‘Swagger’ Turns Kevin Durant’s Life Story Into a Modern-Day Basketball Drama With Heart: TV Review

Licorice Pizza cinematographer Michael Bauman, editor Andy Jurgensen and production designer Florencia Martin said director Paul Thomas Anderson used 1970s processes to create the MGM/United Artists Releasing film. The trio spoke about the upcoming pic, about coming of age in the San Fernando Valley in that same era, during Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles award-season event Sunday at the DGA Theater.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“Did you ever, when you were a little kid, used to think that maybe you could do something in life that makes you happy?,” Jeremy Renner’s Mike McLusky asks a friend. Mike’s staring into the middle distance and holding a beer.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticSpoiler alert: This column contains light spoilers about the Nov.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe intimacy of psychiatry was made for drama. The most renowned TV series of the modern era was, at first, centered on its antihero’s talk-therapy sessions — exploring both what was troubling Tony Soprano and the ways in which his monstrousness, seen at close range, compelled and seduced the professional trying to help him.“The Shrink Next Door,” directed by Michael Showalter and Jesse Peretz and written by Georgia Pritchett, reverses the manipulation.

Saturday Night Live comedian was sharing a rollercoaster car at an amusement park near L.A. with Kim Kardashian, fame incarnate.

The latest Apple TV+ series, “Swagger,” is a reminder that quality television doesn’t always need a high concept or a clever hook. Character-driven drama will always have a place on the landscape when it’s done this well.

Another year, another over-the-top Halloween show! The team behind Live With Kelly and Ryan pulled off 40 different costumes for their Friday, October 29, show.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticJudy Sheindlin is back — and audiences may not have had time to miss her.In July of this year, “Judge Judy,” Sheindlin’s durable CBS-produced courtroom reality show, wrapped up. Over its 25-year run, the outspoken former family court jurist became a notably high-rated (and famously well-compensated) television personality.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticAmazon Prime’s new animated series has a zany, anything-could-happen sensibility. Which makes it a little disappointing that what usually does happen is a bleeding-edge cultural reference.To be clear, “Fairfax,” about a group of middle-school hypebeasts (which is to say, streetwear obsessives) coming of age in image-obsessed Los Angeles, is often very funny in how far it’s willing to push its media-saturated sensibility.

Richard Chambers has become a household name over the last year as he almost became the face of Virgin Media news and is now somewhat of an icon for his Twitter updates, but he also has a rather famous love in his life.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIn the original “The 4400,” characters who’d long been missing suddenly return from an unknown alternate dimension, all at once. As the title suggests, the group of returned individuals numbers some 4,400 strong.

Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas admitted that Rose Ayling-Ellis and Giovanni Pernice's Viennese Waltz to Fallin' by Alicia Keys reminded her of her past husbands.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe fifth and final season of “Insecure” begins with Issa (played by series co-creator Issa Rae) looking back: Her character chats with a college-era version of herself in the mirror, with young Issa wondering what the future will hold.It’s a clever way to recap how far the character has come since the show began. Her conversation with herself takes place during a visit to her alma mater, Stanford, to speak on a panel of accomplished young alums.

tweeted of the in-depth celebrity interview program. Morgan left ITV’s “Good Morning Britain” earlier this year after fallout from his on-air comments about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s interview with Oprah Winfrey.ITV boss Kevin Lygo said in April he was worried about how “Good Morning Britain” could replace Morgan, telling Deadline at the time, “Piers is a special thing.

Apple TV+ keeps launching big-budget dramas in the hope that one of them will take hold of viewers with the same strength as its Emmy-winning “Ted Lasso.” This year alone, there have been massive, star-studded productions like “The Mosquito Coast” and “Lisey’s Story,” and the general response from the populous has been a shrug.

EXCLUSIVE: FX is developing The Bobby Love Story, a one-hour drama starring and executive produced by Octavia Spencer, from writer Shalisha Francis-Feusner (Seven Seconds), Kerry Washington’s Simpson Street Productions and ABC Signature, where Spencer and her Orit Entertainment and Washington and Simpson Street are under deals.

Braveheart legend Mel Gibson will be touching down in Glasgow next month as he attends a world exclusive intimate Black Tie Dinner event.

Jason Sudeikis is returning to for his hosting debut! The celebrated comic actor will return to Studio 8H this coming weekend, eight years after leaving the show, and he's looking forward to being a part of the creative process once again.Sudeikis recently spoke with ET's Nischelle Turner, and reflected on his return, sharing, «I don’t know if working there for 10 years is going to be a plus or a minus.»Sudeikis began working at as a sketch writer in 2003, before getting cast as a performer in