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Hilaria Baldwin, Jordan Chiles and Dylan Efron Among Full Celebrity Lineup for ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Season 34

Hilaria Baldwin, Jordan Chiles and Dylan Efron are among the newly announced celebrities joining “Dancing With the Stars” Season 34.

Additional new recruits for the ABC ballroom dancing show include NBA All-Star Baron Davis, actor and musician Corey Feldman, “Boy Meets World” star Danielle Fishel, actress Elaine Hendrix, Pentatonix’s Scott Hoying, Fifth Harmony’s Lauren Jauregui and comedian Andy Richter.

The celebrity dancers join previously announced cast members Robert Irwin, influencer Alix Earle and “Secret Lives of Mormon Housewives” stars Jen Affleck and Whitney Leavitt. On the pro side, Eras Tour dancer Jan Ravnik was also revealed to be joining last week.

The full cast was revealed Wednesday morning on “Good Morning America,” less than two weeks before “DWTS” debuts its 34th season on Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 8 p.m. on ABC and Disney+.

As for their pro partners, Affleck will be partnered with newcomer Ravnik, while her “Mormon Wives” co-star Leavitt is paired with Mark Ballas. Baldwin will be paired with Gleb Savchenko, while Chiles will be partnered with Ezra Sosa. Davis’ partner will be Britt Stewart; Earle’s partner will be Val Chmerkovskiy; Efron’s partner is Daniella Karagach and Feldman’s partner is Jenna Johnson.

Additionally, Fishel will be paired with Pasha Pashkov, Hendrix will be partnered with Alan Bersten, Hoying with Rylee Arnold, Irwin with Witney Carson, Jauregui with Brandon Armstrong and Richter with partner Emma Slater.

Last season, the celebrity cast included “Bachelor” alum Joey Graziadei and Jenn Tran, Olympians Ilona Maher and Stephen Nedoroscik as well as Eric Roberts, Tori Spelling, Brooks Nader, Anna Delvey, Danny Amendola, Dwight Howard, Chandler Kinney and Phaedra Parks, among others. Ultimately, Graziadei and his partner, Jenna Johnson, emerged as the Season 33 winners.

“Dancing With the Stars” Season 34 premieres Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 8 p.m. on ABC and simulcasts on Disney+.

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‘Wednesday’ Season 2, Part 2 Review: Netflix Hit’s Central Friendship Shines Amid Lackluster Plot

It won’t be too much of a surprise to find out Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) is still alive after her near-fatal attack at the end of “Wednesday,” Season 2, Part 1. But don’t worry, these next four episodes contain more twists and turns than you could hope for — and it’s not just the very fun Lady Gaga cameo.

At its best, “Wednesday” is campy and fun, or spooky and disturbing. At times, and definitely in these last episodes, “Wednesday” can get bogged down in convoluted plots that don’t always materialize in satisfying ways, with some storylines that feel drawn out. Although Part 2 closes the loop on most of these arcs, the writers are smart to continue building out the show’s central friendship, which has quickly become the grounding force of the series.

Wednesday and Enid (Emma Myers) began as an unlikely roommate pairing, and their conflicting personalities boil to the surface this season. Specifically: Wednesday’s habit of keeping Enid in the dark and never being vulnerable with her, contrasted with Enid’s overbearing and somewhat naïve outlook on life. Wednesday progressively learns to trust and rely on Enid, a major shift for a character who prides herself on self-reliance and independence. On the other hand, Enid begins to empathize with Wednesday’s peculiarities, and also comes into her own as she uncovers her growing werewolf powers. 

An excellent and entertaining sixth episode gives both actresses a lot to work with as they clash in an unexpected and comedic way, deepening their bond and giving Wednesday’s vision of Enid’s death more weight and urgency. Although this friendship doesn’t seem to be slated for a romantic conclusion to the chagrin of Wenclair shippers, it is a much stronger focus than last season’s love triangle. Ortega and Myers have great non-romantic chemistry.

