No, legendary icon Nicole Paige Brooks from Atlanta, Ga., didn’t know who Chappell Roan was when the pop star entered the RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 Werk Room — but that’s far from the biggest bombshell that bracket 2’s eliminated queens are serving up H-O-T-T-O-G-O in their fiery exit interview with Entertainment Weekly.

After falling behind in the points-based competition following ace plots mounted by Mistress Isabelle Brooks, Jorgeous, and Lydia Butthole Kollins, queens Kerri Colby, Tina Burner, and Nicole were ousted at the end of the bracket’s run. But, they’re not going quietly, as the trio spice things up with several bombshells in their EW exit interview, including what really happened when Nicole saw the “Pink Pony Club” singer, how Tina grappled with Lydia’s approach to points delegation, and Kerri’s wild reveal of which iconic RuGirl has a current cast member blocked on social media.

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Nicole, fans speculated that you had no idea who Chappell Roan was on last week’s episode. Can you confirm?

NICOLE PAIGE BROOKS: I can confirm I’d heard of Chappell Roan. Could I have picked her out of a lineup? No.

KERRI COLBY: Don’t lie. Nicole, how dare you. Just tell him you had no idea who she was!

NICOLE: Okay, I didn’t really know who she was. I have a radio, so I’d heard the song, but I didn’t know who that was. I know who she is now. Now that she’s in the House of Colby, she’s on my radar.

Tina, you seemed upset by Lydia’s perceived betrayal, but she never explicitly said she’d team up with you. Did she, and it wasn’t shown? Why did you feel she’d have your back, despite entering the House of Brooks?

TINA BURNER: Once absorbed, all things were off. I didn’t see it coming.

NICOLE: Let’s call it the MIB household, not the Brooks household.

TINA: There were certain things that happened, Mistress trying to have me do what she and Jorgeous did. I didn’t want a part in it, Lydia entertained it. I have a letter written by Lydia, as we left, saying that Tina didn’t start the drama!

KERRI: Post the receipts!

TINA: There was an agreement that we were there to give the right person the point. She jumped in with Mistress and Jorgeous. I didn’t expect it or think that Lydia could be manipulated.

So, the flirtation didn’t go anywhere? Did you hear from Kori King at all?

TINA: I’m laughing uncomfortably because I’m doing a gig with Kori this Sunday, so I don’t know what’s going to go down.

KERRI: She’ll have a firm handshake for you, from one masculine gentleman to another!

I loved the AS10 rap roast. Megami said she wrote Jorgeous’ verse. Did others have help?

KERRI: People accused me of having others write mine, but I wrote all those mistakes on my own.

NICOLE: There’s a trans group called the Girls, that my baby girl Alyssa Brooks and Domino Presley are part of. They helped me and sang it to me because I needed the beats to practice.

TINA: I sat in a room with Chelsea Piers and Izzy Uncut and bounced some stuff. Most of it, I changed there.

Given Mistress and Jorgeous’ points plot, was there permanent damage done to friendships in this bracket? Has anyone blocked anyone?

KERRI: Well, Sasha Colby blocked Mistress, but that’s a whole other conversation.

Sasha blocked Mistress?

KERRI: At least she was. Let me check if it’s still active. [In a separate interview, Mistress tells EW:”If [Kerri] wants to put that out there, we can get into it. When this happened, Kerri went home and told Sasha a bunch of lies, and Sasha got upset with me. Apparently, Kerri felt like she was the most robbed queen in Drag Race history. Which, if that’s the case, how did you do three challenges and not win one? It’s a prime example of people taking things too seriously. What happened on TV, Kerri brought that drama into the real world, and that’s why I’ll never f— with her…. But, yeah, [Sasha and I] have each other blocked.”]

NICOLE: I didn’t know who Mistress was before meeting her, so there was no previous relationship to be damaged.

TINA: I don’t hold grudges. I realize who people are, after the fact.

NICOLE: I helped her make good television. I’m happy and proud of her. Even if it’s for TV, don’t trust people who do that just for TV.

Do you think it’s worth making good TV at the expense of real emotions?

