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What city is Landman based on? The show names it outright — the cameras were 300 miles away
Landman is unusually specific about where it happens — the city is named, the oil company is headquartered there, the geography is real. The production never went anywhere near it.
September 27, 2026 3:21 pm
Debt jumps $7.5B at Paramount Skydance, with $111B Warner Bros. Discovery merger ahead
Paramount Skydance is lining up more cash as its ambitious Warner Bros. Discovery deal heads into yet another expensive phase.
September 27, 2026 1:41 pm
Why are Landman seasons so short? The man who gave Yellowstone a 14-episode season keeps this one at ten
Landman has run exactly ten episodes a year since it premiered, and the third season has now slipped out of its annual slot entirely. Here's what actually caps the order, from the Texas heat to the one man writing all of it.
September 27, 2026 11:33 am
Attend the 2026 MTV VMA in Los Angeles — as a seat filler
MTV VMA 2026 seat-filler spots are open for Sept. 27 in L.A., letting you in free—and maybe in view of a history-making moment.
September 25, 2026 2:10 pm
Why did The Right Stuff bomb? It won four Oscars — and still couldn't earn back its budget
Philip Kaufman's space epic won four Academy Awards, topped both Siskel's and Ebert's lists for the year, and lost enough money to take its production company down with it. Here's how a film that good failed that badly.
September 24, 2026 10:37 am
Indie buys limited to $5 million annually under Paramount-Warner Bros. $111 billion deal
Paramount and Warner Bros. may have a $111 billion deal on paper, but the indie movies buried in the fine print could make that math messy.
September 23, 2026 6:39 pm
Why is The Running Man rated R? The MPAA's reasoning lists three things
Edgar Wright's Stephen King adaptation carries an R, and the MPA summed it up in a single line. Here's what that line is covering, how the British board described the same film, and whether the 1987 version got the same treatment.
September 23, 2026 5:12 pm
Which NCIS series is best? All seven ranked — from the one that lasted a single season to the one past 1,000 episodes
The NCIS franchise has produced seven series across 23 years and 53 seasons of television. Here's how they compare on critic scores, viewership, and staying power, and which one the reviewers actually rated highest.
September 23, 2026 12:23 pm
Which NCIS shows are renewed? The list changed twice this year
CBS renewed three NCIS shows in January, then rewrote the plan in April. Here's what's actually on the schedule this fall, what got trimmed, and what happened to the spinoff that didn't survive the year.
September 23, 2026 9:14 am
Failure to deliver on its 30-movie promise could cost Paramount 'Scream', 'Scary Movie', and more
Paramount’s high-stakes bid for a promised movie haul has fan favorites caught in the crossfire—leaving you to wonder which beloved franchises make the cut.
September 22, 2026 1:55 pm
$30M per movie at stake in Paramount–Warner Bros. merger’s unique annual target and penalty
In Paramount and Warner Bros.’ merger talks, there’s a costly string attached: keep the annual movie pipeline flowing—or be ready to eat the penalties.
September 21, 2026 3:37 pm
Sonic had to become a robot to survive Fortnite
Sonic, Shadow and Knuckles are playable in Fortnite only as androids — SEGA's way of keeping the real hedgehog away from guns. The collab's loopholes, explained.
September 21, 2026 7:14 am
Universal, Sony and Disney top Hollywood’s 2026 box office leaderboard
If you think the studio pecking order’s predictable, the 2026 box office just shuffled the deck, with new players crashing the top five and others getting bounced.
September 20, 2026 11:03 am
Who killed Douda in The Chi? The season 6 finale opened on the body and made viewers wait most of the episode for the name
Otis "Douda" Perry ran Chicago's South Side across five seasons of The Chi and made enemies in every one of them. The season 6 finale finally settles who got him, and the answer set the show's last two seasons in motion.
September 19, 2026 3:48 pm
Why did Spencer leave Criminal Minds? The reason, and what Matthew Gray Gubler has said since
Spencer Reid was in every episode of Criminal Minds for fifteen years, then wasn't in the revival. Here's the explanation the series gave on screen, the different one his co-stars gave in interviews, and what Matthew Gray Gubler has done since.
September 18, 2026 9:46 am
Which NCIS episode do Ziva and Tony get together?
Which NCIS episode do Ziva and Tony get together? The exact hour of television to watch, the episodes surrounding it, and how a romance twelve years in the making finally got resolved.
September 17, 2026 12:41 pm
How did Ezekiel die in The Chi?
How did Ezekiel die in The Chi? What the final season reveals about Pastor Zeke's fate, the investigation the community never got, and why his funeral sets the tone for everything that follows.
September 17, 2026 9:24 am
Stephen Colbert turns cancellation into a rallying cry: hire his Late Show crew
After CBS pulled the plug on Late Show, Stephen Colbert has a single, pointed ask for the industry—and it could reset the conversation.
September 17, 2026 9:14 am
What state was Gunsmoke filmed in? Dodge City stood on a studio backlot — the open-range scenes were shot in other states
What state was Gunsmoke filmed in? The truth behind TV's longest-running Western — where Dodge City actually stood, which landscapes played the Kansas prairie, and what's left of those sets today.
September 16, 2026 5:04 pm
What happened to Keisha on The Chi? Her arc runs from the pilot to the last scene of the series finale
Kiesha Williams was in The Chi's first episode and still there for its last. A look at Birgundi Baker's eight-season run on the Lena Waithe drama — how a recurring part grew into one of the show's central roles, the season 3 storyline that changed the character entirely, and what the Paramount+ series finale does with her.
September 16, 2026 3:32 pm