Jordan Calloway pulls double duty directing and starring in CBS’s Fire Country season four, episode four. “Like a Wounded Wildebeest” will air on Friday, November 7, 2025 at 9pm ET/PT.
Max Thieriot stars as Bode, Kevin Alejandro is Manny, Diane Farr is Sharon, Jordan Calloway plays Jake, and Jules Latimer stars as Eve.
“Like a Wounded Wildebeest” Plot: Manny has a serious conversation with Bode about a troubling discovery, urging him to be honest and take responsibility.
Fire Country stars Max Thieriot (SEAL TEAM) as Bode Leone, a young convict who sought redemption and a shortened prison sentence by joining a prison release firefighting program in Northern California, where he and other inmates were partnered with elite firefighters to extinguish massive, unpredictable wildfires across the region. It’s a high-risk, high-reward assignment, and the heat is turned up when Bode was assigned to the program in his rural hometown, where he was once a golden all-American son until his troubles began.
Years ago, Bode burned down everything in his life, leaving town with a big secret. Now he’s back, with the rap sheet of a criminal and the audacity to believe in a chance for redemption with Cal Fire.
CBS’s Tracker season three, episode three, travels to the Wyndham, Massachusetts Psychiatric Detention Center on Halloween. Things get scary when the electricity goes out and the generator doesn’t kick in. The staff separate to check the inmates’ doors, and one worker discovers inmate Heston Koontz has escaped his room. Unfortunately, the employee in the breaker room doesn’t get the message. She turns and screams as a figure in a pig mask approaches.
(The following’s a recap of season three, episode three, and there are spoilers.)
Reenie (Fiona Rene) calls Colter (Justin Hartley) with details on the Wyndham murder case because Heston’s family wants him found. Heston Koontz (Samuel Hoeksema) was serving a life sentence for burning a family alive when he escaped, and his family’s concerned about what he’ll do next.
Colter meets Heston’s parents 12 hours after he escaped and suggests they let the police do their thing. Heston’s dad is convinced they need to find him because he never should have been transferred to a less strict facility. Heston’s mom explains that he changed in high school and used to stare and whisper to himself. He had waking nightmares and strange wounds on his body. And Heston killed their family dog.
They know most parasomniacs aren’t violent, but Heston was. They found his drawings and journals and learned he was obsessed with a girl named Emily from school. She was the only survivor of the fire he set. They had reported their concerns to the police before the fire, but the cops wouldn’t listen. Now, they need him back in custody before he kills again.
They told the police about his obsession with Emily and that they’re hiring Colter to find him. Detective Dundee (Derek Richardson) introduces himself and admits they screwed up 10 years ago. Dundee explains the storm took down the detention center’s cameras but the locks on the inmates’ rooms weren’t affected by the blackout. His door should have remained locked.
Dundee and Colter examine Heston’s room, and one wall is covered by Heston’s homage to Peter Paul Rubens’s “The Fall of the Damned” painting. Heston’s bible is full of news clippings and drawings of Emily. Dundee has a cop stationed at Emily’s place right now to protect her.
Colter believes Heston carefully planned his escape and that the power outage wasn’t a coincidence. He thinks the power line was cut, which would mean Heston had help. Colter also believes Heston went to the electric room to make sure the power wasn’t restored. He didn’t want the cameras to catch his accomplice.
The nurse was strangled with an employee’s lanyard. (It doesn’t have a key card attached.) Colter looks around and finds a vent that someone’s been trying to pry open recently. The missing key card is in the vent, and he snaps a photo. Now Colter thinks the accomplice used the key card to enter the building and then went to the electric room to make sure it was still off. He/she surprised the nurse who fought back, and the key card went into the vent during the struggle. The accomplice didn’t have time to retrieve it.
Dundee is going to question the staff again about the key card.
Randy (Chris Lee) does some quick research and discovers the key card was orderly Bill Prugalidad’s, but he wasn’t on the schedule last night. Colter heads to Bill’s address and hears a broadcast of someone preaching. He follows the sound to a shed and discovers Bill’s dead body under a sheet.