On the periphery of their friendship is Agnes (Evie Templeton), whose power of invisibility and stalker-ish behavior comes in clutch at multiple points in these episodes. She deservedly joins the fold by the end, even finding her own identity outside of her obsession with Wednesday. While Agnes naming the trio “The Three Musketeers” is a bit of a reach, we’re seeing the building blocks of a solid core crew — plus Thing, of course, who gets his own arc and backstory this season.

Unfortunately, when the show zooms out to its overarching and side plots that lean on trope-y betrayals and fight scenes, “Wednesday” isn’t as compelling. Such is the case with Tyler Galpin (Hunter Doohan), Slurp the zombie (Owen Painter) and the way those stories intertwine and become central to these four episodes. By linking these threads from Part 1, there is a lot less up in the air as far as plot: The villains of the story here are clear, but the lack of mystery or nuance in that reveal takes the steam out of the conflict, especially between Tyler and Wednesday. 

At this point, these crushes-to-enemies have had ample opportunities to kill each other, and the repetitiveness of their hesitation to do so continues to play into these new episodes. The shock of that conflict has overstayed its welcome, and eventually stops really making sense — why continuously plot to kill each other, but never actually do so?

Although there are plenty more reveals for Tyler and Slurp in terms of their backstories, with convoluted twists right up until the end, their side of the story starts to feel like a necessary but drawn-out evil. Scenes away from Wednesday, Enid and Agnes are far less engaging and interesting.

Another side plot involving Bianca (Joy Sunday) helping her mother hide out and the real reason as to why she is doing Principal Barry Dort’s (Steve Buscemi) bidding also comes to a swift but lackluster conclusion, with a backstory that feels shoehorned in at the last minute involving a cult and extortion. 

Luckily, there is still plenty of fun to be had on the outskirts of the conflict. After losing a few characters in the bloodbath of the fourth episode, the show brings back Principal Larissa Weems (Gwendoline Christie) as Wednesday’s spirit guide and thirteenth cousin twice removed, a ghost that follows her around and mostly provides some entertaining banter (the first season featured Goody Addams, Wednesday’s ancestor from the 1600s, as her first spirit guide). Christie is excellent as always, and it’s a reassuring thought that a character may die on the show but their spirit remains in the “Wednesday” universe. This season has had quite the high body count, so who knows who could re-appear next.

Regardless of the clunkier plot mechanics in this back half of the season, “Wednesday” continues to be a good time with top-of-the-line production design. There is always a twist and some spooky gore around the corner. This season showcased a deepening of the Addams family history — Joanna Lumley shined as the very glamorous Grandmama Frump. But as Wednesday says as the season comes to a close, “Secrets are the bedrock of the Addams family.” Based on the finale’s cliffhanger, “Wednesday” is sure to dig deeper into those mysteries in an already-greenlit third season. Maybe Wednesday will actually have time to go to class next season? 

“Wednesday” Season 2, Part 2, is now streaming on Netflix.

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Jimmy Kimmel Recaps the ‘Non-Stop Crap Factory’ of Trump News While He Was Gone, Jokes God ‘Abandoned Us on Jan. 20’ | Video

In his first “Jimmy Kimmel Live” since going on his annual vacation a few months ago, Jimmy Kimmel told his audience “I had a great summer.”

Except for the fact he was completely unable to ignore the “non-stop crap factory” of bad news created by Donald Trump. So Kimmel basically did a speed-run through that news, recapping some of the biggest and most disturbing stories that happened during his vacation.

“I actually got another job this summer. I got a summer gig working video camera at the Coldplay concert,” Kimmel joked, referring to tech executives who were caught cheating on their spouses at a Coldplay concert several weeks back.

“What a weird summer. I mean really. Can anything just be normal anymore? I tried to ignore the news. I tried to disconnect. It’s impossible,” Kimmel said after recapping some of his own summer adventures. “You can’t turn him off.  He won’t power down. He’s like Ultron – he just keeps going. Every day it’s something crazier than the next. I made a list. This is all in the last two months. I made you a quick list. I will run through it.”

