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The most covered news stories, 26 October to 1 November 2026

FTMQ Entertainment reads 3,922 headlines from 467 outlets a week. These are the stories the most of them covered, and the outlet that had each one first.

  1. 1
    Actor Sir Patrick Stewart Dies at Age 86

    31 outlets · first: WOWK 13 News, Thu 15:55 UTC · Top Stories

  2. 2
    Television writer Earl Barret dies at 94 in California

    8 outlets · first: Deadline TV, Thu 13:10 UTC · Top Stories

  3. 3
    Criminal Minds Evolution to end on Paramount Plus with season 20

    7 outlets · first: Hollywood Reporter TV, Fri 20:00 UTC · TV & Streaming

  4. 4
    Apple TV launches crime thriller Nocturne starring Liev Schreiber and Stephen Graham

    5 outlets · first: IndieWire, Thu 17:00 UTC · TV & Streaming

  5. 5
    Emily Osment requested intimacy coordinator for Young Sheldon age gap

    4 outlets · first: Variety, Sat 20:50 UTC · TV & Streaming

  6. 6
    Dictionary.com Names Maxxing as Its Word of the Year for 2026

    4 outlets · first: Rolling Stone Culture, Mon 12:15 UTC · Culture & Media

  7. 7
    Investigation Discovery orders docuseries on Andrew Tate and brother Tristan

    4 outlets · first: Hollywood Reporter TV, Thu 17:00 UTC · Culture & Media

  8. 8
    Prime Video renews Carrie for season two with Mike Flanagan returning

    3 outlets · first: TVLine, Sat 16:52 UTC · TV & Streaming

  9. 9
    Golden Age television singer and actress Peggy King dies at 96

    3 outlets · first: Variety TV, Sun 21:17 UTC · TV & Streaming

  10. 10
    Young Storytellers Creates Jamie Tarses Fund for Los Angeles Public Schools

    3 outlets · first: TheWrap, Tue 00:50 UTC · Top Stories

  11. 11
    Connor Storrie in talks for villain role in Ghost Rider

    3 outlets · first: The Hollywood Reporter, Tue 21:02 UTC · Culture & Media

  12. 12
    Skydance TV DTC Chief JB Perrette Unveils Executive Team Structure

    3 outlets · first: SSBCrack, Thu 00:32 UTC · TV & Streaming

  13. 13
    Judge dismisses Donald Trump defamation lawsuit against Wall Street Journal again

    3 outlets · first: Deadline, Sat 20:15 UTC · Top Stories

  14. 14
    Taika Waititi Slams Critics Following Low Ratings for Klara and the Sun

    3 outlets · first: Variety, Sat 21:15 UTC · Top Stories

First to the story

Outlets that had the most of the week’s widely covered stories before anyone else.

  1. Hollywood Reporter TV2
  2. Variety2
  3. WOWK 13 News1
  4. Deadline TV1
  5. IndieWire1
  6. Rolling Stone Culture1
  7. TVLine1
  8. Variety TV1
  9. TheWrap1
  10. The Hollywood Reporter1

Busiest outlets

Headlines published in the feeds we read.

  1. Variety279
  2. Deadline252
  3. The Hollywood Reporter233
  4. Deadline TV217
  5. TVLine183
  6. New York Times Arts181
  7. Variety TV172
  8. The Guardian Culture150
  9. BroadwayWorld122
  10. BBC116

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Source: FTMQ Entertainment coverage tracker, 26 October to 1 November 2026, https://entertainment.ftmq.com/coverage/2026-10-26

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.