Hartnett tells The Hollywood Reporter the 'Widow's Bay' comparisons created "a little bit of a scary situation," but then he saw the trailer: "Oh, thank God."
The showrunner and cast speak about what last-minute moves mean for the couples at the heart of the Netflix series, which has yet to be renewed for season five, and how much an early-season scare affects foreign-policy decisions.
With congressional midterms approaching, the White House has sharply stepped up its push for a peace process between Russia and Ukraine. Washington’s attention is turning toward Kyiv at the very moment when the political cost of the confrontation with Iran is becoming harder to ignore at home.
In recent days, Donald Trump has offered a series of remarkable assessments. “Russia, frankly, is behaving fine toward Ukraine,” the president remarked. Turning to negotiations, Trump argued that “it is time for someone else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine.” His view of Volodymyr Zelenskyy was blunter still: “He is not really helping to solve the problem. I think he does not want it to stop.”
Vice President JD Vance went further on the question of alliances. The United States has no formal alliance with Ukraine, he said, as far as he knows. Ukraine is not in NATO, and Vance does not think it should be.
Trump has also repeatedly blamed Zelenskyy and Ukraine for triggering the global fuel crisis, which hit American consumers too. He has urged Kyiv more than once to stop striking Russian refineries. Critics note that the larger shock to U.S. energy markets came from the war with Iran, not from Ukrainian drones. Yet there is no sign that the White House line is about to change.
For Kyiv, that means pressure from two directions. Russia is squeezing on the front and in the rear. Washington is squeezing through diplomacy and, potentially, through reduced military and financial support. The Washington Post reports that the U.S. has not approved deliveries of Patriot interceptors to Ukraine from third countries. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has not rejected the requests, but he has not completed the approval process either.
On the ground, the reality is far less diplomatic. Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhiy Koretsky said that in three months there has not been a single day without attacks on the energy sector, and that their number is several times higher than last year. Since July 16, he said, energy facilities have been hit 2,147 times. “Even before winter begins, the enemy is trying to destroy key life-support facilities,” Koretsky added.
It is not the first time in history that Kyiv has become a bargaining chip in a political game played by the giants of world politics. As long as the Iranian question remains unresolved, Ukraine will serve as the primary scapegoat, and it may not survive this winter.
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Emma Tucker has been involved in a video push at The Wall Street Journal.
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The Wall Street Journal has been planning a big streaming TV push with an ambitious slate of shows.
It's explored shows around editor in chief Emma Tucker and creators like Feed Me's Emily Sundberg.
Sundberg dropped out of talks a few weeks ago, Business Insider has learned.
The Wall Street Journal has been ramping up its push into video and had plans for an ambitious slate of streaming TV shows.
Internal documents viewed by Business Insider described an initial six-series offering that would include a flagship live morning program and an interview show hosted by the Journal's editor in chief, Emma Tucker. The docs are from the summer, and a person familiar with the Journal's strategy said that its plans, including dates and partners, are in flux.
The docs said the Journal had been "in negotiations" with creators such as Feed Me Substacker Emily Sundberg, as well as with the restaurant discovery platform The Infatuation. Sundberg dropped out of the talks a few weeks ago, Business Insider has learned.
The plans called for the shows to launch on the Journal's own channels, YouTube, and social media.
Journal parent company Dow Jones is also hiring a head of programming and content, who would be tasked with building "something ambitious in video." The live job description says the role will pay up to $330,000 in base salary, and involve developing talent that includes employees and external creators, translating the company's journalism into streaming formats, and creating live and on-demand shows.
The Journal and Dow Jones's effort shows how news outlets traditionally known for the written word — including The New York Times — are racing to beef up their video offerings in a media landscape that's seeing both the rise of social video and the decline of cable TV news. It also demonstrates that Tucker is taking a flexible approach to the market by looking to both build shows around in-house talent, including herself, and partner with creators and other media companies.
"Expanding our video presence across Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal is a major strategic priority, as we have widely communicated," a Dow Jones spokesperson said. "We are actively hiring leadership to shape and execute our go-to-market strategy for video across Dow Jones, and we look forward to sharing our updated plans when ready."
The Journal explored a show with Substacker Emily Sundberg.
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The Journal name-checked familiar figures
The internal docs viewed by Business Insider described the live morning show as a 60-minute-long anchor of the initial slate. The docs said the Journal enlisted some familiar names in morning news and videoto help execute the show. They said the Journal has been working with the production company EverWonder, which was cofounded by the former Time Studios executive Ian Orefice with backing from Jeff Zucker's RedBird IMI.