“He paved over the Rose Garden He’s building a golden ballroom at the White House. He’s planning a UFC fight at the White House. He cut off Kamala Harris’s Secret Service protection. He named himself host of the Kennedy Center Honors. He went to Alaska to bend over for Putin. He sent military tanks – into Washington D.C.,” Kimmel said.

“He said the Smithsonian focuses too much on ‘how bad slavery was.’ He called India and Norway to tell them to nominate him for a Nobel Prize. And he cut off funding for pediatric brain cancer research for children. You would think a person, who himself has the brain of a child, would be in favor of funding pediatric brain cancer research. But I guess not,” Kimmel continued.

“Crazier when you know, it’s different when you do it every night and you get it little by little. I mean, just yesterday, there’s this video of what seem to be garbage bags being thrown out the window of the Lincoln bedroom. That’s the White House. The official response from the White House said it was maintenance work being done while Trump was off on one of his many golf weekends. But Trump is even contradicting his own White House now,” Kimmel said, referring to Trump’s claim that video was an AI-generated hoax.

“And that was just today. Over the summer, it was just a non-stop crap factory. Remember God? The guy who abandoned us on January 20th of this year? God. Grabbed his keys and left. Exchanged us for another world I guess,” Kimmel joked.

Watch his full monologue below:

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Colbert Compares Trump’s Blurry Proof-of-Life Photos to Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster | Video

Stephen Colbert returned from vacation on Tuesday and during his monologue talked about the story that occupied everyone over Labor Day weekend: Trump’s health.

Though Colbert wasn’t thrilled about the idea of a president dying in office, he didn’t think the White House’s efforts over the weekend to demonstrate that Trump was, in fact, alive, were very convincing. In particular, the blurry images reminded Colbert of the infamous blurry photos purported to be of bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster.

“I was shocked to learn that this weekend, the biggest story was frenzied social media rumors speculating whether Donald Trump had died,” Colbert began. “For the record, Donald Trump is very much alive, okay.”

At this, the “Late Show” audience started booing, a reaction Colbert gently shushed. “No, we like our presidents alive,” he said.

“Donald Trump is very much alive, and this whole crazy rumor started simply because Trump had zero events on his schedule, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday,” Colbert continued, “and one of the only signs that he might still be around was music heard in the Rose Garden, which the White House confirmed was the President’s music. Which I got to say, is not the strongest proof of life. Yes, nurse, I do see that flat line, but the patient is clearly alive because his iPhone is playing ‘Papa loves Mambo. Papa loves Mambo.'”

“Anyway because he was out of public view, and because, when he is in public view, eww, the internet went crazy. ‘Is Trump dead?’ and ‘Trump dead’ were among the top searches on Google, while the top search on Bing was as always, ‘where find Google?'” Colbert joked.

“Adding to all this terrible, morbid speculation, on Thursday, Vice President JD Vance spoke to the USA Today, and here’s how he answered the question, ‘are you ready to assume the role of Commander in Chief if needed?'”

Colbert then ran a clip of Vance’s answer, which was: “The President is in incredibly good health. He’s got incredible energy. And while most of the people who work around the president united states are younger than he is, I think that we find that he actually is the last person who goes to sleep. He’s the last person making phone calls at night.”

“The President doesn’t sleep and is on the phone all night, proof that he is completely healthy or runs a phone sex line,” Colbert said. He then did an impression of Trump conducting phone sex, which included a very funny joke about the president’s recent cankle problem.

“On Saturday, the rumors took another hit when this footage was released at the White House entrance,” Colbert went on, showing said clip. “Because that blurry, faraway shot of a lumbering hominid is definitely Donald Trump.”

“For More proof, the White House also released a photo of Trump swimming in a Scottish Loch,” he added.

