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Best Man Down

Best Man Down is a 2012 American comedy-drama, also known by its working title Lumpy, written and directed by Ted Koland. Justin Long and Jess Weixler play newlyweds whose best man (Tyler Labine) dies at their Phoenix wedding; Magnolia Pictures released it in 2013.

Best Medicine

Best Medicine is Fox's American one-hour comedy-drama adaptation of the British series Doc Martin, starring Josh Charles as blood-phobic Boston surgeon Dr. Martin Best, who becomes GP in Port Wenn, Maine; it premiered January 4, 2026 and was renewed for season 2.

Best New International Act

Best New International Act, also run as Viewer's Choice: Best New International Act, is a fan-voted BET Awards category for emerging international artists, first presented in 2018 to Sjava.

Best of Luck Nikki

Best of Luck Nikki is a Disney Channel India family sitcom (2011-2016), the Indian adaptation of Good Luck Charlie, following the Singh family and Dolly's video-diary advice for baby sister Nikki across four seasons.

Best of the Best (1989 film)

Best of the Best is a 1989 American martial arts drama, Bob Radler's directorial debut, starring Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Phillip Rhee, and Sally Kirkland as a U.S. karate team facing South Korea; it flopped with critics but spawned four sequels.

Best Offer Wins

Best Offer Wins is Marisa Kashino's 2025 debut thriller (Celadon Books) about Margo Miyake, a publicist who stalks and blackmails her way toward a not-yet-listed Bethesda dream house after 11 lost bidding wars; a GMA Book Club pick optioned by Hulu.

Best Pancakes in the County

Best Pancakes in the County is an upcoming American action thriller written and directed by Ken Sanzel, starring Nicolas Cage as S.O.B., Justin Long, and Shelley Hennig in a one-night diner standoff after a botched FBI heist; IFC release November 20, 2026.

Best. Christmas. Ever!

Best. Christmas. Ever! is a 2023 Netflix holiday comedy directed by Mary Lambert, starring Heather Graham, Brandy Norwood, Jason Biggs, and Matt Cedeño, about frenemies reunited by a GPS mix-up; critically panned (Metascore 34).

Bestdressed

Bestdressed is the alias of Ashley Rous (born 1998), an American fashion YouTuber and @best.dressed Instagram creator known for thrifting content, 3.5M subscribers, a December 2020 upload stop, and later luxury partnerships with Celine, Prada, and Gucci.

Bestseller

Bestseller: a product, usually a book, ranking among the top sellers of its period on a published list. Covers list methodologies (NYT surveys, BookScan unit data), thresholds, sales effects, and manipulation controversies.

Bestseller (2022 TV series)

Bestseller (2022) is a Hindi-language Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller series, 8 episodes, directed by Mukul Abhyankar, adapted from Ravi Subramanian's novel The Bestseller She Wrote, starring Shruti Haasan, Mithun Chakraborty, Arjan Bajwa, and Gauahar Khan.

Bestseller (company)

Bestseller A/S is a Danish, family-owned fashion company founded in 1975 and headquartered in Brande, Denmark. It sells clothing through more than 20 brands, including JACK & JONES, VERO MODA, ONLY, and NAME IT.

Bet (TV series)

Bet is a 2025 Netflix live-action teen thriller series created by Simon Barry, adapted from the manga Kakegurui by Homura Kawamoto and Toru Naomura. Miku Martineau stars as gambler Yumeko at St. Dominic's boarding school; renewed for a second season filmed in Toronto in 2026.

BET Awards

The BET Awards, branded Culture's Biggest Night, are BET's annual ceremony honoring Black achievement in music, film, television, and sports, first held June 19, 2001 in Las Vegas, with the 25th edition on June 28, 2026 hosted by Druski.

BET Awards 2026

BET Awards 2026, 25th annual ceremony, also called Culture's Biggest Night, held June 28, 2026 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, hosted by Druski; Teyana Taylor won four awards, Clipse took Album of the Year, Lauryn Hill received the inaugural Living Legend Icon Award.