Meanwhile, Reenie begins interviewing potential assistants now that Velma’s gone. Melanie (Cassady McClincy Zhang), her 11am appointment, is early and they connect over their military family background. Reenie goes over her resume and it’s impressive, and Mel admits she’s followed Reenie’s career. She wants to work for a fearless lawyer who uncovers abuse and stands up against corporations. Also, she’s curious about Colter Shaw and thinks his job is really cool.
Mel claims she can handle whatever Reenie throws her way. Reenie asks her for details about her life that aren’t on her resume, and she admits she loves murder podcasts and TikTok witches. Mel also confesses she is against bureaucracy because her mom was shot and killed when she was 16 and they never found her killer. The family never got any justice.
Reenie makes an instant decision and hires her on the spot.
Dundee and Colter look around Bill’s shed and discover paperwork with the same logo that was on Heston’s bible. Bill’s been dead for days, so Heston isn’t the murderer. The accomplice stole Bill’s card and freed Heston.
Randy hacks Bill’s neighbor’s electric vehicle’s camera and learns a blue minivan left Bill’s house two days ago. He sends Colter the license plate, but the car was reported stolen. Randy does a quick search and finds it went through a toll station in East Millwood 30 minutes ago. Emily lives in East Millwood!
Dundee radios the police unit watching Emily’s house and no one responds. They race over and find the door open. The officer’s dead inside and Emily’s gone. The stolen minivan in the driveway was reported taken from the Sisters of the Sacred Fire church, which is the church on Heston’s bible.
Colter and Dundee head there next, as Reenie learns Heston had monthly visits from Sister Carlotta from the Sacred Fire church. That same nun visited him at the place Heston was housed before he was transferred to Wyndham.
Sister Barbara doesn’t think Sister Carlotta would have helped Heston escape, but she admits she wasn’t aware of Sister Carlotta’s relationship with Heston. Colter explains Heston has recently murdered a nurse and asks to see Sister Carlotta’s room.
They look through her personal items and Colter discovers a hidden storage area with a journal of her time working with Heston. Her final entry asks forgiveness for what they are about to do. There’s also a map of the Wyndham detention center. Sister Barbara can’t believe Sister Carlotta would do anything wrong, and Colter finds a photo of Sister Carlotta posing with four men. Sister Barbara confirms that’s the community outreach group and one of them is Jared, a man who seemed defensive when they arrived at the church.
Jared lives in the convent’s basement and Colter and Dundee enter, guns drawn. There are a variety of knives along with zip ties that have been cut, indicating two people are being held hostage. Dundee spots a used vial of propofol in the trash, and Colter spots the same shoe print they found in Heston’s cell.
Colter and Dundee now believe Heston was abducted from Wyndham. He’s actually a victim. Jared and Sister Carlotta are holding Emily and Heston hostage, and Jared probably killed the nurse and the cop. But why? Jared has a hidden altar, and Sister Barbara confirms it’s a splinter sect that hunted down “dark things.” The sect thought people were made to do evil and hunted down the hosts.
The scene shifts to show a camper driving down the road with Emily and Heston tied up and gagged in the back.
Jared’s gone and Colter tells Dundee the sect thinks they’re acting righteously, which makes them more dangerous. Since Heston’s sleep state made him hear voices, Sister Carlotta probably thinks he’s possessed by a demon. Emily was taken as the emotional tether for the ritual. The sect will need to kill both Heston and Emily to get rid of the demon.
Dundee believes the original site of the Sacred Fire church is probably where the sect has set up the ritual. Randy’s trying to track Jared’s movements, but it seems he’s moving away from the original church’s site.
Reenie introduces Mel to Randy who’s relieved to learn Mel knows about their work with Colter. He admits to being a little weirded out by this case and Mel knows just the right sage to burn to ward off the bad energy.
After Mel leaves for the day, Randy confesses he knew they would vibe.
Colter’s still confused as to why Jared’s driving away from the first church. He suddenly realizes that Sister Carlotta’s message to go to the first fire actually referred to the fire set by Heston. Dundee calls for backup at the Collins property.
Sister Carlotta begins the ritual, and Emily begs her to stop. Sect members spread gasoline in tinder around their feet as Heston struggles to get out of his bindings. Emily screams for help.