KERRI: If the goal is to make good TV, you can always figure out a way to do that. To be messy and tilt the whole table with all the food on it and throw it to ruin everyone’s meal, it’ll be good TV, but you have to think about longevity. She’ll be a wonderful shoo-in for House of Villains one day. Maybe that’s her goal. I think she has life lessons to learn, and I’m hoping Drag Race becomes the school for Mistress and teaches her a lesson moving forward.

TINA: It’s one thing to make good TV. I’m all for that. But, when it starts getting personal and things affect people on a personal level, you have to ask, is it worth it? Who are you doing it for? Who hurt you, Mistress?

KERRI: Like sending someone to go comfort someone else because they’re crying, and using that as an opportunity to scheme about points and mess them up more so they don’t have a chance to recover. There are lines of villain-ry. You can pull a stunt and call someone ugly in a roast. You can be shady and dark-sided, but there’s a certain level that, when you start to get personal and use emotional moments to manipulate things, plant seeds, and start narratives, that’s when it starts giving Hannibal Lecter, Jeffrey Dahmer; it’s giving Alcatraz, honey.

NICOLE: What drew me to the show is that the Werk Room shows an accurate dressing room. There’s going to be a queen in there trying to get the show director job, who will lie and scheme. She’ll stab you in the back the second you turn around. On Drag Race, we have cameras everywhere, so we see it played back when we get home. It’s an accurate view of life. Your coworkers don’t have your best intentions at heart; they want to be in charge.

KERRI: Some of us were very broken; we got fully attacked. But, at the same time, instead of a pity party, we showed that you can call your motherf—ing power back to you, and you can handle some business.

Nicole and Tina, at the end, you represented that by immediately saying you wanted to give points to Kerri to block Mistress. Why was that the move, instead of going quietly?

NICOLE: I believe it was Tina who put that into my mind, like, we’ve got to get our girl up to the top because she was most likely to succeed out of our group. I was more concerned walking around there like, hey, my one point! Yes, it was to block Mistress, but it was more to support Kerri.

Kerri, Mistress called you a fake bitch when giving her final point to Lydia. We only saw you say that she wasn’t out of the running for a point. Did you ever explicitly promise you’d give her one?

KERRI: Absolutely not. I realized that bitch was going to play all the games with me. As soon as she turned her back on my alliance, I was like, I’m going to fake this one. I told her I’d potentially help her out if she threw me a bone because she had a debt to pay. I didn’t have a debt to pay for her to be crazy, shady, and wrong. She kept saying she’d get me back. From the first offense, it registered, this person isn’t trustworthy. There’s nothing they can do to redeem themselves, so I’ll pull a stunt back. People always ask why I didn’t push back on the first episode, but I had to process. There was trauma. I felt like I was back in middle school, getting bullied by friends that pulled stunts on me and humiliated me at prom just to be funny. I had to process that, and when I did, I was like, let’s see how everything shapes out. If I can be part of what makes or breaks you, consider me a motherf—ing hammer of truth and justice, honey.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Sir Rod Stewart has canceled several upcoming concerts due to an unforeseen illness.

The “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” singer announced that he is dropping four shows in Nevada from his tour and postponing two shows in California this month after being diagnosed with the flu.

“I have to cancel and reschedule my next six concerts in June as I continue to recover from the flu,” Stewart wrote on Instagram. “So sorry, my friends. I’m devastated and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience to my fans. I’ll be back on stage and will see you soon.”

Stewart canceled three shows at the Colosseum Theater at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas that were scheduled for June 7, June 8, and June 10, and also nixed a June 14 concert at the Lake Tahoe Amphitheatre at Caesars Republic in Stateline, Nev.

The musician also rescheduled his planned June 12 show at the Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage, Calif., for Sept. 20., and rescheduled his June 15 concert at the Vina Robles Amphitheatre in Paso Robles, Calif., for Sept. 21.

Stewart’s next scheduled tour stop is at the Glastonbury Festival in the United Kingdom on June 29. He has dozens of additional shows scheduled across North America, South America, and Europe over the next several months, including four additional shows at Caesars Palace in September and October.

After suggesting that he might leave “the rock & roll stuff behind for a while,” Stewart made a statement in 2023 clarifying that he has no intentions to quit performing live.

