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The nation has reversed a decision from September to return to the show due to Israel’s continued participation
La muerte del oso Cachou en el Vall d'Aran durante la pandemia se convierte en el punto de partida de Matar a un oso, la nueva serie creada por los hermanos Jorge y Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo, responsables de títulos como Crematorio y Nos vemos en otra vida. La ficción transforma un caso real en una investigación criminal que va mucho más allá de descubrir quién mató al animal: a través de los habitantes del valle y de sus diferentes puntos de vista, explora el choque entre la tradición y lo global, la identidad, la relación del ser humano con la naturaleza y una polarización social cada vez más acusada.
Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! It's a great day to pour a Miller Lite out.
Let's talk about the NFL invasion of Australia and, soon, Japan. Is it the real deal or is something else at play? Then we'll close with the results of our reader survey about the World Series.
Someone made a site that tracks what people are talking about at public city council meetings across the US.
The only thing discussed more than data centers?
Pickleball courts. pic.twitter.com/qyda81Tw1W
— Turner Novak
Football in Europe is one thing—football in East Asia and Australia is another.
After the NFL played its first regular season game in Australia in Week 1, Commissioner Roger Goodell now says the league may double-down on working its way into East Asia and Australia. "Tokyo is clearly on our list, whether it's next year or the year after," Goodell told NFL Daily. "It's coming at some point in the near future." Another league administrator said they're considering a 10th international game next year, up from nine this year. The idea, one might think, is that by playing a game in Australia, Japan, or any other country, people with a tepid interest in the NFL become swarms of dedicated fans.
It won't work—at least not in the Eastern Hemisphere. The league is much too dedicated to the Eastern Time Zone for it to work. Consider the NFL's main kickoff times (the end of daylight saving time will soon alter these slightly).
Thursday Night Football: 8:15 p.m. Eastern, 9:15 a.m. Friday in Tokyo, 11:15 a.m. Friday in Sydney.
Sunday early afternoon: 1 p.m. Eastern, 2 a.m. Monday in Tokyo, 4 a.m. in Sydney.
Sunday late afternoon: 4:25 p.m. Eastern, 5:25 a.m. Monday in Tokyo, 7:25 a.m. in Sydney.
Sunday Night Football: 8:20 p.m. Eastern, 9:20 a.m. Monday in Tokyo, 11:20 a.m. in Sydney.
And so on for Monday Night Football.
Even the Super Bowl, the league's biggest event that we're always told is watched by millions of people in every country around the world, kicks off around 6:30 p.m. Eastern. That's 8:30 a.m. on Monday morning workday in Tokyo and 9:30 a.m. in Sydney. You'd have to be an American expat or an extremely dedicated foreign fan to watch—they exist, to be sure, but they're notable because they're a rarity (like my man @KoreaPistonsFan).
This is not like how American sports fans wake up on a weekend morning with nothing else going on and tune into European soccer matches—the NFL is hoping people will wake up in the middle of the night for an East Coast afternoon game, or tune in during their workdays for what we in the U.S. would consider a primetime matchup. (In Japan, watching every week appears to require an expensive subscription, whereas Australians at least seem to bundle many of the games into other packages like Disney+.)
Ask yourself: Are you frequently waking up at odd hours to watch the Australian Football League or J1 League soccer? Are you watching your favorite sports team in the middle of the workday? OK fine, if you work a flexible desk job like me, you might be tuning in for your baseball team's day games or throwing a golf major on your second screen. When I posted about this on X, people angrily responded that Japanese fans routinely watch baseball during the day—OK, fine, call me when the NFL gets its Shohei Ohtani.
But I'm not getting up at 2 a.m. to willingly start watching a sporting event, unless I'm studying abroad in London and the Tigers are in the playoffs for the second time in my life. While I don't miss a Formula 1 race, when they're on in the middle of the night I watch the next day—sometimes, but not always, without seeing any spoilers online.
The NFL will almost certainly sell out a game in Tokyo, but tickets aren't where the real money comes from, it's TV revenue they're chasing. That, and the 8:35 p.m. Eastern kickoff time for this season's Australia game (10:35 a.m. local, Friday), tell you who the real audience is.
