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I hate to sound like a Boomer here, but kids today have it easy. No, not because they use their phones to do book reports or the internet to look at porn. It’s that entertainment intended for kids nowadays is put under such a high-powered microscope that absolutely nothing objectionable will slip through. In previous generations, kids entertainment was a free-for-all filled with hidden sex jokes and terrifying characters that would fuel their nightmares for years after a single viewing.

All the covert sex jokes have been well covered, but it’s time we finally address all those creepy, objectionable characters that were aimed at us as kids, many of whom still haunt the corners of our subconscious.

1 The Coachman from ‘Pinocchio’

Most Disney villains are lovably evil, but the Coachman from Pinocchio is the stuff of actual nightmares. He abducts little boys and takes them to Pleasure Island...

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Orion and the Dark and projects from the Sesame Street universe were among the big winners at the 2025 Children’s and Family Emmy Awards main and creative arts ceremonies on Saturday.

Percy Jackson, which scored an early season three renewal on Friday, months before season two premieres on Disney+, won eight of the 16 awards for which it was nominated. The series has recorded more viewing time than any original show on Disney+ outside of the Marvel and Star Wars franchises, as measured by Nielsen.

In the main ceremony, Percy Jackson won best young teen series and directing for a single-camera live-action series “I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher” in a tie with “The Big City” episode of A Real Bug’s Life. It won six more awards in the creative arts ceremony.

Sesame Workshop’s Elmo and Jesse Remember Uncle Jack won best short form live-action...

The 3rd Annual Children’s & Family Emmy Awards, hosted this year by voiceover actor Eric Bauza are under way at Television City in Los Angeles. Disney+’s “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” leads this year’s nominations, with 16 nods, including for young teen series — which it won over competitors such as Disney+’s “Goosebumps,” Netflix’s “Heartstopper,” Netflix’s “One Piece” and Roku Channel’s “The Spiderwick Chronicles.”

“Percy Jackson” won eight Emmys overall, the most of any title. Besides the young teen series prize, it won for writing for a young teen series, directing for a single camera live action program, editing for a single camera live action program, visual effects for a live action program, show open, casting for a live action program and music direction and composition for a live action program. “It is such a privilege to get to create stories that bring joy, magic and wonder to kids and families,...

Okay, if I’m going to be honest, if your parents can tolerate crass language, and you don’t end up retreating into an awkward silence if someone says a bad word on screen, then you can very much enjoy The Parenting with your family. But before we go into the whys, let me just tell you about the what. The Parenting is a horror comedy, not unlike the Ghostbusters or Goosebumps films, that tells the story of a young gay couple who want to have their first ever family getaway in the middle of nowhere. Rohan (affectionately called Ro by his boyfriend Josh), who has the most common brown boy Bollywood name (second only to Rahul), is the one who has set everything up because he plans on proposing to his one true love, Josh. In your typical Meet The Parents situation, Ro worries that Josh might not make...

Even the biggest actors can have some of the more humble or awkward beginnings. It's part and parcel of being a movie star; it's not as if A-Listers just arrive fully formed based on the roles with which we associate them most. Sometimes, actors have to put themselves deeply into stage roles, one-off appearances on TV shows, or a solid amount of supporting film roles before they can step up to the big time.

And then, of course, there are the myriad pitfalls of being a child actor. Some actors who start out when they're young in notable shows or films have an awfully hard time making the transition from youth to adult, as much because the industry may have pigeonholed them or audiences themselves can't accept a kid in a new position. (That's especially true when it comes to former Disney/teen idols.)

All that said, consider Ryan Gosling.

According to Disney, the premiere of Daredevil: Born Again has assembled some superhero-level views on the streaming service. The studio announced today that the highly-anticipated series has garnered 7.5 million views in its first five days, making it the biggest streaming debut of the year on Disney+ (so far). A view is defined as total stream time divided by runtime.

This number puts Daredevil: Born Again ahead of the launches of Goosebumps: The Vanishing, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and Paradise, but it’s slightly behind the last live-action Marvel series on Disney+, as Agatha All Along drew 9.3 million views during its first week.

Related Elden Henson will be back for Daredevil: Born Again season 2

The official synopsis for Daredevil: Born Again reads: “Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities, is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) pursues his...

Daredevil: Born Again has come out of the gate swinging, landing the best debut on Disney+ of the year. A continuation of the Daredevil series that aired from 2015 to 2018, Born Again was one of the most anticipated MCU Disney+ series in some time. Despite claims of Marvel fatigue or that the MCU has not been as good since Avengers: Endgame, there is no denying that most audiences were excited to see Daredevil rejoin the Marvel Cinematic Universe and even the most skeptical fan might have been curious to check out Born Again.

