh get back together? Is Josh dating?

Wolf and Josh’s journey to getting and being together was a memorable one in the first season. In the finale, Josh told Wolf he was falling for him, but then Wolf missed a gala where the other doctor was being honored after his father showed up. When Season 2 begins, the two aren’t together. Wolf says if he could, he would, but his house isn’t in order, and Josh gets it but says he can’t wait for something that might not ever happen.

Teddy Sears as Dr. Josh Nichols — 'Brilliant Minds' Season 2 Premiere "Phantom Hook"

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Both men “are really complicated” and “have a lot to navigate,” says Grassi. “It’s a bit of a ride with them this season and there are some twists coming. They’re going to go through stuff, but there is a really deep respect there and a love there. And I think you see that in all of their scenes together, even as they’re navigating all of the complexity that they’re going through. I love Zach and Teddy and their chemistry and this relationship is such an important part of the show, and we’ll continue to explore it, but in some surprising ways. The dynamic is going to shift in a way that we don’t see coming.”

Early on in the premiere, Josh comments on Wolf’s black eye (from a patient), and the other doc replies with the expected “you should see the other guy.” But then, when Wolf comments on Josh’s tan, the surgeon says he spent the weekend in the Hamptons … and “you should see the other guy.” Grassi’s not ruling out other love interests, but Sears tells TV Insider that specific remark was just “a swipe, an attempt to make him jealous,” and Josh isn’t out there dating.

“I think he’s trying to bury his pain by having a great time, but I don’t think he’s moved on per se, even for a casual night. I don’t think that Josh would say, ‘I’m falling for you,’ at the end of Season 1, only to resort to something that I think we would probably expect someone far more juvenile or less emotionally informed to do,” Sears explains.

“I think he doesn’t quite know where things stand, and it’s bugging the s**t out of him,” he adds, pointing out that some days, they might only have a quick glance or exchange in the hallway. The key scene was the one in Wolf’s office where they have the aforementioned conversation.

“It’s been six weeks, and he’s still not ready. And six weeks is, I feel like, not an unreasonable amount of time to allow someone time to process the arrival of something so devastating and world-shaking. ‘I’m an adult, you’re an adult, and we do need to talk about this, and if you still need some time, OK, but I have my own life to live, if you will,’” Sears says.

While Wolf made what Quinto says “probably wasn’t the best choice” in the Season 1 finale, what’s great about the two doctors is “they’re adults and they’re able to hold space for themselves and for each other, and they have to work together. Things definitely change in the nature of their working relationship at Bronx General over the course of the first few episodes of the season, so, that’s something they’re going to have to navigate. And I think that question about what they mean to each other and what they want to be to each other is something that will continue to unfold. And I don’t think there are any easy answers or it’s not black and white. It’s like a lot of human relationships, which means that it’s complicated, it’s uncertain, and I think they’re both trying to figure it out, and we’ll definitely watch that unfold as the season progresses.”

Zachary Quinto as Dr. Oliver Wolf, Aury Krebs as Dr. Dana Dang, Ashleigh Lathrop as Dr. Ericka Kinney, Alex MacNicoll as Dr. Van Markus, Brian Altemus as Dr. Charlie Porter — 'Brilliant Minds' Season 2 Premiere "Phantom Hook"

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What is Charlie’s motive?

Wolf assumes that his mother, the hospital’s CMO (chief medical officer) Muriel (Donna Murphy), has brought on Charlie to spy on him. Charlie denies it. He visits Wolf in his office to tell him that he asked for the job because of him; he wants to learn from the best. We have a feeling that he is telling the truth about asking for the job because of Wolf but having a hidden agenda as to why.

“You tapped into something,” says Grassi. “Charlie is such a fun character. I love our interns from last season, and we really established an interesting dynamic between our interns where they really opened up to each other, and they would group hug, and they became this surrogate family. Charlie comes in, and he’s kind of like, ‘This isn’t normal. Whatever Wolf created with you guys here, it’s like this is weird.’ He’s going to try to subvert the status quo a little bit and poke at our interns and that dynamic. And at the same time, he pursued this job with Wolf. He applied for it. He wanted this job; he wanted to work with Dr. Oliver Wolf. And I think the big question we’ll be asking ourselves is, ‘Why?’”

