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BBC News
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Superman hits cinemas, and Sydney Jo's viral TikTok group chat drama: What's coming up this week
This week, there's more drama among friends, as Sydney Jo's viral TikTok series about a girls' group chat returns for season that's not all the next seven days have in hits the big screen, Last Pundit Standing drops on BBC iPlayer, and it's the Esports World on for what's coming up this week... 'The internet's favourite show' It's scary just how relatable Sydney Jo's TikTok series 27-year-old content creator from New York posted her first video, about friends communicating in a group chat, back in March. She told me me her social media account has blown up since see the girls bicker, talk in side chats, and send passive aggressive messages to each other, something Sydney said is "a universal experience"."My friends, work colleagues and sisters all had similar stories about their texts and group chats," she said. "This is something that's only going to continue, as we start having bachelorettes and weddings."Sydney says she filmed the first episode hungover on a Sunday as her followers rocketed from 264,000 to 1.6 million in just a few months, she now has a huge fan base, with Today calling her series "the internet's favourite show".With season three now out, Sydney said we can expect more camaraderie, more feel good moments, but also more shared common also hinted there could be a boys' group chat series next. "I didn't anticipate the male audience I would draw. I had a 50-year-old dad recognise me recently," she said. Superman hits cinemas James Gunn's hotly awaited reboot of Superman, a film that Hollywood is hoping can break the plague of "superhero fatigue", is out on actor David Corenswet, 31, plays the Man of Steel in the movie that's intended to kick-start a new era for DC Studios, which writer-director Gunn and producer Peter Safran took over in who has previously appeared in TV series The Politician, Hollywood and We Own This City, is the fourth person to play the role in a major Superman movie, and the first for a also stars Rachel Brosnahan as the latest Lois Lane and British actor Nicholas Hoult as a bald and menacing Lex has struggled to find major hits in recent years, with films like Shazam! Fury of the Gods, The Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman 1984 and Joker: Folie à Deux - part of the wider DC stable - each earning less than $60m (£48m) at the North American box there's a lot of anticipation to see how this film does - and to drum up excitement, a life-like Superman figure was seen suspended at the top of The Shard in London earlier this week as part of a one-day-only installation. Think you're good at video games? By Andrew Rogers, Newsbeat reporter Well you're almost certainly not as good as the professional players heading to Saudi Arabia for the Esports World Cup, which starts on seven weeks, the best in the world will compete for a record combined prize pot of $70m (£50m).Now in its second year, the EWC brings together 25 different esports into one event. That means games fighting games like Tekken 8, first person shooters such as Call of Duty, and battle arena juggernauts Dota 2 and League of Legends, will all be format has encouraged some consolidation in the esports world, because the Club Competition encourages teams to field players in as many different games as possible. The team with the most points at the end gets a bonus $7m (£5m).Some fans and players haven't been keen on the EWC though. It's been criticised for taking place in a country where women have fewer rights and being gay is illegal. Others say only with Saudi Arabia's cash can esports grow and compete with traditional multi-sport events like the Olympics. Finding the next football pundit On Monday, a new BBC competition series to find the next football pundit starts on iPlayer as well as on BBC YouTube and TikTok by footballing legend Troy Deeney and YouTuber and presenter James Allcott, Last Pundit Standing follows 12 football fanatics as they compete to become BBC Sport's next big football content the X-Factor meets the beautiful game, as they face a series of kick-off challenges in their bid to land their dream will also be star guests, including Alex Scott, Rebecca Welch and Max Fosh, on hand to set tasks and offer expert seven-part competition series comes shortly after Gary Lineker left the broadcaster after apologising for sharing an antisemitic social media May, he was presented with a commemorative cap and golden boot by pundits Alan Shearer and Micah Richards as he signed off from his final edition of Match of the Day after 26 years in the hot seat. Other highlights this week Building the Band season 1 is released on Netflix on WednesdayToo Much, Lena Dunham's new series, drops on Netflix on ThursdayBless Me Father: A life story, by musician Kevin Rowland, is out on ThursdayMoisturiser, the new album by Wet Leg, drops on FridayModi: Three Days on the Wings of Madness, directed by Johnny Depp, is released on FridayTRNSMT Festival begins in Glasgow on Friday
New York Times
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Get Your Phones Ready, ‘The Group Chat' Is Coming Back
In late March, the internet and the media were in a flurry about a classified group chat. There was drama about who was in the group chat, what was said and who agreed or disagreed with the high-stakes plans that were brewing, setting off a reckoning of sorts about how we communicate in supposedly private forums. It would be easy to confuse the situation with some other notable news at the time, but these debates centered around Sydney Jo Robinson, who had just posted the first episode of 'The Group Chat,' a TikTok series in which audiences are thrown into the middle of a spat among girlfriends that plays out in real time over text. The first episode started with a character bursting through the door of her roommate's bedroom. 'Read the group chat,' a character who would come to be known only as Black Dress, says to her friend, White Dress. Their friend Hailey had texted the group saying she wanted to bring her boyfriend, Justin, to their painstakingly planned girl's night that evening. 'Is she kidding?' White Dress asks. No one else in the chat — seven members in total, each played by Ms. Robinson — is pleased with the idea either. Passive aggressive girl drama ensues, spanning 13 episodes and two seasons. Each minutes-long episode has been viewed tens of millions of times and, within a week of releasing the first episode, Ms. Robinson went from 260,000 followers on TikTok to more than a million. 'Today' called 'The Group Chat' the 'internet's current favorite show' and Rolling Stone labeled it the 'latest TV binge.' Other TikTok users posted videos of themselves watching, reacting and depicting each plot twist, as though they were commenting on a high-budget TV series. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
