The Monday Wine Down🍷 (10-18)

Headlines

• Smallville Turns 20 (TVLine)

• Members Don’t Appear To Be Too Happy With The IATSE Deal (The Wrap)

• Tucker Gonna Tucker (Rolling Stone)

• DC Developoing Animated Movie On Classic Black Superheroes (EW)

• Nick Cannon Is A Manager Now, And Lil Kim Seems To Be His First Client (Billboard)

• New Season, New Flash Suit, Who Dis (EW)

• Kourtney Kardashian & Travis Barker Are Engaged (People)

• Candace Bushnell Author of SATC, Says SATC -The Show Isn’t Very Feminist (THR)

• Netflix Predicts Squid Game Will Generate Nearly $1B In Value (Varitey)

What’s Really Going On

• Empty Shelves & Steadily Rising Prices Are Not A Good Sign For Biden or The Economy (CNN)

• Jon Stewart Warns Not Focus Solely On Trump, And He’s Absolutely Correct (Rolling Stone)

• Ahmaud Arbery Murder Trial Set To Begin Today (CNN)

• Classes Cancelled At Grambling State University Due To Two Fatal Shootings (USA TODAY)

• Wow Several People On A Train Watched As A Woman Was Raped & Did Absolutely Nothing To Stop The Attack (The Independent)

• LA Officials Want Vanessa Bryant To Take A Pyschiatric Exam Over Claims In Lawsuit Filed Against County (The Independent)

• Firefighters Making Progress In Cali Wildfires (The Independent)

• Products Grocery Stores Are Running Out Of (USA TODAY)

MUSIC NEWS & NOTES (10-10 thru 10-16)

• Go One on One With Alicia Keys & Kehlani (Rolling Stone)

• Billie Elish To Headline Glastonbury 2022 (Variety)

• Lil Durk Wants To Get His High School Diploma (VIBE)

• Elton John Gets 1st Top 40 Hit In 40 Years With A Little Help From Dua Lipa (EW)

• Bono v. Bono: Cher Sues Sonny’s Widow Over Royalties (Deadline)

• Kacey Musgraves Found Out The Grammys Gonna Grammy (People)

• Olivia Rodrigo & Alanis Morrissette Go One on One (Rolling Stone)

• Madonna & Maluma Go One on One (Rolling Stone)

• Shots Fired Paul McCartney Calls Rolling Stones “Blues Cover Band” (People)

• Tyga Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges For Allegedly Assaulting Ex-Girlfriend (EW)

• Coachella Dropping Vax Requirements For 2022 Fest (Billboard)

• Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber Can’t “Stay” Away From The Top of The Billboard Hot 100 (Billboard)

• Why Are People Still Listening To R, Kelly? (The Hill)

• The Rock Raps, As Dwayne Johnson Makes Hip Hop Debut (EW)

• Fearless Taylor’s Version Back At #1 On Billboard Hot 200 (Billboard)

• Stream Aaliyah Ultimate Compilation Album (Rolling Stone)

Sports Talk

• Sky’s The Limit As Chicago Wins First WNBA Title (ESPN)

• Braves Walk Off With Game 2 In NLCS Head To LA With Series Lead (Yahoo Sports)

• Things Learned From Week 6 In The NFL (USA TODAY)

• Oklahoma Replaces Iowa At # 2 In CFP Coaches Poll (USA TODAY)

• Steelers Beat Seahawks In OT On Sunday Night Football (ESPN)

• Cowboys Patriots Game Was A Wild One (Yahoo Sports)

• Kyrie’s Trade Value Plummets (Yahoo Sports)

• Cam Newton Got Vaxxed And Now He Wants to Play (ESPN)

• Orgeron Out At LSU How Did Things Fall So Far So Fast? (The Athletic)

• Allison Williams Leaves ESPN Over Vax Mandate (NBC News)

SPORTS

Scores & Schedules

• Sports Scoreboard 10-17 (Sports Illustrated)

• MLB Scoreboard 10-17(Sports Illustrated)

• Week 6 NFL Schedule (NFL.com)

• Week 7 College Football  Scoreboard (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 5 NFL Power Rankings [10-12]- (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)

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 [10-10]- (EW)

• Songs To Get You Through The Week [10-11] (Billboard)

• Week’s Freshest R&B/Hip Hop Joints [10-11]- (Billboard)

• Best Moments In Latin Music This Week [10-9]

• Billboard Hot 100 [10-16] (Billboard)

• Billboard Hot 200 [10-16}-(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  Monday  Listings

• TVLine Monday Listings

• TV Guide Monday  Listings

Tonigh’t Focus

• Women Is Losers (HBO Max)

• Monday Night Football [Bills @ Titans]- 8E/7C (ESPN)

• Game 3 ALCS (Astros @ Red Sox) 8E/7C (FS1)

🎬 Trailer Park 🎬

The Batman (Robert Pattinson; Zoë Kravitz; Andy Serkis; Jeffrey Wright) In Theaters (Mar 4, 2022)

Peacemaker (John Cena; Steve Agee; Danielle Brooks) HBO Max (Jan 13, 2022)