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The Blame reaches its penultimate episode with the Sophie Madsen investigation finally turning inward on Wakestead Police Station. Episode 5 airs on ITV1 on October 4, 2026, with ITV describing the hour as one in which a suspect is questioned while Emma Crane turns to an unlikely ally for help. That description only hints at…
“Marble Hall Murders” has spent much of its season asking Susan Ryeland to solve two mysteries at once, but Episode 5 finally begins to show how closely those puzzles may be connected. Eliot Crace’s unfinished Atticus Pund novel is no longer simply another story within the story. It increasingly looks like the map he left…
Lanterns reaches the end of its first season with “Dirt and Stars,” an episode that finally pays off the mystery surrounding Hal Jordan while giving John Stewart a much more complicated beginning as Earth’s new protector. The HBO series spent most of its eight episodes asking whether John could ever become the kind of Green…
Heartland begins its milestone twentieth season with an episode appropriately titled “Renewal,” but almost everyone at the ranch is being forced to decide what renewal actually means for them. Amy is still processing Nathan’s proposal and the possibility that their future could require major sacrifices, Jack suddenly begins talking about stepping away from ranching, and…
Strictly Come Dancing’s first results show of 2026 finally put the new cast in front of an elimination. Movie Week had given all 15 celebrities one last chance to perform before the public entered the equation, with scores from the opening two weeks combined before voting began. Episode 4 then had to answer the question…
“Ghost Adventures” has spent years entering places already surrounded by unsettling stories, but the Season 31 premiere introduces a different problem for Zak Bagans and his team. “Factory of Fear” takes the crew inside a Las Vegas warehouse where fear is part of the business, with elaborate attractions based on “SAW” and “The Blair Witch…
American Hostage Season 1 Episode 4, titled “A Taste of Indianapolis,” turns the growing relationship between Fred Heckman and Tony Kiritsis into something far more personal than either man intended. Fred has already sacrificed some of his journalistic independence to keep communication open with Tony, but the consequences become harder to ignore when his own…
“No One Will Miss Us” spends much of Season 2 asking its characters what they plan to become, but its finale recognizes that choosing a university or career is actually the easier part. Graduation means Alex, Marifer, Tenoch and Daniela are about to lose the routine that allowed their friendship to exist almost automatically. Even…
Gold Rush returns to the Yukon with a familiar rivalry and a more unsettled start for one of its longtime miners. Season 17 Episode 1, “The Most Gold Wins,” builds its contest around Parker Schnabel and Tony Beets’s roughly 13,000-ounce targets, introduces another contender and brings Rick Ness’s health concerns into the story. The October…
Verity turns a ghostwriting job into a problem that no finished manuscript can solve. Dakota Johnson plays Lowen Ashleigh, who moves into the home of an incapacitated novelist, Anne Hathaway’s Verity Crawford, and becomes involved with her husband, Jeremy, played by Josh Hartnett. By the closing stretch, Lowen has more than one account of the…
The Thicket begins as a rescue story, but Elliott Lester’s Western gradually becomes something much more somber. Jack Parker sets out to bring his sister Lula home after she is taken by the feared outlaw Cut Throat Bill, eventually joining forces with bounty hunter Reginald Jones, Eustace Howard, Jimmie Sue and others who have their…
Ready to Love arrives in Chicago with very little interest in easing its new cast into the process. Season 12 Episode 1, “Don’t Be Shy in the Chi,” brings 20 singles together for a first mixer, but Nephew Tommy quickly makes it clear that a pleasant introduction will not be enough to survive the night.…
