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Le Creuset x Star Trek Collection: Prices, availability, release date

Le Creuset x Star Trek Collection: Prices, availability, release date

Carrying culinary adventures into the unknown comes the Le Creuset x Star Trek: Galileo shuttlecraft casserole dish ($150), which has a roomy 1.6 liters of space inside. Vulcan votaries are well catered for with the $35 Spock ear mug (perfect for Vulcan spice tea), complete with gold detailing along the rim as a nod to the Starfleet uniform; the $55 Spock hand spoon rest; and the whimsical Vulcan salute “live long and prosper” oven mitt, resplendent in signature Star Trek baby blue for $40. Not merely content with digitally launching the collection online, Le Creuset engaged Sent Into Space to boldly send its Enterprise casserole dish where no pan has gone before—more than 111,000 feet above the Earth, atop 99.5 percent of the planet’s atmosphere. While obviously a blatant (albeit fitting) marketing stunt, there’s actually some considerable logistics to overcome in sending a cast-iron pot to the edge of space. United Federation of Pan-ets: the Star Trek Enterprise casserole dish at 111,000 feet above the Earth. Courtesy of Le Creuset Sent Into Space co-founder Chris …

Jodie Comer: Remember Me star addresses ‘tricky’ fan response to Killing Eve finale

Jodie Comer: Remember Me star addresses ‘tricky’ fan response to Killing Eve finale

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter When Killing Eve ended, many fans expressed their frustration with how the series concluded – and Jodie Comer has now reflected on this, revealing that she instead “reverts to the memory” of making the show. The US drama, in which British actor Comer played Russian assassin Villanelle, received huge acclaim for its debut season. But the final episode received a backlash from dedicated fans, with some calling it “the worst finale since Game of Thrones”. Much of the anger surrounded the fact that Villanelle was killed off in the closing moments, despite a happy romantic ending being teased for her and Sandra Oh’s character, Eve Polastri, throughout the final season. Jodie Comer in ‘Killing Eve’ (BBC America Original) Comer acknowledged the fan outcry in The Independent series Life in Pictures, stating: “I think as an actor you just have to have …

Star Trek used wormholes to jump through space – what’s the science behind them?

Star Trek used wormholes to jump through space – what’s the science behind them?

Since Star Trek began sending its crews out to explore strange new worlds 60 years ago, the franchise has both imagined and inspired new concepts for travel across the vast distances of space. Among the most intriguing are “wormholes”: mysterious tunnels through spacetime that connect otherwise distant places. Star Trek always has a difficult balance to strike in making its portrayals both accessible and scientifically accurate. With wormholes, it generally favoured the former on their occasional appearances. On screen, one end of the wormhole will often appear as a swirling vortex or tunnel. In fact, computer simulations of these theoretical space shortcuts suggest that the opening would look more like soap bubbles or crystal balls, with their surfaces showing distorted and multiplied images of whatever lies on the other side. You could fly all around this opening and enter it from any direction, and rather than reaching the centre of the bubble, you would emerge from another similar bubble (the other end of the wormhole) somewhere totally different. Of course, the most important question for …

‘Carl Sagan: We Are Made of Star Stuff’ Review: Nanette Burstein Doc

‘Carl Sagan: We Are Made of Star Stuff’ Review: Nanette Burstein Doc

If Carl Sagan‘s landmark PBS docuseries Cosmos offered a pleasingly populist point of entry for viewers curious about our place in the universe, a gateway to more rigorous exploration, Nanette Burstein’s Carl Sagan: We Are Made of Star Stuff offers a pleasingly populist point of entry for audiences curious about Carl Sagan, leaving more rigorous exploration for the individual viewer. The 98-minute National Geographic film, which boasts Sagan’s widow Ann Druyan and Seth MacFarlane, the man behind Fox’s more recent Cosmos update, as producers, promises and delivers no intellectual rigor. It’s light, fast-moving and looks back at a time when public intellectuals were able to use platforms like The Tonight Show to promote ideas instead of upcoming commercial ventures. Carl Sagan: We Are Made of Star Stuff The Bottom Line Brings a brilliant man down to earth. Venue: Telluride Film FestivalDirector: Nanette Burstein 1 hour 38 minutes Yes, you could say that it’s limited and limiting to come away from a documentary about a paradigm-shifting genius fixating on the sloppy, if ultimately gratifying, transition from …

