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From "Friends" to "The Office" and even "Little House on the Prairie," these TV stars believe their shows wouldn't make it to air by today's standards.

10 TV stars who said their classic shows couldn't be made today

From "Friends" to "The Office" and even "Little House on the Prairie," these TV stars believe their shows wouldn't make it to air by today's standards.

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Rainn Wilson in 'The Office'; Jennifer Aniston for 'Friends'; Jerry Seinfeld in 'Seinfeld'.

Could *The Office* get made today? Rainn Wilson doesn't think so.

It's true that certain classic TV shows probably would be made a little differently in the modern era, if they got made at all. Take *The Honeymooners*, the ’50s sitcom in which Ralph (Jackie Gleason) made a recurring bit out of threatening to hit his wife Alice (Audrey Meadows), a joke that wouldn't fly today. Or even *The Jerry Springer Show*, in which the eponymous host invited average people on to make a spectacle out of their interpersonal conflicts, ranging from infidelity to outright racism, and often involving physical fights. (The extent to which those fights were real or staged remains debatable.)

Every once in a while, an actor will claim that their TV show would never get made today, either because culture has gotten "too woke" (i.e., socially aware) or the content is simply too disturbing for modern sensibilities. While some of those actors might have a point, others seem disconnected from reality.

Below, we're taking a look at 10 actors who think their classic TV shows wouldn't make it to air by today's standards.

Rainn Wilson, The Office

Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute on 'The Office'.

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"I do feel like you couldn't make *The Office* today. I think that would be too hard to be as politically incorrect as the show was," Rainn Wilson recently told Fox News. "I think there has been a bias in the media, towards more, what we call, liberal policies."

Specifically, Wilson cites Steve Carell's character, office manager Michael Scott, whose confident ignorance was often central to the show's humor — as was his employees' exasperated reactions to his behavior. "We milked that for a lot of great, really inappropriate stuff," Wilson said. "But even with the fact that painting that character as just an idiot, I don't think you could get away with it today."

*The Office*, which satirized workplace culture by heightening the typical personalities and relationships you might encounter in an everyday office, is exactly the kind of show that NBC and other networks would still greenlight. In fact, just this past year, NBC and Peacock released *The Paper*, a spinoff of *The Office*. Season 2 is already on the way.

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Mindy Kaling, The Office

Mindy Kaling as Kelly Kapoor on 'The Office'.

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Wilson's costar and series writer Mindy Kaling agrees, though her reasoning is a little different. "That show is so inappropriate now," Kaling said of *The Office** *in 2022. "The writers who I'm still in touch with now, we always talk about how so much of that show we probably couldn't make now. Tastes have changed, and honestly what offends people has changed so much now."

But are things really that different? If we exclusively look at network TV and not cable, which has fewer content limitations, there are still some sitcoms that wouldn't be out of place on a scheduling lineup with *The Office*. There's the aforementioned spinoff — which aired on NBC after debuting on Peacock — and *The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins*, the great new comedy in which Tracy Morgan plays a buffoon who isn't that dissimilar from Michael Scott.

It seems outlandish to call *The Office *"inappropriate." Perhaps the way the fictional characters behave is inappropriate, but that's what made the show so funny.

Jeremy Piven, Entourage

Jeremy Piven as Ari Gold on 'Entourage'.

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HBO's *Entourage*, which aired from 2004 to 2011, simultaneously satirized and indulged Hollywood stereotypes. The latter is what made the hit series either off-putting or brilliant, depending on who you ask. Across eight seasons (and a movie) Jeremy Piven played Ari Gold, an arrogant, abrasive, and extremely insensitive Hollywood agent based on executive producer Mark Wahlberg's real-life agent, Ari Emanuel.

"That character, I knew from the jump, would be a very interesting anomaly in the way that you thought he was a pig, but he was monogamous," Piven told *US Weekly** *in 2024. "He was abrasive and was he a racist? No, no, no. He’s a motivator, and he’s an equal opportunity offender."

"I make a lot of jokes on why *Entourage* couldn’t exist in today’s climate," said Piven, "and that’s unfortunate because the reality is, people just want [to] laugh. They want to laugh so badly."

