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CNET
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- CNET
What to Stream This Weekend: 'The Bear,' 'My Mom Jayne' and 'Squid Game'
Some of the summer's biggest shows on streaming are dropping this week so if you plan to hunker down in the air conditioning and binge your way through the weekend, you have some great titles to choose from. On Hulu, check out season 4 of The Bear; the acclaimed series released 10 episodes all at once on Wednesday. And on Netflix, the final episodes of Squid Game also have arrived, so you can plow through all of season 3 as soon as possible. If you're looking for something new to watch, there are a few great shows that premiered this week, too, including the new Marvel series Ironheart on Disney Plus, the crime thriller Smoke on Apple TV Plus and Jensen Ackles as an LAPD detective in Prime Video's Countdown. And on Max, check out the documentary My Mom Jayne, a biography of actor Jayne Mansfield directed by her daughter, Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay. These shows and movies are sure to keep everyone busy this weekend -- here's all the info you need to tune in. Read more: Best Live TV Streaming Services of 2025 Best new TV shows and movies to stream this weekend Netflix Netflix Squid Game, Season 3 (June 27) The third and final season of Squid Game arrives June 27 and hopefully will finally offer Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and his fellow players some closure after participating in the world's most deadly game. This time around, Gi-hun is even more determined to end the game once and for all, but at what cost? The final six episodes of the series drop all at once on Friday. Hulu FX on Hulu The Bear, Season 4 (June 25) The Bear returned for its fourth season this week with 10 episodes arriving all at once. Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Liza Colon-Zayas and the rest of the cast are all back as employees of the eponymous eatery, The Bear, which opened as a fine-dining restaurant last season. The new season, along with seasons 1-3, are all available to stream on Hulu. Apple TV Plus Apple TV Plus Smoke (June 27) Starring and executive produced by Emmy Award nominee Taron Egerton, Smoke is a new crime drama created by Dennis Lehane, who previously collaborated with Egerton on their award-winning series Black Bird. The nine-episode drama about detectives investigating an arson plot co-stars Jurnee Smollett, Greg Kinnear and Anna Chlumsky. Its first two episodes premiere on Apple TV Plus this Friday, June 27, with a new episode arriving every Friday through Aug. 15. Prime Video Elizabeth Morris/Prime Video Countdown (June 25) Jensen Ackles leads the cast of Prime Video's new series Countdown, which premiered Wednesday, June 25, with the first three episodes. Ackles stars as Mark Meachum, an LAPD detective who gets recruited by a secret task force to help investigate the murder of a Homeland Security officer, but stumbles on a deeper, darker plot that threatens millions of lives. New episodes will follow weekly through Sept. 3. Max Alamy Stock Photo/HBO My Mom Jayne (June 27) We've been watching Mariska Hargitay on our TV screens as Olivia Benson in the Law & Order franchise for decades now but she goes behind the camera to direct the new documentary, My Mom Jayne, about her mother Jayne Mansfield. Hargitay was a toddler when her mother died in a car wreck at the age of 34, and the film provides viewers -- and Hargitay herself -- a deeper look at the woman she yearned to know better. Disney Plus
Gizmodo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Marvel May Have Plans for Even More Thor After ‘Doomsday' and ‘Secret Wars'
Jensen Ackles discusses those DCU Batman rumors. Elijah Wood watches the latest Toxic Avenger trailer. Plus, what's coming on the next Beth-centric episode of Rick & Morty. Spoilers get!A new poster for the Ryan Gosling movie, based on the Andy Weir novel about a science teacher tasked with figuring out a mysterious substance causing the sun to die out, has dropped. Entertainment insider Daniel Richtman (via SuperheroHype) suggests Marvel's next Thor project is titled Thor Quest, though has no further details on its story, or even whether it's a film or TV series. Elsewhere, Jensen Ackles addressed rumors he's in the running to play James Gunn's Batman during a recent interview with Collider. Oh, man. I don't know. It would be hard to carve out something truly unique amongst all of the performances as Batman. I would probably have to lean heavily on Gunn and whoever's directing and whoever's writing it, and get inspiration from the text. You talk about not wanting to fumble the football — that's one that I would be nervous as