Mae Martin multi-hyphenates bigly. The Canadian comedian, actor, author and singer-songwriter — currently seen in the Netflix psychological thriller, Wayward, which took the No. 1 spot on the streamer’s Top 10 list, will revisit her comedy roots on a 37-city 2026 North American tour of their new show, The Possum.

Announced on Monday (Oct. 13), the tour will begin Feb. 26, 2026 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and conclude May 11 in Nashville. It will be the largest tour to date for Martin, who primarily performed shows in Canada and the United Kingdom. Show and Tell, which has produced tours for Please Don’t Destroy, Atsuko Okatsuka and Ramy Youssef and Martin, is the promoter. 

Tickets will be available via Martin’s website on Tuesday (Oct. 14) at 10 a.m. local time with the pre-sale code MAELIVE. Fans can also buy VIP tickets that will entitle them to meet-and-greet opportunities, exclusive tour merchandise and front-row seats.  

In addition to starring in Wayward as a small-town cop suspicious of a local academy for troubled teens, Martin wrote for and executive produced the limited series. They currently co-host the comedy podcast Handsome with fellow comedians Tig Notaro and Fortune Feimster.

Martin’s first comedy special, 2017’s Dope, was nominated for best comedy show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards and became a stand-up special for Netflix. Their follow-up, Mae Martin SAP, debuted on Netflix in 2023 and was shortlisted for a comedy album of the year Juno Award in Canada.

Martin is well-known for their 2020-2021 semi-autobiographical comedy-drama series Feel Good, which they co-wrote, starred in, and executive produced. (The show also ran on Netflix.) They appeared on the second season of the HBO comedy-drama series The Flight Attendant starring Kaley Cuoco.  

If that isn’t enough, in 2019, Martin published the autobiographical handbook, Can Everyone Please Calm Down?: A Guide to 21st Century Sexuality, and this past February released their debut music album, the indie-rock flavored I’m A TV.

It’s astounding, time is fleeting: 50 years ago, The Rocky Horror Picture Show — a sci-fi/horror/musical-comedy adapted from a stage play by Richard O’Brien that opened on London’s West End in 1973 — premiered on U.S. movie screens. At first, its box-office gross was flatter than Brad and Janet’s tire on that stormy night. But all flops should bounce back like this one: The Jim Sharman-directed film is still playing in limited theatrical showings around the United States, making it the longest big-screen run for a film in history. To toast a half-century of Horror, Billboard is doing the time warp, again. It’s just a jump to the left…

‘Show’ and Hell

Thanks to an investment from Ode Records president (and Carole King producer) Lou Adler, the Rocky Horror Show stage production jumped to the left coast to open at Adler’s Roxy in Los Angeles. The April 13, 1974, Billboard hailed its “outrageously decadent humor” and recognized Tim Curry as “a major talent discovery” for his campy portrayal of the gender-bending mad scientist: “How many male performers could go through an entire play costumed in a Marlene Dietrich chorus girl outfit and still come across with Mick Jagger macho?”

‘Rocky’ Start

The following year, The Rocky Horror Picture Show — starring Curry and Susan Sarandon — made its big-screen bow, then fizzled, but beamed into the underground movie circuit. The June 3, 1978, Billboard predicted that the soundtrack, which had just made its Billboard 200 debut that April, “may well become the sleeper soundtrack of the year.” “It’s not a mass item,” one label executive told Billboard, “but it is a mass cult item.”

There’s a Light

By 1980, ticket buyers were doing the time warp, again, at call-and-response screenings. An Aug. 2 piece about how rock music could boost a movie’s endurance reported that “the frenzied Rock ‘n’ Roll High School [and the] laughably ghoulish Rocky Horror Picture Show” could still “pack in audiences with the best of them.” Slowly and steadily, it paid off. The film “quietly marked its 10th anniversary last month by topping $60 million,” according to the Nov. 9, 1985, Billboard. “But beyond the numbers, the most important cultural contribution made by Rocky Horror may have been establishing the phenomenon of midnight weekend screenings of cult films.”

Rent-a, Rent-a, Rent Me

“E.T., Rocky Horror Picture Show Top Some Lists,” according to a headline in the Aug. 22, 1987, issue, which described the video titles stores wanted most. Looking at “feedback on catalog releases from special request sheets in each store,” video merchants were eager to taste Curry’s Dr. Frank-N-Furter. By 1990, their desires were fulfilled. “The Rocky Horror Picture Show, one of the most eagerly awaited titles in industry history, will make its belated debut on video Nov. 8 at $89.98,” reported the Sept. 22 issue. By then, the film had grossed “$150 million at the domestic box office.” At the time, “it still plays midnight shows in at least 200 theaters.” It’s still showing.