Giving Piven the benefit the doubt, it's possible that when he made that statement he hadn't seen *Entourage*'s tech-centric successor, *Silicon Valley*, or *Succession*, a dark comedy largely comprised of characters whose opinions and behaviors make Ari Gold look like Ms. Rachel.

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Jennifer Aniston, Friends

Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green on 'Friends'.

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There are few sitcoms that remain as beloved as *Friends*, the hit NBC series that ran for 10 seasons between 1994 and 2004, and followed the lives and relationships of six pals, played by Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, and Jennifer Aniston.

Like the cast itself, the popularity of *Friends* has endured in the streaming era, but according to Aniston, modern audiences are more critical of the series. "There's a whole generation of people, kids, who are now going back to episodes of *Friends *and find them offensive," Aniston said in 2023. "There were things that were never intentional and others... well, we should have thought it through, but I don't think there was a sensitivity like there is now."

While largely inoffensive, *Friends* was never without fault. The sitcom has been criticized over the years for starring an all-white cast despite being set in New York City, and for plotlines that were homophobic and fatphobic. These criticisms aren't new, however, and were being discussed when *Friends* was still on the air. It wasn't until season 7 that the show featured its first Black love interest (played by Gabrielle Union). When Aisha Tyler joined the series in season 9 as the first Black character with a recurring role, she knew it was a big deal.

"As an actor, that was the biggest show on TV at the time, so it was a milestone," Tyler told *InStyle* in 2018. "I think it was a pivotal moment for the show in regards to race, in terms of having a character of color that had some durability, and stuck around a while."

Simon Bird, The Inbetweeners

Simon Bird as Will McKenzie on 'The Inbetweeners'.

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Across the pond, *The Inbetweeners* star Simon Bird thinks the hit UK sitcom wouldn't get greenlit if it were made now. The series, which aired from 2008 to 2010, centers on a group of misfit teen boys navigating high school.

"I honestly think it wouldn’t be commissioned today," Bird told the* **Telegraph* in 2023, citing the show's sexist humor and "casual homophobia."

"I rationalise it to myself by saying that at the time it was an accurate representation of the way teenagers talk to each other," he continued. "Is that still the case now? I assume not." It's certainly true that casual homophobia and gay panic were frequently played for comedic effect in the late ’90s and early ’00s, particularly in shows and movies about young men. And while those depictions may have been more accurate at the time, the emphasis often felt misplaced. Rather than making a mockery of the characters' ignorance, *The Inbetweeners* treated their homophobia as commonly accepted behavior.

Alison Arngrim and Dean Butler, Little House on the Prairie

Steve Tracy, Alison Arngrim, Melissa Gilbert, and Dean Butler on 'Little House on the Prairie'.

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On the surface, *Little House on the Prairie *is one of the most inoffensive and wholesome shows of all time. The western drama, which ran from 1974 to 1983, follows the Ingalls family's life on a Minnesota farm in the late 19th century, and features the kind of drama you'd encounter on *The Oregon Trail*: droughts, disease, inclement weather, and the occasional feud with neighbors. But it was also known for confronting social issues like racism and disability.

Every once in a while, *Little House on the Prairie* would deliver an unexpectedly dark episode, like season 6's "The Return of Mr. Edwards," in which the recurring character played by Victor French loses the inability to walk after a logging accident and becomes suicidal. Stars Alison Arngrim and Dean Butler recently revisited the harrowing episode on their rewatch podcast, with Arngrim recalling how the character becomes "nearly unrecognizable to the people who love him" and acts "scary" toward his wife and daughter.

Arngrim thinks if the episode aired today, "there'd be warnings at every commercial break" about the "unsettling, upsetting material," adding that the scenes in which Edwards attempts suicide are "mind-blowing" to see now, especially for a family show that aired on primetime network TV.

The actress also noted that "The Return of Mr. Edwards" was directed by series star Michael Landon, who "faced issues head-on." Landon's episodes were often the darkest in the series — and the most deranged, if you recall "Sylvia."

But would *Little House on the Prairie*'s most unsettling episodes get made today? We'll find out when the reboot debuts on Netflix.

Edie Falco, The Sopranos

Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano and James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano on 'The Sopranos'.

