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Hulu).It’s not — at least in the first half of this 10-episode season, already ruined for me by a Deadline interview with series star Jeremy Allen White in which he describes his “Season 2 finale breakdown.” Cool, thanks so much for spoiling everything — something we try very hard not to do here unless absolutely necessary.This was not necessary. Delayed viewing, anyone?From what I’ve seen so far, Season 2 of “The Bear” is just meh — and is meandering through a sophomore slump, perhaps vis-á-vis the pressure to outdo its stellar inaugural season.

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.

who passed away Oct. 11, 2022.Lansbury garnered 12 consecutive Emmy nominations for her starring role in “Murder, She Wrote” as sleuthing mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, who solved murders in the seaside community of Cabot Cove, Maine, and never let her late-in-life fame as a best-selling novelist go to her head.

Hulu in its streaming debut, 34 years after its final fadeout.“We tried to get the show on Disney+ when it was first announced and when the Hulu situation developed we explored that,” series creator Glenn Gordon Caron told The Post. “About a year ago my agent reached out to Hulu and that really got the ball rolling.

Arnold, 64, guest-stars in Wednesday night’s episode of “True Lies” (10 p.m. on CBS) as Arnie, an ex-Omega operative living off-the-grid who, along with his onetime Omega flame, Sharon (Kate Vernon), is being targeted for murder years later by a former colleague.Arnie and Sharon, who’s living a quiet suburban life, are still bitter over their long-ago breakup; they (comically) bicker back and forth in front of Harry and Helen (series stars Steve Howey and Ginger Gonzaga), the husband-and-wife Omega agents trying to save their lives.The series, which premiered March 1, is based on the hit 1994 tongue-in-cheek spy movie “True Lies” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis as Harry and Helen and Arnold as Albert “Gib” Gibson, Harry’s teammate and Omega partner.

Mireille Enos), the vice principal at Railton East High School. Hank and Lily are settled into a comfortable, loving marriage not without its own challenges: she, too, is dealing with work issues and is tempted by the prospect of a prestigious job in New York City but needs to persuade Hank to leave his hometown (and mother) behind — a nearly impossible task.

So Help Me Todd” stars Marcia Gay Harden and Sklyar Astin — by turns funny, offbeat and all-too-human — has driven the CBS dramedy to a breakout inaugural season … and an early Season 2 renewal.The series returns March 2 (9 p.m.) with new episodes after a two-week hiatus. It centers on the mother-and-son dynamic between high-powered attorney Margaret Wright (Harden) and her ingratiating son, Todd (Astin), a talented, quirky, somewhat reckless private investigator who, after losing his license, is hired by his mom to snoop around for information that will help her clients.

Hello, Tomorrow,” where everything isn’t as it seems.The new Apple TV+ series, starring Billy Crudup as a fast-talking salesman with secrets, unfolds in a weird, hybrid world mixing 1950s attitudes, clothing and lifestyles with a quasi-steampunk futuristic flavor. It’s a world in which sandwiches cost 40 cents, people tool around in tail-finned, flying cars; robots do everything from walking the dog to delivering mail to crooning at swank soriees; and there are black-and-white video telephone calls and holograms programmed with punch cards.

Milo Ventimiglia for smoothly switching gears from angst-ridden Jack Pearson to con artist Charlie Nicoletti in his new ABC romantic dramedy “The Company You Keep.”The series, premiering Feb. 19 at 10 p.m., frees Ventimiglia to unbuckle Jack’s suffocating, overwrought “This Is Us” straitjacket and breathe — and he exhales with an easygoing, charming performance (sans the bad Jack Pearson mustache) in a series pulsating with a “Moonlighting”-type vibe, albeit with a radically different plotline.Here’s the setup: Charlie Nicoletti and his family — mom Fran (Polly Draper), dad Leo (William Fichtner) and big sister Birdie (Sarah Wayne Callies) — own a bar in Baltimore and lead double-lives as criminals pulling off high-end heists (one of which landed Charlie in the slammer).

Marcia Gay Harden said her Tony-winning role as Veronica in “God of Carnage” helped shape the character she plays in the new CBS dramedy “So Help Me Todd.”“‘So Help Me Todd’ is blending the drama with the comedy, and that’s right up my alley,” Harden, 63, told The Post. “It’s truly what I prefer to do.

You likely won’t recognize the stars of “Wakefield” — but, trust me, you won’t be able to get a certain early ’80s pop song out of your head after watching this psychological dramedy, which arrives Monday (Oct. 18) on Showtime.That song, or “earworm,” as it’s referred to by one of the show’s characters, is an ongoing theme throughout the eight-episode series, which was produced and shot in Australia, where it aired earlier this year on ABC TV.

FX comedy “Breeders,” which will return next year for a third season, created “Back to Life” and co-writes each episode with Laura Solon (they met when Haggard starred in the BBC Three sketch-comedy series “Man Stroke Woman”). She said the original idea for the series was generated by a combination of factors.“It’s quite a big mixture,” she said.

Acorn TV with series star Lucy Lawless.It’s been two years since we last left bread-baking private investigator Alexa Crowe (Lawless) and her cybersleuthing sidekick Madison Feliciano (Ebony Vagulans).

“Us” is about a couple’s last-ditch attempt to save what’s left of their crumbling marriage during a three-week sojourn through Europe with their mopey 17-year-old son.But there’s much more to the new four-hour “Masterpiece” miniseries, airing June 20 and 27 on PBS (9 p.m.

“Why Women Kill” returns Thursday (June 3) for Season 2 on a rebranded network — but with the same campy tone courtesy of series creator Marc Cherry.Season 1 of the anthology, which streamed on CBS All Access (now Paramount+) with stars Lucy Liu, Ginnifer Goodwin and Kirby Howell-Baptiste, followed three women in different time periods (the ’60s, ’80s and 2019) sharing one thing in common: adulterous husbands.This time around, “Why Women Kill” sticks to one year, 1949, in tracking the parallel

The situation between Paul and Luke seems like a culmination of seeds that were planted in Season 1.It wasn’t necessarily the arc from the get-go. I think once we’d seen how Paul parented, particularly with Luke…we thought we would age the kids up six years and then it became inevitable that [Paul’s] parenting a teenage boy would not work out — particularly with a boy like Luke, who’s troubled and anxious.

Canada has a good run of late with homegrown series including “Schitt’s Creek” and “Transplant” finding success in the US.You can add “Jann” to that list. Both seasons of the comedy series, which premiered on Canada’s CTV in 2019, are now available on Hulu and are (very loosely) based on the harried life of acclaimed singer/songwriter Jann Arden, who co-created the series and plays herself.

Apple TV+, I’m happy to report that stars Esther Smith and Rafe Spall make a winning team in this 10-episode British dramedy, which has been renewed for a second season.Smith and Spall play couple Nikki and Jason who, after struggling to conceive a child, decide to go the adoption route.

thinks she knows — about her neighbors’ secrets and peccadilloes.That all comes to bear when Maggie is asked to do a regional radio interview. She’s tickled at the prospect, telling anyone who will listen (with fake humility) about her “15 minutes of fame,” yet reveling in being considered someone with gravitas.

In My Skin” takes a sensitive approach to the subject — and pulls it off with aplomb.The five-episode BBC series, premiering Thursday on Hulu, follows 16-year-old Bethan (Gabrielle Creevy), a Welsh high-schooler who’s best friends with Travis (James Wilbraham) and the outrageous, game-for-anything Lydia (Poppy Lee Friar).