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Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “Midnight Mass,” streaming now on Netflix.British actor Rahul Kohli has a knack for picking out-of-the-box genre roles and then stealing scenes in all of them. He starred as the lovable Dr.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVNo matter what is going on in the outside world, one thing most of us can agree on is, there are few things better than sitting down and immersing yourself in a clever comedy for 30 minutes — or for a full season binge.On tough days, there is something therapeutic about it, while on good days, it often feels almost celebratory to toss your head back and laugh like you don’t have a care in the world.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVLive from the fictional Conner family living room in Lanford, Ill., ABC’s “Roseanne” spinoff called real-life fans while also telling a new story about navigating major relationship and other life changes, including planning a wedding.The fourth season premiere episode of “The Conners,” titled “Trucking Live in Front of a Fully Vaccinated Studio Audience,” took on a lot.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVHBO Max ordered an adaptation of “Station Eleven” in June 2019, months before the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep the globe. But the series will soon launch in a world in which the pandemic is still ongoing, and it will tell a dual story about the early days of a virus that wipes out much of humanity and about what the world looks like years later.Since the show has its roots in Emily St.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the fourth and final season of “Dear White People,” streaming now on Netflix.When Justin Simien was adapting his 2014 satirical film “Dear White People” into a half-hour television series, he created a bible for the show that included a reference to Donald Trump becoming president. And then Trump did just that.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVHBO Max announced that “The Sex Lives of College Girls” will debut with its first two episodes on Nov. 18 before then releasing the next three episodes of its first season on Nov.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVApple TV Plus released a trailer for “Invasion,” which launches Oct. 22 with it first three episodes.The new series hails from Simon Kinberg and David Weil and is set across multiple continents as citizens across the globe struggle to deal with the titular event, which at first presents as smaller and more manageable issues.“My fellow citizens of the world, what I have to say to you is not something I was ever prepared to say.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVABC’s reboot of “The Wonder Years” exists in the same universe as the original 1980s and 1990s coming-of-age sitcom, but creator and showrunner Saladin K. Patterson considers Kevin Arnold’s story, as told then, to be a parallel one to Dean Williams’ story, which is being told now.Both versions of the show are set in 1968 and told from a young boy’s perspective, in addition to that boy’s adult self narrating with present-day perspective.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVNBC has ordered “The Endgame,” starring Morena Baccarin and Ryan Michelle Bathé, to series.Described as a “high-stakes thriller,” the show follows Elena Federova (Baccarin), a “very recently captured” international arms dealer and criminal mastermind who can orchestrate many complicated and coordinated bank heists, even while in captivity, and Val Turner (Bathé), the “principled, relentless and socially-outcast” FBI agent who will stop at nothing to

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen “United States of Al” debuts its second season on CBS on Oct.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the series premiere of “Ordinary Joe.”“Ordinary Joe,” NBC’s latest tearjerker drama, starts simply enough with the eponymous young man (played by James Wolk) graduating from college.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the series premiere of “The Big Leap.”“The Big Leap,” the title of Simone Recasner’s new television series, has multiple meanings for the rising star. It is the name of the reality dance competition within the show, on which the main characters are competing, in the Fox dramedy, and it also refers to the chance they are taking in being a part of the show at all.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVLast year while Holly Robinson Peete was promoting her two Hallmark holiday films, she mentioned she wanted to do one featuring someone on the autism spectrum.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “My Least Favorite Year,” the Season 2 premiere of “The Morning Show,” streaming now on Apple TV Plus.It’s been almost two years since the first season of “The Morning Show” arrived on Apple TV Plus, starting its dramatic tale set the behind-the-scenes of a national morning news show with accusations of sexual misconduct against anchor Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell).

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThis time last year, Variety’s annual TV Producers Impact Report had a heavy bent on those who successfully and innovatively pivoted their productions post-shutdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVOne of the most exciting things about the shared Emmy nomination for visual-effects supervisor Stephan Fleet and VFX producer Shalena Oxley-Butler of Amazon Prime Video’s “The Boys” was being able to see each other in person again after a year of working remotely, over video conferencing software and email, from different countries.But the tone when the 73rd annual Primetime Emmy nominees finally gather might not be completely celebratory.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhile some say a village can help raise a child, it is indisputable that it takes a village to create a television show.Although actors have the greatest likelihood of becoming household names, with writers, directors and producers often following closely behind, there are dozens of others who are integral to the process.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVDuring Scott Foley’s 25-year film and television career, he’s gone meta and played someone working in the industry (as Roman Bridger in “Scream 3”), and he’s worked on a competition program (as a host and judge on “Ellen’s Next Great Designer”).