The Wrap reports that Daredevil: Born Again debuted to 7.5 million views globally in its first 5 days of streaming on Disney+ according to internal streaming figures from Disney itself. The company defines a view as total stream time divided by runtime and uses this metric across its various streaming platforms like Disney+ and Hulu. Daredevil: Born Again beat out...

The devil is in the details. And now we have a few details regarding Daredevil: Born Again‘s performance on Disney+ since its March 4 release.

The streamer announced on Monday that the Marvel Television series’ premiere episode drove 7.5 million views globally, with each view defined as “total stream time divided by runtime” — in this case, one hour for the first episode.

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“Daredevil: Born Again” scored the biggest premiere audience Disney+ has seen this year.

After launching with the first two episodes on Tuesday, March 4, the “Daredevil: Born Again” premiere scored 7.5 million views globally in its first five days of streaming on Disney+, according to internal streaming figures from Disney. Disney defines a view as total stream time divided by runtime.

The Marvel Television show now ranks as the most-watched premiere on Disney+ in 2025 so far. Notable shows that have also premiered on the streamer in 2025 include “Goosebumps: The Vanishing,” “A Real Bug’s Life” Season 2, “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” and “Win or Lose,” among others.

In September, the premiere episode of Marvel Television’s “Agatha All Along” scored 9.3 million views on Disney+ within a week on the streamer, though that measurement...

The following contains light spoilers for Night of the Zoopocalypse, in theaters now.

Night of the Zoopocalypse combines kid-friendly physical CG animation and self-aware absurdism with survival horror in an endearing parody of the genre. Directed by Ricardo Curtis and starring Gabbi Kosmodis, Thunderbolts* star David Harbour and Pierre Simpson, Night of the Zoopocalypse is a story so ridiculous, so laughable, so gross and completely unoriginal that it works. In fact, it works much better than expected.

Night of the Zoopocalypse is predictable -- and that's the point. It has been a long time since a children's film has been so self-aware – competently and hilariously so. This is a post-modern horror-comedy that draws attention to how absurd horror and zombie movies really are without mean-spiritedness or introspective cynicism. And it all falls together to create a solid, enjoyable and genuinely humorous viewing experience for both kids and their parents.

Night of the Zoopocalypse...

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Jane Schoenbrun is one of the most exciting voices in the new queer cinema scene. Their films I Saw the TV Glow and We're All Going to the World's Fair depict the search for identity through the lens of horror — but for viewers still scratching their heads over these works of art, a third film may be illuminating: the experimental documentary A Self-Induced Hallucination, which explores the Slender Man phenomenon.

I Saw the TV Glow and We're All Going to the World's Fair both feature young, alienated protagonists whose immersion in their favorite media may lead to self-discovery, or sever them from reality. These powerful fictions take on a new dimension alongside Jane Schoenbrun's documentary A Self-Induced Hallucination, a montage of YouTube videos related to...

There are plenty of haunted houses — and hotels and summer camps — in horror movies, but some of the most disturbing cinematic scares are thanks to evil objects. Like the eponymous toy in Oz Perkins’ new movie “The Monkey,” his follow-up to last year’s “Longlegs.”

While some things are obviously not going to be good news, like the hand of a dead man, any inanimate object can be cursed, whether it’s a TV, video tape, or mirror.

Here are more cursed object movies in horror movies we’ll never forget.

The Wooden Man in “Oddity” (Credit: IFC Films) The Wooden Man in “Oddity”

You know something’s about to go down when oddities dealer Darcy (Carolyn Bracken) shows up at her former brother-in-law Ted’s isolated house with a life-size wooden statue. Her twin sister was brutally murdered on the spot not long ago and Ted has already moved his new girlfriend in,...

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In the "The X-Files" episode "First Person Shooter", Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) are called to investigate a seemingly fatal virtual reality video game. The players of the game, uncreatively called "First Person Shooter," have been encountering a sexy assassin named Maitreya (B-movie luminary Krista Allen) whom no one programmed into the game. When Maitreya kills someone in the game, they die in real life. No one knows how that's possible. 

Mulder and Scully eventually find a woman in the real world who looks just like Maitreya, but she reveals that she is an exotic dancer named (sigh) Jade Blue Afterglow, and that she was merely hired by a computer company to scan her likeness. To raise the stakes, Mulder's friends the Lone Gunmen find themselves doing battle with the mysterious Maitreya inside of "First Person Shooter," and...