It's you, my humble American friends.
The novelty of games in London and Germany is wearing off. The NFL thinks it can throw a game in Japan, sell it to Netflix for $100+ million, and then, most importantly, put it in primetime for the American East Coast.
The NFL might be hoping their football games in Australia and, soon, Japan, will create broader interest from those countries. What they're almost certainly more interested in is getting U.S. fans to watch another primetime game that the league can make hundreds of millions of dollars from in TV rights.
A lot of you must be pretty pleased with how baseball is going. About 70 percent of you said you're rooting for the Milwaukee Brewers, who now have a 3–0 lead in the World Series after battering the Tampa Bay Rays 10–1 on Monday night.
I, for one, am also rooting for the Brewers but had at least hoped for the teams to make it a little more interesting (at least Game 1 and Game 2 were close!). Both teams have managed to find pretty consistent success in recent seasons and "deserve" to be here, despite both being in fairly small markets and often up against more well-funded divisional opposition. Both, unfortunately, play in stadiums that are for some reason fully or partially owned by local government. But the Brewers, unlike the Rays, have good vibes, a great color scheme (I'm a sucker for navy–yellow/gold), and a strong fan base that deserves happiness.
The survey answers behind the Brewers were wide-ranging, from "The beer and cheese are better!" to "Beer. The answer is always beer." (Shoutout to whoever said "Channeling my inner Sarah Palin, I can see Milwaukee across Lake Michigan from my house in Grand Haven.") Several more said they are from Milwaukee, are from the Midwest, are just glad the Brewers beat the Dodgers, or think a "northern" team should win. A couple Red Sox fans chimed in to say they just hate the Rays.
The Rays, to be fair, might be seen as less objectionable because they have fewer fans to annoy everyone else with their success. No one, I assume, is climbing any street poles to celebrate if the Rays win the World Series (we may never know!). But we did get a few Tampa locals to chime in, and a couple Brewers haters, and one person who I sympathize with: "I have a dear friend who has been a Tampa Bay fan since the very beginning. She deserves a victory." Seems like she will be waiting at least one year longer.
The Brewers seem almost certain to be World Series champions going into what will likely be a brutal MLB lockout. Let us hope there are no games lost—any 2027 World Series champion is better than no champion, or season, at all.
Keep your eye on No. 5 car. Drivers don't usually go from 1st to 11th to 1st all in the span of one lap! (And since everyone turned out all right, you can also enjoy the carnage of this big crash.)
HOW DID KYLE LARSON PULL THIS OFF?!?! pic.twitter.com/nVhlg7JylD
— Rubbin is Racing (@rubbinisracing) October 25, 2026
That's all for this week. Enjoy watching the real game of the week while you skip the school Halloween party—it's Glendale at Salt River in the Arizona Fall League on Friday at 4:30 p.m. Eastern, where you can watch MLB test out a crazy new outfield rule.
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A new video transmitter for Wild Hornets’ drones, including its STING interceptors, has passed state tests, the Ukrainian drone maker told Militarnyi. The module sends a drone’s camera feed to its pilot. The company expects it to widen its interceptors’ operating radius.
Russia launched 140 Shahed-type drones at Ukraine overnight on 26 October and 280 the next night, when its main target was Kyiv, Air Force figures as of the morning show. Interceptor drones, which cost dozens of times less than the Shaheds they hunt, are one of Ukraine’s answers. The STING alone downed more than 3,000 drones in its first seven months of use, Wild Hornets says. If the company’s estimate holds, a 30 km radius would let each ground station cover more than twice the area it covers at 20 km.
Specialists from the State Research Institute for Testing and Certification of Arms and Military Equipment and the Defense Ministry’s State Quality Assurance Directorate confirmed the module’s declared characteristics on three drone types, the company said. The three were the STING interceptor, the Queen of Hornets cargo platform, and the 10-inch Wild Hornets Digital anti-aircraft drone.