Another show in the proposed slate in the docs was "The Exchange with Emma Tucker," which was billed as a "prestige interview franchise" that would put viewers "in the room with the people running the global economy." The documents name-checked top CEOs, including Microsoft's Satya Nadella, JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon, and BlackRock's Larry Fink, as potential guests.
The person familiar with the Journal's strategy said the documents represented one of a number of different avenues the outlet was exploring and didn't reflect the current status and form of its efforts. The person said the company is in active conversations with a number of external people for potential partnerships.
The documents said the Journal had been "in negotiations" with Sundberg — which have since ended — for a show called "Feed Me, On Camera" that would introduce her "highly engaged, younger creator audience to WSJ while bringing WSJ's scale, authority, and affluent professional audience to her world." The docs envisioned each episode beginning with a "tip, obsession, or question from the Feed Me universe," and following Sundberg to its conclusion while integrating business context and reporting from the Journal.
Other shows the docs said the Journal had explored included one called "Market Price with The Infatuation" that would tackle the "business behind taste, literally." It would combine the cultural authority and young audience of The Infatuation, now owned by JPMorgan Chase, with the Journal's business reporting chops.
Another was "Inside Sports" ("title to change"), a "next generation reboot of 'Real Sports' for the sports-as-an-asset class era," potentially helmed by Emmy-winning TV journalist Armen Keteyian.
The documents said the Journal had been "in negotiations" with The Infatuation and "in discussions" with Keteyian. Business Insider could not confirm the status of those discussions.
The last series listed in the docs was an AI show that aimed to get a big-name host.
The docs said the Journal was in talks with TV journalist Armen Keteyian to helm a sports show.
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The Journal compared its plans to 'The Daily'
In the docs, the Journal expressed big ambitions for a live morning news show, and said there had been "nothing new" in the category for a professional audience "in a decade." The last entry on a timeline included in the planning docs was The New York Times' "The Daily" in 2017, which has become a reliable top show on the podcast charts and one of the paper's most successful launches.
"We see an opportunity to reinvent the category," the documents said. The Journal also has its own daily news podcast, called "The Journal."
Like the Times, the Journal is in a rare position in a challenged media environment to make a transformative investment. The Journal, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., is profitable, helped by an early move to paywall its journalism.
The documents said that in its video push, the Journal aimed to produce 20 hours of video a week, expand to a free, ad-supported streaming (FAST) channel, and add subscription options and other formats as demand warranted. Between WSJ TV, existing video shows, licensed shows, and co-productions with creators, the Journal aspired to be an "always-on streaming channel." The person familiar with the Journal's strategy said those goals didn't represent its current plans.
The Journal wanted to make an impact on the level of The New York Times' "The Daily," hosted by Michael Barbaro.
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Tucker took the helm at the Journal in 2023, moving from the Murdoch-owned UK Sunday Times with a plan to increase engagement with the Journal's digital products. Digital subscriptions rose 8% to 4.5 million in the three months ended June 30 versus the year-ago period. She has called for more lively writing and enterprise reporting. The Journal had already begun to reorient its video strategy under its former head of video Maral Usefi. Under Usefi, the video team had grown by a third, to 65 people, as of April. She was succeeded by Samantha Henig, who was hired in July to lead a new multimedia team.
The docs said that with the Journal's new effort, it aimed to combine its authority and scale with the personality of creator-led media and modern distribution. In terms of audience, it intended to reach a younger viewership than the traditional business TV audience and more decision-makers than creator-led media.
It projected reaching about 75 million viewers through Dow Jones' social reach, upward of 5.6 million monthly watch hours by its 2028 fiscal year, and ad rates that were three to five times what business content on YouTube commands. The person familiar with the Journal's strategy didn't say if those figures represented its current ambitions.
The Journal made a big push into original video more than a decade ago, including the launch of video app WSJ Live in 2011 and expanding to episodic video doc series. Publishers overall have newly reprioritized video amid the rise of short-form content, YouTube's increasing popularity on TV screens, and the success of new live shows like TBPN.
While embracing creator talent — and getting its own staff involved in video content — could help the Journal reach a younger audience, it comes with risks. Journalists who become on-camera talent can often command higher paydays, or defect to start their own ventures, like The New York Times' "Hard Fork" hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton did recently. Creators often have their own audiences, which give them leverage over a news organization that staff reporters might not have.
Flagship video shows are also expensive to produce, which makes high ad rates crucial to the Journal's success with this slate. The internal docs explored pitching a variety of ways for advertisers to get involved, including as launch partners, with category-exclusive partnerships, and as "moment partners" tied to major news events like elections, earnings, and WSJ specials.
