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General Motors and Netflix Partner to Give EVs the Stage they Deserve
General Motors and Netflix are joining forces to give electric vehicles (EVs) the stage they deserve, reflecting society’s increasing excitement about an all-electric future, starting with a launch spot, “EVs On Screen.”
In 2021, GM launched the “Everybody In” campaign, demonstrating the company’s intent to lead an all-electric future, and invited others to join the movement. GM is electrifying the automotive industry, engineering EVs with purpose-built, ground-up design, powered by the Ultium Platform, enabling EVs for everyone.
Netflix is joining the movement and will increase the presence of EVs in Netflix-produced shows and films, where relevant, while also taking steps to enable more sustainable productions.
“Entertainment has a huge impact on culture. We want to make EVs famous on streaming, small and silver screens to build an EV culture through storytelling that incorporates the experiences of driving and owning an EV,” said GM Global Chief Marketing Officer Deborah Wahl. “Netflix is a great partner because of the company’s compelling storytelling, commitment to sustainability and track record of sparking conversations that shape cultural trends. We are united in creating a better, more sustainable future for our world as we bring everybody in on EVs.”
As a result of the partnership, Netflix is supporting and educating creators, helping them to better understand how EVs can complement and enhance their stories. Over the course of the next year, inspired by this partnership, GM EVs will be seen in select Netflix shows and films, including Love is Blind, Queer Eye and Unstable, which will feature the Chevrolet Bolt EUV, GMC HUMMER EV Pickup and Cadillac LYRIQ respectively.
“At Netflix, we create shows and films that can influence culture and spark meaningful conversations,” said Netflix Chief Marketing Officer Marian Lee. “From the TikTok dance trends inspired by Wednesday to thoughtful discussions about climate change with Don’t Look Up, we know that entertainment can drive fandom and inspire connections. GM is a cultural leader in the auto industry and we are proud to partner with them in their efforts by amplifying the presence of electric vehicles in our shows and films.”
In addition to Netflix’s commitment to increase the presence of EVs on screen, the company is also taking action to become more sustainable behind the camera within its productions by optimizing energy use, then electrifying it, and decarbonizing the rest. To learn more visit: Sustainability.Netflix.com.
As part of the rollout for this strategic alliance, a commercial that presents both companies’ commitment to a more sustainable future will air during the big game on Sunday, Feb. 12. Fans will see Will Ferrell enter the world of some of the biggest Netflix shows and films including Army of the Dead, Squid Game, and more. The creative showcases how EVs will show up on screen while highlighting the wide range of EVs GM plans to offer. More information about Netflix and GM’s joint efforts is available at gm.com/netflix.
You can view the teasers below:
Entertainment
Eastlake, Ohio: The Small Lake Erie City Behind the Golden Girls Kitchen Nightmares Episode
For many television viewers, Eastlake, Ohio, may not have been a familiar name before Gordon Ramsay arrived in town. That changed when the Lake Erie community appeared on Kitchen Nightmares, with Ramsay attempting to rescue the struggling Golden Girls Restaurant.
The episode offered more than the familiar formula of disappointing food, frustrated owners and a dramatic restaurant makeover. It also briefly placed a national spotlight on Eastlake—a small Greater Cleveland city with a waterfront identity, a minor-league baseball team and a population of approximately 17,000 residents.
Unfortunately, the Golden Girls story did not end as viewers might have hoped.
Gordon Ramsay Comes to Eastlake
Golden Girls Restaurant was presented on Kitchen Nightmares as a neighborhood diner operated by two best friends who had become co-owners. According to the episode’s description, the restaurant was struggling with unappealing food and a local community that had lost confidence in the business.
Those problems made Golden Girls a natural candidate for Ramsay’s intervention. As he typically does on the program, the celebrity chef examined the restaurant’s food, kitchen practices, leadership and relationship with its customers.
Ramsay’s challenge was not simply to create a few improved dishes. He needed to help the owners restore consistency, rebuild trust and give Eastlake residents a reason to return.
The Golden Girls makeover reportedly took place in June 2025. That was more than a year before the episode reached television, creating an unusually long gap between Ramsay’s visit and the public broadcast.
Golden Girls Closed Before the Episode Aired
By the time television viewers watched Ramsay attempt to save Golden Girls, the restaurant had reportedly already closed.
The Eastlake diner shut its doors in January 2026, approximately six months after the Kitchen Nightmares makeover and several months before the episode aired. The result was a bittersweet viewing experience: audiences were watching a rescue effort whose ultimate outcome was already known locally.
Online reviews and community reactions reported by sites following the program suggest that Golden Girls continued to face problems after the makeover. However, the complete circumstances behind the closure have not been publicly documented in detail.