There’s a lot more, and you can watch the full monologue below:

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‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Season 10 Finale: Who Got Engaged and Who Won the Cash Prize?

Note: This story contains spoilers from “Bachelor in Paradise” Season 10, Episode 10.

“Bachelor in Paradise” closed out its tenth season with multiple cash prizes awarded to its finalists, and even one engagement.

With five couples left at the start of the finale, Episode 10 kicked off with the season’s final rose ceremony, which saw the elimations of Keith Gordon and Kathy Swarts, who voted themselves out, as well as Bailey Brown and Jeremy Simon, leaving the final three couples as Andrew Spencer and Alexe Godin, Kat Izzo and Dale Moss and Spencer Conley and Jess Edwards.

The next day, a strength competition decided that Spencer and Godin would advance to the finale with the chance of winning the cash prize, while the remaining two couples were asked to make their case to be in the running for the money to the jury of former contestants. Bringing back former contestants proved to be explosive, though, when Sean McLaughlin accused Izzo of communicating with her ex in Costa Rica and joining “Bachelor in Paradise” only to advance her career.

While Izzo and Moss sorted out the accusations privately, the pair were voted out of paradise by their peers, leaving Conley and Edwards in the finale with the chance to win up to $250,000 alongside Spencer and Godin.

The final two couples, however, were then faced with their last relationship test of paradise: choosing either love or money. Each individual was given the opportunity to chose either love — with the chance of not winning any money — or money, with the caveat that if both individuals in a couple chose money they would win nothing.

Luckily, all four finalists chose love, and were granted the opportunity to chose one of three envelops that held lump sums of up to $250,000. Spencer and Godin won $125,000, which went to Godin’s student loan debt, and Conley and Edwards won $190,000.

Upon choosing love, both couples took the next step in the relationships, with Spencer and Godin officially becoming boyfriend and girlfriend while Conley proposed to Edwards, who accepted his proposal.

The end of the finale revealed that Conley and Edwards remain engaged and are in no rush to plan their wedding quite yet, and that all of the other couples from the finale are still together, and that Gordon and Swarts are still friends.

“Bachelor in Paradise” Season 1o is now streaming on Hulu.

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Noah Hawley Wanted to Sneak a ‘Classic Alien’ Story in the Middle of ‘Alien: Earth’

Going into “Alien: Earth,” series creator Noah Hawley knew that his FX adaptation needed to be an entirely new take on the beloved sci-fi franchise. But halfway through writing the season, he realized he had an opportunity to go back to this horror staple’s roots.

“The way these big things work is that there’s a show in the abstract. You come up with the best story possible, and then you go, ‘Huh, what do you think this is going to cost?’ You go through a cost analysis, budgeting and then you go, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s too much.’ So now, now we have to adjust some story,” Hawley told TheWrap. “Somewhere in there I had the inspiration that — in the middle of this reinvention of ‘Alien — I’d love to do classic ‘Alien’ to show I could do classic ‘Alien’ as well as anybody.”

Once Hawley wrote what would become Episode 5, which uses the ship set seen in the first episode, he knew he needed to direct that installment as well. “I thought, ‘I can’t give that to a different director. I need to do it,'” he said. “Part of the joy, for me, of that fifth hour is everything goes wrong.”

“Alien: Earth” begins with the crew of the Maginot space vessel battling a Xenomorph and crash landing on Earth. But “In Space, No One…” goes back in time, showing every mistake that led to this world-changing crash. It also teases an episode-long mystery as the ship’s new captain Zaveri (Richa Moorjani) and its cyborg security officer Morrow (Babou Ceesay) try to discover who double crossed the crew and their mission to unleash an alien.

Set aboard the Maginot, the increasingly frantic hourlong episode is visually the most similar to Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic. However, it was also inspired by James Cameron’s 1986 take on the franchise, “Aliens.”

