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You Think Wuthering Heights Is Odd? 4 Strangest Book-to-Movie Adaptations Ever, Ranked
Emerald Fennell‘s new Wuthering Heights movie is dividing critics right now.
Many books have gone on to receive loose adaptations for the silver screen, and Fennell’s take on Emily Brönte’s novel seems to be among them. Critics can’t agree on whether the shocking horniness, campy flair and vast diversions from the book are good or bad.
While we’ll let you decide on that for yourselves, Watch With Us takes a look back on some of the weirder movie adaptations of books.
From nightmare-inducing children’s book reimagining to odd interpretations of a Dickens classic, we ranked the four strangest book-to-movie adaptations ever.
This isn’t quite the Wuthering Heights you read in high school. The new movie adaptation of the classic Emily Brontë novel starring Margot Robbie (Catherine) and Jacob Elordi (Heathcliff) hits theaters Friday, February 13 — and it’s already generating plenty of controversy, from the casting choices to major plot point changes. The film currently has […]
4. ‘Dune’ (1984)
Before Denis Villeneuve directed two Oscar-nominated adaptations of Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction novel, Twin Peaks creator David Lynch took a crack at adapting it back in 1984. This was the art-house director’s big, bold move into the mainstream after his financial and critical success with The Elephant Man. Of course, the director of Eraserhead wasn’t going to give audiences another Star Wars, which is what executive producer Dino De Laurentiis wanted. Thus, the already strange story of giant worms, magic spice, corpulent, floating dictators and psychic witches was given a somewhat Lynchian treatment.
Sting plays a sexy sociopath clad in a Speedo, while most of the many, many monologues from all the characters are whispered rather than spoken. There’s also a mutated being that sits in a giant tank, grotesque heart plugs that the Harkonnens wear like it’s the latest fashion trend from Milan and a weirdo child (Alicia Witt who acts like she’s already lived a thousand years. Unfortunately, Lynch’s creative decisions and diversions from the source material forced his Dune to endure extensive cuts, which hacked the theatrical release down and created more distance from Lynch’s intended vision. It’s to the extent that Lynch publicly disowned the film and even removed his name or changed it to a pseudonym in the credits of certain releases. While Dune 1984 has established a cult following, it’s still quite divisive.
3. ‘The Hobbit’ trilogy (2012-2014)
Maybe it’s hyperbolic to claim, but Peter Jackson‘s three-film adaptation of the short children’s story prequel to The Lord of the Rings should go down as one of the worst decisions in filmmaking history. Jackson created a global pop culture phenomenon with his early 2000s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous fantasy trilogy, with each novel getting its own film shot back-to-back with the other in sequence. When it was revealed that The Hobbit would finally receive a live-action movie treatment too, the announcement stated that it would be split into two films directed by Guillermo del Toro. Then, del Toro exited due to delays and creative differences, and the production ballooned into three films, with original LOTR director Jackson at the helm.
As is the reason for turning every single-book story into multiple parts, turning the simple, 300-page The Hobbit into three extremely long movies was obviously done out of greed, not out of respect for preserving the dignity and beauty of the story. Instead, The Hobbit became three weird, bloated spectacles. There is ultimately so much wrong with all three The Hobbit movies that it would take longer than this short list to get into it all, but things like adding a pointless love triangle subplot with Legolas (Orlando Bloom), making the overarching antagonist not be Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch), heavy usage of overtly fake-looking CGI and unnecessary sidelining of Bilbo (Martin Freeman), the main character. Of course, perhaps The Hobbit films most unforgivable sin is how unbelievably boring it is.
2. ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ (2009)
What if we remade Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (again) and we made it about a womanizing bachelor (Matthew McConaughey) who is visited by the spirits of his ex-girlfriends (who are still alive) to teach him a lesson about how to be a real lover? Perfect, that sounds amazing — here is $40 million to make it happen. That is essentially the premise of Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, which adapts Dickens’ novella about a miserly, isolated old man who is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve and learns to appreciate life and everyone in it.
