I’ve talked about it in this newsletter before, but one of the all-time best days of my life was doing the Warner Bros Studio Tour. This wasn’t even a special tour - it was the standard one that tourists can do. It was just an incredible experience going around and visiting sets and shooting locations for so many of my favourite shows over the years.
Yesterday in the newsletter I was wondering how to get to the US to tour the Brady Bunch house, which is open for a charity open house in November. Today I’m trying to work out how to get to the US for a just-announced Gilmore Girls-themed studio tour at Warner Bros Studios.
As per KTLA:
From Dec. 18 through Jan. 4, 2026, fans of the show can purchase tickets for a special “Gilmore Girls”-themed studio tour that will give them a chance to live like Lorelai and Rory and walk the streets of the iconic New England town and visit the stores and landmarks featured throughout the show’s seven-season (and one miniseries) run.
The Studio Tour’s Holidays Made Here event is a limited-time seasonal offering that is included with all standard tours, and features extended hours for guests to explore Midwest Street, the actual studio backlot that served as the small town at the center of the series, as well as other Hollywood productions over the years.
Lorelai’s house, Luke’s Diner and the Dragonfly Inn are among the immersive walk-through sets. Collectibles can be purchased at Doose’s Market, Kim’s Antiques and the Stars Hollow Bookstore.
Each evening concludes with a “Nightly Light Show Spectacular” that celebrates the show’s enduring legacy. Other daily activities include cookie decorating, scavenger hunts and Christmas caroling.
Because I did the tour, I have been to the house from the show and stood in the town square. But, this really is next-level.
Related: I should also note that pre-sale tickets to Netflix House are on-sale now, with the venues opening in Philadelphia on Nov 12 and Dallas on Dec 11.
News Desk
Reporter Marisa Kabas says Disney+ saw about 1.7 million Disney+ cancelations following the benching of Jimmy Kimmel. But, how many of those are related to the price rise announced during this same time period?
Meanwhile, THR reports that with price rises and Disney+’s reporting timings, any impact of the Kimmel cancellations will be hard to ascertain.
Former Home Improvement supporting supporting cast member Debbie Dunning says that following career advice from Tim Allen, she opted against posing for Playboy. Considering how big her career has gotten since Home Improvement, one can only speculate how good that advice was… Read: New York Post
CEO of BBC Global Media & Streaming Rebecca Glashow is set to depart the company, prompting a structural reorganisation. Read: C21
Moira Hogan, the EVP, BritBox International and General Manager, has departed Britbox after five years. She was instrumental to its local launch.
Amagi, the company that powers the good majority of FAST channels you watch, has unveiled several new products intended to improve workflows at an LA FAST conference. Read: Streaming Media Global
New FAST channel Pluto Snooker 900 will be exclusive to Pluto TV when it launches Oct 6 in the UK, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. It will initially provide 18 hours a week of live snooker and serve as the new home of the Snooker 900 15-minute format. Read: World Screen
Elizabeth Olsen says she doesn’t remember anything about her voice role in new animated show Marvel Zombie’s as she recorded it around five years ago in a home recording studio. Read: Variety
The Thick Of It creator Armando Iannucci says he is having trouble getting funding for a TV show based on Trump’s speeches for fear of retribution. Read: Deadline
Sydney ABW readers
If you live in or around Sydney, Australia, this weekend you might want to leave your home TV behind and head on down to Event Cinemas on George St. My good pal (and even better enemy) Simon Foster each year runs the Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival, which schedules a bunch of independent sci-fi films.
You can check out the program on the festival website.
I’m probably going to check out two films on the program. The first has a very strong tie to the TV show SPACE: 1999 (a show I have never actually seen).
The Eagle Obsession
A cinematic odyssey by filmmaker Jeffrey Morris, exploring how the Apollo program and visionary science fiction of the 1960s and ’70s inspired a generation of thinkers, dreamers, and creators. At the centre of the film is the Eagle Transporter—the fictional spacecraft from SPACE: 1999 that served as a symbol of bold, reasoned, humanistic futures.
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Toronto International Film Festival 2025
40 Acres
Former soldier Hailey (Danielle Deadwyler) and her partner Galen (Michael Greyeyes) fled society’s collapse along with their children, training them to fight to survive at any cost. But now Hailey’s eldest Emanuel (Kataem O’Connor) is a young man, and when he meets a young woman (Milcania Diaz-Rojas) beyond the fence, his need for human contact could place the whole family in jeopardy.
Trailer Park
Rulers of Fortune debuts Oct 29 on Netflix.
A young man aspires to rise through the ranks of Rio’s gambling underworld - unaware of the dangerous game of betrayal, lust and blood that awaits him.
People We Meet on Vacation debuts Jan 9 on Netflix.
Every summer for nearly a decade, free-spirited Poppy and buttoned-up Alex embark on a travel adventure, but after years of not speaking, one fateful trip brings them back together to confront their unspoken feelings for one another.
Grey’s Anatomy returns to the US ABC for season 22 on Oct 9.
That’s the newsletter for today.
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The one time I read all the way through ABW and, lo and behold, there’s a big bit about me! Very nice of you, Lorelei.
That is a great tour