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5 Coronation Street spoilers next week: David and Shona get heart-wrenching news
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5 Coronation Street spoilers next week: David and Shona get heart-wrenching news

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A special episode of Coronation Street follows David and Shona Platt’s (Jack P Shepherd and Julia Goulding) devastation after being told their unborn daughter has a mass on her neck.

The floor falls from beneath the couple’s feet next week when the consultant tells them that the tumour could be cancerous.

Meanwhile, Fiz Dobbs (Jennie McAlpine) continues to struggle amid husband Tyrone’s (Alan Halsall) recovery, and Carla Connor (Alison King) can see straight through Becky Swain’s (Amy Cudden) behaviour.

The Driscoll clan try to get Will (Lucas Hodgson-Wale) on the right path, and Brody Michaelis (Ryan Mulvey) makes a huge mistake in front of his sister’s social worker.

Here’s a look at everything happening in Corrie between Monday 10th and Friday 14th November.

5 Coronation Street spoilers next week

1. David and Shona Platt receive devastating news about their unborn daughter

Shona’s scan reveals something worrying ITV

David is raging following an argument with Kit (Jacob Roberts) at the precinct and shoves past him, leading to an arrest for assaulting a police officer. As a result, he fails to pick Shona up for her scan but Kit finally relents and drives him there.

The Platts gaze lovingly at the monitor, but the sonographer deals some bad news – the baby has a mass on her neck.

Later in the week, a special episode follows David and Shona’s journey as they prepare to speak to the consultant about their unborn baby.

David and Shona Platt have an argument in the hospital in Coronation Street

Shona can’t see that David is putting on a brave face. ITV

From Shona’s point of view, we see how much she’s struggling amid David’s casual attitude. She orders him out of the car and says she doesn’t want him at the hospital, unaware that he’s putting on a brave face to try to stay strong for them both.

The consultant confirms the presence of a tumour, and explains that should Shona decide to continue with the pregnancy, she’ll have to undergo complex surgery. The couple are shell-shocked when it’s revealed that their daughter could have cancer.

2. Carla Connor believes Becky Swain is lying about being targeted

Lisa stands with her arms crossed staring at Becky in Coronation Street

Is Becky telling the truth? ITV

Lisa (Vicky Myers) wonders whether Becky is telling the truth about being spied on at her flat. She’s offended, believing that her wife doesn’t trust her.

Later, Carla urges Lisa to see through Becky’s lies and that if she was really in danger, she wouldn’t be risking Betsy’s (Sydney Martin) safety by staying at No. 6. Little does she realise, Becky is listening in…

3. Fiz Dobbs reaches breaking point

Fiz shouts at her sewing machine in Underworld in Coronation Street

Fiz is in a bad way. ITV

Tyrone struggles to break up an argument between Ruby and Hope. Fiz has a meltdown at work and starts to smack her sewing machine in frustration, admitting to Izzy (Cherylee Houston), Kirk (Andrew Whyment) and Michael (Ryan Russell) that she’s stressed and struggling.

The next day, Michael lets slip to Ty about Fiz’s behaviour.

Wanting to start providing for his family again, Tyrone proposes going to work in the garage office. However, Kevin (Michael Le Vell) is in a bad way following his separation from Abi (Sally Carman-Duttine) and makes it clear that he isn’t going to open the business – he’s heading straight back to bed.

4. Will Driscoll is hiding something from his family

Megan talks to Eva, Ben, Will and Maggie in the Rovers back room in Coronation Street

Will returns from Leeds in a bad way. ITV

Eva (Catherine Tyldesley) hopes that James (Jason Callender) could be the key to helping Will settle in – by organising for him to attend some PT sessions. It becomes immediately clear that the teenager isn’t interested, and would rather focus on his phone.

Later, Will tells Eva and Ben (Aaron McCusker) that he’s heading to Leeds for a meeting with his old athletics team, but he’s not telling the truth. Coach Megan drops him home, and Ben insists on treating her to a pub lunch.

Will is clearly unhappy, but will he reveal why?

