"Everyone loved Mr. Belding, and those of us who got to know Dennis loved him even more," his agent shared

Dennis Haskins

Dennis Haskins, the American actor and musician best known for playing the beloved Principal Belding on Saved by the Bell, died at 75. His agent, Jay Schachter, confirmed his death, although details were not given.

“It’s a tragic loss,” Schachter said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “Everyone loved Mr. Belding, and those of us who got to know Dennis loved him even more. He was a great person, and he loved, I mean absolutely LOVED his fans. He always had time for them, no matter what. He was my client and dear friend for over 20 years, and I will miss him terribly.”

Haskins initially played Principal Belding on the Disney Channel show Good Morning, Miss Bliss, which was reworked after one season and became Saved by the Bell. Saved by the Bell ran on NBC from 1989-1993. Haskins reprised the character on Saved by the Bell: The New Class, which aired from 1993-2000. Principal Belding was known for his catchphrase: “Hey, hey, hey, what is going on here?”

Haskins was born on Nov. 18, 1950 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He made his onscreen debut in 1979 in an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard. He went on to appear in multiple episodes of the CBS series, each time playing a different role. He went on to play bit roles on Archie Bunker’s Place and Magnum PI: Autumn Warrior before being cast as Principal Belding.

Throughout his career, Haskins appeared on dozens of TV shows and in a few films, including Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in the West. His resume included episodes of Mad Men, Hot in Cleveland, New Girl, I’m Dying Up Here, How I Met Your Mother, and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In 2015, he reunited with Saved by the Bell’s Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Elizabeth Berkley, Mario Lopez, and Tiffani Thiessen for a sketch on The Tonight Show.

Haskins regularly performed music, and participated in two USO tours for troops in Kosovo, Macedonia, and Bosnia in 2000, and again in 2002 in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Oman, and Kyrgyzstan. He released his debut album, Karaoke With Your Favorite Principal Dennis, in 2009. He later made a cameo in Khalid’s music video for “Young Dumb & Broke,” playing a principal.

Kimberly Snow, Haskins’ friend and longtime caretaker, shared a tribute to the actor on the Instagram page for Dimples Karaoke, noting that he was a staple of the now-shuttered venue.

“A lot of people thought he owned it, but he didn’t,” she wrote. “He just loved the place and its people. He enjoyed singing for people, meeting them, and taking selfies with his fans. Dimples closed down about 11 years ago, and people still associate him with his beloved ‘second home.’ He was known to most as Mr. Belding from Saved by the Bell, but to us, he was much more than that.”

She shared that Haskins became ill eight years ago with Parkinson’s, “among other health concerns.” “He did not want to have to tell people,” Snow wrote. “He would say, ‘What do I even say?’ So I respected his wishes and stayed quiet, and I helped him through his journey into the next chapter of his life. Late last night, that journey ended for him. He is now at peace and is probably entertaining the people in the sky.”

Ryan Murphy

Ryan Murphy has officially completed the script for a potential reboot of Glee. Speaking at the premiere of the new season of American Horror Story, Murphy told Entertainment Tonight that the cast is “very enthusiastic” about a potential reunion for the Fox musical comedy series, which ran for six seasons from 2009 to 2015.

“Well, funny you ask, because I just finished the script an hour ago,” Murphy said. “So, we have a script. Brad [Falchuk], Ian [Brennan] and I, who wrote all the first two seasons, have written something. I’ve been in touch with around 10 of the original cast members. It’s very sweet, and they all had a lot of questions, but they all were very enthusiastic about the idea.”

He added, “Nobody’s read it. So I don’t know, we’ll see. I vowed to myself that I wanted to write a couple of them to see what people think, particularly the cast, because we were very close when we were making it. So we’ll see.”

Murphy previously teased a return to Glee in July. “That show is interesting because it’s come back around,” he told People. “So many young people now watch it. And I’m like, ‘Maybe we should revisit that show.’ My nostalgia and love for that show is enough that I’m like, ‘Well, maybe people would like to see a new incarnation of that in some capacity.'”

Glee starred Matthew Morrison as head of the New Directions glee club at the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Amber Riley, Chris Colfer, Dianna Agron, Naya Rivera, Heather Morris, Kevin McHale, Jenna Ushkowitz, Darren Criss, Harry Shum Jr., and Mark Salling were among the actors who played the club’s students. The show also starred Jane Lynch as a rival teacher. Glee: The Concert Movie followed the success of the series, which ended in March 2015.

Murphy has been especially busy this year. In July, he debuted The Shards, an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ 2023 novel for FX and Hulu. Earlier this month he premiered the latest iteration of his Monster series for Netflix, Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story. American Horror Story‘s 13th season kicks off tonight with three episodes. It features several returning cast members, including Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, and Kathy Bates.

Canada's biggest movie theater chain, Cineplex, announced Wednesday that its board has launched a strategic review that will examine a range of options for the company, including a potential sale. No deal has been reached, and the company stressed that the review could ultimately end without a transaction.