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*The Sopranos* is frequently credited for kicking off the Golden Age of television and the prestige TV boom, which inspired countless dramas centered on deeply flawed male protagonists — a trend that continues to this day. The series, which debuted in 1999 and ran for 6 seasons, follows Tony Soprano (the late James Gandolfini) as he struggles to balance the demands of his crime family with the needs of his real family.

According to Edie Falco, who played Tony's wife, Carmela, the industry is too concerned with "appropriateness" now to make something like *The Sopranos*, which often depicted violence and sex explicitly (and sometimes simultaneously). Speaking with *TIME* magazine in 2024, Falco said that she doubts the sex scenes would have felt as authentic with the involvement of an intimacy coordinator, a position that wasn't commonplace on sets at the time. When choreographing a scene that closely, Falco said, "you’re leaving out the possibility of last-minuteness." Fans of *Heated Rivalry* would disagree.

Creator David Chase has a much more accurate read on why *The Sopranos* probably wouldn't get made today. In the same interview, Chase told *TIME* that modern TV development is "really all about money," adding, "All these corporations spent billions of dollars chasing after Netflix. And now they’re broke. So everything they produce, they want to do on the cheap."

Maury Povich, Maury

Maury Povich in 1991 hosting 'The Maury Povich Show'.

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Before daytime talk shows entered their endangered species era, they were among the biggest draws on TV. In the ’90s, we had *The Jerry Springer Show*, the *Maury* show, *The Montel Williams Show*, *Ricki Lake*, *Leeza*, and many other shows headlined by their eponymous hosts, all of them jockeying to out-sensationalize each other.

Maury Povich became the enduring king of the daytime talk show, outlasting his peers until his show finally ended in 2022. Over three decades, Povich became a genre unto himself with typical episodes devoted to "out-of-control" teen girls, people with extreme phobias, and — his most prolific topic — paternity tests. "I couldn’t do that show today," Povich says in the ABC documentary *Dirty Talk: When Daytime Talk Shows Ruled TV*. "There's no way."

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In the docuseries, *Maury* producer Anthony Freire recalls the "unscrupulous things" daytime TV producers would do to compete with one another for ratings. "It was a *Sally* guest. And it was a woman who had cut out her own breast implants," says Freire. "A producer from *Maury *whisked her away into our studios and kind of pushed her on the set, and there she was talking to Maury."

When it comes to *Maury*, the question isn't whether it could get made today, but whether it *should*.

Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld as Jerry on 'Seinfeld'.

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Complaining that *Seinfeld* couldn't get made today is the kind of thing that the fictional Jerry Seinfeld would do, so at least the real-life Jerry Seinfeld is staying true to his pedantic on-screen persona. Co-created by Seinfeld and Larry David, the sitcom was a massive hit in the ’90s thanks to its wry dissection of social norms, and the talents of costars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards.

According to Seinfeld, the sitcom couldn't be made in today's climate, which is apparently experiencing a comedy drought. "Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it. They need it so badly and they don’t get it," Seinfeld told *The New Yorker* in 2024, explaining that "most people" like to go home at the end of the day and put on a good comedy. "You just expected, there’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight. Well, guess what — where is it? This is the result of the extreme left and P.C. crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people."

Given that David went on to create and star in the long-running *Curb Your Enthusiasm*, which took a similar approach to exploring absurd human interactions via his own pedantic protagonist, Seinfeld's claim seems disingenuous. To that end, the comedian says, "Larry was grandfathered in," adding, "He’s old enough so that — 'I don’t have to observe those rules, because I started before you made those rules.'"

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Everything you missed from day six at World Cup 2026: Messi magic, England’s late squad change, and VAR controversy Alan SmithWed, June 17, 2026 at 6:54 AM UTC 0 Messi scored three times as Argentina defeated Algeria (AP) For 66 minutes it looked like everything was going wrong for Kylian Mbappe. While France toiled in their Group I opener against Senegal, the forward&x27;s first touch was sloppy and he was denied what everyone apart from the officials thought was a penalty. Then Mbappe came alive, scoring two stunners to ensure liftoff for Didier Deschamps&x27; title chasers.

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Messi scored three times as Argentina defeated Algeria (AP)

For 66 minutes it looked like everything was going wrong for Kylian Mbappe. While France toiled in their Group I opener against Senegal, the forward's first touch was sloppy and he was denied what everyone apart from the officials thought was a penalty. Then Mbappe came alive, scoring two stunners to ensure lift-off for Didier Deschamps' title chasers.