Beta (The Walking Dead)

Beta is a Whisperer antagonist in The Walking Dead comics and TV series, Alpha's towering second-in-command who hides his face. Comic Beta was an NBA player, killed in issue #173; TV Beta, played by Ryan Hurst, was country singer Half Moon.

Beta (बेटा) (film)

Beta (बेटा) is a 1992 Hindi family drama directed by Indra Kumar, remaking Enga Chinna Rasa; Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, and Aruna Irani star, and it was 1992's highest-grossing Hindi film with four Filmfare wins.

Beta Ray Bill

Beta Ray Bill: Marvel Comics alien superhero, a Korbinite cyborg created by Walter Simonson, first appearing in Thor #337 (November 1983); worthy of Mjolnir and wielder of the hammer Stormbreaker.

Betaab

Betaab (बेताब) is a 1983 Hindi romantic drama directed by Rahul Rawail, starring debutants Sunny Deol and Amrita Singh, with music by R.D. Burman; second highest-grossing Hindi film of 1983.

Betaal

Betaal is a 2020 four-episode Hindi Netflix horror miniseries created by Patrick Graham and Suhani Kanwar, produced by Red Chillies Entertainment with Blumhouse, in which a paramilitary squad displacing tribal villagers awakens East India Company soldier-zombies led by undead Colonel Lynedoch.

Betas

Betas, an Amazon Studios comedy by Evan Endicott and Josh Stoddard, follows Silicon Valley entrepreneurs building the social app BRB; one season of 11 episodes, 2013–2014, cancelled.

Bête Noire (Black Mirror)

Bête Noire is episode 2 of Black Mirror season 7 (Netflix, April 10, 2025), written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Toby Haynes, starring Siena Kelly and Rosy McEwen; a gaslighting parable about a pendant that retunes reality.

Betel nut chewing

Betel nut chewing: chewing areca nut (betel quid, with betel leaf and lime, often tobacco) by about 600 million people in Asia and the Pacific; areca nut is an IARC Group 1 carcinogen causing oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal cancer.

Betelnut Beauty (爱你爱我)

Betelnut Beauty (愛你愛我, Ai ni ai wo) is Lin Cheng-sheng's 2001 Taiwan-France drama about a runaway betelnut seller and an ex-baker in Taipei; it won the 2001 Berlin Silver Bear for Best Director and the New Talent Award for Angelica Lee, distinct from the unrelated 2026 thriller Betel Nut Beauty.

Beth (song)

"Beth" is a 1976 orchestral ballad by KISS from Destroyer, credited to Peter Criss, Bob Ezrin, and Stan Penridge, originally written as "Beck" in the band Chelsea; reissued as an A-side, it peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Beth Behrs

Beth Behrs (Elizabeth Ann Behrs), born 1985 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is an American actress known for Caroline Channing on 2 Broke Girls and Gemma Johnson on The Neighborhood.

Beth Broderick

Beth Broderick (born 1959), American actress known as Aunt Zelda Spellman on Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996-2002, 141 episodes); also Lost, Sharp Objects, Love & Death; AIDS activist, MOMENTUM founder.

Beth de Araújo

Beth de Araújo (born 1985) is a Brazilian-American screenwriter-director from San Francisco. Her debut Soft & Quiet (2022) was a one-take SXSW thriller; her second feature Josephine (2026) won Sundance's Grand Jury and Audience Awards.

Beth Ditto

Beth Ditto (Mary Beth Patterson, born 1981) is an American singer from Judsonia, Arkansas, frontwoman of dance-punk band Gossip ("Standing in the Way of Control"), later a solo artist (Fake Sugar, 2017), actress, and fashion designer; Gossip reunited for Real Power (2024).

Beth Elliott

Beth Elliott, American trans woman folk singer and activist, vice president of the San Francisco Daughters of Bilitis chapter until her 1972 expulsion, and central figure in the 1973 West Coast Lesbian Conference controversy.