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Last Call with Carson Daly

Last Call with Carson Daly: NBC late-night talk show at 1:35 a.m., January 2002 to May 2019, about 2,000 episodes, known for on-location interviews and new-music bookings; replaced by A Little Late with Lilly Singh.

Last Chance U

Last Chance U is a Netflix documentary series (2016-2020, 5 seasons, 38 episodes) directed by Greg Whiteley, following junior college football players at EMCC, Independence Community College, and Laney College.

Last Child (살아남은 아이)

Last Child (살아남은 아이, Sal-a-nam-eun A-i) is Shin Dong-seok's 2017 debut South Korean drama about a bereaved couple who take in the boy their son died saving. Premiered at Busan (FIPRESCI), screened at Berlinale Forum 2018, released August 30, 2018.

Last Christmas

Last Christmas: 1984 Wham! song by George Michael, double A-side with Everything She Wants, UK No 2 behind Band Aid, later UK Christmas Number 1 in 2023 and 2024.

Last Christmas (Doctor Who)

Last Christmas is the Doctor Who Christmas special broadcast 25 December 2014, written by Steven Moffat, starring Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor, Jenna Coleman's Clara, and Nick Frost as Santa, featuring Dream Crabs on an Arctic base.

Last Christmas (film)

Last Christmas (2019) is a Paul Feig romantic comedy starring Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, and Emma Thompson, written by Emma Thompson and Bryony Kimmings, built on George Michael's music, with a twist in which dead donor Tom's heart saves Kate.

Last Comic Standing

Last Comic Standing: NBC reality competition (2003-2015, nine seasons) created by Peter Engel in which stand-up comedians compete in weekly eliminations for an NBC development contract; hosts included Jay Mohr and Craig Robinson.

Last Day on Earth (The Walking Dead)

Last Day on Earth (The Walking Dead) is the 16th and final episode of Season 6, which aired April 3, 2016. It features Negan killing an unseen victim with Lucille.

Last Days (2005 film)

Last Days (2005) is Gus Van Sant's drama, final film of his Death Trilogy with Gerry and Elephant, loosely inspired by Kurt Cobain's final days; Michael Pitt stars as Blake, and the film won Cannes' Technical Grand Prize for sound design.

Last Days of Summer (Friday Night Lights)

Last Days of Summer is the season 2 premiere (episode 201, production 02001) of NBC's Friday Night Lights, the drama set in fictional Dillon, Texas; it is the series' twenty-third overall episode, airing October 2007.

Last Drop (video game)

Last Drop is an open-world action-adventure game by the Finnish studio Lohkare Games, released in Early Access on Steam in 2026, set in the Finnish town of Nykylä in 1994.

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Last Exit to Brooklyn: Hubert Selby Jr.'s 1964 Grove Press novel of six linked stories set in 1950s Red Hook, Brooklyn; famous for the 1967 UK obscenity ban overturned in 1968, over 750,000 copies sold, and a 1989 Uli Edel film adaptation.

Last Flag Flying

Last Flag Flying is a 2017 Richard Linklater comedy-drama, co-written with Darryl Ponicsan from his 2005 novel, starring Cranston, Fishburne, and Carell as Vietnam vets burying a son killed in Iraq.

Last Forever

Last Forever is the two-part series finale of How I Met Your Mother, aired March 31, 2014 on CBS, written by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas. Ted meets Tracy McConnell, who dies of illness; Ted returns to Robin. Series-record 12.9 million viewers, divisive reception, alternate ending on DVD.

Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)

Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) is a 2011 Katy Perry single from Teenage Dream, written with Dr. Luke, Max Martin, and Bonnie McKee. It hit Hot 100 #1 for two weeks, making Perry the first woman with five #1s from one album, tying Michael Jackson's Bad.

Last Generation (climate group)

Last Generation, known in German as Letzte Generation, is a climate activist group formed in 2021, famous for road blockades in which members glued themselves to the roadway.

Last Glacial Maximum

The Last Glacial Maximum was the most recent interval when global ice sheets peaked, about 26,500 to 19,000 years ago, dropping sea level by roughly 130 meters.

Last Glacial Period

The Last Glacial Period, known as the Last Ice Age or Devensian, spanned about 115,000 to 11,700 years ago, when ice sheets grew over North America and northern Eurasia.

Last Holiday (2006 film)

Last Holiday (2006) is a Wayne Wang comedy-drama starring Queen Latifah as Georgia Byrd, a New Orleans salesclerk who spends her savings at Karlovy Vary's Grandhotel Pupp after a terminal diagnosis; remake of the 1950 Alec Guinness film, released January 13, 2006 by Paramount.

Last Interglacial

The Last Interglacial, known in Europe as the Eemian, was the warm period from about 129,000 to 116,000 years ago, when sea level stood several meters higher than today.

Last Judgment

The Last Judgment, also called the Day of Judgment, is a final judging by God of all persons' thoughts, words, and deeds, affirmed in Christianity, Islam, and Zoroastrianism.

Last King of the Cross

Last King of the Cross is a Paramount+ Australian crime drama inspired by John Ibrahim's 2017 autobiography, starring Lincoln Younes, Claude Jabbour, and Tim Roth; two seasons (2023, 2024) dramatize the Ibrahim brothers' rise in Sydney's Kings Cross underworld.

Last Kiss

Last Kiss: teenage tragedy song written and first recorded by Wayne Cochran in 1961 (Gala label), made famous by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers' 1964 number 2 hit and Pearl Jam's 1999 benefit cover, which also peaked at number 2.

Last Knights

Last Knights (ラスト・ナイツ) is a 2015 action drama film directed by Kazuaki Kiriya, starring Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman, and loosely retelling the forty-seven rōnin legend.

Last Land

Last Land names several subjects: a casino in Erbil Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan (جاي خانة); Leme's 2019 medieval strategy mobile game War of Survival; a Season 6 MU Online private server; and Pablo Lamar's 2016 film The Last Land.

Last Lap

Last Lap is Rod Wave's sixth studio album, released October 11, 2024 on Alamo Records; 23 tracks, 67 minutes, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 127,000 units, RIAA Platinum, mixed reviews.

Last letters of Ugarit

The last letters of Ugarit are cuneiform tablet letters from the final years of the Late Bronze Age kingdom of Ugarit, found in its destruction level.

Last Life in the Universe

Last Life in the Universe (เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล) is a 2003 Thai art-house film by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, starring Tadanobu Asano and Sinitta Boonyasak, shot by Christopher Doyle, trilingual, Venice Best Actor winner.

Last Looks

Last Looks (2022) is a crime comedy thriller directed by Tim Kirkby, written by Howard Michael Gould from his novel, starring Charlie Hunnam as ex-cop Charlie Waldo investigating Mel Gibson's Alastair Pinch; Metascore 49, Rotten Tomatoes 70%.

Last Man Standing (1996 film)

Last Man Standing is a 1996 American action film directed by Walter Hill, starring Bruce Willis as a gunman who pits two bootlegging gangs against each other.