Subhash K Jha revists Nutan’s career and shines the light on her finest film in this special feature.

Bimal Roy made many moving movies marked as masterpieces for milleniums. Bandini remains just that bit more special than Devdas or Madhumati. Why? Just…

Nutan had almost given up films after marriage. But like Yash Chopra, who made Raakhee an offer which she couldn’t resist (Kabhi Kabhie), Bimal Roy tempted the titanic actress — and would Kate Winslet please mover over? — out of married bliss to play what the director promised would be the role of Nutan’s lifetime.

Nutan’s tempestuous performance as Kalyani embedded her name in gold in the hall of fame. Along with Nargis in Mother India, Meena Kumari in Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, and Shabana Azmi in Arth, Nutan in Bandini is the most arresting character written for a mainstream Hindi heroine of the pre-70s era.

Classic horror entries like The Thing, Alien, and even The Shining wield isolation as a weapon, trapping their protagonists in place and leaving them perilously vulnerable to threats- inhuman or otherwise – to evoke chills. It’s a simple tool that horror frequently exploits for maximum discomfort, whether physically, psychologically, or even socially. No matter how filmmakers insulate their characters, it results in despair and loneliness for the characters and chilling unease for the viewer. This week’s streaming picks center around isolation-based horror movies.

These titles showcase various forms of isolation, from remote settings to extreme quarantines, to leave you on the edge of your seat.

Here’s where you can watch them this week.

For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.

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Mike Flanagan mines palpable tension from isolation in his home invasion thriller. Kate Siegel stars as Maddie, a deaf and mute...

Before kids got into Stephen King, Scholastic Book Fairs introduced them to the tween horror maestro: R.L. Stine. The author's best known for his "Goosebumps" books, an anthology series where each book introduced a new horror for some intrepid young protagonist to confront. Werewolves, mud monsters, and Slappy the dummy, the last of whom Stine never understood the fanbase for, all gave us nightmares. But hey, at least we were reading!

"Goosebumps" is far from Stine's only enterprise, as he's also the visionary behind the "Fear Street" and "Mostly Ghostly" books, too. It should come as no surprise that many of his works have been adapted into films and TV shows over the years. Some you've undoubtedly heard of before while others will make you go, "Wait, that's an R.L. Stine project?"

Consider it homework to expand your Stine repertoire, and in case you don't have the time to watch all of them,...

If you've ever blanked on one of your very first jobs, don't feel too bad, because David Schwimmer has too. Stars – they're just like us! Prior to becoming one of the world's biggest television stars, playing Ross Geller on Friends, Schwimmer guest starred in a handful of sitcoms and police procedurals. Recently, while taking part in an Entertainment Tonight rETrospective video to promote Goosebumps: The Vanishing, Schwimmer was shown clips of his past film and television appearances, including a clip from his one-episode turn on Blossom.

There’s a spin-off of The Neighborhood in the works, and it’s planned for the 2025–2026 TV season for CBS. Of course, a pilot is needed first, and that means we need new characters. Well, four actors are joining the potential spin-off.

The spin-off will be set in a new neighborhood. Marty and Malcolm are leaving their parents’ home. It’s time for a new adventure, with their departure set for The Neighborhood season 7 finale. This means becoming the new neighbors in a world that is very unlike their own. They’re heading to Venice Beach!

Meet the cast of the potential The Neighborhood spin-off pilot

The yet-to-be-named spin-off has seen four cast members join, according to TVLine. Justin Long, who is well known for the likes of Jeepers Creepers and Goosebumps, will take on the rule of Bruce. He’s described as a tech millionaire who is socially inept...

We're still a long way away from the 2026 premiere of Season 4 of the hit Netflix series Bridgerton, but a virtual event in London today dubbed "Season of Love" gave fans a tantalizing sneak peek at what they can expect next year, including the return of Simone Ashley's Kate Sharma. Premiering in 2020, Bridgerton was an immediate hit with viewers who were familiar with author Julia Quinn's beloved novel series, and it drew in millions of new fans looking for some spicy Regency era romance – and we do mean spicy!

The video and photo previews of Bridgerton Season 4 courtesy of Tudum (seen below) are filled with elaborate set pieces, gorgeous costumes, and a behind-the-scenes look at what went into creating the next outing, including the cast and crew having a lot of laughs. The footage mainly showcases the family's masquerade ball, where we see Benedict (Luke Thompson) encounter a mysterious...

