Over the summer, everybody decided, en masse, to binge-watch all nine seasons of Suits. In August, we heard that between Netflix and Peacock, people had streamed 18 billion minutes of Suits. Suits, a show which ended in 2019, was the surprise hit of the summer of 2023. Recently, Nielsen Streaming announced that Suits had been the #1 streamed show for the twelfth week in a row and “Only 11 streaming titles have sat atop Nielsen’s Top 10 for five weeks or more.” What do the youths want? MOAR SUITS. So Suits creator Aaron Korsh will give people more Suits.

For the past four months, Suits has been the hottest series on television, breaking a slew of streaming viewership records. Now the franchise, which ended in September 2019 with the Suits series finale, is plotting a comeback.

Series creator Aaron Korsh is in development of a Suits offshoot for NBCUniversal, sources tell Deadline. Deals are still being negotiated, but I hear the project is expected to be fast-tracked with a serious commitment.

This is not a revival or reboot and, unlike the 2019 Pearson, the new legal procedural is not a spinoff either — it would be a Suits universe series in the vein of the CSI and NCIS franchises featuring new characters in a new location, sources said. I hear Los Angeles is a backdrop considered for the workplace drama.

Like is the case for most NBCUniversal development, a network or platform for the potential new series has not been determined yet. The original Suits and spinoff Pearson both aired on the company’s USA Network. They were produced by UCP, part of Universal Studio Group. I hear UCP, where Korsh was based for many years with back-to-back overall deals, is in discussions to produce the new offshoot. Korsh is expected to executive producer alongside David Bartis and Doug Liman who were EPs with him on the original series. A rep for NBCU declined comment.

[From Deadline]

Basically, Suits is so popular that Korsh will get to create a Suits Extended Universe with new characters, maybe even one or two returning characters? What would be amazing is if they could arrange the “Suits Universe” in a way in which the old stars could pop in and out in guest-starring roles. Obviously, the Duchess of Sussex isn’t looking to return to acting full-time or part-time. But I could totally see her doing a one-off episode out of love for the Suits team and Aaron Korsh.

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The trailer for The Curse looks interesting? Emma Stone should do more stuff like this, she’s great at weird/funny. [Egotastic]
What is Angelina Jolie doing about the Paris bedbug situation?? [LaineyGossip]
Gugu Mbatha-Raw looked amazing at the Bulgari event. [RCFA]
Why did Holly Willoughby leave This Morning? [Pajiba]
More photos from the big Bulgari gala, so many jewels! [Go Fug Yourself]
Ethan Slater is returning to Broadway in Spamalot. [Just Jared]
Kendall Jenner loves a Midwest bar scene. [Jezebel]
Are you guys watching For All Mankind? [Seriously OMG]
I also had a crush on the “Robin Hood” fox. [Buzzfeed]
RHOP has some golddigger drama. [Starcasm]

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The entire week, the British media has been desperately clout-chasing the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and tried to attach the Sussexes’ New York trip to Prince William and Kate. It goes unspoken and unwritten that Harry and Meghan are off, doing their own thing with charisma, glamour, empathy and purpose, all while William talks about how the eggplant is his most-used emoji. One couple is serious, driven and compassionate. The other couple shows up half-assed and poorly prepared, and their appearances are (at best) perfunctory. As I said, the British media has been trying to tie the two couples together all week, but now Richard Eden at the Daily Mail is taking an even bolder stance: the Sussexes’ mental health work means nothing because of how Harry and Meghan have “hurt” Peg and Buttons’ mental health. You know what…

Harry and Meghan’s ‘disgraceful’ treatment of William and Kate undermines their high-profile commitment to promoting mental health, says Richard Eden. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex appeared in New York on Tuesday to warn of the dangers posed by social media.

But in a trenchant newsletter for Palace Confidential, Eden suggests that the Duke of Sussex and his wife have done little to support the mental well-being of his brother William, the Prince of Wales, or his wife, Catherine. The Waleses ‘have had to put up with the most disgraceful personal criticism from Harry and Meghan on television and in Harry’s book while being unable to answer back publicly,’ writes The Daily Mail’s Diary Editor.

He also takes online fans of Harry and Meghan to task for alleging – without foundation – that William and Catherine had somehow failed to support Meghan when she was experiencing difficulties of her own as a member of the Royal Family.

The Prince and Princess of Wales visited Birmingham, where they held a forum for young people focusing on the importance of understanding emotions and building positive relationships. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, meanwhile, were making their own contribution more than 3,000 miles away in New York.

