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CELEBRITY NEWS: OCTOBER 12, 2026
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Darci Lynne Farmer (Ventriloquist/ America’s Got Talent Season 12 Winner – 22 years old
Iris Apatow (“This Is 40”/“Knocked Up”/ Judd Apatow & Leslie Mann’s Daughter) – 24 years old
Jessica Shannon (Here Comes Honey Boo Boo) – 30 years old
Josh Hutcherson (“The Hunger Games” movies) – 34 years old
Marcus T. Paulk (Moesha) – 40 years old
Erica Dixon (Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta) – 42 years old
Bode Miller (Olympic Gold Medalist Skier) – 49 years old
Marion Jones (former Olympic Runner) – 51 years old
Kirk Cameron (Growing Pains) – 56 years old
Shalana Jones-Hunter (aka Tokyo Toni/ Blac Chyna’s Mother) – 57 years old
Hugh Jackman (“X-Men” movies) – 58 years old
Chris Wallace (Fox Journalist) – 79 years old

FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 10/12/26)
ACORN TV: This Is Not a Murder Mystery (Premiere)
BRAVO: Below Deck, Season 13 (Premiere) at 8pm
DISCOVERY: Contraband: Seized at the Border, Season 9 (Premiere) at 8pm
NETFLIX: Instadocs: AI Gone Wild (Premiere)

Netflix may be planning to cut 5% of its workforce, or roughly 850 jobs, as early as this week. Puck reports that the layoffs are related to a period of relatively slow engagement growth for the company.
-The news follows Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos publicly acknowledging earlier this month that the company is not growing as quickly as executives would like.
-The streamer hasn’t gone through a massive public layoff round at this scale since 2022, but other networks certainly have. Disney has gone through three rounds since new CEO Josh D’Amaro took over, including one at the end of September that axed more than 300 jobs. Meanwhile, Skydance is about to lose employees as it merges Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery’s workforces – on top of the 2,000 employees Paramount lost while merging with Skydance last year, of course.
-Netflix also just lost Greg Lombardo, who served as its head of live experiences (such as Netflix House and the upcoming “K-Pop Demon Hunters” world tour) for seven years.
(Source: Cynopsis)

UK network Channel 5 isn’t doing too hot, either. The Skydance-owned television channel lost $32 million in profits last year, according to its annual financial report. Part of the issue stems from a slump in the UK’s advertising market, as well as new investments in streaming infrastructure.
(Source: Cynopsis)

“Bloodaxe,” the upcoming Viking drama from “Vikings” creator Michael Hirst, premiered its first trailer at New York Comic-Con last week. All eight episodes of the series will drop on Prime Video Jan. 20.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Marvel Television might have canceled “Wonder Man” and “Daredevil: Born Again” recently, but don’t count the studio’s TV ambitions out. Announced at New York Comic-Con last week, Marvel is working on a new live-action spy thriller called ”Zodiac,” set to release in 2028. Not much is known about the project, although there have been several (mostly obscure) Marvel Comics characters who go by that name.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Also announced at New York Comic-Con, Paramount+ has renewed “Avatar: Seven Havens” for two more seasons, and is now developing a new action-comedy series for the franchise, “Avatar Kuruk: Wave of Chaos.”   
(Source: Cynopsis)

HBO placed a series order for “Crazy Rich Asians,” a sequel to the 2018 movie based on the novels by Kevin Kwan. It’s the first HBO series order since the cable network officially became part of Skydance, the artist formerly known as Paramount. The film cast is returning to the set for the series prequel, including Constance Wu (“Fresh Off the Boat”), Henry Golding (“Nine Perfect Strangers”) and Michelle Yeoh (“Star Trek: Discovery”).
(Source: Cynopsis)

FX has ordered a pilot from Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai (“In the Mood for Love”),  Emmy Award winner Hiro Murai (“Widow’s Bay”) and Searchlight Television. The crime drama will star Havana Rose Liu (“Hal & Harper”) and begins shooting in Bangkok this month.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Byron Allen’s “Comics Unleashed,” which CBS started airing in the time slot left by “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” is finally a ratings contender. The show drew 1.07 million total viewers last Tuesday night, slightly beating out “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” at 1.01 million viewers, Allen Media Group announced. (“Colbert,” meanwhile, averaged about 4.2 million viewers a night during its final month in May.)
(Source: Cynopsis)

Also on Tuesday, CBS’s season premieres for “NCIS,” “NCIS Origins” and “NCIS: New York” were the top three most-watched scripted broadcast shows, with the former two serving as the No. 1 broadcast shows in their time slot. Viewership shot up 39% compared to last year’s big “NCIS” premiere night.
(Source: Cynopsis)

UPtv declared itself to be the No. 1 growing cable network in 2026, as well as No. 30 among women over 18, according to Nielsen data. The family-friendly channel’s original series “Blue Skies” also ranked top 10 in its time period across ad-supported cable.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Longtime TV analyst and NFL legend Mike Ditka died at 86, his family announced. In addition to working at NBC, CBS Sports and ESPN, Ditka’s time as a coach for the Chicago Bears inspired a famous recurring “Saturday Night Live” sketch called “Bill Swerski’s Superfans.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Other Mommy – $27.5 million
Verity – $11.5 million
Resident Evil – $8.4 million
Heart of the Beast – $7.1 million
The Social Reckoning – $5.5 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)