Soap opera fans are accustomed to outlandish plot twists, but some storylines are beyond the pale.
EXCLUSIVE: High Potential is still digging up more viewers throughout its sophomore season.
The Season 2 premiere, which aired on September 16, grew to 17.23M multi-platform viewers after 35 days across ABC, Hulu, Hulu on Disney+ and digital platforms, per Nielsen data. That’s a 17% increase over last year’s series premiere, which drew 14.71M viewers in 35 days, and an 11% lift over the Season 1 average audience of 15.52M.
It’s also a nearly 300% increase over the same-day audience for the Season 2 debut, which sat around 4.34M, according to Nielsen.
The High Potential Season 2 premiere also had two linear encore airings. When factoring those in, the episode sits around 21.48M viewers in total over the course of 35 days post-premiere.
Season 2 has continued to rake in an impressive audience through midseason, averaging 12.38M viewers per episode after seven days. That is a significant 19% increase over Season 1, which had about 10.38M viewers per episode in the seven-day window.
And, the success is not just due to its promising lead-in from the very popular Season 34 of Dancing with the Stars, either.
Per Nielsen, High Potential draws 40% of its live audience from other sources. On linear platforms alone, High Potential is up 25% over last fall in the seven-day measurement period with 7.59M viewers per episode.
High Potential aired its midseason finale on October 28. Season 2 returns on January 6 in its new 9 p.m. time slot on ABC. Episodes stream next day on Hulu.
Diddy Could Lose Phone Access & Commissary Privileges For 90 Days Over Alleged Unauthorized 3-Way Prison Call
Sean “Diddy” Combs hasn’t been at FCI Fort Dix for long, but he’s already been accused of breaking the rules.
As reported, after his sentencing, the music mogul was moved from Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center to FCI Fort Dix. Since settling into the new facility, #Diddy has come under fire for allegedly taking part in a banned three-way phone call. Per documents obtained by CBS News, the Nov. 3 call involved Diddy, an unnamed woman, and an unidentified man, a setup that violates BOP rules prohibiting multiple participants on inmate calls.
During the call, Diddy spoke with an unnamed woman about getting in touch with “the digital person” about blogs, and then reportedly discussed arranging weekend visits with loved ones, suggesting they bring “200 singles.” When the third party was added, prison officials flagged the call as a rule violation.
In his explanation, Diddy said he was talking to his female lawyer, who added his PR guy to the call to draft a statement to the #NewYorkTimes after he approved it, but he provided no reason why he would want to issue a statement to the NYT. He also claimed he wasn’t aware of the third-party phone call regulations. Despite his explanation, officials still recommended that Diddy lose 90 days of phone access and 90 days of commissary privileges. It’s unclear, however, what consequences he ultimately received. This news follows reports of Diddy being caught with alcohol, an allegation his team has denied.
The weather in November can be somewhat unpredictable—especially on the East Coast. For example, where I live, the high temperature reached 75 degrees yesterday. Today, the high is 50 degrees. But lately, many days have had an average temperature around 60 degrees, and I find this to be tricky to dress for. It’s not coat weather, but you’re going to freeze in just a T-shirt, and a sweater is good for the morning, but you’ll probably be toasty by noon. Luckily, Dua Lipa, who has been on the East Coast in NYC as of late, has the outfit to solve your tricky fall-weather predicaments, and it’s one I’ve been seeing a lot in 2025.
The outfit I’m referring to is a flannel plaid shirt over a T-shirt with jeans and boots (or any other shoe style). Specifically, Dua Lipa opted for a yellow plaid shirt over a white tee with straight-leg jeans, a Western belt, and black stack-heel boots. And if you get hot at any point during the day, you can simply tie the plaid shirt around your waist, which is a styling trick that quickly went viral this fall. It’s the perfect fall outfit for a 60-degree day, and can also be layered under a coat or jacket, making it equally appropriate for colder winter days.
