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Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer SPOILER ALERT:This story includes major plot developments on the first episode of “Elsbeth,” airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. On “Elsbeth,” Carrie Preston reprises her Emmy winning role as the eccentrically shrewd attorney Elsbeth Tascioni, a fan favorite character from the CBS drama “The Good Wife” and its Paramount+ spin-off “The Good Fight.” On those shows, Elsbeth’s scatterbrained behavior disarmed her courtroom adversaries — and, just as often, her own clients — only for her to upend everyone’s expectations with some ingenious legal sleight of hand.

Elsbeth” star Carrie Preston welcomes comparisons to “Columbo” — which helped inspire series creators Robert and Michelle King to transplant Elsbeth Tascioni from Chicago to New York City.“Robert and Michelle King told me that during the pandemic that they started watching ‘Columbo’ reruns and just loved them and found it comforting,” Preston, 56, told The Post about the ’70s-era series starring Peter Falk as rumpled, trenchcoat-wearing Lt. Columbo, whose scattered appearance belied a brilliant deductive mind.“They thought, ‘Hey, that could be how we could create a new show for Elsbeth Tascioni,'” Preston said.

Ed Mintz, the founder of the motion picture industry’s tried-and-true audience polling service CinemaScore, died February 6. He was 83.

In a year that was defined by as much drama off-screen with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes as there was on-screen, 2023 saw the era of Peak TV come to a bruised end, but not without getting a few last solid punches in.

In 1979 Peter Falk and the late great Alan Arkin made the perfect odd couple in the classic action comedy, The In-Laws. It even spawned a not-bad remake with Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks in 2003. The difference between those films, and a bit of an attempt to do something similar in the cleverly-titled The Out-Laws, which starts streaming on Netflix today, is that those movies were genuinely funny, particularly the Arkin-Falk teaming, but this one, also a kind of Meet The Parents on steroids, relies far too heavily on non-stop and incessant action scenes to carry us through its 95 minute running time.

reports said. Ten years later, he appeared in “Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World’s End,” playing the pirate lord Eduardo Villanueva.

A third Wings of Desire centering on the angels that watch over us, is not in the cards, German director Wim Wenders said today at the Cannes press conference for his latest in competition title at the fest, Perfect Days.

Peacock’s hit Poker Face has been a hit for creator Rian Johnson, who envisioned recreating the magic of 70s and 80s case-of-the-week classics like Rockford Files and Columbo—and it worked.

“She met the discovery of character and story with equal protectiveness, irreverence, humility and grace. She taught us the practice of investigating healing through acting,” added Dern. “But more than that.

Poker Face, Rian Johnson’s drama series starring Natasha Lyonne as a human bullsh*t detector, wasn’t conceived as a limited series and the Knives Out filmmaker said there are “endless possibilities” to continue in success.

who died Tuesday at age 96 — leaves an indelible small-screen legacy as Jessica Fletcher, TV’s forever favorite sleuth on “Murder, She Wrote.”The top-rated series, which ran for an astounding 12 seasons and 264 episodes on CBS (1984-96), and spawned four made-for-TV movies, brought Lansbury and her whimsical world of Cabot Cove into America’s living rooms. Each week, millions of viewers settled in to watch Jessica, a widowed mystery writer and amateur detective, solve a murder in her small town on the coast of Maine, aided by folksy Sheriff Amos Tupper (Tom Bosley) and town doctor Seth Hazlitt (William Windom).

Bill Robinson, a talent agent and manager who represented stars like Carol Burnett, Robert Duvall, Maggie Smith, and Audrey Hepburn, has died. He was 92.

Carson Burton Bill Robinson, a veteran talent agent who represented the likes of Robert Duvall, Alan Arkin and Carol Burnett, died on Aug. 6 in Malibu after a long illness, his family announced. He was 93 years old.“I knew Bill for many, many years…since 1959,” Burnett said.

wear a T-shirt with her name on it just to make them aware,” she recalled.Huppert has nearly 150 credits to her name. Some of her most celebrated work includes “The Piano Teacher,” “The Lacemaker,” “Violette Nozière,” “La Séparation,” “8 Women” and “Elle,” for which she received an Academy Award nomination.“I think it’s really interesting sometimes to be like Isabelle Huppert, who just says, ‘I go to zero,'” Reijn continued. “Instead of thinking, ‘Who am I? Where am I going?’ just react.

It’s the end of Season 47 of Saturday Night Live, which also means its time for the final promo of the half-year.

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the Slow Horses season finale. 

Scarborough, 53, told The Post.“I watched a lot of ‘Columbo’ as a child and always loved the quirkiness of Peter Falk. I thought he was brilliant,” he said.

Peter Falk died ten years ago today, and he remains as adored as ever. During the darkest days of the pandemic, it seemed like everyone was finding comfort in rewatches of “Columbo”; in a terrifying world, it was reassuring to know that however tricky the case Falk’s disheveled detective was facing, he was sure to solve it by the time the end credits rolled.

Dena Dietrich, the veteran actress who gained pop-culture renown for her turn as a hoodwinked Mother Nature in a decade-long series of margarine commercials, has died. She was 91.

Carl Reiner may be gone, but the late Hollywood actor gave one special last performance before his death. The 98-year-old actor and his son, Rob Reiner, recorded the closing scene in the homemade, fan-created version of for Quibi.Carl stars as the storytelling grandfather, played by Peter Falk in the 1987 original.

. Created at home amid quarantine and using their household items, the Quibi project sees Sophie Turner,Joe Jonas,Diego Luna, Jennifer Garner, Common and many more celebs filming their own scene to recreate a portion of the 1987 film.In the first look, shared by on Friday, Josh Gad plays Fred Savage's original character with Rob Reiner as the grandfather telling the story, originally played by Peter Falk.