‘William and Catherine have had to put up with more sniping from Harry and Meghan’s cheerleaders,’ writes Eden. ‘They claimed the Waleses’ concern for mental health issues was only skin deep because they had ‘failed’ to support Meghan when she was suffering problems of her own. This is grossly unfair. Harry previously praised his brother for encouraging him to seek help when he was suffering mental challenges after serving in Afghanistan. What about William and Catherine’s own mental well-being?’

[From The Daily Mail]

Controversial take: while Eden is predictably unhinged and full of sh-t, at least he’s saying something out loud which royal reporters rarely admit. Which is: William and Kate’s continued attempts to talk about “mental health” always fall flat because of the “original sin” of what they did to Harry and Meghan. While Eden brings this up merely to blame everything on the Sussexes and the Sussex Squad, he’s actually emphasizing a very real thing, which comes up in conversation every time William and Kate try, in their lazy, bumbling, assy way, to do mental-health advocacy. William and Kate were exposed as frauds, racists, elitists and chronic gaslighters. Instead of showing care and concern for Harry and Meghan throughout 2018 and 2019, Will and Kate leaked lies about them, sold them out, bullied them, abused them and (in one case) physically assaulted them. Anyway, Eden is just begging the Squad to interact with him so he can play the victim. Don’t do it.

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This entire time, Prince Harry and Princess Eugenie have remained especially close. To me, they seem more like brother and sister than first cousins. In Spare, Harry made his fondness for Eugenie in particular perfectly clear. Eugenie is still the only Windsor family member to visit the Sussexes in Montecito, and it’s likely that the Sussexes stopped by Portugal for a few days last month to spend time with Eugenie, Jack Brooksbank and their children. Considering Harry is making it clear that Eugenie is one of the few family members he’ll speak to, you would think that the Windsors would simply want to keep this “Sussex back channel” open. It’s Diplomacy 101 – even if you don’t have formal relations with a “hostile” entity, you need some way to communicate, and Eugenie is the neutral third party through which messages can be sent back and forth. She’s part of the royal family, but also separate enough to carve out her own life and she’s taken pains to remain friendly with both sides. So, of course, the Windsors want to figure out a way to force Eugenie into breaking off contact with the Sussexes or something.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle could have a new royal feud on the horizon as the King and the palace worry what the couple could find out amid their ongoing close bonds to some of their relatives. According to an insider, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have remained very close to Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice, which has “left the Royal family worried” about what palace information the Montecito-based duo could end up hearing, as per Heat Magazine.

The Duke and Duchess are said to have caught up with Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank recently, with reports even claiming they jetted off to Portugal together where they had a “wonderful time”. It was also revealed that Harry and Meghan are even planning on hosting Eugenie and Jack in California over the holiday season.

“They’ve got so much in common: the kids, a shared interest in philanthropy, and Harry enjoys offering advice to his cousin about how to further her career, while Meghan’s great with parenting, lifestyle, and nutrition,” the insider spilled.

But this bond is said to be causing a stir inside the palace, with them supposedly “worried” that the friendship could lead to a “new royal feud”. Speaking to the outlet, an insider said: “For the King, Camilla, and the Waleses, it’s rather unfortunate that Eugenie and Beatrice are so close with the Sussexes.”

The insider added that these fears are cropping up because Beatrice and Eugenie are “still privy to a lot of what’s happening inside Buckingham Palace, so there’s a concern about what they’re telling them, and what they could reveal – even unintentionally”.

[From The Daily Mirror]

“Beatrice and Eugenie are ‘still privy to a lot of what’s happening inside Buckingham Palace’” – are they though? Charles has made it clear that they’re not working royals, but they’re invited to “family events” like religious holidays. They don’t have an office or courtiers, and whatever they hear about Charles and Camilla’s machinations is probably through their father. It’s not like they’re hearing and sharing state secrets. They hear sh-t like “Camilla was drunk as a skunk at that event.” And I hope they do tell Harry about it and he laughs. Anyway, I don’t think this is actually about Charles and Camilla, neither of whom seems to care one way or the other about Eugenie and Bea or their friendship with the Sussexes. This is about William still being full of rage that everyone in the family hasn’t picked a side and chosen HIS side.