5. Brody Michaelis lashes out at Sally and Tim Metcalfe’s parenting

Sally and Tim have an argument with Brody in Coronation Street

Brody is furious with Tim and Sally ITV

Lou’s been fighting behind bars and is up in court. Sally (Sally Dynevor) and Tim (Joe Duttine) decide not to tell Brody, but Kit drops them in it and he lashes out, accusing them of denying him the chance to support his estranged mother.

Branding them useless foster parents, he’s shocked to see that Joanie and her social worker have overheard everything.

Shanice hugs Joanie as the social worker looks on shocked in Coronation Street

The social worker overhears everything. ITV

The trouble for the Metcalfes doesn’t end there – Sally spots that Tim is checking out Trisha’s social media, and she brands her a predator again. Tim asks his wife to change the record.

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Mekki Leeper and Kahyun Kim Break Down Matt and Serena’s Season 2 Relationship Status (Exclusive)

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What To Know

  • St. Denis Medical stars Mekki Leeper, Kahyun Kim, and Wendi McLendon-Covey break down the Season 2 premiere.
  • Leeper and Kim discuss the latest development in the relationship between their characters, Matt and Serena.
  • McLendon-Covey discusses Joyce’s progress with the hospital’s birthing unit.

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the St. Denis Medical Season 2 Episodes 1 & 2, “Aloha, Everyone” &”Mama Bear Activated.”]

St. Denis Medical is back, and there’s been a major development on the Matt (Mekki Leeper) and Serena (Kahyun Kim) relationship front, as Season 2 kicked off with the episode “Aloha, Everyone.”

In the installment, viewers discover that while Serena requested to be stationed in a different zone from Matt, after learning he’d had a crush on her, she was shocked to discover he’d asked the same thing. In their time spent apart within the hospital, it also seems as though Matt’s gotten over his crush, which gives Serena a lot to think about.

“They just met in Season 1, so there’s plenty of time for them to learn about each other without Matt being in crush mode,” Leeper tells TV Insider about the revelation. “Also, he has kind of bigger fish to fry, like learning how to do his job.” When Serena learns about Matt’s request from Alex (Allison Tolman), she attempts to get him to admit he put in the request and is notably offended.

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But is the offense more about his seemingly disappeared crush or him lying about getting some space? “Well, I don’t think she deals well with it. Nobody likes somebody not liking them back,” Kim tells TV Insider.

“There’s a lot of ups and downs, a lot of give and take,” she teases of their Season 2 dynamic. “And it’s very exciting. When I read the scripts with Matt and Serena, it makes me, like a fan, kind of [get] butterflies. So, I’m sure the audience will feel the same way,” Kim adds.

Ultimately, the duo agreed that they were friends and promised they wouldn’t force themselves to work in different zones going forward, but the door appears to be open regarding romantic potential. Meanwhile, Joyce (Wendi McLendon-Covey) was busy putting some unique touches on her birth center at the hospital, built with the funding she received last season.

“Not to say that this is all gonna go smoothly or that she got all the permits that she needed or that all the construction was done right, but she did put a lot of effort into those themed rooms,” McLendon-Covey notes.  While her vision may not be the final outcome for the hospital, she has the support of her staff, who rally in the face of emergencies, both medical and non-medical.

What will happen next? Stay tuned as St. Denis Medical Season 2 carries on, and let us know whether you’re rooting for Matt and Serena or not in the comments section below.

St. Denis Medical, Season 2, Mondays, 8/7c, NBC

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In Development: ZCON Creators Conference
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In Development: ZCON Creators Conference

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Mixed messages are the new normal. Last week saw the Sundance Institute form a union and thousands of layoffs at Paramount and YouTube. It also brought two events that point toward the future: ZCON and Square Peg Social. 

Cognitive dissonance has become an essential skill set. (F. Scott Fitzgerald had a nicer way of putting it: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”) This week, I’m choosing to focus on the positive. 

Now in its third year, ZCON is a two-day, invitation-only event in Los Angeles that centers on (yes) Gen Z and the people who love them. That assortment of attendees included creators (of course) as well as CEOs, CMOs, and studio executives. 

Emma Stone stars as Michelle in director Yorgos Lanthimos' BUGONIA, a Focus Features release. Credit: Atsushi Nishijima/Focus Features © 2025 All Rights Reserved.

