NBC is Saying Goodbye to 10 Shows, Including One That's Been on the Air For Nearly 30 Years

Your watchlist may be about to get a little shorter. As the 2025-26 television season comes to a close, NBC is saying goodbye to a surprising number of shows. While several scripted series failed to earn renewals, the biggest shock for many viewers may be the cancellation of Access Hollywood, the iconic entertainment news show that's been delivering all things celebrity, Hollywood, and red carpet coverage for nearly 30 years. The cancellation was initially announced back in March as part of NBCUniversal’s decision to exit the first-run syndication business, but because the show is still producing new episodes, many fans may not realize its final sign-off is approaching. The show is expected to air its last original episode in September 2026. It’s safe to say this is the end of an era for many longtime fans. The entertainment news program first launched in 1996 and, in recent years, has been anchored by Mario Lopez, Kit Hoover, Zuri Hall and Scott Evans. Access Hollywood isn’t the only fan-favorite show coming off the air. NBCUniversal’s Frances Berwick said, “NBCUniversal is making changes to our first-run syndication division to better align with the programming preferences of local stations.” So, this would be a good time to check and see if one of your favorites is on the chopping block. The following is a list of NBC shows that have definitely been cancelled:

• Access Hollywood

• Access Daily

• The Kelly Clarkson Show

• The Steve Wilkos Show

• Karamo

• Law & Order: Organized Crime

• Brilliant Minds

• Stumble

• On Brand with Jimmy Fallon

• Deal or No Deal Island

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The Best Thing to Use to Wash Pesticides Off Fruits and Vegetables

With the latest outbreak of Cyclospora, more people are paying attention to washing their produce than ever before. If you’re one of those people, you may be wondering what the best practice is for getting fruits and vegetables clean of pesticides and other hitchhikers. Social media has popularized a trend of washing fruits and vegetables in baking soda, white vinegar, and specialty “produce washes,” but is that really the best method? According to Dr. Kelly Johnson-Arbor, a medical toxicology physician at National Capital Poison Center in Washington, D.C., the good news for the budget-minded is that water right from your faucet will clean produce quite effectively. Both the CDC and the FDA recommend washing produce with running water and not other solutions, because produce soaps and detergents can be absorbed by the produce, even with thorough rinsing. Soaking fruits and vegetables in clean water might seem like an effective way to deep clean it, but it can actually lead to an increased spread of germs through the soaking water, causing a higher level of contamination. “Your sink is dirtier than you think!” said Johnson-Arbor. She recommends getting started  by gently rinsing produce under cool running water. For berries, be careful not to wash them too vigorously, as they can become mushy. For leafy greens, separate the leaves and rinse them individually, ensuring that all sides are thoroughly cleaned. For produce with rough surfaces or crevices, like melons or cauliflower, use a produce brush to scrub away any dirt or debris. Pat them dry or use a clean paper towel before consumption. Don’t forget to wash produce that has a thick rind, like watermelon and cantaloupe.

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Taxpayers Are Paying to Keep Hundreds of Empty Buildings Wired For Internet

On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base. There’s no furniture, and the wind blows through the broken windows. The last people to live there moved away long ago. Yet a bright orange pipe with a black fiber-optic cable inside runs from the outer wall down into the surrounding soil. The cable was installed to connect the home to the Internet after the base closed. It costs more than $340,000 per year to provide this building and hundreds of others — all but a few of them empty — with Internet access that no one uses, and the money being wasted is yours. It comes from a fee added to nearly every American’s phone bill as part of an FCC subsidy program intended to bring fast, affordable Internet to remote towns. Once home to thousands of sailors and their families, the island emptied after the base closed in 1997. While the state estimated the population to be 77 last year, residents themselves put it at closer to 24 — meaning the federal Internet subsidy to the local telecom amounts to about $14,000 a year per person, and there’s zero indication that any of these people are actually benefiting from it. Residents get online through Starlink, the Elon Musk satellite service that arrived in 2023 without any subsidy from the FCC. People here say it’s up to 40 times faster and costs $90 to $140 per month, and yet the subsidies remain.

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How Long Can You Actually Go Without Sleep?

Sleepless nights are a reality for many people: parents of newborns, students cramming for tests, people struggling with insomnia. We all know that we need to sleep, but can’t we go without it for a while? Sort of, but it’s not pretty. The most famous record holder for sleep deprivation is Randy Gardner, who is widely considered to have undergone the best-documented period of extreme sleep deprivation by a human: 264 hours, or about 11 days. He was 17 at the time. His record was broken multiple times after that, most recently in 1986, with a nearly 19-day sleepless stretch by stuntman Robert McDonald. That’s the last documented world record. Don’t try to beat it, though: The Guinness Book of World Records decided in 1997 to stop monitoring the sleeplessness record. They recognize that publishing a record means that people will keep trying to beat it, and the effects of extreme sleep deprivation are considered dangerous enough that they didn't want to encourage it. While humans can theoretically survive for 11 days without sleep, severe cognitive decline and hallucinations begin after just 72 hours. The CDC recommends that adults get 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night to maintain basic cognitive function and overall health.

 

Randy Gardner

 

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