We’re just a week away from the season 11 finale of The Masked Singer!
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Alison Herman TV Critic At the end of its second season, “Hacks” seemed to have written itself into a corner. On the heels of a hit special, veteran stand-up Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) fired Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder), the young writer whose perspective helped push Deborah out of a yearslong creative rut. While harsh, the move was uncharacteristically selfless on Deborah’s part, cutting Ava and her valuable advice loose in an act of tough love.
But even as forcing Ava to step out of her shadow showed Deborah’s growth, it also broke up the professional partnership that helped define the Max comedy and propel “Hacks” to acclaim. This cliffhanger was further prolonged by Smart’s heart surgery and, of course, two concurrent Hollywood strikes. Yet, miraculously, Season 3 — which premieres May 2 — shows little signs of sweat.
If any strain came with following through on such a tectonic shift, or getting back in gear after more time than anticipated away, the creative team does an expert job of hiding it.Like a performer with Deborah’s grit and experience, “Hacks” is infectiously confident, deceptively smooth and, most importantly, consistently hilarious. Like many long-form stories caught between the narrative momentum that keeps its creative edge and the stasis incentivized by success, “Hacks” faces conflicting instincts that only grow more apparent as the series matures. Creators Lucia Aniello, Paul W.
Downs and Jen Statsky’s solution to these competing prerogatives is to make “Hacks” about such tensions, epitomized by the relationship between two characters who reward continued exploration. “Hacks” also takes a time jump, a time-honored technique for bypassing an intractable crossroads on the way to a cleaner reset. A
.We’re just a week away from the season 11 finale of The Masked Singer!
“Bridgerton” Season 3 promises plenty of balls and other social events, and music supervisor Justin Kamps pulled string song covers of several big-name artists for the orchestral pop music signature to the Netflix show. The needle drops heighten the luxurious social moments as well as more intimate and emotional ones.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan is back on set!
The Golden Bachelorette was officially a go, fans have been waiting forever (well, more like three months) to find out who the lucky lady would be, and now we know: Joan Vassos, from Rockland, Maryland.Joan was a fan-favorite and front-runner , when she and Gerry had a heart-warming one-on-one date (like Gerry, Joan is also a widow). It seemed like she and Gerry had what it took to go the distance, but the morning after their date, she made the important—and right—decision to leave the show to care for her daughter, who was struggling with postpartum depression.Gerry was understanding—and devastated. But to make matters even more surprising, Joan told me at the Women Tell All taping in October 2023 that she was actually scheduled to return to the show, and even had a plane ticket.
The trailer for season two of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has debuted online, and it’s promising a lot in store for viewers of the Prime Video series.
Lord Of The Rings: The Rings of Power has arrived – check it out below.Prime Video announced today (May 14) that the new season of the show will arrive on August 29 and revealed that Charlie Vickers would return in the role of Sauron, described as “one of the world’s greatest literary villains”, and “appearing in a new form – one that will aid him in deceiving the denizens of Middle-earth.”The trailer also reveals the return of many fan favourite characters, including Galadriel, Elrond, Prince Durin IV, Arondir, and Celebrimbor and the first-look trailer also reveals the much-anticipated creation of more Rings.A synopsis of the new season explains:” In Season Two of The Rings of Power, Sauron has returned. Cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his own cunning to rebuild his strength and oversee the creation of the Rings of Power, which will allow him to bind all the peoples of Middle-earth to his sinister will.“Building on Season One’s epic scope and ambition, the new season plunges even its most beloved and vulnerable characters into a rising tide of darkness, challenging each to find their place in a world that is increasingly on the brink of calamity.
A lot of hype surrounded the debut of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” on Prime Video. The series is reportedly the most expensive in history (when you include the cost of the rights and all that), and it’s a new story set in the world of Tolkien’s classic fantasy series.
! The Summer I Turned Pretty, the multigenerational drama and coming of age story focusing on Isabel “Belly” Conklin, has officially been renewed for a third season, and now we know the timeline for when the new season will premiere. Prime Video originally made the renewal announcement on August 3, 2023, while also revealing some big news in the process: it will be the biggest season yet.Production on the new season has been underway for about a month, and they're still filming, which will no doubt make fans delighted.
We finally have news about The Summer I Turned Pretty season three!
Hunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned,” the Season 2 premiere of “Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire,” now streaming on AMC+. On the set of AMC’s “Interview With the Vampire,” showrunner Rolin Jones and star Jacob Anderson had a nickname for Anderson’s character, Louis de Pointe du Lac. “We used to call him Cuddles the Vampire,” Jones tells Variety with a laugh. But notice the past tense.
The Cleaning Lady is returning for another season!
Despite Fallout taking place in the aftermath of a nuclear war, it’s truly not the end of the world for the Prime Video series, which has many miles to go.
went on a bizarre Twitter rant falsely claiming Chelsea Clinton is married to George Soros’ nephew, repeated a false rumor that the billionaire is a Nazi sympathizer and made a racist comment about then-President Obama’s adviser, Valerie Jarrett.ABC subsequently fired her, and killed her off — her eponymous sitcom. Barr also proceeded to slam her co-stars, saying that her TV daughter, Sara Gilbert, “stabbed me in the back.” Following that incident, “The Conners” premiered, following the family sans the matriarch.
Eurovision entry Bambie Thug has shared an eerie cover of The Cranberries’ ‘Zombie’ and spoken out in support of Palestine ahead of this weekend’s finale.The non-binary singer will be representing Ireland at the final of the song contest in Malmö, Sweden, and has become Ireland’s first finalist since 2018. They won their place in Saturday’s final (May 11) with a performance of ‘Doomsday Blue’ at Tuesday’s (May 7) semi-finals.They have been listed as in the top 10 favourites to win the competition this year, and told NME that they are hoping to “give the best performance I can and try to connect in those three minutes to those millions of viewers”.That being said, there has been pressure on contestants, including Thug and UK representative Olly Alexander, to boycott the event in solidarity with Palestine.
We’re just two weeks away from the season 11 finale of The Masked Singer!
Paramount+ with Showtime has renewed the series for a seventh season.
Steve Martin is wild and crazy over season 4 of Only Murders in the Building.
After six dramatic seasons the Irish gang series “Peaky Blinders” came to a close in 2022. Something of a sleeper hit at first, the series seemed to take off during the pandemic when it was on Netflix.
“I mean, there’s just nothing that can prepare you for the experience of Drag Race, because it is an experience of its own,” Season 16 queen Q said during a panel at Deadline’s Contenders TV: Documentary + Unscripted awards-season event.
Theo James is getting in a workout.