Instead, there’s no Christmas, no figgy pudding, no Tiny Tim or spirits covered in giant chains, and Matthew McConaughey learns about the value of monogamy and gets Jennifer Garner to fall in love with him. It’s likely that never in a million years did Dickens think his Victorian-era novel would be turned into a romantic comedy in which ghostly Michael Douglas (who portrays a version of the original character of Jacob Marley) tries to hit on the Ghost of Girlfriends Past (Emma Stone) who appears as a 16-year-old girl. In any event, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is funnier than it has any right to be, and it’s certainly a creative take on a story that has gotten too many adaptations to count.
1. ‘The Cat in the Hat’ (2003)
Unlike the live-action version of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas — which, despite being a crime against nature, has somehow managed to remain a Christmas classic in the nostalgic minds of some Millennials — the film adaptation of The Cat in the Hat still endures as an ill-conceived nightmare and one of the first dominoes to fall in Mike Myers‘ diminishing career. In the beloved children’s story of The Cat in the Hat, the titular Cat is a chaotic figure, but ultimately a source of fun and pleasure for the children he visits, played by Dakota Fanning and Spencer Breslin in the film.
Catherine from Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights notably proclaimed that her and Heathcliff’s souls “are the same,” but it seems not every fan feels the same about Emerald Fennell’s adaptation. A full trailer for the upcoming Wuthering Heights film dropped on Thursday, November 13. “Inspired by the greatest love story of all time,” an Instagram caption […]
In Bo Welch‘s The Cat in the Hat, the Cat (Myers) is a wicked demon imp. To its credit, the movie does a great job at embracing Seussian aesthetics, with colorful, creative production design, costumes, sets and cinematography. It’s just a shame that everything else (script, characters, dialogue, acting, a pervasive feeling of dread and despair) makes the movie so borderline unwatchable. Alec Baldwin wears a girdle, the fish is entirely CGI, Thing One and Thing Two are creepy as hell and there’s far too much weird, double-entendre humor for a children’s movie.
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Before he broke out as one of his generation’s most successful leading men, Chris Pratt was best known for playing supporting characters in comic projects. He was an integral part of NBC’s Parks and Recreation, which humorously acknowledged his changing appearance in the later seasons. Pratt first ventured into action roles with Kathryn Bigelow‘s Zero Dark Thirty, released a few years before he landed his first leading role in a studio tentpole. It was during this time that Pratt was also touted as Harrison Ford‘s successor in the Indiana Jones franchise; this ultimately didn’t happen. Pratt’s still firmly a member of the Hollywood A-list, even though two of his most lucrative franchises have run their course. The film series that took him to the big leagues, however, is heading to a new streamer in March.
It was in 2015 that Pratt headlined the blockbuster film Jurassic World, which made the unexpected creative choice to not lean into his natural skills as a comic actor. Directed by Colin Trevorrow, who had only made one indie feature until then, Jurassic World served as a reboot of the iconic Jurassic Park franchise co-created by Steven Spielberg in the 1990s. The new movie was set years after the events of the original trilogy, and was mostly well-liked by fans. This was before nostalgia-baiting became frowned upon, and Jurassic World got away with plenty of fan service. The movie famously broke The Avengers‘ record for the biggest domestic opening weekend gross in history, and went on to deliver a bigger worldwide haul than that film.
Here’s Where You Can Watch ‘Jurassic World’ this March
Produced on a reported budget of more than $200 million, the movie grossed more than $1.6 billion worldwide. It holds a 72% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics’ consensus reads, “Jurassic World can’t match the original for sheer inventiveness and impact, but it works in its own right as an entertaining — and visually dazzling popcorn thriller.” It was followed by two sequels, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World Dominion, which grossed over $1 billion worldwide each but earned weaker reviews. The franchise was recently rebooted again, with Jurassic World Rebirth.
Pratt’s Jurassic World trilogy is heading to Netflix in March. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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Meghan Markle, undoubtedly, has the sweetest valentines around.
“These two + Archie = my forever Valentines,” Meghan, 45, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, February 14, sharing a rare photo of her husband, Prince Harry, holding their daughter Princess Lilibet, 4.
In the snapshot, Harry, 41, held Lili in the backyard of the couple’s Montecito, California, mansion. Lili, for her part, wore a ballet uniform that complemented her bright red hair and held onto a bouquet of red balloons. (Harry and Meghan also share son Prince Archie, 6.)