Quinto’s take is that Charlie seems to be “really enthusiastic” and “a little bit of an agent of chaos. For Wolf, the jury’s out,” he says. “Their relationship is actually going to be an interesting and unexpected evolution. At least that’s what I’m picking up on so far. We’re only on Episode 8 now, so we still have a long way to go, but my sense is that Charlie represents something to Wolf that he’s going to have to reckon [with] and confront.”

How’s Ericka doing after her building collapsed?

As we learn near the end of the episode, Ericka came back from her trip to Mexico with a suitcase compartment full of meds she’s hiding from roommate Dana (Aury Krebs).

“Ericka is dealing with a lot this year,” the showrunner says of the type A doctor who thinks she can medicate herself. “She really thinks that she can control everything that she went through last season and all of the feelings that she’s carrying with her this season. And as the season goes on, we’ll see it build on her and how her PTSD from what she went through starts to manifest in how she’s a doctor in a weird way and the patients she tries to treat.”

Season 2 will also reveal more about Ericka as well as continue to explore her and Dana’s friendship.

Has Season 2’s recurring patient been introduced?

The first part of Season 1 featured a recurring patient in Roman, who had locked-in syndrome. It appears we’ve met the Season 2 version. Jacob (Spence Moore II) tells Ericka of a 30-year-old man with schizoaffective disorder who complains of daily chest pains and is in all the time.

“We may see more of Sam this season, and we may be learning more about him soon enough,” Grassi confirms.

What did you think of the Brilliant Minds Season 2 premiere? What’s your theory about that flashforward? Let us know in the comments section below.

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September 23, 2025 0 comments

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Leonardo DiCaprio on ‘One Battle After Another’ Chase Infiniti and PTA

by jummy84 September 23, 2025

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Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson‘s knack for casting is one of his (many) strong suits as a creator. From recognizing the dramatic brilliance of someone like Adam Sandler, consistently finding new dimensions of repeat stars like Julianne Moore and John C. Reilly, and discovering brand-new stars like Alana Haim, PTA has one hell of an eye for star power (and all credit to his long-running partnership with casting director Cassandra Kulukundis, who has cast nine of 10 ten films).

For his latest, “One Battle After Another,” PTA again assembles an enviable cast: Oscar winners Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio del Toro, and continuing collaborator Sean Penn, plus Teyana Taylor and Regina Hall making their PTA debut, and breakout star Chase Infiniti. The film is Infiniti’s first — TV fans have already been treated to her work in “Presumed Innocent,” and she will next lead the “Handmaid’s Tale” spin-off series “The Testaments” — and it’s a hell of a debut for the actress.

(from left) Horned Fanatic (Maurice Greene) and Cam (Tyriq Withers) in HIM, directed by Justin Tipping.

As IndieWire’s own David Ehrlich noted in his glowing review of the film, Infiniti is “magnetically self-possessed” and an “instant movie star.” (Having seen the film yesterday: when he’s right, he’s right.)

After a special screening of the film in VistaVision held in New York City on Sunday afternoon, DiCaprio, Taylor, Infiniti, del Toro, Hall, and Penn stuck around to chat about the feature in a wide-ranging Q&A. In the film, Infiniti plays the daughter of DiCaprio (as the bomber Ghetto Pat, who eventually goes undercover as “Bob Ferguson”) and Taylor (as the revolutionary leader Perfidia Beverly Hills). DiCaprio shares plenty of screen time with the young star and was eager to talk about her performance, both on and off the screen.

“It was beautiful to watch Chase come into an ecosystem like this, because I remember my first feature-length film and trusting so much in the director, the director is literally everything to you, and that bond started immediately with the two of them,” DiCaprio said.

DiCaprio’s first role was — and this is true! — in the direct-to-video sequel “Critters 3,” but he quickly followed that up with roles in two still-signature films for him: “This Boy’s Life” (directed by Michael Caton-Jones) and “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” (directed by Lasse Hallström). And it seems that the actor still keenly remembers what it was like on those early sets.

“Benicio likes to say it was like watching a great boxer with the boxing coach, and they gave each other small signals and nods, and yeses and nos,” DiCaprio continued. “And they continued on. They had this sort of unspoken relationship that was beautiful to witness. It reminded me of when I was younger and my first film.”