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAMC’s “The Walking Dead” Universe and ABC’s “The Wonder Years” are among the series the Paley Center for Media announced as a part of its special 15th annual PaleyFest Fall TV Preview lineup.Other series making the cut this year are Showtime’s “American Rust,” Fox’s “The Big Leap” and “Our Kind of People,” CBS’ “CSI: Vegas” and “Ghosts,” Peacock’s “Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol,” Disney Plus’ “Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.,” Paramount Plus’ “The Harper

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVNetflix has ordered an adaptation of Helen Wan’s “Partner Track” from Jax Media.The series will be created by Georgia Lee, starring Arden Cho, Bradley Gibson, Alexandra Turshen, Dominic Sherwood, Rob Heaps, Nolan Gerard Funk and Matthew Rauch.“Partner Track” centers on Ingrid Yun (Cho), an idealistic young lawyer, struggles with her moral compass and her passions as she fights to climb the partner track at an elite New York City law firm.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen “Chucky” comes to Syfy as a dramatic horror series, the new arm of the franchise will dive into the backstory of Charles Lee Ray, aka the titular doll’s human form who was also known as the Lakeshore Strangler (despite not actually choosing strangulation as his method or murder).“Exploring Charles Lee Ray’s origins has been something that the fans have wanted to see, literally for decades now, and one of the reasons I was excited about bringing

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the first three episodes of “Y: The Last Man,” streaming now on FX on Hulu.In adapting Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s graphic novel series, “Y: The Last Man,” for television, showrunner Eliza Clark thought a lot about where she wanted her version of the story to go in order to determine where she needed it to begin.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSecond seasons of television shows are often referred to as sophomore seasons, which is especially fitting for “Back to Life” because showrunner and star Daisy Haggard considers her central character to be like a teenager in the new, six-episode journey.“Back to Life” began with Haggard’s Miri getting out of prison after serving 18 years for killing one of her best friends, Lara Boback (Imogen Gurney).

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVHayley Atwell has been cast in Netflix and Legendary Television’s upcoming “Tomb Raider” anime series.Atwell will voice the franchise hero, Lara Croft, in the new series based on Square Enix’s iconic game.This upcoming series marks the character’s anime debut.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVMaya Rudolph has picked up a second consecutive guest comedy actress Emmy for “Saturday Night Live,” just hours after she picked up her second consecutive character voice-over performance Emmy.In 2020, Rudolph won guest comedy actress for appearing as then-Sen. Kamala Harris in the Eddie Murphy-hosted episode of NBC’s late-night sketch comedy series.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVDave Chappelle won the guest comedy actor Emmy for hosting “Saturday Night Live.”This was one of four Emmys for which he was nominated this year. The other three were all for his Netflix stand-up comedy special “8:46.” While he lost the variety special directing and variety special writing awards to Bo Burnham for “Bo Burnham: Inside,” the results of the variety special (pre-recorded) race are still to be announced, during the Sunday, Sept.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVClaire Foy has once again been crowned queen at the Emmys, but this time in the guest drama actress category. She took home the that trophy at the 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards’ Creative Arts ceremony on Sunday for her return to Netflix’s “The Crown.”Foy, who won the lead drama actress race in 2018 for her role of Queen Elizabeth II, appeared in the fourth season of the royal family period piece in a short flashback scene.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVCourtney B. Vance adds another Emmy to his mantle after picking up the guest drama actor statue for “Lovecraft Country,” but he used his acceptance speech not to celebrate his own achievement, but instead to pay tribute to his co-star Michael K.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVMarvel Studios has become an Emmy winner with only its first television outing, thanks to “WandaVision.”The Disney Plus limited series that centers on Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) picked up its first Emmy at the Creative Arts ceremony on Saturday for outstanding production design for a narrative program (half-hour).“WandaVision” was nominated for 23 Emmys overall this year, the most for any limited series.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAbout a month after Sept. 11, 2001, documentarian and journalist Lisa Katzman went back to her apartment in Lower Manhattan.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the first season of “Pretty Hard Cases,” streaming now on IMDb TV.For seven seasons, Adrienne C. Moore played an inmate nicknamed Black Cindy on Netflix’s dark comedy “Orange Is the New Black,” set in a women’s prison Litchfield Penitentiary.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVMore than two decades ago, “CSI” broke the mold for broadcast police procedurals by following scientific evidence instead of biased or unreliable human testimony. During the 15 years the show was on and the six years since it ended, police work has been put under a much more public microscope with many bad behaviors exposed.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVCBS is devoting an entire night to a “FBI” crossover event, and in order to really spotlight the power of that franchise, the three episodes are pulling inspiration from recent news headlines.“The crossover embodies what these shows are supposed to be.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVCBS announced that “Big Brother: Celebrity Edition” has been renewed for a third season that will premiere in February 2022.“Big Brother: Celebrity Edition” Season 3 will once again be hosted by Julie Chen Moonves and feature a to-be-announced group of celebrities living together in the “Big Brother” house where they will be filmed 24/7 (which viewers can watch via the live feeds on Paramount Plus) and compete for a grand prize.No information is yet

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “Pat Becomes #1 in Daytime,” the sixth episode of “The Other Two” Season 2.Right out of the gate, the second season of “The Other Two” expanded the fame within the Dubek family to include matriarch Pat (Molly Shannon) in addition to youngest child Chase (Case Walker).

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVA singing competition where contestants don costumes of neon animals or creative creatures may seem quaint once viewers set their eyes on the technology-laden “Alter Ego.”“Alter Ego,” which premieres Sept. 22 at 9 p.m.