Meanwhile, Eugenie and Jack celebrated their fifth anniversary this week and Eugenie made a really sweet video:

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It’s still sort of incredible that people continue to relitigate the 2022 “Oscar Slap” only to come to the conclusion that Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith were both at fault. Literally, there have been comments just this week about that. Jada was the target of Rock’s cruel joke, just as she’d been the target of his cruelty and harassment for decades before that night. Following the Oscar Slap, Chris Rock continued to blame JADA, targeting her yet again in his Netflix standup special, which he filmed in her hometown (Baltimore) and where he referred to her as a “bitch” dozens of times, claiming that she “started it.” Perhaps in Chris Rock’s delusional mind, Jada started it by refusing his advances. Well, Jada has more to say about how f–king crazy it was that she got the blame for her husband slapping Chris Rock.

Jada Pinkett Smith is looking back on the aftermath of her husband Will Smith’s Oscars incident.

“It was ridiculous in how far it went,” Jada, 52, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue, reflecting on the rumors that she was somehow to blame for when Will, 55, struck Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards.

“But I also understood at the same time. Considering the false narrative that I had cheated on Will or I was like some adulteress, Will had never done that before,” Jada says. “And I think that when we just look at human nature… when you look at the breadcrumbs, people need something to blame.”

“And so people not knowing what was happening behind the scenes, I surely wasn’t surprised that I got blamed,” she adds of how some interpreted the incident. “But I understood that that’s just the human nature of it all.”

[From People]

She’s right – it’s ridiculous how far it went, and she probably wasn’t surprised that so many people found a way to blame her. My heart still breaks for her when I think about that moment, especially knowing what we know now. She supported Will throughout his Oscar campaign, walking red carpets with him as they played as elite Black Hollywood power couple, even though they had been separated for years. She did that because she genuinely supports him and loves him, and she was there on Oscar night as the wife of a Best Actor nominee. Then Chris Rock – someone who has targeted her and harassed her for many years – got on stage and made fun of her alopecia. All she did was roll her eyes and look disgusted. That’s it. The rest of it was Will.

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Julia Fox has been hawking her book all over New York. [GFY]
House Republicans still haven’t elected a speaker, lmao. It will probably be Rep. Scalise, although Jim Jordan has some weak support. [Pajiba]
I f–king despise my state’s governor Glenn Youngkin. He’s a POS, a liar, a misogynist and a racist. This new ad buy is horrific. [Jezebel]
Kylie Minogue remixes an ‘80s hit? [OMG Blog]
Analysis on Jada Pinkett Smith’s latest marriage revelations. [LaineyGossip]
This Nadia Manjarrez bridal collection is all over the place. [Tom & Lorenzo]
This TikTok explains how to buy a new car from a dealership. [Buzzfeed]
What songs did Taylor Swift cut from the Eras Tour movie? [JustJared]
Heather Graham is vacationing in Italy. [Egotastic]
This “Dear Annie” situation is awful, omg. [Towleroad]
Barbara Walters slept with Richard Pryor??? [Seriously OMG]

Kendall Jenner is one of several W Magazine covers this month. This is partly because of the SAG-AFTRA strike – while many actors did interviews pre-strike, the only way they will agree to a magazine interview during the strike is if they’re promoting a waivered film or they’re promoting a side-project. Thus, the fall magazine covers will feature a lot of models and musicians. As for Kendall, her persona and look is so bland that bleached eyebrows barely even register. Kendall chatted with W about her tequila brand, her mom and the fashion industry. Some highlights:

She’s L’Oréal’s newest global ambassador. Why partner with a 114-year-old brand instead of starting her own thing? “I love wearing makeup, playing around with it, and learning from makeup artists on set, but I never really saw myself being in a lab creating products. I think I’ll leave that to the pros who know what they’re doing and have a passion for it—like my sisters.”

Her 818 tequila: It sold 136,000 cases (that’s 1.5 million bottles) in its first seven months and has been growing steadily ever since. “I’ve learned to be a leader, and to recognize that my energy affects everybody else’s energy. It’s about keeping it positive, uplifting, and really driven. I want everybody to feel inspired at all times, so I’ve been learning how to play that role and be that person for the whole team.”

Her mother: “I come from a long line of businesswomen—even my grandmother and my great-grandmother had their own businesses. I watched them when I was very, very young, and I watched my mom find her way. She never went through any sort of training to do the things that she did. She just bossed it out.”

She’s not giving up modeling: “Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford are my inspirations. I just love how they moved with class and they’ve aged with class. They’re two people I’d love to model my career after—pun intended.”