“I’d like to clear up any confusion that I may have caused with my dear fans and the media. I shall never retire!” Stewart wrote on Instagram. “I was put on this earth to be a singer and will keep doing so for as long as the good Lord lets me.”

Stewart continued, “I could never turn my back on the songs that I’ve written and sung over the last six decades. They are like my children. I created them and I love them.”

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Last month, Stewart received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2025 American Music Awards. The awards body has bestowed it on only one other artist: Diana Ross in 2017.

Mistress Isabelle Brooks is the self-proclaimed heavyweight champ of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 drama — and she delivered a knockout blow to the competition on Friday’s episode.

Now, in the aftermath of her deliciously devious point-scheming plots and Werk Room rompery (backed by Jorgeous and Lydia Butthole Kollins) with bracket 2’s eliminated contestants Kerri Colby, Tina Burner, and Nicole Paige Brooks, Mistress tells Entertainment Weekly where her relationships with the cast stand today and why she wishes more people would embrace the TV shenanigans.

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 continues Fridays on Paramount+. Read on for Mistress’ full Q&A with EW.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Congrats on giving us chaos and strengthening the congenial era. You were also in your mother era on All Stars 10 after adopting Lydia. Is the adoption real?

MISTRESS ISABELLE BROOKS: It’s Lydia Butthole Brooks-Kollins. She’s keeping the B in the middle. That’s daughter, and she doesn’t need much help. She comes to me for emotional support, but it’s real.

What’s the update on daughters Sugar and Spice?

Once in the family, always in the family. We’ve done a lot of gigs together and have some coming up. People forget we’re the same age. We butt heads, and outside of Drag Race, we don’t have that much in common. It’s hard because we don’t live in the same area. We talk here and there, reply to each other’s stories, but we’re not as close as I am to my other daughters, but I always have love for them.

Your and Tina’s relationship also changed this season, including after you lied about her scheming to sabotage Kerri and Nicole’s points. Did you identify Tina early on as someone you wanted to pick at through the season?

It’s not about picking someone I want to poke; it’s a game! I went into everything with no strategy. I’m just literally mentally ill. In any competition, the Davenports, the Brooks, my bloodlines know, the game starts before anyone hits the stage. The worst thing someone can do is think they have it figured out. When you go up to someone and the first thing you say is you’re unbothered, that means you’re bothered and looking out for them. Tina handed me the bullseye target, and put it directly on her big, wide back. I had no choice but to interact.

Jorgeous reminded everyone that RuPaul presented a game, and wanted you to play. Why are queens so afraid of that?

Look at me! I made iconic TV, and I’m getting death threats and hate comments and people saying I’m a bully. You’re going to get backlash. People are always going to not like you for multiple reasons…. The normal Drag Race girl doesn’t want to deal with that. I wish more people would publicly celebrate the shenanigans, because that’s what drag is all about. The sooner people stop crucifying the girls for making good TV, that’s when we’ll get more iconic moments like this. I don’t give a f— about “ruining” people’s lives and acting a fool on TV, because to me it’s just TV. Regardless, I’m always going to be Mistress. It’s always going to be Mistress Monday.

In Kerri’s exit interview, she said she wanted All Stars 10 to be a “life lesson” for you. If relationships were damaged in pursuit of good TV, how do you feel about that?

That’s sweet. I learned a valuable life lesson: If you follow your gut instinct and make good TV, more opportunities will always come and your bank account will double. For any bitch to take this serious, you must not know what you’re signing up for. I think a lot of girls depend on this to make them relevant again and bring back bookings, and I’m not in that position. Drag Race is a game show, a competition reality show. That’s like if we went on Family Feud and I’m f—ing crying because I lost. That sounds stupid as f—. We’re all here to play a game. Are we grateful for the things that come from Drag Race? Of course. It changed my life. But, am I going to sit here and cry? No. I don’t regret anything. I’m not going to let someone tell me I need a life lesson. It’s not that serious. I didn’t slap you across the face or say, “F— your entire lineage.” I kind of did to Nicole. A lot of girls are amplifying it, but it’s just a game.