Married At First Sight star Holly Ditchfield announces death of newborn twins

Married At First Sight star Holly Ditchfield announces death of newborn twins

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Holly Ditchfield, who featured on Married At First Sight (MAFS) UK, has announced that her twin sons have died nine days after being born prematurely. In a statement shared on Instagram, the reality TV personality and her partner Aaron Summers confirmed that the infants passed away within hours of one another. “It has been the hardest, most heartbreaking, yet most magical 9 days of our lives,” Ditchfield wrote alongside a series of photos. “At 1pm on 03/09/2026, our darling Georgie peacefully passed away. Then, at 5am on 04/09/2026, his beautiful brother Marley followed him. “My boys both took their final breaths in the arms of me and their daddy. There is no greater privilege, and no greater pain, than holding your children as they leave this world.” Ditchfield with her partner Aaron Summers (Instagram) The couple had previously revealed the boys …

I Dream of Jeannie star Barbara Eden, 95, drops out of film festival due to ‘sudden illness’

I Dream of Jeannie star Barbara Eden, 95, drops out of film festival due to ‘sudden illness’

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Barbara Eden has pulled out of an appearance at a Los Angeles film festival due to a “sudden illness.” The 95-year-old actor, famed for her titular role in the 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie, was scheduled to receive a legacy award at the Cinecon Classic Film Festival on Saturday, but canceled her appearance at the last minute. “We’re sorry to share that, due to a sudden illness, Barbara Eden will no longer be able to appear in person at Cinecon tonight,” event organizers announced in a Facebook post. “Barbara is deeply regretful that she had to cancel at the last minute, as she had been very much looking forward to seeing everyone and celebrating with us,” they continued. “We know how many of …

Married At First Sight star Holly Ditchfield announces death of newborn twins

MAFS UK star Holly Ditchfield announces heartbreaking death of premature twins

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Holly Ditchfield, who featured on Married At First Sight (MAFS) UK, has announced that her twin sons have died nine days after being born prematurely. In a statement shared on Instagram, the reality TV personality and her partner Aaron Summers confirmed that the infants passed away within hours of one another. “It has been the hardest, most heartbreaking, yet most magical 9 days of our lives,” Ditchfield wrote alongside a series of photos. “At 1pm on 03/09/2026, our darling Georgie peacefully passed away. Then, at 5am on 04/09/2026, his beautiful brother Marley followed him. “My boys both took their final breaths in the arms of me and their daddy. There is no greater privilege, and no greater pain, than holding your children as they leave this world.” Ditchfield with her partner Aaron Summers (Instagram) The couple had previously revealed the boys …

Game of Thrones star addresses if she would return for Arya Stark spin-off movie

Game of Thrones star addresses if she would return for Arya Stark spin-off movie

Maisie Williams has discussed whether she’d be interested in reprising her fan-favourite Game of Thrones role as Arya Stark for a potential spin-off. Back in 2024, George RR Martin sparked rumours of a spin-off project centred around Williams’s character, writing on his blog at the time that the two of them “talked about… well, no, better not get into that, do not want to jinx it. But it could be so much fun.” Since then, the rumour mill has continued to churn, with reports suggesting that Drops of God’s Quoc Dang Tran could be heading up the writing of the series. “I saw that, too,” the star said of the rumours in an interview with The Guardian. “I was like, huh?” When pressed on whether she’d be interested in returning to the character, she said: “I don’t know, really. She would have to be developed in some way because I feel like I’ve changed so much, and I feel like what people loved about Arya is that she was always a child doing things that …