This story appears in the Oct. 11, 2025, issue of Billboard.

The Taylor Swift blitz will continue into the holiday season. After making the rounds over the past two weeks to promote her just-released, record-smashing 12 studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, the singer has a few more surprises up her sleeve for Swifties to round out 2025. Swift announced on Good Morning America on Monday morning (Oct. 13) that she will be back on our screens in December via a pair of Disney+ Eras Tour specials.

Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The End of an Era is described as a six-episode behind-the-scenes docuseries chronicling the “development, impact, and inner-workings” behind the record-breaking career retrospective world tour. In addition, Swift will also drop Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show, a full concert film featuring the Eras Tour debut of the Tortured Poets Department. Both specials will begin streaming on Disney+ only on Dec. 12.

“People like to talk about phenomenons,” Swift says in a promo video for the movies posted on Instagram on Monday morning in which she is seen getting ready to take the stage in one of her many Eras outfits, as well as rehearsing and sharing a sweet moment with her mom backstage. “Almost as if it were pieces falling into place. As if it just happened. The Eras Tour wasn’t when all the pieces fell into place. This tour was just when every single one of us who had done so much work, pushing inch-by-inch, to where we all clicked together,” she continues in what appears to be a back-stage pump-up message for her team.

In between, we see glimpses of the tour stage being built and fiancé Travis Kelce rehearsing his cameo at a London show at Wembley Stadium during which he carried the singer on stage during the “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” transition. “The only thing left,” Swift says, “is to close the book.”

The Instagram post also featured an additional message from Swift about the Eras projects. “It was the End of an Era and we knew it,” she wrote. “We wanted to remember every moment leading up to the culmination of the most important and intense chapter of our lives, so we allowed filmmakers to capture this tour and all the stories woven throughout it as it wound down. And to film the final show in its entirety.”

The End of an Era docuseries promises an intimate look at Swift’s life as the tour made headlines and became a global cultural phenomenon from March 2023 through Dec. 2024, playing 149 gigs to more than 10 million fans and grossing over $2 billion. The series will feature a number of her friends and opening acts from the tour, including Gracie Abrams, Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran and Florence Welch, as well as never-before-seen insight into the creation of the tour. Two episodes of the series will debut each week beginning on Dec. 12.

In a sneak peek aired on GMA, Swift is seen attempting to relax after a show, filling up a giant marble bathtub while still wearing one of her glittery stage outfits. “I’ll not be able to get to sleep, cuz I can’t, like, come down until I’ve watched tons of TV, I get room service in bed, I sign a box of 2,000 CDs and then I’m tired… and then I do the whole thing again,” she says casually as she removes her false eyelashes and makeup.

Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show was filmed at the final stop in Vancouver, B.C. and will also debut on Dec. 12 on Disney+. The full concert film features the entire Tortured Poets Department set, which was added to the tour following that album’s release in April 2024. 

Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The End of an Era was directed by Don Argott, co-directed by Sheena M. Joyce and produced by Object & Animal. Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show was directed by Glenn Weiss and produced by Taylor Swift Productions in association with Silent House Productions.  

Check out the promo video for the films below.

“Eyes Closed,” the new single from JISOO and Zayn Malik, tops this week’s fan-voted music poll.

Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (Oct. 10) on Billboard, choosing the pair’s duet as their favorite new release.

“Eyes Closed” made its grand entrance during a week that also saw new releases from Khalid; Gorillaz feat. Trueno and Proof; Alemeda and Doechii; HAIM and Bon Iver and more.

Bringing together a pair of mega pop stars — a former member of One Direction plus one-fourth of BLACKPINK — “Eyes Closed” blends two recognizable voices in one emotional ballad.

“Time is standing still and I don’t wanna leave your lips/ Tracing my body with your fingertips,” JISOO begins on the track, to which Malik sings back, “I know what you’re feeling and I know you wanna say it/ I do too but we gotta be patient.”

“‘Cause someone like me/ And someone like you/ Really shouldn’t work, yeah, the history is proof/ Damned if I don’t/ Damned if I do,” they sing through a chorus about opening their hearts to new love. “Oh, we should fall in love with our eyes closed/ Better if we keep it where we don’t know/ The beds we’ve been in/ The names and the faces of who we were with.”

Among the new releases trailing behind “Eyes Closed” on the poll: Khalid’s After the Sun Goes Down, Gorillaz featuring Trueno and Proof’s “The Manifesto,” Alemeda and Doechii’s “Beat a B!tch Up,” HAIM and Bon Iver’s “Tie You Down” and A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s “Part of Me.”

See the final results of this week’s poll below.