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Is there anything better than a good sale and some high-quality styles? Not in our book! Banana Republic has an excellent sale going on right now that has us obsessed. Now through November November 1, the retailer is offering up to 40% off sale with an extra 20% off sale items. It doesn’t take girl math to realize that’s 60% off! No need for promo codes either, simply add to cart and you’ll see the discount automatically.
Whether you’re looking for a cozy cashmere sweater top or a reliable (and chic) pair of pants, there’s something in this sale for you! Banana Republic’s styles are just fashionable, they’re also made from the highest quality materials and softest fabrics. Plus, they have petite sizes that shoppers swear by. And the best part? You’ll find plenty of under-$100 styles!
Keep scrolling to shop our picks from this super limited-time sale. We wouldn’t just hurry because the sale will be over in two days, but some of our favorite picks have sizes and shades that are already sold-out. We warned you!
Prince Andrew allegedly now spends his days playing Call Of Duty after giving up his royal titles earlier this month.
Prince Andrew, the younger brother of King Charles The Third, stepped back from being a working royal in 2019 after he was accused of sexual assault and having a close relationship with billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Andrew “vigorously denies” the allegations, but earlier this month gave up his royal titles including Duke Of York. “In discussion with the King, and my immediate and wider family, we have concluded the continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family,” he said in a statement (via the BBC).
However Prince Andrew is still refusing to leave the 30-bedroom Royal Lodge after he took out a 75-year lease on the property in 2003. The situation is currently being investigated by Parliament’s spending watchdog.
According to a new report shared earlier this week, the disgraced Prince Andrew spends all day playing Call of Duty on a wall-to-wall television and “clinging to the piles of teddies in his bedroom.”
The Sun’s source went to claim Andrew “loves games like Call Of Duty [and] war games with helicopters. He certainly doesn’t play FIFA, he’s got no interest in football.” He also really enjoys “war films and watching golf on TV.”
Royal author Ingrid Seward added: “His life is very empty, he’s very lonely and I think he’s probably extremely bored. I remember Fergie telling me way back that Andrew always loved video games and he’s an aficionado of television.”
“Personally, I think the only future available to Andrew is for him to go and live away from Windsor and start a new life, somewhere that he can’t be extradited to America,” she continued. “Otherwise, he’s just stuck in a rut where every day will be the same and he will be pilloried at every turn.”
Earlier this week it was also revealed that Prince Andrew hosted Jeffrey Epstein at the Royal Lodge in 2006 as part of his daughter Beatrice’s birthday celebrations in 2006, two months after a US arrest warrant had been issued for Epstein for the sexual assault of a minor (via the BBC).
Next week a posthumous memoir by Ms Giuffre, one of the girls who accused Andrew of sexual assault, will be released after she took her own life earlier this year. “All the years of work that she put in is now coming to some sort of justice, and these monsters can’t escape from it,” her brother Sky Roberts told the BBC. “The truth will find its way out.”
Margaret DePriest, a onetime actress who spent three decades as a pioneering head writer on such soap operas as General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, All My Children and Another World, has died. She was 94.
DePriest died Sept. 29 of natural causes at her home in Greenwich Village, her daughter, Sara Kimbell, told The Hollywood Reporter.
DePriest had starred in soap operas as Abby Cameron on CBS’ The Edge of Night and as the social worker Mrs. Berger on NBC’s The Doctors when she and her mentor Lou Scofield created the CBS daytime drama Where the Heart Is in 1969. (Network execs at the time praised her for “writing like a man,” Kimbell noted.)
After four years on that show, she joined CBS’ Love of Life in 1975 as head writer, then wrote for The Doctors in 1976 and was an assistant to the producer and a writer/head writer on ABC’s General Hospital from 1978-81, on the scene when Luke (Anthony Geary) and Laura (Genie Francis) got married in Port Charles.
DePriest moved to NBC’s Days of Our Lives, and during her three seasons there, she and fellow head writers Pat Falken Smith and Sheri Anderson re-invented the town of Salem — giving it a riverfront, hilltop mansions, new restaurants, etc. — and introduced the blue-collar Brady family to viewers.
