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David Genat made history by winning the most money ever given away on network TV in the US – but he still hasn’t received his jackpot yet.

The Survivor star totally stole the show when he took part on season two of Peacock’s Deal or No Deal Island, and won the competition on Tuesday night’s finale, taking home a whopping $5.8million.

The gameshow follows contestants as they are transported to paradise in the hopes of winning a fortune, with different sums of money hidden around the island – they then complete challenges to secure briefcases, which are then used in nightly Deal or No Deal games.

In gripping scenes filmed last August, the 45-year-old was down to his last two cases, containing either $75 or the $12.2m grand prize, when he was offered a total of $5.8m from banker Chrissy Teigen.

He accepted the offer which proved to be the right move as his own case only had $75 inside, meaning he almost lost out on an eye-watering sum.

However, despite filming ending last summer, David shared that he has yet to get his winnings – but he has ‘already started spending it’.

Detailing his plans for the money in a new interview, he told Entertainment Weekly: ‘It’s not in the account just yet.

‘I remember just after everything happened, someone came and shoved a contract in my face and they were like, “So you need to sign this to facilitate getting the money.” And I was like, “Okay, let me just have a little read here.”

‘At the top it was like, “We such and such declare we will sign over the value of $5.8 million to the assigned.” And I was signing my name on that line. It was heavy.’

While we would be sending hourly requests for a bank transfer, David explained that he hasn’t even ‘asked that question yet’ of when he can expect the $5million to hit his account.

He also told the outlet that his plan, if he didn’t accept the deal, was to actually switch cases at the final moment, meaning he could have walked away with more than double his money.

Although he missed out on taking home a briefcase containing more than $12million, the contestant was much happier with what he ended up with – when he gets it, that is.

‘I wanted to do something that had never been done before. I wanted to accomplish something that had never been done,’ he continued. ‘And at 5.8, I do that. I leave a little bit of room for someone else to maybe do something bigger in the game.

‘Also at 5.8, I’m still motivated to do something. At 12.2. I’m like, check me out, I’m done. I’m not good to society anymore. That’s just too much money for me. I can’t handle it.

‘So I have thought about it obviously, but I just feel like it’s just such a great amount of money. And if I’m smart, then I can turn 5.8 to 12.2.’

Game show icons will be beside themselves at the prospect of beating David’s win next season, but host Joe Manganiello shared that the finale actually presented everyone involved with a ‘future challenge’ for the upcoming episodes.

He told Deadline: ‘What’s going to happen next season? How are we going to top that? This season finale is so unbelievable. The person who wins winds up breaking the all-time television game show record for money won.

‘What actually had to happen in order for that to go down is … I mean, people are going to be talking about it. It’s unbelievable.’

Deal or No Deal Island is available to stream on Peacock.

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Dancing on Ice has been axed by ITV, it has been confirmed.

The show only just wrapped up its 17th season, and today the broadcaster confirmed it will be put on ice in 2026, with no plans to make another season.

An ITV Spokesperson told Metro: ‘Following another successful series earlier this year, Dancing On Ice will be rested in 2026 with no current plans for another series.

‘We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the cast and crew who have worked on the show since 2006, and over the previous 17 series, for all of their hard work both on and off the ice.’

Over 200 celebrities have taken part in the show over the 245 episodes, which have required an estimated tens of thousands of sequins since it was first broadcast in 2006.

Earlier this month  Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern announced Sam Aston would lift the trophy after competing against Anton Ferdinand and Michaela Strachan in the final of the most recent series.

But days later, rumours began to whirl that the show’s future was in jeopardy after dwindling viewing figures and high production costs.

Ahead of the final, staffers were reportedly warned that the show was over unless there were some sensational finale viewing figures.

They told The Sun: ‘Dancing On Ice is an expensive production and there are questions over whether ITV is getting bang for its buck.

‘Staff working on it aren’t holding out much hope.’

They also claimed there was ‘no denying’ the format had become ‘tired’ and they were failing to attract big names so if Dancing On Ice continues, it will need a major revamp.

‘Changes are needed and it’s likely it’ll be rested and given a new lease of life,’ the source added.

In response, an ITV spokesperson told Metro: ‘The Dancing on Ice team has been fully concentrating on the much anticipated series finale last night and therefore no decision has been made.’