You called the season Nicole Paige Brooks vs. the World. After the initial moment of gagging her by not giving her your point, she looked upset. How angry was she in the room?

Before that moment, I wasn’t saying a f—ing word in the Werk Room. People misread my actions. When I’m mad, the best course of action is to not speak to me, because I’m a hot head. I was mad and trying to get my thoughts in order, so I wasn’t saying anything. That’s why Kerri and Nicole were going on and on about exchanging points. So, when I finally took the point, everyone on set’s mouth was on the floor. Rewatch the clip. Lydia and Nicole look at the producers like, Did that just happen? That’s why Jorgeous and I were laughing, because it worked. It was so stupid and ridiculous. Nicole was hot, but I don’t blame her. My mind truly amazes me.

How did you feel about Tina and Nicole scheming to block you from the top by giving Kerri points?

I didn’t hear that [on set]! I was gagged at how the points were distributed. Of course I want to win the crown, but we’ve heard time and time again, losing is the new winning. I would’ve loved if they ganged up on me and I didn’t make it. Bitch, that would’ve been a kiki. I don’t understand why people were mad at me for the points. I didn’t steal Kerri’s point; Jorgeous stole Kerri’s point. I took Nicole’s point. People misguide their anger and feelings toward me. I’m here for the s—s and giggles. If they pulled that off and got Kerri together, I would’ve lived. Face-cracked.

You called Kerri a fake bitch for giving her point away. What’s your relationship like now?

Kerri and I are frenemies. I love her. I have no issues. Maybe I have borderline personality disorder. I can leave it in TV land…. This doesn’t matter for me. I do so much content and run businesses. This is a drop in the pond. This is one of the projects I’m doing. That’s where the disconnect is. Some people’s lives solely revolve around this, and I’m blessed that’s not the case for me. I’m good with Kerri and I know what happened is just in make-believe land. She’s very emotional, and watching the episodes, I think she’s getting upset all over again. I’m hoping after this ends, she realizes how loved she is. I meant what I said about being her Texas sister. If I was in the bottom last week, I would’ve given her my point — also because I would’ve loved her to make it through with Jorgeous and I, because I know Kerri would flop at the end.

That makes me feel bad that I now have to ask: Kerri said in her exit interview that Sasha Colby blocked you. Is that true?

I don’t look for certain people’s social media stuff. I have a social media manager.

I had to clarify after Willam said on X that you were removed from the season 15 group chat.

If [Kerri] wants to put that out there, we can get into it. When this happened, Kerri went home and told Sasha a bunch of lies, and Sasha got upset with me. Apparently, Kerri felt like she was the most robbed queen in Drag Race history. Which, if that’s the case, how did you do three challenges and not win one? It’s a prime example of people taking things too seriously. What happened on TV, Kerri brought that drama into the real world, and that’s why I’ll never f— with her…. But, yeah, [Sasha and I] have each other blocked.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Sarah Jessica Parker had no idea that fans disliked a certain divisive And Just Like That character.

The actress behind Carrie Bradshaw says she was “shocked” to learn that some audiences detested Che Diaz, Sara Ramírez’s nonbinary stand-up comedian, who served as a new love interest for Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) on the Sex and the City follow-up series.

“A friend of mine brought it up to me, and it’s like: ‘What are you talking about?'” Parker recalled in a new interview with The Guardian. “And he said: ‘Yeah, there’s all this conversation.'”

Parker explained that she seldom takes note of backlash against her projects. “I’ve been an actor for 50 years, and I’ve almost never paid attention to peripheral chatter,” she said, adding that she had a good time on set with Ramírez. “I loved working with them.”

Ramírez ultimately left the show after season 2, in which their character and Miranda called it quits, with the actor sharing a statement distancing themself from Che before their departure.

“I am not the fictional characters I have played, nor am I responsible for the things that are written for them to say,” Ramírez wrote on Instagram. “I am a human being, an artist, an actor. And we are living in a world that has become increasingly hostile toward anyone who dares to free themselves from the gender binary, or disrupt the mainstream.”

Before their exit, Ramírez told Entertainment Weekly that they’re “actually nothing like” Che Diaz. “It was absolutely exhausting to bring this person to life,” the actor explained. “I had to stay in a bit of an extroverted mode in order to do that. So the efforts that it took to bring this character forth makes me feel really proud of what I’ve been able to deliver.”