Harry and Meghan moved to California in 2020 after stepping down from their duties as senior working royals.
“We were looking in this area, and this house kept popping up online in searches,” Meghan recalled to New York Magazine’s The Cut in a 2022 interview. “We didn’t have jobs, so we just were not going to come and see this house. It wasn’t possible. It’s like when I was younger and you’re window shopping. It’s like, ‘I don’t want to go and look at all the things that I can’t afford. That doesn’t feel good.’”
Regardless of any hesitations, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex toured the property.
“One of the first things my husband saw when we walked around the house was those two palm trees,” Meghan added to the outlet. “They’re connected at the bottom. He goes, ‘My love, it’s us.’ And now every day when Archie goes by us, he says, ‘Hi, Momma. Hi, Papa.’”
She continued, “You walk in [to the house] and go … joy. And exhale. And calm. It’s healing. You feel free.”
While Meghan grew up in California, Harry famously lived his entire adolescence in England.
“I enjoy living [in the U.S.] and bringing my kids up here,” Harry said during The New York Times’ DealBook Summit in December 2024. “It’s a part of my life that I never thought I was going to live and it feels as though it’s the life that my mom [Princess Diana] wanted for me.”
According to Harry, his “main goal” is to be “the best dad and best husband” he can be.
“The reason why these things have happened is because of my 10 years in the military and the values and principles I live by,” Harry said, referring to his ongoing fight for security in England. “It is becoming increasingly hard for people that have values and principles as the world starts to change. But the thing I want to be known for is that, ‘He stuck to his values and always stayed true to that principle.’”
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are loving life with daughter Princess Lilibet following her birth in June 2021. Harry and Meghan had welcomed their eldest son, Prince Archie, two years earlier in May 2019 and he took to his big brother role immediately. “Archie absolutely adores his little sister and gives her lots of kisses,” […]
Harry has long had a soft spot for his only daughter ever since her 2021 arrival.
“Harry adores Lili and loves reading her bedtime stories and rocking her to sleep,” a source previously told Us Weekly months after Meghan gave birth in June 2021. “He has a real magic touch. Every day just gets happier. There’s just so much love and gratitude and they couldn’t ask for more.”
Weeks later, Harry admitted to Ed Sheeran in an interview that it was “definitely a juggle” raising two kids.
“She’s very chilled and seems happy to just sit there,” he quipped. “Archie is running around like crazy. [We’ve] been very lucky so far.”
Roomies, Papoose wasn’t upstairs on Valentine’s Day — he stepped all the way out to show Claressa Shields just how deep his love runs. He made sure she got an oceanfront view that was covered in rose petals. While he laughed, Claressa stood there shook and speechless! It’s safe to say, Love Day made both of their hearts full!
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Papoose Sets The Bar HIGH With Sweet V-Day Surprise For Claressa Shields
Listen, one thing for sure and two things for certain — Papoose did his BIG one for Claressa Shields on Valentine’s Day. The rapper came through with vacation vibes and turned the romance all the way up. He took her out to the beach and set up a beautiful, fully decked-out spot with cozy pillows, massive pink and red bouquets, and rose petals everywhere. And to seal the vibe? The perfect view of tropical blue waters. Claressa showed off Pap’s set up in an Instagram video and made sure to point out that he even lined up some healthy meals for them to snack on.
Pap didn’t stop there! Claressa even flexed the sweet gift he got her too: a black-and-gold Van Cleef bracelet. As if that wasn’t enough, he took their day to a whole new level. In the middle of their romantic getaway, he shocked her with a plane flying overhead carrying a message that read, “Claressa, Papoose Loves You. Happy Valentine’s Day.” He really put a ribbon in the sky for his Queen. If that’s not setting the bar, we don’t know what is! Claresas stood there in complete shock, but immediately grabbed her phone to capture the moment. In her caption, she said this was the best Valentine’s Day she’s ever had and honestly, we see exactly why!
“Thank you @papoose for being so thoughtful! I love you so much Papi ! I am at lost for words 😍🥰🤞🏾💪🏾 #papoosegf #claressashields #gwoat #valentines,” Shields wrote.