Asked about her experience, Infiniti was quick to note the support she received from everyone, which engendered a level of trust that seems common on a PTA set.

“I think that the strongest thing that I felt was just love from everybody,” she said. “From Leo and Teyana and Sean and Regina and Benicio, not to mention Paul, I was just surrounded by so much love and support from day one. … Having that, and an overall understanding of trust, and knowing that Paul trusts me, I trust Paul, and then I trust every single one of my scene partners, I think that the love and the trust more than anything made me feel confident to play and thrive in the environment. It was a bit scary walking into, but in the end, it was the best experience.”

Warner Bros. will release “One Battle After Another” in theaters on Friday, September 26.

September 23, 2025 0 comments

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Return, Feckless Billionares

by jummy84 September 23, 2025

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Kamala Harris began her career in public life as a prosecutor. But, to this day, she remains unwilling to place herself in the sights of a real interrogator.

On Monday night, ahead of the Sept. 23 release of her campaign memoir “107 Days,” Harris sat with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. The interview was, by its design, gooily sympathetic. Maddow, a TV veteran, somewhat bafflingly began the broadcast by declaring “I’m a little nervous about this interview, because it’s a big deal.” She told the former vice president and presidential nominee, in setting up an early softball, “You’ve become the patron saint of ‘I told you so.’” And she laughingly responded when Harris nostalgically brought up the 2024 campaign line “I know his type.” (Harris, like other prominent Democrats including Michelle Obama and Joe Biden, avoided using Trump’s name.)

It’s not that Harris deserves to be filleted, especially in a political climate where Harris, out of office, has relatively little real influence, and those who do hold power are restructuring our society on every level, every day. But… “I know his type” didn’t work. There are reasons beyond Harris that Harris lost the 2024 election, but an interview that seemed determined to avoid them left potential insight on the table.

Maddow and Harris seemed to have a genuine rapport, and in moments, the Harris who seemed just beyond the veil in 2024 — laughing hard, comfortable in her skin, freewheeling — poked through. One felt for Maddow’s interview subject: Anyone who’s ever written and published a personal essay can perhaps relate to Harris’ discomfort in being reminded of the things she’d put on the page about various Democratic politicians. She took care to note, several times, that California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who Harris reportedly writes ghosted her request for support in her presidential bid as it began, has a great sense of humor, while she split hairs over how to describe her ultimate decision not to include first-choice running mate Pete Buttigieg on her ticket: It wasn’t because he’s gay, it’s because a gay man and a woman of color together would have been too much to introduce to the nation so rapidly.

But allowing so much time for Harris to attempt to unsay what her book says made for a frustrating viewing experience for someone outside the core MSNBC demographic. Harris’ whole thing, to this point, has been a certain unknowability, a tendency Maddow could sometimes, with her amiable approach to Harris, encourage. During her foreshortened presidential campaign, for example, Harris did relatively little press, and tended to do so late and only in utterly familiar settings. (She also struggled even within those: An appearance on “The View” in which she could not name a difference between her governing style and Joe Biden’s could be argued to have been her campaign’s death knell.)

As the principal on a presidential campaign, Harris generally avoided opportunities to speak on her own behalf in a setting the campaign did not control. While it’s apparent Maddow was literally free to write her own questions, she was doing so for an audience predisposed to want to see Harris get a win. The result, for any curious viewer interested in seeing how Harris was doing, could obscure as much as it revealed.

At times, indeed, it seemed as though Maddow was pushing Harris toward that potential win. Though being Biden’s vice president, reporting on “107 Days” indicates, was arduous in many ways, it may have been easier than being the face of the campaign in just one way: Harris wasn’t obligated to speak for herself. Similarly, in this interview, she was much more comfortable acting in direct opposition (as when she decried the Trump administration’s policies and urged “feckless” billionaires to oppose him) or espousing generally approved wisdom (applauding Jimmy Kimmel’s return to ABC as a result of “the power of the people”) than she was in looking to a vision of Harrisesque politics — a way forward. Asked a rare off-talking-points question by Maddow about whether she supported New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, Harris said she supports any Democratic nominee for office, and went on to say that more of the nation’s attention should be on other candidates, in other cities.