Dundee checks out the camper outside and is attacked and stabbed by sect members. Colter heads toward the house, gun drawn, as inside Sister Carlotta places a match to the tinder around Heston’s feet. Heston works himself free, tries to stop them, and gets shot in the arm. Colter rushes in and shoots the man who shot Heston.
Colter’s tackled and fights back as Sister Carlotta lights the fire around Emily. Heston didn’t flee and instead attacks Sister Carlotta and is gravely injured. Emily continues to scream as Colter finally manages to get the upper hand with his armed attacker, using the man’s knife against him.
Colter saves Emily and they race outside as the house is engulfed in flames.
Dundee survives the attack and assures Colter he’ll be fine. Emily’s also fine, thanks to their work. Unfortunately, Heston didn’t survive. His escape from the restraints saved Emily’s life, and Dundee is shocked the universe slipped up and did something good.
Colter praises Dundee’s work and commitment to the town. He turns down Heston’s parents when they want to pay him, instead suggesting they give it to Emily to do something good with.
Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper” plays as Colter drives away.
The promo for CBS’s Matlock season two, episode five finds Olympia calling Matty a liar while admitting that she also lies—and both those observations are definitely true. Directed by Jennifer Lynch, episode five is set to air on Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 9pm ET/PT.
Kathy Bates leads the cast as Madeline “Matty” Matlock. Skye P. Marshall stars as Olympia Lawrence, Jason Ritter plays Julian Markston, David Del Rio is Billy Martinez, Leah Lewis stars as Sarah Franklin, Sam Anderson is Edwin Kingston, and Aaron Harris is Alfie Kingston.
“Mousetrap” Plot: Matty and Olympia race to protect each other from Julian’s suspicions as they also work on the resentencing case of a teenager sentenced as an adult to life.
“Matlock stars Emmy and Academy Award winner Kathy Bates as Madeline ‘Matty’ Matlock, a brilliant septuagenarian who achieved success in her younger years and rejoins the workforce at a prestigious law firm with a hidden agenda, using her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases. Matty is assigned to Olympia (Marshall), a senior attorney and key rainmaker with a thirst for justice; Olympia’s ex-husband, Julian (Ritter), the son of the head of the firm, is intrigued by Matty and her clever skills.
As Matty endeavors to establish herself in her new high-stakes world, she works alongside the firm’s younger associates—the charismatic Billy (Del Rio) and the uber-ambitious Sarah (Lewis).”
Jeremy Renner as Mike McLusky and Edie Falco as Nina Hobbs in ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ episode 2, season 4 (Credit: Dennis P. Mong Jr./Paramount +)
Kyle continues to refuse to go to the infirmary, suffering in his cell as Paramount+’s Mayor of Kingstown season four, episode two opens. Other prisoners give the new guard Cindy Stephens (Laura Benanti) a hard time, and one tries to take his own life in Ad Seg. Cindy calls for backup but only after Kyle reminds her that’s the procedure. Callahan sums up the action, saying, “F**king Mondays.”
(The following is a detailed recap of season four episode two, so there are spoilers ahead.)
Mike (Jeremy Renner) races to the prison while blaming Carney (Lane Garrison) for not protecting Kyle. Carney claims he’s doing the best he can, but the new warden and her minion are making things difficult. Mike orders Carney to set up a meeting after work so he can meet Cindy.
Mike’s so preoccupied on the phone that he nearly misses getting hit by a train.
Ian (Hugh Dillon) and Stevie (Derek Webster) question the one survivor from the attack on Bunny. He claims not to know English, and Ian tries to get him to talk by promising him a lawyer. Ian pisses him off enough that he finally admits to knowing English.
Bunny (Tobi Bamtefa) meets with Frank Moses (Lennie James) and is shocked to learn he decapitated the Russians; the Colombians had nothing to do with it. Frank wants to form a partnership with Bunny since the Russians no longer hold control of the border pipeline. Frank is incredibly powerful and offers Bunny security for moving his product. He and Bunny make a deal for 20%, but Bunny wants to meet with everyone involved. Bunny needs to know the men his crew will be working with.
Frank agrees but wants to meet Mike.
Mike confronts Warden Hobbs (Edie Falco) outside the prison gate, demanding to know why she failed to protect his brother. She claims she can’t control everything and that she doesn’t always notify the family after a fight. Hobbs is downplaying the incident and reminds Mike that her only promise was to keep Kyle alive, which he currently is.