Despite defeat, Senegal's impressive performance piled some pressure on Norway to win against unfancied Iraq in the group's later kick-off - which they duly did, courtesy of another impressive Erling Haaland performance as he bagged a brace on his tournament debut.

Argentina and Lionel Messi also began their defence of the title won four years ago in an entertaining contest versus Algeria. It was the first competitive match played between the nations and kicked off with two disallowed goals inside the opening 10 minutes. Messi then took centre stage and rattled home a stunning opener, a second half tap-in and a delightful third to boost his own World Cup tally and kick start Argentina's pursuit of another title in superb fashion.

Here is everything you from day six of the super-sized tournament:

Mbappe double follows first major VAR controversy

While Mbappe became France's all-time record goalscorer with his double in New Jersey, a decision not to award him a penalty when the match remained scoreless was questioned by many - including several referees themselves, according to the BBC's resident official Darren Cann.

Iranian-Australian referee Alireza Faghani initially gave a corner – and then changed his decision to a goal-kick after watching replays. Mbappe had dribbled into the box where Senegal's Sadio Mane slid in to make a tackle. As Mane reached Mbappe, the France captain touched the ball away from his opponent and then collapsed in a heap under Mane's challenge.

Referee Faghani was sent to review the decision on his pitchside monitor by his VAR, and as he stepped back on to the pitch, French players and coaching staff began to celebrate. But instead of awarding a penalty, Faghani announced: "The attacker initiated the contact."

There was bewilderment as Mbappe was denied a penalty (Getty)

Partey loses Canada visa appeal

Thomas Partey will miss Ghana's match against Panama after a Canadian court on Tuesday dismissed his appeal against being denied entry.

The 33-year-old had been refused a visa by the Canadian government last week, prompting his legal team to launch a last-minute challenge at the Federal Court in Ottawa.

The Black Stars play Panama in their Group L match in Toronto on Wednesday. In dismissing the appeal, judge Roger Lafreniere wrote that Partey sought "extraordinary, mandatory interlocutory relief" that would have required Canada to set aside a "lawfully rendered inadmissibility finding and facilitate his entry for a specific event."

Former Arsenal midfielder Partey denies seven charges of rape and one count of sexual assault, relating to allegations by four different women between 2020 and 2022, and is due to stand trial next year.

Injured Livramento replaced by Chalobah

Trevoh Chalobah has been called up to replace the injured Tino Livramento in England's World Cup squad.

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Livramento's calf injury is an early blow for Thomas Tuchel's preparations for the tournament, coming just one day before the Three Lions' opener against Croatia in Dallas on Wednesday.

Tuchel was able to replace Newcastle full-back Livramento in the squad with a deadline of 9pm BST on Tuesday – 24 hours before England's first game of the tournament – and Chelsea defender Chalobah was on his way to the United States on Tuesday. Chalobah will not be involved against Croatia, but will be available for subsequent group matches against Ghana and Panama.

The injury-prone Newcastle full-back picked up a calf issue in training (Reuters)

Haaland scores double on near-perfect World Cup debut

Having seen Mbappe run riot against Senegal, this generation's other star striker clearly thought 'anything you can do, I can do better'. Making his World Cup debut, Erling Haaland scored twice in the first half as Norway beat a spirited Iraqi side 4-1 to end the first matchday top of Group I.

The 25-year-old is already Norway's record goalscorer, now with 57 goals in 51 caps, and it looks like as well as duelling for top spot in Group I, he and Mbappe will be fighting for the tournament's Golden Boot.

He only had 11 touches in the first half - the fewest of any player on the pitch - but two of them were goals. The first was a tap-in from a Moller Wolfe cutback, with the second also coming at close range as the Manchester City striker closed down Iraq keeper Jalal Hassan, who dawdled on the ball after a poor backpass by Zaid Tahseen and paid the price.

He missed a second-half chance for a hat-trick, too, and was narrowly denied an assist as he headed the ball across goal for Kristian Thorstvedt to bundle home Norway's fourth on the night - but the strike was marked down as an Aymen Hussein home goal.