Mamdani and Harris are different politicians, of different generations, with vastly different media approaches. And only one of them has ever been vice president! But — at least for a viewer living in the New York media market — it’s hard not to contrast his approach to the media with hers. Harris, aside from the opening in which she pleaded with billionaires to change their behavior, seemed in this interview to be largely interested in playing the hits. (That she told Maddow that she is genuinely not focused on the question of whether or not to run for president in 2028 seemed candid and honest — Harris is not presenting as if she wants to go through that gauntlet again.) Mamdani, and others like him, use spotlights like these to look forward. “107 Days” sounds like a riveting book, and I can’t wait to read it. But Harris’ interview — the substance of it, and the unchallenging venue she chose out of a continued desire to reduce her exposure — have made me suspect that I won’t be reading it as a book about current events. It seems to be a book about history.

September 23, 2025 0 comments

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Kamala Harris, In Rachel Maddow Interview, Hails Jimmy Kimmel’s Return

by jummy84 September 23, 2025

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Kamala Harris, in her first news interview since leaving office, hailed ABC’s decision to return Jimmy Kimmel to the air.

Harris told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, “Talk about the power being with the people and the people making that clear with their checkbooks as it relates to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. We saw the power of the people over the last few days, and it spoke volumes, it moved a decision in the right direction.”

Harris last week called out companies for caving to the Trump administration.

She wrote on social media, “What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power,” Harris posted. “This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats. We cannot dare to be silent or complacent in the face of this frontal assault on free speech.”

Harris sat down with Maddow in studio as the kickoff for her book tour for 107 Days, her account of her truncated presidential campaign last year.

In the interview, Maddow called Harris the “patron saint of ‘I told you so, in terms of people understanding the warnings and predictions about what Trump would be like.” Maddow noted that Harris wrote in the book, “I predicted all of that. I warned of it. What I didn’t predict is the capitulation, the billionaires lining up to grovel, the big media companies, universities, so many major law firms.”

Harris told Maddow, “I always believed that is push came to shove, these titans of industry would be guardrails for our democracy, for the importance of sustaining democratic institutions. And one by one by one, they have been silent. They have been — I use the word feckless. It’s not like they’re going to lose their yacht or their house in the Hamptons.”

The Walt Disney Co. announced earlier that Kimmel would return to the schedule on Tuesday. The network said last week that it was pulling his late-night show indefinitely, amid the furor over a remark he made about MAGA’s effort to define the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The network’s announcement came after a warning from the chairman of the FCC, Brendan Carr, and a statement from station group Nexstar, which said that it was pulling the show from its ABC affiliates.

Harris referred to Donald Trump as a “tyrant,” and talked not only about the administration’s pressure on Disney over Kimmel, but the president’s efforts to install loyalists as U.S. attorneys to prosecute his opponents.

“Perhaps it is because they want to please him and nominate him for a Nobel Prize,” Harris said of corporate leaders. “Perhaps it’s because they want a merger approved, or they want to avoid an investigation, but at some point they’ve got to stand up for the sake of the people who rely on all of these institutions to have integrity, and to at some point be the guardrails against a tyrant who is using the federal government to execute his whim and fancy because of a fragile ego.”

Harris’ book already has generated headlines for what she wrote about Joe Biden‘s decision to run for reelection and stay in the presidential race until July, 2024. In an excerpt that ran in The Atlantic earlier the month, Harris wrote, “‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized. Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.”

On Maddow’s show, Harris said, “I realized that I have and had a certain responsibility that I should have followed through on. And so when I talk about the recklessness, as much as anything I am talking about myself. There was so much, as we know, at stake. As I write, where my head was at the time is that … it would come off as completely self serving.”

Maddow asked whether she meant telling Biden that it was not a good idea for him to run again.

“Or even if he should question if it is a good idea,” Harris said.

Maddow also asked Harris if she would consider running in 2028, but she didn’t give away much in terms of her future plans.

“That’s not my focus right now. That’s not my focus, at all,” Harris said. “It really isn’t.”

The book, Maddow said, is surprisingly candid. She referenced Harris’ revelations of text messages she got from other top Democrats after Biden dropped out and she got into the presidential race. Gavin Newsom wrote, “Hiking. Will call back.” “He never did,” Harris wrote.