Mike warns Hobbs, “From this point on, anything that happens to my brother in prison, I’ll make sure happens to you.” After Mike leaves, Hobbs tells her right-hand man David Torres (Mayans MC‘s Clayton Cardenas) she’s going to reassign Carney.
Kyle’s doubled over in pain when Callahan sneaks him cigarettes, claiming it’ll be a distraction from the pain.
Tobi Bamtefa as Deverin “Bunny” Washington and Jeremy Renner as Mike McLusky in ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ episode 2, season 4 (Credit: Dennis P. Mong Jr./Paramount +)
Mike’s next meeting is with Bunny to learn if Raph knows who beat up Kyle. Bunny’s heard the guy who did it wasn’t sanctioned by anyone—neither the Russians nor the Aryans ordered it. Bunny also doesn’t believe it was the Colombians, although they are making noise in prison. He thinks they know their place in the hierarchy.
Bunny doesn’t correct Mike when he says the Colombians killed the Russians on the tracks. But Mike knows he’s holding back, and Bunny fills him in on Frank Moses’ involvement. Mike knows Frank’s rep, and he thinks Bunny teaming up with Frank is escalating matters. Bunny insists he understands every part of the deal and can handle his business.
Mike agrees to meet with Frank if Raph “meets” with the prisoner who beat up Kyle.
Kyle’s in rough shape when he’s shackled and removed from his cell for a visit. Carney apologizes for what went down and confirms Mike’s on it. Kyle can barely stand straight up and tries to turn around when he learns Tracy’s his visitor. Carney convinces him that Tracy will be more worried if he doesn’t visit her than if she sees him like this.
Ian and Stevie let Mike know they can’t get anything out of the 20-ish-year-old cartel soldier who tried to kill Bunny and turned on the cops. Mike suggests they cut him loose since they’ve got nothing on him and his prints came back unknown. He might head back to whoever’s in charge, and then they’ll know who’s calling the shots.
Ian and Stevie tail the cartel soldier to an apartment complex but then they’re called back to the station by the chief.
Raph and his crew make a move on Kyle’s attacker, stabbing him to death in the shower. Bunny calls Mike to let him know it’s been taken care of. When Mike makes it to his office, Frank’s already there, waiting for his introductory meeting. Rebecca (Nichole Galicia) says Frank’s such a high-powered player that he came alone; no one would dare to mess with him. She’s actually frightened about Frank’s presence and doesn’t want Mike to be involved with Detroit.
Frank compliments Mike, saying he has a real gift for taking care of his town. Frank’s been around long enough to understand Mike’s proved himself and warns Kingstown’s about to be invaded by outsiders. Frank suggests Mike—and Kingstown—would be better off if only he becomes a new major player. He believes Bunny’s rise to the top of the food chain is because of Mike’s help. Mike controls the law, which benefits Bunny. Mike confirms he has friends “on both sides of the law,” and Frank wants those same friends. All Mike has to do is name his price.
Jeremy Renner as Mike McLusky in ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ episode 2, season 4 (Credit: Dennis P. Mong Jr./Paramount +)
Mike only wants the promise of peace. Frank asks for his blessing to shut the outsiders down, promising to clean up any messes. The meeting ends on a friendly note.
At the station, Evelyn shows Ian footage of a car’s movements on the day Morrissey was killed. Ian claims it’s not his car, you can’t see his face, and he wasn’t at Morrissey’s that day. Evelyn doesn’t back down, warning Ian and Captain Walter (Rob Kirkland) that she will take this to the grand jury at some point.
Torres apologizes to Warden Hobbs over the murder of the prisoner who attacked Kyle. They know it was a retaliatory killing, and Hobbs declares McLusky is done pulling strings. Torres promises to take care of it.
Mike drops groceries at Tracy’s and reminds her Kyle’s doing the right thing. She doesn’t share that opinion, but she’s faking it for Kyle’s sake.
Carney reports to Warden Hobbs that he saw Torres “tangled up” with Colombian hitter Roberto Cruz (William Guirola) during the prisoners’ lunch time. Carney advises them to keep their distance from the prisoners here, noting that Cruz is one of the worst. Hobbs appreciates his insight and assures him they’ll handle the wards by any means necessary.
