Table of ContentsTable of ContentsThe Jetty (2024)Dark Side of the 90s (2021-Present)High Potential (2024-Present)Hulu has an advantage over many of its streaming rivals in that its the exclusive home to new shows from both ABC and Fox. So if youve been looking to sample the programming from either broadcast network, Hulu is the best place to do so. However, Hulu isnt just limited to American programs. Case in point, our first pick for the three underrated shows on Hulu that you need to watch in January is a British mystery series that premiered last year on BBC.Our other choices include a very entertaining documentary series about the 90s, as well as a crime drama that premiered on ABC last fall. Between these three shows, you should have more than enough to binge-watch your way through the month.Recommended VideosNeed more recommendations? Then check out the best new shows to stream this week, as well as the best shows on Netflix, the best shows on Hulu, the best shows on Amazon Prime Video, the best shows on Max, and the best shows on Disney+.RelatedBBCFormer Doctor Who co-star Jenna Coleman leads the cast of The Jetty as Detective Ember Manning, a single mother mourning the death of her husband. Her small town in Lancashire doesnt seem to have a crime problem on the surface, but her investigation into an arson committed around a boat that her late husband owned opens up an unexpected can of worms for Ember.True crime podcaster Riz Samuel (Weruche Opia) has come to town hoping to solve a 17-year-old missing persons case regarding Amy Knightley (Bo Bragason). Amy disappeared under murky circumstances, and as Ember is drawn into the case, she discovers that the grooming and abuse that Amy suffered when she was a child have some parallels with Embers own experiences in the town.Watch The Jetty on Hulu.Vice TVMany of us lived through the 1990s, but not everyone is familiar with the dark underbelly of that decade. Dark Side of the 90s is a documentary series that looks back at a different topic every episode, many times with commentary from the people who had first-hand experience with the issues at hand.The third season of the Vice TV original series recently arrived on Hulu with episodes focused on the rise and fall of Mike Tyson, Friends, NYPD Blue, Saturday Night Live, Robert Downey Jr., the Spice Girls, and more.Watch Dark Side of the 90s on Hulu.20th TelevisionHow does Kaitlin Olson have the time to star in Its Always Sunny In Philadelphiaand High Potential? The former is still going, but it has fewer episodes to shoot. High Potential is a more recent addition to ABC that casts Olson as Morgan Gillory, a cleaning lady for the Los Angeles Police Department who is also an unconventional genius. Morgan gets herself in trouble when she notices something in the evidence of a case that the police dont, but her successful deduction leads her to a new career as a police consultant.Morgans services come at a price, and shes not just interested in the money that comes with the position. She wants the police to help her find Roman, the father of her oldest daughter, Ava (Amirah J), who disappeared 15 years earlier. Somehow, we suspect that case wont be solved for a long time.Watch High Potential on Hulu.Editors Recommendations

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FCC not the president's speech police (yet) FCC chair makes one last stand against Trumps call to punish news stations Chair: Complaints "seek to weaponize the licensing authority of the FCC." Jon Brodkin Jan 16, 2025 4:51 pm | 20 FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel testifies during a House hearing on Thursday, May 16, 2024. Credit: Getty Images | Tom Williams FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel testifies during a House hearing on Thursday, May 16, 2024. Credit: Getty Images | Tom Williams Story textSizeSmallStandardLargeWidth *StandardWideLinksStandardOrange* Subscribers only Learn moreTaking action in the final days of the Biden administration, the Federal Communications Commission dismissed three complaints and a petition filed against broadcast television stations. FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said the action is important because "the incoming President has called on the Federal Communications Commission to revoke licenses for broadcast television stations because he disagrees with their content and coverage.""Today, I have directed the FCC to take a stand on behalf of the First Amendment," she said. "We draw a bright line at a moment when clarity about government interference with the free press is needed more than ever. The action we take makes clear two things. First, the FCC should not be the president's speech police. Second, the FCC should not be journalism's censor-in-chief."President-elect Donald Trump's chosen replacement for Rosenworcel, Commissioner Brendan Carr, wants the FCC to punish news broadcasters that he perceives as being unfair to Trump or Republicans in general. Backing Trump's various complaints about news stations, Carr has threatened to revoke licenses by wielding the FCC's authority to ensure that broadcasters using public airwaves operate in the public interest.Rosenworcel said the complaints and petition she is dismissing "come from all cornersright and leftbut what they have in common is they ask the FCC to penalize broadcast television stations because they dislike station behavior, content, or coverage." After Trump criticized CBS in October, Rosenworcel said the agency "does not and will not revoke licenses for broadcast stations simply because a political candidate disagrees with or dislikes content or coverage."Chair: Complaints aim to weaponize FCC authorityThe Center for American Rights filed complaints supporting Trump's claims of bias regarding ABC's fact-checking during a presidential