Haaland ran riot against Iraq (Getty)

Magic Messi equals Klose's record

Algeria were warned. A dainty pass slipped into the right side of the penalty area by Lautaro Martinez played Lionel Messi in on goal and he routinely found the back of the net by beating Luca Zidane on his near side. The crowd inside the Kansas City Stadium erupted in cheers only for the celebrations to get cut short as the football legend was ruled offside.

It was a chance taken just five minutes into Argentina's World Cup opener and looked as though the 38-year-old had picked up exactly where he left off when winning the tournament four years ago. But it was not to be and Messi had to wait a further 12 minutes before making his mark on the 2026 edition of the World Cup.

Supplied by his close teammate Rodrigo de Paul, the little master spun towards goal before drawing a stunning effort from left-to-right, through the hands of Zidane and into the top, right corner with the pinpoint accuracy of his heydays. It is the type of goal that reminds the World Cup hopefuls that Messi may be heading into the twilight of his career but he retains all the prowess and skill of his younger self and, perhaps most importantly, the desire to achieve wonders on the biggest stage of all.

A second goal of the game caame from a fortuitous tap-in before a slick move late in the second half set him up for a driving finish that takes him to 16 goals across his six World Cup tournaments. That puts him level with record holder Miroslav Klose who he will surely surpass before this tournament is done.

Leo Messi fired Argentina into the lead against Algeria and sent a reminder that he wants to regain the World Cup (AP)

Austria deny Jordan debut point

An own goal and a late Marko Arnautovic penalty denied Jordan a dream debut point as they fell short to Austria in their World Cup opener.

Romano Schmidt had given Austria the lead in the first half but that was cancelled out by Ali Olwan, who expertly bent home to score Jordan's first ever goal at a World Cup finals.

But there was heartbreak to come for the debutants, with Yazan Al Arab putting into his own net with 14 minutes to play to give Austria a lifeline, before Arnautovic converted from the spot with the last kick of the game to seal the win.

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The &34;SpiderMan: Brand New Day&34; star would happily step into a &34;mentor&34; role, just like Robert Downey Jr. did for him. Tom Holland thinks this actor should succeed him as SpiderMan The &34;SpiderMan: Brand New Day&34; star would happily step into a &34;mentor&34; role, just like Robert Downey Jr. did for him. By Shania Russell :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/ShaniaRussellauthorphoto5934b684845d480caa4485648c39ef2b.jpg) Shania Russell Shania Russell is a news writer at , with five years of experience. Her work has previously appeared in SlashFilm and Paste Magazine.

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- Tom Holland is thinking ahead to the next generation of Marvel heroes.

- The MCU star recently shared that he would be happy to "mentor" the next onscreen Spider-Man, just as Robert Downey Jr. did for him.

- Holland even had a name in mind when asked which young actor would make a worthy successor.

Tom Holland is very invested in the future of Spider-Man, whether he's in front of the camera or not.

Weeks away from the release of *Spider-Man: Brand New Day* — his seventh outing as the titular character and fourth standalone movie — Holland is already thinking about the far away future. While the British actor has said that he hopes to play Peter Parker in a few more superhero entries, he also knows the day will come when his tenure as the web-slinger will end. At which point, Holland has insisted he would love to stay involved.

"In the way that Robert Downey [Jr.] was such a mentor for me in my first three movies, I would love to be that person for whoever is next," Holland told *Esquire* in an interview published Tuesday.

Asked if he has any suggestions for who might make a good successor, the actor revealed that he does in fact have a name in mind.

"Owen Cooper would be awesome," Holland answered, referencing the 16-year-old Brit who is hot off of a huge year after his breakout role in *Adolescence*.

Holland in 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'; Owen Cooper in Santa Monnica last January.

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Holland added, "Obviously he’s super-talented and the talk of the town right now."

Cooper made his onscreen acting debut in the Netflix series, making such an impression on audiences that he soon became the youngest male actor to win an Emmy, scoring Best Actor in a Limited or Anthology series at 15. Cooper also scored at the BAFTAs, the Golden Globes, and the SAG Awards. He later played a Young Heathcliff in *Wuthering Heights *and is next set to appear in *Cry to Heaven*, Tom Ford's adaptation of the 1982 Anne Rice novel.