The TL Explodes After Papoose Flexes His Love For His Queen
After TSR dropped the clip of Pap and Claressa’s V-Day festivities, the comment section lit UP with love. Roomies flooded the post with heart-eyes and sweet reactions — peep a few of them below.
Instagram user @kidochild wrote, “I’m sorry I love Clarissa 💚”
Instagram user @wlrd0fivy wrote, “Now y’all can’t say pap upstairs😩🫶🏼he came downstairs and ate.”
While Instagram user @king_leiyaah wrote, “She pulled that phone out so fast like ‘I told y’all he loved me’ 😂😂😂😂😂😂”
Then Instagram user @fahdy_87 wrote, “So y’all can stop saying Papoose don’t love this lady now he put a ribbon in the sky lol❤️😍”
Another Instagram user @trappthageneral wrote, “Black love is always good to see 💙”
Instagram user @callme_quady wrote, “Love seeing people happy. ❤️”
Then another Instagram user @_.ravyn__ wrote, “Finally pap not upstairs 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭”
Finally, Instagram user @its__marii wrote, “A beach date w roses and champagne 😍😍😍 love this.”
Mirror Selfies & Heartfelt Shoutouts — Pap Shows MAJOR PDA
Pap isn’t shy about professing his love for his Queen! He stays showing Claressa off, even with a little PDA on social media. Back in January, he posted the cutest mirror selfie of them and gave her a heartfelt shoutout. He told his followers his lady might look tough on the outside, but she has a heart of gold and an aura that’s unmatched!
“Claressa has a big heart. Always wearing a big smile! Most think she’s so rugged because she’s a fighter. But The way she takes care of her body is on another level. Zoom in… she has small hands, small feet, & some unbelievably smooth ass skin.
Very beautiful black woman. When the way you LOVE can Inspire others. That says a lot!!!”
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What Do You Think Roomies?
James Van Der Beek’s costars and fans mourn his death, Cardi B goes in hard on ICE, Olympians go for gold in the sack, and Jill Zarin gets sacked for blasting Bad Bunny. So, we gotta ask …
Jelly Roll is once again facing online scrutiny, and this time, it’s an old clip that has people talking. As the country star continues to draw criticism following his faith-filled Grammy speech, a nearly two-minute video from around 2022 has resurfaced on X, reigniting debate over his public persona and temper. The clip shows the singer venting about a shoe store encounter, and threatening to hit a teen employee with what he called the “open hand of the Lord.” The resurfaced footage comes as critics question whether Jelly Roll’s faith-driven messaging matches his past behavior.
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Old Jelly Roll Clip Resurfaces Amid “Fake Christian” Backlash
The viral post sharing the clip read, “Jelly Roll crashes out at shoe store and says he’s going to hit a teen with the ‘open hand of the Lord.’ Allegedly, Jelly Roll was just made they didn’t serve him instantly and came back to assault a young teen for the disrespect of not knowing ‘who he is.’”
In the video, Jelly Roll appears visibly upset while recounting the interaction. “I’m so f-cking mad right now,” the singer says in the clip, which reportedly dates back to around 2022, while sitting in his car. “I just went to Fleet Feet, a place I’ve bought dozens of pairs of shoes at, and I took my 71-year-old mother there.”
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He continued, “I watched the store manager walk up to a young man working the desk and go, ‘Hey, would you help that sweet old lady over there.’ Young man goes (the singer shook his head no), and he points at a guy walking in the door, a younger man. I watched this young f-cking c-ck-sucking, cocky prick just kind of shrug her off. Manager has to, I’m losing my voice I’m so mad just screaming at everybody in the store, the manager is so f-cking, just walks back and grabs another dude.”
But he wasn’t done. “The whole time I’m sitting there thinking, I want to f-cking hit this young man with the open hand of the Lord,” Jelly Roll added. “And I just go through it, I smile because I don’t want my mama to see me mad neither, ya know?”