Mike calls Bunny and doesn’t bother saying hello, immediately launching into a list of demands. He needs to know if Bunny and Frank’s relationship disintegrates and he needs a promise that all bodies will be taken out of Kingstown to be disposed of. “You see a mentor, I see a machine gun nest,” explains Mike. Bunny swears it’s an alliance that he got into to help his family. He also insists he’ll take over Moses’ kingdom in the end to protect what’s his.
Bunny looks leery as he arrives at his sister Whitney’s birthday party. He hugs everyone and is surprised Kevin (Denny Love), his guy on the inside at the prison, is there for a face-to-face. Kevin wants to leave Anchor because of Warden Hobbs, but Bunny insists he needs to keep playing the game. And if he comes near Bunny’s family again, Bunny will kill him.
Night falls and Mike smokes in his cell. Callahan tosses another delivery his way and this time it’s drugs to take away the pain. Callahan also informs Kyle that his attacker was killed, which is weird because usually prisoners don’t kill their own over a cop.
Kyle hides the pill for later.
Cliff Bemis and Lane Garrison in ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ episode 2, season 4 (Credit: Dennis P. Mong Jr./Paramount +)
Mike joins Cindy at the bar, and she explains Carney still hasn’t shown up. She can’t stay since she’s got three kids and wants Mike to cut to the chase. Cindy’s sorry Kyle got attacked and promises she is keeping an eye on him. Mike assures her Kyle isn’t a criminal and wants her to be his friendly face on the inside. He needs Cindy to always keep her eyes on him, and she agrees. She also agrees to answer when he calls, even though she reminds him she just got this job. Mike also wants a list of everyone housed in Ad Seg.
Carney makes dinner for his invalid dad before leaving to meet Cindy and Mike. He doesn’t make it out the door before he’s shot dead by the Colombian soldier Mike suggested they let go.
The Good Place‘s William Jackson Harper guest stars and Sarah Steele returns as Marissa Gold on CBS’s Elsbeth season three, episode five. Directed by Robin Givens, episode five will air on Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 10pm ET/PT.
Carrie Preston returns to star as the titular character. Wendell Pierce is also back as Captain C.W. Wagner for the series’ third season.
“Poetic Justice” Plot: After a donor’s death shakes New York’s nonprofit arts scene, Elsbeth questions the motives of the victim’s friend, Gary (William Jackson Harper), the founder of a prominent poetry journal. Also, Elsbeth runs into her old friend Marissa Gold, who is following in her father Eli’s footsteps and working as the campaign manager for a mayoral candidate.
Emmy Award winner Carrie Preston returns as Elsbeth Tascioni, the cunning yet unconventional consent decree attorney working with the NYPD to track down New York’s most well-heeled murderers utilizing her unique intuitive insight. The critically acclaimed series enters its third season with fresh cases, new characters, and unexpected challenges for Elsbeth and the 11th Precinct, led by her boss, Captain C.W. Wagner (Pierce).
Prime Video’s The Summer I Turned Pretty is so incredibly popular that series creator and showrunner Jenny Han is continuing Belly’s story with a film. Prime Video announced the upcoming movie just hours after the third season’s finale aired but thus far hasn’t set a target date for its premiere.
Han, who’s co-writing and directing the movie, recently participated in a press conference that provided a behind-the-scenes look at The Summer I Turned Pretty’s casting, music, and love triangle. The following are highlights from the virtual chat, including how Han went about getting Taylor Swift to agree to the use of her songs.
On what fans can expect from the film:
Jenny Han: “Well, I think that I know that the fans were worried that they were going to get a five-second reunion between Belly and Conrad, and they weren’t going to be able to see them together as a couple in the present time, because pretty much everything we see of them other than the end of the season one kiss is a flashback. It’s a memory. So, I think that’s one thing I know that I’m going to deliver to the fans for them to see them as they are as these two young adults in the present.”
On being able to continue Belly’s story:
Jenny Han: “Oh, it’s just been a joy. Yeah, it’s been really fun to have this more, I would say, contained story versus the more sort of expansive, sprawling, elegiac kind of almost novelistic story. This is complete, in and of itself, because my goal is that it’s something that somebody who has never watched the show could watch this movie and really enjoy it and people who are fans of the show would also enjoy it, and I would like to achieve that balance.”