The high praise from Holland marks an especially full-circle moment for the young actor, who told I-D in April 2025 that he was inspired to pursue acting after watching Holland in his live action film debut,* The Impossible*.

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In the same interview, Cooper confessed, "I want to play Spider-Man."

As the awards campaign around *Adolescence *peaked, his Spider-Man comment took on a life of its own, including rumors that Cooper was in talks to fulfill the dream role. Before long, the young actor was fending off questions about the Marvel hero in interviews.

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"I’ve genuinely got no idea where that came from," Cooper said of the rumors in an August 2025 interview with *Variety*. "Perhaps I said it on my very first interview, but I can’t remember."

He added, "I’d like to do it, but not for a good long time, like 10-15 years. But that’s only when Tom Holland backs off."

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Whoever steps into the role after Holland, the actor has made it clear that he'd like to help them find their footing when that next chapter of the franchise kicks off.

"For whoever’s next, whether that is a Miles Morales or a Spider-Gwen or a Spider-Woman or something like that, I would love to be a part of setting up the next chapter," he told *Empire* earlier this month. Whatever that looks like, I don’t know. But if I could do what Downey did for me, then I would be so content swinging off into the sunset."

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- Kourtney Kardashian had a miscarriage a few years ago.

- The reveal came in her husband Travis Barker's new documentary.

- The couple later welcomed a son together named Rocky.

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker are opening up about a devastating time early in their relationship.

In the new documentary *Travis Barker: Love Is Louder Than Fear*, the couple revealed that, before their son, Rocky, was born in 2023, Kardashian got pregnant six months into their relationship, then had a miscarriage.

“When we lost the baby, we were devastated,” Kardashian said in the doc, which premiered on June 13 at the Tribeca Film Festival. “We cried for days.”

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Kardashian and Barker were expecting a daughter, who they were planning to name Tulip. But when they went in for the three-month checkup, they learned that their baby no longer had a heartbeat.

The couple went public with their relationship in early 2021 and were officially married in May 2022. The following summer, Kardashian announced her pregnancy with a "Travis I'm pregnant" sign at the Los Angeles concert of his band, Blink-182. Their son Rocky was born in November 2023.

In addition to Rocky, Kardashian and Barker each have three children from previous relationships.

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Kardashian was extremely open and candid about her journey having a baby with Barker.

“I would love a baby more than anything, but I just really believe in what God has in store for us," she said on a 2023 episode of *The Kardashians*. "If that’s a baby, then I believe that it will happen."

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The epic Diagon Alley Wizarding Shops build is finally under $175 We found collectible Lego sets from Harry Potter, Star Wars, Marvel, and more at their best prices ever before Prime Day The epic Diagon Alley Wizarding Shops build is finally under $175 By Brittany Anas :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/BrittanyAnasheadshot09d7b562bc654ce3adef1c6c16226c75.jpg) Brittany Anas Brittany Anas is a lifestyle writer with more than 20 years of experience. She writes about entertainment and deals, as well as travel, food and beverage, and health and wellness. EW's editorial guidelines June 16, 2026 9:00 p.m.

The epic Diagon Alley Wizarding Shops build is finally under $175

We found collectible Lego sets from Harry Potter, Star Wars, Marvel, and more at their best prices ever before Prime Day

The epic Diagon Alley Wizarding Shops build is finally under $175

By Brittany Anas

Brittany Anas

Brittany Anas is a lifestyle writer with more than 20 years of experience. She writes about entertainment and deals, as well as travel, food and beverage, and health and wellness.

EW's editorial guidelines

June 16, 2026 9:00 p.m. ET

Lego fans, your patience is paying off. Ahead of Amazon Prime Day (June 23–26), some of the best collectible sets from *Star Wars*, *Harry Potter*, Disney, Marvel, and *The Lord of the Rings* have already dropped to their lowest prices ever.

Every build listed below is selling for a record-low price. From an adorable *101 Dalmatians* puppy to a sprawling Diagon Alley display and a bookshelf-ready Balrog book nook, these are the sets we'd add to our carts before the other shoppers descend. Whether you're after a collector-worthy display piece or a nostalgia-packed build loaded with Easter eggs, these early Prime Day Lego deals deliver plenty of bang for your bricks.

