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[Brand Logo]( What to Read Today [The Crown Carries on Splendidly in Season 3 A seamless casting change, in which the great Olivia Colman takes over as Her Majesty, marks the Netflix series’s smooth transition into a new era.]( By Jen Chaney [Company Name Henceforth Known As COMPANY NAME A certain tech giant shout-announced a rebrand today.]( By Madison Malone Kircher [Selena Gomez Earns Her First Billboard No. 1 With ‘Lose You to Love Me’ Guess exes are good for something.]( By Zoe Haylock [Dickinson Recap: Total Eclipse of the Heart It was only a matter of time before Emily had to face death for real.]( By Jessica Goldstein [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( From the Strategist [What Foodgod (né Jonathan Cheban) Can’t Live Without Foodgod — once known as Jonathan Cheban — told the Strategist all about the nose-cleaning kit, horsehair mattress, and truffle butter he swears by.]( [Yes, Dickinson Cast Jason Mantzoukas As a Giant Talking Bee You may also recognize the bee puppet from The Nice Guys.]( By Jackson McHenry [Harry Styles and His Hips Announce New Album, Launching Fans Straight Into Space Gird your loins.]( By Zoe Haylock [Jeff Garlin Got the Memo, Put One Great Joke in His Stand-up Special Trailer Our Man in Chicago debuts on Netflix next week.]( By Megh Wright [The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show Is Gunning for Mariah’s Icicle Crown Arriving November 29 in a sleigh drawn by Troye Sivan, Lana Del Rey, and Fred Armisen.]( By Halle Kiefer [Michael Jackson’s Estate Acquires Sly and the Family Stone’s Catalogue Another chapter in the catalogue’s royalty disputes.]( By Zoe Haylock [Kanye West Is King of the Charts With Jesus Is King He ties Eminem’s record for nine No. 1 debuts.]( By Justin Curto [Slings and Arrows Was Like Nothing Else on Television And you can finally stream it online again.]( By Kathryn VanArendonk [Don’t Be a Jerk to Your Online Humor Editor The editor of McSweeney’s shares some helpful tips about rejection.]( By Chris Monks [Seth Meyers’s Netflix Special Features a Handy Button to Skip the Trump Jokes Move aside, Bandersnatch.]( By Megh Wright [Kelsey Grammer on Dracula, Sideshow Bob, and His Favorite Forgotten Voice Work And how, one time, he wound up playing piano for the Vandals.]( By Will Harris [The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season-Premiere Recap: Dennis the Menace Oh, our dear, sweet Porsha is going through it.]( By Ali Barthwell [Ellen DeGeneres to Receive the Carol Burnett Award at the Golden Globes Following the original recipient, Carol Burnett herself.]( By Zoe Haylock [Dickinson Recap: Guess Who’s Coming at Dinner? It’s Christmas at the Dickinson household, complete with drunken carols, sexual escapades at the dinner table, and one Louisa May Alcott!]( By Jessica Goldstein [Rudy Boesch, Survivor Star and Oldest Contestant, Dead at 91 The former Navy SEAL was 72 when he competed in the reality show’s premiere season.]( By Halle Kiefer [Mr. Robot Recap: Do You Hear What I Hear? A nearly silent episode takes its cues from Rififi for a heist that makes up in style what it lacks in realism.]( By Vikram Murthi [The Affair Series-Finale Recap: The Stories We Tell A poignant, nostalgic end feels right for a show that was always about looking back, and trying to remember the best possible version of the past.]( By Liz Shannon Miller [Maura Tierney Says Good-bye to Helen, Noah, and The Affair “I’m not sure exactly how or why, but it ended up being about Noah and Helen. And that didn’t feel weird to me.”]( By Maria Elena Fernandez [The Affair Showrunner Explains Why That Ending Felt Like ‘The Right Thing to Do’ “This is not a show that brings people to justice. This show is about the long-term effects of the choices we make.”]( By Kenny Herzog [Why Watchmen Turned Laurie Into a Comedian, and Gave Her That Big Blue Dildo Jean Smart’s FBI agent is a key character from the graphic novel in a very different position.]( By Jackson McHenry [12 Big Questions From Watchmen’s Third Episode “She Was Killed by Space Junk” presents us with some major new characters, a mysterious clock, and a very complicated joke. 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