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WWE changed the professional wrestling landscape when they announced the WWE Network, a subscription-based streaming service that showcased all of WWE's current and past shows and premium live events (PLE), on Feb. 24, 2014. Now, more than a decade later, the WWE Network is officially coming to an end. In an email sent to subscribers, WWE announced that the WWE Network will no longer be available starting on Jan. 1, 2025, when the professional wrestling promotion officially makes the move to Netflix . 'On January 1, 2025, WWE Network will no longer be available in your area," the email read, per WrestleOps. "After January 1, Netflix will be the new exclusive home of WWE." The WWE Network will officially be shut down on January 1st 2025. pic.twitter.com/QdFVlLPZMS According to the email, this will include all WWE weekly shows (Monday Night RAW, Friday Night SmackDown, and NXT) and PLEs like WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and SummerSlam. Additionally, WWE's historic catalog of shows and matches will also be available on Netflix beginning in 2025. The first live episode of Monday Night RAW is set to air on Netflix on Jan. 6, 2025, and will "feature some of the biggest names in WWE such as John Cena, Undisputed WWE Champion 'The American Nightmare' Cody Rhodes, Roman Reigns, CM Punk, Bianca Belair, in addition to many other Superstars and guests including Travis Scott." If you were subscribed to the WWE Network but not Netflix, you will have until Jan. 1, 2025, before the WWE Network is shut down for good and you have to sign up for Netflix. More WWE: WWE Top-Selling Superstars Includes Three Surprising Names This is not the first time WWE has moved away from the WWE Network. On Jan. 25, 2021, WWE announced that NBCUniversal had the exclusive US distribution rights to WWE Network, meaning live shows would be streamed exclusively on Peacock , NBCUniversal's streaming service. The WWE Network has since been phased out in the United States. The deal with NBCUniversal is set to expire in 2026. Since then, the WWE Network has been the primary way to access WWE shows for a majority of countries outside the US. It is currently available for 186 of the 193 United Nations member states, including all 27 European Union nations. The WWE Network is also available in two observer states and six non-UN countries. More WWE: WWE Legend Kurt Angle Stands Up for US Olympic Athletes Concerns have been raised online over Netflix's live streaming issues after the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul fight was filled with technical difficulties. However, WWE seems unbothered by this . For more WWE and professional wrestling news, head on over to Newsweek Sports .Dylan Hernández: MLS deal with Apple TV could be hurting league's efforts to grow its fan baseWith more than half of the 16 teams still mathematically alive to make the conference championship game, the Big 12 will command a lot of attention in the final week of the regular season. No. 14 Arizona State and No. 17 Iowa State would play for the Big 12 title and likely College Football Playoff spot on Dec. 7 if they both win Saturday and there's a four-way tie for first place. There are seven other teams that begin this week with hopes, slim in most cases, of getting into the game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Last week it was No. 19 BYU and No. 23 Colorado that had the inside track to the championship game. Arizona State beat the Cougars and Kansas knocked off the Buffaloes, and here we are. "Everybody counted us out, I think, two weeks ago," Iowa State coach Matt Campbell said after his team beat Utah 31-28. "We didn't flinch. We didn't waver. And we just keep fighting." The Cyclones were national darlings the first half of the season as they won seven straight games to match the best start in program history. Back-to-back losses to Texas Tech and Kansas followed. Now they've won two straight heading into "Farmageddon," their rivalry game against Kansas State at home. "Right now they've got the pen and they continue to write the story," Campbell said of his players, "and I hope they will continue to write it the way they've got the ability to write it. Unwavering. Tough, mentally tough, physically tough. This group has stood for it every step of the way." Arizona State has been an even better story than the Cyclones. The Sun Devils have six more wins than they did last season, when they went 3-9. They were picked to finish last in their first year in the Big 12. They'll go for their fifth straight victory when they play at Arizona on Saturday. "These guys came off no momentum and everybody doubting them, and everybody is still doubting them. That's what makes this special," second-year coach Kenny Dillingham said. "Hopefully the expectations become higher. I don't know if there's a way we can exceed expectations more than we're exceeding them right now." Checking in on five of the Top 25: The Ducks were idle Saturday after clinching a spot in the Big Ten championship game with their win at Wisconsin on Nov. 16. Oregon can go 12-0 in the regular season for the first time since 2010 if it