The Democratic candidate who went viral for her “drunk” and belligerent local TV interview took a shot at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after being asked if she’d quit drinking if she were elected.
The ‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ stars chats with THR about her tribute to her onscreen TV father, how her onscreen brother Alfonso Ribeiro convinced her to take on ‘DWTS’ and why the fans are the “most wonderful surprise of doing the show.”
Clark Backo and Noah Reid also star in Kat Sandler's adaptation of her own play, a reimagining of the Baba Yaga myth centered around the search for a missing college student.
Manifestazione nazionale “Fuori l’Italia dalla guerra” – Roma, sabato 24 ottobre 2026
COMUNICATO STAMPA
Il Comitato promotore della manifestazione nazionale “Fuori l’Italia dalla guerra”, in
programma a Roma sabato 24 ottobre, ribadisce con forza il carattere pacifico e
nonviolento dell’iniziativa.
Scendiamo in piazza per chiedere pace, il ripudio della guerra sancito dall’articolo 11 della
Costituzione, la fine del coinvolgimento del nostro Paese nei conflitti armati, la solidarietà
con i popoli che resistono all’imperialismo e al sionismo. Chi aderisce alla manifestazione lo
fa condividendone pienamente lo spirito: volti scoperti, mani libere, parole chiare.
Il Comitato respinge in modo netto ogni tentativo di strumentalizzazione violenta da parte
di elementi estranei alla manifestazione, ai suoi contenuti, alle realtà che l’hanno
promossa ed a quelle che hanno aderito. Chiunque intenda servirsi del corteo per
compiere atti di violenza, danneggiamenti o scontri si pone fuori dalla manifestazione e
contro di essa.
Di questo tutti devono essere consapevoli, dai manifestanti agli organi di informazione.
Nessuno provi a screditare il movimento per la pace e a spostare l’attenzione dalle ragioni
della protesta.
Invitiamo tutti i partecipanti a seguire le indicazioni del servizio d’ordine, a non raccogliere
alcuna provocazione, a isolare immediatamente eventuali comportamenti violenti e a
segnalarli agli organizzatori.
Il 24 ottobre Roma vedrà una piazza ampia, plurale, determinata e pacifica. Perché la pace
si costruisce con la pace.
Il Comitato promotore della manifestazione “Fuori l’Italia dalla guerra”
Dan Quinn has a public relations problem right now and at the heart of the issue is some powerful people that are painting him as something of an NFL sideline bungler as the Washington Commanders coach.
That's exactly how he looked in the second quarter of the Monday Night Football game where his team rallied to lose against the San Francisco 49ers.
The problem? Quinn seemed to lose track of the downs in a key second-quarter situation. He seemed to think it was fourth down and called for a field goal when, in fact, his offense had just run a fourth-down play and, not only didn't convert, but also drew a penalty.
So, there was the coach on national television, seemingly calling for his field goal unit to get on the field when his offense had surrendered the football.
And we interrupt this coaching nightmare to say Quinn contends that's not what happened at all. He told reporters a much different version of events after the game.
"No, I definitely knew it was fourth down," the coach said. "We were going for it, and I was, I think with whatever you're referring to, I think it was the illegal shift, there's not a penalty to go for a field goal.
"Like, it's the turnover on downs. Like, I think somebody asked me, 'Can we kick a field goal?' ... I knew what happened. I think I was probably just commenting that I remember, at least on the headset, somebody asked me after an illegal shift, um, like, it was a turnover on downs."
That's an explanation most of the country missed because it happened in Quinn's postgame press conference which wasn't nationally televised.
What many instead will remember was what they saw on TV, which made the coach look bad.
So, if perception is reality, Quinn is going to have to rehabilitate his increasingly tarnished reputation as a sideline game manager.
That's because just last week, Quinn's Commanders utterly embarrassed themselves in how they managed a last-minute situation against the New York Giants, wasting precious seconds, mismanaging the clock and the downs, and settling for a tie when they should have likely won the game.
That terrible scenario that doesn't easily fade definitely caused everyone to believe Quinn was at it again on Monday night – messing up again, forgetting that the last play was fourth down instead of third down.
"Field goal," Quinn seemingly said as ABC's cameras caught him and lip readers across the world did their thing.
And then he followed with, "Oh, that was fourth down."
That scene not only played out during the game, but was then discussed at halftime on both the ESPN main broadcast and the Pat McAfee alternate broadcast.