“Gavin has a great sense of humor, so he is going to be fine,” Harris told Maddow. The former vice president said that Newsom’s redistricting effort, which will be on California’s November ballot, is “absolutely the right way to go.”

The measure is a response to Texas’ move to draw new district boundaries in order to make it more probable that Republicans will pick up five additional seats in next year’s midterm elections. Opponents of California’s Proposition 50 say that the way to respond should not be to suspend California’s redistricting commission, set up to try to take politics out of the process.

Harris disagreed.

“Part of what we have got to challenge ourselves to accept is that we tend to play by the rules. But this is a moment where you have got to fire with fire,” she said.

September 23, 2025 0 comments

How to watch Indiana Fever vs. Las Vegas Aces online with Sling TV, livestream

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How To Watch Indiana Fever vs. Las Vegas Aces with Sling TV

by jummy84 September 23, 2025

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This story was created in paid partnership with Sling TV.

With the WNBA Playoffs in full swing, the No. 6-seed Indiana Fever takes on the No. 2-seed Las Vegas Aces in the semifinals. Although the Fever is the underdog and leads the series 1-0, Game 2 is on Wednesday, Sept. 23. For Game 2, Las Vegas has a chance to even the series.

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At a Glance: How to Watch Indiana Fever vs. Las Vegas Aces Online

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September 23, 2025 0 comments

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5 Emmerdale spoilers next week: Robert Sugden is caught looking close with a mysterious man

by jummy84 September 22, 2025

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Elsewhere, Gabby Dingle (Rosie Bentham) arrives in court just as new husband Vinny Dingle (Bradley Johnson) is about to reveal the truth about ‘Mike’.

Meanwhile, Leo Goskirk (Harvey Rogerson) is put in harm’s way after his older half-sister April Windsor (Amelia Flanagan) is forced to put her drug dealing first.

Also, Celia Daniels (Jaye Griffiths) scares Paddy Dingle (Dominic Brunt), but it seems she has an admirer in Bob Hope (Tony Audenshaw)!

Finally, will Mackenzie Boyd (Lawrence Robb) uncover wife Charity Dingle’s (Emma Atkins) guilty secret?

Here are all your Emmerdale spoilers for Monday 29th September – Friday 3rd October 2025.

5 Emmerdale spoilers next week

1. Robert Sugden is caught out by a visit from a mystery man

Chris Coghill as Kev in Emmerdale village. ITV

Having received a mystery text the week before, Robert is blindsided by the arrival of Kev.

Kev knocks on his door after asking for directions, and Robert checks no one is watching in the village before letting this familiar face inside.

Robert holding Kev's hand in Emmerdale — Robert and Kev look close. ITV

It’s clear that Kev is an acquaintance from Robert’s time in prison.

But when Victoria Sugden (Isabel Hodgins) arrives home and sees Robert holding hands with a man who isn’t Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller), she’s left confused.

Once Robert has got rid of Kev, he knows he’s in for a grilling from his sister.

But who is Kev to Robert, and will he tell Aaron about him?

Robert looking conflicted in Emmerdale — Robert is caught in a tricky situation. ITV

As for Aaron, he’s guilt-ridden to have forgotten baby sister Grace’s birthday – an occasion that marks the day the little one was both born and sadly died.

Can Aaron make amends?

2. Gabby Dingle arrives in court as Vinny Dingle testifies against his attacker

Mandy glaring at Kim as Vinny looks at Gabby in Emmerdale — Kim is won over. ITV

Vinny is nervous about young Thomas accepting him as his new dad, while also being terrified about testifying against his attacker and blackmailer ‘Mike’.

Hearing that the defence plans to call Gabby as a witness, Vinny lies about what the court case involves.

Vinny pulls out as a witness to protect his marriage, and soon focus turns to convincing Kim Tate (Claire King) to approve of the adoption.

Kim is worried that Vinny will erase her son Jamie (Alexander Lincoln) from Thomas’s life, but Vinny and Mandy Dingle (Lisa Riley) convince Kim how much having a father will mean to Thomas.

But the celebrations are overshadowed when Mike arrives to insert himself into Vinny’s life and demand Gabby’s money as compensation!

Vinny on the witness stand in court in Emmerdale — Vinny on the witness stand. ITV

Desperate Vinny promises to destroy the case in court if Mike leaves Gabby out of it, but unbeknown to Mike, Vinny actually intends to tell the truth.

