‘Painkiller’ ending explained: what happened to Richard Sackler?

EastEnders fans were left on the edges of their seats this week, when Walford icon Cindy Beale made her permanent return to the show for the first time in 25 years, after teasing her return earlier this Summer. Back in June, fans were greeted with a glimpse of Cindy as it was confirmed to viewers at home that she had a connection to Albert Square newcomers the Knight family, and had actually been living under the alias of Rose Knight when she married new Queen Vic landlord George Knight.This also meant that Cindy was the mother of George’s two daughters, Gina and Anna - two children she had mysteriously walked out on nine years ago.

Netflix series Who Is Erin Carter?, a British expat teacher based in Barcelona.The show begins by seeing Carter fend off two gunmen in an armed supermarket robbery, and secrets from her past slowly begin to be exposed.A flashback episode then reveals that Carter was recruited by the CIO intelligence organisation, using the pseudonym Kate Jones, and fled England with her daughter Harper.An official synopsis reads: “Meet Erin Carter, a British substitute teacher who lives in Barcelona with her loving husband, Jordi, and young daughter, Harper. Erin has managed to build an ordinary life for herself in Santa Alma, a fictional upmarket community on the outskirts of the city, until one day she gets caught up in a violent robbery at the local supermarket.“And when one of the robbers claims to recognise her, Erin’s life begins to unravel.

King Krule has shared a new live film, comprised of footage from his recent run of intimate live shows.

is returning to claim her rightful place in . The first trailer for just dropped, and it's already shaping up to be the movie I'm going to cry hardest to this holiday season.Here's everything we know about the new film, which Ryan also directed.In the film, Ryan will star as Willa opposite David Duchovny as Bill, her former partner with whom she unexpectedly finds herself trapped at the airport during a snowstorm.

Almost eight years after Arthur ‘Fatboy’ Chubb's death in 2015, EastEnders fans at home have been hoping for the iconic character to make a return to Albert Square in some capacity - especially as the soap is well known for bringing characters such as Cindy Beale and Dirty Den back from the dead. And it appears fans have gotten their wish this week, as actor Ricky Norwood returned to the show to take part in a special flashback episode, allowing fans to reconnect once more with the memorable character.

Spoiler alert! If you haven’t seen the season 2 finale of “And Just Like That”, proceed with caution. 

Kim Cattrall makes her triumphant return to the Sex of the City universe today with her cameo in the season 2 finale of And Just Like That.

Back and more fabulous than ever! Though her cameo was brief, Samantha Jones returned in all her glory to the universe in Thursday's season 2 finale of the Max reboot, .Fans didn't have to wait long for the much-discussed appearance from original star Kim Cattrall as it happened in the episode's first five minutes. In the scene, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) walked into her old apartment to prepare for her «Last Supper» meal when she received a phone call from Sam, who is living her best PR boss lady life abroad in London.

If ever there was a true rags to riches story to epitomise the 1980s, there’s no better example than musician Paul Hardcastle who strangely started his life living with his parents in snoozy suburbia and selling hi-fis to spin a quick buck. Fast forward a few years to 1985 and that humble beginning would soon change for the better, as friends, neighbours and complete strangers from all around the world were soon flocking to his door in the hope of snagging an autograph.The reason of course, was Paul’s unexpected talent for music and ability to speak to the public through his insightful combination of lyrics and melody.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s highly publicised court case is the subject of a new documentary.Directed by Emma Cooper, Depp v. Heard is a three-part series which explores the impact of social media on the trial, which saw Depp sue his ex-wife for defamation.A synopsis reads: “The trial of Depp v Heard, in which both parties accused each other of domestic abuse, was a global media event and dubbed ‘the first TikTok trial’.

Russell Crowe makes a splash in the horror genre in The Pope’s Exorcist.Directed by Julius Avery, the supernatural horror film stars Crowe as real-life figure Father Gabriele Amorth, a Catholic priest who claimed to have performed thousands of exorcisms over his career.A synopsis reads: “The Pope’s Exorcist follows Amorth as he investigates a young boy’s terrifying possession and ends up uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy the Vatican has desperately tried to keep hidden.”Other cast members include Daniel Zovatto, Alex Essoe and Franco Nero.In the film’s final act, Amorth and Father Esquibel (Zovatto) discover the demon possessing young Henry (Peter DeSouza-Feighoney) is Asmodeus, the king of hell. The demon’s aim is to possess an exorcist, so that it can release other demons and take down the Church.During the exorcism of Henry, Amorth offers himself to be possessed by Asmodeus – falling in line with the demon’s plan.

Meghan Markle left Suits before the final season, but that doesn’t mean her character, Rachel Zane, was completely written out of the show.

Katharine McPhee and David Foster have suffered a “horrible tragedy” in their family.

New Yorker article, “The Family That Built an Empire of Pain” and Barry Meier’s book, “Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic.” It retells the opioid crisis from several different perspectives, including billionaire Richard Sackler (Broderick) and his team at Purdue Pharma (Sackler has denied responsibility for the crisis); Edie Flowers (Uzo Aduba), a lawyer working for the US attorney’s office in Roanoke who’s investigating the drug OxyContin; Glen Kryger (Taylor Kitsch), a family man with a small business who gets hooked on OxyContin after he’s injured at work; and Shannon Shaeffer (West Duchovony), a new recruit to the Purdue sales team who begins having doubts. “Back in 2003, I was working at the New York Times and we got a tip that there was this new drug called OxyContin that was running wild on the streets of all these small towns,” Meier, a consulting producer on the show, told The Post.

Karlie Kloss was in attendance at Taylor Swift‘s Eras tour stop last night, and now a source is speaking out.

As of last year, over a million people have died of opioid overdoses in the United States. The central culprits, as outlined in Netflix’s latest miniseries, “Painkiller,” are Purdue Pharma and the “non-addictive” prescription drug they marketed to anyone with a pulse and a toothache: OxyContin.

Netflix's latest limited series is a fictionalised re-telling of a drugs crisis which has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans since the late 90s.

Netflix original series to become a summer hit looks set to be the drug drama Painkiller, fronted by Matthew Broderick – you can find episode details below.The series takes on the ever-headline-making prescription drugs crisis that continues to grip America and other parts of the world. Broderick plays a slick pharmaceutical executive, Richard Sackler, while Uzo Aduba’s Edie Flowers is the government lawyer set on taking him down.An official synopsis for Painkiller reads: “A fictionalized retelling of events, Painkiller is a scripted limited series that explores some of the origins and aftermath of the opioid crisis in America, highlighting the stories of the perpetrators, victims, and truth-seekers whose lives are forever altered by the invention of OxyContin.“An examination of crime, accountability, and the systems that have repeatedly failed hundreds of thousands of Americans, Painkiller is based on the book Pain Killer by Barry Meier and the New Yorker magazine article The Family That Built an Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe.”The first season of Painkiller comprises six one hour episodes that chart the battle between the good guys (Flowers and the Feds) and the big bad (Sackler and his Pharma company).As with many TV series on Netflix, the series will have its entire season released in one go as of Thursday, August 10.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.The actor, who achieved worldwide fame as Ferris Bueller in the 1987 teen comedy, explained how it was “hard” for people to get on board with his later roles.Speaking in an interview with The Guardian, Broderick said: “I did have nice early success. But it’s not easy to maintain that first flush. It’s always a hard adjustment for child actors, young actors.

Another couple bites the dust!