Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman star in ‘The Love Hypothesis.’ (Philippe Bossé/Prime Video)
No lessons in chemistry are necessary.
Prime Video has released the official trailer for its film adaptation of The Love Hypothesis. The movie is based on The New York Times bestselling first novel by Ali Hazelwood.
Lili Reinhart stars as Olive Smith and Tom Bateman takes on the role of Dr. Adam Carlsen in this new rom-com.
The Love Hypothesis follows a fake relationship between biology PhD candidate Olive and hotshot professor Carlsen. Through their time together, “each of their carefully calculated theories on love are thrown into chaos,” according to an official description from Amazon MGM Studios.
The film’s trailer finds Reinhart’s Olive kissing a random man in order to make her best friend feel comfortable enough to pursue a relationship of her own. It turns out that random man is actually Dr. Carlsen, affectionately known around campus as Dr. Evil.
“There’s a guy. He wants to go out with my best friend. The only way that she will date this guy is if I’m dating someone else,” Olive says.
“I accept your proposal to deceive your friend into believing that I’m your love interest,” Dr. Carlsen says back.
“It sounds really bad when you put it like that,” Olive responds.
Set it Up director Claire Scanlon helmed it from a script by Sarah Rothschild. Both Hazelwood and Reinhart serve as executive producers on the project.
The Love Hypothesis makes its streaming debut on Sept. 23.
English actor and singer Tim Curry appears in this photo on Jan. 23, 1974. (Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Tim Curry, the British actor known for scene-stealing roles in cult classics and blockbusters ranging from The Rocky Horror Picture Show to Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, has died, his publisher at Grand Central confirmed. He was 80.
The publisher declined further comment on the death of the beloved actor. The Los Angeles Police Department said officers responded to the actor’s home overnight for a death investigation, which they concluded without finding anything suspicious.
The actor survived a stroke in 2012 that left him requiring the use of a wheelchair and limited his work mostly to voice acting and guest appearances at fan events.
Born in Cheshire, England, Curry began his career on the London stage in the 1970s, performing in the original West End production of Hair. He later appeared on Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s Travesties and in Amadeus. For the latter, he received a Tony nomination for best actor in a play.
Curry was probably best known for playing mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The actor originated the character on the West End stage in the early 1970s before reprising the role for the 1975 film adaptation. Thanks in large part to midnight showings, the film has the longest-running theatrical release in history.
Curry’s talent for playing campy villains, coupled with his recognizable baritone voice, landed him a series of memorable roles throughout the 1980s, including as the butler Wadsworth in Clue, the Lord of Darkness in the fantasy film Willow and the shape-shifting clown Pennywise in the TV miniseries It, adapted from Stephen King’s novel.
The actor starred in a string of Hollywood films throughout the 1990s and 2000s, with major roles in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, The Three Musketeers, The Hunt for Red October and Charlie’s Angels. He made frequent guest appearances on TV shows as well, including Roseanne, Will & Grace and Monk.
Curry was also a prolific voice actor, winning a Daytime Emmy for his performance as Captain Hook in the animated series Peter Pan and the Pirates. He voiced Nigel Thornberry on the Nickelodeon series The Wild Thornberrys, and appeared in the films FernGully: The Last Rainforest and The Rugrats Movie.
An accomplished singer, Curry appeared on various movie soundtracks and released three solo albums. His 1979 single “I Do the Rock” charted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
In 2004, Curry returned to Broadway, originating the role of King Arthur in Spamalot, the hit comedy musical written by Monty Python member Eric Idle and based on the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The performance earned him a Tony nomination for best performance by a leading actor in a musical.
Three years after his stroke, Curry made a rare public appearance to accept the Actors Fund’s lifetime achievement award and reflected on his use of humor amid his recovery.
“It’s not tough to maintain,” he told Los Angeles Magazine about his sense of humor. “It is just part of my DNA.”
Curry also reflected on his iconic role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter. “It’s neither a blessing nor a curse. I was lucky to get it,” he told the magazine.
