Michaela Zee Charlotte Stoudt, showrunner of Apple TV+’s hit “The Morning Show,” will receive the Variety Showrunner Award at the 12th annual SCAD TVfest. The festival returns this year in Atlanta from Feb.
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Alison Herman TV Critic The protagonist of “Grimsburg” looks and acts nothing like Jon Hamm, though the actor lends his voice — and backing as an executive producer — to the lead of Fox’s latest animated sitcom. Detective Marvin Flute is a scruffy, potbellied deadbeat who’s somewhat skilled at solving crimes, if nowhere near as much as he thinks he is.
Flute is a far cry from the debonair types Hamm is best known for playing, from Don Draper on “Mad Men” to Paul Marks on “The Morning Show.” But with animation, Hamm can separate his voice from his famously handsome face, even roughing up his signature baritone to sound significantly less suave. The change in medium offers a chance to expand the performer’s range.
The namesake of “Grimsburg” is a small town with a big fatality rate. (Motto: “Come for the hiking, stay because you’re missing.”) Created by Catlan McClelland and Matthew Schlissel and developed by Chadd Gindin, “Grimsburg” is a heightened riff on the likes of “Murder, She Wrote” — procedurals set in rural hamlets that naturally beg the question of how such a limited population can produce so many criminals, or sustain so many lost lives.
Naturally, “Grimsburg” escalates such suspension of disbelief to outright absurdity. A murder mystery party takes place in a hybrid train-mansion, dubbed a “trainsion”; a serial killer leaves animal bones at the scene of every crime, cuing up 20 minutes of nonstop boner puns.
Detective Flute’s return to Grimsburg after a nervous breakdown and some time away serves as the series’ inciting incident, though he’s quickly surrounded with a coterie of eccentrics, including his ex-wife Harmony (Erinn Hayes), a local news anchor who was quite literally raised by bears, and Dr. Pentos
.Michaela Zee Charlotte Stoudt, showrunner of Apple TV+’s hit “The Morning Show,” will receive the Variety Showrunner Award at the 12th annual SCAD TVfest. The festival returns this year in Atlanta from Feb.
Fargo bounced back with renewed acclaim in the show’s fifth season.Created by Noah Hawley, the anthology comedy-crime drama is based on the 1996 film of the same directed by the Coen brothers. In each season, the show shifts to a different time period and location, mostly set within the Minnesota region.The show’s fifth season, set within Minnesota and North Dakota in 2019, starred Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Joe Keery.
Chris Wallace just found out Jon Hamm almost played his father Mike Wallace in a film.
This might be TMI for some people, but some famous men have been open about the size of their manhood in interviews over the years. Some of them have revealed they are packing while others weren’t afraid to admit that there’s not much there.
Jon Hamm has revealed whether he felt any competition with Tom Cruise while the two actors were filming “Top Gun: Maverick.” During his appearance on Friday’s episode of “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” (now streaming on Max), Hamm, 52, said, “What I really learned was that I loved every bit of working with Tom.”“He is the consummate professional. He pushes himself to a level that almost seems superhuman and then invites you,” he continued. “It’s not a competition with him.
Addie Morfoot Contributor Carla Gutierrez is known in the documentary community for her work as a film editor. She was behind Oscar nominated docs “RBG” and “La Corona” as well as Emmy winner “Julia.” But in 2022, after two decades of editing, Gutierrez decided to direct “Frida,” a docu about iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, which has its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival this week. “A few months before we started working on ‘Frida,’ I would say, ‘I’m really content with editing.’ I had no thoughts of directing, but her story really pulled me in and I realized I have to direct this (film).
a cowed Sheriff Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm) in prison and Dot Lyon (Juno Temple) back home in Scandia, Minn. — where she encountered monosyllabic hulking hitman Ole Munch sitting in her living room.“The debt must be paid,” Munch (Sam Spruell), warned Dot, who, because this is the surreal universe of “Fargo,” instead talked the centuries-old Munch (pronounced “Moonk”) into forgoing the debt and making Bisquik biscuits — as we learned more about his weird backstory delivered in his gruff, toneless whisper.“I had questions when I first read the script,” the British-born Spruell, 47, told The Post.
