Daily Recap: Entertainment — 6 November 2026

Entertainment news turns on franchise expansion, career durability and the pressures around public platforms. Major brands push familiar worlds into new formats and eras, while performers and media institutions face starkly different moments of survival, backlash and reinvention....

Salon stops publishing after 31 years, marking the end of one of the internet’s best-known long-form culture and politics outlets. The company says its publishing model is no longer sustainable and plans to go dark later the same day, closing a publication that helped define the early digital media era.

Keanu Reeves is set to return as John Wick in an animated prequel for Lionsgate. The project moves the franchise backward in time rather than beyond the latest films, using animation to revisit earlier chapters in Wick’s life and career while keeping Reeves tied to one of the studio’s biggest action properties.

Netflix unveils “Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure,” a live-action prequel spin-off set in 1955. The new series takes the franchise away from Hawkins and places it decades before the original show, signaling another attempt to extend one of Netflix’s defining brands by opening up a different setting and timeline.

Katherine Ryan says she feels both grief and relief after Russell Brand’s conviction for rape and sexual assault. She describes her reaction as emotionally mixed while praising the survivors who came forward, framing the moment as painful but significant in the wake of a high-profile criminal case.

Macklemore says nine major US arenas declined to host his “Free Palestine” fundraising tour. He says the refusals came as he tried to bring the tour to the United States after European dates in London, Paris and Dublin, underscoring the logistical and political obstacles attached to celebrity activism around Gaza.

Tom Jones tells concertgoers in Los Angeles that he feared he was dying after a recent illness led to a week in hospital. The 86-year-old singer says what he first thought was flu worsened into breathing problems and time in intensive care before he returned to the stage at the Greek Theatre.

Rochelle Rackham wins ITV’s “Big Brother” for 2026, but the finale is overshadowed by a hostile audience reaction. Boos greet the result and disrupt the live interview, with some in the crowd chanting support for runner-up Lucinda “Twinks” Burnett and turning the closing moments into a controversy.

Jalen Brunson makes his guest-acting debut on NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU” in Thursday’s episode. The appearance gives the Knicks star a high-profile crossover into scripted television and adds a distinctly New York sports connection to one of the city’s longest-running entertainment franchises.