Episode of October 26, 2026

The 2026 Ballon d'Or ceremony starts at 8:00pm UK time (GMT) and runs until about 10:00pm, with red-carpet arrivals from 6:00pm (UEFA lists the ceremony as 20:00 GMT / 21:00 CET). UK viewers watch it free on DAZN — it holds the exclusive global rights and is streaming the show free of charge across ~200 markets; there is no paid subscription, you just need a free DAZN account (email sign-up) via the DAZN app or website (dazn.com/en-GB), and no UK terrestrial/linear channel is showing it. One correction to the brief: the ceremony is not in Paris this year — it's at the London Palladium (first time outside Paris for the 70th edition), and 26 October 2026 is a Monday, not a Sunday.

PSG v Lyon kicks off at 19:30 UK time (7:30pm BST) and is shown in the UK on Amazon Prime Video as a pay-per-view event, with Ligue1+ (the Ligue 1 Pass streaming service) also listed as a broadcaster. Two UK TV guides (live-footballontv.com and wheresthematch.com) list it identically. Note: 26 October 2026 is actually a Monday, not a Sunday — both guides schedule this fixture for Monday 26th October 2026 at 19:30.

As of Monday afternoon 26 October 2026, the Energy Networks Association says about 22,600 properties are still without power after Storm Boelo — in Scotland, SSEN reports ~15,000 homes off supply in the north and SP Energy Networks ~500 in Ayrshire and Dumfries & Galloway, having restored nearly 100,000 over the weekend. Yes, Met Office warnings remain in force: a yellow wind warning from 18:00 Monday to 03:00 Tuesday for the west coasts of England, Wales and Scotland plus eastern Northern Ireland, and a second yellow wind warning for much of Scotland, parts of northern England and Northern Ireland from 03:00 Tuesday (BBC Scotland gives it ending 21:00, the national report 23:59). Official advice: the Met Office warns further power cuts are likely in warned areas and people should have essentials ready, including torches and batteries, expect travel delays and coastal spray/large waves; Sepa has an amber flood risk for the Northern and Western Isles and Caithness and Sutherland, and travellers should note school closures, ScotRail speed restrictions until 16:00 Tuesday, and CalMac/NorthLink ferry disruption.

Green Bay lost 20-17 at Detroit on Oct. 25, 2026 (Week 7) on a late Lions field goal, and the postgame focus was officiating. The chief disputed roughing-the-passer flags were on Packers defenders Brenton Cox Jr. and Karl Brooks — the Brooks one coming with the score 17-17 and about 2:40 left, when an 18-yard completion to Sam LaPorta became a 15-yard penalty that extended Detroit's game-winning drive. Players were blunt: safety Xavier McKinney "unleashed" on the crew and said the refs have too much control, Devonte Wyatt (flagged for unnecessary roughness) also went after the officials, Keisean Nixon suggested the league has it in for Jordan Love, and Micah Parsons and even Tom Brady criticised the calls; Matt LaFleur mostly bit his tongue, saying no one heard a whistle on the Wyatt play and that Wyatt was playing to the whistle. The only official response was referee Alex Moore's postgame pool report, in which he defended the Wyatt unnecessary-roughness call and the intentional-grounding flag on Love — notably, he was not asked about the two roughing-the-passer penalties, and I found no NFL statement, admission of error or fine. Best paywall-free read: the Packers Wire pool-repor

Late on Sunday evening (25 October 2026), TUI Cruises' Mein Schiff 3 was departing Bremerhaven when a strong wind gust set her drifting and she struck two MSC container ships lying at the berths; the container ship suffered a large gash in its hull and several of Mein Schiff 3's lifeboats were torn apart/destroyed along her side, damage serious enough that the ship must go into a shipyard for repairs. TUI Cruises cancelled the ship's 20-night Canary Islands voyage that had just started, with passengers disembarking in Bremerhaven, and said affected guests would be informed about onward travel and later voyages as soon as the situation was reliably assessed. Bremerhaven water police are investigating the captain for a breach of duty of care, and the three vessels were reportedly barred from leaving port while the investigation continues.