debate, the editing of a CBS 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, and NBC putting Harris on a Saturday Night Live episode. Separately, the Media and Democracy Project filed a petition to deny a license renewal for WTXF-TV in Philadelphia, a station owned and operated by Fox, alleging that Fox willfully distorted news with false reports of fraud in the 2020 election that Trump lost.Rejecting all four, Rosenworcel said "the facts and legal circumstances in each of these cases are different. But what they share is that they seek to weaponize the licensing authority of the FCC in a way that is fundamentally at odds with the First Amendment. To do so would set a dangerous precedent. That is why we reject it here."Dismissing complaints isn't likely to end the cases, said Jeffrey Westling, a lawyer at the conservative American Action Forum who has urged Congress to "limit or revoke the FCC's authority to impose content-based restrictions on broadcast television."Westling said he agrees "substantively" with Rosenworcel, but added that "the DC Circuit Court has made clear that the FCC has to consider news distortion complaints (see Serafyn vs FCC) and not just dismiss them outright. If I am the complainants, I challenge these dismissals in court, win, and get more attention."When contacted by Ars today, the Center for American Rights provided a statement criticizing Rosenworcel's decision as "political and self-serving.""We fundamentally believe that several actions taken by the three major networks were partisan, dishonest and designed to support Vice President Harris in her bid to become President," the group said. "We will continue to pursue avenues to ensure the American public is protected from media manipulation of our Republic. The First Amendment does not protect intentional misrepresentation or fraud."The group previously touted the fact that Republican FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington urged FCC leadership to take its complaints seriously.Fox ruling will be challengedThe Media and Democracy Project criticized Rosenworcel's decision to dismiss its complaint against the Fox station in Philadelphia."We look forward to presenting on appeal the multiple court decisions that raise serious questions about the Murdochs' and Fox's character qualifications to remain broadcast licensees," the Media and Democracy Project said in a statement provided to Ars. "As renowned First Amendment scholar Floyd Abrams stated in his filing with the Commission, the First Amendment is no bar to Commission action given the facts of this case. Our petition is clearly distinct from the other politically motivated complaints."The group's petition pointed to a court ruling that found Fox News aired false statements about Dominion Voting Systems. Fox later agreed to pay Dominion $788 million to settle a defamation lawsuit."Our Petition to Deny is based on judicial findings that Fox made repeated false statements that undermined the electoral process and resulted in property damage, injury, and death; that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch engaged in a 'carefully crafted scheme' in 'bad faith' to deprive Lachlan's siblings of the control to which they are entitled under an irrevocable trust; and that 'Murdoch knowingly caused the corporation to violate the law,'" the Media and Democracy Project said today.The FCC order denying the petition also granted the station's application for a license renewal. The order said the allegations regarding "material carried on a cable network under common control with the Licensee that a state court found to be false" aren't grounds to deny the individual station's license renewal. While some "non-FCC-related misconduct" can be considered by the FCC in an evaluation of a licensee's character, the finding in the defamation suit doesn't qualify, the order said.Former FCC official objectsGigi Sohn, a longtime advocate whose nomination to the FCC was rejected by the Senate, also criticized the FCC today. Sohn, who also served as counselor for FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler during the Obama administration, called the dismissal of the Fox petition a "failure to lead.""As [Rosenworcel] herself points out, the facts of these petitions are very different," Sohn wrote. "The [Media and Democracy Project] petition seeks a hearing on Fox Philadelphia licenses because they allege that Fox lacks the character to hold them because it lied to the American people about the 2020 election. The conservative complaints are all based on disagreements with editorial judgments of the various broadcast networks.""The decision to lump these filings together and overturn years of FCC precedent that broadcasters' character is central to holding a license is contrary to the Communications Act's mandate that licenses be granted in 'the public interest, convenience and necessity,'" Sohn also wrote. The FCC rationale would mean that "anything and everything a broadcast licensee does or says would be a First Amendment issue that warrants automatic license renewal," she added.Media advocacy group Free Press agreed with the FCC's decision. "We have an incoming administration quite literally threatening to jail journalists for doing their jobs, and an incoming FCC chairman talking about revoking broadcast licenses any time he disagrees with their political coverage," the group said.Free Press sided with the FCC despite noting that the Fox case involved "false information [that] had devastating consequences in the January 6 attack on the peaceful transition of power four years ago.""Lies knowingly aired by Fox News Channel and some Murdoch-owned Fox affiliates present a significantly different challenge to regulators than merely fact-checking, editing or scheduling equal time for candidates in ways that displease the president-elect," Free Press said. "Yet we agree with the urgent need to prevent the weaponization of the government against journalists and media companies on the eve of the inauguration, and in light of the dire threats the new administration poses."Jon BrodkinSenior IT ReporterJon BrodkinSenior IT Reporter Jon is a Senior IT Reporter for Ars Technica. He covers the telecom industry, Federal Communications Commission rulemakings, broadband consumer affairs, court cases, and government regulation of the tech industry. 20 Comments