beats Washington at home this week. Oregon's only two losses last season came against the Huskies, both decided by three points. The first was a top-10 matchup in the regular season and the second was a top-five matchup in the Pac-12 championship game. The Ducks are 19 1/2-point favorites this time, according to BetMGM Sportsbook. The Buckeyes' showdown with upstart Indiana combined with Michigan's dropoff after winning the national championship have lowered the volume on this week's meeting with the Wolverines at the Horseshoe. If Michigan beats Ohio State a fourth straight time and it keeps the Buckeyes out of the Big Ten championship game and playoff ... well, there'll be lots of noise in Columbus then. The Lone Star Showdown returns to the gridiron for the first time since 2011, when Texas and Texas A&M were in the Big 12. The Longhorns head to No. 20 Texas A&M on a four-game win streak. The Aggies have lost two of three after Saturday's four-overtime loss at Auburn. The winner advances to the Southeastern Conference championship game against Georgia. The Broncos are tied with Notre Dame for the second-longest active win streak, at nine games, and they seem to have adopted a survive-and-advance mantra. They trailed 23-point underdog Wyoming in the fourth quarter before winning 17-13 and clinching a spot in the Mountain West championship game. They won their previous game, 42-21 against San Jose State, but didn't pull away until the fourth quarter. Two weeks ago they beat a three-win Nevada team 28-21. Just when you think Illinois is about to cash in for the season, they do what they did against Rutgers. The Illini were down 31-30 when they lined up for a 58-yard field goal with 14 seconds left. Ethan Moczulski missed. But wait. Rutgers called timeout before the snap, and Bret Bielema thought better of trying another kick and sent his offense back on the field. Luke Altmyer passed to Pat Bryant for the winning 40-yard touchdown. The Illini won't play for the Big Ten title, but they have a chance for nine wins and a nice bowl. Ohio State played in three of the five regular-season top-five matchups and won three of them. The Buckeyes lost to Oregon and beat Penn State and Indiana. ... Kansas' 37-21 win over Colorado made the Jayhawks the first FBS team with a losing record to beat three straight Top 25 opponents. The Jayhawks, who were 2-6 a month ago, will be bowl eligible if they win at Baylor. ... Nebraska ended the longest power conference bowl drought with its 44-25 win over Wisconsin. The Cornhuskers haven't played in a bowl since 2016. Get local news delivered to your inbox!
Hugh Grant ‘s career has entered what the actor himself coined the “freak show stage” of his career. From the oh-so-tiny Oompa Loompa in Wonka to the short-lived Edward Keplinger in The Regime , the seasoned British actor has departed from his romantic lead typecast. For his most recent leading role as Mr. Reed in Heretic , Grant traps two young Mormon missionaries in his basement game of faith and horror. Green-haired, dancing orange man aside, Mr. Reed is his most extreme role to date. Playing a man who traps women in cages is as large a departure as he can take, especially when his origins are largely rooted as charming leads in romantic comedies. And not just any romantic leads. Grant has starred in some of the most iconic romantic comedies: Edward Farris in Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility , William Thacker in Richard Curtis ‘ Notting Hill , Charles in Four Weddings and a Funeral (the first of his three films with the famed romance director), David the Prime Minister in Curtis’ Love Actually . Essential to each of these roles, Grant’s charming smile and self-effacing mumble made him a heartthrob of the ’90s and ’00s. But a heartthrob is not exempt from their red flags. Like a wolf in a beloved Englishman’s clothing, Grant’s characters have always been more villainous than they appear. The actor’s breakthrough role as Charles in Four Weddings and a Funeral marked him as good-looking and disarmingly likable. Charles flipped a leading man’s role on his head, appearing as non-threatening and passive, his true motives often taking a backseat to politeness. However, for the friend who forgets rings, arrives late, pursues a woman in a relationship, and abandons his fiancée at the altar, suave and shy are not necessarily the first words that come to mind. Perhaps his most cardinal sin of all was committed in Notting Hill . How did he allow Julia Roberts walk out the door to be ambushed by the paparazzi?! Without her pants?! On multiple occasions, when given the opportunity to profess his feelings to his own heartthrob Anna (played by the real-life movie star Roberts), William chose silence and inaction. He even rejected Anna’s own proposal to pursue the relationship legitimately after he had spent an entire year forlorn about what could have been. Never establishing a backbone to communicate properly with the women he truly loves has perhaps been a throughline of Grant’s romantic career. Even his casting as Edward Farris in the 1995 Sense and Sensibility fits the bill, the price of his inactions and omissions being paid by the woman who