Gabby grows suspicious of Vinny’s lies about the court case and gives him a chance to be honest, but he only digs deeper.

Meanwhile, Laurel Thomas (Charlotte Bellamy) reminds Gabby she’s also hiding her own secret – that she cheated on Vinny before the wedding.

Gabby looking at Vinny in court in Emmerdale — Gabby arrives in court. ITV

In court, Vinny finally begins to stand up to Mike; but he panics when Gabby walks in and gives him a challenging look, just as he’s poised to reveal he met Mike on a forum for people questioning their sexuality.

Will Vinny expose Mike, as well as his own struggles?

3. Leo Goskirk is rushed to hospital after April Windsor is forced into drug deal

April acting shifty with Rhona in Emmerdale — April covers in front of Rhona. ITV

April is guilty as she juggles her double life to hide her drug dealing from Rhona Goskirk (Zoë Henry).

Dylan Penders (Fred Kettle) is shocked to catch April selling drugs outside university halls, and he begs Ray Walters (Joe Absolom) to let her quit.

April looking away as Dylan speaks to her with concern in Emmerdale — Dylan fears for April. ITV

But Ray manipulates Dylan with emotional blackmail and promises to face the ‘big bosses’ for them, so Dylan agrees to let April keep dealing so they can pay off their debts quicker.

But while babysitting Leo, April abandons him to meet Ray’s demands, and accidentally drops a bag of pills in the house as she leaves.

April sitting next to Marlon with a hand to her mouth looking shocked, watched by Rhona in Emmerdale — Rhona is suspicious. ITV

Returning home, April is devastated to see Leo being loaded into an ambulance, and at the hospital, the police and social services are contacted.

It’s not long before Rhona suspects April is behind what’s happened.

But just as April considers coming clean, she sees some police officers and flees in a panic.

And as Ray overhears April telling Dylan she’s ready to tell the truth, what will he do to protect his empire?

4. Celia Daniels upsets Paddy Dingle – while Bob Hope tries to woo her

Moira watching on as Paddy looks uncomfortable with Celia in Emmerdale — Celia upsets Paddy. ITV

Celia scares Paddy with a cruel joke about his dog attack, which happened on her land.

Soon, Moira Dingle (Natalie J Robb) insists Celia must fix things, and Celia charms Paddy into forgiving her.

Meanwhile, an attempt to pick up Celia is fatal for Bob’s aura.

We can only imagine how Celia will react to Bob trying to flirt with her, and it’s sure to be TV gold!

5. Mackenzie Boyd clocks guilty Charity Dingle’s unease about the pregnancy

Charity doing her makeup as Mack chats to Sarah in Emmerdale — Charity is struggling to contain her guilt. ITV

Charity hides her guilt around Sarah Sugden (Katie Hill) about the baby she’s carrying as she waits for news on the DNA test she’s taken.

Husband Mackenzie questions Charity’s behaviour, asking if Charity is worried that Sarah’s getting too excited.

But Charity quickly changes the subject.

With Charity concealing her one night stand with Ross Barton (Michael Parr), might Mack realise that there’s more to her situation than meets the eye?

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September 22, 2025 0 comments

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What Happened to ‘Big Brother’s Kat Dunn and Nick Maccarone? Their Split and Relationship Today

by jummy84 September 22, 2025

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Kathryn “Kat” Dunn is one of the Big Brother alums who will be returning to CBS to compete on Season 38 of The Amazing Race. The season features former Big Brother stars competing alongside their relatives or significant others, and Kat is teaming up with her boyfriend, Alex Romo.

The last time fans saw Kat on television in 2019, she began a relationship with fellow Season 21 Big Brother contestant Nick Maccarone. So, what happened between then and now? Scroll down for everything we know.

September 22, 2025 0 comments

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‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ to Return Tuesday Night as Suspension Ends

by jummy84 September 22, 2025

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So “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” being suspended “indefinitely” really meant only preempting three airings in the end.

“Jimmy Kimmel Live” will return Tuesday night, September 23, The Walt Disney Company announced in a statement acquired by IndieWire Monday afternoon.

“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” The Walt Disney Company’s statement reads. “It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”

Disney's ABC announced Wednesday that it was pulling "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off the air "indefinitely" following comments host Jimmy Kimmel made about Charlie Kirk.