Despite being one of the most popular superhero TV series, The Boys and its lead actor, Antony Starr, are yet to receive their due recognition. The critical acclaim and high viewership number aside, the series also saw one of the best villain performances from Starr as Homelander. However, he has never been nominated for an Emmy award in all of his four seasons on the show.

Antony Starr as Homelander in The Boys Season 4 | Credits: Prime Video

If the Emmy snub wasn’t enough, Starr’s Homelander faces another humiliation despite being included in Variety’s 100 best TV performances of all time. Fans couldn’t believe that Starr’s performance was ranked lower than another actor’s performance in Netflix’s Stranger Things.

Antony Starr loses to Stranger Things star in Variety’s 100 Greatest TV Performances of the 21st Century David Harbour and Millie Bobby Brown in Stranger Things | Credits:...

CBS has lined up Justin Long, Kara Royster, Hunter King and Angelique Cabral to guest star in the Season 7 finale of The Neighborhood which will serve as a backdoor pilot for a potential spinoff series.

The quartet have options to become series regulars if CBS moves forward with the planted spinoff for the 2025-26 season and will star on the proposed series alongside The Neighborhood’s Marcel Spears and Sheaun McKinney who will move onto the offshoot.

The premise of the spinoff echoes that of the mothership in reverse. It follows Marty (Spears) and Malcolm (McKinney) Butler as they embark on new adventures, finally leaving their parents’ nest to start the next chapters of their lives, finding themselves the newcomers in a neighborhood that’s both close by yet worlds apart: Venice Beach.

Long will play Bruce, a tech millionaire who is a mix of unjustified confidence and social ineptitude.

The first season of the Disney+ series “Goosebumps” continued with an official novel from Scholastic titled Goosebumps: The Haunting Returns, and the show’s second season is getting the same treatment. “Goosebumps: The Vanishing” continues with Goosebumps: The Vanished Return, which “finishes the story” of the second season. And it’s available Now.

Written by Kate Howard, this official YA novel tells the story of the hit series “Goosebumps: The Vanishing” — plus additional scenes and information not seen on the show!

Here’s the official plot synopsis: “Thirty years ago, four teenagers disappeared while exploring an abandoned military bunker. Their story become a local legend in Gravesend, and when Devin and Cece come to visit their dad for the summer, they’re dared to go inside. But something strange happens to Devin when he enters the old fort….

“Soon, things in Gravesend are changing. In order to stop the effects from spreading,...

"Goosebumps: The Vanishing" is the new live-action supernatural, horror feature, based on the “Goosebumps” books, starring David Schwimmer, now streaming on Disney +:

"...fraternal twins 'Devin' and 'Cece' adjust to life with their recently divorced dad, 'Anthony'.

"But when the duo discovers a threat stirring, they quickly realize that dark secrets are among them, triggering a chain of events that unravel a profound mystery.

"As they delve into the unknown, Devin, Cece and their friends — 'Alex', 'Cj' and 'Frankie' — find themselves entangled in a chilling tale from events in 1994…”

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Since streaming sites became a thing, audiences know the best shows are always available somewhere. As one of the most famous streaming services, Netflix has a catalog that's deep and wide. Horror fans with Netflix will be happy to know that this streaming service has a lot of excellent options for them to binge-watch or take in at their leisure.

From truly gory, explicit, surreal shows, like Black Mirror and Brand New Cherry Flavor, to tamer options that will still scare viewers without traumatizing them forever, like Santa Clarita Diet and Goosebumps, Netflix offers its viewers a lot of must-watch series.

Updated on February 7, 2025, by Robert Vaux: Netflix continues to flesh out its horror TV catalog. The popular streaming service has plenty of shows to watch ranging in subgenres, whether it's the intense works of Mike Flanagan or zombie thrillers like The Walking Dead. More horror shows have been added...

Thandel Review On X: Naga Chaitanya-Sai Pallavi’s Film Turns A Winner? ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Naga Chaitanya and Sai Pallavi’s Thandel is turning out to be the underdog in the theaters. The film was low on expectations but audiences after watching it in the theaters are offering positive reviews for the film. This good word-of-mouth might eventually also impact the box office numbers.

Starring Naga Chaitanya and Sai Pallavi, the love story against a patriotic backdrop offers a strong chemistry between the protagonists that has been acting as a masterstroke and might lead to the success of the film.