Sessions included “Rewriting the Rules of Branded Entertainment” and “The New Hollywood.” Auli’i Cravalho (“Moana”) highlighted her impatience with the old ways (“We are told that we’re too young, to wait our turn”); Owen Thiele (“Adults”) premiered “Girl Room,” a show co-created with Amazon Prime for TikTok and for Instagram; and Paralympian Ezra Frech declared, “Gen Z is the most inclusive generation of all time,” reframing disability as a great way for brands to resonate with consumers. 

Held at the LA Preserve (a lush oasis off Hollywood’s scrabbly St. Andrews, the street made famous by Jane’s Addiction), the space flowed with bright and shiny 20-somethings with energy and agency. This generation isn’t intimidated by the attention of major brands, nor necessarily impressed by it. They expect it. 

For a long time, festivals were ground zero for young people who wanted to prove their value as hot commodities. Seeing so many young creators (and the creator adjacent) echoed similar groups at the Sundance Film Festival and SXSW. Of course, ZCON and Sundance are very different; brand partnerships are the lifeblood here, not distribution, and the event is owned by UTA. 

If Sundance is powered by pick-me energy and SXSW by VC hustle, the invite-only ZCON is doing something else altogether. It isn’t a tentpole so much as an extension of an ongoing conversation between founders and brands. A Gen Z nonprofit already knows that, say, Amazon’s global creative director is dying to know what they’ll do next, and development execs are on watch. 

Overseeing it all is Olivia Frary, a UTA Next Gen exec who came to the agency when it acquired her Gen Z marketing company, JUV Consulting, in 2024. (Of note: She created JUV in 2016, while in high school.) 

“For years, every single person on our team would end a call by just saying, “If there’s someone that you would want us to meet, let us know,” she said. “Even when we were super startup vibes, we would always kind of stress that was the best thing you could do for us, regardless of if you wanted to hire a Gen Z consultancy. A lot of [those connections] are showing up here that knew us when we were those crazy kids.” 

Now those same kids are shaping not only the culture, but also how it’s sold — at least until Gen A comes along. And if history is any guide, nothing will be more cringe to that generation than being called an influencer. 

For now, this cohort is enjoying the primacy so much that ZCON participants eagerly embraced an afternoon “recess” that featured a cavalcade of bubbles and dancing with a live DJ. Cringe to anyone else; here, it’s what happens before the final panel, “What Does a Happier Internet Look Like?” 

I’m going to wrap with a tease about digging into Square Peg Social, the inaugural, invite-only mentorship program created by Lars Knudsen and Ari Aster — a collaboration between established filmmakers and emerging voices.

We previewed it this summer; nearly 1,800 applied. In the end, 37 writers, directors, and producers spent four days in direct mentorship with the creators behind not just Knudsen and Aster’s films (“Eddington,” “Midsommar,” “Beau Is Afraid”), but also “One Battle After Another,” “Iron Claw,” “Roofman,” “Rebel Ridge,” and more. 

Next week, I’ll share both the executive and filmmaker rosters (both are long and impressive; expect multiple stories). It would be the snarky/lazy thing to contrast the differences between Square Peg and ZCON (Art! Commerce!), but in truth they had more in common than not. Both are declarations of community, however self-selected.  

Because no matter where you land in this brave new world, one thing’s certain: No one will make it alone. (Bubbles remain optional.) 

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Google Spurns Disney Request to YouTube TV Restore ABC on Election Night
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Google Spurns Disney Request to YouTube TV Restore ABC on Election Night

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The war of words between Disney and Google continues — on the fourth day of the blackout of ESPN, ABC and other Disney networks on YouTube TV amid a fee dispute.

On Monday, Disney asked Google to offer ABC to YouTube TV customers on Tuesday, Nov. 3, to bring them Election Night coverage.

Google said no — and suggested instead that Disney allow YouTube TV to bring ABC and ESPN back on the air as the two sides hash out a new agreement, because those are ‘the channels that people want.”

“We agree that the right priority here is to give customers what they want. As you know from the many content disputes you’ve been part of, customers don’t want companies fighting and content blackouts. But unfortunately, your proposal would permit us to return Disney’s ABC stations only for a day and will cause customer confusion among those who may briefly see ABC on YouTube TV only to lose it again shortly after,” Google said in its response.