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‘It Would Look Like A Scene Out Of A Movie’
JellyRoll crashes out at shoe store and says he’s going to hit a teen with the “open hand of the Lord”
Allegedly, JellyRoll was just mad they didn’t serve him instantly and came back to assault a young teen for the disrespect of not knowing “who he is.” pic.twitter.com/ai7xGFtiNV
— Nicole Arbour (@NicoleArbour) February 14, 2026
The singer wasn’t finished venting. After finishing in the store, Jelly Roll says he walked his mom outside before walking back into the store. “I crawled in that f-cking kid’s a-s,” Jelly Roll continued. “And then the manager has the audacity to f-cking tell me, ‘Sir, could y’all talk about this outside. I don’t want my customers hearing.’ And I said, ‘B-tch, you need to worry about the customers on the internet. You don’t need to worry about the three people in here buying a $180 pair of f-cking Hokas hearing it.”
He continued, “And one you wouldn’t have to worry about customers knowing what the f-ck is going on in this store if you taught some f-cking etiquette to your motherf-cking employees,” before adding that “God is with me.”
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“I am blessed. I am thankful, and I am grateful, and I am full of gratitude because if I was not, I would march back into that store right now and it would look like a scene out of a motherf-cking movie,” he concluded.
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Critics Call Jelly Roll A ‘Fake Hollywood Christian’
The resurfaced video quickly drew backlash from some social media users. “And another fake Hollywood Christian takes the mask off … over some shoes …” one user wrote as another chimed in, “Sorry to inform you. This isn’t Christianity. This is cosplaying as Christianity. I don’t know why God has to enter your story. Pharisees of our time.”
The controversy comes as Jelly Roll continues to face scrutiny following his speech at the 2026 Grammy Awards.
Grammy Speech Sparks More Debate
At the ceremony, Jelly Roll won multiple awards, including Best Country Duo/Group Performance for Amen with Shaboozey and Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song for Hard Fought Hallelujah with Brandon Lake.
During his acceptance speech, Jelly Roll held a small Bible and reflected on his past. “I remember there was a moment in my life, and all I had was a Bible this big and a radio the same size and a 6 by 8 foot cell,” he said. “And I believed that those two things could change my life. I believed that music had the power to change my life, and God had the power to change my life.”
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The artist continued, “And I want to tell y’all right now, Jesus is for everybody. Jesus is not known by one political party; Jesus is not owned by any label. Jesus is Jesus, and anybody can have a relationship with him. I love you, lord.”
Jelly Roll Faces ICE Backlash After Grammy Speech
Reacting to his Grammy speech on X, one person wrote, “Of course, Jelly Roll wouldn’t get on stage and denounce ICE like several of his peers did UNAPOLOGETICALLY. He got on stage and did a fake sermon. And yes, he absolutely is MAGA. F-ck him and that MAGA festival he’s doing.”
Adding fuel to the fire, when asked on the red carpet about his stance on ICE, Jelly Roll replied, “People shouldn’t care to hear my opinion. I’m a dumb redneck.”
Jelly Roll has not yet commented on the resurfaced video making the rounds on social media.
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In the last decade, we went from multiple raunch comedies hitting theaters every year to nearly zero. One of the last of the mainstream raunch comedy releases, 2014’s Sex Tape starring Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel, was a small hit, but its premise could only have supported a film in 2014 when the general public didn’t know what “the cloud” was or how it worked. A few years later, Apple’s iCloud became a common, everyday feature for users, who now understood that the entire plot of the film made no sense.
Sex Tape Has No Idea How Technology Works
In Sex Tape, Diaz and Segel play a married couple, Anne and Jay Hargrove, trying to rediscover the spark that they once had when the kids are away for a night. With nothing else working, they let their intrusive thoughts win and decide to film a sex tape. The problem is that instead of deleting the next day, Segal’s hapless Jay realizes it’s been uploaded to the cloud and shared with the iPads he gave away for Christmas. And yes, they are not only called iPads, but they are constantly shown on screen in the oddest product placement you can imagine.
Jay and Annie head out to recover all of the iPads and delete the video before anyone can see the sex tape. This involves committing breaking and entering, battling a German shepherd, accidentally doing a rail of cocaine, and getting busted by their best friends, played by Ellie Kemper and Rob Corddry, a pairing that, in a just world, would have headlined their own rom-com by now. The thing is, in reality, videos aren’t sent to iPads through the Cloud unless you specifically set up a shared file, then download them on each and every iPad. The entire plot could be resolved with one five-second act of deleting a file.