Ramírez also noted that they were happy that Che inspired such extreme feelings in viewers. “I love that people have passionate opinions, that Che struck a nerve,” they said. “I think it’s really interesting to play a person who elicits such strong reactions and who can start much-needed conversations. If the storylines created major watercooler moments after each episode, then we did our job.”

Nixon acknowledged Ramírez’s departure in a different interview with EW last year. “I miss Sara,” the actress said. “I mean, Sara and I are in quite a lot of touch about Palestine and what’s happening. And so we talk quite a bit. And they came to my opening night of my play [The Seven Year Disappear], which was really lovely.”

However, the Gilded Age star noted that her onscreen relationship with Ramírez’s character didn’t have much left to offer the show. “I think for Miranda, Miranda and Che were really pretty done,” Nixon said. “I think that Miranda and Che had kind of run the gamut of what they were going to be to each other.”

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Nixon later told EW that she thinks And Just Like That works best when more of its central characters are free from long-term relationships. 

“I think our show is always at its most quintessential when as many of us as possible are single and dating and failing at it,” the actress said, adding that she was thrilled to bring guest star Rosie O’Donnell into the AJLT fold as a one-night stand for Miranda in season 3.

“Rosie and I have known each other for a long time,” she said. “I was like, ‘Shall I text her?’ And [showrunner Michael Patrick King] was like, ‘Sure!’ And she was wonderfully excited about the prospect, so we had a great time.”

Summer vacation is officially back. Nearly 10 years after Phineas and Ferb wrapped up its epic four-season run on the Disney Channel, the animated series is bringing back many of the original voices for 40 new episodes.

The new season of the Emmy-winning series will stick to the classic formula, following brilliant stepbrothers Phineas (Vincent Martella) and Ferb (David Errigo Jr.) as they enjoy another 104 days of summer adventures. Meanwhile, Candace (Ashley Tisdale) remains determined to find someone — anyone — who will stop her inventive little brothers once and for all.

Also returning? Their pet platypus, Perry (Dee Bradley Baker), who continues his double life as the suave Agent P, who’s always one step ahead of Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Dan Povenmire), the bumbling evil scientist trying to take over the Tri-State Area.

Joining Martella and Tisdale are several familiar voices, including Caroline Rhea, Alyson Stoner, Richard O’Brien, and more. Plus, season 5 will feature a surprising array of guest voices from the likes of Michael Bublé, Alan Cumming, Anna Faris, and John Stamos.

Need a refresher? Here’s your guide to the Phineas and Ferb revival’s cast and characters.

Would you want to know how you’ll die?

It’s a question you might find yourself asking after watching The Life of Chuck (in theaters now). Based on the Steven King novella of the same name, the film ends with the titular character (played by Tom Hiddleston) walking away from an attic where he may have just seen an apparition of himself at the end of his life. 

The film tells the story of Charles Krantz, a dance-loving accountant who tragically dies from a brain tumor at 39. Chuck’s life unfolds for the audience through three acts, presented in reverse, with the final act telling the story of his childhood. 

In Act III, young Chuck (played by both Benjamin Pajak and Jacob Tremblay) is forbidden from going into his attic by his grandfather, Albie Krantz (Mark Hamill). We learn that in that attic, Albie has seen ghostly apparitions showing the deaths of himself and his loved ones, and he doesn’t want Chuck to be traumatized by similar visions.

But after Albie dies, teenage Chuck can no longer contain his curiosity. When he enters the room, he briefly sees an older version of himself in a hospital bed, hooked up to a monitor. Thanks to the reverse chronological storytelling, we know by this point in the film that young Chuck is indeed witnessing his own demise. But does Chuck let this phantom haunt him into adulthood?  

“Any premonition of death or the end of his life doesn’t scare him or suppress him,” Hiddleston tells Entertainment Weekly. “His choice in that moment is to live as fully as he can, which is the choice we all ought to make all the time. None of us know the day or the date that our lives will end. And if we think about it, we live with that uncertainty every day.” 

