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  1. Richard Kind Is Still Waiting for His Big Break

    Amazingly prolific and beloved by Hollywood royalty, the actor has a self-image that belies his status and achievements. “I just work,” he said.

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  1. How ‘The Challenge’ Made Reality TV a Real Career

    Over 40 seasons, the MTV series has become the grandfather of reality-competition shows while helping create a new brand of permanent semi-stardom.

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    “He’s the first player that ever took the game seriously,” Justin Booth, the show’s longtime showrunner, said of Devenanzio (center). “Leading up to that point, most people were out to have a good time.”
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  2. ‘Bad Monkey,’ Bad Deer, Bad Weather: The Fun of Filming in Florida

    Shooting in the Sunshine State involves navigating a lot of humidity and critters, but the producers of a new Carl Hiaasen adaptation knew it was necessary to get the story right.

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    “Bad Monkey” stars Vince Vaughn, left, with Tom Nowicki, as a former cop pursuing a case involving a severed arm and witchcraft, among other things.
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  3. ‘Industry’ Is Back With Boats, Cocaine and Bigger Ambitions

    In its new season, the HBO finance drama expands beyond the trading floor and moves into the network’s marquee Sunday-night slot.

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    Marisa Abela in the new season of “Industry,” which broadens the show’s focus on business and finance.
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  4. On Netflix, a Very British ‘Love Is Blind’

    The creators of a new version of the reality show, in which contestants agree to marry before meeting face to face, sought to challenge a nation’s archetypal reticence.

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    The husband-and-wife team of Matt and Emma Willis are the hosts of “Love Is Blind: U.K.”
    CreditTom Dymond/Netflix
  5. ‘Mafia Spies’ Recounts the C.I.A. Plot to Kill Castro

    The docuseries tells the bizarre but true story of the C.I.A.’s various schemes to use the mob to assassinate the leader of Cuba.

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    Chris Pinto as the mob boss Sam Giancana in “Mafia Spies,” a docuseries that makes heavy use of historical re-enactments.
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  3. The Best of Late Night This Week

    The hosts returned from a break and had much to discuss, including former President Trump’s obsession with crowd size and Vice President Harris’s surge in the polls. Here’s what they had to say.

    By Trish Bendix

     
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