Audiences have been offering their views and opinions about the film on X and have been praising Naga Chaitanya’s romantic avatar, hailing his comeback in the theaters. Check out Thandel reviews on X by the audiences.

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There is a wildcard at every wedding, but in the case of “You’re Cordially Invited,” there are two. And they are played by Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon.

Now streaming on Prime, the film directed by Nicholas Stoller centers on two families who unknowingly double book their weddings at the same small inn — an inn that can really only accommodate one wedding. For Jim (Ferrell), it is his daughter’s, and for Margot (Witherspoon), it is her sister’s. Naturally, the two immediately go insane, trying to force the other to back down.

Somehow, Ferrell and Witherspoon have never led a comedy together, but they are doing it now with a very familiar cast.

Here are the major players you need to know.

Will Ferrell in “You’re Cordially Invited” (Prime Video) Jim (Will Ferrell)

Jim is Jenni’s dad, who has been raising her on his own for years since his wife’s death.

Look alive, Shadysiders, Netflix has just revealed the first images from Fear Street: Prom Queen, and it appears as if we're in for a bloody good time. The latest installment in the popular horror franchise that kicked off in 2021 is set to return later this year, and this time around, will focus on the students of Shadyside High as they prepare to crown the 1988 prom queen. However, when an unusual nominee emerges in the race, some of the other candidates begin to vanish without a trace.

Based on the novel by R.L. Stine, Fear Street: Prom Queen will be the fourth installment in the franchise, and the new images (seen below) show what appears to be the mysterious killer dressed in a red rain slicker and black gloves, tormenting the "It Girls" of Shadyside High. We also see a yearbook displaying pictures of all the candidates, two girls trying to escape through a basement window,...

If ever there were a season in need of some lighthearted escapism, this winter would surely be it. So audiences may well embrace Amazon’s wedding comedy, “You’re Cordially Invited” — streaming on Prime January 30th — as the equivalent of fast-food comfort. It’s familiar, it goes down easy, and you barely have to make an effort. But when it’s over, you’ll either instantly forget it or wonder why you’ve got such a sour taste in your mouth.

The most surprising thing about this by-the-numbers comedy, in fact, is that it comes to us from writer-director Nicholas Stoller. He updated Kermit & Co. so delightfully in “The Muppets,” tartly reconceived the revenge rom-com with “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” and scored on the small screen with both “Platonic” and the updated “Goosebumps.”

So it’s tempting to assume that Stoller’s participation here is akin to that of a franchise owner: he set up shop,...

The Boys is one show that thrives on chaos, satire, and morally ambiguous characters. Among all the twisted supes and humans, two figures who stand out are Victoria Neuman, the secretive “head-popper,” and Homelander, the poster child for unhinged power.

Claudia Doumit and Antony Starr as Victoria Neuman and Homelander in The Boys | Prime Video

Both of these personas are full of mystery and conflict, and even though they do interact a fair bit in the show, a potential face-off between the two sounds interesting. But can Neuman take down the most powerful Supe, i.e., Homelander, here’s what fan theories suggest!

Understanding Homelander and Victoria Neuman from The Boys Antony Starr as Homelander in The Boys | Prime Video

Victoria Neuman, whose actual name in the show is Nadia Khayat, redefines the political mastermind trope. The character is played by Claudia Doumit and she embodies the aura of a trickster congresswoman,...

On Sunday January 26 2025, HGTV broadcasts Home Town!

Memory Lane: Follow Your Goosebumps Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Home Town,” titled “Memory Lane: Follow Your Goosebumps,” promises to take viewers on a nostalgic journey with Ben and Erin Napier. This episode will focus on a couple who inherited a house right next to the Napiers’ current home. The story unfolds as the Napiers reflect on their past experience helping this couple decide which house to keep and renovate.

Throughout the episode, the Napiers will share their memories of the project, highlighting the challenges and joys they faced along the way. Viewers can expect to see the couple’s unique style and how they transformed the inherited home, making it a special place for its new owners. The Napiers’ passion for home renovation shines through as they guide the couple in making important decisions about their future.

As the episode progresses,...

There’s no Goosebumps without R.L. Stine but there’s also no Goosebumps without Tim Jacobus, the artist who contributed the eye-catching cover paintings for the entire original line of Stine’s books. If you’re a fan of those classic covers that helped define the Goosebumps property back in the 1990s, you definitely should be following Tim Jacobus over on Instagram.

Jacobus regularly shares classic Goosebumps art as well as brand new artwork on his Instagram page, and this week he’s shared a particularly awesome little treat for horror fans.