The announcement comes with the announcement of Bill Walker as Cineplex’s new CEO. Walker takes over from Ellis Jacob, who is retiring after more than two decades at the company. Jacob will remain involved as a special adviser to the board through the end of 2026.

Walker spent nine years as CEO of Landmark Cinemas and helped lead that chain through its 2017 sale to Belgian exhibitor Kinepolis. He subsequently remained at the helm of Landmark under its new ownership.

Cineplex is coming off a strong stretch at the box office. The company reported its highest-ever monthly box office in August, following record second-quarter revenue.

Cineplex has also been the subject of takeover speculation before. In 2019, it had agreed to a roughly $2.8-billion acquisition by Cineworld, but that deal collapsed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cineplex later won a $1.24-billion damages award in court, though the company has said it does not expect to recover the full amount.

Hayden Panettiere on March 6, 2023 in New York City.

Hayden Panettiere was found with drug paraphernalia when she was found unresponsive last month at a residence in Greenville, South Carolina. As The New York Times reports, a newly released coroner’s report detailed what was found by her body and that she had recently completed time in rehab.

On Tuesday, the coroner’s office said she died from the toxic effects of fentanyl and other drugs, and ruled her death was an accident. Along with fentanyl, the coroner found traces of Alprazolam (more commonly known as Xanax), the muscle relaxant Methocarbamol, and Quetiapine, which is mainly used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but can be used to treat depression.

The new report obtained by the Times on Wednesday said that on Aug. 16, a senior deputy coroner on the scene at the apartment — where Panettiere, her on-off boyfriend Brian Hickerson, and his brother Zach Hickerson were — found “a small, clear plastic bag with blue tablets that appeared to be pills and a cut straw, which later tested positive for fentanyl,” and “also found multiple prescription bottles on a kitchen table; a small lunch box with glass vials, prefilled and empty syringes in the refrigerator; and a small, clear plastic bag containing an unidentified white powdery substance inside a gray sunglass case.”

The report stated a man at the apartment said he saw Panettiere applying makeup at around 10 a.m. and they both ate bowls of cereal before he went back to sleep. She was found later that afternoon sitting with her legs crossed, face down, and unresponsive on a sofa bed. Per the report, Brian Hickerson said he saw she was turning purple, so he administered two doses of nasal Narcan, which works to reverse opioid overdose, and then called 911. Panettiere was pronounced dead at the scene 30 minutes after EMTs tried to resuscitate her.

A man at the scene told the investigator that Panettiere had a history of drug, alcohol, and nitrous oxide abuse, and said she had recently been in a drug rehab facility, according to the report, which added that one man in the apartment said he was not aware of whether she had used drugs that day or the day before.

The report included that the investigator was told Panettiere planned to spend what would’ve been her 37th birthday, Aug. 21, in Greenville. And then afterward, hoped to travel to the Ukraine to visit her daughter, Kaya Evdokia Klitschko, her only child with Ukrainian champion boxer Wladimir Klitschko.

Panettiere was known for her broad-ranging film and television roles in Remember the Titans, Raising Helen, Scream 4, Ice Princess, and I Love You, Beth Cooper. Her breakout role came by way of Heroes, where she portrayed cheerleader Claire Bennett. She followed that role with her portrayal of Juliette Barnes in the series Nashville from 2012 to 2018.

During that time period, Panettiere acknowledged that she struggled with postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter in 2014. She later revealed that she suffered from severe postpartum depression, substance abuse, and anxiety.

In her 2026 memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, she admitted to drinking heavily in order to cope. She recalled waking up shaking and said she would need either a bottle of alcohol to get through the day or opioids to help her to not drink. She wrote that a doctor told her she’d “be dead within five years” if she didn’t stop drinking. “The first thing I’d thought of when I woke up was alcohol,” she wrote. “Not my child, not my job, and not the rest of my life. I needed a drink to function — at 6 a.m.”

Harvey Weinstein on May 14, 2026, in criminal court in New York City.

Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to another 15 years in prison on Wednesday in what is likely to be his third and final sentencing in a long-running legal reckoning that has traced his fall from one of Hollywood’s most powerful producers to a convicted sex offender.

Addressing the court before Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Curtis J. Farber handed down the sentence, victim Mimi Haley said Weinstein “abused his position and power,” NBC News reported.

“It is a life sentence for me,” Haley said, referring to her sexual assault at the hands of Weinstein when she was an aspiring actress in 2006. She said the violent attack at Weinstein’s New York City apartment had a “devastating effect on my life and security.”

In his own address to the court, Weinstein again denied Haley’s allegations but said he was “not a perfect person.” Seated in a wheelchair, he then apologized to “anyone I may have hurt by my actions,” according to NBC News.

The latest twist in Weinstein’s sprawling, six-year legal saga follows his initial landmark #MeToo conviction in New York in 2020, a separate California conviction two years later, and the stunning reversal of his first conviction, a 2024 ruling that ultimately forced prosecutors to put him on trial two more times.

