Hudson Williams announced for Canada’s ‘The Assembly’ season 2
‘The Assembly’ season 2. (Courtesy of CBC)
Hudville won’t have to wait until the spring to get more Hudson Williams screen time.
The Canadian streamer CBC announced Thursday that the Heated Rivalry breakout star will appear on the second season of The Assembly.
The unscripted series features celebrity quests participating in a no-holds-barred interview by a group of more than 30 neurodivergent and autistic adults. Each guest faces an “ask-anything interview, with direct, unpredictable questions that move beyond the usual promotional talking points, and often get personal,” according to a release from CBC.
Actors Jay Barucheland Zach Galifianakis also sit in the hot seat for The Assembly’s second season.
With no subject off limits, a new trailer shows Williams being asked about his sex life and whether he’s ever felt anything for co-star Connor Storrie that was “more than friendship.”
But the questions also go deep: Baruchel is asked whether any particular childhood moment was traumatizing; Williams tells the panel about how he deals with loneliness.
“Your friends and your family are like the climbing pegs that you pull yourself back into life by,” he tells the group.
The Assembly season 2 begins streaming on Canada’s CBC on Nov. 1.
The characters Manny, Sid, Diego, Ellie, Buck, Crash and Eddie appear in ‘Ice Age: Boiling Point.’ (Walt Disney Studios)
Ice Age: Boiling Point is preparing to heat up movie theaters.
Disney and 20th Century Studios have released the official teaser trailer for the sixth theatrical film in the Ice Age franchise. The upcoming animated movie marks the next chapter in the iconic herd’s prehistoric misadventures.
Manny, Diego, Sid, Scrat and his beloved acorn are back in the minute-long teaser, which finds the gang getting shot out of a volcano.
They’re taken “straight into a dinosaur-and-lava-filled madcap adventure to visit never-before-seen corners of the treacherous Lost World,” according to an official description from Disney.
The original voice cast of Ray Romano, Denis Leary and John Leguizamo return to their roles of Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the sloth. Also returning are Simon Pegg as Buck and Queen Latifah as Ellie. The characters of Crash, Eddie and Baby Scrat also appear in the teaser.
The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild‘s John Donkin directs Ice Age: Boiling Point while Lori Forte produces.
Blue Sky Studios produced the franchise’s first five films. This marks the first theatrical Ice Age movie since Blue Sky Studios was dissolved by The Walt Disney Company in 2021 after it was acquired in 2019.
The original movie premiered in theaters in 2002, while the franchise’s most recent installment, Ice Age: Collision Course, debuted to theaters in 2016.
Ice Age: Boiling Point arrives in theaters on Feb. 5, 2027.
Disney is the parent company of ABC News and 20th Century Studios.
Tom Cruise and his ‘Digger’ costars speak with ABC News’ Chris Connelly in an interview that aired on ‘Good Morning America’ on Sept. 23, 2026. (ABC News)
Tom Cruise is trading action for dark comedy in his new film Digger.
The film, out on Oct. 2, follows Cruise as Digger Rockwell, described in a synopsis for the movie as “the most powerful man in the world” who “embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.”
“This is a story about power, greed — about responsible and being irresponsible,” Cruise told ABC News’ Chris Connelly in an interview about his character. “He’s trying to control things that are just — you can’t control it. It’s not going to happen.”
When the film’s official trailer was released in July, many saw Cruise’s transformation as Digger for the first time. In the trailer, the actor is almost unrecognizable in prosthetics and costume.
Also starring in the film are Sandra Hüller, John Goodman and Oscar winner Riz Ahmed.
Ahmed recalled working with Cruise and described the feeling on set as “intimidating.”
“For the first few days, I didn’t have to act,” he told ABC News. “It was intimidating to be on set. With him as Digger Rockwell, there was this hurricane, this kind of operatic character coming at you 100 miles per hour.”
Hüller also weighed in on working with Cruise and said, “He wants to know what other people think. We could collaborate on that very much, so we were creating things together. The mood on set was so special and always positive and playful. It could have gone on forever. That’s my memory of it. We really had a lot of fun. I really had a lot of fun.”
Cruise told ABC News that he first heard about Digger eight years ago after meeting with director Alejandro G. Iñarritu, who previously directed The Revenant and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Cruise said it was also the same day as the first shooting day for Top Gun: Maverick.
Leading up to filming for Digger, Cruise was wrapping up filming on Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.
Ahmed reflected on the actor’s work ethic and nonstop energy.
“He was doing that kind of thing,” Ahmed said. “When we were in rehearsal, we were all exhausted. And Tom’s like, ‘All right, I’m getting in the water tank now.’ The what? He’s going into a sub-zero temperature water tank to do a true-life stunt for a mission. He’s gonna fly himself there on a helicopter! There’s just a relentless kind of dynamo energy here that’s inspiring to be around.”
Cruise said, “It’s so fun, because I’m learning constantly.”
The actor, who has starred in eight Mission: Impossible films, Edge of Tomorrow, War of the Worlds, Jack Reacher and more, has become synonymous with high-octane, high-energy action films.
And before playing Maverick in the 1986 film Top Gun, Cruise starred in the romantic drama Endless Love, the coming-of-age teen comedy Risky Business and more, cementing himself as a leading man in Hollywood.
But prior to making a name for himself in Hollywood, Cruise worked a number of odd jobs, including being a superintendent’s assistant in New York City, working on daily maintenance of a building.
“I would have to go down and fix their stuff and I was a handyman before, I had many jobs growing up,” he said. “I had to go down and fix their heat, I shoveled the ice every day, I made sure that the garbage was taken out, yeah I took care of it. Whatever you need.”
Reflecting on his film career, Cruise called it a “real gift.”
“I dreamed of a life to be able to do this for the rest of my life as a kid,” he said. “And every day, I’m thinking, ‘You know what? I can’t control what’s going to happen. But what I can control is I can just do the best I can.'”