The quiet-luxury aesthetic: “If you go back in time, I think you’ll find I’ve always had that aspect to my style. But also, I feel that I’ve been very versatile throughout my life. I love the elegance of certain things, but I’ll also do an easy, comfortable, cool-girl vibe. I love a waist snatcher, but I also love a baggier moment. I find myself looking at Jane Birkin a lot. She was the coolest and so elegant, but there was so much sex appeal. Sometimes she’d wear something sheer and her boobs and butt would be out, and I love stuff like that. She was really not afraid to take risks.

[From W Magazine]

Jane Birkin? I’ve always believed that Kendall resembles a young Ali McGraw, and I kind of wish some magazine editor would just put Kendall in full Ali McGraw drag just to see if it would work. But that’s the kind of throwback look Kendall should try too – kind of a cloche-hat-wearing ‘70s queen. I actually like that Kendall dismissed the idea that she would start her own makeup label – the “celebrity makeup” market is already grossly oversaturated, and in her shoes, I would do what Kendall is doing too – go with a brand ambassadorship with an established mass-market brand like L’Oreal.

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Angelina Jolie has been in Paris this week, filming Maria. This is Jolie’s first lead role since Maleficent 2 – since she left Brad Pitt, Angelina has looked for smaller projects which can be filmed quickly, and she hasn’t seemed at all interested in being a movie star. I would assume that Maria has a pretty tight and fast film schedule though, especially because Angelina has so much business to attend to in New York.

Obviously, she’s playing Maria Callas and I’m sort of in love with her Callas costumes from what I’ve seen thus far. They’re using real vintage pieces, pieces Callas either owned or similar period items. Those thick, rimmed glasses are doing so much work. Previously, I claimed that Jolie would not wear a prosthetic nose to play Callas. It looks like that was a lie – I zoomed in for a closer look on some of the set photos, and she’s absolutely wearing a fake nose. *deep sigh* I will not defend it. She should have said no.

In addition to the set photos, Angelina stepped out in her own clothes, and Backgrid says she was headed to a studio, probably to film interiors? She’s been using that same Celine tote for a few months, it’s her new favorite.

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One of the many things you settle into in your 30s is firmly knowing which camp you belong to, early bird or night owl. I identify as the latter. And let’s be real, there’s a lot more positivity ascribed to the early birds. They tend to get in more physical activity, they have a reduced risk of depression, and of course, they get the worm. Us night owls, by contrast, tend to be viewed as lazy. Yahoo! Life just ran an article asking if the unequal reputations between early birds and night owls are valid. While they didn’t flat out say one is better than the other, the studies cited sure seemed to benefit early birds:

Early birds get about an hour more activity each day: One 2020 cohort study of more than 5,000 people published in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports had people who were early birds and night owls wear activity trackers on their wrists for two weeks. The researchers found that early birds had up to 60 to 90 minutes more activity during the day than their night owl counterparts.

Early birds have a decreased risk of major depression: A study published in JAMA Psychiatry in 2021 linked early birds with a lowered risk of developing depression. For the study, researchers analyzed two genetic databases of more than 800,000 adults, along with data on major depression diagnoses and when people typically went to sleep and woke up. The researchers found that people who were early birds had a 23% lower risk of developing major depression for every hour earlier they reached their midpoint of sleep (that is, the middle of their sleep cycle).

Night owls have an increased risk of type 2 diabetes: Another study, this one published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in September, linked being a night owl to having a greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The study analyzed data from 63,676 nurses from the ages of 45 to 62 and found that those who preferred to stay up late were 54% more likely to have unhealthy lifestyle habits, such as smoking, not sleeping enough, not exercising and a poor diet. The researchers also discovered the night owls were 19% more likely to develop type 2 diabetes.

Night owls have a 9% greater risk of early death: Being an early bird is even linked to having a longer life. A Chronobiology International study published earlier this year followed nearly 24,000 twins from 1981 to 2018 and asked them about their sleep habits. The researchers also looked at death records and, after adjusting for factors like alcohol use, smoking, body mass and sleep duration, found that night people had a 9% greater risk of early death than their morning counterparts.

Night owls are more creative and alert: Older research has found that people who stay up late are more likely to be creative than those who have earlier bedtimes. Night owls are also more likely to be mentally alert and have faster response times before bed than early birds, according to another study.

Doctors weigh in on sleep schedules: The sleep schedule you prefer can be caused by a mix of factors, Dr. Beth Malow, director of the Sleep Disorders Division at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, tells Yahoo Life. “It’s definitely biological but can also be related to habits, such as when a spouse prefers to go to bed,” she says. Dr. W. Christopher Winter, a neurologist and sleep medicine physician with Charlottesville Neurology and Sleep Medicine and host of the Sleep Unplugged podcast, tells Yahoo Life, “Jobs and family life also tend to influence bedtimes.”