Google noted that “There are plenty of other options for customers – election news information is very widely available across other broadcast stations and news networks on YouTube TV, as well as on the main YouTube service, for free. In fact, on the last two U.S. election days, the vast majority of tuned in YouTube TV subscribers chose not to watch ABC.”

The statement continued, “Publicly resorting to the same tactic that Disney relied on in past disputes fails to acknowledge the distinction between YouTube and other distribution platforms. As you know, Disney can continue to livestream news information on the ABC News YouTube page, which has 19.1 million subscribers, and its ABC local stations can also do so on their YouTube pages.

“To truly achieve what is best for our mutual customers, we propose immediately restoring the Disney channels that our customers watch: ABC and the ESPN networks, while we continue to negotiate. Those are the channels that people want,” Google’s statement concluded.

If you agree with our proposal and give us approval, we can get our operational teams together and get these channels live in hours. Let us know how you’d like to proceed.

Disney said it has sent a proposal to Google for a YouTube TV deal renewal and is awaiting a response.

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Eriq La Salle Departs 'FBI' Offshoot As Executive Producer
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Eriq La Salle Departs ‘FBI’ Offshoot As Executive Producer

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EXCLUSIVE: There is another exit from CBS‘ upcoming FBI offshoot CIA. Eriq La Salle has left the series as executive producer, Deadline has learned.

His departure comes as Michael Michele, one of the series’ leads, exited late last week, as Deadline revealed exclusively.

The crime drama, which was picked up in April with a straight-to-series order, underwent a showrunner change in July, with Warren Leight replacing FBI: Most Wanted‘s David Hudgins.

La Salle had been attached since before the showrunner switch to direct and executive produce the opening episode of CIA. He did direct Episode 101 as planned. Filming on the series, which started in September, is currently continuing, not impacted by the departures, for a midseason premiere on CBS.

Earlier this year, La Salle signed a two-book deal with Penguin Random House’s Sourcebooks for the next two books (#4 and #5) in his thriller series Martyr Maker, with book 4 slated for release in September 2026. (The first three books were published in 2012, 2014 and 2023.) As he is stepping back from CIA, he will be focusing on writing.

CIA stars Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss as two unlikely partners — a fast-talking, rule-breaking loose cannon CIA case officer (Ellis), and a by-the-book, seasoned and smart FBI agent (Gehlfuss) who believes in the rule of law. When this odd couple are assigned to work out of CIA’s New York Station, they must learn to work together to investigate cases and criminals posing threats on U.S. soil, finding that their differences may actually be their strength.

The role played by Michele, the head of CIA’s New York Station, may be recast. The show also stars Natalee Linez as a CIA analyst.

Originally planned for a fall 2025 premiere, CIA in July was pushed to midseason. Dick Wolf and Leight executive produce alongside Nicole Perlman, David Chasteen, and Peter Jankowski. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, produces in association with Wolf Entertainment and CBS Studios.

La Salle has been a Wolf Entertainment mainstay for the past decade. He was co-executive producer/director and executive producer/director on Chicago P.D., executive producer, director and cast member on On Call, and also has directed for FBI, Law & Order, Law & Order: Organized Crime, Chicago Med and Chicago Justice.

Former ER star La Salle also has a first-look deal with Universal Television.

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Netflix’s First ‘Sesame Street’ Season: Watch the Trailer
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Netflix’s First ‘Sesame Street’ Season: Watch the Trailer

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Netflix is for the children!

On Monday, the streaming giant revealed the trailer for its first Sesame Street season — the 56th season overall of the iconic preschool series — which premieres in exactly one week. Netflix promises its version will have an all-new playability, as well as more comedy.

Netflix will release Sesame Street episodes four at a time over three separate premiere periods — think Stranger Things season five, just with much furrier monsters. The first feature guest appearance on season 56 is NASCAR champion Bubba Wallace, whom parents might remember from this incident.

“Season 56 reimagines Sesame Street, inviting children into the action and bringing them hand-in-hand through high-stakes stories, powerful learning moments and laugh-out-loud surprises,” Sal Perez, Sesame Street executive producer, said in a statement. “As always, Sesame Street’s curriculum is designed to meet children’s most pressing needs — so our focus this season is on kindness and compassion, something we can all use more of today.”  