“That last few minutes, it becomes insane. When that Xenomorph finally reveals itself, and you’re like, ‘Oh, right, there’s also a 10-foot-tall Xenomorph,'” Hawley said. “That is certainly the feeling that I had when I watched James Cameron’s movie for the first time … It keeps escalating.”

Though the episode serves as the clearest homage to the original “Alien” movies, this depiction of the crash also drives the plot forward. For one, audiences learn more about, well, the aliens, specifically the lifecycle of the tick-like specimens. The first episode of “Alien: Earth” reveals that the tick-like creatures suck the blood from their prey. But in Episode 5, one of those aliens proves it’s smart enough to escape its containment and lay eggs in a crew member’s water bottle.

“The fun of it was, at every opportunity, to add a discovery, which was similar to when the facehugger falls off,” Hawley said. “It’s that tension between comedy and horror, right? It’s like, ‘What’s the worst thing that the tick could do after it lays eggs in your drinking water? Burrow into your sandwich.’ Just knowing that the audience will probably never drink out of a water bottle again without looking in it first is satisfying.”

Richa Moorjani as Zaveri in “Alien: Earth: (Photo Credit: Patrick Brown/FX)

The episode also expands on another foe — Maginot’s cyborg security officer Morrow (Ceesay). By Episode 4, Morrow emerges as the show’s biggest humanoid foe as he tries to manipulate one of the children hybrids into stealing an alien for him to bring back to his employer, the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. But “In Space, No One…” reframes his motivations a bit.

“I’m an ensemble storyteller, and I’ve created a lot of villains in in my day. They’re often the most interesting characters; they’re often people’s favorite characters, but he was never the villain to me. He was the antagonist, which is a different thing,” Hawley explained. “From his point of view, his ship has been boarded. They’re stealing from him. He is very much the hero of his story.”

“Babou is a miracle, really,” he added. “I told him, ‘Everyone in the show is competing with you, man. You were setting the bar every time I call action.’ And he really was.”

But as much as the episode may feel like a nod to Scott, Cameron and David Fincher’s “Alien” movies with some new flourishes of lore, “In Space, No One…” does feel distinct. There is a notably bleaker and more tragic tone to the episode, owing to the fact that the audience knows this story will end with everyone dying, save for Morrow. The installment also turns the strong female leader trope that Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley pioneered on its head. Though Richa Moorjani’s Zaveri is positioned to become this ship’s fearless leader, as more aliens escape and more of her crew dies, she panics. Her failure is an unexpected twist that drives home each new horror.

“The challenge of leadership is in the hard decisions. She is ultimately too invested in each individual survival in order to be the captain of all of them. I like that moment where Morrow says, ‘I’m taking control.’ But I also like the fact that it follows a moment in which we see him for the first time not know what to do,” Hawley said. “But with, obviously, Ripley, and in the strength of the ‘Alien’ franchise, there was a lot that was going to get projected on her automatically, that she was going to be this badass. But I think within that, you always want to tell a story that is unexpected.”

New episodes of “Alien: Earth” premiere on FX Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

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‘Alien: Earth’ Star Babou Ceesay Unpacks Episode 5 Flashback and Morrow’s Softer Side

The fifth episode of “Alien: Earth” paused the forward momentum of the hybrid story on Neverland to reveal just what happened in the days leading up to the Maginot crashing to the planet.

At the heart of the issue is Babou Ceesay’s Morrow, who we know from the premiere seemed to ruthlessly lock out the other crew of the ship and set the Maginot on its collision course. Episode 5 winds back the clock even further to reveal there was a traitor on the ship who was tasked with sabotaging the ship and mission. Morrow was tasked with tracking down the saboteur on the confined ship while a number of the smuggled in aliens got loose. Ceesay told TheWrap that confinement, and Morrow’s interaction with the Maginot crew, felt the most like the original “Alien” film.

“It absolutely felt different,” Ceesay said. “We’re more contained on one space being in that ship the whole time. For me, the biggest difference was that I was alone for most of the rest of the episodes. Morrow’s a bit of a lone ranger.”

