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The logline for the show states, “Their love was supposed to last forever, but when life dealt Yasmen and Josiah Wade back-to-back devastating blows, they realized love can’t solve everything. The life they created fell apart — divorce and shared custody followed. Now, Yasmen is finally starting to find joy, but proximity to Josiah keeps the embers hot despite reopening old wounds. They are beginning to wonder if they’re truly ready to let go of everything they once had. Is it too late to find forever? Or could the second time around be even better?”

“Before I Let Go” is the first of Ryan’s Skyland novel series. She has also published the books “This Could Be Us” and “Can’t Get Enough” in the series.

“From the time I read Kennedy Ryan’s ‘Skyland’ series, I was fully engaged in the lives of these characters and invested in their outcomes,” Lee said. “Adapting the pilot with her has been an absolute treasure to experience and we plan on bringing all the feels to her fans and her new TV family. To be able to pass the baton to Attica and Tembi Locke is an absolute dream for this powerhouse team. Can’t wait to get started.”

“Getting the chance to bring the ‘Skyland’ series to life onscreen is a dream come true. I’m excited about what this remarkable team is creating,” Ryan said. “Co-writing the pilot with Malcolm D. Lee and now imagining this world with Attica and Tembi is more than I even knew to ask for. These characters have meant so much to so many readers, and none of this would be possible without the people who have supported my work for years. I’m incredibly grateful and excited to find a new audience for these books that have changed my life.”

Attica Locke is repped by UTA, 3 Arts and Myman Greenspan. Tembi Locke is repped by UTA, 3 Arts, and Yorn Levine. Ryan is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, BookEnds Literary Agency, and Granderson Des Rochers. Lee and Blackmaled are repped by IAG and Del Shaw Moonves. Get Lifted is repped by UTA and Del Shaw Moonves. Martin Chase is repped by CAA and Del Shaw Moonves.

“We could not be more thrilled to bring Kennedy Ryan’s ‘Skyland’ series to life,” the Lockes said. “We love and feel uniquely suited to bring books about love, family and healing to screen. To do the work with the incredible team on ‘Before I Let Go’ is a dream.”

“We could not be more excited to bring Kennedy Ryan’s beloved novel ‘Before I Let Go’ to the screen,” Legend and Jackson said. “Kennedy has created a deeply moving, honest and beautifully layered story about love, loss, family and the possibility of finding your way back to one another. We’re incredibly proud of the powerful script Kennedy and Malcolm D. Lee have written, and we’re thrilled to have Attica and Tembi Locke guiding the series as showrunners. Their extraordinary storytelling, emotional intelligence and deep understanding of these characters make them the perfect creative partners to bring this world to life. We’re also honored to produce the series alongside the incomparable Debra Martin Chase, whose trailblazing career and commitment to telling powerful, culturally resonant stories continue to inspire us.” %!s()

The transaction was finalized on September 9, with the stake in Bugatti Rimac and the Rimac Group now controlled by a consortium led by U.S.-based HOF Capital, as announced earlier this year. The Porsche AG Group said it has earned €1 billion from the deal, equivalent to around $1.16 billion at current exchange rates. Of that sum, Porsche said that €250 million will be dedicated to funding pension obligations. Porsche says that the net cash flow margin for its automotive business, essentially how well the company is converting sales into actual cash, is now expected to increase to between 5.5 and 7.5 percent for 2026. That is up from the previous 2026 forecast of 3 to 5 percent.

Bugatti will soon begin production of the Tourbillon.

The sale marks the end of an important era for the Bugatti marque. Bugatti returned to prominence under the control of the VW Group, part of then-CEO Ferdinand Piëch’s vision to reinvent the ultra-luxury and performance automotive space. Between the Veyron and the Chiron, and a number of limited-production specials, Bugatti once again became a household name for fans of ludicrous supercars.

Then in 2021, Porsche and Rimac established a joint venture designed to bring the storied French brand into the future with the help of Rimac’s electrical know-how. That collaboration bore fruit with the upcoming Tourbillon, which features a Cosworth-developed 8.3-liter V-16 engine and three electric motors from Rimac.

Production of the Tourbillon is set to begin this year, and Bugatti hasn’t detailed plans for any products beyond its latest hypercar, so it's unclear how Porsche’s sale of its stake in Bugatti will affect the company in the future. The move by Porsche isn’t a shock, however, as the sports car manufacturer has been strapped for cash of late. Porsche invested heavily in electric vehicles, discontinuing its bestseller, the gas-powered Macan SUV, and the gas-powered 718 sports cars, and has faced falling sales in China. Porsche is embarking on a dramatic plan to increase profits, and selling its stake in Bugatti is a start.

