Although updates are steadily arriving, it still feels like we are a long way away from the return of James Bond. Daniel Craig‘s last outing as 007 in No Time to Die debuted in October 2021, and it is unlikely we will see another face take the role for quite some time, seeing as a casting announcement is yet to arrive. We know that Denis Villeneuve will take over the franchise’s new Amazon MGM Studios era, and he won’t officially begin the search for the next Bond until he wraps Dune: Part Three.

Luckily for fans of Britain’s most famous fictional spy, a brand-new spy thriller has just landed on ITV and has caught the eye of some. Betrayal, written by award-winning playwright and screenwriter David Eldridge and directed by BAFTA and Emmy nominee Julian Jarrold, made its debut this past Sunday, and its many twists and turns have already raised questions about a second season.

Shaun Evans, who portrays MI5 agent John, was asked about a potential Season 2 in a recent interview, with the Vigil star replying, “We set out to make a four-parter which was strong and felt like it had no filler, that it wasn’t hanging around, that it was tight and concise, and that the story was really strong.” He continued, “And then you offer that to the world, and if there’s an appetite for more, then we will get together and discuss whether there’s more story to tell.”

But it seems there was never an intent to turn Betrayal into a recurring series from the start, with Evans adding, “It wasn’t like, ‘This is a brilliant setup for running and running and running’,” he said. “I think you’re on a hiding to nothing if you do that. To me, it feels quite cynical.”

What Is ‘Betrayal’ About?

Not all spy thrillers are the same, but it can be difficult for them to stand out in a packed genre. A synopsis for Betrayal reads, “At the heart of the story is John Hughes, a mid-career MI5 officer navigating a rapidly evolving intelligence landscape while struggling to keep his personal life intact. On a hunch, John meets a British-Iranian man with links to the Stockport gangland who claims he has intelligence about a plot on UK soil.” It continues:

“Before he can share intel, the informant is executed, and John kills the assassin in self-defence. John soon finds himself under internal investigation, facing scrutiny from his superiors, including Simone Grant (Nikki Amuka-Bird), while his partner Claire (Romola Garai) grapples with the secrecy that defines his world.”

For more updates on British television and for the latest James Bond news, make sure to stay tuned to Collider.

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October 8, 2021

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163 Minutes

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Cary Joji Fukunaga

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Zach Bryan has entered the 2026 Super Bowl halftime battle chat, slamming Turning Point USA for putting on a rival show during Bad Bunny’s official performance.

“I don’t care what side you’re on, a bunch of adults throwing temper tantrums and their own halftime show is embarrassing as hell and the most cringe s*** on the planet,” Bryan, 29, allegedly wrote in a since-deleted Instagram Story post on Monday, February 9, according to Fact Post and Country Chord.

One day prior, the “Pink Skies” singer shared an Instagram Story directed at the Turning Point USA All-American Halftime Show headliner Kid Rock.

In the Sunday, February 8, photo, someone tried to cover their TV screen with their hand as Bad Bunny, 31, took the stage during Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, while the user watched Kid Rock’s alternative show on their phone.

“What Kid Rock actually thinks is happening across America,” Bryan captioned the post, taking a jab at the rocker.

The battle of the halftime shows has been making waves since fall 2025, after Bad Bunny was announced as the headliner for Super Bowl 60.

While some fans were excited to see the rapper on such a big stage, the NFL received backlash by conservatives, media pundits and Republican politicians — including President Donald Trump — who argued Bad Bunny wasn’t American or American “enough” because he hails from Puerto Rico and performs primarily in Spanish. (Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and Puerto Ricans are United States citizens.) .

Amid the backlash, Turning Point USA, founded by the late Charlie Kirk and now helmed by his widow Erika Kirk, announced in October 2025 that the right-wing organization would host an alternative halftime show.

According to Turning Point USA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet, the show was meant to serve as “an opportunity for all Americans to enjoy a halftime show with no agenda other than to celebrate faith, family, and freedom.”

Kid Rock, 55, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett were all announced as acts performing at the secondary show.