Oh my god, this arm is part of me, says Scott Imbrie, who was able to use it to feel objectsCharles M. Greenspon, University of ChicagoTwo people with paralysis in their hands were able to temporarily regain their sense of touch and feel the shape of objects, thanks to electrical brain stimulation. The approach could one day help people with spinal cord injuries to better carry out everyday activities by controlling a robotic arm that feels like their own.There have been previous efforts to restore touch through brain stimulation, but they were fairly crude. These were

SpaceX launched its Starship mega-rocket for the seventh time on Thursday.It performed an epic booster catch for the second time but the Starship exploded shortly after.The launch marked the first flight of a new-generation Starship.SpaceX Starship mega-rocket has stumbled on the road to commercial use, unexpectedly dropping out of communications and exploding as it screamed toward space for its seventh flight on Thursday.After liftoff, theSuper Heavy booster heaved the Starship spaceship toward space, separated itself, and fell back toward Earth. As the falling booster approached SpaceX's Texas facilities, it nailed a complex maneuver that's only happened once before. SpaceX successfully caught its Super Heavy booster for the second time. Screenshot via SpaceX webcast The booster fired its engines to lower itself to a catch tower, where a pair of giant "chopstick" arms closed around its trunk and caught it.This technological feat is key to reaching SpaceX's goal of building a fleet of rapidly, fully reusable rockets to help slash spaceflight costs, advance the company's business model, and ultimately build a city of people on Mars.However, shortly after the epic booster catch, SpaceX said the upper stage of the system, Starship itself, was lost and later confirmed on X that it had suffered a rapid unscheduled disassembly, which is another way of saying it exploded."We were just coming up to the end of that ascent burn for the ship when we started to lose a couple of the engines," Dan Huot, one of the hosts of SpaceX's livestream of the launch, said in the broadcast.Then the ship dropped out of communications, meaning there was some kind of anomaly and Starship was lost, Huot said."This was a brand new vehicle essentially," he added. "With that, there's a lot of things you're upgrading, but there's a lot of things you're going to learn as all those systems are now interacting with each other for the first time."Elon Musk, the company's founder and CEO, posted on X shortly after that "improved versions of the ship & booster already waiting for launch."SpaceX's Starship flight 7 didn't achieve all it set out toFor the first time, SpaceX flew Starship with a reused Raptor rocket engine.The Super Heavy booster runs on 33 Raptor engines. For the entire rocket to be reusable, as Musk has said he intends, then those engines must be recycled and reused too. A picture of the Raptor engine SpaceX reused during its latest launch. Screenshot via SpaceX webcast Aboard Thursday's flight, one of those engines was the same one that SpaceX flew on its October flight.Also flying for the first time was SpaceX's new generation second-stage Starship. This new generation comes with significant upgrades designed for "bringing major improvements to reliability and performance," the company wrote on its website.For example, the flaps on this upgraded Starship are smaller and reoriented so they're not exposed to as much heat upon reentry. These flaps are designed to eventually help Starship fly back and touch down on land, making it reusable. The new-generation Starship that flew on SpaceX's latest launch has significant upgrades, including to its flaps highlighted here. Screenshot via SpaceX webcast However, SpaceX has not yet recovered a Starship from spaceflight. So far, every Starship that has flown to space has sunk into the Indian Ocean. The ship on Thursday's flight was slated for the same fate before it was lost shortly after launch.Starship was scheduled to deploy a set of 10 Starlink simulators, or dummies. They were about the same size and weight as SpaceX's next-generation V3 Starlink satellites. Deploying them was practice for eventually the real thing, which is a key part of SpaceX's business plan.Starship is set to make other SpaceX rockets obsolete SpaceX's Super Heavy booster hangs in mid-air between giant "chopsticks" arms. Screenshot via SpaceX webcast In its final form, Starship should be able to release up to 100 second-generation Starlink satellites at a time, increasing SpaceX's internet coverage and a core pillar of its income.Once Starship is operational, its sheer power will likely make it the cornerstone of SpaceX's business, which has long hinged on the comparatively wimpy Falcon 9 and its hefty counterpart, Falcon Heavy."Starship obsoletes Falcon 9 and the Dragon capsule," SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell said at the Baron Investment Conference in November, according to Ars Technica."We'll be flying that for six to eight more years," she added, "but ultimately, people are going to want to fly on Starship. It's bigger. It's more comfortable. It will be less expensive. And we will have flown it so many more times."

