CBig release night and it's only half over.
LLISA's new album Press Play just dropped, and girl in red has one too.
CStacked. ATEEZ, Yung Miami, Halle with a deluxe... Kacey Musgraves too.
LPop Base ran the full list. A fan named Naksh summed it up: LISA and girl in red on the same night, quote, 'stacked Friday ngl.'
CThat's the level of analysis I expect from the internet. But they're not wrong.
LNot wrong at all. You've got BLACKPINK's LISA going full pop star, and girl in red doing what she does best.
CAnd Hilary Duff put out a holiday EP in October. Holiday Things.
LOctober!
CLook, the woman has been ahead of schedule since Lizzie McGuire. Let her cook.
LI'm not mad. I am just saying, let Halloween breathe.
CIt hasn't even happened yet. But the pop machine waits for no one.
LSpeaking of the pop machine—a Houston rapper known for big takes decided to make a political one tonight.
CMonaleo?
LYeah, Pop Crave says she endorsed a Democratic Texas candidate for state rep, James Talarico.
CWhat did she actually say?
LThe quote going around is, 'everythang blueeeeeee.'
CWith six E's, minimum.
LI didn't count. But here's the thing: nobody's confirmed this came from her actual account.
CRight, and Pop Crave ran it without checking the source.
LAnd it's heating up because it's an artist telling fans who to vote for. That always gets messy.
CI don't mind artists speaking up—if they actually do. But a screenshot floating around is not the same as the woman speaking.
LExactly. It's the laziest way to make a headline.
CDifferent world entirely: a loss in the acting world.
LMichael Gray died. He played Billy Batson on the 1970s Shazam! TV series.
CDeadline confirmed it with his rep. Natural causes, October 16th, in Palm Desert. He was 75.
LFor a generation of kids, he was the first superhero they saw on TV every Saturday morning.
CHe had the red suit, the white cape, the lightning bolt. And he said the word and the world changed.
LAnd he did it with such sincerity. That's why people remember it. He wasn't winking at the camera.
CThat's exactly it. He played it straight, and that's why it worked.
LHe'd go on to a long career—coaching, real estate—but that role defined him.
CSeventy-five is too young. But what a thing to be remembered for.
LAnd from a caped hero to a wrestling pioneer—Deadline has a wild piece of casting news tonight.
CGo on.
LChris Jericho is going to play Gorgeous George in Prime Video's Muhammad Ali series, The Greatest.
COh, that's perfect casting. George Wagner was the first wrestling superstar. The first one on TV, the first with a gimmick.
LThe purple robes, the golden hair, the valet spraying the ring. Ali admitted he took the loudmouth act from George. Stole it from him, really.
CAnd now they made an eight-episode series about Ali, and Jericho is in it. He's a wrestler who knows how to play a character.
LAll episodes drop November 4th. I'm genuinely curious how much screen time George gets.
CIt's a great piece of stunt casting that's actually rooted in history. That's rare.
LAnd one more thing before we go—Sacha Baron Cohen's new Ali G movie is getting absolutely carved up by critics.
CVariety came out swinging. Called it an 'overblown SNL movie.'
LThe exact line: the film is 'so busy working to justify its existence that it makes the mistake of pretending that Ali G matters.'
COof. That's not a review, that's a eulogy.
LThey buried him in a tracksuit.
CLook, Ali G was hilarious in 2000. As a five-minute bit. You stretch that to a whole movie in 2026 and it's...
LA very long five minutes.
CThere it is.