Netflix is reportedly looking for a little spice: Variety says the streamer is looking to join forces with BuzzFeed to air live installments of First We Feast’s smash chicken wing eating show Hot Ones.
The pop culture website owns the meme-generating hit series, which can be seen on YouTube.
According to the trade, the deal is in the early stages, but it would bring to the streamer a live version of the series that has host Sean Evans taking the Gauntlet of Death hot sauce challenge with various celebrities.
Evans and company have chowed down — and created viral interview moments — with celebrities ranging from Conan O’Brien to Gordon Ramsay to Sydney Sweeney, and made meme stars out of Jennifer Lawrence, Idris Elba and more thanks to their reactions to the spicy stuff.
Bridgerton has found its newest leading lady in actress Yerin Ha.
Ha has been cast as Sophie Baek, the love interest of season 4 lead Benedict Bridgerton, played by Luke Thompson, Netflix announced Wednesday.
Ha is an Australian-born actress of Korean descent. She played Kwan Ha in Halo, the series based on the video game franchise of the same name, and can also be seen in the forthcoming Dune: Prophecy, a prequel series to the Dune films.
The streamer says Sophie Baek “has been forced to spend much of her life working as a maid for the most demanding employer in the ton. But the resourceful Sophie always finds a way to persevere through her circumstances — which will drastically change after she disguises herself to attend Violet Bridgerton’s masquerade ball and meets Benedict Bridgerton.”
“What drew me to Sophie was that she immediately has obstacles — something that she constantly has to overcome,” Ha told Tudum, “whether it’s this battle around social status or trying to hide her feelings from Benedict.”
Fans of Julia Quinn‘s Bridgerton book series will notice the character’s last name on the show is different from the page, changing from Sophie Beckett — a nod to Ha’s background.
“A name is the first bit of identity that you share with the world, and that’s why changing a name can be so powerful. To make Sophie’s name fit someone who looks like me is really empowering,” Ha said, crediting showrunner Jess Brownell for making the change.
She adds, “It’s a really nice way for me to feel like the role is fit for me, rather than me having to fit a certain mold. … So it means a lot that Jess did that for me.”
No release date has yet been announced for the eight-episode fourth season of Bridgerton.
Stranger Things‘ Millie Bobby Brown is reportedly developing a feature adaptation of her debut novel, Nineteen Steps, for Netflix, sources tell Deadline.
Brown will reportedly produce and star in the feature, which The Theory of Everything‘s Anthony McCarten will direct.
The New York Times bestseller, co-written by Brown and Kathleen McGurl, is set in WW2 era London and based on the experiences of Brown’s grandmother.
Over the course of the book, Nellie Morris navigates life during wartime, while embracing a romance with an American airman named Ray. Despite living through the Bethnal Green Tube disaster — one of the worst civilian disasters in the U.K. during the war, killing 173 people as they sought shelter during an air raid — Nellie finds love and happiness against all odds.
Brown gained acclaim for her role as Eleven in the Netflix series Stranger Things, which returns for its fifth and final season in 2025. She recently starred in the fantasy feature Damsel, which also aired on the streaming service.
(SPOILERS) On social media, Ryan Reynoldshas uncovered for fans an Easter egg that revealed the fate of Channing Tatum‘s slurring Southern X-Man Gambit in Deadpool & Wolverine.
At the end of the blockbuster, a collection of heroes that includes Gambit hold off a horde of bad guys while Ryan’s Deadpool and Hugh Jackman‘s Wolverine escape to another dimension.
It’s assumed the heroes may have sacrificed themselves — but Reynolds just showed that Gambit got out of the wasteland known as The Void.
The scene is technically in the film, but hard to spot as it’s hidden in the “deep background” on a monitor at the TVA, Reynolds explained when posting the moment.
Tatum’s character is shown walking through the aftermath of the fight, when he turns and smiles as the same kind of “Marvel Sparkle Circle” that allowed Deadpool and Wolverine to escape opens behind him.
As reported, Tatum tried for years to bring a Gambit movie to theaters, only to have the plans scuttled when ABC News’ parent company Disney acquired 20th Century Fox.
While he was grateful he got the chance to finally suit up, he tells Collider he doesn’t want to get his hopes up for future appearances. “I could never be in another Marvel movie again, and it wouldn’t surprise me because I’ve had it in my hand before, and it’s gone away,” the Blink Twice star says.
“I’m always grain-of-salting it, but I’m hoping that [Marvel Studios president] Kevin [Feige] will allow me in.”