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RAYE said her October 23 Royal Albert Hall show received 1.8 million sign-up entries for 5,000 seats. She blamed hundreds of thousands of fake registrations on ticket touts using AI bots and said her team would manually review the list. The general sale is scheduled for October 15, though the announcement does not state how many seats will remain.
Japan’s Season 3 airs Fridays from October 2, 2026, with its second cour planned for April 2027. The first film opens in Japan December 11; international dates and its place in the story remain unannounced.
Disney has greenlit an animated Artemis Fowl series for Disney Channel and Disney+, with Eoin Colfer producing. Its premiere date, episode order and cast remain unannounced.
Paramount confirmed Seven Havens Books 3 and 4 and announced Avatar Kuruk: Wave of Chaos, while leaving future release dates and production details unannounced.
Mike Flanagan’s first television-series adaptation of Carrie is available as a complete eight-episode season. Amazon lists October 7, 2026, and the current Prime Video page shows all eight episodes dated October 7.
Disney's official October 2026 schedule for Disney+ and Hulu gives a date for almost every entry and labels each one Disney+ only, Hulu only or both. The month mixes a handful of anchor premieres with a large Hulu catalogue drop, and it includes no leaving list.
The Emmys move to Prime Video in 2027 under a six-year global deal. The live ceremony will be free without a paid Prime subscription; local schedules and related coverage remain unannounced.
Netflix lists Free Leonard Peltier as a documentary in its October 12, 2026 lineup. Here is what its synopsis says, how the filmmakers describe their approach and the commutation context viewers should keep separate from the film’s argument.
Glastonbury's ticket pages state that tickets for the 2027 festival have sold out, with a resale of cancelled or returned tickets expected in spring 2027 after a general sale that had been scheduled for 9am BST on 4 October 2026. The same pages set the £408 price and £100 deposit, an April 2027 balance window, a 7 May 2027 refund deadline, local and Sunday allocations for catchment residents, hospitality applications for media and music industry workers, and a ban on transferring the photo-personalised tickets.
Toho and GKIDS have tickets on sale for Godzilla Minus Zero, with a Godzilla Day IMAX Early Access on November 3 and a theatrical wide release from November 6 in premium and standard formats. Japan opens on November 3, and the published global schedule runs to November 20.
The Golden Globes published the 30 podcasts that are eligible to submit for Best Podcast at the 84th ceremony on 5 October 2026, a list compiled by its data partner Luminate, and a place on it is not a nomination: each show has to submit by 30 October 2026 to appear on the nominations ballot, with nominations announced on 7 December and the ceremony on 10 January 2027. The article gives the full list, the submission rule, the voter rules from the Globes' own FAQ and the fortnight-by-fortnight timetable that separates the television and podcast ballots from the film ballots.
Missy Mazzoli's Lincoln in the Bardo opens at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday, 19 October 2026, with eight further performances through 14 November. The Met says Mazzoli is the first woman to have a world premiere at the house, and the production page listed tickets from $33.00 including a $10.00 fee when it was read on 12 October. The performances on 19 October and 11 November are broadcast live on the SiriusXM app, and the published Live in HD cinema list does not include the opera.