The reveal in Act III that Chuck has seen his final moment gives extra weight to earlier portions of the movie – specifically his spontaneous dance on the street in Act II. “Chuck is an accountant who on the inside is a dancer, and he contains multitudes, but he’s there to show us that we contain multitudes, to remember the infinite possibilities that we’re all born with,” Hiddleston says.

“You can try anything in life as long as you don’t hurt other people,” he continues. “Your life is yours to live and yours to explore, and yours to be curious about. And that curiosity is actually what sustains you.”

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Despite the movie’s supernatural ending, Hiddleston hopes audiences leave theaters on a hopeful note. “I think it inspires an instinct to live, [and] think, ‘Well, I have now. I have the present moment. I have the people I love.’ You start to be grateful for what you have and inspired to live as fully and as joyfully as you can, with the awareness that life also contains some of the hard stuff. It contains struggle and pain and loss and grief, but it also contains joy and connection and love and inspiration.” 

He adds, “If you can hold onto that, you’re living.”

There’s divine casting, and then there’s divine casting.

In the case of Bill Murray, who plays the Almighty himself in The Phoenician Scheme, it’s the latter. “I don’t know that we chose Bill to play God,” writer-director Wes Anderson tells Entertainment Weekly, pausing to gleefully add, “possibly God did.”

Jokes aside, Anderson says the casting was a match made in heaven. “What I will say is when Bill walked onto the set in his robes and his beard, he could barely move. And yet he seemed very comfortable, and he occupied his throne in a relaxed manner. It just didn’t seem that he was faking it. We knew very quickly he was going to be an informal God who is creating without making a show of it.”

The film follows Benicio del Toro’s wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda, who appoints his only daughter, Liesl (Mia Threapleton), a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Liesl, Korda, and his tutor, kooky bug lover Bjorn (Michael Cera), embark together on a new enterprise, they come up against several bonkers assassination attempts, presumably from Korda’s many enemies. Each time, Korda enters a sort of liminal space —a black and white heaven —where he experiences moments of personal growth and introspection. Here, he encounters Murray’s God… among other things.

“I think some of the most important changes in Benicio’s character Zsa-zsa are taking place during these sort of visions that he’s having as he repeatedly dies, or keeps getting assassinated,” Anderson explains.

To create this heaven — a first for an Anderson joint — he knew he wanted it all to be real. “We wanted it to all exist in front of the camera, to not use computer visual effects, to have it all be there,” he says, adding, “and so we made something kind of like a 360-degree stage, a set of clouds painted, sculpted, and we created a sort of Biblical troupe for these scenes.” (Other members credited in this troupe include F. Murray Abraham, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Willem Dafoe.) 

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“I think it’s sort of the way biblical settings and characters were portrayed during the Renaissance, I think that’s really what we’ve done,” Anderson adds. “I mean, we’re so familiar with the Renaissance representation of stories from the Bible, and ours is the black and white version of that.”

The Phoenician Scheme, which was co-written with frequent Anderson collaborator Roman Coppola, also stars Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Richard Ayoade, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rupert Friend, and Hope Davis. The film is now playing in theaters.

Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday Addams will flex her dry wit (and arsenal of sharp instruments) in the second season of Netflix’s Wednesday, a deliriously twisted riff on the Addams Family franchise from director and executive producer Tim Burton.

Wednesday was a breakout hit in 2022, breaking free from the echo chamber of Netflix to flood TikTok and Instagram feeds the world over.

The pressure’s on to deliver a worthy follow-up, and Ortega, who signed on as a producer for season 2, is prepared. Not only has the star teased a scarier season 2, but she’s also helped recruit a supporting cast of top-notch talent, from Steve Buscemi and Joanna Lumley to pop idol Lady Gaga.

“We certainly set out to really stretch ourselves and stretch what the show could do and see where our characters could go,” said co-creator Miles Millar in a recent chat with Entertainment Weekly. “The last thing you want is people to be disappointed having waited for so long. We really want to ensure that the show is loaded with surprises and comedy and action, and that they see the characters they love, but also introduce new ones.”

Ahead of the season’s premiere — it drops in two installments on Aug. 6 and Sept. 3 — let’s reacquaint ourselves with Wednesday’s returning players and get to know the dark-eyed newbies haunting the halls of Nevermore Academy.