Sex Tape relies entirely on the comedic chemistry of Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel, who reunite after knocking it out of the park with Bad Teacher. The physical comedy and one-liners are so few and far between that it’s one of those movies where you see everything in the trailer. Everyone involved has been in better, funnier films, but in the 12 years since Sex Tape’s release and the complete collapse of the rom-com industrial complex, it now looks like a masterpiece.
Sex Tape Hastened The End Of Rom-Coms
Bad Teacher set off the last gasp of rom-com relevance thanks to great reviews and a huge box office haul, while Sex Tape approached rock bottom with a 16 percent critical rating and a 33 percent audience rating. At the box office, it made three times its estimated budget with $120 million, but again, that doesn’t take into account the large marketing budget from attempting to turn the two leads into a Julia Roberts and Richard Gere for a new generation.
This decade, Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell had a little success with a rom-com, Jeniffer Lauirence crashed and burned in her attempt, while the time-loop rom-com Palm Springs, starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti, has been the most creative entry in the genre in decades. By comparison, Sex Tape hinges on a plot that’s both out of date and, given the Cloud’s common knowledge, makes zero sense. You can do better by watching Bad Teacher or Palm Springs again, then spending your time watching Sex Tape.
It took exactly a year for The Artful Dodger to receive its first renewal — so what are the chances Hulu would pick the show back up for season 3?
During the season 2 finale, which aired on Tuesday, February 10, Belle (Maia Mitchell) learned a shocking revelation about the governor (Damien Garvey) not being her biological father. Her mother, Jane (Susie Porter), shared the truth when she thought she was on her death bed but Belle’s love interest Jack (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) ultimately saved her life.
As a result, Jane finally gave Belle permission to be with Jack. Belle ran to find him but it appeared that Jack got on a boat and left. The final moments of the season confirmed that Jack couldn’t leave Belle — and the fan-favorite couple shared a kiss.
Elsewhere in the finale, Fagin (David Thewlis) had a plan to die so his troubles would disappear. Jack helped executive the plan but Fagin actually survived and woke up … buried underground.
“There’s a lot [more story] to tell,” Mitchell, 32, exclusively told Us Weekly about the future of the show. “It’s such a massive show with so many characters and so many plots happening all at once.”
The actress noted that there is “a lot of opportunity” for “way more character development” in the future, adding, “With Belle and Jack, it is seeing what domestic life could look like. I don’t know how they pull that off. I don’t see them ever being settled but seeing what that looks like and seeing them actualize their relationship.”
Mitchell didn’t stop there when it came to possible story lines.
Maia Mitchell and Thomas Brodie-Sangster in The Artful Dodger season 2. Hulu / Courtesy Everett Collection
“But also with the family. Belle learned this revelation about Lady Jane and we see the family in a much more kind of authentic closeness together,” she teased. “But I would love to see what that does for the family — and for Lady Jane. I’d love to see what Lady Jane is up to in season 3 as well.”
She continued: “Fagin is up to no good. And Belle’s sister, Fanny, her story line this season is the most delightful surprise. I really wasn’t across any of those scenes so watching the show back I was like, ‘Oh my God, that’s what they were up to every day that I was at home.’ Seeing where that goes with Fanny, she’s so empowered and so delightful. I would love to do that. I would love to do a third season and I know everyone feels that way.”
Acting as a sequel to Charles Dickens‘ novel Oliver Twist, The Artful Dodger is set in the 1850s and follows Jack Dawkins, who is a former Royal Navy surgeon trying to establish himself as a respected young doctor. In addition to his antics outside of work, Jack quickly develops a romance with the governor’s daughter Belle.
“It was a long painstaking wait to hear [about a season 2], so we are very happy to be back,” Mitchell noted to Us. “In terms of jumping back into character, the break was good. It’s always nerve-wracking going back. But it’s so easy with our sets and in our costumes, you just really do melt right into the world. But the break was good because I would have needed that circuit break to find a different tone in her, to do some different prep. Especially with the dialect coaches, I was vocally dropping her a little lower and there was a slightly different physicality. Hopefully we get a season 3, and hopefully the break isn’t as long.”