The number of hours you sleep is more important than when you sleep: Despite all the research to support early birds, doctors say what’s more important is to ensure you get the recommended seven or more hours of sleep a night. “If your schedule allows it, it’s often easier to just stick with what you are comfortable with than to try to change it,” Malow says. Winter agrees. “If you’re killing yourself trying to wake up at 7 a.m. and you have the capacity to get up at 9 a.m. instead, there’s no problem with that as long as you’re exercising and eating well,” he says. “Just stay consistent, and you’ll be fine.”

[From Yahoo! Life]

So as a night owl, I have a greater chance of being depressed, developing type 2 diabetes, and dying younger… but at least I’m more creative! I guess I’ll take it, but that’s just a testament to how much I hate it when the alarm goes off in the morning. It always feels like a violent crash back into reality, even with setting my iPhone alarm to the dulcet tones of Cat Stevens singing “Morning Has Broken.” Also, why didn’t they cite the “older research” for the creativity results? Who were the test subjects, anyway, Broadway stage actors at 11:30pm curtain calls?! Cause it kinda felt like they were just trying to throw us a bone there. Well, the data isn’t pointing to anything quantifiably superior, so let’s tell them they’re more creative! I’ll listen to the doctors quoted at the end and focus on getting a consistent number of hours a night, more than when they happen. Now if I could just get my day job on board with slightly later hours…

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This week, Buckingham Palace announced that King Charles and Queen Camilla will go on a four-day tour of Kenya. They’ll be in Kenya from Halloween through November 3. This will be Charles’s first visit to a “British Commonwealth” country since he became king. Prince William and Kate still haven’t made any trips to any Commonwealth countries since spring 2022, the Caribbean Flop Tour, which apparently changed everything about how the Windsors view their own colonialist cosplay tours. What’s notable here is that Charles, by historical convention, really should have been traveling to Commonwealth countries throughout this entire year. Instead, Brexit changed the dynamics of British diplomacy and European alliances, and it was seen as much more important for Charles to visit France and Germany before any Commonwealth country. Of course, there’s another reason why Charles has avoided Commonwealth countries: he doesn’t want to be put in the position of going on an Apology Tour, wherein he would need to acknowledge the British crown’s long history of racism, slavery and colonialism. Speaking of:

King Charles will acknowledge the “painful aspects” of Britain’s past actions in Kenya during a state visit later this month. The visit follows an invitation from the country’s president, William Ruto, whose country will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its independence from Britain on 12 December. The two countries have enjoyed a close relationship in recent years despite the violent colonial legacy of an uprising in the early 1950s, which led to a period known as “the emergency”, which ran from 1952 until 1960.

The Mau Mau armed movement was fuelled by the resentment some members of the Kikuyu tribe felt towards their British rulers and European settlers who farmed land in Kenya, as well as at a lack of political representation. White farmers were targeted in violent attacks as were some Kikuyu who were said to have collaborated with the authorities.

The Kenya Human Rights Commission said 90,000 people were executed, tortured or maimed during the British administration’s counterinsurgency operation. The UK government made a historic statement of regret in 2013 over the “torture and other forms of ill-treatment” perpetrated by the colonial administration during the emergency period and paid reparations of £19.9m to about 5,200 people.

Charles and Queen Camilla spend four days in Kenya from 31 October to 3November. It will mark Charles’s first visit to a Commonwealth country as king. His deputy private secretary, Chris Fitzgerald, said: “The king and queen’s programme will celebrate the close links between the British and Kenyan people in areas such as the creative arts, technology, enterprise, education and innovation. The visit will also acknowledge the more painful aspects of the UK and Kenya’s shared history, including the emergency … His Majesty will take time during the visit to deepen his understanding of the wrongs suffered in this period by the people of Kenya.”

[From The Guardian]

Okay, so I actually didn’t know that British people refer to this part of their history as “the emergency.” That perfectly encapsulates the British penchant for understatement, my God. Shocked that they don’t refer to World War II as “the misunderstanding” or “the dust-up.” In any case, Charles is going to stand in some banquet hall or ballroom and say, with his cut-glass accent, that mistakes were made and of course everyone regrets all of it. He will stop just shy of apologizing and there will be zero reparations made. Camilla will then knock back another martini and grimace at the first white person she sees and then they’ll both stagger back to England.

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