The Wednesday Wine Down🍷 (10-13)

Headlines

• Squid Game Destroys Bridgerton As Netflix’s Biggest Debut (TVLine)

• Will Ted Lasso Really End After Season 3 As Planned? (THR)

• Coldplay Talks BTS, Beyonce, & New Album (EW)

• Adele Drops Exact Time New Single Will Be Available (Billboard)

• IATSE Readying Signs For Strike As They Say AMPTP Refuses To Reach Fair Deal In Negotiation Talks (Deadline)

• Netflix Reinstates Employee Suspended Over Attending Executive Meeting & Chapelle’s The Closer (THR)

• Robin Givens Returns To Head of The Class In HBO Max Reboot (EW)

• Who From The ’70s Is Returning For That ‘90s Show Spinoff? (EW)

• Balmain’s Olivier Rousteing Opens Up On Secret Injury & Recovery (THR)

• In The Course of Slamming Superman For Coming Out As Bisexual Dean Cain Makes Some Interesting Points (THR)

• Akwaeke Emezi Is Turning Her Attention To Romance, With New Book Coming In Summer 2022 (EW)

• It Isn’t Ad-ding Up As $60B In Ad Money Is Limbo Due To Everchanging Viewing Habits (THR)

• RIP Ricarlo Flanagan, Last Comic Standing & Shameless Alum Passes After Bout With Rona (Deadline)

• Walking Dead Refuses To Die As AMC Greenlights Anthology Series (Variety)

What’s Really Going On

• Schiff Warns About Authoritarian Threats To Our Democracy (Rolling Stone)

• Joy Reid Goes In On Conservative Democrats Who Seem “Willing to Let Democracy Die” (The Wrap)

• Why Are So Many People Quitting Their Jobs? (CNN)

• Biden To Reopen Mexican & Canadian Borders To Fully Vaxxed Travellers (The Independent)

• Cali Mom Arrested For Throwing Parties For Teens, Filling Them With Alcohol & Watching Them Have Sex (People)

• Greg Abbott’s Performative Governance Really Is The Worst & So Is He (Rolling Stone)

• Apple Announces New Mac Event For Oct. 18 (BGR)

• Study Shows That Pandemic Was Bad For Our Health In More Ways Than Just the Obvious One (Deadline)

• New Stimulus Check Coming This Week, Are You Getting One? (BGR)

• Gabby Petitio’s Cause of Death Revealed To Be Strangulation (The Independent)

• Is The Global Supply Chain Shortage About To Get Worse? (CNN)

• The Northern Lights Will Be Seen Further South (CNN)

MUSIC NEWS & NOTES (10-10 thru 10-16)

• Madonna & Maluma Go One on One (Rolling Stone)

• Shots Fired Paul McCartney Calls Rolling Stones “Blues Cover Band” (People)

• Tyga Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges For Allegedly Assaulting Ex-Girlfriend (EW)

• Coachella Dropping Vax Requirements For 2022 Fest (Billboard)

• Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber Can’t “Stay” Away From The Top of The Billboard Hot 100 (Billboard)

• Why Are People Still Listening To R, Kelly? (The Hill)

• The Rock Raps, As Dwayne Johnson Makes Hip Hop Debut (EW)

• Fearless Taylor’s Version Back At #1 On Billboard Hot 200 (Billboard)

• Stream Aaliyah Ultimate Compilation Album (Rolling Stone)

Sports Talk

• Battle Lines Drawn: Nets Bench Kyrie Until He’s Vaxxed (Yahoo Sports)

• Giants - Dodgers Series Going To Winner Take All Game 5 (Yahoo Sports)

• Braves Advance To NLCS Await Dodgers/Giants Winner (ESPN)

• Astros Headed To 5th Straight ALCS To Face Red Sox (Yahoo Sports)

• DeMaurice Smith Opens Up On Gruden Mess (USA TODAY)

• NFLPA To Petition The NFL To Release All The WFT Emails (ESPN)

• Taurasi Highlights Travel Constraints & Other Issues Within The WNBA CBA (ESPN)

• Jon Gruden Is A Symptom of A Much Larger Problem As He Becomes The Latest Pawn In An Ever Growing Culture War (Salon)