loved him most. His most meaningful encounter in the film, in my opinion, came far too late. In the final act, Elinor Dashwood ( Emma Thompson ) realized that Farris had been engaged to and then married a woman of higher society. This was the engagement that Farris had failed to mention during the entirety of their courtship. The man was shelling out his monogrammed kerchiefs left and right. Unforgivable! Lastly, Curtis’ 2003 holiday rom-com Love Actually follows the love stories of 10 different individuals and those in their lives. “Love” is used liberally as Grant is one of the many male characters engaging in inappropriate romantic relationships with his own employees. Grant plays David, the Prime Minister, who initially resists the urge to act on his attraction to a junior member of staff, Natalie ( Martine McCutcheon ). While he presents himself as a moral politician, looking down on the U.S. President ( Billy Bob Thornton ) for making his own advances on Natalie, David acts on his attraction in the end nonetheless. While the pair ends up in a public, seemingly unproblematic relationship (for now) by the end of the film, we can’t overlook their checkered origins. Looking back, Grant has actually always played the villain. We just weren’t looking hard enough. More Headlines:Supreme Court will take up a challenge related to California's tough vehicle emissions standards WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it will take up a business-backed appeal that could make it easier to challenge federal regulations, acting in a dispute related to California’s nation-leading standards for vehicle emissions. The justices agreed Friday to hear an appeal filed by fuel producers who object to a waiver granted to California in 2022 by the Environmental Protection Agency during Joe Biden’s presidency. The waiver allows California to set more stringent emissions limits than the national standard. The case won’t be argued until the spring, when the Trump administration is certain to take a more industry-friendly approach to the issue. Musk says US is demanding he pay penalty over disclosures of his Twitter stock purchases DETROIT (AP) — Elon Musk says the Securities and Exchange Commission wants him to pay a penalty or face charges involving what he disclosed — or failed to disclose — about his purchases of Twitter stock before he bought the social media platform in 2022. In a letter, Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro tells the outgoing SEC chairman, Gary Gensler, that the commission’s demand for a monetary payment is a “misguided scheme” that won’t intimidate Musk. The letter also alleges that the commission reopened an investigation this week into Neuralink, Musk’s computer-to-human brain interface company. The SEC has not released the letter. Nor would it comment on it or confirm whether it has issued such a demand to Musk. Senate begins final push to expand Social Security benefits for millions of people WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is pushing toward a vote on legislation that would provide full Social Security benefits to millions of people. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer began the process on Thursday for a final vote on the bill, known as the Social Security Fairness Act. It would eliminate policies that currently limit Social Security payouts for roughly 2.8 million people. The legislation has passed the House. The bill would add more strain on the Social Security Trust funds, which are already estimated to be unable to pay out full benefits beginning in 2035. The measure would add an estimated $195 billion to federal deficits over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Trump offers support for dockworkers union by saying ports shouldn't install more automated systems WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is offering his support for the dockworkers union before their contract expires next month at Eastern and Gulf Coast ports. He posted on social media Thursday that he met with union leaders and that any further “automation” of the ports would harm workers. He wrote that the “amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American Workers.” The International Longshoremen’s Association has until Jan. 15 to negotiate a new contract with the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents ports and shipping companies. The Maritime Alliance says the technology will improve worker safety and strengthen our supply chains, among other things. IRS recovers $4.7 billion in back taxes and braces for cuts with Trump and GOP in power WASHINGTON (AP) — IRS leadership on Thursday announced that the agency has recovered $4.7 billion in back taxes and proceeds from a variety of crimes. The announcement comes under the backdrop of a promised reckoning from Republicans who will hold a majority over both chambers of the next Congress and have long called for rescinding the tens of billions of dollars in funding provided to the agency by Democrats. IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said improvements made to the agency will help the incoming administration and new Republican majority congress achieve its goals of