Sesame Street episodes on Netflix will remain 30-minutes long; until 2016, they were an hour.

The show’s new head writer is Halcyon Person, who served the same role on Netflix’s Karma’s World (2021), the animated show from rapper Ludacris starring his daughter, and Dee & Friends in Oz (2024). Netflix’s Sesame Street will be available in 30-plus languages.

Sesame Street first launched on Nov. 10, 1969, exactly 56 years prior to its Netflix era (the seasons align to the years). The new Sesame Street episodes will simultaneously premiere on the PBS Kids app.

Watch the trailer, below:

These changes have been in the works for a while. More than two years ago, Steve Youngwood, the CEO of Sesame Workshop, walked The Hollywood Reporter through the new vision for the old show.

The single-largest change will see the program drop the “magazine”-style format it has long used in favor of two longer, more narrative-driven segments, which will be paired with a new animated series, Tales From 123. The new format will feature two 11-minute story segments, with the new animated series sandwiched in between them. Read more here.

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Red Dwarf confirms exciting new release after new special was scrapped
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Red Dwarf confirms exciting new release after new special was scrapped

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Red Dwarf fans haven’t had the best time of it recently, with a planned special being unceremoniously scrapped by UKTV – but there’s a silver lining to this cloud, as fans will soon be able to relive the show’s best moments.

The original TV soundtrack collections for the classic sci-fi comedy are set to be released as BBC audiobooks.

The audiobooks, Red Dwarf: Series I to IV and V to VIII: The BBC TV Soundtracks, will be available from 20th November – so watch this space!

The news comes after Doug Naylor, co-creator of Red Dwarf, revealed that the new episode fans had been looking forward to was scrapped by UKTV last year.

Craig Charles as Dave Lister in Red Dwarf. UKTV/Joel Anderson

A spokesperson for UKTV told RadioTimes.com at the time: “UKTV has no current plans to commission further episodes of Red Dwarf.

“It’s been a privilege to work with Doug Naylor and the cast in a relationship that began with the Back to Earth specials, which premiered to 4 million viewers, and has subsequently produced three full series, a retrospective and Red Dwarf’s first ever feature length, The Promised Land.”

However, Naylor has since shared with RadioTimes.com that there’s “absolutely” a chance of the episode, which was set to see Craig Charles’s Lister meeting his younger self, being shopped around to other channels.

“Absolutely, yeah, there’s always that possibility,” he said. “It’s public knowledge now this week, because I’ve announced it, and so now we will go out. The [cast] are really keen to do more.

“I’ve also done two thirds of a movie called Out of the Red where the guys play fictitious versions of themselves, and there’s real interest in that as well, both from a distributor and from a production company.

“In fact, I had a meeting about that this morning, so there’s that possibility as well. So it’s not dead, Dave – yet!”

So, as the wait for more Red Dwarf continues, it’s time to relive the best moments in audio form! Fingers crossed we’ll see the gang back on screen soon.

The new BBC audiobooks, Red Dwarf: Series I to IV and V to VIII: The BBC TV Soundtracks will be available from 20th November. Red Dwarf is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.

Check out more of our Sci-Fi coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to see what’s on tonight. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.

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Premiere Date, Cast, Trailer & More Updates

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Production on Season 2 of Ransom Canyon is underway, and Netflix announced the latest addition to the cast on Monday, November 3. The cast won’t look exactly the same when the show comes back, as Deadline confirmed that two of Season 1’s main cast members will not be returning in a regular capacity. However, there will be some new faces that join the fold.

Ransom Canyon is based on Jodi Thomas’ book series, and many of the storylines were wrapped up nicely in the Season 1 finale. However, there was still plenty left open-ended, which will likely all be explored in the season to come.

Scroll down for everything we know about Season 2 of Ransom Canyon.

Is there a Season 2 of Ransom Canyon?

On June 24, Netflix confirmed that Ransom Canyon will have a Season 2. “I couldn’t be happier that Netflix is ready to get back in the saddle for Ransom Canyon!” showrunner Ashley Blair said in a statement. “Our dreamy little corner of Texas Hill Country is full of stories still untold, and we can’t wait to bring them to our incredible fans. Get ready for another ride.”