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Turning Point USA, the conservative and right-wing organization founded by the late Charlie Kirk, is hosting its own Super Bowl LX halftime show. “It’s true, Turning Point USA is thrilled to announce The All-American Halftime Show,” an October 2025 X statement read, noting the concert will celebrate “faith, family and freedom.” The All-American Halftime Show […]

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Ahead of the Super Bowl, Kid Rock addressed the alleged rivalry between the two shows, saying in a February 2 statement, “We plan to play great songs for folks who love America.”

He explained, “We’re approaching this show like David and Goliath. Competing with the pro football machine and a global pop superstar is almost impossible … or is it?”

The “All Summer Long” singer then spoke about Bad Bunny and took a jab at what he claimed was the singer’s planned performance. “He’s said he’s having a dance party, wearing a dress, and singing in Spanish? Cool. We plan to play great songs for folks who love America,” Kid Rock added.

When it came time to actually perform on Sunday during the break between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots football game both shows had fans tune in to show support. (The Seahawks beat the Patriots 29-13.)

Bad Bunny made history by singing the entire show in Spanish. He brought out surprise guests like Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin to perform, while celebrities like Alix Earle, Jessica Alba and Pedro Pascal were spotted dancing on the field as part of his lavish performance.

Toward the end of halftime, Bad Bunny was seen holding a football that read, “Together, we are America.”

Bad Bunny also gave a shout-out to all of the Americas, including Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States and Canada, amid controversy surrounding ICE raids in the U.S. that are targeting illegal immigration.

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love,” a giant message on the stadium jumbotron read as Bad Bunny exited the field.

Lady Gaga is expressing her gratitude to Bad Bunny for letting her be part of his record-breaking Super Bowl LX halftime show performance.

“Thank you Benito for including me in this powerful, important, and meaningful performance,” Gaga, 39, wrote via Instagram on Monday, February 9, alongside a photo of the Joker star and Bad Bunny, 31, behind the scenes of Super Bowl 60. “I am so humbled to be a part of this moment.”

The singer continued, “It’s all the more special because it was with you and your beautiful heart and music. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ All my love to Benito, Ricky and the whole cast.”

Gaga (real name Stefani Germanotta) also shared her appreciation for her stylists Chloe Delgadillo and Chenelle Delgadillo, thanking the pair for her “beautiful styling and fashion.”

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“All of your talent and love made that beautiful dress come to life,” she added.

Gaga was one of Bad Bunny’s surprise guests during the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday, February 8, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, as the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots faced off in the NFL championship. (The Seahawks walked away Super Bowl champs for the second time in the franchise’s history.)

The Grammy winner joined the rapper on stage to perform a solo version of her and Bruno Mars’ duet “Die With a Smile.” The arrangement was changed to give the song an appropriate salsa flair. The singer also paid homage to Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rican heritage by donning a blue pleated dress with a brooch featuring Puerto Rico’s national flower, the flor de maga.

While on stage, Gaga and Bad Bunny (real name Benito Martínez Ocasio) shared a sweet dance. In addition to Gaga, Ricky Martin sang during the halftime show. Meanwhile, Pedro Pascal, Karol G, Alix Earle, Cardi B and Jessica Alba all made cameos during the La Casita portion of the performance, a recurring symbol in Bad Bunny’s tour and Puerto Rico residency.

Days before their Super Bowl, Gaga and Bad Bunny shared a sweet interaction at the 2026 Grammys. After Bad Bunny won the award for Best Música Urbana Album, Gaga came up to the rapper to speak to him. After the ceremony, Bad Bunny shared details about the pair’s interaction.

“She said, ‘I love you!’ And that’s it,” Bad Bunny told Access Hollywood about crossing paths with Gaga at the awards show. “And I was like, ‘I love you too!’”

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Bad Bunny had family on his mind when he took the field for the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show. The rapper, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, wore a cream-colored custom jersey for his performance, with “Ocasio” on the back and No. 64. “Bad Bunny paid homage to his uncle who played football […]

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Bad Bunny and Gaga’s history dates back way before they shared the Super Bowl LX stage. In 2020, Bad Bunny revealed he was a big fan of Gaga’s music after he was spotted wearing a T-shirt featuring the pop star’s Chromatica cover art.

