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The Masked Singer (British TV series) series 6
The Masked Singer (British TV series) series 6, the 2025 ITV1 season of The Masked Singer UK, aired 4 January to 15 February 2025 with eight episodes, twelve contestants, Maya Jama joining the panel, and Pufferfish winning as Samantha Barks.
The Masked Singer (British TV series) series 7
The Masked Singer UK series 7 (2026), seventh series of the British version of The King of Mask Singer, aired on ITV1 from 3 January to 14 February 2026; won by Moth, Keisha Buchanan, over Conkers (Ben Shephard) and Toastie (Mica Paris).
The Masked Singer South Africa
The Masked Singer South Africa is a masked celebrity singing competition on SABC, premiered 3 June 2023 on S3, hosted by Mpho Popps with detectives Somizi, J'Something, Sithelo, and Skhumba; winners include Holly Rey and Warren Masemola.
The Masked Singer South Africa season 3
Third season of the South African Masked Singer franchise, aired on SABC 2 Saturdays at 19:00 from 4 July to 26 September 2026 with 16 masked celebrities; hosted by Mpho Popps, won by Bontle Modiselle as Spotty.
The Masque of the Red Death
Poe's 1842 short story, first titled "The Mask of the Red Death" in Graham's Magazine, retitled "Masque" in 1845: Prince Prospero's sealed abbey ball is invaded by the plague itself, an allegory of death's inevitability.
The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) is Roger Corman's Poe adaptation starring Vincent Price as Prince Prospero, shot in England by Nicolas Roeg, censored in the UK and US, and restored in 4K in 2019.
The Masque of the Red Death (2026 film)
The Masque of the Red Death (2026 film): A24 horror film directed by Charlie Polinger, starring Mikey Madison as twin sisters with Léa Seydoux; also a 50-minute UK film by Nicole Russin-McFarland. Both adapt Poe's 1842 story; the A24 version filmed in Budapest from February 2026.
The Massacre
The Massacre is 50 Cent's second studio album, released March 3, 2005 on Shady/Aftermath/Interscope; 22 tracks executive produced with Dr. Dre and Eminem, selling 1.14 million in four days and topping Billboard's 2005 year-end chart.
The Master (2012 film)
The Master is Paul Thomas Anderson's 2012 American drama starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams, loosely inspired by L. Ron Hubbard and early Dianetics; shot on 65mm, it premiered at Venice 2012 and earned three Oscar nominations.
The Master (Doctor Who)
The Master (Doctor Who): the Doctor's Time Lord arch-nemesis and childhood friend from Gallifrey, driven mad by the Untempered Schism; played by Roger Delgado, John Simm, Michelle Gomez (Missy), Sacha Dhawan, and others from 1971 to 2022.
The Master and Margarita (Мастер и Маргарита)
The Master and Margarita (Мастер и Маргарита) is Mikhail Bulgakov's unfinished 1928–1940 novel about Woland's visit to Soviet Moscow and the Master's Pilate story, first published censored in Moskva 1966–1967 and famous for its many English translations and adaptations.
The Master Builder
The Master Builder (Bygmester Solness) is a three-act 1892 play by Henrik Ibsen about Halvard Solness, an aging architect, and Hilda Wangel, who drives him to climb a tower one last time.
The Master Cutter
The Master Cutter is a 2026 GMA Network Philippine action-drama series directed by Dominic Zapata, starring Dingdong Dantes as tailor and secret tracker Atoy Padua in Baclaran; premiered May 11, 2026, streamed first on Netflix, 100 episodes.
The Master of Ballantrae
The Master of Ballantrae is an 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson about two Scottish brothers whose rivalry, sparked by the Jacobite rising of 1745, spans the Scottish highlands and the American wilderness.
The Master of Boyana
The Master of Boyana (Боянският майстор) is the name for the anonymous painters who created the 1259 frescoes of the Boyana Church near Sofia, a peak of medieval Bulgarian art.
The Master of Disguise
The Master of Disguise is a 2002 American comedy starring Dana Carvey as a waiter who must use his family's gift for disguise to rescue his kidnapped parents.
The Master of Go
The Master of Go (Meijin, 名人) is a chronicle novel by Yasunari Kawabata based on a real 1938 retirement match of Go master Hon'inbo Shūsai.
The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar
The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar (Hyakuren no Haou to Seiyaku no Valkyria) is a 24-volume Japanese light novel series by Seiichi Takayama about Yuuto ruling Bronze Age Yggdrasil, adapted into a 2018 anime.
The Master Polycarp's Dialogue with Death
The Master Polycarp's Dialogue with Death (Polish: Rozmowa mistrza Polikarpa ze Śmiercią) is an anonymous mid-15th-century Polish poem in which a learned master questions personified Death about her power.
The Mastermind (film)
The Mastermind (film): 2025 Kelly Reichardt crime drama, also called Mastermind, starring Josh O'Connor as a 1970 Massachusetts art thief; Cannes In Competition premiere, MUBI release, 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Masterplan (album)
The Masterplan (album): Oasis B-sides compilation released 2 November 1998 on Creation Records; 14 tracks from 1994–1998 singles, UK number 2, over 3 million sold, triple platinum, 2023 25th-anniversary reissue.
The Match (1999 film)
The Match (1999) is a British sports romantic comedy directed by Mick Davis, starring Max Beesley, Laura Fraser, Richard E. Grant, and Ian Holm, about two Scottish village pubs settling a 100-year-old bet with a football match.
The Match (2026 film)
The Match (El Partido), 2026 documentary by Juan Cabral and Santiago Franco on the 1986 Argentina-England World Cup quarterfinal and Maradona's Hand of God; 91 minutes, Cannes 2026, distinct from the Croatian drama of the same name.
The Matchmaker
The Matchmaker: Thornton Wilder's 1955 Broadway farce about matchmaker Dolly Levi (486 performances), its 1958 Paramount film with Shirley Booth, plus unrelated 1997 Irish and 2010 Israeli films of the same title.
The Mating Game
The Mating Game (1959) is an MGM romantic comedy directed by George Marshall, starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall, and Paul Douglas, loosely based on H. E. Bates's novel The Darling Buds of May, about an IRS auditor who falls for a farmer's untaxed daughter.
The Matriarch
The Matriarch is a 1986 historical novel by New Zealand Māori writer Witi Ihimaera, narrated by Tamatea Mahana and winner of the 1986 Wattie Book of the Year.
The Matrix
The Matrix (1999) is a Wachowski-directed Warner Bros. sci-fi action film starring Keanu Reeves as Neo, a hacker who learns reality is a machine-built simulation. It won four Oscars, grossed about $460 million, and launched a franchise.
The Matrix (franchise)
The Matrix franchise: Wachowskis' science fiction series beginning with The Matrix (1999), plus the 2003 sequels, The Animatrix, games, The Matrix Resurrections (2021), and a planned Drew Goddard fifth film.
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) is the first Matrix sequel, directed by the Wachowskis, opening May 15, 2003, starring Keanu Reeves as Neo; it earned about $739 million worldwide on a $150 million budget.
The Matrix Resurrections
The Matrix Resurrections, also known as The Matrix 4, is a 2021 American science fiction action film directed by Lana Wachowski, the fourth installment in the Matrix franchise.