Did Donald Trump deliver the Gaza ceasefire that Joe Biden couldnt?After many long months of inconclusive talks, a ceasefire deal between the Israeli government and Hamas appears to have finally been reached just as Biden is set to leave office and Trump is set to take credit.Bidens team of course would point out that they spent many months engaged in painstaking diplomacy to deliver this outcome. The deal itself (which is still awaiting final approval from the Israeli government) resembles a proposal crafted by officials from the US, Egypt, and Qatar and announced by Biden in May. However, there indeed seems to be widespread agreement among diplomats and officials involved that Trump-related factors were quite important in finally spurring the deal to come together though there are some dueling narratives about exactly why.Trump intervened in two main ways. First, in early December, he made a public demand that the hostages be released before his inauguration and that, if they werent, there would be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East. He did not clarify what that meant, but this effectively set a deadline: Trump wanted a deal by January 20.Second, in recent days, Trumps team most notably incoming Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff became involved in the process directly, pressuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make concessions and agree to a deal.Left critics of Bidens Israel policy have responded by arguing that Trumps interventions prove he could have produced a ceasefire far earlier, if only he had been willing to push Israel more, and that he and his team were either too weak, too incompetent, or too in hock to Israel to do so.Yet major developments in the war in recent months likely also made both Israel and Hamas more willing to end it.Between September and November, Israeli forces not only killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, but also drastically escalated their war against the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, doing grave damage to the group and killing many of its leaders before an eventual ceasefire in Lebanon. This likely helped Israel feel like it would be ending the war from a position of greater strength, while leaving Hamas more isolated and ending any hopes theyd be helped by foreign intervention.So the context for the war had recently changed in ways that paved the way for a ceasefire. But the combination of Trumps deadline and his teams pressure on Netanyahu indeed seems to have been important in getting the deal across the finish line.Major developments in the war late last year may have paved the way for a ceasefireSince Biden endorsed this ceasefire proposal back in May, there has been endless finger-pointing about who deserves most blame for the lack of an agreement on it.Publicly, US officials have blamed Hamas as the main obstacle for the lack of the deal. This narrative was complicated somewhat by Netanyahus repeated public rejections of Bidens ceasefire proposals.Indeed, according to the Washington Posts Ishaan Tharoor, Arab interlocutors and US officials in private have also pointed the finger at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who repeatedly scuppered deals with new demands that Hamas was unwilling to accept.All along, Netanyahu faced pressure from his far-right governing partners who have the power to unmake him as prime minister to continue the war further. And he eventually responded by launching devastating attacks against Hezbollah, which had regularly been firing rockets at northern Israel since late 2023, displacing tens of thousands of Israelis from their homes. Hezbollah had claimed they would not stop the rocket attacks until the Gaza war ended. Israels escalation in Lebanon was brutal but successful in dismantling Hezbollah. And while that was going on, Sinwar was found and killed in southern Gaza, handing Israel a symbolic victory by eliminating the architect of the October 7, 2023, attacks. This put Netanyahu in more of a position of strategic and political strength, which may have made him newly open to wrap up the war. We have less insight into Hamass decision-making, but the defeat of a main ally in Hezbollah may have also made them more willing to agree to a negotiated settlement.Indeed, reports throughout December claimed that a ceasefire deal was drawing closer. But both sides haggled hard over the details, and agreement remained elusive.So Trumps December 2 demand that the hostages be released by his inauguration may have mattered mainly because it served as an action-forcing deadline for two parties who were already increasingly inclined to reach a deal.How much did Witkoffs pressure on Netanyahu matter?Steve Witkoff speaks during a Trump campaign event on October 27, 2024. Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBut Trumps other major intervention came in recent days, when he sent Witkoff to the Middle East to join the talks and reiterated that he was quite serious about his deadline and that it applied to Israel too.Once in Israel, Witkoff reportedly told Netanyahu in blunt terms that he needed to compromise more. Multiple reports claim that this pressure, and Trumps involvement generally, made a difference:Two Arab officials told the Times of Israel that one meeting with Witkoff did more to sway Netanyahu than Biden did in the past year.An unnamed diplomat told the Washington Post that this was the first time there has been real pressure on the Israeli side to accept a deal.One US official told Axios that Trumps involvement was the 10 cents missing for the dollar in getting the deal done.Trump and Witkoffs pressure on Netanyahu may also have helped the prime minister argue to his far-right coalition partners that the deal on the table was the best he could get though it is so far unclear whether Netanyahu will keep his governing coalition together.So its a matter of dispute whether Trump deserves full credit for the deal, 10 percent, or something in between. But it does appear pretty indisputable that he played a helpful role in getting it done.Youve read 1 article in the last monthHere at Vox, we're unwavering in our commitment to covering the issues that matter most to you threats to democracy, immigration, reproductive rights, the environment, and the rising polarization across this country.Our mission is to provide clear, accessible journalism that empowers you to stay informed and engaged in shaping our world. By becoming a Vox Member, you directly strengthen our ability to deliver in-depth, independent reporting that drives meaningful change.We rely on readers like you join us.Swati SharmaVox Editor-in-ChiefSee More:

Fortnite keeps getting weirder, and this week players can become Gozilla itself in the new Titan Takedown event and unlock the Godzilla Evolved skin for their troublesTech16:17, 16 Jan 2025Titan Takedown brings Godzilla and Kong to Fortnite(Image: Epic Games)Fortnite Chapter 6 is still rumbling on, and Epic Games' popular shooter is continuing to push what's possible in a live-service title as it pivots to becoming somewhere to play a whole host of experiences.The game's latest event, Titan Takedown, will let players step into the big, scaly feet of Godzilla, King of the Monsters, as he wreaks havoc on other players. Players can even unlock a Godzilla Evolved skin for their troubles.Here's all you need to know about the Fortnite Godzilla event, including when you can play.Fortnite's latest event kicks off on Friday, January 17 at around 2PM GMT (that's 9AM EST or 6AM PST) for players to jump into.It's part of the massive v33.20 patch which arrived earlier this week, so be sure your game is updated to take part.Despite the hype around Godzilla, he's not the only titan joining the fray with this update as Kong will also be stomping his way onto the island.Players can become Godzilla by heading through a small portal somewhere on the map. Godzilla has three abilities to use:Mighty Stomp - send enemies flyingHeat Ray - ranged attack that deals damage to enemies and structuresRoar - reveal nearby enemiesPlayers that don't get to play as Godzilla will have plenty of help to take him down, though. The Rail Gun has been unvaulted, and there's a Shield Bubble to help prevent damage.The player that deals the most damage to the big lizard will earn the Godzilla Medallion and Burst Quad Launcher weapon, too.Article continues belowLooking for a longer-lasting reminder of your time fighting Godzilla? Players that own the Hunters Battle Pass can complete a series of quests to unlock the Godzilla Evolved outfit and a series of accessories.Completing them all will unlock the Energized Godzilla style, but quests are only available until February 21 so you'll need to move quickly.For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletters.RECOMMENDED

Nintendo may never reveal detailed specs (YouTube)There might not have been any official information about the Nintendo Switch 2 tech specs but a series of leaks may hold the answer.The Nintendo Switch 2 console has now been officially announced but inevitably the brief reveal trailer has raised more questions than its answered.Insiders had already warned not to expect much in terms of game reveals (although we did get Mario Kart 9) and the lack of any price or release date info, beyond it being out this year, was also not a surprise.It also wasnt a shock that Nintendo failed to provide any detailed technical information, something theyre never very interested in talking about at the best of times. But much of that info had leaked out earlier and it certainly seems as if the leaks about the consoles size have now been proven true.How big is the Nintendo Switch 2 console?One of the first things to leak about the Switch 2 was information about its screen size, because that has to