On Wednesday September 17, ABC announced that they were suspending the show “indefinitely” following a joke that Kimmel made on air that many felt was insensitive and inflammatory in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. He said that “We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it.” Many felt that this remark implied the killer was MAGA, which evidence does not suggest is the case, though it is a fact that he comes from a conservative family of registered Republicans who did vote for Donald Trump.

IndieWire noted in the aftermath that Disney harmed its own business interests by capitulating to Trump. Kimmel was a serious investment of years and tens (if not hundreds) of millions of dollars. Someone who was a face of the brand, hosted “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” as well as his late night show, and had even hosted the Oscars for ABC four times. However, Disney also does need the Trump Department of Justice’s approval to go ahead with an acquisition of sports streamer Fubo as well as merging ESPN and The NFL Network.

The suspension had prompted days of discussion about the status of free speech in America and with serious criticism lodged from even conservative Republican senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul against the Trump administration for its coercive tactics in pressuring Kimmel off the air. Earlier in the day that Kimmel was suspended, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr went on a podcast and threatened that ABC could “do this the easy way or the hard way” in terms of getting Kimmel, a vocal Trump critic, off the air.

Kimmel’s suspension resulted in protests by free speech advocates in front of his Hollywood studio and an ACLU letter decrying his removal signed by 400 celebrities. Perhaps in a sign of ABC’s thaw regarding the suspension, the hosts of “The View” discussed Kimmel’s removal for the first-time on-air today, with Whoopi Goldberg suggesting that their previous silence had been out of respect for Kimmel to make a statement first.

Local affiliate companies Nexstar and Sinclair had previously stated that they would no longer air “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” — which in the case of Nexstar was thought to be a performative act of currying favor with the Trump DOJ because Nexstar wants to merge with fellow affiliate company Tegna. Sinclair has long had a conservative reputation, but their stated aim of airing a tribute show to Charlie Kirk in lieu of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” did not come to pass, with their affiliates airing “Celebrity Family Feud,” like most ABC affiliates, in the timeslot instead.

What Nexstar and Sinclair will do now that ABC has announced Kimmel will return is unclear.

Kimmel’s suspension amounts to only three episodes of his show being pulled: His September 17 and 18 installments (Friday September 19 would have been a repeat), and the episode that would have aired Monday September 22.

September 22, 2025 0 comments

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‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Hollywood Rally Urges Disney Don’t Bow to Trump

by jummy84 September 22, 2025

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Just an hour before ABC made the announcement that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” would return to the airwaves on Tuesday, a group of politicians and Hollywood guild leaders held a press conference and rally in front of the show’s Hollywood studio to urge Disney to bring the show back.

“Trump’s allies think the First Amendment comes with an asterisk,” said Rep. Laura Friedman (D-Calif. District 30). “They think that it means it gets free speech as long as Donald Trump likes it. But he does not get to silence dissent. He does not get to tell the American people what to say or what they can and cannot listen to… This is not just about a late night show. It’s about jobs and it’s about our rights as Americans. How the FCC’s job is to protect Americans, not the President’s ego. And I would remind every corporation in America and that many of their business models cannot survive in a world where the government gets to tell them what to say.”

Friedman pulled out a large copy of the First Amendment while adding, “You do not get to cancel the United States Constitution, not today, not tomorrow, not on our watch.”

The press conference did not go off without a hitch; a Trump supporter with a microphone loudspeaker attempted to drown out the event; that’s when attendees shouted back “Free speech!” Later, a low flying Fox 11/KTTV helicopter, which was getting video of the event, also drowned out some of the speakers.

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif. District 32) attempted to point out that the far-right Charlie Kirk has now been lauded as a free speech absolutist — which is why, in his mind, muzzling Kimmel was hypocritical.

“This mafia administration is so bold that they do the language of the mafia in plain sight,” he said. “What this administration is doing, what Brendan Carr is to undermine the words of Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said you should be allowed to say outrageous things. There is rogue speech, there is evil speech, and it is all protected by the First Amendment. Jimmy Kimmel did not contradict the words of Charlie Kirk. Donald Trump did. His FCC.”