Incorporating Taylor Swift songs into the series:
Jenny Han: “It was different season to season, because on season one, I really didn’t know if we were going to be able to get the song that I really wanted, which was ‘The Way I Loved You.’ And that was really important to me to have that song because I had even pitched the show with that song. I knew exactly how I wanted it to go, where he’s standing up and looking at her and then it had that swell of the music. And so, I really, really knew that we needed that song.
And so, that’s when we approached her team. I wrote a letter, a very heartfelt letter, just explaining to her how much her music meant to the fans of the show who I knew would just be beyond thrilled to have… Well, the fans of the books, I should because the show wasn’t even out yet. And so, we were really lucky that she said yes. So, then I was like, ‘Okay, well, then can we also have these songs?’ And they said yes. And so then on season two, I started out already kind of making a list of how I wanted to use the music over the course of the season.
Sometimes with the songs, I write it into the script when I know for sure. And then sometimes it comes during production as I’m just thinking about it or sometimes it’s during post, so it can really vary. On season three, I also had a wish list of songs I wanted for the show.”
Jenny Han: “I think it’s just naturally progressed to where we end. It has to end somewhere. Although I know fans were like, ‘Oh, we want more! Can we just have another season?’ And to me it was always important to do the three. There are three books, and having three seasons just felt like the beginning, the middle, and the end of the story. So, I think that having that structure felt right to me.”
The Summer I Turned Pretty’s message:
Jenny Han: “[…] I would say it was hard when I was first pitching the show trying to think up comps for it, because I knew that I wanted it to really span generations, and that the stories of the mothers were important, separate from the kids, and wanting them to really feel like fully realized characters that their existence wasn’t defined by being a parent that they had their own inner lives as women. I think because the larger message of the show really is that coming of age isn’t really limited to just being a teenager, it’s something your whole life you experience and you go through.
And so, all the characters are having their own coming of ages from the very beginning with Susannah dying in season one and being sick and grappling with that and going into this next phase of life. And then Laurel, who has had her best friend by her side her whole adult life, grappling with, ‘What’s it going to be now without her and who am I?’
[…] I think the first season has a lighter feel to it because Belly’s very innocent. It’s her first kind of awakening and her eyes are sort of opening to certain things. And she’s coming into the world in a different way. She’s been, I would say, fairly sheltered most of her life. And so, this is her time to sort of be questioning and having those first steps into the real world as a young person in the world, not as a child.
And then we have all those really magical firsts, like a first kiss and this first ball and a first big heartbreak as well. And then big loss. I think her real coming of age is learning that Susannah, who is like a second mother to her, is sick and dying. And that is like when you are no longer a child, because you’re not really protected from that anymore. You have to come to terms with that. And then in season two, it’s all about grief and the different ways that the characters manage that grief. So, I would say that that’s so much about that growth. And then season three, it’s really, ‘Who am I now truly stepping into my young adulthood?’”
On casting the four main characters and witnessing their growth as actors:
Jenny Han: “I’ll start with Lola (Tung) where she was 18 years old when she auditioned for the show. She was a freshman at Carnegie Mellon and had never been in front of the camera before. And so, this was her first job as an actor. I think it was maybe her first audition even.
There was just something about her that right away, I felt drawn to in almost like a maternal way of looking at her as this really young person who had so much brightness and light to her and joy. I just felt myself instinctively rooting for her and wanting her to win. I think that’s what I needed for Belly, a person that the audience could look at and think, ‘Yeah, you’re making some mistakes, but I really want you to come through this.’
I knew that that was what the character was going to require because there’s a lot of messiness to her story and she does stumble and fall, but you still need to be on her side. So, I think that Lola really achieved that goal.
Although it’s funny, you know over the course of that summer on the first season, she turned 19 on the last day of filming. It was the day that we shot the ball and she’s wearing this beautiful gown, and they’re all waltzing, and there’s so much love in the room. I remember bringing out the cakes and looking at her and thinking, ‘How magical is this moment that you’re so beloved by the people who are working with you, the crew, the cast. Everybody adores you and you’re in this beautiful dress and you’re really coming into your own.’