“That album makes me feel more happy,” Bad Bunny told E! News of his Chromatica fandom at the time. “When she dropped that album, I was in a really good moment, enjoying my life. I love that album.”

Four years later, Gaga shared that she was also a big fan of Bad Bunny and dreamed of working with him one day.

“I’m actually a very big Bad Bunny fan,” she told Despierta América in September 2024. “Yes, I love Bad Bunny. If he wants to [work together], of course. I would love to.”

2026 is the year of hair changes.

It’s out with the old and in with the new for stars including Alix Earle, Brooks Nader, Cassie Randolf and more.

Take Earle, for example, who cut long, wispy bangs on January 25. She rocked a fringed style with curled ends, showing off her refreshed look on Instagram. Another celeb who opted for change this year was Cassie Randolph, who chopped her long hair into a dimensional bob.

Madelyn Cline also debuted a bob in 2026, marking a major switch-up from her signature long, blonde hair that typically cascaded down her back.

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David Fincher’s deal with Netflix has not always yielded the fanfare he was accustomed to with theatrical releases, but some ventures produced the best thrillers of all time. Crime has been a brand that works for the director, going back as far as the ‘90s. Adaptations have been in Fincher’s sweet spot, gaining appreciation for thrillers such as Zodiac and Gone Girl. He reaches even greater heights in the television world.

Fincher used his considerable talents to bring John E. Douglas’ autobiographical book, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, to Netflix. The result was Mindhunter, arguably one of the most celebrated original series from the streaming platform. It was also the series that broke fans’ hearts the most. Typical of Fincher’s style, Mindhunter was visually glossy while emotionally gritty. It had everything going for it, which made it all the more heartbreaking when it was pushed into Netflix limbo after two seasons.

‘Mindhunter’ Was Prestige Television at Its Best

Mindhunter had the unfortunate luck of premiering on Netflix. On any other platform, it may have reached the audience it needed to. Though the crime series has a loyal fan base, the viewership wasn’t enough for the streamer to justify its budget. For two seasons, however, Mindhunter redefined what fans could expect from a true crime series.

The show was a heightened interpretation of John E. Douglas’ book, while also strikingly close to reality. Jonathan Groff stars as Holden Ford, the fictionalized version of Douglas, who was a significant part of creating the psychological profiling department of the FBI. A hostage negotiator for the Bureau, Holden becomes dismayed at how crime in the modern era has become so grim. The rise of serial and spree killers baffles law enforcement, which leads Holden to collaborate with Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) in creating a new way of catching killers. With the help of Dr. Wendy Carr (Anna Torv), the team decides to interview convicted killers to create a psychological profile. The Silence of the Lambs writer, Thomas Harris, used Douglas as inspiration for his FBI director character, Jack Crawford.

Mindhunter takes this a step further and grounds the story in reality. The first season portrays the creation of the FBI profiling program and the real killers they interview. Edmund Kemper, Jerry Brudos, and David Berkowitz were some of the many real-life figures who were brought to life with harrowing accuracy. Holden risks a lot to get close to these killers — closer than anyone ever had before. Mindhunter examines how dangerously close Holden gets to these people, particularly Kemper, who acts as a terrifying foil for the FBI agent.

The series resists sensationalizing true crime as so many series have before. Instead, it focuses on ethical and character-driven dilemmas as the profilers enter a new world of crime that is more intense than it has been before. Mindhunter isn’t about putting killers on a pedestal. It shows them unflinchingly, which doesn’t elevate them but demonstrates what monsters they are. The authentic emotion and hyperrealism made Mindhunter unlike anything before, and it has not been replicated since.

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2017 – 2019

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Netflix

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Joe Penhall

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David Fincher, Carl Franklin, Andrew Dominik, Andrew Douglas, Asif Kapadia, Tobias Lindholm

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Joe Penhall, Jennifer Haley, Joshua Donen, Courtenay Miles, Carly Wray, Pamela Cederquist

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By Robert Scucci
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If you grew up in the 90s playing first-person shooters on MS-DOS, you probably have fond memories of sneaking in sessions of Duke Nukem 3D. While we never had gaming consoles in my household, my parents had no qualms about me playing PC games like Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein. For reasons I will never fully understand, Super Mario Bros. was forbidden fare, but blasting space demons and zombies with rocket launchers and mowing down Nazis with machine guns was considered a perfectly acceptable way to spend a rainy afternoon.