"We found out at halftime Dan Quinn didn't know what down it was," McAfee told his audience. "That's a real problem."
The McAfee crew that featured Dan Orlovsky had some fun with the issue because the former quarterback was yelling for Quinn to kick a field goal on fourth down instead of going for it.
Quinn, they joked, wanted to kick the field goal Orlovsky wanted on fifth down.
"Dan Quinn did not know it's fourth down coming off of last week, and then to go for it and get the penalty," Orlovsky said. "I'm a Dan Quinn guy. But you gotta get the operation better."
He's probably going to have to explain what happened to Commanders' owner Josh Harris because last week opened the door to everyone believing the coach is indeed capable of making a boneheaded mistake.
The question now is whether everyone, including Harris, believes Quinn's explanation or they believe the lip-readers more.
Ascolti tv ieri 19 ottobre 2026: i dati Auditel dell’access prime time
Affari Tuoi su Rai1 con 4.661.000 spettatori (22.6%). La domenica Stefano De Martino aveva intrattenuto 4.061.000 spettatori (22%). Sulla stessa rete Cinque Minuti con Bruno Vespa con 4.294.000 spettatori (21.6%).
La Ruota della Fortuna su Canale 5 con 4.392.000 spettatori (21.4%). Nella puntata precedente Gerry Scotti aveva ottenuto 4.352.000 spettatori (23.6%).
Ascolti tv, Otto e Mezzo corre più forte di 4 di Sera
Otto e Mezzo su La7 con 2.057.000 spettatori (9.9%). Il venerdì Lilli Gruber aveva conquistato 1.555.000 spettatori (8.3%).
4 di Sera su Rete 4 con 1.253.000 spettatori (6.2%) nella prima parte e 1.153.000 spettatori (5.6%) nella seconda parte. Il giovedì Paolo Del Debbio aveva raggiunto 945.000 spettatori (4.9%) nella prima parte e 760.000 spettatori (3.8%) nella seconda parte.
TG2 Post con Monica Giandotti con 535.000 spettatori (2.6%).
Per quanto riguarda gli ascolti tv ieri 19 ottobre 2026 per l’access prime time delle altre reti:
N.C.I.S. – Unità Anticrimine su Italia 1 con 1.109.000 spettatori (5.4%), Il Cavallo e la Torre su Rai3 con 1.145.000 spettatori (5.8%) e Un Posto al Sole con 1.452.000 spettatori (7%), Foodish con Joe Bastianich su TV8 con 442.000 spettatori (2.3%), Cash or Trash – Chi Offre di Più? con Paolo Conticini sul Nove con 534.000 spettatori (2.6%).
Ascolti tv, L’Eredità batte Caduta Libera all’esordio
Nel preserale L’Eredità con Marco Liorni torna su Rai1 con 4.177.000 spettatori (25%). Caduta Libera su Canale 5 con 2.387.000 spettatori (16%). Il sabato Max Giusti aveva raggiunto 2.077.000 spettatori (14%).
“Ma lei reputa verosimile che, una volta al governo, riusciate a convincere Conte, Fratoianni e Bonelli a mandare le armi all’Ucraina? Voi che siete obiettivamente una minoranza nel Pd e nella coalizione progressista?”. A Battitori liberi, su Radio Cusano Campus, Savino Balzano pungola il senatore dem Filippo Sensi su uno dei principali motivi di scontro nel campo progressista: il sostegno militare a Kiev. Il parlamentare riformista non ha dubbi: “Non c’è un governo europeo di nessun segno politico, di sinistra, di centro o di centrodestra, che non stia dentro una linea di sostegno all’Ucraina. Pensare che l’Italia possa rompere questa linea secondo me è poco verosimile. Un governo italiano darà sempre sostegno all’Ucraina”.
L’argomento della puntata verte sullo scambio a distanza del 15 ottobre tra Sensi e il deputato M5s Francesco Silvestri, intervistati da Manolo Lanaro per Il Fatto Quotidiano. Dopo gli applausi di alcuni riformisti Pd alle parole di Giorgia Meloni sull’Ucraina, Sensi ha sostenuto che un futuro governo progressista debba inviare armi a Kiev “per davvero”, accusando l’attuale esecutivo di non farlo da oltre un anno. Silvestri ha replicato sarcastico: “Se Sensi vuole più armi, gliele porti lui personalmente, se le carica e gliele porta”. E ha puntualizzato che un governo alternativo alla destra dovrebbe invece interrompere le forniture militari e favorire il dialogo con Putin. I conduttori Balzano e Gianluca Fabi ripartono proprio dalla battuta di Silvestri, chiedendo scherzosamente a Sensi se intenda portare personalmente le armi in Ucraina. Il senatore replica: “A Silvestri non manca l’umorismo, però poi dice delle cose un po’ enormi, come quella che bisogna dialogare con Putin”. E attacca il riferimento del deputato M5s alle conseguenze economiche della guerra: “Ma non c’è un minimo di umanità? Lì muoiono persone ogni giorno, vengono distrutte città”.