[…] She learned it really quickly and then had to kind of figure out how to navigate it. And I said to her, just like on the show, I felt like looking at her, like her eyes looked different to me at the end of that summer than they did at the beginning, where there was more of a knowingness there. There was some wisdom from everything that she had been through, which was, it’s not an easy feat to hold a whole production on your back when you’re so young. And can you do it? I don’t know, because you have never done it before. And so, that I think, is just so meta and a special thing just to witness as her showrunner, but also as a friend.
And then, Chris (Briney), I knew right away that I thought he was Conrad. We’d been looking for a while, and then his tape came in and he just blew me away. He brings a real honesty and realness to the character. And I think his is not an easy character to embody because when you first meet him, he’s very different from who he is, who all the characters know him as. So, you’re masking a lot. And having to do that from the very beginning before you’ve been able to play him at his best, you’re sort of playing him at his lowest. So, I would say that he really was a perfect Conrad.
And then for Gavin (Casalegno) as Jeremiah, I think he ended up being the last person we cast. That was a really hard role to fill also because he needed to have a lot of natural sunniness to him and an optimism in the way that he looked at the world. I think it’s just kind of hard to find that. And then with Gavin, I think he did bring a lot of his own natural ebullience and ease in the way that he walks in the world.
And then Sean (Kaufman), who plays Steven, I think he might’ve… He also read for Cam Cameron. Or did he… He read for a couple… All of them read for numerous parts, I think. Most of them did. I liked Sean so much that I knew that I would want it to… because I knew I had a bigger story for Steven down the road and I knew that Cam’s story was really limited to season one. And then I also felt like the energy between him and Lola was immediately brother-sister energy. They had gone to high school together. They didn’t really hang out in high school, but they knew each other. And so, I just felt like that ease was already there.”
The culmination of years of attraction with the finale:
Jenny Han: “I think for the finale, it’s definitely a build between the two of them, and I guess kind of a dance. She is obviously taken off guard when she sees him standing there – and she’s wary as well. And so, I think the day is really for him to get to know her as she is today and for her to slowly let her walls come down. And seeing them meeting each other, I think, outside of Cousins is really important because there’s so much history between the two of them, and so much baggage.
And to me, the big question is, if I met you today, would I love you? Or is there so much between us from the past, so much history that sort of colors everything about our story? So, I think as the day goes on, and she sort of lets her guard down, then she really does allow him to see who she’s become, and vice versa.”
Gideon Adlon reprises her guest starring role as Trevor’s daughter on CBS’s Ghosts season five, episode four. Directed by Pete Chatmon, “Bring Your Daughter to Work Day” will air on Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 8:30pm ET/PT.
Season five stars Rose McIver as Sam, Utkarsh Ambudkar as Jay, Brandon Scott Jones as Isaac, and Richie Moriarty as Pete. Danielle Pinnock is Alberta, Asher Grodman is Trevor, Román Zaragoza stars as Sasappis, Rebecca Wisocky plays Hetty, Devan Chandler Long is Thorfinn, and Sheila Carrasco plays Flower.
“Bring Your Daughter to Work Day” Plot: Trevor finds a way to spend more time with his newly discovered daughter, Abby (Adlon), by getting her at job at Jay’s restaurant.
Ghosts is a single-camera comedy about Samantha and Jay, a cheerful freelance journalist and chef from the city, respectively, who threw both caution and money to the wind when they decided to convert Woodstone Mansion, which Sam inherited, into a bed & breakfast—only to find it was inhabited by the many spirits of deceased residents who now call it home.
The departed souls are a close-knit, eclectic group that includes a saucy Prohibition-era lounge singer (Pinnock); a pompous 18th-century militiaman (Scott Jones); a ‘60s hippie fond of hallucinogens (Carrasco); an overly upbeat ‘80s scout troop leader (Moriarty); a cod-obsessed Viking explorer from 1009 (Chandler Long); a slick ‘90s finance bro (Grodman); a sarcastic and witty native from the 16th century (Zaragoza); and a society woman and wife of a 19th-century robber baron who is Sam’s ancestor (Wisocky), to name a few.
The opening of the B&B and Jay’s new restaurant are a source of intrigue, anxiety, and curiosity among the spirits, but they will gladly put up with the commotion as long as they can continue to interact with a living inhabitant.