A source also told The Mirror earlier this year: ‘We need bums on seats, but the ratings have dropped to a point where it’s difficult to justify the cost.’

The final episode of this season garnered 2.7million viewers in what’s been described as its lowest figures ever.

Most of the series were fronted by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, before Schofield was replaced by Stephen Mulhern for the past two years.

As for host Holly – who returned to Dancing On Ice when Phillip Schofield left ITV – The Sun have previously reported that the BBC is lining her up for a reboot of Blind Date.

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Netflix has just dropped its 11th TV series from Harlan Coben, so ready yourself for your next binge-watch.

Caught is the first ever Argentinian adaptation of the prolific thriller writer’s novels and comes just weeks after the release of his last Netflix offering, Missing You.

This time, the crime drama centres on Ema Garay (Soledad Villamil), a renowned journalist known for exposing criminals who manage to evade justice.

However, her life takes an unexpected turn when respected figure Leo Mercer (Juan Minujín) becomes the prime suspect in her investigation into the disappearance of a 16-year-old girl.

Caught is one of the 14 Harlan Coben books being adapted for Netflix as part of the multi-million-pound mega deal he agreed with the streamer in 2018.

To date, his Netflix projects include UK productions Missing You, Fool Me Once, The Stranger, Stay Close and Safe, French productions Gone For Good and Just One Look; Polish productions Hold Tight and The Woods and Spanish production The Innocent.

Despite frequently storming the global top ten charts on Netflix, Coben’s adaptations typically receive a mixed reaction from viewers and critics, with The I previously branding Fool Me Once ‘junk food television.’

Rosalind Eleazar, who starred in this year’s Missing You, previously shared her response to the Coben backlash to Metro, saying that his shows have a ‘particular USP’ that viewers appreciate.

She said: ‘The thing is with reviews, everyone has an opinion. With these shows, what’s interesting is that if there are bad reviews, the figures say something very different.

‘Shows should be allowed to live in the space that they’re taking up. There are so many different styles of shows, and the Harlan Coben shows have a really particular USP, and people love it.

‘They absolutely love these shows because he’s a genius at twists and turns and taking audiences down wrong roads. It’s a genre that people have loved since the dawn of time.

Indeed, Fool Me Once – set in the aftermath of the brutal murder of ex-Army Officer Maya’s (Michelle Keegan) husband Joe (Richard Armitage) – went down a storm with viewers.

After getting ‘hooked’ on the thriller, fans flocked to X to joke they were going to call into work sick to watch the remaining episodes.

One viewer, Michelle Pryde, raved: ‘5 episodes deep into #FoolMeOnce and questioning whether I really need a job and could call in sick for work tomorrow as I need to finish it!! I am HOOKED. @michkeegan is just brilliant.’

Echoing Michelle’s sentiment, Jennifer Smith enthused: ‘@HarlanCoben I am supposed to go back to work tomorrow after this holiday break but I can’t stop watching #FoolMeOnce. Back to being sleep deprived I go.’

Angela Bennion remarked: ‘Binged, done. Absolutely fantastic storyline but #thisgirl @michkeegan is another level. On the edge of my sofa all day #FoolMeOnce #superstar x.’

Caught is available to stream on Netflix.

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After a three-year wait and a reported $200,000,000 (£155,100,000) budget, Severance season 2 has concluded with the ‘best finale of all time.’

But in the Apple TV Plus sci-fi drama’s fashion, the critically acclaimed show has created more questions than it answered.

In an attempt to illuminate some of Severance’s mysteries, Metro spoke to Dichen Lachman, who plays outie Mark’s (Adam Scott) wife Gemma and Lumon lab rat Ms Casey.

Here are the 43-year-old’s own theories on the best show on TV, including everything from whether Gemma’s car accident was faked to why she was singled out by Lumon.

First of all, what was your response when you read the ending in the script in which innie Mark chooses Helly R (Britt Lower) over Gemma?

Initially, season two was going to end a little earlier when Mark was looking at both Gemma and Helly. Then it changed to him actually making a choice between them.

All I knew when I read the script was that the fans were gonna have a moment once he made that decision, because you have been rooting for Helly and Mark S, but also you’ve been rooting for [outie] Mark, who has been grieving his wife. It’s a very difficult place to be as an audience member, having fallen in love with these characters.

Let’s take it right back to the car crash; did it actually happen? Or was it a rouse? Some fans believe Gemma approached Lumon and was the first person to be severed to remove the pain of losing a child.

