Coverage tracker
The most covered news stories, 19 October to 25 October 2026
FTMQ Film & TV reads 6,911 headlines from 370 outlets a week. These are the stories the most of them covered, and the outlet that had each one first.
- 1Character actor Richard Riehle dies at age 78
12 outlets · first: SlashFilm, Mon 18:19 UTC · Top Stories
- 2Actor Tom Skerritt Dies at Age 93
10 outlets · first: The Hollywood Reporter, Thu 18:52 UTC · Top Stories
- 3FX Renewing American Horror Story Anthology Series for Season 14
8 outlets · first: The Wrap, Tue 20:00 UTC · Reviews Roundups
- 4Street Fighter Tops Box Office as Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Stuns
7 outlets · first: The Wrap, Sat 15:03 UTC · Box Office
- 5Shazam star Michael Gray dies aged 75 in California
7 outlets · first: TV Line, Thu 21:43 UTC · Top Stories
- 6Stephanie March returns to Law and Order SVU in Season 28
6 outlets · first: The Wrap, Fri 20:30 UTC · New Releases
- 7Actor Betty McGuire dies at 100
5 outlets · first: The Hollywood Reporter, Sun 17:20 UTC · Reviews Roundups
- 8Elizabeth Holmes documentary surges past Melania Trump film at box office
4 outlets · first: The Mirror US, Sun 21:52 UTC · Box Office
- 9Taika Waititi confirms his Star Wars feature is on hold indefinitely
4 outlets · first: Variety, Sun 23:39 UTC · Top Stories
- 10Samara Weaving joins Olivia Wilde holiday comedy Naughty for Universal
4 outlets · first: The Hollywood Reporter, Wed 19:27 UTC · Reviews Roundups
- 11Emily Osment requested intimacy coordinator during Young Sheldon production
4 outlets · first: Variety, Sat 20:50 UTC · Top Stories
- 12James Cameron Congratulates Marvel as Avengers Endgame Reclaims Box Office Record
3 outlets · first: ScreenRant, Sat 13:48 UTC · Box Office
- 13Netflix reports theatrical box office figures for first time with La Bola Negra
3 outlets · first: Los Angeles Times Company Town, Sun 15:31 UTC · Box Office
- 14Michael Douglas requested Marvel kill off his Ant-Man character
3 outlets · first: The Wrap, Mon 18:30 UTC · Reviews Roundups
- 15Sacha Baron Cohen releases new Ali G movie in theaters
3 outlets · first: AV Club, Thu 15:00 UTC · Top Stories
- 16Mediator to decide Nick Reiner access to parents trust fund for legal defense
3 outlets · first: Deadline, Fri 19:42 UTC · Top Stories
- 1720th Century Studios taps Aaron Guzikowski for new Alien feature
3 outlets · first: The Hollywood Reporter, Fri 21:28 UTC · Top Stories
First to the story
Outlets that had the most of the week’s widely covered stories before anyone else.
- The Hollywood Reporter4
- The Wrap4
- Variety2
- SlashFilm1
- TV Line1
- The Mirror US1
- ScreenRant1
- Los Angeles Times Company Town1
- AV Club1
- Deadline1
Busiest outlets
Headlines published in the feeds we read.
- ScreenRant1,214
- Collider672
- Variety467
- Deadline452
- ComingSoon429
- TV Insider427
- The Hollywood Reporter341
- The Wrap252
- MarketWatch239
- TV Line166
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Source: FTMQ Film & TV coverage tracker, 19 October to 25 October 2026, https://film.ftmq.com/coverage/2026-10-19
How it is counted: every report FTMQ Film & TV 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.