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Leading trio Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren — who play crime couple Conrad and Maeve Harrigan opposite Hardy’s fixer Harry Da Souza — posed together with Hardy on the black carpet outside the Odeon Luxe theater in Leicester Square before heading inside to take the stage alongside co-creator Guy Ritchie and exec producer David Glasser.

Introducing the director and cast to the audience, Glasser – who was believed to have lost patience with Hardy after the actor requested script changes and was late to set – heaped plenty of praise on the star, calling him “the captain of our ship.”

“Without further ado, the captain of our ship, and the man who really, really pushed the envelope for us to get this to where we want to do Season 1 and Season 2, and was with it from the beginning and stayed with it to the bitter end of us getting through this incredible season, ladies and gentlemen — Tom Hardy,” Glasser announced as Hardy joined Ritchie, Brosnan and Mirren on stage.

After the cast and audience sang “Happy Birthday” to Ritchie, who turns 58 today, the director spoke movingly about the cast, saying they’ve been “magnificent, it’s been nothing other than a pleasure to work with these monsters of creativity.”

“Lady Helen — Dame Helen, fantastic Helen, Queen Helen — has been nothing other than an inspiration and a force of creativity,” Ritchie said. Super positive all day long, super creative all day long. Pierce Brosnan, your lordship, I can say exactly the same about Pierce and my old brother Tom Hardy.”

“I’m going to come and give a quick cuddle,” Ritchie added before darting across the stage and hugging Hardy.

“They’ve all been a magnificent cast,” Ritchie continued. “It’s been nothing other than a pleasure to work with these monsters of creativity. It’s been nothing but a pleasure. And David, thank you very much. David actually is a visionary. There you go. That’s a surprise. I don’t know. It’s a surprise. He actually is. David is a force of creativity. Good for you, David. Well done.”

When asked what she was most excited for the audience to see in Season 2, Mirren replied “Madder, badder, better,” before turning to Hardy and repeating: “Madder…badder…better. Chaotic, cool, funny. Frightening, funny.”

Brosnan added: “Yeah, very mangled, very strange. And there’s frailties within these characters as well, which makes them very human. But we get on like a great company of actors.”

Mirren also praised the show’s writer, Jez Butterworth, saying he provided them with “incredible material.”

“And the beautiful poetry of Jazz Butterworth, the poetic element in the script is so incredible. It just heightens it out of the sort of the normal. It’s incredible material for us to work on.”

Before introducing the cast, Glasser gave some insight into how the show first got off the ground, saying he and the Paramount+ team flew to Ritchie’s country house in the U.K. to pitch him on the show. “He said yes on the spot…” Glasser recalled. “Over a great bottle of wine while he was cooking some amazing lamb.”

Glasser also revealed that when they were just eight weeks away from shooting Season 1, he, Ritchie and Hardy were still trying to “figure out what the show is” which is when they brought in Butterworth. “We call upon a dear friend, Jez Butterworth, and we say to Jez, ‘We’re eight weeks out of production. Here’s the idea. Here’s the early concept. Let’s go make something of it.’ And you can only imagine being eight weeks out what that was like. It was insane.”

By Season 2, however, the relationship between Hardy, Butterworth and Glasser deteriorated to the point that reports emerged claiming Hardy had been kicked off the show. Those reports turned out to be premature, and Variety confirmed the trio’s “creative differences” were being worked out in order to bring the actor back for Season 2 re-shoots as well as Season 3, which is set to start shooting later this year.

Last week Paramount+ officially confirmed Hardy would indeed return as fixer Harry Da Souza in the popular gangland series. %!s()

It also makes sense to Philip Johnston, a British physicist and supporter of putting data centers into space, is currently trying to raise $15 million to make this happen. And that includes taking donations on the Fermi Explorer website, Kickstarter-style. For $10, you could be a humble supporter; for a cool $1 million, you could place a small item onboard and have your name engraved on the probe. 

Practically speaking, the real money will probably come either from a corporate sponsor or a very rich nerd (assuming the money comes at all). To that point, Johnston is on a bit of a media blitz to hype up the project. In an interview with NBC News, he says that the reasons to do this crazy thing include "the spirit of exploration" and proving that humanity could "actually settle the galaxy in maybe five to ten million years." To Ars Technica, he added another rationale: "So we were like, 'F*** it, let's send a spacecraft for the cheapest amount possible.'"

Boldly going, maybe

Even with an 80,000-year timeframe, fuel is a problem. A probe can only carry so much xenon gas onboard, so thrust will mostly have to come from solar-electric propulsion. Get far enough from the Sun, and there just isn't enough light to power the latter system. Enter AI! Physical Superintelligence, an AI startup, used its model to generate an 81-page report on how to get to Alpha Centauri. It is not peer-reviewed. The plan is to go towards the Sun instead of away from it, circling ever closer for a solid 12 years, somewhat like the Parker Solar Probe. That gets the probe moving faster and faster, until it finally uses a slingshot maneuver on the last pass, flinging it towards Alpha Centauri for another 80 millennia.