It’s a mystery. I will say, though, just as a fan or an actor, the moment when she says goodbye because she’s leaving for a dinner party to play charades, I feel like I believe that she’s going to play charades.

I don’t know if Gemma would lie about where she is going and head to Lumon – but I could be completely wrong. I didn’t play it like that, and I didn’t have that intention when I was doing the scene.

In that moment when I said goodbye to Mark, I was just trying to get the relationship back to normal because they had just been through so much [after the loss of their child].

Why, out of all the inhabitants of Severance’s fictional town Kier in the fictional state PE, did Lumon choose Gemma?

I don’t know why they chose Gemma. Another journalist mentioned that maybe it was her blood, like how people can have a genetic thing that makes them a good candidate for [testing].

At the end of Severance season 2, it was implied that once Mark S completed Cold Harbor, Gemma would be killed. Why?

On the show, death can mean different things, because they had a funeral forIrving’s [John Turturro] innie [even though he is alive on the outside. And when Gemma and Mark are running away after escaping from the Cold Harbor room, Dr Mauer [Robby Benson] says, “You’ll kill them all.” So death can mean different things, I think.

But I mean why would they [kill Gemma], maybe they’re going to take her chip out? I have no idea. Either way, I knew that when they implied that they were going to kill her, that maybe Gemma would be dead. But who knows about the other innings? Maybe there are multiple chips in her mind?

The widely accepted theory about Lumon is that their modus operandi is to end human suffering and abolish pain. Do you agree?

Yes, I think so, because it’s so consistent with our society at large. We do everything we can to try and avoid anything unpleasant, and so it seems that a big company would do a lot of research into being like, you don’t have to feel the pain of childbirth, you don’t have to feel the pain of going to the dentist or the long airplane rides. Why would anyone ever pay for a business class ticket if they could just make their innie fly? They just wake up in another country. And so I think fans are absolutely spot on. I could be wrong, but that’s what would make the most sense to me.

What is the wildest fan theory you’ve stumbled across?

I think we’ve all picked the same one. So a few days ago, someone started circulating this idea that Ricken [Michael Chernus] is a goat and was finding little things in the show to try and back up that claim. Tere’s something so fun about that one that all of us as the cast have latched onto.

What are your own theories for Severance season 3 and will Helly, Mark and Gemma actually be able to escape Lumon?

I’m not sure what’s possible around the technology because, remember, Mark has tried to go through the reintegration process, and he’s having these flashes, so I actually have no idea what’s going to happen to his brain. The last person who did that, it didn’t end up so well for them.

What they come up with in the writers’ room, I will not have anticipated. I can tell you this: I hope I get to participate more in season three.

Severance is available to stream on Apple TV Plus.

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A ‘compelling’ crime thriller that many viewers rushed to binge-watch will only be up on Netflix for two more weeks.

First airing in 2014, The Missing was a British anthology drama written by brothers Harry and Jack Williams.

The first season followed the search for a missing boy in France, with the case led by detective Julien Baptiste, played by Tchéky Karyo.

The story unfolded after Tony Hughes (James Nesbitt) and his wife Emily (Frances O’Connor) travelled to France from the UK with their five-year-old son Oliver (Oliver Hunt).

Set in 2006, the family were in the country during the FIFA World Cup and lost their son while watching a football game in a crowded outdoor bar.

The series then followed them over years as they tried to figure out what happened to their kidnapped child.

With a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the series has many fans.

In its review the New York Times wrote: ‘The Missing is imaginatively written, well cast, chillingly believable and quite addictive.’

‘It is a riveting, heartbreaking, fascinating drama, taking a subject that could easily have been turned into a Lifetime TV Movie melodrama and making it real with its subtle, character-driven grace notes and the breakneck speed of its elaborate plotting,’ Time shared.

‘It’s very good, a swift-moving crime thriller that also takes the time to measure the effects of the crime on Tony and Emily’s marriage, their state of mind, and the lives of the French townspeople who were drawn into the investigation and may be again,’ RogerEbert.com added.

Meanwhile viewers called it ‘captivating’, ‘suspenseful’ and ‘underrated’.

It was then followed by a second season in 2016, which then followed a missing girl in Germany and starred David Morrisey and Keeley Hawes as her parents.