I think the real reason was that my parents did not want to spend money on a console when we already had a perfectly good computer sitting in the family room. In retrospect, I kind of respect that decision. It meant I had access to adventure puzzle games like The Seventh Guest and Myst, along with the above-mentioned shooters that were absolutely not meant for kids my age.

In 1996, Duke Nukem 3D was everywhere, and I remember watching my dad get hooked on it one weekend in his office. I could hear explosions and laughter through the door, which naturally made me curious. That was my introduction to a game that was wildly inappropriate for a kid, but I was lucky enough to have parents who let me watch R-rated action movies as long as we talked about why certain behaviors on screen were not meant to be copied in real life.

That brings me to the real heart of this article. Why, in the year 2026, do we still not have a Duke Nukem movie? The property feels tailor-made for an R-rated action comedy. It is violent, self-aware, and ridiculous. There are strippers and aliens, pigs dressed as cops, lizard troopers, and catchphrases pulled straight from films like Aliens, Dirty Harry, They Live, Jaws, and Pulp Fiction. Duke Nukem 3D is routinely cited as one of the greatest video games ever made, and the franchise reportedly generated well over a billion dollars by the early 2000s. A faithful adaptation would go absolutely gangbusters.

A Simple Yet Effective Action Hero

A movie based on the Duke Nukem character would not be difficult to pull off because the story is intentionally lean. Duke arrives in Los Angeles aboard his space cruiser, ready for a much-needed vacation. His ship gets shot down by aliens who have invaded and taken over the city, and he is understandably irritated about having to clean up their mess. Armed with his Mighty Foot and an arsenal that includes shotguns, triple-barrelled chain guns, grenade launchers, and pipe bombs, Duke tears through Assault Troopers, Pig Cops, Battlelord Sentries, and Enforcers.

What truly sets Duke Nukem 3D apart from its contemporaries is how interactive the environments are. Duke crawls through air vents, blows apart buildings by hitting detonation switches that are just laying around willy-nilly, kicks fire hydrants and drinks from water fountains to power up, and even tips strippers for a quick show before getting back to work. It is juvenile, excessive, and completely unapologetic. When Duke says he is here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, a quote attributed to Roddy Piper in They Live!, he means it.

The amount of controversy the game attracted from special interest groups over its content is exactly why Duke Nukem would thrive as an R-rated action comedy today. With the right creative team attached, the tone does not need to be reinvented or overhauled at all.

Attempts Have Been Made

There has never been a shortage of interest in bringing Duke Nukem to the big screen. As early as 2001, when the franchise was riding high, Threshold Entertainment attempted to get a feature film off the ground, but it never made it out of development. Another effort surfaced in 2008 from Max Payne producer Scott Faye, though that version stalled just as quickly.

The closest we came to a Duke Nukem movie was in 2018, when Paramount Pictures and Platinum Dunes were having discussions with John Cena to take on the lead role. It was a near-perfect casting choice, but the rights were in transition at the time, and the project was quietly shelved.

The most recent development came in 2022, when Legendary Entertainment announced that it had acquired the rights to produce a Duke Nukem film, with Cobra Kai creators Josh Heald and Jon Hurwitz attached. Since then, updates have been scarce, which unfortunately feels par for the course for this franchise.

If it takes another five years for anything concrete to happen, so be it. I just hope Cena is still able to step into the role. Projects like Ricky Stanicky have already proven that his comedic timing is a perfect match for a character like Duke Nukem. The image of him kicking a fire hydrant for health before tossing a pipe bomb into a movie theater and getting frisky with the ladies deserves to exist outside of my imagination.

What this movie needs is simple. Enemies that respawn endlessly, one-liners delivered without restraint, and waves of identical henchmen getting obliterated as Duke reluctantly fights his way back to vacation. This does not need to be high art. It needs to be an ultra-violent alien invasion, solved by the coolest video game character to ever appear on a computer screen.