‘Big Shot’ Lets John Stamos Coast Through Familiar Territory: TV Review

“wait list.”The venue warns that a “vaccine or negative COVID test is required” to attend.In December, the “Big Mouth” star entered a rehab facility in Pennsylvania for 60 days for treatment for cocaine and alcohol addiction, Page Six exclusively reported. In February, he exited the program and entered outpatient care.“John has completed 60 days in rehab, and now he’s in outpatient sober care.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticWe may soon begin to run low on famous cases from the past to reframe into true-crime series. Following on recent series about the Night Stalker and the Ted Bundy murders, Netflix now drops “The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness,” about the Son of Sam killings in New York City in the late 1970s.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIn a very early scene in Peacock’s new series “Girls5eva,” a rising rap star is looking for something he can sample inexpensively. His producer, before directing him to a forgotten hit by a pop quintet, suggests “anything by the Stones: Sharon or Oliver.”It’s that kind of joke — so briskly delivered, it only registers as the next one arrives — that defines a Tina Fey-produced show.

EXCLUSIVE: The Practice alum Camyrn Manheim is reuniting with David E. Kelley on Big Shot, his series on Disney+.  Manheim is set to recur, along with Daisha Graf (The High Note) and Dale Whibley (There’s Someone Inside Your House) on the series starring John Stamos, from Kelley, Dean Lorey, Brad Garrett and ABC Studios, part of Disney Television Studios.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticBefore her notoriety as one of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of New York City,” Bethenny Frankel emerged from a very different style of reality TV. In 2005, she competed on “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart,” a show designed to burnish Stewart’s image just after her release from federal prison, and, after having done that, to choose for Stewart a successor figure.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticAllie Fox is a man with a lot of anger to throw around. Like Jackson Pollock using bile instead of paint, the lead of Apple TV Plus’ limited series “The Mosquito Coast” spreads his rage everywhere — including and especially on the lives of his family, whom he uproots for an adventure in Mexico.

John Stamos is joining American Idol!

John Stamos is lending his musical talents and performing experience to this year's slate of hopefuls. The actor and musician will be joining the season as a guest mentor!As the race to the championship continues to narrow, the Top 9 will soon be taking a trip to Disney World for a very special Disney Night episode, where they will get some guidance from Stamos, as well as some inspiration from the Magic Kingdom itself.Stamos, of course, has long been a Disney fan.

Hollywood heartthrob John Stamos is back on our screens but he isn’t playing his typical, lovable father figure. In Big Shot, which just landed on Disney+, the actor is playing a basketball coach for a girl’s High School team.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticFrom its title, “Sasquatch” sounds like the story of Bigfoot — and at the start, it looks that way too. The three-part documentary series begins with journalist David Holthouse recounting the time he visited a cannabis farm and overheard the tale of three workers who had been devoured by the legendary beast.“Sasquatch” shares with its most prominent on-screen voice, Holthouse, an abiding interest in looking beneath the surface of the seemingly ordinary.

John Stamos recently opened up about the iconic series Fuller House and Olsen twins. In an interview with Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live, the 57-year-old was asked by a fan if he was surprised Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen decided not to return for Fuller House.

John Stamos said he was “disappointed” that twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen didn’t make a cameo appearance in the Netflix series “Fuller House.”

As the American sports series Big Shot aired its first episode, people could not stop talking about the show’s touching storyline. Starring John Stamos, in the lead role of Marvyn Korn, the show focuses on the relationship a couch has with its players.

‘Big Little Lies?’ And they were like, ‘It’s a show about basketball.’ And my heart just sunk. Of all things! I said, ‘I’m a player?’ and they said, ‘No, you’re a coach.’ And I said, ‘OK, great … what does a coach do?’ ”Despite reservations, Stamos dove into research, he said, spending time with NBA legend Jerry West, who was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980.

John Stamos recently marked a milestone.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“Cruel Summer” has set up an intriguing challenge for itself. Each episode of the new Freeform drama series depicts a single day over the course of three years — 1993, 1994 and 1995 — in order to convey the long-tail effects of a kidnapping.

 John Stamos  celebrated his son Billy’s birthday with an aww-inducing video. The 57-year-old Full House icon joined his wife Caitlin McHugh Stamos, 34, in marking Billy’s special day on Saturday, April 10.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticMost late night talk shows nowadays aim to serve an audience that is, late at night, not watching their TV set.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe fissures racism has carved into American life, and American lives, are so surreally deep that to convey them, artists must use the tools of exaggeration that genre provides.