administering an extension of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. OpenAI's legal battle with Elon Musk reveals internal turmoil over avoiding AI 'dictatorship' A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and best avoid an artificial intelligence ‘dictatorship’ is now heading to a federal judge as Musk seeks to halt the ChatGPT maker’s ongoing conversion into a for-profit company. Musk, an early OpenAI investor and board member, sued the artificial intelligence company earlier this year. Musk has since escalated the dispute, adding new claims and asking for a court order that would stop OpenAI’s plans to convert itself into a for-profit business more fully. OpenAI is filing its response Friday. OpenAI's Altman will donate $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund LOS ANGELES (AP) — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is planning to make a $1 million personal donation to President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, joining a number of tech companies and executives who are working to improve their relationships the incoming administration. A spokesperson for OpenAI confirmed the move on Friday. The announcement comes one day after Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said it donated $1 million to the same fund. Amazon also said it plans to donate $1 million. China signals it's prepared to double down on support for the economy as Trump tariffs loom BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese leaders met this week to plot economic policy for the coming year and sketched out plans to raise government spending and relax Beijing's monetary policy. Analysts said the broad-brush plans from the annual Central Economic Work Conference were more of a recap of current policy than ambitious new initiatives at a time when the outlook is clouded by the President-elect Donald Trump's threats to sharply raise tariffs once he takes office. The ruling Communist Party did commit to raising China's deficit and to doing more to encourage consumer spending by bringing wage increases in line with the pace of economic growth. Here's a look at China's main priorities and their potential implications. Stock market today: Wall Street slips at the end of a bumpy week Stocks slipped as Wall Street closes out a rare bumpy week. The S&P 500 was up less than 0.1% in afternoon trading Friday and headed for a weekly loss. The benchmark index hit its latest in a string of records a week ago. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 58 points. The Nasdaq composite was up 0.1%. Broadcom surged after the semiconductor company beat Wall Street’s profit targets and gave a glowing forecast, highlighting its artificial intelligence products. Treasury yields edged higher in the bond market. European markets were mostly lower and Asian markets mostly fell. Next Week: Retail sales, Fed policy update, existing home sales The Commerce Department releases its monthly snapshot of U.S. retail sales Tuesday. Federal Reserve officials wrap up a two-day meeting and issue an interest rate policy update Wednesday. The National Association of Realtors issues its latest update on U.S. home sales Thursday.Butler scores 35, Bowling Green beats Morgan State 102-81
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The I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here star Coleen Rooney was reunited with her mum Colette on Friday night's episode It was a moment to cherish for I'm a Celebrity star Coleen Rooney’s mum Colette - and one which moved millions of viewers watching at home. After nearly three long weeks apart, Coleen Rooney reunited with her two boys Kit, eight, and Cass, six, in camp and it tugged every heartstring available. Unbeknown to Coleen Rooney, her jungle exploits have captured the heart of the nation and made her one of the favourites to win. But as she held her daughter closely in her arms, incredibly Colette soon realised that her daughter was nervous about how she was being perceived back home. “As I held her, one of the things she said to me was ‘mum, have I been boring?’” Colette says. “It broke my heart hearing that but I said, ‘no, you've been yourself and that’s all that matters.” Speaking to the Mirror on the eve of the I’m a Celebrity final , Colette said this humble attitude summed her daughter up. “She is obviously thinking about what people are thinking, but she needn’t worry,” she says. “If she went in shouting and being loud, that wouldn’t be her. We've seen the true Coleen.” In a rare interview, Colette said that her daughter’s jungle experience has been just the tonic needed after a tough two years centered around her High Court battle. But watching her daughter on screen, she firmly believes that the show has helped get her zest for life back. “Absolutely, the show’s helped it come back, and also her confidence, because she was really lacking in it,” Colette says. Asked what it was like as a mum seeing her daughter struggle during this time, she said: “Horrendous, because at one time during the trial, we lost Coleen. “Coleen wasn't Coleen. She couldn't be herself. We didn't know before the trial what was going on because she didn't tell us. We noticed a difference in her behaviour, in her attitude, she even distanced herself. “So when it all came out, it was a relief for us, really, because then we knew what was going on. But now we've got her back fully.” After so long apart, Colette was eager to find out on her camp visit just how Coleen was doing in the jungle. But she was left under no illusions just how hard the experience had been. “She said that she didn’t want me to go, and I said ‘come home now, come home.’” Colette explains. “But then she calmed down, and I asked her: ‘how is it?’ "She said that she had a headache for the first few days because she was getting no sugar, and must have been detoxing, but then she said how hard it had been.” As viewers saw, the arrival of her boys lifted her spirits tremendously. And in the minutes before seeing their mum, they were practically bubbling over with excitement. “They keep asking: ‘Is she here, really?’ They kept thinking she was going to jump out from behind a bush any minute,” she says. “We kept saying to them 'five more minutes and you'll see your mum again'. They just couldn't wait. It was so lovely.” When the moment came, it brought a tear to Colette’s eye. “I heard almost a squeal of a cry from her, and my heart just lifted when I saw her,” she says. “It was wonderful seeing the boys in her arms, and they were so excited.”Soon the boys were having a VIP tour of camp from their mum. “They really wanted to see the dunny and the beds, and were asking endless questions,” Colette laughs. “They were obsessed. Coming away was hard but we told them it won’t be long before you see your mum again, and they accepted that, although Cass got quite emotional at the end.” With Coleen in the jungle, and Wayne busy managing Plymouth Argyle on the south coast, Colette has been looking after the boys with her husband Tony. “Her dad sobbed this morning when he watched Coleen with the boys,” she says. “He's very protective of Coleen and all his children, and it really moved him.” She says that the boys have been a delight to look after and are “used to being with me and their granddad so it's nothing new.” And while she is in Australia, her two eldest boys Kai, 15, Klay, 11 have been busy Facetiming her. “They are saying how proud of their mum they are, especially the drinking trials ... .everyone is particularly impressed by how she just downed it,” Colette laughs. She is also in regular contact with husband Wayne on Facetime. “Today he was saying: ‘get in there’ when she got through. He's over the moon, he really is. He obviously misses her but he is really proud of how she is doing,”she says. Like the millions of viewers at home, the whole family have been impressed by her calmness under pressure when it comes to the trials. But for Colette, this was never in doubt. “Coleen is very patient, she takes her time, and she’ll think things through. She would never give up, that’s not her,” she says. “She hesitated a little putting her hand up at the trials but that was out of her being polite. She was giving other people a chance, because she's done quite a few. And she didn't want to be seen to be too pushy.” Fans of the show have lapped up Coleen’s hilarious anecdotes - including her bizarre meeting with Donald Trump. But for Colette one story is very much her personal favourite. “I love the one about Wayne proposing in a petrol station and how they celebrated with corned beef hash back home,” she says “That’s where they are happiest, when they’re around family.” She says her and Wayne are “just a normal couple” despite being in the public eye since they were teenagers. “She lives in her car and is always driving the boys around....I don’t know how she does it, getting them to football, getting them to school. The day starts at 6am on the dot,” she says, adding laughing: “I said to her in the jungle ‘have you had a rest?’ and she looked at me and said: ‘No’. She said: 'I've been up and down there all the time to get wood.'” There have been more poignant moments in camp too. During one discussion, Coleen told how Wayne can’t watch Kai play football anymore because of all the attention he receives. “The boys feel it...they want the dad to be with them,” she says. “People come up to him, sadly, thinking it's their right. It’s not that easy to refuse them, but he just wants to spend time with his own children.” For Colette, she always knew that Coleen would cope with the great outdoors - after loving their £200 caravan growing up. “She had baths in a tin bath outside the caravan..these were all the memories she's kept,” she says. With all eyes on the final, Colette says she has no expectations as to how her daughter will fare. But one thing’s for sure: she couldn’t be prouder...or excited for that matter. “I’ve been in trouble with everyone back home because I’ve been ringing them so excited, and I haven’t realised what the time is and I am waking them all up,” she laughs. “Coleen wanted people to see her for who she is. And I think she's achieved that. It is the Coleen we know, but now it’s the Coleen everyone knows.Fingered for thumbnails: Inside one family's digital nightmare
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