It will be so lonely for the probe, in the void of space for all that time, only to arrive at our (probably) unpopulated neighbor! Except that's not what the Fermi Explorer team seems to think will happen. According to the group's video (made with AI, errors and all), humanity will invent faster travel within the next few thousand years and overtake Fermi Explorer anyway. So when the probe finally gets to Alpha Centauri, it will receive a hero's welcome from the humans already there. And then we'll colonize the whole galaxy in 8 million years, and then colonize the next galaxy in 1 billion years. Yes, this is all in the video.

So what is the actual goal here? Possibly, this is just a fun project for rich kids, who collectively won't mind a $15 million price tag. Or maybe Johnston just wants to raise his media profile a bit, in which case, well, that worked. Anyway, if all that sounds good to you, feel free to donate $1 million of your dollars to the cause. This way, you can disprove the Fermi paradox, I guess, by showing that our civilization has the will to explore other stars. %!s()

Talarico is running in Texas against Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton in a race that could decide control of the US Senate in November.

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On Wednesday’s broadcast, Kimmel said that he would be interviewing Talarico under “unusual circumstances”, adding that, over the show’s more-than-two-decade run, he had been “interviewing Americans who are running for office with no problem at all”.

But in January, the Republican-led FCC said that daytime and late-night TV talk shows are no longer considered “bona fide” news programmes that are exempt from the equal time rules that require them to give airtime to opposing candidates.

Kimmel noted that for decades talk shows have been free to interview political candidates without being subject to those rules, including interviewing United States President Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign.

“Now that he is president, [Trump’s] FCC threatened me, threatened our show, threatened our network ⁠ABC, our affiliates, our local stations, based on simple traditional editorial decisions — guest bookings it would ⁠seem they don’t like,” Kimmel said.

The interview with Talarico is instead set to be released on YouTube on Thursday.

The Cook Political Report and University of Virginia’s Center for Politics rate the Texas Senate race as a toss-up. An August poll by the Barbara Jordan Public Policy Research and Survey Center at Texas Southern University showed Talarico nosing narrowly ahead of Paxton, 47 percent to 45 percent, among likely voters.

Republicans have stepped up efforts to shore up the seat. Earlier this week, MAGA Inc, the political group aligned with Trump, committed $10m to advertising against Talarico, in what has been described as the first advertisement buy that Trump’s well-heeled political machine has made for a general election.

The move underscores just how much the party’s usually safest bastion, Texas, has emerged as an Achilles’ heel in Republicans’ effort to retain the Senate.

Talarico, 37, is a former public-school teacher who has built his political identity around a progressive interpretation of Christianity.

Democrats see the eighth-generation Texan as a promising vehicle for breaking their decades-long Senate drought in the state. Texas has not elected a Democrat to the chamber since 1988.

The ABC episode unfolds just as Republicans gather in Dallas for the closing ceremony of a highly unorthodox midterm convention — unprecedented in its timing — in what many observers have called a “Trump-a-palooza” parade, with the president commandeering the spotlight as the party seeks to galvanise its base.

The FCC becomes a pressure point

Over the past year, The View, Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and other programmes have been subjected to heightened FCC supervision over whether their political coverage and candidate appearances comply with federal equal-time rules.

Critics say the agency’s expanding reach into programming decisions risks chilling broadcasters’ editorial independence.

That precarity is compounded by the consolidation of US media ownership. In August, the FCC voted to scrap its 39 percent cap on local television ownership, a move critics warned could concentrate still more control over the country’s broadcast news in fewer corporate hands. That was followed in January by changes to the equal time rules.

The shift has already ensnared Talarico.

The FCC opened an inquiry into his appearance on ABC’s The View in February, while CBS declined to broadcast an interview he had recorded for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Colbert subsequently released the interview online.

In April, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr ordered early licence reviews for eight ABC-owned stations — an extraordinary step given that their licences were not due for renewal until 2028.

Network parent company Disney and ABC assailed the probe, arguing it threatened protected speech and upended longstanding constitutional precedents, separately accusing the FCC of using its regulatory authority to intimidate media organisations critical of Trump.

The intimidation tactics had already made the leap from regulatory threats to targeted reprisal in September of last year for Kimmel, as ABC shelved his show indefinitely, before resuming it six days later.

It came as Kimmel’s remarks about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk drew criticism from FCC’s Carr, who urged local broadcasters not to air the programme. %!s()