At the time Season 1 aired, the powers that be were already working on the next story they want to tell. “We’ve already started the writers’ room, even though the show hasn’t been picked up to series yet for Season 2,” showrunner Ashley Blair told TV Insider in April.

When is the Ransom Canyon Season 2 premiere?

There’s no premiere date quite yet, but at this rate, we likely won’t get the new season until the end of 2026 or beginning of 2027.

Who is in the Ransom Canyon Season 2 cast?

Deadline reported that Minka Kelly (Quinn O’Grady), Josh Duhamel (Staten Kirkland), Lizzy Greene (Lauren Brigman), Garrett Wareing (Lucas Russell), Jack Schumacher (Yancy Grey), Marianly Tejada (Ellie Catawnee), and Casey W Johnson (Kit Russell), who has been promoted to a series regular, will be returning. The article did not mention Meta Golding (Paula Jo).

Ben Robson (Animal Kingdom) and Heidi Engerman (Candyland) have also joined the cast in recurring roles. They will star in multiple episodes. Details on their roles have not been confirmed yet. Netflix has also confirmed the casting of Steve Howey, who will be a recurring guest star in Season 2. He’ll be playing Staten’s half-brother, Levi, “a mountain man of sorts who lives off the land.”

Other recurring cast members for Season 2 are Patricia Clarkson, Tatanka Means, Justin Johnson Cortez, Kenny Miller, Jennifer Ens, Brett Cullen, and Niki Guardado. Philip Winchester, who plays Sheriff Brigman, will be back in a recurring role.

Although it was expected that the main players from Season 1 would all come back, Deadline confirmed on September 22 that Eoin Macken and Andrew Liner, who play father and son Davis and Reid, respectively, will not be series regulars in Season 2.

One person who also definitely won’t be returning is James Brolin, whose character, Cap Fuller, died at the end of Season 1. Of course, he could show up in flashbacks, but moving forward, he will not be part of the present-day story.

It remains to be seen whether Sarah Minnich, who plays Margaret Brigman, will come back. Season 1 ended with Sheriff Brigman arresting his wife for killing Staten’s son, Randall Kirkland (Hubert Smielecki), in a car accident, so there will be options about how much of her future story is explored going forward. Minnich had a fairly small role in Season 1, but the aftermath of what she did will continue to affect the main players, even if she’s not directly involved while (likely) serving time.

“In a potential Season 2, I think it’s a huge part of what’s going on. We’re still just in the room, so I don’t have every aspect to tell you. Westerns are morality tales, and so every aspect of this show, we always try to come from that foundation of love, lands, and legacy, and what that really means,” Blair explained. “For Sheriff Dan, this is his legacy and his family and the people that he loves. He has this moral choice. Does he do the right thing by his family and the wrong thing by his profession? That’s his morality moment, so we try to do that with everyone, but that’s the thing he’s grappling with, and he painfully chooses to do the right thing.”

A major role that will have to be cast for Season 2 is Yancy’s mysterious wife who showed up at the end of Season 1 right before he was supposed to marry Ellie. Her face was not shown.

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“We weren’t at the place where we were ready to cast that yet, and we wanted to also add a little air of mystery, but definitely a Season 2 would answer that very quickly,” Blair confirmed.

What is the plot of Ransom Canyon Season 2?

The official logline for Season 2 says: “Passions run deep in Ransom Canyon, where three ranching family dynasties reignite a generations-long feud over love, land, and legacy in their small, West-Texas town.”

Obviously, Yancy’s past will need to be explored further in Season 2, as well as how it will affect his future with Ellie moving forward. There’s also the potential for another love triangle between Yancy, Ellie, and Kai (Justin Johnson Cortez).

While the show didn’t delve too much into Ellie and Kai’s history in Season 1, Blair said that Cortez pitched a backstory for his character that intrigued her. “Moving forward, that’s a love triangle we’d like to explore, too. It was just we had a lot of them,” she shared.

Staten and Quinn broke up at the end of Season 1, and with Quinn headed to New York for six months, their future is certainly up in the air. This, of course, could be the perfect opportunity for Davis to swoop back in, although his reconciliation with Paula Jo could also complicate things. Regardless, there are plenty of avenues to explore here.