As Jacobus explains in his post, he was commissioned several years back by a group of fans to make a poster for Fred Dekker’s The Monster Squad in that classic Tim Jacobus/Goosebumps style, and though it was merely a private commission for private collectors, he’s decided to share the poster art this week so that...

The second season of the new Goosebumps TV series, Goosebumps: The Vanishing, which is inspired by the works of author R.L. Stine, made its premiere on Disney+ and Hulu earlier this month – and during an interview with Deadline, Stine revealed that, if the Goosebumps adaptations continue, he would like to see an adaptation of one of his more recent books: Goblin Monday.

The first season of Goosebumps centered on a group of five high schoolers as they embark on a shadowy and twisted journey to investigate the tragic passing three decades earlier of a teen named Harold Biddle — while also unearthing dark secrets from their parents’ past. The show is taking the anthology route, so the second season has “an entirely new cast and setting based on Stine’s iconic Scholastic book series.” Season 2 will also consist of eight episodes, two shorter than the first season. It picks up when...

From additions to franchises like Marvel and Star Wars to entirely original content, Disney+ will host a wide variety of new shows — both live-action and animated — throughout the upcoming year.

Without including non-fiction series like A Real Bug's Life (Season 2) and Hulu/FX shows that will also be available on Disney+, at least 12 new TV projects are hitting the streaming service this year.

The first of those, Goosebumps: The Vanishing, released just days ago on January 10th, officially kicking off this year's packed Disney+ slate of 11 additional projects.

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Friends made its debut in 1994 and immediately, the show’s popularity grew to reach newer heights of fame. The six lead stars were adorable and their on-screen characters were equally iconic.

A still from Friends | Credits: Warner Bros. Television

Running for a whopping 10 seasons, the show probably wouldn’t have reached this far if it weren’t for a few budget-cutting tricks. In today’s world, however, one episode with the highest budget-cutting is now the most hated Friends episode of all time.

The one where they saved the budget for Friends

It was a different time. It was a different era when these sitcoms would run for hundreds of episodes on television all over America back in the day. Well, it is quite a strenuous task to make a show go on for a decade.

A still from “The One Where No One’s Ready” | Credits: Warner Bros. Television...

The producers behind Disney+’s Goosebumps: The Vanishing revealed that if the show is renewed for a third season, they will keep the anthology format.

The series' first season followed the same group of characters and plot (consisting of elements from several key Goosebumps stories). It even ended on a cliffhanger—yet Disney surprised everyone upon its renewal when it revealed that Season 2 would follow a new cast of characters entirely.

Season 2 followed through on that promise, moving the action to Brooklyn, New York, and making the legendary David Schwimmer a key player in the show’s take on Stay Out of the Basement (which involves a plant monster).

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After Goosebumps: The Vanishing's public release, it continued to conceal the two-part finale in a clever cover-up. Goosebumps was originally a book series by the popular author, R.L. Stine, but the popularity and virality of Stine's stories exploded when these stories were adapted into an anthology TV series where each episode would explore a different story. The popularity of which meant the show continued for 4 seasons, with a total of 74 episodes that continued to air and repeat for many years.

Then, in 2023, the show got a reboot with a new style of anthology format, where each season features a different cast and follows a single story for several episodes. Goosebumps: The Vanishing is the second season in this new format, and in order to keep the big twist ending under wraps, the show had to employ some unique tactics after its release. This included keeping the episode titles for...

Friends’ theme song may have been “I’ll Be There for You,” but the sitcom, more than 30 years after it premiered, has been there for several generations. One of the show’s stars, David Schwimmer, who can currently be seen in the new Hulu/Disney+ series, Goosebumps: The Vanishing, says that three decades later he still realizes how meaningful the show is to him and to the fans.

“What’s really meaningful to me is when I’ll bump into someone on the street and they’ll say, ‘I just want you to know, I was going through a really tough time, I was in the hospital,’ whatever. ‘And the thing that kept me going was watching Friends,” Schwimmer told GamesRadar+. The Emmy-nominated actor portrayed Ross Geller in all 10 seasons of Friends, which aired on NBC from 1994 until 2004.

Schwimmer continued, “For someone I’ve never met to come up to...

For Manish Raval and Tom Wolfe, the duo behind Goosebumps: The Vanishing’s music supervision, playing in the sandbox of ’90s music is an opportunity to channel their childhoods. “It’s our soft spot,” Raval tells The Hollywood Reporter.