Two crime series are finished at Fox.

The Cleaning Lady and Alert: Missing Persons Unit will not return for additional seasons on the network, Entertainment Weekly has learned.

The Cleaning Lady starred Élodie Yung as Thony De La Rosa, a Cambodian-Filipino surgeon working for a Las Vegas crime family as a cleaner. The series premiered in Sept. 2022 and ultimately ran for four seasons, the last of which aired its final episode on Tuesday.

The show was based on the Argentine series La Chica que Limpia, which itself only ran for one season and also inspired a Mexican remake that also lasted one season. Developed by Miranda Kwok (Spartacus: Blood and Sand, The 100), Fox’s American iteration of the series also starred Adan Canto (who tragically died from cancer after season 2), Oliver Hudson, Martha Millan, and Eva De Dominici, and later added Naveen Andrews, Kate del Castillo, and Santiago Cabrera to the cast. Special guest stars included Lou Diamond Phillips and Lea Salonga.

Kwok discussed the difficulty of making another season of The Cleaning Lady after Canto’s death in an interview with EW. 

“It was a real challenge for us, but more so it was so heartbreaking to lose Adan,” she said. “We had to figure out how to craft a season based on the circumstances that honors Adan as a human being and Arman as a character in the best way possible. We had to pivot a few times this season. We started crafting the season before we knew anything about what was happening and we were planning on digging into Arman’s backstory and his family.”

Kwok continued, “When we were first told that we may not have him [for the full season], we decided we still wanted to tell those stories and we wanted to leave an opening so he could come right back into the story. Unfortunately, when we lost him, we had to adjust.”

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Alert followed two members of the Philadelphia Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit as they searched for one missing person in every episode. Scott Caan led the series alongside Dania Ramirez, whose character was killed off at the end of season 2. 

Created by Jamie Foxx and John Eisendrath (The Blacklist, Outlaw), Alert premiered in Jan. 2023 and lasted for three 10-episode seasons. Season 3 premiered its finale on May 27. The series also starred Ryan Broussard, Adeola Role, Alisha-Marie Ahamed, and Graham Verchere.

Is Georgia convicted of murder?

No, Georgia is found not guilty of Tom’s murder. She has Ginny to thank, as her daughter convinced Austin and Cynthia to lie on the stand and thus secure her freedom.

Ginny convinces Austin to testify that he saw his father, Gil (Aaron Ashmore), murder Tom, telling him that the abusive Gil wants to take Austin away to Michigan if their mom is locked up. “It’s your dad or your mom,” she tells him. “You have to pick.”

Gil wasn’t there, obviously, but she cooks up a story about Gil seeking revenge against Cynthia after she blocked his application for an apartment.

Her next step? Getting Cynthia to play along. She goes to Cynthia’s house, revealing that she knows about Cynthia’s affair with Joe, and that she has footage from Blue Farm’s security cameras to prove it. “My mom might not drag you down with her, but I would,” threatens Ginny.

Afraid of being found out, Cynthia admits under oath that it’s possible Gil could have been at her house that day. Later, however, she finds out from Joe that there are no cameras at Blue Farm. Ginny lied to her.

“Wow, that whole family’s insane,” she remarks.

How does the trial impact the Millers?

While Georgia is thankful to be free and reunited with her family, the press around the murder and the trial will nevertheless affect the family’s future. “Wherever we go, we can’t run from ourselves,” Ginny tells her mother. “This is our lives now. We’re this. Forever.”

Zion (Nathan Mitchell), Ginny’s father, knows Austin lied on the stand. Fearing the impact Georgia is having on her kids, he files for joint custody.

Georgia, too, is worried about Ginny’s behind-the-scenes machinations. “I want you to be careful about the person you’re becoming,” she tells her daughter. “I know what it’s like to cross a line you can’t come back from. I don’t want that for you and I don’t want that for Austin… I do hard things so you don’t have to. I know I’m a monster. I don’t want you to turn into monsters, too.”

And it’s true that Ginny is changing. After seeing the pieces fall into place during the trial, she smiles. “It’s intoxicating, having the power to control the game,” she narrates.