hell to carry. But also proud. A certain feather in the cap. Anybody who gets to wear the cowl, they got something. According to Fangoria, Emilie Bierre and Joelle Farrow have joined the cast of Lice, the upcoming 'horror mashup of The Breakfast Club and Lord of the Flies' said to have just wrapped filming in Canada. Bloody-Disgusting reports the Japanese giant monster/fantasy film Brush of the God will receive a theatrical, digital, and physical media release in the US through SRS Cinema. The story concerns the granddaughter of a recently deceased special effects model maker, a diehard tokusatsu fan, and an actor from the titular unrealized kaiju film getting sucked into the world of her grandfather's unfinished final project. Elijah Wood reacts to the Toxic Avenger trailer in a new promo. Meanwhile, a Japanese soldier and a British POW in WWII must put aside their differences to battle a humanoid fish monster in a new trailer for Orang Ikan. Production has officially begun on the fourth season of From, according to the series' official Twitter page. You could say we've been reborn. FROM Season 4 production has begun! @mgmplus #FROM #FROMily — FROM on MGM+ (@FROMonMGM) June 26, 2025Finally, Adult Swim has released the cold open for this Sunday's Beth-centric episode of Rick and Morty. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
The Review Geek
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
Countdown (2025) Episode 4 Preview: Release Date, Time & Where to Watch
Countdown (2025) Episode 4 Countdown (2025) is an exciting Amazon Prime Original and is helmed by the American king of TV procedurals, Derek Haas. This action crime drama has everything from a task force of misfits and bickering to high-stakes missions and dangerous conspiracies. Countdown Season 1 begins with a Homeland Security officer being killed while secretly meeting up with a gang member. Suspicious of highly influential officers on cartel payrolls, FBI Special Agent Nathan Blythe puts up an off-the-books task force with team members who are all experts in their fields but indispensable. The cocky LAPD Detective Mark Meachum butts heads with DEA Agent Amber Oliveras who has a personal vendetta against him. Agent Evan Shepherd looks up to Blythe but he seems to treat her like his personal chauffeur. Agent Keyonte Bell is labelled a nepo baby which irks him while LAPD Detective Lucas Finau's short temper has gotten him several suspensions. Can they all put aside their differences and find the murderer who plans to destroy the city? The ensemble cast includes Jensen Ackles, Jessica Camacho, Eric Dane, Uli Latukefu, Elliot Knight and Violett Beane. The show runner is Derek Haas who is known for movies like 2 Fast 2 Furious and Wanted, and TV shows like FBI: International and the Chicago series. If you've been following this show, you may be curious to find out when the episodes are releasing. Well, wonder no more! Here is everything you need to know about Countdown Episode 4, including the release date, time and where you can watch this show. Where Can I Watch Countdown Season 1? Countdown is an Amazon Prime original, so it'll be available to stream on that platform with a subscription. As this is an original series, Amazon Prime Video is the only place you're going to be able to watch this one. If you want to catch up with earlier episodes, you'll be able to watch all of them on Prime Video as well. Countdown Season 1 Episode 4 Release Date Countdown Episode 4 will release on Wednesday 2nd July at approximately 7am (GMT) / 12.30pm (IST) / 12am (PT). Subtitles and dubbings will be available in multiple languages. Episode 4 is titled 'Bite 'Em Down'. Each episode is roughly 50 minutes long. How Many Episodes Will Countdown Season 1 Have? Countdown Season 1 is scheduled for 13 episodes. Following a 3-episode premiere, it will drop one new episode every Wednesday. It will run its course till 3rd September. Is There A Trailer For Countdown Season 1? There is indeed! You can find an exciting trailer for Countdown below: What Happened in the Previous Episodes? We've covered the entire episodes with lengthy recaps that touch on all major plot points and discuss the chapters with an accompanying review. You can find that link below. Read More: Countdown Episode 3 Recap & Review What Happens in the Next Episode? In next week's teaser, Drew is on the verge of dying and is rushed to the hospital. Mark tells the team that he saw something in Mikhail's basement. He chases someone and there is a fight. There is a stake-out followed by a chase. Blythe tells everyone about Drew's status and they all look upset. What do you hope to see as the series progresses? What are you most excited to see in Countdown? Let us know in the comments below!
