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| 'Dexter: Resurrection' Season 2 adds horror icon Barbara Crampton | Barbara Crampton announced on social media Wednesday that she filmed a role on Dexter: Resurrection. She posted a photo of herself with Dexter actor and executive producer Michael C. Hall on Instagram. "Have an appearance on an iconic NYC show," Crampton wrote. "What a show! What a crew! What a cast! It was as amazing an experience as you might expect!" Crampton thanked Hall, showrunners Clyde Phillips and Scott Reynolds, and executive producer Marcos Siega for having her. Crampton was a staple of '80s horror movies Re-Animator, From Beyond and Chopping Mall. She had a comeback with 2011's You're Next, which led her to keep working in horror for 15 years. |
| MTV to honor Nirvana with Video Vanguard Award at VMAs | Nirvana will be honored at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards. The rock band will receive the Video Vanguard Award at the VMAs later this month, MTV announced in a press release Wednesday. Nirvana, a group fronted by late singer and musician Kurt Cobain, first performed at the VMAs 34 years ago, on Sept. 9, 1992. This year's ceremony will take place Sept. 27 and air at 7:30 p.m. ET on CBS and MTV. The show will also stream on Paramount+. Nirvana, consisting of Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, found mainstream success with its 1991 album, Nevermind, and its 1993 follow-up, In Utero. The band famously recorded a live album for MTV Unplugged that was released in late 1994 following Cobain's suicide. |
| Reports: Martin Herlihy to exit 'SNL' after five seasons | Martin Herlihy is reportedly leaving Saturday Night Live. Deadline said Wednesday that Herlihy, 27, will exit the NBC late-night sketch comedy series after five seasons as a writer and performer. The Hollywood Reporter and Variety confirmed the news. Herlihy, the son of SNL icon Tim Herlihy, joined the show in 2021 alongside John Higgins and Ben Marshall, his fellow members of the comedy group Please Don't Destroy. Higgins left SNL in 2025, while Marshall was promoted to the main cast. News of Herlihy's exit follows main cast member Chloe Fineman's departure from SNL in July. Season 52 will premiere Sept. 26 on NBC. |
| Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' to stream Oct. 9 on Peacock | Disclosure Day is coming to Peacock in October. The sci-fi thriller from famed director Steven Spielberg will start streaming on the service Oct. 9. Disclosure Day stars Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor as Margaret and Daniel, two people swept up in a massive government conspiracy about alien life. "If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? Now the truth belongs to seven billion people," an official description reads. Other cast members include Colin Firth, Eve Hewson and Colman Domingo. Spielberg, who previously featured aliens in his films Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and E.T. |
| Nintendo announces 'Metroid: Ravenous,' 'Kirby and the World Beyond' | Nintendo announced on Wednesday that new entries for Metroid and Kirby are coming to the Switch 2 in 2027. Nintendo made the announcements alongside gameplay trailers during its livestreamed Direct presentation. The next entry in the classic Metroid series titled Metroid Ravenous, will be released on Jan. 28, 2027. Metroid Ravenous features series lead Samus Aran taking on a new group of enemies that wield swords as she continues her bounty hunting adventures through space. The game is the latest entry in the 2D Metroid series, following 2021's Metroid Dread. Kirby makes his return in Kirby and the World Beyond, which will be released sometime in 2027. |