OA’s in serious trouble on CBS’s FBI season eight episode four, directed by Jon Cassar. Episode four, “Manifest,” will air on Monday, November 3, 2025 at 9pm ET/PT.
Missy Peregrym stars as Special Agent Maggie Bell, Zeeko Zaki plays Special Agent Omar Adom “OA” Zidan, Jeremy Sisto returns as Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, Alana De La Garza is Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille, John Boyd stars as Special Agent Stuart Scola, and Juliana Aidén Martinez plays Eva Ramos.
“Manifest” Plot: Following a failed assassination attempt on a U.S. senator, OA and Maggie are tasked with escorting her back to Washington, D.C. on a flight that becomes more perilous than imagined.
FBI is a fast-paced drama about the inner workings of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This elite unit brings to bear all their talents, intellect, and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep New York and the country safe. Born into a multigenerational law enforcement family, Special Agent Maggie Bell commits deeply to the people she works with as well as those she protects.
Her partner is Special Agent Omar Adom “OA” Zidan, a West Point graduate via Bushwick who spent two years undercover for the DEA before being cherry-picked by the FBI. Overseeing them is Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille, who operates under intense pressure and has undeniable command authority.
The team also includes Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, the nerve center of the office whose ability to easily relate to and engage with both superiors and subordinates makes him a master motivator, as well as Special Agent Stuart Scola, an Ivy League-educated Wall Streeter-turned-FBI agent. These first-class agents tenaciously investigate cases of tremendous magnitude, including terrorism, organized crime, and counterintelligence.
Starz’s official trailer warns that no one should underestimate Ashur. After all, he rose from the dead for Spartacus: House of Ashur. The latest entry in the Spartacus franchise will premiere on December 5, 2025, with new episodes airing on Fridays.
Nick E. Tarabay reprises his role as Ashur. The series also stars Graham McTavish as the battle-hardened gladiator trainer, Korris; Tenika Davis as the relentless gladiatrix, Achillia; and Jordi Webber as the ambitious Tarchon. Jackson Gallagher stars as Julius Caesar, Jaime Slater is Cornelia, Jamaica Vaughan is Hilara, Ivana Baquero is Messia, Claudia Black plays Cossutia, India Shaw-Smith is Viridia, and Leigh Gill is Satyrus.
Starz offers this description of the new Spartacus series:
“Spartacus: House of Ashur is a thrilling, erotic, and history-bending roller-coaster experience that builds on everything, which made the original series a colossal hit. What if Ashur had lived, and the Romans rewarded his treachery with the gladiator school where he once bled? Welcome to the House of Ashur. No longer a slave, Ashur has clawed his way to power, owning the same ludus that once owned him. But ruling a band of merciless gladiators is child’s play compared to surviving the savage world of Roman politics—a cutthroat game in which betrayal isn’t a sin, it’s currency.
He flips tradition on its head by unleashing Achillia, a fierce and powerful gladiatrix eager to prove herself worthy in a man’s world. Together, they ignite a new kind of spectacle that shocks, disrupts and offends the elite with every drop of blood.”
Steven S. DeKnight, creator of Spartacus, is the showrunner and executive producer. Rick Jacobson and Aaron Helbing also executive produce.
Paramount Pictures’ official Scream 7 trailer is packed with goodies and throwbacks to the previous films, not the least of which is the confirmation that Sidney named her daughter Tatum. There’s so much going on that multiple trailer viewings are necessary.
Neve Campbell returns to lead the cast as Sidney Prescott and Courteney Cox returns as Gale Weathers. The cast also includes Isabel May, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Anna Camp, Joel McHale, Mckenna Grace, and Michelle Randolph. Rounding out the ensemble are Jimmy Tatro, Asa Germann, Celeste O’Connor, Sam Rechner, Ethan Embry, Tim Simons, and Mark Consuelos.
“When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney Prescott (Campbell) has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter (May) becomes the next target,” reads Paramount’s synopsis. “Determined to protect her family, Sidney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all.”
Kevin Williamson created Scream and returns to direct. Williamson also co-wrote the screenplay with Guy Busick. William Sherak, James Vanderbilt, and Paul Neinstein serve as producers.