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jensen Ackles on [Spoiler]'s surprise appearance on ‘Countdown' and the ‘Supernatural' reunion on ‘The Boys'
[WARNING: The following story contains spoilers about the first three episodes of .] It may be hard to believe, but Jensen Ackles can be called a TV veteran since he has been entertaining TV viewers for nearly 30 years. He first grabbed viewers' attention in 1997 as teen Eric Brady on NBC daytime soap Days of Our Lives before chasing demons alongside Jared Padalecki on The CW's Supernatural for 15 years. Since then, he's appeared on ABC's Big Sky, CBS' Tracker, and as superhero Soldier Boy on The Boys (a role he'll reprise for the Prime Video show's fifth and final season). He also found time behind the camera by directing six Supernatural episodes, an episode of Padalecki's Walker, as well as executive-produce and narrate the short-lived Supernatural spin-off The Winchesters. More from GoldDerby Marvel's 'Ironheart' reviews: Critics love Dominique Thorne - the show she's in, not so much Sarah Michelle Gellar shares 'Buffy' reboot hopes: 'My dream is to bring back everyone who has died' Benson Boone reviews are in: Critics flip off 'American Heart' Now, Ackles stays on the right side of the law as sardonic Det. Mark Meachum in the action drama Countdown, which drops its first three installments on Wednesday (the rest of the 13-episode series rolls out weekly). On the series, a Department of Homeland Security agent is suddenly murdered, so a special task force is created with Meachum and others from different arms of law enforcement. However, that murder investigation leads them to bigger threats that has the potential of destroying Los Angeles. Jessica Camacho, Uli Latukefu, Violett Beane, Elliot Knight, and Grey's Anatomy and Euphoria star Eric Dane round out the cast. Here, Ackles tells us more about why Countdown appealed to him, that surprising TV face we saw in the opening of the series, as well as an update on the Supernatural reunion with Padalecki and Misha Collins on The Boys. Gold Derby: You were looking for something to do under your new Amazon deal, so what was it about that just seemed like the right thing to start with? Jensen Ackles: Derek Haas [Countdown creator, showrunner, and executive producer], largely. He and I had a couple conversations and then I flew out to L.A., we had lunch, and there was just an instant kind of connection there. Obviously, his resume and pedigree speaks for itself. The guy is well versed in storytelling and character-building and also doing broadcast, which I come from as well. I felt like he had a really good sense of how to build a set and how to build a crew, and how to build a team and a cast that could really sing. And I gotta be honest, I'm not gonna lie. Since Supernatural, I didn't think it would ever get that fun again. This was some of the most enjoyable days on set I have had in my life. From top to bottom, everybody was there to do solid work but to also have a great time doing it. The days that we were all together for the task force headquarters were the greatest days ever because we were all having fun, and we were on set and we were just laughing and we were playing games in between sets or in between scenes. I hope that the chemistry off-screen translated onscreen. I believe it did and I hope we get to do it for many more years. Tell me about Mark Meachum. How would you describe this guy in your words? He's a inherently good guy that has just been dealt a really, really bad hand. He's trying to make it in this world the best way he knows how. He could have gone the bad route and been a drug dealer or a drug runner or working for the bad guys very easily, which is probably why he did so well undercover. He can relate to these guys more so than somebody who grew up in white-collar America and had loving parents. This guy comes from broken home, broken family, and a broken deal. I think that he decided to not go the dark route and try to try to bring light to the darkness. It's a fun character to play because there is darkness in there. It's an internal battle, so he fights throughout the series. The fact that he's got this terrible diagnosis — again, he's been dealt a bad hand — but instead of opting to just cash in and be like, "I'm done. I'm out," he's like, "No, I'm going to jump on this grenade and save as many people as I possibly can." We learn of Meachum's health issues in the first episode. Can you clarify what he is actually dealing with? It's an inoperable brain tumor. And that was one of the great things that Derek wrote in — this guy is not just a maverick. He's not just a cool guy with sunglasses and smoking cigarettes. Do you know Den of Thieves with Gerard Butler? He's just this tough guy in a leather jacket that should ride for a motorcycle club, but instead he's a cop. I'll watch those movies all day. But Meachum, he's not doing it because he's that guy. He's doing it because he's got nothing to lose and he would rather take risks so that his team doesn't have to. Elizabeth Morris/Prime Video Seeing Milo Ventimiglia in the opening was a big surprise since that has been kept under wraps. How did that come about? Did you make a call? I don't know if this is out of the purview of what we should talk about, but that whole thing was filmed with another actor and who did a great job, but they brought him in as a guest star and they shot that whole