He continued: “Just as I was really enjoying playing Morrow, the burdened, cold antihero that he is – and suddenly I’m in a ship with other people. I’m like, ‘I don’t want to to play with you.’ At the same time as I love having the cast there.”

Despite the nature of ruthlessly, efficiently hunting down a turncoat aboard the ship, the episode also opens up Morrow’s softer side. Previous episodes had mentioned the cyborg had a daughter who died but Episode 5 showed him opening a box of keepsakes and remembering back before his 65-year mission aboard the Maginot to what was likely one of the final conversations he had with his daughter.

“It’s interesting that he takes a moment to open that box,” Ceesay said. “I thought to myself, he doesn’t open this box often. He does it once in a while when he absolutely needs to. In this moment, he’s woken up to some serious problems on this ship. So this may be the last time he gets to just hope he’s going do it, and once he’s done it’s ‘okay, now let’s go. Let’s go earn it.'”

He added: “I made a very bold choice in discussion with Noah, to the point sometimes people think Morrow’s a synthetic because he’s so cold. I thought this is a moment to flip that on its head. We actually talked about what level of emotion he would go to, and what we settled on is that Morrow’s not going to let himself crumble completely, because I think if he does he’s going to start feeling extremely claustrophobic. He’s just going to want to go home and see his daughter’s grave.”

Morrow’s final moments on the Maginot before it crashes into Prodigy City are also cast in a new light. The cyborg is humming “We’ll Meet Again” with thoughts only for his daughter as a Xenomorph pounds at the hatch door separating them. Ceesay believed Morrow was ready to be reunited with his kid in that moment, but surviving gives him a renewed, vengeful purpose.

“There’s a part of him that has radically accepted that this could be the end, and if it is then he’s back with his daughter in hopefully some sort of afterlife,” he said. “But if he’s saved or spared and he lives, then he must have a higher purpose, and he has to meet it. He’s going to be more determined.”

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Robin Wright Says She Ditched the US for the UK Because It’s ‘A S–tshow’

Robin Wright loves her decision to leave the United States and move to the United Kingdom.

In an interview with The Times UK, Wright explained that her choice to decamp from the U.S. and move across the Atlantic has only led to “a freedom of self.” She said she felt much less rushed the last few years after her move compared to the g0-go-go energy of the United States.

“America is a s–tshow … I love being in this country. There’s a freedom of self here. People are so kind,” Wright said. “They’re living. They’re not in the car in traffic, panicked on a phone call, eating a sandwich. That’s most of America. Everything’s rush, competition and speed.”

Wright is far from the only celebrity to leave the country. Many chose to move following the re-election of President Donald Trump in 2024. Rosie O’Donnell left and went to Ireland but has managed to remain a thorn in the president’s side despite the difference.

“It has been heartbreaking to see what is happening over there politically and hard for me personally as well,” O’Donnell said. “When you know it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back.”

O’Donnell’s callouts all the way from Ireland have even led to the president threatening to revoke her American citizenship.

“Star Wars” alum Mark Hamill also considered leaving for either the U.K. or Ireland following Trump’s election. His wife convinced him to stay after pointing out leaving would be like Trump winning.

“She’s very clever,” he said. “She didn’t respond right away, but a week later she said, ‘I’m surprised you would allow him to force you out of your own country.’ That son of a bitch, I thought. I’m not leaving.” 

Ellen DeGeneres also moved with wife Portia De Rossi to the U.K. after Trump’s election, telling broadcaster Richard Bacon that after planning to live abroad part-time, those plans changed in November. “We’re like, ‘We’re staying here.’”  

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‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Release Schedule: What Time Does Part 2 Come Out?

“Wednesday” Season 2 is finally here in full.

The second season of the Addams Family spinoff brings back Jenna Ortega as the titular character living as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday despises her newfound fame after saving the school in Season 1, but that attention isn’t just annoying; it also leads to new stalkers, an attack by a bird-controlling killer and a mystery tied to the local mental care facility for outsiders, Willow Hill, where it just so happens Season 1 bad guy, Tyler, was staying. As for what happens next, that’s exactly what we’ve been waiting to find out since Part 1 debuted back in August.