Dolly Parton pictured for ‘Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas.’ (Katherine Bomboy/NBC via Getty Images)
Dolly Parton, who died Tuesday at the age of 80 following a brief battle with cancer, revealed more than a decade ago which song she hoped would be part of her final farewell.
In a 2014 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Parton was asked which song she would want played at her funeral.
Parton said she wanted the country-gospel hymn “If We Never Meet Again” to be sung. The song was a favorite of her father, Lee Parton, and had also been performed at his funeral following his death in 2000, she said.
Parton had also made plans for her funeral well before her death. Her representatives confirmed that the singer requested a small, private service for immediate family members.
Her nephew and head of security, Bryan Seaver, also shared that Parton wanted to be laid to rest in a “beautiful bed of plush cotton.”
But even after that final goodbye, Parton has another piece of music waiting for fans.
An unreleased song titled “My Place in History” remains locked inside a chestnut box at Dollywood’s DreamMore Resort in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
Parton wrote and recorded the song in 2015, the year the resort opened, with instructions that the box remain sealed until Jan. 19, 2046, which would have marked her 100th birthday.
The recording is stored on a CD, and Parton even included a CD player inside the box to make sure people would still have a way to listen to it decades later. The unusual arrangement effectively turned the song into a musical time capsule.
In her 2020 book, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics, Parton joked about whether the technology would survive long enough for the plan to work.
“There’s no telling what music is going to be by then,” she wrote. “Hopefully, it will play and the whole thing ain’t rotted.”
Parton was 69 when she recorded “My Place in History” and initially entertained the possibility that she might be there when the box was opened.
“I might, and if I do, I’m going to be at that opening,” she wrote.
While fans will have to wait two decades to hear that recording, another of Parton’s final projects will move forward much sooner.
Dolly: A True Original Musical, the Broadway production based on Parton’s life and career, will proceed with its previously announced schedule following her death. The musical will begin previews Dec. 7 at the St. James Theatre in New York City before officially opening Jan. 19, 2027, which would have been Parton’s 81st birthday.
“As was Dolly’s wish, the Broadway run of DOLLY: A True Original Musical will begin previews December 7 at the St. James Theatre in New York City,” the production said in a statement.
Will Angus, Nicholas Duvernay and Jack Martin in ‘Not Suitable For Work.’ (Disney/Gwen Capistran)
Not Suitable For Work has been canceled after one season on Hulu. The show’s creator and its cast have taken to social media to share their reactions to the news.
Mindy Kaling created the comedy that starred Ella Hunt, Avantika Vandanapu, Will Angus, Jack Martin and Nicholas Duvernay.
Kaling took to Instagram on Tuesday to share a photo carousel filled with memories from making the series.
“I love this show, I loved making this show, I love these people, and I love all of you for all your sweet comments, messages, edits and for watching @NotSuitableForWork,” Kaling captioned her post.
Stars Duvernay and Vandanapu both commented red heart emojis, while Vandanapu made a post of her own to her Instagram Story.
“I love this cast and this team so very much,” Vandanapu wrote. “@NotSuitableForWork gave me such an opportunity of a lifetime and introduced me to people and audiences I could have never even dreamed of meeting before. I am so grateful to Mindy, Charlie, Hulu, Warner Bros for giving us this chance. We love you.”
Martin also took to his Instagram Story to share his thoughts on the cancellation.
“I will ALWAYS love @NotSuitableForWork and everyone who was a part of it!!!!!! Thank you for watching,” he wrote.
Hunt similarly shared a post on her Instagram Story, writing, “i had the most wonderful time making not suitable for work.” She thanked Kaling and showrunner Charlie Grandy for “assembling the loveliest group of goobers there ever was” and said “this show was a dream come true for me.”
Not Suitable for Work spanned nine episodes and premiered on June 2. It followed “five work-obsessed twenty-somethings who strive for professional success and, if they have time, personal happiness, in Manhattan,” according to its official synopsis.
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Dolly Parton performs live onstage at the U.K. Country Music Festival, April 1, 1976. (Andrew Putler/Redferns/Getty Images)
Celebrities are offering their condolences following the death of country music superstar Dolly Parton, who died Tuesday at the age of 80.