She also came up with the riveting storyline about the serial killer known as The Salem Strangler and helped write the 1985 wedding of yet another daytime supercouple, Bo & Hope (Peter Reckell and Kristian Alfonso).
DePriest later was a head writer on NBC’s Another World in 1986-88, on ABC’s All My Children in 1989-90, on ABC’s One Life to Live in 1990-91, on Another World again in 1996-97 and on NBC’s Sunset Beach — where she loved working for Aaron Spelling — in 1998-99.
Along the way, she received Daytime Emmy nominations for outstanding drama series writing in 1981 for General Hospital, in 1984 and 1985 for Days of Our Lives, in 1990 for All My Children and in 1992 for One Live to Live.
DePriest was “exacting and unafraid to challenge executives,” her daughter said, adding that “she favored strong female leads and layered storylines that tackled social change, class and identity.”
One of seven children, Margaret Lou DePriest was born during the Depression on April 19, 1931, in Bristow, Oklahoma. Her mother, Drusilla, was a homemaker who arrived in town from Kentucky in a covered wagon, and her father, Oscar, worked in the oil fields. Neither ever learned to read or write.
Woody Guthrie used to wander onto her family’s porch and sing with her dad.
DePriest won a full drama scholarship to the University of Oklahoma and after college acted on stages in Dallas and hosted two local TV shows, Ladies First and Maggie and Her Friends, a kids program with puppets. After that, she came to New York in the 1950s with her first husband, actor-singer Glenn Kezer, who wound up in the original My Fair Lady on Broadway.
In 1958, she found work as a stage manager and actress in an off-Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, which revolved around a witch hunt in another town called Salem.
DePriest enjoyed a big year in 1965 when she originated the role of Abby on The Edge of Night (while ghostwriting scripts for Scofield); won a best actress Obie Award for her turn in The Place for Chance; and starred alongside Jan Sterling in another off-Broadway drama, Friday Night.
From left, Jan Sterling, Eunice Brandon and Margaret DePriest in 1965 in ‘Friday Night’ at the Pocket Theatre in New York.
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After appearing on a 1968 episode of ABC’s N.Y.P.D., she put acting aside to concentrate on writing.
In the late 1970s, DePriest and her family moved to Los Angeles. She had been penning scripts in New York for her L.A.-based shows, and “back then there were no computers, fax, FedEx or email — just typewriters, carbon paper and ‘the overnight pouch,’” her daughter noted.
She also wrote short stories and a 1982 play for the East West Players company in Los Angeles that was directed by Shizuko Hoshi and Tony-winning actor Mako.
Her second husband was Paul B. Price, an actor and TV writer who portrayed the frisky Claude Perkins in the Broadway and big-screen versions of the madcap comedy The Ritz. Both her marriages ended in divorce.
In addition to her daughter, survivors include her son, Jake; son-in-law Wayne; and grandchildren Eli and Chaya.
“My mom began every morning with The New York Times crossword — in pen,” her daughter said. “She was a lifelong, voracious reader; a lover of poetry (especially Seamus Heaney) and literature; and a lifelong seeker of knowledge. She read the Bible and the Quran not for faith, but as literature. She loved architecture, art, history, flowers — she had a great green thumb — antiques and beauty in all forms.”
Master P Confirms Rapper Young Bleed Is In ICU Fighting For His Life Days After Cash Money vs.
No Limit Verzuz
Prayers up for #YoungBleed!
#MasterP has confirmed brewing rumors that the rapper is in the ICU fighting for his life, just days after appearing on stage for the #CashMoney vs. #NoLimit Verzuz.
Sharing a clip of Young Bleed from the showdown, Master P wrote, “[#SnoopDogg] and I was just talking about how we have to love eachother while we here! We just turned up with our brother @therealyoungbleed @verzuztv Thanks for all y’all prayers and we need more prayers for him and his family as he fights in ICU.”