Sherman than said that he personally, as a citizen, planned to boycott and businesses that advertised on ABC at 11:35 p.m. if Kimmel was not brought back. He also said if Kimmel returned, he would support those advertisers — which is presumably what he will now do.

“The First Amendment deals with what we do as a government, and the government should be concerned, but we are also private citizens,” he said. “And I, for one, will be looking at who’s advertising on ABC from 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. And speaking just for my own family, if we see Jimmy Kimmel, we’re going to watch those advertisers. And if we see alternative programming, we will be boycotting those who buy the time.”

Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif. District 32), co-chairs the Congressional Creative Rights Caucus, warned that President Trump has been demanding Kimmel’s scalp for some time. “First, Trump wrote, more than two months ago that Jimmy Kimmel’s show should be canceled. Then last week, Trump’s FCC chair said that companies should take action on Kimmel, even saying that they can ‘either do it the easy way or the hard way.’ And the companies got the message.”

She then criticized Nexstar: “ABC’s largest distributor, which needs the FCC’s approval for a $6.2 billion merger, immediately followed his orders and preempted the show, and ABC took it off the air indefinitely. So this was not about comments that a comedian made about Charlie Kirk. This is about a president leveraging the power of the federal government to silence his critics, a plan he’s been open about four months. Now he’s saying that the FCC should go further and cancel the broadcasting licenses of networks that criticize him. Well, are we going to be bullied like that? Are we going to be silenced? Every single one of us has a responsibility to stand up for our constitutional rights that are under attack. And this doesn’t just fall on the shoulders of workers. We need corporations and their executives to start standing up to this coercion.”

Rep. Ted Lieu added that this is not just about Kimmel. “Last year, the Supreme Court ruled a unanimous decision that government officials cannot force third parties to punish or suppress the views that government officials is fake, and my message to ABC is very simple: You do not kneel,” he said. “What happens when you kneel? The bully comes after you again, and now the FCC chair Brendan Carr is threatening ABC because he doesn’t like the statements made by ‘The View.’ When is this going to stop? ABC, you have a choice. You can continue to be bowing or you can stand up for yourself, stand up for the First Amendment and invoke the protection of the First Amendment, an amendment that generations of Americans have given their blood, sweat and tears to defend. We will not kneel. We will continue to be true.”

And to prove his point, Lieu said: “I get to say things like Donald Trump is partly on Epstein files because he is all over the Epstein files.”

Other speakers at the event included Writers Guild of America-West president Meredith Stiehm, in addition to members of SAG-AFTRA, Teamsters, IATSE and other unions.

September 22, 2025 0 comments

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Origins’ Casts Philip Winchester In Season 2

by jummy84 September 22, 2025

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We’ll be seeing a new face in NCIS: Origins. Philip Winchester (Ransom Canyon) is set for a key recurring role opposite Kyle Schmid in the upcoming second season of the NCIS prequel. His character will be introduced in the season’s fourth episode.

Winchester will play Mason Franks, the older brother of Mike Franks (Schmid), a Texas-tough cowboy who has recently hit rock bottom. Mason is an honorable man who has fallen on hard times and is desperately trying to keep from losing the family ranch. His desperation leads him to seek help from his estranged little brother.

Season 2 will pick up following the Season 1 finale in which Gibbs (Austin Stowell) manages to escape arrest for killing the man who murdered his wife and children. But his freedom came at an enormous price: after going the extra mile to help Gibbs, Lala (Mariel Molino) is seriously injured in a car accident after swerving to avoid a child.

NCIS: Origins follows a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs in 1991, years prior to the events of NCIS. In the series, Gibbs starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office, where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks (Schmid).

As we previously reported, for the first time, we’ll see a crossover episode in November between flagship NCIS and NCIS: Origins. Described as a “decades-spanning mystery,” it begins on NCIS: Origins at 8 pm with the investigation into the small-town death of a naval officers in the ’90s.

Both NCIS: Origins and NCIS will return Oct. 14 on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.

David J. North, Gina Lucita Monreal, Mark Harmon and Sean Harmon executive produce for CBS Studios.

Winchester currently stars as Sheriff Dan Brigman on Netflix series Ransom Canyon, opposite James Brolin, Josh Duhamel and Mika Kelly. He’s repped by Independent Artist Group and Stephanie Nese Entertainment.

September 22, 2025 0 comments

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