A 'Pee-wee’s Playhouse' screening takes place on Oct. 14 with an exhibition running through Oct. 28, when the auction launches at The Groundlings Theatre with Julien’s Auctions

A collection of memorabilia spanning the career of Paul Reubens is headed to auction via Julien’s Auction on Oct. 28. It will feature an array of iconic items from his Pee-wee Herman days, including the quintessential gray suit and custom red Schwinn bicycles used while playing the beloved character.

The auction includes more than 400 items from Reubens’ estate, including rare limited-edition dolls from Reubens’ JCPenney line, original production costumes and props, stop-motion puppets and claymation artwork, production scripts and storyboards, signed posters, and personal items.

Highlights include the slate gray glen plaid suit Reubens wore in 2016’s Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, which comes with the white shirt, red bowtie, pocket square, and white loafers that completes the outfit. It’s expected to go for $8,000-$10,000.

One of the bicycles available at the auction is a replica from Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, which is packaged with his 2011 Visionary Spike TV Scream Award. The full-scale replica of the red Schwinn DX he rode to accept the award is expected to fetch $5,000-$7,000.

Among the puppets available is a Pee-wee’s Playhouse dinosaur, which is an original wire-armature and foam puppet. It’s mounted on a custom wooden stand amd includes an extruder handle for stop-motion animation. It’s listed at $2,000-3,000.

Other eclectic lots under a grand are also up for grabs, including 12 prop food pieces from the Pee-wee Playhouse refrigerator. Among the props are claymation red pepper and bacon with armature arms, olive barbells, frozen food boxes, and desserts. It’s expected to nab $800-$1,000.

There’s also a collection of 13 scripts, one for each episode of Pee-wee’s Playhouse Season One, as well as a Pee-wee’s Big Adventure script — credited to Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens, and Michael Varhol — containing minor differences from the final film including a deleted magic shop scene. Each lot ranges from $500-$700.

On the Hollywood memorabilia side, there is as a Pee-wee Herman 1989 JCPenney 40-inch limited edition doll, with only 2,000 made, which is on offer for $300-$500. For the same price range, there’s a metal production parking sign that reads “Pee Wee’s / PLAYHOUSE / P. REUBENS.”

The live auction will take place on Oct. 28 at 10 a.m. PT on the Julien’s Auctions website and at The Groundlings Theatre, where Reubens continued to develop his craft and where he first showcased his Pee-wee Herman character with the renowned Groundlings improvisational group. To celebrate the late actor, who died in 2023 at age 70, Julien’s and the Groundlings will present an exclusive exhibition featuring highlights from Reubens’ archive from Oct. 14 through Oct. 28. On Oct. 14, The Groundlings will screen several episodes from his career-defining Pee-wee’s Playhouse series, with a panel discussion to follow. Tickets for the kick-off screening celebration go on sale Oct. 2 via The Groundlings website.

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.”

Producers of Québec's most popular dating reality show, Occupation Double, have confirmed that masked intruders made their way into on the show's villas this weekend. According to a statement, no one was hurt and the suspects were arrested, but the team is staying tight-lipped about more details.

Streaming nationwide on Crave, the dating show is currently filming its 20th season in the southwest of Panama.

Filmed over the course of several weeks, the competition sees a group of young men and women, kept in different villas, who must compete and conspire to find love and win the cash prize, cars and the house the winning couple is awarded.

In the night between last Thursday and Friday, a group of 3 armed individuals managed to sneak past security and make their way into the boys' villa. No details were given about what happened next, but a short altercation with some of the contestants ensued, before the production's security team and the national police intervened before anyone could be harmed.

The shooting of the show has started up again, and contestants can get help from the onsite psychologist should they need it, Productions J has said. “Following the incident, additional security measures were implemented in collaboration with the national police force to strengthen security at the site. The candidates also continue to receive ongoing support from the production team and the assigned psychologist.”

It is not clear whether the intruders had specifically targeted the house because they knew the show was being shot there, though it's highly unlikely robbers would knowingly walk into a house filled to the brim with state of the art automatic cameras that film nonstop.

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.”