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Stephanie Koenig Wrote the ‘English Teacher’ Drag Queen Episode to Surprise You
[This story contains spoilers from the second episode of English Teacher.] In the second episode of FX’s English Teacher, Stephanie Koenig’s Gwen Sanders — a peppy history teacher with perhaps too much faith in her students — takes it upon herself to teach the school’s cheerleading team self defense. Koenig, who also wrote the episode, […]
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‘Pachinko’ Creator on the Season 2 Scene That Still Makes Her Weep
[This story contains spoilers from season two, episode two of Pachinko, “Chapter Ten.”] Pachinko, Apple TV+’s ambitious series adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s novel about a Korean family’s fight for survival during and after the Japanese occupation of Korea, has never used episode titles. But if creator and showrunner Soo Hugh had to assign a […]
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How ‘Tiger King’ Led to ‘Chimp Crazy’ — and That Penultimate Episode Betrayal
[This story contains spoilers from the third episode of Chimp Crazy, “Head Shot.”] Tiger King documentarian Eric Goode’s intense, sordid follow-up Chimp Crazy has been unfolding on HBO over the past couple of weeks. It centers on the fraught dynamic between exotic animal broker Tonia Haddix, the retired Hollywood chimp Tonka she claims to love […]
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TV Premiere Dates 2024: The Complete Guide
Hundreds of TV series — new and old, scripted and not, on streaming, broadcast and cable outlets — will premiere in the next 12 months. As production ramped up in the final weeks 2023 following the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, pipelines started to get refilled, which could lead to a crush of premieres in […]
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‘Lady in the Lake’ Boss on Not Being Open to Additional Seasons of Limited Series, Jean-Marc Vallée’s Role in Show’s Origin
The process of turning Laura Lippman's 2019 novel Lady in the Lake into an Apple TV+ limited series began more than three years ago and involves the series' late executive producer, Jean-Marc Vallée, who died suddenly in late December 2021.
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How ‘Fight Night’ Is Showing Its Appreciation for Atlanta and HBCUs Even Before Its Premiere
“Atlanta Influences Everything” is a popular motto and movement capturing where the Southern city stands today. But Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthplace wasn’t always what it symbolizes now. Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, the Will Packer-produced limited series for Peacock bowing Sept. 6 and starring Kevin Hart with Samuel L. Jackson headlining an all-star cast, explores how a […]
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‘Terminator Zero’ Creator Mattson Tomlin Found Peace Making a Show About an AI War
In almost every version of The Terminator franchise, a lone hero is sent to help a person at the time they need it most. Just like one of those heroes, Terminator Zero came into Mattson Tomlin’s life at the very moment he needed it. Tomlin had just spent a few whirlwind years ascending the Hollywood […]
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‘The Rings of Power’ Creators Break Down That 20-Minute Sauron Cold Open
J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay answer questions about Sauron's epic journey in the second season's premiere episode — and explain one apparent difference from the books.
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Menendez Brothers Look Toward Freedom as ‘Monsters’ Flips the Script on Their Notorious Crime
Most viewers of the new trailer for Ryan Murphy’s upcoming limited series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, will find the TV spot jarring. Not because of its concept, where smiles drop from the Menendez family’s faces after they pose for a portrait as the voices of the mother and father are heard in […]
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K-Pop Group Blackswan on New Apple TV+ Series: “The Camera Was Our Therapist” (Exclusive Clip)
Girl group Blackswan is at the center of Apple TV+’s latest docuseries, K-Pop Idols. The eight-episode series, set to hit the streamer Aug. 30, follows three K-pop acts: Blackswan, boy group Cravity and soloist Jessi. The girl group’s story kicks off at the end of 2021 with members Youngheun, Fatou, Judy and Leia. Yoon Deung-ryeong […]
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‘Emily in Paris’ Season 4: Everything to Know About the Next Installment
[This story includes major spoilers for season three of Emily in Paris.] The season three finale of Emily in Paris left audiences uttering sacré bleu, with the drop of one bombshell after another. Toward the end of the third installment of the Netflix comedy series, Camille (Camille Razat) sees Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) thanking Emily (Lily […]
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This Monster Truck Crash From ‘Righteous Gemstones’ May Have Been the Craziest Scene of the TV Season
Cory DeMeyers, the Emmy-nominated supervising stunt coordinator behind The Righteous Gemstones, had a variety of ridiculous scenarios to tackle on season three of the HBO comedy about a deeply dysfunctional family that runs a Southern megachurch. There was a brawl in which one actor was fully nude. There was an elaborate car chase. But perhaps […]
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‘Three Women’ Author Lisa Taddeo’s Crash Course in Hollywood Chaos
When Lisa Taddeo got the call in early 2023 that Showtime was pulling the plug on her television series, she didn’t answer. “It was my birthday,” she recalls. “I picked up my daughter from her guitar lesson, got a flat tire and waited a couple hours for the tow truck. By the time we got […]
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‘Mayor of Kingstown’ Boss Hopeful of a Season 4: “We Don’t Want to Leave Any Stone Unturned”
[This story contains spoilers from the Mayor of Kingstown season three finale.] When plotting what comes next, sometimes you have to close an entire storyline. Even if it was one that seved the series well. That’s what Mayor of Kingstown’s co-creator Hugh Dillon, along with co-creator Taylor Sheridan, did in the recent finale of season […]
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How to Mint Stars Beyond Olivia Colman
One would be hard-pressed to find a casting director who doesn’t revel in the joy of discovering brand-new talent. “It’s one of the most exciting parts of the job,” says Robert Sterne, casting director on The Crown, the series that over the course of six seasons has embraced both British national treasures like Imelda Staunton, […]
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Somehow John Hawkes Also Composed the Song for ‘True Detective: Night Country’
Not only did John Hawkes land his first Emmy nomination this year, he actually earned two: a supporting actor nod for playing the corrupt cop Hank Prior in True Detective: Night Country and another for his song “No Use,” which he composed and performed in character on the HBO anthology series. After Hawkes was cast, […]
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