Best Early Prime Day Lego Deals at Amazon

- **“Great display piece”: ***Star Wars* Rebel U-Wing Starfighter, $56 (orig. $70)

- **Poseable puppy!: **Disney *101 Dalmatians* Puppy, $120 (orig. $150)

- **Wizarding World window shopping: ***Harry Potter* Diagon Alley Wizarding Shops, $173 (orig. $200)

- **Tons of Easter eggs per brick: **Ideas Disney Pixar Luxo Jr., $56 (orig. $70)

- **Most menacing *Star Wars* build: ***Star Wars* AT-AT Walker, $52 (orig. $65)

- **Finally on sale:** Icons *The Lord of the Rings*: Balrog Book Nook, $109 (orig. $130)

- **Best build for the whole Ohana: **Disney *Lilo and Stitch* Beach House, $72 (orig. $90)

- **Featherbrained sidekick: **Disney *Moana 2* Heihei, $32 (orig. $40)

- **All-star cast of minifigures: **Marvel *Avengers: Endgame* Final Battle, $80 (orig. $100)

- **Potterhead bookshelf upgrade: ***Harry Potter* Book Nook: Hogwarts Express, $86 (orig. $100)

Relive the action of *Andor* Season 2 with this Rebel U-Wing Starfighter. The 594-piece set comes with minifigures of Cassian Andor, K-2SO, Dedra Meero, and an ISB Tactical Agent, plus plenty of interactive features. A standout? The ship's swing-wing function transforms it from landing mode into its distinctive V-formation flight mode.

Builders can also pop open the cockpit canopy, stash cargo in the passenger compartment, and fire off the spring-loaded shooters. "A great display piece and has nice features to play with," one shopper wrote, calling it a "must-buy” for any *Star Wars* fan.

Fans of Disney’s classic *101 Dalmatians* can recreate a favorite puppy with this charming 1,722-piece set. Build an 8.5-inch-tall likeness of Patch, Penny, Rolly, or create your own custom Dalmatian with unique spot patterns, then pose your pup sitting, standing, or in a playful bow.

The finished model has movable features, including the head, ears, tail, and legs, giving it plenty of personality on display. One reviewer especially loved the customization options, writing that the different faces and poses are “all adorable and very ‘Dalmatian’-like in looks and energy.” It’s a nostalgic build that adds whimsy to a bookshelf.

For Harry Potter fans who have dreamed of wandering Diagon Alley (who hasn’t?), this intricate 2,750-piece collectible set is packed with magical details. The microscale build recreates iconic Wizarding World landmarks, including Gringotts Wizarding Bank, Ollivanders Wand Shop, Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, and the Leaky Cauldron, with hidden Easter eggs tucked inside many of the buildings.

What makes this set especially display-worthy is its versatility: Arrange it as a two-sided street scene, stretch it into one long row of shops, or separate it into five individual modules to spotlight different sections of the famous shopping district. Complete with 12 microfigures and the Knight Bus, the set is an “absolute masterpiece” for fans with “immersive detail,” one shopper said.

If you grew up with Pixar, this Luxo Jr. set is a nostalgic trip back to the studio's earliest days. One shopper called it “like building a tiny piece of animation history right on your desk,” comparing the experience to a treasure hunt thanks to the hidden references sprinkled throughout the model.

The 613-piece build recreates the beloved lamp from Pixar's groundbreaking 1986 short film, which has since become the studio’s mascot. Keep an eye out for Easter eggs inspired by *Toy Story*, *Up*, *Finding Nemo*, *Monsters, Inc.*, *Ratatouille*, and *The Incredibles*.

Amazon Prime Day doesn't officially kick off until Tuesday, June 23, but the Lego deals are already clicking into place. Here are a few more sets from *Star Wars*, *Harry Potter*, Disney, Marvel, and beyond, also at their lowest prices ever.

Lego Star Wars AT-AT Walker

Lego Icons The Lord of the Rings: Balrog Book Nook

Lego Disney Lilo and Stitch Beach House

Lego Disney Moana 2 Heihei

Lego Marvel Avengers: Endgame Final Battle

Lego Harry Potter Book Nook: Hogwarts Express

Lego Star Wars: Ahsoka Chopper (C1-10P) Astromech Droid

Lego Star Wars Jango Fett Helmet

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