sequence. Then, I think once they got into the editing room, they were like, "This feel like it needs to be a familiar face." So it's a testament to the Amazon team and a testament to Derek and Jonathan Brown, who directed the first episode and [is] also our producing director, since they were like, "The stakes need to be heightened here because this sets the whole show on its journey." Derek came to me and says, "I think we're going to reshoot that whole sequence, and it's obviously a lot of money to redo it, but we got to get somebody. Do you know Milo?" I was like, "Of course I know Milo. He'd be fantastic. Does he want to do it?" He said, "We pitched it to him and we think he's in." I sent Milo a text and was like, "Bro!" So he came for a costume fitting, but he came to set to say hi. I hadn't seen Milo in maybe a year or two, but we go way back, obviously. It was really good to see him and I was just giddy that he came on. And he nailed it as I knew he would. It's too bad his character dies so quickly in the opening! Oh, trust me. I was already pitching, "Can we do some flashbacks where Milo comes in and we actually know each other?" Derek was like, "Let me do the writing." We find out Meachum may not be the best at romantic relationships since his fellow task force member, DEA agent Amber Oliveros (Camacho), knows his former fiancée. Is there some romantic tension between Meachum and Oliveros that we may see develop over the first season? You will. I mean, with any good "will they or won't they?", there's got to be tension. That is definitely an intentional situation there, but instead of Meachum trying to win her over, he's more like, "I don't need to deal with that. I'm just gonna stay in my lane." But they are partnered up effectively, so you get a bit of a buddy comedy. And Jess just brought it all to the table and did a fantastic job of bringing a really strong character and somebody who's not gonna placate to Meachum at all. That relationship needs that friction, and it will be kind of your classic "will they or won't they?" So far, it's "won't they?" You directed on and , so any chance we're seeing you in the director's chair at all in Season 1? I would absolutely love to direct at some point. I want to make sure we have a strong foundation and we have our feet on the ground with what we're doing first. Look, if they threw me in the director's chair tomorrow, I would feel abundantly confident in the cast, but more so the crew. Vanessa Joy [Smith], who's our director of photography, is one of the best I've ever worked with in my life. [She] and her crew are just amazing. She did all five seasons of Mayans M.C. and she is an absolute joy. I mean, it's right in her name! She's such a pro. So, yeah, if your DP is of that caliber, it's hard for a director to really fail. I love being in a position directing-wise where I can't fail. You're working with Jensen and Misha on . How would you describe working again with them? We already shot it, and it was like three brothers coming together to have dinner at somebody else's house. It was like, "All right, listen, Mom's not here, but we've got to clear our plates at the end. Everybody just mind your p's and q's. Don't mess this up. We've got a reputation. Let's not destroy it." Best of GoldDerby Everything to know about 'The Pitt' Season 2 Adam Brody, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, and the best of our Emmy Comedy Actor interviews Kristen Bell, Tina Fey, Bridget Everett, and the best of our Emmy Comedy Actress interviews Click here to read the full article.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Here's the New Trailer for the Action-Packed Series ‘Countdown' Starring DAYS Alum Jensen Ackles
The trailer for Jensen Ackles's upcoming Prime Video series Countdown has been out for 24 hours, and it already has over 1.6 million views on YouTube (and counting). Ackles, who played the original Eric Brady on Days of Our Lives, steps into the lead, and from the looks of it, his new character has the ability to get into a lot of trouble and out of a lot of tight spots. The Supernatural and The Boys actor plays Mark Meachum, an LAPD Detective with a bit of a death wish. After the death of a Homeland Security Agent, Meachum is recruited for a secret task force consisting of undercover agents from all branches of law enforcement. According to a Prime Video press release, 'The hunt for the killer soon uncovers a plot far more sinister than anyone could have imagined, kicking off a race against time to save a city of millions.' In the brand-new trailer, this sinister plot is described as a 'Chernobyl-level event.' Hence, the task force will have to face massive explosions, deadly fights, and death-defying situations in order to 'stop a weapon of mass destruction.' No big deal, right? But don't worry, since this is Ackles, the former soap star will mix up the action and danger with a little fun, sarcasm, and character-driven angst. Look for Countdown to debut exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on Wednesday, June 25. The first three episodes drop first, and then new episodes will follow weekly. The season one finale touches down on Wednesday, September 3. In addition to Ackles, Countdown stars Eric Dane (Grey's Anatomy, The Last Ship, Euphoria), Jessica Camacho (The Flash, Sleepy Hollow), Violett Beane (Death and Other Details), Elliot Knight (The Boys), and Uli Latukefu (Young Rock). Here's the trailer.