Later, she puts pressure on Georgia to stay on the straight and narrow. “I’m glad you changed, Mom. Make sure it sticks,” she says. “Don’t make me regret setting you free.”

While her and Georgia are on solid ground, she and Austin are in a darker place. As the finale draws to a close, he lashes out at her, clearly scarred by having to falsely implicate his father, no matter how complicated their relationship.

“It’s impossible to go through things unscathed,” Ginny narrates. “But the question is: Can you control how you change? Are you in control at all?”

“No one in the Miller family will be the same after this season,” showrunner Sarah Glinski told Entertainment Weekly in a season 3 postmortem. “We talk about Georgia changing, but Ginny has changed, Austin has changed, and there’s no going back.

Is Marcus going to be okay?

It was a turbulent season for Marcus (Felix Mallard) after he and Ginny’s split last season. By the end of season 3, the two are back together, but he’s still struggling with his mental health.

His depression resulted in his grades slipping as he began drinking heavily. To begin the next school year as a junior, he’ll need to attend summer school. In the finale, however, he suffers a breakdown after a night of heavy drinking and his family decides he needs to attend a rehab clinic.

On the drive to rehab, however, he finds a poem Ginny wrote about him in his bag. It brings a tear to his eye, helping to assure him that she’ll be waiting for him once he’s out.

Do Georgia and Paul break up?

Yes, Georgia and Paul split this season as the blowback from the trial — and Paul’s support of Proposition 38, disastrous for small businesses — imperiled his mayoral career. Her lying to him about being pregnant didn’t help, either.

He pounds the final nail into their relationship during a heated argument in the finale. “You never loved me. You wanted to be married to the mayor. You just used me,” he spits. “You turned me into the worst possible version of myself, because you are insidious and you poison good things.”

She accepts his anger, but leaves him with a pointed reminder: “I didn’t make you anything that wasn’t in there already.”

Does Georgia end up with Joe?

Kind of? Joe confronts her in the finale, accusing her of killing Tom. She readily admits that, yes, she did. She also informs him that she killed her last husband, too, and that she gets it if he doesn’t want anything to do with her. Shockingly, he does, and the pair lock lips.

But it’s not so simple. She “needs to settle down a minute” after “jumping from guy to guy,” if only for the sake of her family.

“What she gets from Joe, she’s not going to crave until she’s her most authentic self and she hasn’t been there yet,” series creator Sarah Lampert told EW. “But Joe doesn’t care about image. Joe doesn’t care what people think about him, truly at all. So I think the things that Georgia really values deep in her core, which is loyalty and family, those are Joe’s core also.”

Is Georgia pregnant?

Earlier in the season, Georgia lied to Paul about being pregnant. In the final moments of the season, though, it’s implied that, no, Georgia really is pregnant. She only drinks milk when she’s pregnant, after all, the season ends with her chugging a jug.

So, who’s the father? She recently slept with both Paul and Joe.

Speaking with EW, Lampert and Glinski revealed that an answer is forthcoming. “What’s so fun about working with such talented writers is how Glinski and I entered this season is we were like, ‘Okay, we know whose baby it is. Change our mind.’ Then we spent a whole day with the writers, and it was contentious,” said Lampert. “There was a debate over how the storylines could go based on whose baby it was and all that. But no, we’ve landed on whose baby it is. I’ll say that.

How does the season 3 finale set up Georgia & Ginny season 4?

Georgia & Ginny season 4 is officially on the way, and the season 3 finale teased what’s to come with several specters from Georgia’s past resurfacing.

First, she received a call from her father, Shane, currently imprisoned in New Mexico. “I’ve wanted to talk to you for so long, and if i can find you anyone can,” he warns, calling Georgia by her birth name, Mary. “Your mom, your stepdad. Mary, you have to be careful.”

Later, we catch a brief glimpse of her mother and stepfather driving past her house. When asked about their appearance, Lampert said the theme of season 4 is “cycles and origins,” adding that it will “[grapple] with Georgia’s past.”

Where can I watch Ginny & Georgia?

All three seasons of Ginny & Georgia are currently streaming on Netflix.

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