What was the best Seinfeld episode? The usual answer is one NBC was afraid to put on air
Every "best Seinfeld episode" poll runs into the same problem: one episode keeps showing up at number one, and it's the one Larry David assumed the network would kill on sight. He was wrong about that, which is its own kind of story.
August 22, 2026 9:35 am
What happened to Richard Simmons? The question once carried an entire hit podcast
On February 15, 2014, Richard Simmons stopped showing up to teach at Slimmons, the Beverly Hills studio where he'd led classes for decades. He didn't announce anything. He just stopped, and stopped taking calls from most of the people who knew him. Three years later, that silence became one of the biggest podcasts in the country. Here's the actual answer.
August 22, 2026 9:13 am
What happens to Jason in The Oval? The First Son's body count keeps rising — and half the fandom cheers him on
Tyler Perry's The Oval premiered on BET in 2019 with a premise about a corrupt First Family. Within one season, the President's son had become the most dangerous person in the building, and the writers have never walked it back. Seven seasons later, Jason Franklin is still out there.
August 21, 2026 10:38 am
What company was Band of Brothers about?
HBO's Band of Brothers follows one company of American paratroopers from training camp in Georgia to Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Austria. Ten episodes, roughly 140 men at the start, and a unit designation that most viewers can recite by the end of episode two.
August 21, 2026 10:22 am
Where My Life with the Walter Boys was filmed isn't Colorado — it isn't even the same country
Jackie Howard moves from Manhattan to a ranch outside Silver Falls, Colorado. The mountains behind the Walter house are real, the working ranch is real, and the high school is a real high school. The state, however, is not.
August 21, 2026 10:07 am
Why did Nicole Scherzinger leave The Masked Singer? The exit was billed as temporary — it never got reversed
Nicole Scherzinger sat on The Masked Singer panel from the 2019 premiere through season 10. Then Fox announced she was stepping away for one season, with a fill-in already hired. That was September 2023. She has not been back since.
August 21, 2026 9:51 am
In The Chi, why did Kevin leave? For once, an exit came without the show's usual backstage drama
Alex R. Hibbert was 12 years old and fresh off Moonlight when he was cast as Kevin Williams in The Chi's 2018 pilot. He played the role for seven years and left at 19. Given this show's history with departing cast members, fans reasonably assumed something had gone wrong. Nothing had.
August 21, 2026 9:36 am
What is George's job in Seinfeld? The real list is long — the one he invented never changed
George Costanza held down at least seven jobs across nine seasons, and the average tenure was measured in months. One of them lasted a week. Another one he simply walked into without ever being offered it. Then there's the career he never had, which he kept describing anyway.
August 20, 2026 3:49 pm
What happened to Cameron Boyce? Remembering the Descendants star — and the cause his family now fights
Cameron Boyce was 20 years old and working constantly — a Disney Channel lead, an HBO series regular, two indie projects in the can. He died on July 6, 2019, less than two months after his birthday. The cause has a name most people had never heard, including his own parents.
August 20, 2026 3:36 pm
NCIS: when does Ziva come back? The show spent half a season preparing you before showing her face
Cote de Pablo last played Ziva David in the season 11 opener in 2013. The character was later presumed dead, killed in a mortar attack on her farmhouse in Israel. Six years later she walked through Gibbs' front door. The buildup took months.
August 20, 2026 2:45 pm