That connection and appreciation both music supervisors have for the turn of the century’s endless library of hits is particularly useful in the Disney+ and Sony Television Studios series, which taps into R.L. Stines’ younger Gen X, Millennial and ‘90s-adjacent Gen Z audience via the show’s multiple timelines.

“Going into Goosebumps, there wasn’t really a direction or specific vision in mind. We just knew we had a popular book series to support,” Raval says. “But we did know that we wanted to jump back and forth with time periods and that a lot of that story would be anchored in the music. So when we would jump back to the ’90s,...

Shadyside's curse may have been broken in Fear Street Part 3: 1666, but there is even more terror on the horizon in Fear Street: Prom Queen. Following the wildly successful Fear Street trilogy on Netflix, the project was originally pitched as the start of a greater anthology franchise, and there are plenty of R.L. Stine books to draw from. Directed by Leigh Janiak, Fear Street's story is told over three movies that take place in 1994, 1978 and 1666, respectively, and pays homage to horror classics like Scream and Friday the 13th.

Set in the small town of Shadyside, the trilogy follows a group of teens as they try to survive a witch's curse that periodically causes a Shadysider to become possessed and go on a brutal killing spree. Their investigation takes them all the way back to the source of the curse in 1666, when a local witch named Sarah Fier was hanged...

“Memory Lane: Follow Your Goosebumps” is set to air on HGTV at 9:01 Pm on Sunday, January 26, 2025. This episode of “Home Town” takes a nostalgic turn as Ben and Erin Napier reflect on a memorable project that brought joy to a couple who inherited a house next door to them.

The Napiers dive into the details of how they helped the couple navigate the emotional journey of deciding which home to keep. Viewers will get to see the couple’s struggle and excitement as they weigh the pros and cons of each property. The episode promises heartfelt moments as the Napiers share their insights and experiences, guiding the couple through the renovation process.

Fans of “Home Town” can expect to see beautiful transformations and the powerful stories behind the homes. This episode highlights the importance of memories tied to places and the joy of creating new ones. It’s a...

After two previous postponements, the Critics Choice Awards have a new date.

The show was originally scheduled to take place Jan. 14 in Santa Monica and air live on E!. But due to the wildfires raging across Los Angeles, it was postponed to Jan. 26 until the ceremony was pushed again; it is now scheduled for Feb. 7.

“This unfolding tragedy has already had a profound impact on our community. All our thoughts and prayers are with those battling the devastating fires and with all who have been affected,” Critics Choice Association CEO Joey Berlin last week said in a statement.

The event is still set to be held at Barker Hangar, which is located just a few miles from the Pacific Palisades where thousands have been evacuated and many homes destroyed, along with a separate fire that is ravaging the Pasadena-Altadena area. Chelsea Handler is hosting the awards show for the third consecutive year,...

With his new movie "Wolf Man," Leigh Whannell becomes the latest filmmaker to tackle the titular shape-shifting classic Universal monster on the screen. In his review of Whannell's re-imagining, /Film's Jeremy Mathai observed that the film "reinvents the title character and its accompanying curse as a moody, atmospheric thriller that cares just as much (if not more) about the family at the center of this tragedy as the actual scares."

Part of what makes werewolf movies unique is that these are not just monsters, but also people who transform back and forth between being monster and human. This allows the werewolf movie to be versatile; rather than having to rely on their characters to keep coming around to encounter the monster for the convenience of the plot, the monster stays with the characters throughout these films, hiding amongst them, until it's too late. Werewolf movies make great fantasy movies, horror-comedies,...

Len Wiseman's 2012 remake of a classic science fiction thriller is heading to a new streaming home.

Per Hulu, the streaming giant is becoming the official home of 2012's Total Recall starring Collin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, and Bryan Cranston. It will start streaming on Hulu on Feb. 1. Though the film is just one of a whole host of new additions made to the Hulu streaming catalog for the month of February, it stands as a major boon for fans following Total Recall losing its former streaming home at Netflix back in August.

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Based on Philip K. Dick's 1966 short story, "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," 2012's Total Recall was the second adaptation of the...

Warning: This article contains Spoilers for Goosebumps (2023) and Goosebumps: The Vanishing

While Goosebumps: The Vanishing’s ending is better than season 1’s unresolved cliffhanger, it does owe a lot of inspiration to a certain Netflix show. 2023’s Goosebumps adaptation updated Rl Stine's classic series of children’s horror novels from the ‘90s by turning them into a blend of small-town supernatural mystery and teen drama. This mix occasionally felt tonally uneasy but, by Goosebumps season 1’s finale, it was hard not to care for the show’s young heroes. As such, Goosebumps season 1 ending on a cliffhanger was frustrating for viewers who wanted closure from the show.