The restaurant’s fate illustrates an important reality frequently hidden behind the drama of restaurant-makeover television. A renovated dining room, simplified menu and burst of publicity cannot automatically resolve debt, staffing problems, ownership conflicts or years of lost customer confidence.
Television can provide a second chance, but the restaurant must sustain the changes long after the cameras leave.
Where Is Eastlake, Ohio?
Eastlake sits in Lake County approximately 19 miles northeast of Cleveland. The city is part of the Greater Cleveland metropolitan area and occupies about 6.5 square miles near the Lake Erie shoreline.
The U.S. Census Bureau counted 17,670 residents in Eastlake during the 2020 census. Its July 2025 estimate placed the population at 17,357, representing a modest decline from 2020.
Eastlake’s geography is strongly connected to the water. The Chagrin River travels nearly 48 miles before emptying into Lake Erie at Eastlake. The river and nearby lakefront support boating, fishing, paddling, birdwatching and other recreational activities.
Chagrin River Park also has a western entrance in Eastlake, giving visitors access to trails and natural areas along the river corridor.
Although Eastlake is part of a large metropolitan region, it retains the atmosphere of a smaller, largely residential community. That setting helped make Golden Girls appear like the kind of locally rooted diner where regular customers, employees and owners often know one another personally.
When a restaurant loses the trust of such a community, repairing that relationship can be especially difficult.
Eastlake’s Baseball Connection
Golden Girls may have brought Eastlake to the attention of Kitchen Nightmares viewers, but the city’s most recognizable attraction is Classic Auto Group Park.
The ballpark is home to the Lake County Captains, the High-A minor-league affiliate of the Cleveland Guardians. The stadium opened in 2003 and hosts baseball games, concerts, fundraisers and community events.
For residents and visitors, Captains baseball gives Eastlake a regional identity that extends beyond its residential neighborhoods. The team also connects the relatively small city directly to Northeast Ohio’s larger professional baseball culture.
A City Connected to a Historic Blackout
Eastlake also holds an unexpected place in modern North American history.
The massive power blackout of August 14, 2003, began after problems developed within FirstEnergy’s Ohio transmission system. An Eastlake generating unit had gone offline earlier that day, although investigators determined that the cascading outage involved a more complicated combination of overloaded transmission lines, inadequate tree maintenance and failures in monitoring and alarm systems.
The blackout eventually affected an estimated 50 million people across portions of the United States and Canada.
It is a remarkable historical connection for a city that many Americans may otherwise know only as a Cleveland suburb—or now as the setting of a memorable Kitchen Nightmares episode.
More Than the Setting of a Television Episode
The Golden Girls episode may not have produced a lasting restaurant turnaround, but it introduced millions of viewers to a community they might never have encountered otherwise.
Behind the televised kitchen problems is a real city shaped by Lake Erie, the Chagrin River, neighborhood businesses and summer nights at the ballpark. Eastlake represents the kind of smaller American community where independent restaurants can become gathering places—and where their closure can leave a noticeable gap.
Golden Girls is gone, but its appearance on Kitchen Nightmares has given the restaurant an unusual afterlife. Viewers discovering the episode will continue searching for the diner, wondering whether it survived and, in the process, learning a little more about Eastlake itself.
For some viewers—including this writer—that simple mention on a television program was enough to put a previously unfamiliar Ohio city on the map.
Sources and Related Links
- U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Eastlake, Ohio
- City of Eastlake
- Lake County Captains and Classic Auto Group Park
- Chagrin River — Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
- Chagrin River Park — Lake Metroparks
- Season 10 restaurants featured on Kitchen Nightmares
- Golden Girls post-show update
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Life isn’t all diamonds – money and fame don’t shield the many ‘Real Housewives’ facing criminal charges
“The Real Housewives” is more than messy drama—it’s a crash course in real-world crime, as cast members face charges from DUIs and theft to fraud, assault, and federal prison.
C. Clare Strange, Drexel University
“The Real Housewives” reality TV series, which showcases the lives of a rotating cast of wealthy women in 11 cities in the U.S. and places in several other countries, is famous for its characters’ over-the-top drama and messy personal antics.
But there are also useful lessons that the characters’ lives and frequent run-ins with the law offer to casual observers and criminology students alike.
I developed the idea for The Real Housewives of Criminology course when I heard a story on NPR in 2023 about how the Bravo Network franchise was becoming more like a true-crime TV series.
Jen Shah, a cast member from “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” had recently been sentenced to six years in federal prison for her role in a nationwide telemarketing scheme – but she wasn’t the only one on the show who met such a fate.