be handled by a particular component provider. The rumour all along has been that it has an 8 inch LCD screen, which is an increase from the 6.2 inch original Switch, and the 7 inch OLED Model.Although Nintendo has provided no measurements that does look to be about the right level of increase, to judge by the trailer which focuses heavily on the differences between the new console and the old, and emphasises that every element of it is bigger.More TrendingThe leaks get a little less reliable when it comes to the dimensions of the Switch 2, but the mock-up made by Genki for CES earlier in the year measured 10.5 inches (26.7cm) wide, 4.5 inches tall (11.4cm), and 5 inches (12.7cm) thick, which also seems about right based on the reveal trailer.To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5videoUp NextWhat are the Nintendo Switch tech specs?The thing about technical specifications is they dont really matter, not for any console. No matter how good or bad things may look on paper that rarely has any impact on how the games perform, as thats much more dependent on the skill of the developers.An analysis of leaked images of the Switch 2 motherboard suggests that the console is roughly equivalent to a base PlayStation 4, but with enough special features and modern components that it should still be able to run modified versions of PlayStation 5 games just as the original Switch had ports of a number of PlayStation 4 titles.Since no third party games have been announced yet it remains to be seen just what the Switch 2 is capable of, especially when Nintendo is not the developer, but in the meantime these are believed to be the accurate specs for the Switch 2:Nintendo Switch 2 specsCPU: Arm Cortex-A78C 8 coresGPU: Nvidia T239 Ampere 1 graphics processing cluster (GPC) 12 streaming multiprocessors (SM) 1,534 CUDA cores 6 texture processing clusters (TPC) 48 Gen 3 Tensor cores 2 RTX ray-tracing coresRAM: 12GB LPDDR5Storage: 256GB UFS 3.1 (up to 2,100MB/s)Handheld Mode:CPU: 998.4 MHzGPU: 561 MHz (~1.72 TFLOPS)Memory Frequency: 4266 MHzMemory Bandwidth: 68.256 GB/sDocked Mode:CPU: 1100.8 MHzGPU: 1007.25 MHz (~3.09 TFLOPS)Memory Frequency: 6400 MHzMemory Bandwidth: 102.4 GB/sEmailgamecentral@metro.co.uk, leave a comment below,follow us on Twitter, andsign-up to our newsletter.To submit Inbox letters and Readers Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use ourSubmit Stuff page here.For more stories like this,check our Gaming page.GameCentralSign up for exclusive analysis, latest releases, and bonus community content.This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Your information will be used in line with our Privacy Policy

Cinema lost a great today. While the news of David Lynchs passing seems still more unreal than anything the director has made, we mourn the loss along with the rest of the filmmakers and actors who had the privilege to exist during the Lynchian era. And were pouring out a cup of damn fine coffee for him. Contemporary and fellow cinema titan of the modern era Steven Spielberg, shared a statement with Variety about the tremendous loss of his peer: I loved Davids films. Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and Elephant Man defined him as a singular, visionary dreamer who directed films that felt handmade, Spielberg remembered. I got to know David when he played John Ford in The Fabelmans. Here was one of my heroesDavid Lynch playing one of my heroes. It was surreal and seemed like a scene out of one of Davids own movies. The world is going to miss such an original and unique voice. His films have already stood the test of time and they always will. Longtime friend and collaborator Kyle MacLachlan paid tribute to Lynch on Instagram:Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didnt recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person Id ever met.David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, Ive lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. Wed talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that hes gone.David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything. Actor Nicolas Cage shared to Deadline: He was brave, brilliant, and a maverick with a joyful sense of humor, Cage continued, I never had more fun on a film set than working with David Lynch. He will always be solid gold. David Lynch said that filmmaking should be fun & joyful. Of course it can be hard work. Of course the work itself can encompass all kinds of pain & painful truth. But the act of creation itself should be full of joy. I think about that all the time. RIP David Lynch. You are immortal. Kumail Nanjiani (@kumail.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM From Coralie Fargeats Instagram stories: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/DE5chxrRipJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, whats next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.