Lily Tomlin, Parton’s longtime friend and one of her co-stars in the 1980 hit comedy 9 to 5, wrote on Instagram, “No words…” alongside a broken heart emoji.
The movie was Parton’s big-screen debut, and she wrote and performed the film’s chart-topping, Grammy-winning theme song.
Tomlin said at the 16th annual Governors Awards in 2025 that the song “9 to 5” was “so much bigger than any singular theme song on a movie soundtrack,” saying it “became an anthem for our culture of the time.”
She added at the time that Parton’s “humanitarian achievements are as staggering as her formidable singing career” and called her “one of the few people who remains in this world that everyone loves and respects.”
Country singer Kacey Musgraves wrote on social media on Tuesday, “This really really hurts.”
“The world feels a lot less sparkly all of a sudden,” Musgraves said. “So glad she’s with her Carl Dean.”
Dean, who was Parton’s husband of nearly 60 years, died last year at the age of 82.
Parton’s fellow country singer and actress Reba McEntire wrote on Instagram, “Dolly, thank you for all the wonderful things you did for us here on earth. Your love, your music and you gave so much with your huge huge heart.”
“There will never ever be another you. We will remember and cherish every memory and every note you ever played and sang,” she continued. “I’ll never forget the first time I met you and I’ll never forget our last conversation. I hold it with love in my heart.”
The Jacksons called Parton a “true trailblazer” in a statement on Instagram.
“Through her extraordinary talent, kindness and generosity, she opened doors and inspired generations around the world. We share this special memory from 1977, when we had the honor of meeting Dolly in England on the same day we also met Queen Elizabeth II,” the Jacksons wrote alongside a carousel of images. “Thank you, Dolly, for the music, the joy and the light you shared with us all.”
“Our prayers are with Dolly’s family, friends and everyone whose life she touched. … Your beautiful spirit and remarkable legacy will live on forever,” the Jacksons said.
Khloe Kardashian, a Parton superfan, wrote in an Instagram Story, “Some people are so extraordinary, their existence feels almost impossible. Dolly was one of those people.”
“A once-in-a-lifetime soul. A woman whose light, heart, talent and humanity changed this world forever,” Kardashian wrote. “To have admired her was a gift. To have met her, spent time in her presence, and somehow been lucky enough that Dolly Parton knew my name… I will never have words big enough for what that means to me.”
“What an astronomical human being. What a legacy. What a loss,” she added. “There will never be another Dolly.
Singer Kelly Clarkson also honored the legendary singer, writing on social media that Parton “had a way of making everyone feel special, and seen, and welcomed, and as if you were old friends.”
“I will miss her heart and her voice as I am sure millions will,” Clarkson said. “What an incredible gift and talent she was and still is with an amazing catalogue of art she has left behind for all of us.”
Jack White of The White Stripes, who covered Parton’s hit song “Jolene” in 2000, posted a photo of Parton on Instagram with the caption, “Instant Sainthood.”
Actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth wrote on Instagram that she was “heartbroken,” calling Parton her “ultimate inspiration.”
“I met Dolly on several occasions and she always made me feel like one of her own. She even agreed to sing with me on one of my records,” Chenoweth said. “The world has lost one of the best but I know we will never forget her because she is impossible to forget. I love you Dolly and I will ALWAYS love you.”
The Muppets also honored the iconic performer, saying in a statement on Facebook, “There will never be another quite like Dolly Parton. She was the ultimate singer, songwriter, actress, performer, and philanthropist. She filled the world with light and we are so grateful for every second we got to spend with her onstage and off.”
Actress Octavia Spencer called Parton “a gift to the world,” writing on social media, “[Y]our voice, your philanthropic heart, and warmth made us … feel seen and that the world was a pretty decent place.”
Actor Colman Domingo wrote on social media, “Dolly taught us that you can be anything and do anything and to do it with kindness. What a light. We are all grateful that we lived in a time of Dolly Parton. We will always love her.”
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Dolly Parton performs on The Pyramid Stage during day 3 of Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm on June 29, 2014, in Glastonbury, England. (Shirlaine Forrest/WireImage via Getty Images)
Dolly Parton, the country music superstar known as much for her philanthropy and theme park business as she was for her chart-topping hit songs, has died at 80.
