AMC, having already dabbled into the late great Anne Rice’s supernatural world with Interview With the Vampire, is now trying some dark magic. Alexandra Daddario stars as Rowan, a young woman who learns that is actually the heir to a long line of witches who have all been haunted by an entity known as Lasher. Mayfair Witches, an adaptation of Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, also stars Tongayi Chirisa, Jack Huston, and Harry Hamlin.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Aftermath Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Aftermath Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The secret of most of the 30-plus Godzilla movies that have come out over the past 69 years is that the King of the Monsters doesn’t actually have a ton of screen time in them.

Yes, you and everyone you know were looking at Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” — that twerky, male-gaze-upending, Drake-filled wonder in the jungle. Within 24 hours of its release, the music video racked up 19.6 million views, breaking the record previously set by Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball” (which had 19.3 million views). We have to point out, though, that this is a Vevo record, and not a YouTube record, and that the record holder for most views in the first 24 hours likely belongs to the comedic Korean singer Psy and his song with Snoop Dogg, “Gentleman.

Pete Campbell’s terse response to Bob Benson wasn’t written as a joke, but it became one almost instantly. Mad Men was a show about people who make a living by selling succinct, memorable catchphrases in the name of capitalism, so it tracks that the AMC prestige drama generated its fair share of memorable quotes and memes, from Don Draper’s “That’s what the money is for” to Peggy Olson’s “deal with it” hallway strut.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner. Ben Affleck has been making the rounds to promote his new film The Tender Bar, and more importantly, to discuss his life as a celebrity. The actor recently said we wouldn’t get more details about his reconnection with Jennifer Lopez earlier this year, but on The Howard Stern Show on December 14, he wasn’t as averse to discussing his 2015 split from Jennifer Garner.

Spoilers ahead for the most recent episode of Outlander. Raise a glass for Angus Mhor, one of the casualties of the Battle of Prestonpans. You knew going into the episode that one of our favorite Scottish highlanders would have to die — this is war, after all — but it almost wasn’t Angus. The character initially chosen by the writers for this tragic end, Willie, dodged a bullet when the actor (Finn Den Hertog) took another job and became unavailable.

He’s back! Our delightful little British bear is expanding his inner circle. Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas, and Emily Mortimer will join Paddington for his next amusing adventure, Paddington in Peru, the third installment in theheartwarming series. The film follows the talking bear’s journey to the South American country to visit his sweet Aunt Lucy in the Home for Retired Bears. Though Paddington himself is rendered in CGI, all of the human actors will film on location in the U.

Neighbors Every day was a party on the set of Neighbors, and often quite literally. Director Nicholas Stoller staged several full-scale frat bashes for the movie — which finds new parents Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne warring with the rowdy, Zac Efron–led frat house next door — and those shindigs inspired plenty of weird stories, as any good party ought to. Click through as Stoller takes us through eight photos snapped behind the scenes of Neighbors and dishes on what the camera won’t show you.

Terrence McNally Terrence McNally, the boundary-breaking playwright, has died due to complications related to the coronavirus. McNally was 81, and was a lung-cancer survivor with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Born in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1938, McNally built a wide-ranging career in theater, working on everything from intimate dramas, like Frankie and Johnny and the Clair de Lune, to epic musicals, like Ragtime, to landmark portrayals of gay men, as in Love!

Yet another SNL shake-up has been announced. Following the May 20 news that cast members Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, and Kyle Mooney would not be returning for the show’s upcoming 48th season, Lindsay Shookus, the show’s veteran producer and head of talent, has announced that she will be departing the show as well. In an Instagram post, Shookus revealed that she’d be leaving her role to pursue other endeavors after 20 seasons, 415 live shows, and a bundle of fond memories.