Weinstein, 74, has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than 100 women, including actors Ashley Judd, Annabella Sciorra, Mira Sorvino, Salma Hayek, Rosanna Arquette, and Gwyneth Paltrow. His scores of accusers allege Weinstein used his immense Hollywood power and gatekeeping status to isolate, harass, and sexually assault vulnerable victims over his lengthy career.

Weinstein’s long-running legal battle involving four trials on two coasts traces back to the 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé helmed by New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that revealed he paid off sexual assault accusers for years. The blockbuster report helped unleash a wave of additional allegations and propelled the #MeToo movement into a global conversation about sexual abuse and power.

At Weinstein’s first trial in 2020, former Project Runway production assistant Mimi Haley gave harrowing testimony that Weinstein held her down on a bed at his Manhattan apartment and forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2006, when she was an aspiring actress. Another accuser, Jessica Mann, testified that Weinstein raped her at a New York hotel in 2013. Weinstein was initially convicted on charges involving both women and sentenced to 23 years in prison in March 2020.

But in a stunning reversal four years later, New York’s appeals court overturned the convictions, not because of anything involving Haley or Mann, but because it found the trial judge had improperly allowed extensive testimony about alleged “prior bad acts” that were not part of the charges. The court also found that Weinstein had been unfairly discouraged from testifying in his own defense by the prospect that prosecutors could cross-examine him about uncharged allegations.

The reversal immediately raised the prospect that Weinstein might go free, but he remained in custody due to his separate California conviction. A Los Angeles jury convicted him at a different trial in December 2022, and he was later sentenced to 16 years in prison the following February.

At the California trial, Weinstein faced allegations from four women. He was convicted of sexually assaulting Evgeniya Chernyshova, an Italian actor and model who testified that Weinstein arrived uninvited at her Los Angeles hotel room during a film festival in February 2013 and assaulted her after gaining entry.

The Los Angeles jury failed to reach verdicts on rape and forcible oral copulation charges involving Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, and on a sexual battery charge involving Lauren Young, who testified that Weinstein assaulted her at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills when she was a 23-year-old aspiring actress. The judge declared mistrials on those counts. Weinstein was acquitted of sexually assaulting the massage therapist Juls Bindi at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2010.

With Weinstein remaining in custody on his Los Angeles conviction, Manhattan prosecutors pressed ahead with a new trial involving Haley and Mann in 2025. Jurors again found Weinstein guilty of sexually assaulting Haley but deadlocked on the rape charge involving Mann.

Prosecutors tried the Mann charge once more before a new jury, but that panel also failed to reach a unanimous verdict, resulting in another mistrial earlier this year. Prosecutors later said they would not pursue a fourth trial on the Mann allegation, citing her decision to move on with her life and not testify again.

“To be clear, we believe Ms. Mann’s account and her credibility as a witness,” the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said in a statement. “This has been an extraordinarily taxing ordeal for her, and she has never wavered while testifying in front of two grand juries and three trial juries over the course of eight years. We thank her for her honesty and her tremendous bravery.”

Before his dramatic downfall, Weinstein wielded enormous power in Hollywood as a producer and studio chief whose companies backed and distributed a string of Oscar-winning films, including Shakespeare in Love, Good Will Hunting, Chicago, The King’s Speech, and Silver Linings Playbook.

Nathan Fielder isn’t convinced Elizabeth Holmes has nothing to hide in the full-length trailer for A24’s You Can See Everything, a documentary film shot in the 30-day lead-up to Holmes beginning an 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors in her blood-testing startup Theranos.

Out Oct. 16, the film follows Fielder as he comes to stay with Holmes and her family, using the time under their roof to go digging through their closet for any lingering skeletons. “Does any part of you worry about me being here 24/7?” Fielder asks Holmes in the trailer, following up shortly after with a more direct question: “What if I see something that makes you look bad?”

Holmes, who began her sentence in 2023, spent a year searching for loopholes to get out of it. She attempted to flee the country, pushed for a new trial, and begged not to be sent to jail. She must have known she couldn’t hold fate off for long. “I think this is the moment in time to capture this story before I’m gone,” she tells Fielder, who directed the film alongside Lance Oppenheim. He’s concerned about whether her version of the story is the truth.

Frankly, he doesn’t really believe her, or her husband, Billy Evans, who says there are “a lot of different levels of wealth” when Fielder asks if he ever worried Holmes was using him for his family’s money. “I still have this weird feeling that there’s some things that I’m not seeing,” Fielder says. Still, Holmes maintains her transparency: “It’s because I don’t have anything to hide.”

You Can See Everything premiered at the Telluride Film Festival earlier this month. “I really am struggling to this day to understand exactly what I experienced,” Fielder said at a Q&A following the screening. “And one of the things I’m genuinely excited about is for this movie to come out and for people to help me understand what I experienced. Truly, to this day, I don’t quite know what I went through.”