Reports claiming Young Bleed had passed were quickly refuted by his family. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
EXCLUSIVE: Following successful runs at the Royal Opera House in London and the LA Phil, the buzzy English-language opera Last Days has been adapted for the big screen by artist and filmmaker Matt Copson, who co-created the original opera with Oliver Leith.
Inspired by Gus Van Sant’s 2005 film of the same name and financed by Mubi, Spain’s AF Films, and LUMA, with additional support from Nina Pictures and Artemis Rising Foundation, the film is currently in production in Spain.
Copson will direct the screen adaptation, with Agathe Rousselle (Titane) signed on to star. Rousselle also starred in the original opera production. Last Days is produced by AF and Many Enterprises and Riccardo Maddalosso, in collaboration with Mubi and Joslyn Barnes’ Louverture Films (Nickel Boys). Mubi has world rights, excluding Spain, on the pic. AF retains all rights in Spain.
Last Days dramatizes the final period in the life of a successful but reclusive musician, Blake, played by Rousselle. Blake has just escaped rehab to return home, but the peace of his household is soon disrupted by a series of unwelcome visitors. Adding to the chaos are constant calls from his manager and the presence of a private investigator and a superfan stalking nearby. As the turmoil around him reaches its peak, the ghostly figure of a magician appears, offering him a way out. In the end, Blake is left alone, facing only what remains: himself.
French cinematographer Claire Mathon, best known for her acclaimed work with Céline Sciamma (Petite Maman, Portrait Of A Lady on Fire), will serve as the Director of Photography. Sound Design will be led by Nicolas Becker (Sound Of Metal), Production Design is by Liam Moore, Nicolas Chaudeurge is the Editor, and Anna Morrisey is the movement director. Costume Design is by Nat Turner.
The score by Oliver Leith, original to the opera, features an aria sung by Caroline Polachek.
Last Days will mark Copson’s feature directorial debut. The British artist and filmmaker is best known for his work in the worlds of contemporary art and opera. Copson is most widely acclaimed for his theatrical installations, which fuse lasers, sculptures, and sound. He has exhibited internationally at the KW Institute in Berlin, Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Aspen Art Museum, and Serpentine Galleries in London.
Copson has also closely collaborated with Polachek, co-directing all her music videos with her since 2019. The 2005 Van Sant film was an experimental and fictionalized account of a Seattle musician’s life and career, reminiscent of those of Kurt Cobain.
The much-awaited supernatural drama “Jatadhara” is set to release in Hindi and Telugu on November 7, 2025, promising an epic blend of mythology, black magic, ancient curses, and a mystical treasure hunt. Starring Sudheer Babuand Sonakshi Sinha, the film is directed by Venkat Kalyan and Abhishek Jaiswal, with producers calling it one of the most ambitious projects of the year.
One of the film’s biggest highlights is its massive climax sequence, which the lead actors shot non-stop for 24 hours over multiple days. The scene reportedly features elaborate sets, intense action, and intricate choreography. Producer Shivin Narang revealed the immense effort behind the sequence, saying, “The climax is the soul of Jatadhara — it’s where two powerful forces of light and darkness collide. We wanted it to feel raw, real, and larger than life. What Sudheer and Sonakshi have done goes beyond dedication — it’s pure devotion.” He added that both stars gave their all physically, mentally, and emotionally to deliver one of the toughest and most ambitious climaxes ever seen on screen.
The trailer for Jatadhara recently created a buzz online, drawing attention not only for its visual grandeur but also for Sonakshi Sinha’s intense performance. Her husband, Zaheer Iqbal, took to Instagram to express his admiration, writing, “My wife surprising the world with her versatility again. I always said she has a little devil in her — turns out Jatadharamade it official!” He also wished the team success ahead of the release.
Presented by Zee Studios and Prerna Arora, Jatadhara is produced by Umesh Kumar Bansal, Shivin Narang, Aruna Agarwal, Prerna Arora, Shilpa Singhal, and Nikhil Nanda, with Akshay Kejriwal and Kussum Arora as co-producers. The film’s immersive soundscape has been crafted by Zee Music Co., promising a truly cinematic supernatural experience.
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