The news was announced Tuesday in a message from Parton’s nephew, Bryan Seaver, on behalf of her family. No cause of death was provided.
Parton confirmed she was dealing with health issues in September 2025, writing on Instagram, “As many of you know, I have been dealing with some health challenges, and my doctors tell me that I must have a few procedures.” Nearly six months later, at the seasonal opening of her Dollywood theme park, she said that she was still dealing with “a few little health issues” from which she was taking time to recover.
Parton, who’d turned 80 the previous January, also shared that she was still navigating her grief over the March 2025 death of her husband of nearly 60 years, Carl Dean, saying that she had been taking time since to rebuild herself “spiritually, emotionally and physically.”
In a music career that began when she was still a child, born into poverty in the tiny mountain community of Pittman Center, Tennessee, Parton went on to become one of the world’s most successful and beloved entertainers, regarded as a country music living legend. Her trademark style — big blond hair, flamboyant clothes and makeup — was cultivated early in her career, while she was still in her teens.
“I take my negatives and try to make them into positives, and I always feel better being more flamboyant,” Parton wrote in her 2023 book Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones. “Maybe I looked cheap, but I knew I wasn’t cheap.”
Parton’s style helped her get noticed but her talent made her unforgettable. She wrote and recorded many of country and pop’s most enduring songs, including the hits “Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors” — added to the Library of Congress National Recording Registry in 2011 — “Here You Come Again,” “Love Is Like a Butterfly,” “9 to 5” and more.
Parton’s biggest hit, however, was inarguably “I Will Always Love You,” which topped the charts three times, most notably when Whitney Houston’s 1992 cover became a global smash. Houston’s performance remains the bestselling song by a female artist of all time.
In 2014, the Record Industry Association of America recognized Parton for sales of over 100 million units worldwide, including 19 RIAA-certified Gold, Platinum and multi-Platinum albums out of the more than 100 studio, live and compilation albums she released during her more than six-decade recording career.
Parton was also an actress, making her big-screen debut in the 1980 hit comedy 9 to 5, opposite Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin — Parton also wrote and performed the film’s chart-topping, Grammy-winning theme song. Not including cameos as herself, she appeared in some nine films in all, among them the enduring 1989 comedy-drama Steel Magnolias.
A savvy businesswoman, Forbes magazine in June 2025 estimated Parton’s net financial worth at $450 million, placing her #78 on their list of America’s wealthiest self-made women. In addition to her extensive publishing catalog — Parton was careful to retain ownership of the songs she wrote, the recordings of which number over 1,000 — the bulk of her wealth came from her Dollywood theme park and other entertainment and hospitality holdings under her Dollywood Company.
Parton was also generous with her money. Through her nonprofit Dollywood Foundation, “Saint Dolly,” as her fans dubbed her, supported education by providing scholarships and financial assistance to people in need. Her Imagination Library, launched in 1995, has provided nearly 308 million books for free to children in the U.S., the U.K., Ireland, Canada and Australia, according to its official website.
When wildfires in 2016 ravaged the Great Smoky Mountains in Eastern Tennessee, where she grew up, Parton created a fund that gave $1,000 a month for six months to some 900 families affected by the fires to help them get back on their feet, and also organized a telethon to raise money for the fires’ victims. Four years later, Parton donated $1 million to Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center to help fund the search for a COVID-19 vaccine, and later urged Americans to get vaccinated against the virus in a video that showed her receiving the shot as she sang her hit “Jolene,” with the refrain updated to “vaccine.”
Parton was one of only 17 people to be inducted into both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a rarified list that also includes fellow greats Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Ray Charles; with Brenda Lee, Parton was one of only two female artists so honored. She was one of fewer still artists inducted into the Country, Rock & Roll and Songwriters Halls of Fame.
In 2004, the Library of Congress honored Parton with its Living Legend Award in recognition to her contributions to American culture. The following year, she received the National Medal of Arts, the U.S. government’s highest honor for an artist, as well as the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006.