Some of the drones’ figures exceeded the values the company had set for them, Wild Hornets told Ukrainian defense outlet Oboronka, without saying which ones. Those figures will enter the official specifications after further field tests, it said.
The module, called HV VTX Pro, is part of an upgrade to Wild Hornets’ Hornet Vision digital video system. It more than doubles the transmitter’s maximum power, to 4 W. That sends a clear picture farther and makes the feed steadier in crowded airwaves and under electronic jamming, the company said.
Wild Hornets first described the module in August, when it was already in serial production. Its interceptors’ operating radius would grow from around 20 km to 30 km, the company said at the time. That estimate assumed good line of sight and the 360-degree antenna on its ground stations, according to a company statement Interfax-Ukraine quoted. Interception could also become at least 20% more effective against targets flying extremely low, the statement said.
Wild Hornets is a Ukrainian company that designs and builds drones, from strike FPV drones and cargo platforms to the STING, which the company says flies at up to 280 km/h to hunt Shaheds. Its drones serve with more than 100 units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces, from the army and the National Guard to military intelligence, the Air Force, and the border guard, according to Interfax-Ukraine.
“Fue el programa más visto de la historia con un 34% de audiencia”, recalcó David Broncano este lunes tras la emisión de la entrevista a Pedro Sánchez del pasado jueves. La presencia del presidente del Gobierno en La Revuelta hizo alcanzar al espacio su mejor resultado histórico, por lo que no es de extrañar que el presentador quisiera sacar pecho de las cifras.
BBC has begun the search with a clear focus on ‘the very best of contemporary British music’
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Tras un largo silencio que hizo dudar a muchos sobre el rumbo de la ficción, la cuarta tanda de episodios de Lupin ha aterrizado en Netflix con ocho capítulos (su entrega más extensa hasta la fecha). La nueva temporada, estrenada tres años después de la tercera, ha dejado un salto temporal en la historia de cuatro años y un desenlace que se ha metido de lleno en la tragedia familiar.
La serie nunca buscó calcar los relatos de Maurice Leblanc, autor de los libros en los que se basa, sino usarlos como el manual personal de Assane (Omar Sy). Su cruzada comenzó por justicia. Quería limpiar el nombre de su padre, Babakar, quien se suicidó en prisión tras ser acusado falsamente por el empresario Hubert Pellegrini de robar el collar de María Antonieta.
En las dos primeras partes, Assane jugó al despiste con la policía y el clan Pellegrini hasta lograr desenmascarar al comisario corrupto Dumont. Esa victoria pública le convirtió en el hombre más buscado de Francia y puso en el punto de mira a Claire y a su hijo Raoul.
La tercera temporada complicó la situación con la reaparición de su madre, Mariama, y la irrupción de Jean-Luc Keller, su antiguo instructor de boxeo que buscaba venganza por un atraco fallido cometido 25 años atrás. Tras resolver el caso de la Perla Negra, rescatar a Manon y neutralizar a Keller, Assane dio un paso inesperado. Decidió entregarse a la policía con el inspector Youssef Guédira para liberar a su socio Benjamin y apartar a su familia del acoso mediático.
La calma duró poco. Ya entre rejas, Assane recibió un sobre con una fotografía de su infancia y un ejemplar de La venganza de Cagliostro. Su vecino de celda no era otro que Hubert Pellegrini, quien dejaba la duda de si Mariama pudo haber actuado como su cómplice desde el principio, utilizando el amor de su hijo como trampa.
La historia arranca cuatro años después de aquel ingreso en prisión. Assane cumple condena con perfil bajo, decidido a saldar su deuda penal para mudarse definitivamente con los suyos a Senegal y dejar atrás su alter ego.
Ese plan salta por los aires cuando un criminal anuncia asaltos simultáneos en museos de París y Aviñón bajo la firma de Lupin. Los robos se ejecutan con precisión y una cámara de seguridad capta a un individuo idéntico a Assane en el lugar de los hechos, donde además la inspectora Sofia Belkacem resulta gravemente herida. Ante una acusación que pretende mantenerlo entre rejas, el ladrón se ve obligado a fugarse para limpiar su reputación y descubrir quién está suplantando su identidad.