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Kombucha plays a surprisingly large role in the new Disney+ series “Goosebumps: The Vanishing,” which adapts multiple classic R.L. Stine books but mostly focuses its attention on the Goosebumps tale, Stay Out of the Basement. David Schwimmer stars as botanist Dr. Anthony Brewer in the brand new season, which is now streaming on both Disney+ and Hulu.

In celebration of the new show’s premiere, the company Better Booch – dedicated to “gut health for the good life” – has unleashed an official Goosebumps tie-in product: Dr. Brewer’s Botanist Brew, a “Pineapple Spice Tepache Kombucha” concoction that’s now available.

Each 12-pack of the limited release Botanist Brew is selling for $43.

Better Booch details, “Dr. Brewer’s Botanist Brew: Pineapple, spice, and everything… eerie? Our mysterious black brew, disguised as tepache, will possess your taste buds and blow your mind. Pop open this can of sweet, tangy, cinnamon-y darkness – if you dare.

Exclusive: Sony’s President of Domestic Distribution Adrian Smith is retiring after a 35-year run at the studio.

Taking over for Smith is Adam Bergerman who is being upped to President of Distribution.

Smith was named to the post in January 2013. Following the retirement of longtime Worldwide Distribution President Rory Bruer in April 2017, global duties were separated with Smith on domestic, and Steven O’Dell overseeing International.

Smith was key in the release of 1,025 films across all Sony labels, 202 of them No. 1 titles. His fingerprints are all over the successful revivals of the Bad Boys franchise, the animated Spider-Verse films, Ghostbusters, the Venom $1 billion+ series as well as the Tom Holland-starring Spider-Man movies which have minted close to $4B alone. The release of 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home stands as the 7th highest grossing movie of all-time, the best ever for Sony, with $1.95 billion worldwide and $814.8M domestic.

Bergerman is a 28-year Sony vet,...

Hulu started the year right because one of its recent additions is already a hit. On Jan. 10, Hulu released the second season of the supernatural horror series Goosebumps, which is already a huge hit on the streaming platform.

Goosebumps: The Vanishing premiered over a year after the first installment, Goosebumps, which was released on Disney+ and Hulu simultaneously in Oct. 2023. The series follows a serialized anthology style, changing the characters and story for Season 2. Per FlixPatrol, Goosebumps: The Vanishing is a major success on both Disney+ and Hulu, entering the Top 10 charts on both streaming services.

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Goosebumps: The Vanishing is currently in the fourth spot on Disney+, ahead of the popular Inside Out spinoff series Dream Productions, and behind Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,...

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Although Goosebumps: The Vanishing does borrow the best twist from the source novel series, the show squanders this revelation. 2023’s Goosebumps adaptation might have borrowed certain plot points and scenes from Rl Stine’s iconic ‘90s novel series, but the show mostly used the Goosebumps books as a launch pad. Season 1’s mixture of teen drama and a small-town supernatural mystery took elements from titles like The Cuckoo Clock of Doom and Say Cheese and Die but, by Goosebumps season 1’s ending, it was clear the show had a personality and storyline of its own.

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With Goosebumps: The Vanishing now released on Disney+, some audiences are confused about its connections to the 2023 Goosebumps series.

A lot of the confusion stems from the fact that, despite The Vanishing being Season 2 of the Goosebumps series and sharing the same creative team, it is listed as a separate show on the streaming platform.

When the show was first renewed in February 2024, it was revealed that the new season would take on an anthology format, telling an entirely new overarching story with a fresh cast of characters. 

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Warning: This article contains Spoilers for Goosebumps (2023) and Goosebumps: The Vanishing

Although Goosebumps: The Vanishing’s ending is more self-contained than the finale of its predecessor, the show still keeps a frustrating anthology trend alive. 2023’s Goosebumps reboot was a fun blend of teen drama and horror comedy that saw a group of teenagers battle against supernatural forces in the small town of Port Lawrence. Goosebumps season 1’s finale left the show’s hero in critical condition in a hospital after an encounter with the villain of the series, and this cliffhanger was left unresolved. However, Goosebumps: The Vanishing didn’t pick up where season 1 left off.

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Instead, Goosebumps: The Vanishing’s cast of characters was entirely new,...