Parton received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy in 2011, in addition to her 10 Grammy wins out of more than 50 nominations. Additionally, her songs “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2024, Billboardmagazine placed Parton in the #1 spot on its list of the “100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time.”
Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Martin Short in ‘Only Murders in the Building’ season 6. (Disney/Miya Mizuno)
Only Murders in the Building now has a season 6 release date … and a new title.
Hulu has announced that the original comedy series will premiere on Dec. 8. The 10-episode sixth season finds the crime-solving trio of Charles, Oliver and Mabel trading in New York City for London in order to solve a new mystery.
In fact, Hulu is dubbing season 6 of the series Only Murders in London to account for the location change.
Season 6 of the show stars Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez alongside a star-studded group of special guests including Tina Fey, Olivia Colman, Meryl Streep, David Tennant, Nicola Coughlan and Martin Freeman.
“After successfully bringing the guilty to justice once again, Charles, Oliver and Mabel embark on their hardest case yet when the next victim — Cinda Canning — arrives at their doorstep, summoning them to London to catch her killer,” according to the season’s official synopsis. “Our beloved trio of true crime-solving podcasters must now navigate their way through the home of the cozy murder mystery, replete with a whole new collection of suspicious and particularly English-eccentric characters. But can they follow in the footsteps of the woman whose podcast started it all for them … without having their story end the same as hers?”
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The actor is set to star as Alex Murphy and his cyborg alter ego in Prime Video’s upcoming RoboCop series.
The new show will be based on the MGM film franchise. It comes from showrunner, writer and executive producer Peter Ocko. Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner, the co-creaters and co-writers of the original film, are set to executive produce the new show. Also executive producing are James Wan, Michael Clear and Rob Hackett for Blumhouse Atomic Monster.
Stevens has been cast almost a month after Amazon MGM Studios greenlit the new series. He takes on the part that was originally portrayed by Peter Weller in Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 film.
RoboCop follows a world where “a giant tech conglomerate convinces the city to place a powerful robot on its police force – a robot implanted with the consciousness of a beloved, fallen officer,” according to its official logline.
The new series will consist of eight episodes. In July, Prime Video released a statement from producer Wan on what can be expected from the upcoming show.
“I’ve been a massive fan of Robocop forever, so getting to help bring this world to television is a dream,” Wan said. “What Paul Verhoeven created in 1987 was decades ahead of its time, and its questions about technology, identity, and who corporations really serve have only grown more urgent. With Peter’s distinctive vision and bold approach to storytelling, and alongside Ed and our partners at Amazon MGM Studios, we’re working to honor what made the original iconic and highlight its relevancy in this modern, tech-driven world, while building something unmistakably new for a global audience.”
David Diemer headshot (Adam Hendershott); Shaheen Jafargholi headshot (Alan Howard)
Heated Rivalry is meeting its casting goals.
Season 2 of the hockey romance series has found its Ryan Price and Fabian Salah, the two leads in author Rachel Reid’s third book in the Game Changers series, Tough Guy.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians star Daniel Diemer will play Ryan, a retired enforcer for the Toronto Guardians hockey team. Shaheen Jafargholi will play Fabian, an indie musician and Ryan’s love interest.
“Fabian and Ryan each bring a distinctive energy to the world Rachel Reid has created,” show creator Jacob Tierney and executive producer Brendan Brady say in a statement. “They are bold, complicated, and deeply compelling characters, and finding actors who could really take on all of those different sides was so important to us.”
“Daniel and Shaheen bring such confidence and emotional honesty to the roles,” they add. “We can’t wait for audiences to see what they do with Fabian and Ryan and how they make these characters their own.”
Ryan and Fabian’s story intersects with the main story of hockey rivals to lovers Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie) and Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams).
Previously announced casting included Emily Hampshire as Vanessa and Priyanka as Tarek, two friends of Fabian’s. Other casting for season 2 includes Justice Smith and Charlie Gillespie as Harris Drover and Troy Barrett, and Edvin Ryding as Luca Haas.
Season 2 is set to premiere in spring of 2027 on HBO Max in the U.S.
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