The Missing then led to a spin-off series – Baptiste – being released in 2019.

However, fans wanting to rewatch the show, or those wanting to dive in for the first time, will only be able to do so until April 12 – when the series will be taken down from Netflix.

In an interview with the BBC, the Williams brothers spoke about incorporating the thriller element into the character-driven drama.

‘There’s so much good TV, you need a reason to come back. You need a reason to keep watching. When we write, we really try to think about how to end an episode in a place that makes me want to come back and write the next one,’ Jack said.

‘And you have to do it in a way that isn’t cheap, that’s important to the story, and helpful to moving forward with our characters,’ Harry added.

The Missing is on Netflix until April 12.

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Seth Rogen and James Franco’s feud has taken an unexpected turn after the pair revealed their friendship was ‘over’.

Today marks the global release day of Seth’s new Apple TV Plus show The Studio, which has earned universal acclaim from critics.

The 10-part series centres on Hollywood studio executive Matt (Seth) as he juggles corporate demands with creative ambitions to try and keep movies alive and relevant.

The Studio also stars the likes of Catherine O’Hara and features cameos from A-listers including Martin Scorsese, Charlize Theron and Olivia Wilde.

However, perhaps unexpectedly, the show also features Dave Franco, the brother of James Franco. In 2021, the Spider-Man actor agreed to pay $2.2m (£1.7m) to settle a legal case after being accused of sexual misconduct.

The 127 Hours star’s lawyers previously described the allegations as ‘false and inflammatory’ and he previously denied the claims. But following the news, Seth came out and said he ‘despises abuse’.

He also added that he will not be working with his longtime collaborator moving forward.

Yet, Seth’s newest show The Studio features Dave working alongside him for the first time since the allegations against his brother surfaced.

Reacting on X, @nocontextvp said: ‘Dave Franco being here but not his brother is frying me so bad.’

But while many people might be surprised to see the pair working together, given the potential awkwardness due to Seth ending his friendship with James, The Studio co-creator Evan Goldberg set the record straight.

Speaking to LADbible, Goldberg said: ‘No, no, we’ve been working with Davey [Franco] for a long, long time, ever since Neighbours, and we’ve known him… He was in Superbad back then, so we’ve known him forever.

‘He was just the person that came up in our minds for this Ron Howard film that is a film within our [series] for Alphabet City.

‘Yeah, it was just – he was the natural, selected choice.’

James recently reflected on the breakdown of his friendship with Seth, who he has starred with in Pineapple Express, The Interview and The Disaster Artist.

In an interview with Variety, he said: ‘I haven’t talked to Seth. I love Seth, we had 20 great years together, but I guess it’s over. And not for lack of trying. I’ve told him how much he’s meant to me.’

Having previously said in 2018 he would work with James again, Seth told Sunday Times’ Culture Magazine in 2021: ‘What I can say is that I despise abuse and harassment and I would never cover or conceal the actions of someone doing it, or knowingly put someone in a situation where they were around someone like that.’

He added: ‘I look back to that interview in 2018 where I comment that I would keep working with James, and the truth is that I have not and I do not plan to do it right now.’

Explaining that his decision was ‘not a coincidence’, Seth stated: ‘I can say it, um, you know, it has changed many things in our relationship and our dynamic.’

In 2021, James admitted to sleeping with students at his acting school, saying: ‘I was not clearheaded.’

Speaking on The Jess Cagle Podcast, James stressed that he had not started the school to lure women for sexual purposes.

‘I suppose at the time, my thinking was if it’s consensual, OK,’ he continued. ‘At the time I was not clearheaded.’

The actor added he had kept quiet for such a long period because ‘there were people that were upset with me and I needed to listen’.

He agreed to pay $2.2m (£1.6m) in July after being sued for engaging in ‘sexually-charged behaviour towards female students’.

The class-action lawsuit, led by Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal, alleged he abused his position and dangled opportunities for roles in his films.

Students claimed they were victims of fraud for paying for the acting school while being sexually objectified and intimidated.

The lawsuit alleged that abuses took place at Franco’s Studio 4 film school, which opened in 2014 and closed in 2017.

Tither-Kaplan had previously come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against James, shortly after he won a Golden Globe for his film The Disaster Artist in 2018.

He denied them at the time.

The Studio will premiere on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes on 26 March followed by one episode every Wednesday until 21 May.

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