The Thursday Wine Down🍷 (10-21)

Headlines

• Riz Ahmed Talks Shattering Hollywood Stereotypes (Variety)

• WBTV & Ruby Rose Go Back & Forth About Why She Left/Was Fired From Batwoman (TVLine)

• Walk It Out: Netflix Employees Walk Out Over Chappelle Special (EW)

• Coming To Netflix In November (EW)

• Warner Bros. Creates Asiatic Records, Focusing On Asian Hip -Hop (Billboard)

• IATSE Local Leaders Urging Ratification of Controversial Plan (THR)

• No Time To Die Becomes #2 Movie Of 2021 (Deadline)

• The Marvels Director, Nia DaCosta Says Thanos’ Snap Was All Captain America’s Fault (THR)

• OG Chicago Fire Star Jesse Spencer Exits After 10 Yrs & 200 Episodes (Deadline)

• Spike Lee, Nate Parker Sued For Copyright Infringement (The Wrap)

What’s Really Going On

• Senator Angus’ King’s Impassioned Plea To Save/Protect Voting Rights & The Democracy As GOP Filibusters Bill Again (The Independent)

• FDA Okays Mixing & Matching Covid Boosters (USA TODAY)

• Trump Launching His Own Social Media Network, Truth Social (Deadline)

• Search For Brian Laundrie Yields Human Remains (The Independent)

• DaFuq????Women Convicted Of Manslaughter For Miscarriage (the Independent)

• World Tour: Royal Caribbean Announces 274 Night World Cruise Setting Sail In 2023 (USA TODAY)

• $15 HR Minimum Wage Coming To Shake Shack (The Independent)

• 10 Yr Old Arrested Over A Drawing Because of A Parent Complaint (CNN)

• Zuckerberg Looking To Rebrand Facebook Co, But Is It Really A Rebrand Or Just A Name Change? (USA TODAY)

• California, Here Comes The Very Necessary Rain & Unwanted Flooding (CNN)

MUSIC NEWS & NOTES (10-17 thru 10-23)

• One on One With CL & Jhene Aiko (Rolling Stone)

• CL Gets All Alpha On Us (Billboard)

• Billboard Picks Tems For October R&B/Hip-Hop Album of The Month (Billboard)

• Miley Cyrus & Mickey Guyton One on One (Rolling Stone)

• Drake Sees Certified Lover Boy Return To #1 On Billboard Hot 200 (Billboard)

• ”Industry Baby” Tops Billboard Hot 100 (Billboard)

• Five Hours Was All It Took For Adele To Ease Her Way Onto The Billboard Hot 100 (Billboard)

• ABC To Air Real Queens of Hip-Hop Special (VIBE)

Sports Talk

• Astros One Game Away from Punching Ticket To World Series (USA TODAY)

• Braves Go For Four In Four To Push Dodgers To Brink (Yahoo Sports)

• Knicks Outduel Celtics In Thrilling 2OT Win (ESPN)

• Barkley Goes Oooooffff On Kyrie Sitch (Sporting News)

• Updating The Ben Simmons Sitch In Philly (USA TODAY)

• NFL Drops “Race Norming” In Concussion Settlements (ESPN)

• Joc Pederson & His Pearl Necklace[Not a Typo}- (Yahoo Sports)

• Dick Vitales’ Preseason Top In NCAA Men’s Hoops (ESPN)

• Boone Gets Another Shot With Bronx Bombers As Yankees Retain Manager (Yahoo Sports)

• Chris Webber Not Calling Games On TNT This Year After Hall of Famer & Network Had A Mutual Parting Of the Ways (Sporting News)

• After Bulls Opener LaVine Warns “This Ain’t Last Year” (ESPN)

• Celtics Dropped By China’s Tencent After Enes Kanter Voices Support For Tibet (Yahoo Sports)

SPORTS

Scores & Schedules

• Sports Scoreboard 10-20 (Sports Illustrated)

• MLB Scoreboard 10-20(Sports Illustrated)

• NBA Schedule 10-19 thru 10-25 (ESPN)

• Week 7 NFL Schedule (NFL.com)

• Week 8 College Football Schedule (ESPN)

• MLB Playoff Schedule (ESPN)

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

• WNBA Finals Schedule (ESPN)

Rankings

• College Football USA TODAY  Coaches Poll [10-17]- (USA TODAY)

• College Football AP Poll [10-17]- (Sporting News)

• Ranking ALL 130 College FB Teams [Week 7] -(Yahoo Sports)

• College Football Power Rankings Wk 7 [10-17]-(ESPN)

• Week 6 NFL Power Rankings [10-19]- (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)

• 75 Greatest NBA Players of All Time, So Far (ESPN)

MUSIC & BOOKS

What’s Charting & Playing

• New This Week On The Radio [10-17] - (Wine Down Radio)

• Who Had The Best Week In Music? [10-17] - (Billboard)

• EW’s Best New Songs of the Week [10-17]- (EW)

• Songs To Get You Through The Week [10-19] (Billboard)

• Week’s Freshest R&B/Hip Hop Joints [10-19]- (Billboard)

• Best Moments In Latin Music This Week [10-19]

• Billboard Hot 100 [10-23] (Billboard)

• Billboard Hot 200 [10-23}-(Billboard)

• 2021 Album Release Calendar (Metacritic)

BookEnds

• The October Reading List (EW)

• NY TIMES Best Seller List [10-31]  (NY TIMES)

• Books By Latino Authors (EW)

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

• TVLine Thursday Listings

• TV Guide Thursday  Listings

Tonight’s Focus

• NLCS Gm5 (Braves @ Dodgers) -7E/6C (TBS)

• NBA Double Header 7:30E/6:30C (TNT)

• Station19 8E/7C - (ABC)

• The Blacklist 8E/7C (NBC)

🎬 Trailer Park 🎬

Being the Ricardos (Nicole Kidman; Javier Bardem; J.K. Simmons) Amazon Prime Video (Dec. 10)

The Flash (Ezra Miller; Ben Affleck; Michael Keaton) In Theaters (Nov 4, 2022)