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If you’re a fan of love and drama, then mark your calendars and get ready for it all to come your way with Love Is Blind: UK. The highly anticipated British adaptation of the global hit Love Is Blind franchise was renewed for a second season last August by Netflix. The second season, hosted by Matt and Emma Willis, will premiere on the streamer on August 13, 2025.

Following the success of the American editions and the first season of the UK version, the second season will once again bring a new set of singles from all over the country as they pursue love without ever seeing each other. What will unfold will be no less than a rollercoaster of intimate conversations, first impressions, and the ultimate challenge of being compatible when it comes to face-to-face partnerships.

Viewers are invited into the vault of romance, literally, as they watch participants communicate solely through pods,...

While Love Is Blind Season 8 wrapped up its wedding episode earlier this year, Love Is Blind UK is now getting ready to premiere its 2nd installment. Season 2 is bringing the magic and the drama in all its raw, reality TV show glory. The recently released teaser (via YouTube) rightfully gives us an unfiltered taste of what we’re in for.

Players, surprise proposals, heated confrontations, and possible broken weddings- you name it. The show is returning to Netflix on August 13, 2025, and will once again be hosted by Emma and Matt Willis. It’s the perfect reality TV binge-watch. If the teaser is any indication, we can expect a season full of drama, chaos, and a little bit of love. Here are 4 moments from the teaser that promise an unhinged season:

1. One Love Is Blind UK Contestant Screams Red Flag

In a viral clip from the official teaser for Love Is Blind UK...

Believe it or not, Rosalind Eleazar is used to playing wilder characters than Detective Kat Donovan in Netflix’s Missing You.

But it didn’t stop the shoot from getting pretty intense.

The latest in the streamer’s slate of Harlan Coben adaptations, Missing You follows the story of Slow Horses star Eleazar as a detective specializing in Missing Persons.

Eleven years ago, her fiancé Josh (played by Ashley Walters), the love of her life, vanished without a trace. Now, swiping profiles on a dating app, she sees his face, and her world threatens to explode all over again. The experience forces her to dive back into the mystery surrounding the murder of her father (Lenny Henry) and uncover long-buried secrets from her past. Coben said on a London panel the show has “the most emotional ending that I’ve experienced,” adding that he “actually cried.”

With twists and turns at every possible point,...

CineSavant contributor and advisor Gary Teetzel revisits a film he reviewed for us seventeen years ago. Instead of continuing to play his greatest role for Universal, Bela Lugosi ‘returns’ as a generic vampire in a very Dracula-like tale for Columbia. He’s still the best fiend for the role. The show introduces a novel demise for Lugosi’s creature of the undead, plus a furry-faced werewolf to compete with Universal’s Wolf Man… a werewolf that talks.

The Return of the Vampire

Blu-ray

Scream Factory

1943 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / 69 min. / Street Date February 19, 2019 / 27.99

Starring: Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch, Roland Varno, Miles Mander, Matt Willis, Ottola Nesmith, Gilbert Emery.

Cinematography: L.W. O’Connell, John Stumar

Film Editor: Paul Borofsky

Original Music: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

Written by Griffin Jay, Randall Faye, Kurt Neumann

Produced by Sam White

Directed by Lew Landers

Reviewed by Gary Teetzel

For Bela Lugosi, Hollywood’s...

For February 19th’s home media releases, one of the biggest reasons for genre fans to get excited is that Bad Robot’s Overlord is finally making its way to various formats, so for those of you who may have missed it in theaters, this week is your chance to right that wrong (this writer loved it!). As far as cult titles go, Scream Factory has resurrected The Return of the Vampire in HD, Severin Films is showing Skinner some much-deserved love, and Arrow Videos has Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Color Me Blood Red on tap.

Universal is re-releasing a ton of titles on Tuesday, including Cry-Baby, Dracula (1979), Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Silent Hill: Revelation,and The Watcher, and Nightmare Vacation is getting a special release this week as well.

Color Me Blood Red

URFor the third and final instalment in his infamous 'Blood Trilogy', Color Me Blood Red, splatter...

Who says that vampires and werewolves can't work together? Bela Lugosi stars as a bloodsucker out for revenge alongside his werewolf aide (Matt Willis) in The Return of the Vampire, coming to Blu-ray on February 19th, and ahead of its release, Scream Factory revealed the full list of special features for the 1943 film, including three new audio commentaries:

Press Release: In 1918, Armand Tesla (Bela Lugosi), a 200-year-old Hungarian Vampire, prowls the English countryside, feeding from the jugulars of the villagers. But Tesla's reign of terror is interrupted when a pair of scientists, Lady Jane and Sir John Ainsley, drive a railroad spike through his heart. The "un-dead" Tesla remains safely entombed for two decades until the impact from a stray Nazi bomb accidentally releases him. Along with his werewolf servant Andreas Obry, the resurrected vampire now plots vengeance on the family that put a halt to his nocturnal feasting. On...