Nostalgia tours have peaked—and the Spice Girls know it
The Spice Girls officially disbanded in 2000 and last performed together publicly at the Olympics closing ceremony in London in 2012.
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Sue Dillon: The Woman Who Knows Everything About You — and Doesn’t Exist
Sarah Soda is a character actress hiding in plain sight on TikTok — with 1.3 million followers, 26 million likes, and no representation. She sat down with Tinsel’s Daniel de Castellane for a Tinsel Exclusive.
Radiohead's 20-Show-Per-Year Plan Is the Legacy Act Residency Without the Building
Radiohead are gearing up to play 20 shows per year on different continents in the coming years, guitarist Ed O’Brien told Rolling Stone in an interview published late Monday, with the group’s 20 European shows last year apparently being the first in the plan. “It’s definitely happening,” O’Brien sai
CBS News 24/7 writers strike back against union-busting digital contracts
Writers Guild of America East members at CBS News 24/7 walked out after their contract expired with no agreement. The real story is how legacy media companies are using streaming services to build parallel newsrooms with weaker labor protections.
Hulu's Paradise Renewal: Dan Fogelman's Brand Trumps the Ratings
Hulu renewed Paradise for Season 3 before the Season 2 finale, signaling streaming's new confidence in Dan Fogelman's long-term brand value after This Is Us proved prestige family drama pays dividends years after launch.
Wanted Arrives on Broadway This Fall—Theater's Belated Reckoning With Black Women's History Hollywood Already Sold
Wanted, the Broadway musical about Black twin sisters who passed as white in 1893 Texas, opens this fall. The question is whether theater can tell their story without turning survival into spectacle.
Bob Iger Built Disney Into a $200 Billion Empire. That's Why His Successor Can't Fix It.
Bob Iger built Disney into a $200 billion empire through transformative M&A deals. But the conglomerate he leaves behind is too big to innovate and too valuable to break up — a structural problem no successor can solve.
Prime Video's Jack Ryan Gambit: Streaming IP Finally Worth the Box Office Risk
Prime Video is sending Jack Ryan to theaters May 20, testing whether streaming IP has accrued enough value to justify theatrical economics — or whether this is just expensive brand maintenance.
SWZZ Media Hired a Producer to Scale LA Microdramas — Hollywood's New Vertical Video Economy Is Already Here
SWZZ Media's hire of Nathalie Sar-Shalom to scale LA microdrama production is evidence that vertical video storytelling has moved from Chinese niche to Hollywood infrastructure.
Nearly 200 Venice Biennale Participants Signed a Letter Demanding Israel's Removal—Because the Art World Has No Other Mechanism for Accountability
Nearly 200 Venice Biennale participants signed a letter demanding Israel's pavilion be canceled. The move exposes how cultural boycotts have become the art world's only tool for accountability—because the institutions were never built to provide it.
Hulu Canceled the Buffy Revival Before It Started — and Streaming's IP Nostalgia Problem Just Got Harder to Ignore
Hulu's quiet cancellation of the Buffy revival reveals the limits of streaming's nostalgia strategy when beloved IP comes with creator baggage too heavy to ignore.
Gyaru Bulbasaur Turned Pokémon Into a Meme Template—Not a Childhood Memory
Pokopia's gyaru Bulbasaur is going viral—and it's the latest sign that Gen Z treats Pokémon as remix material, not sacred childhood memory.
Anime adaptations finally learned their lesson—and hired Shinichirō Watanabe
Tomorrow Studios is developing a live-action Samurai Champloo with original creator Shinichirō Watanabe attached — a structural choice that separates working anime adaptations from expensive disasters.
Lisa Kudrow Has Played Valerie Cherish Longer Than Phoebe Buffay. That's How Prestige TV Works.
Lisa Kudrow has now played Valerie Cherish for 21 years across 21 episodes — longer than she played Phoebe Buffay. That timeline reveals how prestige TV lets actors build characters across decades while network sitcoms burn through cultural relevance in six seasons.
Fallingwater's $7M Conservation Fix Finally Admits the Building Never Worked
A $7 million conservation project at Fallingwater finally addresses Frank Lloyd Wright's endemic leaking problem—and quietly admits that architectural icons often fail at their most basic function.
Admitting You Don't Like the Opera Is Now More Offensive Than Never Going
The backlash to Timothée Chalamet's honest admission about opera and ballet attendance reveals how performative enthusiasm for high art has become mandatory — and honesty about taste has become the real cultural crime.