Coverage tracker
The most covered news stories, 19 October to 25 October 2026
FTMQ Entertainment reads 3,776 headlines from 487 outlets a week. These are the stories the most of them covered, and the outlet that had each one first.
- 1Lauren LeFranc in Talks to Produce Poison Ivy Series for DC
25 outlets · first: Deadline, Wed 18:58 UTC · TV & Streaming
- 2Actress Betty McGuire dies at age 100
5 outlets · first: Hollywood Reporter TV, Sun 17:20 UTC · Top Stories
- 3Cindy Crawford and Family Pay Public Tribute to Son Presley Gerber
5 outlets · first: Variety, Sun 17:52 UTC · Culture & Media
- 4Andrew Garfield to Receive Santa Barbara Film Festival Top Honor
4 outlets · first: The Hollywood Reporter, Tue 17:00 UTC · Top Stories
- 5Sam Heughan to star opposite Viola Davis in Paramount thriller Ascent
4 outlets · first: Variety TV, Thu 16:00 UTC · Culture & Media
- 6Michael Gray actor who starred in Shazam TV series dies aged 75
4 outlets · first: TVLine, Thu 21:43 UTC · Top Stories
- 7Stephanie March returns to Law and Order SVU in season 28
4 outlets · first: Variety TV, Fri 20:30 UTC · Culture & Media
- 8Four locations shortlisted for UK City of Culture 2029
3 outlets · first: BBC News Entertainment, Wed 23:02 UTC · Top Stories
- 9James Bond search enters final stage with upcoming screen tests
3 outlets · first: Variety, Thu 16:06 UTC · Culture & Media
- 10Raye Wins 2026 Mercury Prize For Second Album
3 outlets · first: The Guardian Culture, Thu 21:24 UTC · Top Stories
First to the story
Outlets that had the most of the week’s widely covered stories before anyone else.
- Variety2
- Variety TV2
- Deadline1
- Hollywood Reporter TV1
- The Hollywood Reporter1
- TVLine1
- BBC News Entertainment1
- The Guardian Culture1
Busiest outlets
Headlines published in the feeds we read.
- Variety270
- The Hollywood Reporter243
- Deadline238
- Deadline TV217
- Variety TV178
- TVLine167
- The Guardian Culture143
- BroadwayWorld136
- New York Times Arts122
- BBC118
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Source: FTMQ Entertainment coverage tracker, 19 October to 25 October 2026, https://entertainment.ftmq.com/coverage/2026-10-19
How it is counted: every report FTMQ Entertainment wrote that week is matched with the headlines from the outlets we follow that are about the same event (they share its names and its less common words), published within a day and a half of it. Aggregators that repeat other outlets’ headlines are not counted. Each outlet counts once per story; the first is the earliest such headline. Only outlets with feeds we read are counted, so this measures breadth of coverage, not every report there was.