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When the Blue Jays’ season ended in heartbreak on Saturday, Khela Maquiling was surprised to find herself sobbing outside a Toronto bar. The 30-year-old web designer had only started watching the playoffs to bond with her baseball-loving partner, but somewhere along the way she fell for the game — and for the nightly ritual that brought them closer.As the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied for a 5-4 win in 11 innings to capture Game 7 of the World Series against the Jays, Maquiling watched from the Drake Hotel with her boyfriend, caught up in the anguish that rippled across the city. The game drew an average audience of 10.9 million viewers on Sportsnet.“I just started crying and I shocked myself because I didn’t think I was a sports person until that moment,” the Toronto resident recalls.“And th...

Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds is set to return to the screen in a new avatar, this time as the villain in Netflix`s live-action adaptation of Eloise, based on the beloved 1950s children`s book series, according to People. The Deadpool & Wolverine actor will star alongside newcomer Mae Schenck, who plays the titular character. The film marks Reynolds` first acting project since the 2024 superhero blockbuster, and he is also serving as a producer on the upcoming family film. According to Netflix, the movie will feature "a wholly original adventure based on the beloved children`s book series written by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight." The project will be directed by Amy Sherman-Palladino, best known for Gilmore Girls and The Marvellous Mrs Maisel, who is also co-writing ...

Jonathan Bailey has been named the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine for 2025. The magazine’s pick was announced Monday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Bailey takes the mantle from The Office and Jack Ryan star John Krasinski, who was the 2024 selection.The Wicked: For Good actor is the first openly gay man to be named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in the title’s 40-year history.Bailey had audiences swooning as Prince Fiyero in his 2024 big-screen debut in Wicked, the popular movie musical whose second half arrives in theatres Nov. 21.He dripped with charm as Lord Anthony Bridgerton on Netflix’s Bridgerton, and earned a 2024 Emmy nomination for his role in the Showtime series Fellow Travelers. Most recently, he starred in Jurassic World Rebirth, which came out in ...

For its most thrilling chapter yet, the main trailer of Netflix’s Delhi Crime Season 3 pulls viewers into a chilling network of human trafficking, where people are moved like commodities, identities erased, and lives traded under the guise of opportunity. Stacks of files reveal a haunting pattern — young women vanishing under the promise of jobs, being forced into marriages, children and women being used as slaves, and disappearing into a country-wide web of deceit. Delhi Crime season 3 trailer At the center of the storm stands DIG Vartika Chaturvedi (Shefali Shah) — our steadfast Madam Sir — who begins connecting the dots between these disappearances and a system fueled by fear, profit, and silence. As her investigation deepens, all roads lead to one name whispered across cities: Badi D...

Diane Ladd, the three-time Academy Award nominee whose roles ranged from the brash waitress in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore to the protective mother in Wild at Heart, has died at 89. Ladd’s death was announced Monday by daughter Laura Dern, who issued a statement saying her mother and occasional co-star had died at her home in Ojai, California, with Dern at her side.Dern, who called Ladd her “amazing hero” and “profound gift of a mother,” did not immediately cite a cause of death.“She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created,” Dern wrote. “We were blessed to have her. She is flying with her angels now.” Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and ar...

A fresh rendition of the epic Mahabharata is currently available on OTT. Mahabharat - Ek Dharmayudh was generated using artificial intelligence and features no actors, sets, or physical presence. The contentious show has been chastised for `normalising` the use of AI in production at a time when most producers are battling to keep AI out of filmmaking. Now, critics of the show have identified a flaw in one of the scenes: the inclusion of modern-looking furniture in old Hastinapur. The Collective Media Network built the AI Mahabharat, which is currently streaming on JioHotstar. The first episode, released on October 25, centered on the birth of Prince Devvrat (later known as Bheeshma) to Hastinapur`s King Shantanu. In one image, Goddess Ganga is seen with a little infant in a palatial apar...

`Ishq jab zid ban jaaye, toh har hadh paar kar jaata hai!` JioHotstar has announced its upcoming romantic–revenge drama, Ziddi Ishq, a story that captures the feeling of loving someone so deeply that you lose track of where the love ends and pain begins.  Starring Aaditi Pohankar, Barkha Bisht, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, among others,  this intense story of love and obsession is created and directed by Raj Chakraborty, and will be premiered on November 21, exclusively on JioHotstar. Ziddi Ishq teaser The teaser opens a window into Mehul’s world, brought to life by Aaditi Pohankar, a woman who loves with every part of her heart, even when that love is unrequited. For her, Shekhar Da (Parambrata Chattopadhyay) isn’t just someone she loves; he’s a presence she can’t escape, a presence that l...

The record executives had gathered in the back corner of an exclusive private club, sipping from crystal highball glasses, each with a large square ice cube. A bottle of 40-year-old Macallan, already two-thirds empty, sat on the table. “Artists are so difficult,” the Brit complained. “They’re finicky, unreliable, and refuse to believe that creativity should be something that turns on like a light switch. I mean, how hard can it be? The petite woman from Seoul in charge of most of the music market in East Asia spoke next. “It’s true,” she said, “And they’re always whining about being mistreated. ‘Streaming doesn’t pay’ and ‘I need more money.’ I never want to hear anyone on my label complain about having to post things on social media every day. I mean, how hard is it to go viral with every...

Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer and former NCB Mumbai Zonal Director Sameer Dnyandev Wankhede has filed a rejoinder before the Delhi High Court, accusing Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., the Shah Rukh Khan owned production house, of producing and circulating "false, malicious and defamatory" content through its Netflix web series `The Ba***ds of Bollywood`. Wankhede contended that the web series is not a work of fiction but a "personal vendetta disguised as satire", orchestrated to malign his reputation following the 2021 Cordelia Cruise drug case involving Shah Rukh Khan`s son, Aryan Khan. In the rejoinder, Wankhede alleged that the character of a government officer depicted in the series was deliberately modelled on him, citing striking resemblances in appearance, speech, and...

Join the Kapoor Khandaan for their legendary annual family lunch! Step into the world of Bollywood’s most iconic family as Dining with the Kapoors arrives on Netflix this November 21, a heartfelt celebration marking 100 years of the legendary Raj Kapoor, and close to a century of the Kapoor family ruling the box office and our hearts – then, now and always. Dine with Bollywood`s first film family  Created by Armaan Jain, directed and written by Smriti Mundhra (previously directed Indian Matchmaking and The Romantics), and produced by Aavashyak Media, this special is a rare invitation to pull up a chair at the Kapoor family table. A family overflowing with superstars, stories, and an infectious love for food, films and life itself. Shot in a documentary, fly-on-the-wall style, it offers a...