But the wait for the second half of Season 2 is finally almost over. Here’s everything you need to know about when “Wednesday” Season 2 Part 2 premieres and how many episodes to expect.

When does “Wednesday” Season 2 Part 2 Come Out?

Part 2 arrives just shy of a month after the first four episodes, premiering on Wednesday, Sept. 3.

What time is “Part 2” streaming?

“Wednesday” has a familiar Netflix release time: new episodes drop all at once at 12 a.m. PT/3 a.m. ET.

At the same time, Lady Gaga’s new song “Dead Dance” (set to feature in the new episodes) will drop, so you can follow this release guide for other time zones.

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When did “Wednesday” Season 2 Part 1 come out?

“Wednesday” Season 2 Part 1 premiered on Wednesday, Aug. 6.

How many episodes are in Season 2?

“Wednesday” Season 2 will have eight episodes total, four episodes in Part 1 and four episodes in Part 2.

Here’s the full Season 2 release schedule

“Wednesday” Season 2 is being divided into two halves, released a month apart. This is a tactic Netflix has been employing more and more for its biggest and most successful shows. Here is when episodes of the anticipated second season of the Addams Family spinoff drop:

Episode 1: “Here We Woe Again” – Aug. 6Episode 2: “The Devil You Woe” – Aug. 6Episode 3: “Call of the Woe” – Aug. 6Episode 4: “If These Woes Could Talk” – Aug. 6Episode 5 – Sept. 3Episode 6 – Sept. 3Episode 7 – Sept. 3Episode 8 – Sept. 3Will “Wednesday” have a Season 3?

Yes, “Wednesday” has already been renewed for Season 3 at Netflix, so fear not, another return to Nevermore is on the way.

What is “Wednesday” Season 2 about?

The second season of the Netflix series picks up shortly after the first with another year at Nevermore Academy, finding Wednesday with unprecedented – and unwanted – attention as a hero for what she did in Season 1. As teased at the end of the first season finale, she also has a new stalker to contend with.

Who is in the “Wednesday” Season 2 cast?

“Wednesday” is again led by Jenna Ortega in the titular role. She’s joined by Emma Myers, Hunter Doohan, Joy Sunday, and Georgie Farmer. Other big names playing members of the Addams Family back again are Luis Guzmán, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Fred Armisen.

Steve Buscemi joins the second season as the leader of the academy.

Watch the Part 2 trailer:

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Jordan Peele’s Next Film Nixed From Universal’s 2026 Slate

While Jordan Peele has been promoting his studio Monkeypaw’s next twisted film “Him,” his fans will have to wait for his next movie as a writer-director as Universal has removed it from its theatrical slate, individuals with knowledge of the project have confirmed to TheWrap.

The sources say that Peele is continuing to develop his follow-up to his 2022 film “Nope,” which will be the fourth of his directorial career. Like his past works, it will be a horror thriller, but plot details are being kept under wraps. Universal declined to comment.

Peele’s fourth film was initially dated to be released in December 2024 but was then pushed back to October 2026. Universal’s specialty wing Focus Features took over that spot with Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu,” which became a box office success with $181.7 million grossed worldwide and became one of Focus’ top three highest grossing films of all time.

While Peele continues working behind-the-scenes on his own film, he has kept himself busy as a producer through Monkeypaw. Last year, Peele brought over Dev Patel’s directorial debut film “Monkey Man” to Universal after it was put up for sale by Netflix. Now, he has become a prominent part of Justin Tipping’s sports horror film “Him,” which stars Marlon Wayans and Tyriq Withers as an aging football star who takes a rookie who idolizes him under his wing with twisted, occult results.

“Him” hits theaters Sept. 19. The slate change was first reported by Variety.

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