GPT-6.1 Terra is OpenAI's new "fast and efficient" GPT-6.1-tier model in the API, sitting below GPT-6.1 Sol (balanced) and GPT-6 Astra (highest intelligence) and above GPT-6 Luna; it's aimed at visual reasoning, precise computer use and clean writing, with reasoning effort selectable from none to max (medium by default). Its computer-use capability means the model operates a browser or desktop itself — inspecting screenshots, clicking and typing to carry out multi-step tasks such as "acting on application screens," comparing drawings or matching product photos — rather than only replying in text; in the API this requires connecting it to a browser/desktop runtime. On price it is exactly half the previous GPT-6.1 model (Sol): $1.00 per 1M input and $5.00 per 1M output tokens vs Sol's $2.00/$10.00, $0.05 vs $0.10 cached input, and $2.00/$7.50 vs $4.00/$15.00 in long context.

I picked AS (en.as.com): it was the only one of the four with a dedicated "Ballon d'Or 2026: start time and how to watch" explainer, giving the ceremony as starting at 8pm UK time on Monday 26 October (21:00 CET / 4pm ET), with viewing via the DAZN streaming service — though AS's viewing details are framed for a US audience, so UK-specific broadcaster/channel detail is thin. UEFA's Ballon d'Or live blog corroborates the 21:00 CET start (= 8pm UK, since UK clocks are back on GMT), but it's a build-up blog with no UK broadcast information; Sporting News and CBS Sports only served navigation-heavy hub pages with no accessible ceremony guide (my direct URL attempts returned 404), and the Spanish as.com homepage was blocked by a JavaScript/ad-blocker wall, so I used its English edition instead. Bottom line: 8pm UK on 26 October, stream via DAZN, and double-check DAZN's UK page since none of the four sites spelled out a UK-only viewing route.

Pick footaz.net. Its dedicated match page (footaz.net/match/psg-vs-lyon/?country=gb) is the only candidate that gives both a UK-timezone kick-off and a UK-specific channel list: kick-off 19:30 (site clock set to London, shown as "10/26/26, 7:30 PM"), with Amazon Prime Video (rated 90% reliable, official source), Ligue 1+ (100%) and OneFootball (90%) listed for the UK. Goal.com's UK Ligue 1 page corroborates 19:30 vs Lyon on "Amazon Prime PPV", but its channel wording is vaguer and its fixture info isn't UK-filtered, so it's a good cross-check rather than the pick. Caveats: news.bet365.com returned an HTTP 403 bot wall and NDTV Profit returned "Access Denied", so neither could even be assessed, and both readable sites date the match Monday 26 October 2026 (26 Oct 2026 is indeed a Monday, not the Sunday in the brief) while their live trackers showed the game already at 3 minutes.

Pick the BBC (bbc.co.uk/news) — it is the only candidate that carries the Met Office warnings and the hard impact numbers on one page. Its newest Storm Boelo story (updated ~1 hour ago, latest UK updates 18:22 GMT on 26 Oct 2026) reports ~15,000 homes still off supply with SSEN plus ~500 with SP Energy Networks, a 60-year-old man killed by a falling tree, and quotes the Met Office's new warnings verbatim: yellow wind 18:00 Mon–03:00 Tue for south-west Scotland, and a second yellow wind warning 03:00–21:00 Tue covering most of the country plus parts of northern England and Northern Ireland; travel detail includes Crianlarich–Oban and Inverness–Wick/Thurso lines closed, speed restrictions on seven ScotRail routes, 28 of CalMac's 30 services disrupted, and dozens of school closures. The Met Office site is authoritative on the warnings themselves (its Storm Centre confirms Boelo was named/impacted 22 October 2026) but publishes no power-cut, rail or school-closure figures, Sky.com is just a TV/broadband shop with no news at all, and the Guardian's landing page served its US edition with only generic "clean-up under way" storm coverage and no per-network numbers.