Netflix has announced a new sci-fi series, Arrivals: A New Manifest Mystery, from the same creative team behind the original series. The show will feature a new cast of characters and new storylines.
“I’m delighted to be able to tell a new story for the Manifest fans out there and also for a brand-new audience,” says creator Jeff Rake. “It’s been five long years since we showed up on Netflix, and there’s probably half a generation who has never heard of Manifest. We’ve tried to thread the needle in a way that’s rewarding for the OG Manifest fans, but also equally rewarding for people who are brand new to the show.”
Manifest originally debuted on NBC in 2018 before moving to Netflix for its fourth and final season, where it found renewed success with audiences. The show follows the passengers and crew of Flight 828 who mysteriously reappear years after going missing and being presumed dead. It starred Josh Dallas, Melissa Roxburgh and Athena Karkanis.
The announcement for the new series came on 8/28 — which fans celebrate as Manifest Day in honor of the show’s core mystery of Flight 828.
‘Love Island USA’ villa. (Peacock/Ben Symons/Peacock)
A Love Island USA executive producer has died during production on the reality dating show’s eighth season.
Peacock said in a press release Monday that executive producer James Barker died last week in Fiji, where the reality show is currently being filmed, “after suffering an unexpected medical emergency.”
“James’ unimaginable loss has been deeply felt across not just the entire ‘Love Island USA’ production, but throughout all of ITV and Peacock,” Peacock and ITV America, which produces the reality series, said in a joint statement. “He was a beloved and greatly valued member of our collective family whose kindness, talent and dedication left an indelible mark on all of us and everyone who had the privilege of knowing and working with him. We extend our heartfelt condolences to James’ partner, family, friends and colleagues.”
Peacock and ITV America said that Barker will be honored on Tuesday’s episode of Love Island USA.
According to the press release, Barker started his television career in 2011 at Leftfield Pictures, where he was a producer on shows including Counting Cars, Forged in Fire and Pawn Stars. He also produced Queer Eye while working for ITV America.
Barker started working on Love Island USA in 2020 as a story producer and worked his way up to executive producer, according to the press release. He went on to produce numerous seasons of Love Island USA and Love Island Games.
Outside of television, Peacock and ITV America said Barker was passionate about music and “spent 20 years DJ’ing across the country building a dedicated following of fans.”
Barker is survived by his partner, Adam, whom he met at one of his shows, according to Monday’s press release.
Love Island USA season 8 kicked off June 2 with Ariana Madix returning as host. New episodes arrive daily, except on Wednesdays.
Jared Leto arrives at the premiere of ‘Tron: Ares’ at TCL Chinese Theatre on Oct. 6, 2025, in Hollywood, California. (Maya Dehlin Spach/WireImage via Getty Images)
Jared Leto has responded to allegations of sexual misconduct from several women made in a new BBC report and documentary.
The BBC spoke to 10 women for its new documentary, Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret, with nine of the women speaking out publicly for the first time, according to a companion report published Wednesday.
Five women alleged that they received sexual phone calls from the actor, the BBC reported. Of those, four allege they were teenagers at the time, the report states.
ABC News has not independently verified the allegations in the BBC report.
Leto responded to the allegations in a statement to ABC News on Wednesday.
“I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life,” he said. “These claims are absolutely and categorically false.”
The allegations of sexual misconduct against Leto in the report include allegations he sexually assaulted a girl in a motel bathroom when she was 17 years old, a threat of sexual assault against a 19-year-old and an allegation that Leto groomed a girl by making sexually explicit phone calls to her when she was 16. Another woman included in the report accused Leto of statutory rape, saying she was 17 years old at the time of the alleged assault, which she alleged took place in California, where the age of consent is 18.
One woman included in the report described an alleged interaction with Leto in which she claimed he made an inappropriate sexual remark to her at a music festival when she was 14 years old. The woman claimed Leto made the comment in front of her mother, who confronted him about the comment, which she said he dismissed, according to the BBC report.
All of the women in the BBC report said their alleged encounters with Leto occurred between 2002 and 2016.
Leto has faced allegations of sexual impropriety previously. In 2025, Air Mail reported allegations from nine women who claimed Leto had acted in a sexually inappropriate manner with them or made sexually explicit remarks to them that made them feel uncomfortable. Leto “expressly denied” the accusations in a statement to the outlet through his representative.
ABC News also reached out to Leto for comment on the allegations detailed in Air Mail’s report.
Leto has been acting since the early ’90s and most recently appeared in the film Masters of the Universe. He earned an Academy Award in 2014 for his role in Dallas Buyers Club, in which he starred opposite that year’s best actor Oscar winner, Matthew McConaughey.
Beyond acting, Leto has found success with his rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, which he formed with his brother, Shannon Leto, in 1998.
Chase Infiniti in ‘The Testaments.’ (Steve Wilkie/Disney)
The Testaments is getting a second season.
Ahead of its season 1 finale, slated to air next week, Hulu announced that the hit series, starring Ann Dowd, Chase Infiniti, Lucy Halliday, Rowan Blanchard and more, will continue.
Infiniti, who plays Agnes in the series, took to her Instagram Story following the announcement, writing, “Season 2 babyyyyy.”
She added, “Thank you for all the love on our show.”
Based on Margaret Atwood’s 2019 novel of the same name, The Testaments is set 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale and focuses on a group of teens who have grown up in the fictional dystopian society of Gilead as they navigate Aunt Lydia’s elite preparatory school for future wives.
Elisabeth Moss, who portrayed June Osborne in The Handmaid’s Tale, reprises her Emmy Award-winning role as a guest on The Testaments and serves as an executive producer on the show.
Also starring in the series are Mattea Conforti, Mabel Li, Amy Seimetz, Brad Alexander, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Eva Foote, Isolde Ardies, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Birva Pandya and Kira Guloien.
Since it premiered in April, viewership for the show has grown week over week, garnering more than 45 million hours streamed globally on Hulu and Disney+ to date, according to a press release from Hulu.
The season 1 finale of The Testaments will arrive Wednesday, May 27, on Hulu.
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