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| 'General Hospital,' 'Kelly Clarkson Show' win big at Daytime Emmys | General Hospital was named Best Drama and The Kelly Clarkson Show was voted Best Talk Show at the Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles Friday night. Tamara Tunie from Beyond the Gates won the Best Actress in a Drama statuette, while Scott Clifton went home with the prize for Best Actor for The Bold and the Beautiful. Beth Maitland and Roger Howarth from The Young and the Restless earned the Best Supporting Actress and Actor accolades. Genie Francis from General Hospital was presented with the Life Achievement Award. Sherri Shepherd was named Best Talk Show Host for Sherri. |
| Olivia Rodrigo's 'You Seem Pretty Sad' tops U.S. album chart | Olivia Rodrigo's You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love is the No. 1 album in the United States this week. Coming in at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart dated Saturday is Zach Bryan's Young Manhood And Other Donatable Organs, followed by Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem at No. 3, Ella Langley's Dandelion at No. 4 and Taylor Swift's Life of a Showgirl at No. 5. Rounding out the top tier are Noah Kahan's The Great Divide at No. 6, Drake's HABIBTI at No. 7, Kahan's Stick Season at No. 8, Olivia Dean's The Art of Loving at No. 9 and SZA's SOS at No. 10. |
| HBO Max drops 'IT: Welcome to Derry' special | HBO Max has dropped a new IT: Welcome to Derry special, just in time for Halloween. The show, which serves as a prequel to the IT horror movies inspired by Stephen King's novel, premiered in 2025 and was recently renewed for a second season. Welcome to Derry Season 1 was set in 1962 Maine and followed characters terrorized by Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard), a homicidal, shape-shifting entity frequently dressed as a clown. It starred Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, James Remar, Chris Chalk and Madeline Stowe. This weekend's special goes back further in time to explore the origins of IT. The movies were set in 1988 and 2016. |
| Famous birthdays for Oct. 31: Nick Saban, Piper Perabo | Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. They include: -- Poet John Keats in 1795 -- Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low in 1860 -- Chinese leader Gen. Chiang Kai-shek in 1887 -- Actor/musician Ethel Waters in 1896 -- Actor Lee Grant in 1925 (age 101) -- Astronaut Michael Collins in 1930 -- Journalist Dan Rather in 1931 (age 95) -- Actor/filmmaker Michael Landon in 1936 -- Musician Tom Paxton in 1937 (age 89) -- Actor Ron Rifkin in 1939 (age 87) -- Actor Brian Doyle-Murray in 1945 (age 81) -- Actor Stephen Rea in 1946 (age 80) -- Actor Deidre Hall in 1947 (age 79) -- U.S. |
| Paul Anthony Kelly grateful Ryan Murphy cast him as Satan after JFK Jr. | Paul Anthony Kelly says he was grateful writer-producer Ryan Murphy cast him as Satan in American Horror Story: 13 after giving him the role of John F. Kennedy Jr. in Love Story. "It was definitely a wild ride, for sure," Kelly, 38, told UPI in a Zoom interview this week. "Playing JFK Jr. in Love Story was very much within the box. Playing a historical figure has to be historically accurate and there were a few things that I lent myself to. I definitely took it and tried to make it my own," he recalled. "But, then, being cast in Horror Story as Satan, essentially, it couldn't be more opposite and, then, there is no box to play within. |