Plus, the aftershocks of Lucas’ brother Kit’s affair with Lauren’s mom, Margaret, being exposed at the end of Season 1 will likely take a toll on Lucas and Lauren’s relationship, which is already complicated enough thanks to her history with Reid.

“We also have these themes of fathers and sons. I think there’s a story to tell there, and the love story that needs to be told is between Reid and his father [Davis],” Blair hinted. “That needs to be healed and mended. And I think until he does that and grows up, I don’t know that he can be a contender for Lauren, but definitely in future seasons, for sure.”

Will there be a time jump in Ransom Canyon Season 2?

Yes, if the show gets picked up for a Season 2, there will be a time jump, Blair confirmed.

“We would need to because I don’t want to do anything in New York. Quinn needs to go away and save her ranch, and we need to see what the implications are for that punch that Davis goads Staten into doing and what that plot between Davis and Staten’s father, the senator, is like,” she explained. “I think we would probably do that because she says, ‘I’m going to go away for six months.’ So the idea right now, although nothing’s set in stone, is that we would do at least a six-month time jump.”

Ransom Canyon, Season 1, Streaming Now, Netflix

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The First Movie Shot in the Rohingya Language
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The First Movie Shot in the Rohingya Language

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The failure of the the law to protect people who need it, particularly refugees, has long been a subject of director Akio Fujimoto’s work. His “Passage of Life” sees an undocumented Burmese become torn apart in Tokyo after circumstances force them to uproot themselves again and move to Myanmar, where the children have never lived, having been born and raised Japanese. 2020’s “Across the Sea” concerns the exploitation of foreign workers, as it follows a trio of Vietnamese women working in Japan who are unable to get hospital treatment after their employers confiscates their passports.

“Lost Land” is Fujimoto’s third link in this powerful chain of dramas concerning the extreme hostility of the establishment towards displaced people, this time focusing on the Rohingya, an Islamic people effectively without a country following genocide in Myanmar. The film concerns what it feels like to have no floor beneath one’s feet; it’s a film in constant, jarring, elliptical forward motion as it charts the journey of a Rohingya family from Bangladesh to Malaysia. (It also feels of a piece with the Tokyo International Film Festival competition title “Mother Bhumi,” also interested in the region’s history, particularly towards the “various ethnic groups that were embittered against each other by the dictums of British rule.”)

HEDDA, from left: Tessa Thompson, Nina Hoss, Imogen Poots, 2025. ph: Parisa Taghizadeh /© Amazon MGM Studios /Courtesy Everett Collection

Fujimoto’s film quickly leaves the small comforts of home, as it watches children (real life siblings Muhammad Shofik Rias Uddin and Shomira Rias Uddin) play hide-and-seek before their aunt and uncle, frantically pack for their emigration; they immediately have to make unpleasant choices in leaving behind what material possessions they have in order to better care for the kids. The older sister, Somira — aged nine — is quickly and tragically forced to grow up in the space of a week as she finds herself responsible for her four-year-old brother Shafi during this harrowing exodus. Boat captains bark at the families to give up their phones and shut down what little expression the passengers can muster (one man sings “I wonder when I can return to our home country”). Later in the journey the family run afoul of smugglers in Thailand, which leads to an even more desperate situation as the children have to fend for themselves. 

Fujimoto shoots in an almost documentary-like, fly-on-the-wall style from the very beginning, but this isn’t to say that the film is cold or analytical in its depiction of this story. The camera often orbits the children from their point of view, highlighting what they see and feel (such as the claustrophobia of the boat they board to Malaysia), and the flight-or-survival instincts they’re forced to learn. Fujimoto deliberately makes the camera operator feel present in the scene being depicted as a kind of invisible witness: In some moments you feel the cameraperson stand up along with the characters, or in one scene where the children steal some bamboo out of desperation, they feel present as they run with them. The plight of the Rohingya is often discussed in terms of its scale, so Fujimoto’s visual efforts to pare things down to a human level feel incredibly meaningful. 