El imitador resulta ser Adèle (Laïka Blanc-Francard), la hija biológica secreta que Assane tuvo con Juliette Pellegrini. Hubert Pellegrini la apartó de su madre nada más nacer haciéndole creer a Juliette que la pequeña había fallecido, y la envió a un orfanato en Inglaterra.
Al crecer y rastrear su árbol genealógico, Adèle utilizó la tecnología y los métodos de Lupin para llamar la atención de su padre. Su objetivo definitivo fue el asalto a las Joyas de la Corona francesa, un tesoro histórico vigilado en la sombra por cuatro influyentes familias conocidas como "Los Guardianes".
La aparición de Adèle provoca un terremoto emocional en Raoul (Théo Christine). Quemado por años de ausencias, promesas rotas y el temor constante a verse relegado frente a su nueva hermana, el joven cae en la manipulación de Hubert Pellegrini. Raoul finge su propio secuestro junto a Adèle para obligar a Assane a robar las joyas y entregárselas a su enemigo.
El descubrimiento de la verdad desata una confrontación familiar múltiple, especialmente cuando Juliette descubre que su propio padre le arrebató a su hija durante décadas.
El clímax estalla en una pista de aterrizaje. Cuando Raoul y Pellegrini intentan huir en un helicóptero, Assane se lanza para escudar a su hijo con su propio cuerpo y recibe un disparo en el pecho por parte de la policía. La aeronave despega con Raoul en shock mientras Claire, Benjamin, Juliette y Adèle corren desesperadas a ayudarle. El capítulo corta a negro sin mostrar si Assane sobrevive o si recurrió a algún truco de protección, cerrando la temporada con el mayor cliffhanger (final en suspenso) de la serie.
Omar Sy ejerce en esta tanda como coproductor ejecutivo y co-showrunner, asumiendo peso en las decisiones creativas junto a George Kay y François Uzan. En el reparto repiten los rostros habituales como Ludivine Sagnier (Claire), Antoine Gouy (Benjamin Férel), Soufiane Guerrab (Guédira) o Hervé Pierre en la piel de Pellegrini.
La evolución dramática la lideran Théo Christine, con un Raoul mucho más sombrío y vulnerable a la manipulación, y Laïka Blanc-Francard, cuyo debut como Adèle aporta dinamismo y frescura a las secuencias de acción.
Con 217,6 millones de visualizaciones acumuladas entre sus tres primeras etapas (casi 100 millones en la primera, 68 en la segunda y 50 en la tercera), Lupin se mantiene como la tercera serie de habla no inglesa más vista en la historia de Netflix. Se sitúa así solo por detrás de El juego del calamar y La casa de papel.
La respuesta de la prensa especializada no se ha quedado atrás. En Rotten Tomatoes ha debutado con un 100% de valoraciones positivas, igualando la marca perfecta de la anterior tanda.
Otros medios nacionales e internacionales han destacado el tono cinematográfico y los recursos tecnológicos que Sy ha sumado a las secuencias de acción. Mientras, algunos portales alaban que la trama apueste por el conflicto íntimo antes que por la repetición de la fórmula habitual de atracos.
Por el momento, Netflix no ha anunciado la renovación oficial, un trámite que suele demorarse varias semanas mientras la plataforma calcula el volumen global de horas vistas y los índices de finalización de la temporada.
No obstante, las opciones de continuidad podrían ser bastante altas. La compañía no ha promocionado esta tanda como el desenlace definitivo y el equipo planteó los episodios como un reinicio cargado de frentes abiertos (confirmar la supervivencia de Assane, ver si Raoul despierta de la manipulación de Pellegrini tras ver caer a su padre y descubrir las represalias de "Los Guardianes" tras el robo de las Joyas de la Corona).
El propio Omar Sy ya ha alimentado la expectativa sobre esa posible temporada 5 en declaraciones recientes a SensaCine: "En esta temporada hemos descubierto que todavía tenemos más cosas que contar. Assane sigue siendo una fuente inagotable de inspiración. Quizá sea el final, quizá no".
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