Episode of October 21, 2026

Como v Manchester United on Wednesday 21 October 2026 kicks off at 17:45 UK time (18:45 local in Como). It is live on TNT Sports 2 in the UK (coverage from 5pm BST), with streaming via HBO Max, the official UK streaming home for TNT Sports subscribers (talkSPORT 2 has UK radio commentary). Kick-off time and channel: Manchester Evening News article "Como vs Man United TV channel, live stream and kick-off time" (15:30, 21 Oct 2026) and confirmed again on TVFootie's Manchester United on TV page, which lists "17:45 Como v Manchester United — HBO Max, TNT Sports 2".

On 21 October 2026 EA confirmed it is shutting down BioWare and cutting about 400 jobs. Per Bloomberg's reporting (cited by The Verge and Polygon), roughly 400 EA employees are being let go — about 3% of the company and around 50 of them at BioWare; The Verge and TNW both frame the 400 figure as Bloomberg-reported. BioWare is closing entirely, including its Edmonton workspace, with its official social accounts posting: "Now, after more than three decades of shared adventures, BioWare is closing and early development on the next Mass Effect project is ending." Yes — the next Mass Effect game (announced in 2020, colloquially "Mass Effect 5") is cancelled: in their staff memo EA president/chief studios officer Cam Weber and president/COO David Tinson wrote that "we've had a small team at BioWare working on early-development for Mass Effect. We've made the decision not to move forward with this development, which means we're closing the studio and our Edmonton workspace." Their comment continued: "BioWare is a legendary studio that helped define the role-playing genre, and we do not take this decision lightly," adding that EA had "taken a hard look at our business" and will focus on pr

The Finals teams are the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries. Reports say both teams left the court for the locker room and were absent while the U.S. national anthem played before Game 1 and again before Game 2 (New York Post: Valkyries and Dream players "were seen going to the locker room" just before Alanis Morissette sang in Game 2; AP: neither team "was on the court during the playing of the national anthem ahead of Game 1 or 2"). As of 21 October 2026, I found no official statement from either league: Yahoo and Fadeaway World headlines say the WNBA "remains silent"/"stays silent," and a Fox News headline indexed by Google News says "NBA stays silent on WNBA Finals teams skipping the national anthem before Games 1 and 2." I could not verify the full article bodies or whether either league answered specific comment requests, because page content was truncated and I hit the visit limit before opening AP/Fox directly.

In GQ's "One More Question" interview with Zach Baron, published 20 October 2026 (titled "Prince Harry: 'This Grief Can Either Hold You Back or Help You Grow'"), Harry gave these reasons for the move: "Opportunities for the family. Being able to put the kids in a British school has meant a lot to me. I didn't know how important it was to me"—he said the children (seven and five) are "loving it" and gaining "two completely different cultural experiences." He also cited being "back closer to my family and to be back on UK soil for longer than a few days or a week here or there," and wanting "to show my kids where I grew up and have them have the experiences to some extent that I had, the good rather than necessarily the bad." He added it wasn't long-planned ("when certain stars align... we lean into that"), that his attitude to the media has changed, that "it's good to be outside of the US for the next few months, perhaps. Let things settle down," and he spoke of grieving strained family relationships he is trying to repair.

Zach Bryan's 2027 "Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs" tour is 23 shows at 19 stadiums — North America plus Australia, with NO UK or Europe dates announced (per ZachBryan.com's tour listing and Holler). North American dates: Apr 28 Minneapolis (U.S. Bank Stadium), May 1 Indianapolis (Lucas Oil), May 4 Green Bay (Lambeau Field), May 8 Chicago (Soldier Field), May 14 & 15 East Rutherford (MetLife), May 18 Baltimore (M&T Bank), May 22 Nashville (Nissan Stadium), May 25 Philadelphia (Lincoln Financial Field), May 29 Atlanta (Mercedes-Benz), Jun 2 Buffalo (Highmark Stadium), Jul 16 Las Vegas (Allegiant), Jul 20 Los Angeles (SoFi), Jul 24 Seattle (Lumen Field), Jul 28 Vancouver (BC Place), Aug 1 Edmonton (Commonwealth Stadium), Aug 6 Boise (Albertsons Stadium), Oct 9-10 GoldenSky Festival Sacramento. Australia: Dec 3 & 4 Melbourne (Marvel Stadium), Dec 10 & 11 Sydney (Accor Stadium), Dec 17 & 18 Brisbane (Suncorp Stadium). Artist presale opens Wed Oct 21 at 10am local (Australia: Melbourne 11am AEDT, Sydney 1pm AEDT, Brisbane 1pm AEST) for fans who register at ZachBryanPresale.com (max 8 tickets); general onsale is Fri Oct 23 at 10am local — both per Holler. No presale code has bee

On Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at about 12:10 p.m., Montgomery County Police responded to the 6600 block of Rockledge Drive in Bethesda, near Walter Johnson High School, after a report of shots fired; MCPD later said officers found evidence of a shooting there, that the shooting did not occur on school property, and that the scene was secured, according to The MoCo Show's report citing MCPD (updated 2:01 p.m.). Four people were detained in suspected connection — reported by The MoCo Show and matching the FOX 5 DC ("4 detained") and DC News Now ("4 in custody... police") headlines. MCPD said no injuries had been reported, per The MoCo Show. FOX 5 reported seven MCPS schools were placed in "secure" status as a precaution, and The MoCo Show reported MCPS had lifted the secure status at Walter Johnson High School; I could not verify the all-clear for the other six schools. DC News Now's article was blocked (HTTP 403) and FOX 5's article body kept getting truncated, so those specific details come from headlines plus The MoCo Show's police-sourced report.

Bookmark BBC Sport's Champions League section: bbc.co.uk/sport/football/champions-league (its Scores & Fixtures tab defaults to UK time). It loaded instantly with no login, paywall or bot check, and for tonight it correctly lists the whole round — Como v Manchester United 17:45, with Aston Villa v Viking, Bayern Munich v Arsenal, Club Brugge v Lens, Inter v Shakhtar, Real Betis v Feyenoord, Real Madrid v RB Leipzig and Sporting v LASK all at 20:00 — plus live text and BBC Radio 5 Live commentary links. Important caveat: none of the four candidates gave reliable per-match UK TV channel details. UEFA's fixtures page is a JavaScript shell with no readable fixtures, ESPN returned HTTP 202 with no content (bot wall), and Sky Sports' dated fixture list fell back to 21 October 2025 with only a "Live on Sky" listing showing Reading v Leyton Orient and no Champions League match, so Sky's own channel grid won't tell you where the CL games are.

Pick TODAY's article ("Prince Harry Breaks Silence About Why He Moved Back to the UK"): it loaded cleanly with no paywall or login, and it quotes his stated reasons almost verbatim from his GQ "One More Question" interview — "Opportunities for the family," "Being able to put the kids in a British school has meant a lot to me. I didn't know how important it was to me," and being "closer to my family and to be back on UK soil for longer than a few days or a week here or there," plus his comments on reconciling with William and Charles. USA TODAY is a solid free backup with the same reasons but paraphrases more of the quotes. People returned an HTTP 402 block and JustJared was stuck behind a "Just a moment..." bot wall, so neither could be read.

Pick IGN: ign.com/articles/bioware-shutting-down-ne… — it loads in full with no paywall, bot wall or login prompt, and states all three facts (EA cutting ~400 jobs, BioWare being shut down, and the next Mass Effect cancelled). Runner-ups that also confirmed all three cleanly: Kotaku (quotes BioWare's own social post confirming the closure and that "early development on the next Mass Effect project is ending") and The Next Web (adds that ~50 of the cuts are at BioWare and the cancellation of a Sims project, Project Lotus). PC Gamer was the weak link: the URL loads but only its membership/newsletter menus and navigation render, so its article body never appeared and none of the three facts could be verified there.

Variety's exclusive (Oct 21, 2026, by Marc Malkin and Selome Hailu) confirms only ONE returning cast member: Lea Michele, back as Rachel Berry, per "multiple sources" ("She's in"). Heather Morris (Brittany Pierce) and Chord Overstreet (Sam Evans) are not confirmed by Variety — it says their Instagram posts "seem to confirm" they will also return, and reps for Michele and Murphy declined comment. Ryan Murphy said he'd been in touch with around 10 original cast members and has written the reboot script with Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. It will air on Disney+ and Hulu (greenlit by both), produced by 20th Television. No premiere date, window or episode count has been announced — Variety explicitly notes details are "scant" and Disney shared nothing beyond the platform and studio.