The director pieces the film together in elliptical fashion. It starts with title cards announcing “Day One” and “Day Two,” but then suddenly skips ahead to “Day Eight” and then “Day Fourteen” as time begins slipping. A story from Somira’s aunt about a mango tree which survived the burning of their village is met with the response of a dreamlike montage of the fire, narrated with a prayer for lost souls from the Qur’an. That sequence then slips to show that a passenger on the boat has died, specifically an old man who affirms that “compared to our past, this is nothing.” The torment of “Lost Land” is perpetual, never aestheticizing misery but rather operating in the sense that it mourns for those in the stories relayed to the director (Fujimoto worked directly with Rohingya people in the making of the film, which is notably the first to use the Rohingya language). Crucially, the tragedies of the film don’t come from a sense of the filmmaker’s cynicism, but from compassion.

That feeling is made clear in a sequence that’s practically shot like the testimonials in a doc: a montage of Rohingya refugees discussing the dreams they’ll achieve once they reach Malaysia. Those dreams include opening a car business, becoming a teacher, or in the case of the children, buying shoes and a hat. The film feels at its sharpest when the main family is embedded with other groups of refugees, which allows it to function as a window into a series of wider stories both about what the Rohingya refugees are forced to endure in their search for a home, as well as the outright hostility of the police towards them in various countries. Though interested and in some cases hopeful for its characters in rare moments of kindness and charity, there’s no magical thinking to be found here, as the tragic final notes of the film’s ending linger painfully even as one character clings to the memory of the aunt’s mango tree, as though to make the point that while the sharing of stories can provide some kind of personal salvation, that salvation can only go so far. 

Grade: B+

“Lost Land” premiered at the 2025 Tokyo International Film Festival. It is currently seeking U.S. distribution.

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'Bel-Air' Final Season Trailer Sees the Banks Family Prep for Changes
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‘Bel-Air’ Final Season Trailer Sees the Banks Family Prep for Changes

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Peacock has dropped the official trailer for “Bel-Air” Season 4, which is also the show’s final season.

In the trailer, Will (Jabari Banks) and Carlton (Olly Sholotan) prepare for life after high school, while it is confirmed that Aunt Viv (Cassandra Freeman) is pregnant, which was hinted at in the end of the show’s third season. The trailer also confirms that Snoop Dogg is set for a cameo in Season 4.

Watch the full trailer below.

The fourth season of “Bel-Air” will debut on Nov. 24 with its first three episodes. New episodes will drop weekly on Mondays with two episodes on December 1 and three episodes on December 8. It was reported that the show would be ending with Season 4 back in December 2024. The official description for Season 4 states:

“Will tries to balance the fun and excitement of senior year with the expectations that have brought him to this moment. Carlton tests his own resolve as he deals with the fallout of some very big decisions that could threaten his future. Together, both boys will help each other through this pivotal time in their lives. An unexpected power shift will threaten the brotherhood between Phil and Geoffrey, whose loyalties to the Banks family will be tested. Viv struggles with reinventing herself as she looks at motherhood from a different perspective. It’s Ashley’s freshman year in high school and she’s working through a rebellious phase but quickly learns that the status quo may no longer serve her. Hilary goes on a journey of self-exploration.”

The cast of the show includes Banks as Will, Adrian Holmes as Phillip Banks, Freeman as Vivian Banks, Sholotan as Carlton Banks, Coco Jones as Hilary Banks, Akira Akbar as Ashley Banks, Jimmy Akingbola Geoffrey, Jordan L. Jones as Jazz, and Simone Joy Jones as Lisa. Coco Jones, Akbar, Jordan L. Jones, and Joy Jones are recurring guest stars.

The series is inspired by a viral video created by Morgan Cooper that reimagined the sitcom “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” as a drama series.

Carla Banks Waddles serves as writer, showrunner, and executive producer on the series. Cooper is also an executive producer and director on the series. Will Smith, Terence Carter, James Lassiter, Miguel Melendez, Benny Medina, Quincy Jones, and Andy & Susan Borowitz all serve as executive producers. David Boorstein, Des Moran, Shukree Tilghman, Felicia Pride are co-executive producers, with Nick Copus, Keesha Sharp, and Tina Mabry directing multiple episodes alongside Cooper. The series is produced by Universal Television and Westbrook Studios, a division of Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s media company Westbrook Inc.

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