Many people who appear on “Housewives” share a real-life penchant for crime – from driving-under-the-influence charges and theft to fraud and assault.
During any given episode, viewers may find “Housewives” stars and their families navigating the fallout – from court dates to public shaming.
I realized that these scenes illustrate core concepts from criminal justice theory and practice as well as any textbook.
A window into the course
The course examines the criminal cases of the “Housewives” and compares them to those of the general public.
Students discuss how factors such as social class, age and race can impact people’s experiences with the justice system. At the same time, they come to understand that factors such as how serious a crime is, a person’s criminal history and the harm done to victims tend to drive case outcomes more than any other factor.
I believe that this course is especially relevant now, because it is increasingly common for undergraduate students to consume news about crime and punishment from streaming platforms and social media.
It seems there is a new “Housewife” arrest every several months, which brings with it new circumstances and a new case study to dissect.
Critical lessons
One key takeaway from the course is that there are many meaningful differences – and similarities – between the criminal cases shown in “Housewives” and those of most people.
While money and power can often go a long way in fighting a criminal conviction, sometimes they fall short when the harm to victims or society is too great, or the pattern of behavior is too obvious.
Many “Housewives” stars and their families have learned this lesson the hard way.
Read along
This course requires students to view footage from “The Real Housewives,” read peer-reviewed criminological research, and listen to podcast episodes from “The Bravo Docket.”
We even read book chapters straight from some of the Housewives’ memoirs. All of this culminates in a “Final Reunion,” meaning a final verbal exam for students, in which they embody one of the “Housewives” cast members and answer questions from me – dressed as host Andy Cohen – about their criminal cases.
Real takeaways
While the court of public opinion tends to quickly draw conclusions from limited information, my honors students learn that there is more than meets the eye when it comes to the U.S. justice system.
The Real Housewives of Criminology helps them to navigate the nuance beneath the headlines about popular crime news stories, in and beyond the “Bravosphere.”
C. Clare Strange, Assistant Research Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, Drexel University
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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Viewpoint Hosted by Dennis Quaid Brings Attention to a Little-Understood Condition Affecting Families Nationwide
A new Viewpoint hosted by Dennis Quaid segment with APFED raises awareness of eosinophilic esophagitis, its subtle symptoms, and its impact on families.
For more information, readers can visit viewpointproject.com and apfed.org.
For many families, health conditions do not always begin with a dramatic diagnosis. Sometimes they show up in small, everyday habits that seem easy to explain away. Cutting food into tiny bites. Drinking extra water with every meal. Quietly avoiding certain foods altogether. A new educational segment from Viewpoint hosted by Dennis Quaid is shining a light on those subtle warning signs through a collaboration with the American Partnership for Eosinophilic Disorders, helping more people recognize the realities of living with eosinophilic esophagitis, or EoE.
Viewpoint hosted by Dennis Quaid
The segment, distributed to Public Television stations across the country, focuses on making this chronic inflammatory condition easier for the public to understand. For viewers, that matters because EoE is often misunderstood or overlooked, even as it affects daily routines, family meals, and quality of life. By connecting medical information to real-life experiences, the program gives audiences a more human picture of what people with the condition may be facing.
When everyday habits tell a bigger story
Eosinophilic esophagitis occurs when eosinophils, a type of white blood cell, build up in the esophagus, causing inflammation that can lead to tissue damage and narrowing. But what stands out most in this story is not just the science. It is the way people often adapt without realizing it. Behaviors like chewing excessively, avoiding certain textures, or relying on liquids to help swallow can become so routine that they no longer feel unusual.
That is one reason the segment carries real community value. It encourages people to look more closely at symptoms that may have been normalized for years and to seek evaluation from specialists such as gastroenterologists or allergists. It also raises awareness among parents, caregivers, and primary care providers who may be the first to notice that something is not quite right.
More than awareness
The program also explores the emotional and social side of the condition, especially for people navigating dietary restrictions and the uncertainty of delayed diagnosis. In that sense, this is not only a story about medicine. It is also a story about advocacy, support, and the importance of helping people feel seen.
APFED Executive Director Mary Jo Strobel noted that many people with EoE do not realize they have adapted their lives around a medical condition. That message gives the segment its strongest human element: awareness can change lives, not only by leading to diagnosis, but by helping families better understand experiences that may have felt isolating or confusing.
Originally distributed in January 2025, the documentary will continue to be made available to stations through March 2027, extending its reach to more households nationwide.
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For More Information
- Visit the official Viewpoint hosted by Dennis Quaid website
- Learn more about the American Partnership for Eosinophilic Disorders
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