SPORTS

Scores & Schedules

• Sports Scoreboard 10-13 (Sports Illustrated)

• MLB Scoreboard 10-13(Sports Illustrated)

• Week 6 College Football  Scoreboard (ESPN)

• Week 5 NFL Scoreboard (Sports Illustrated)

• MLB Playoff Schedule (ESPN)

• Complete College Football TV Schedule For Entire Season (USA TODAY)

Rankings

• College Football USA TODAY  Coaches Poll [10-10]- (USA TODAY)

• College Football AP Poll [10-10]- (Sporting News)

• College Football Power Rankings Wk 6 [10-10]-(ESPN)

• Week 5 NFL Power Rankings [10-12]- (Yahoo Sports)

• Ranking the NBA’s Top 100 Players 21-22 Season (Sports Illustrated)

• NBA Top100: Snubs Edition (Sports Illustrated)

• The Best Players In WNBA History (ESPN)

MUSIC & BOOKS

What’s Charting & Playing

• New This Week On The Radio [10-10] - (Wine Down Radio)

• Who Had The Best Week In Music? [10-10] - (Billboard)

• EW’s Best New Songs of the Week [10-10]- (EW)

• Songs To Get You Through The Week [10-11] (Billboard)

• Week’s Freshest R&B/Hip Hop Joints [10-11]- (Billboard)

• Best Moments In Latin Music This Week [10-9]

• Billboard Hot 100 [10-16] (Billboard)

• Billboard Hot 200 [10-16}-(Billboard)

• 2021 Album Release Calendar (Metacritic)

BookEnds

• The October Reading List (EW)

• NY TIMES Best Seller List [10-17]  (NY TIMES)

• Books By Latino Authors (EW)

• Read First Chapter of Legal Thriller All Her Little Secrets, Coming This Fall (EW)

  • Chapter 2 of All Her Little Secrets (EW)

• Read Excerpt FromThe Lost Dreamer, Coming Next Spring (EW)

• In Real Life: Fall’s Best Memoirs (EW)

• Best Books of the Year, So Far (Barnes & Noble)

THE WATCHOUT

Highlights

• Best Movies Streaming October (EW)

• What’s Leaving Netflix In October (THR)

• Halloween Movies on HBO Max (The Wrap)

• 2021 Movie Release Calendar (Cinemablend)

• Look At Fall’s New & Returning Shows (EW)

• Fall TV Schedule (TVLine)

• Most Anticipated Movies of 2021 (Variety)

• 2022 Awards Season Calendar (EW)

• Fall TV Premiere Dates (EW)

What’s Poppin’

• The Top Showrunners 2021 Edition (THR)

• Top 10 Movies From Toronto International Film Festival (Rolling Stone)

• Meet The TIME 100 (Time Magazine)

• Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of all Time (Rolling Stone)

• 100 Greatest Movie Quotes of 21st Century (Thrillist)

• Esquire’s 40 Best Books Of The Year So Far (Esquire)

• 100 Best Sitcoms of All Time (Rolling Stone)

• 50 Best Teen Dramas of All Time (EW)

• Billboard Team Ranks The Top 50 Albums of The Year So Far (Billboard)

• 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time (Rolling Stone)

WINE DOWN TV

The Latest In Streaming

• This Week’s Comings & Goings (10-10) (TVLine)

• 9 Must-Watch Shows This Fall (EW)What’s Streaming In October (Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Amazon, etc…) (TV Guide)

• 9 Best Movies On HBO Max In October (The Wrap)

TV Listings

• EW Wednesday Listings

• TVLine Wednesday Listings

• TV Guide Wednesday Listings

Tonight’s Focus

• Dopesick (Hulu)

• Just Beyond (DIsney+)

• Batwoman 9E/8C (The CW)

• Twenties 10E/9C (BET+)

🎬 Trailer Park 🎬

Colin In Black and White (Colin Kaepernick; Jaden Michael; Gabriel Womack) Netflix (Oct 29)

Scream (Neve Campbell; Courteney Cox; David Arquette) In Theaters (Jan 14,2022)