Fan-favorite TV couples like 9-1-1’s Buck and Eddie, The Bear’s Sydney and Carmy and Tracker’s Colter and Reenie — or Billie — deserve to finally get together on screen in 2026. Based on Jeffery Deaver‘s novel The Never Game, Tracker has viewers tuning in each week to see their favorite fictional survivalist — a.k.a Colter […]
Mitchell was thrilled at the chance to film a project in her native Australia.
“At the end of 2021, I had written a list of things I was manifesting. It was a job that was shot in Australia, a period drama and it was a woman who was playing a feminist and claiming her power. That is literally The Artful Dodger for me. So it is a dream job,” she gushed. “And to be able to work at home is fantastic. It’s less of a flight to visit family and our crew is so amazing. I’ve now shot a couple projects in Australia in the last few years, since I’ve moved home — and also overseas — and I can say for sure that it’s the best and most elevated work that I’ve been able to do.”
She concluded: “It’s because of the crew and everyone behind the camera and the cast. We have such immense talent here and I’m so excited that the world is becoming privy to it because we’ve known it. We’ve always made such fantastic shows but they have this Aussie tone with a gritty drama. Now we’re expanding that and we’ve got these massive period dramas with crazy budgets. It’s really fun to be a part of that kind of new moment in Aussie film and TV. So I couldn’t be more stoked and I would just work in Australia with Aussie crew for the rest of my career if I could. It’s the best.”
The Artful Dodger is currently streaming on Hulu.
Nancy Guthrie Abduction
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Nancy Guthrie could be found one hour from now … or it could take weeks … or even years to locate her.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos made the sobering remarks in a recent interview with the New York Times, underscoring the very real possibility Nancy’s kidnapping case could drag on for quite some time.
But Nanos also assured the public that investigators will ultimately “find” the suspect, or suspects, responsible for abducting Nancy from her Tucson, Arizona, home in the wee hours of February 1.
The sheriff added, “we won’t quit,” referring to Pima County detectives and FBI agents who have been working the puzzling case from the beginning.
Last week, the FBI released footage from a doorbell camera, showing the alleged kidnapper lurking around the front door of Nancy’s house. The prowler was wearing a mask and gloves with a holstered gun around his waist.
Several news outlets, including TMZ, have received purported ransom letters demanding money for the return of Nancy. Nancy’s daughter, TODAY Show host Savannah Guthrie, her sister Annie, and her brother Camron have released video statements to communicate with the kidnapper or kidnappers, but their efforts to bring home their mom have fallen short.
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Authorities have detained several people for questioning, but later released them. No suspects have been identified in the case so far.
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James Van Der Beek secured down payment to buy family's Texas ranch just before his death with help from friends
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The late “Dawson’s Creek” star shared six children with his wife, Kimberly.
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Irina Shayk brought serious supermodel heat to Miami Beach and the ocean wasn’t the only thing turning heads.
The Russian beauty was photographed Saturday rocking a sleek black bikini while enjoying a sun-soaked day in the surf with her daughter, Lea De Seine, and their dog. Shayk kept it effortlessly cool, pairing the two-piece with a black baseball cap and dark sunglasses as she strutted along the shoreline like it was Fashion Week: South Beach Edition.
The model showed off her sculpted physique as she stepped in and out of the water, sun glistening off her skin while waves crashed behind her. Even mid splash, it looked like a swim campaign in motion.
At one point, Irina waded into the water hand in hand with Lea, smiling as they bounced through the surf together. The 8-year-old, whom she shares with ex Bradley Cooper, appeared completely at ease, laughing and sticking close to mom while navigating the tide.
Between playful dips in the ocean and sandy strolls along the beach, Shayk kept a watchful eye on her mini me, seamlessly switching from runway-ready to hands-on beach mom.
And while most people need a glam squad for that kind of glow, Irina made it look effortless.
From catwalks in Paris to coastlines in Miami, some things never change and Irina knows how to own the spotlight even when it’s just the sun.
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