Balzano sottolinea che mai M5s e Avs potrebbero accettare di mandare armi a Kiev. Il senatore dem richiama l’esperienza del governo Draghi, del quale fecero parte sia il M5s sia la Lega, oggi contraria a nuove forniture militari. A suo giudizio, l’appartenenza dell’Italia all’Europa pesa più delle differenze tra i partiti di una futura maggioranza. Ma Balzano insiste: come può una componente minoritaria della coalizione convincere Conte, Fratoianni e Bonelli, oltre alla stessa Schlein?Il parlamentare ribadisce che il sostegno militare a Kiev è la posizione ufficiale del Pd, confermata dalla segretaria e dai voti parlamentari. Ammette che non tutti nel partito la pensano come lui, ma rivendica la continuità di quella scelta. Poi arriva l’affondo contro i possibili alleati: “Il Pd la pensa in un modo, secondo me giusto, in coerenza con quello che pensano i grandi partiti in tutta Europa, e il M5s la pensa come Vannacci, come Marine Le Pen, come l’AfD. Penso che se ne dovranno fare una ragione”.
Fabi introduce anche il problema del consenso degli elettori, chiedendo se il Pd sia pronto a scontrarsi con un’opinione pubblica sempre più preoccupata dalle difficoltà sociali ed economiche. Sensi contesta che gli italiani siano contrari al sostegno all’Ucraina: “Ci sono sondaggi che vanno in questa direzione molto chiari e molto espliciti, altri che invece dicono no, però c’è più freddezza”. Richiama quindi le imminenti elezioni americane di midterm e sostiene che negli Stati Uniti il tema controverso sia soprattutto la guerra in Iran, per le sue conseguenze energetiche, più che quella in Ucraina. “Non penso che in Italia noi stiamo soffrendo perché non abbiamo il gas o il gasolio russo. Penso che non ci creda nessuno”. Ma è sulla durata del conflitto che il confronto si fa più serrato. Fabi osserva che, nonostante le armi inviate finora, la guerra prosegue senza una vittoria decisiva di nessuno dei contendenti. Sensi risponde ricorrendo a una metafora: “Se tu dai le armi, cioè dai la medicina al malato, gli stai facendo male perché la medicina gli consente di stare in piedi?”. Precisa che l’Ucraina non è un malato e definisce gli ucraini combattenti dal “coraggio leonino”. Per il senatore, “fornire le armi non vuol dire prolungare la guerra. Significa prolungare l’esistenza dell’Ucraina”. E di fronte alle obiezioni del conduttore e alle immagini dei bombardamenti russi su Kharkiv, sbotta: “Ma di che stiamo parlando? Mi sembra il mondo alla rovescia”.
Fabi insiste: “Noi fino a oggi abbiamo fatto quello che dice lei, ma da soli che cosa dobbiamo fare? Dobbiamo vincere contro Mosca, che ha il più grande arsenale nucleare del mondo? Questo state proponendo? E peraltro con che armi?”. Il senatore evoca i partigiani: “Se si fosse fatto questo ragionamento ai tempi della Resistenza, l’Italia oggi starebbe sotto i nazisti”. “No, è completamente diverso”, obietta Balzano. Sensi riconosce la diversità delle circostanze, ma ribadisce che togliere le armi agli ucraini non significa automaticamente fermare la guerra. Balzano torna sulle prospettive del conflitto: “Lei si rende conto che l’Ucraina come l’abbiamo conosciuta prima del 2022 non esisterà mai più? Voi con questa cosa ci dovete fare pace, perché è un dato di fatto”. E invita a valutare concessioni territoriali alla Russia per evitare conseguenze ancora peggiori. Sensi respinge la posizione del conduttore: “Non lo dovete dire a chi cerca di difendere l’Ucraina, dovete dirlo a Putin”. Ricorda che Zelensky propone un cessate il fuoco sulle linee attuali e accusa Mosca di continuare a bombardare le città ucraine: “Perché fate questo discorso a chi dice che forse l’Ucraina sta resistendo e resiste pure in nome e per conto dell’Europa? Questo mi sembra un po’ il mondo alla rovescia”.
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