Caroline Brew editor SPOILER ALERT:This story contains spoilers for Season 5, Episode 10 of “Fargo,” now airing on FX and streaming on Hulu. While the events of Noah Hawley’s FX series “Fargo” don’t expand on those in the 1996 film from Joel and Ethan Coen, there is one bit of dialogue from the movie that Hawley considers a thematic throughline for each season in the anthology. “There’s always something every year that’s rooted in Marge’s line from the movie, ‘And here you are, and for what, a little bit of money?’ — the crimes that people commit for money, either desperation or greed,” he said.
posted Monday, a TikToker named Alison compared Rice’s vocal portrayal of Cady Heron to Erika Henningsen, who portrayed the high schooler during the show’s two-year run on Broadway. Alison’s video, which has garnered nearly 754,000 views since being uploaded, features snippets from the song “Revenge Party” which showcase the difference between Rice, 23, and Henningsen, 31. “This is the reason all theatre kids are appalled,” Alison states in the in-video text while she lip-syncs to both actresses’ versions of the song.
Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon are both looking amazing, as usual, at the 2024 Critics Choice Awards on Sunday (January 14) at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Robert Downey Jr. appeared on Rob Lowe’s “Literally!” podcast and said that his run as Tony Stark/Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe marked some of the best acting of his career, but “it went a little bit unnoticed because of the genre.” The Oscar nominee played the character for 11 years, exiting the MCU in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said last month that he won’t be asking Downey Jr. to return to the MCU as to preserve Tony Stark’s emotional ending (“We all worked very hard for many years to get to that, and we would never want to magically undo it in any way,” he said), but that hasn’t stopped rumors from circulating that Marvel desperately wants Iron Man back to help restore the MCU to its glory days.
Jordan Moreau Get in, loser, we’re going to the box office. Paramount’s “Mean Girls,” a musical adaptation and more Gen Z-skewing version of the iconic teen comedy, is coming to the big screen this weekend. It has made $3.25 million at the box office in Thursday previews.
Mean Girls movie in cinemas.From Wednesday, January 10 to Monday, January 15, anyone with a new Uber teen account in any state (excluding California) will be able to order two free rides worth up to $15.The offer is available to teens between the ages of 13 and 17, who can use these accounts to request rides and meals with parental supervision.Directed by Arturo Perez Jr. and Samantha Jayne, and written by Tina Fey, the revamped musical version of Mean Girls was released in the US on January 8, and arrives in UK cinemas on January 12.The new film is an adaptation of the 2018 Broadway musical, which itself is based on the original 2004 movie, also written by Fey.
Diego Ramos Bechara editor The first stars slated to appear at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards have been announced. Among the list of tapped presenters are Emmy-nominated stars Pedro Pascal (“The Last of Us”), Quinta Brunson (“Abbot Elementary” and “Saturday Night Live”), Jenna Ortega (“Wednesday”), Stephen Colbert (“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”), Juno Temple (“Ted Lasso”) and Brett Goldstein (“Ted Lasso”). “The diverse lineup of talent represents critically acclaimed television series and Emmy-nominated programs across many viewing platforms and genres,” the TV Academy said in a statement.
recently told USA Today about the movie, premiering Friday, Jan. 12.“Early on, there was conversation of, ‘Would the Burn Book still be a physical book or should it be a private Instagram?’ “I knew what my instinct was, but I ran it by my kids,” she confessed. “And my older daughter was like, ‘Yeah, no.
The cast of the new Mean Girls musical movie celebrated the film at a red carpet premiere in the Big Apple, just down the street from where the Broadway show was performed!
Michaela Zee Lindsay Lohan looked so fetch while making a surprise appearance at the “Mean Girls” premiere in New York City on Monday night. The original “Mean Girls” star celebrated the premiere of the musical movie alongside writer-producer Tina Fey, who reprises her role as Ms. Norbury from the 2004 comedy classic, and Angourie Rice, who takes on Lohan’s role as Cady Heron.
The guys of The Morning Show are hitting the red carpet.
Steven Yuen won his first Golden Globe Award on Sunday, scoring for Male Actor – Limited Series, Anthology Series, Made for Television Movie for his co-starring role in Netflix‘s series Beef.
W Magazine is kicking off Golden Globes weekend with a star-studded party!