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Fans of the new Netflix rom-com “The Half of It” are hoping the film actually is only half of the story.

Film star Natalie Wood has been dead nearly 40 years, but her ghost still casts a long shadow — and it’s going to walk the earth again as her eldest daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner, simultaneously releases a new memoir and a new documentary.

“Mary Poppins” wouldn’t have been the same without the iconic umbrella used by Mary (Julie Andrews) in the 1964 movie.

Former Univision star Maria Elena Salinas makes her “48 Hours” reporting debut Saturday (10 p.m. on CBS) detailing the 2018 murder of Binghamton University student Haley Anderson — and the ultimate conviction of her killer.

Santiago Vega (Daniel Zovatto) is the pride of his family. As “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels” opens, he is receiving his detective’s badge from the Los Angeles Police Department. Vega’s promotion is a blessing and a curse. He is charged with defending the law, but that often putting Vega at odds with his brothers Raul (Adam Rodriguez) and Mateo (Johnathan Nieves).

Thursday night’s “Superstore” season finale left viewers with a half-cliffhanger after series star America Ferrera announced on Instagram that she was leaving the NBC sitcom — just after it was renewed for a sixth season in February.

His name is Seinfeld. Jerry Seinfeld.

Andy Richter, one of TV’s most familiar faces, has taken his act online — hosting the “Anidom Beyond Show,” which dives deeply into Fox’s Sunday-night animation lineup.

Few actors on TV this year have set themselves the task that Natalie Dormer gave herself when she agreed to appear on Showtime’s “Penny Dreadful.”

Newcomer Maitreyi Ramakrishnan was plucked from an audition pool of 15,000 hopeful actresses to star in Mindy Kaling’s Netflix show, “Never Have I Ever.”

The cast of “9-1-1” is routinely asked to rappel off cliffs, perform underwater rescues and negotiate buckled streets after an earthquake. So being lowered into a hole on a harness should be a comparative piece of cake, right?

Hollywood’s unprecedented shutdown due to the coronavirus has pressured the networks to deliver product in makeshift locations.

The goofy, centuries-old vampires of “What We Do in the Shadows” are back for Season 2, still living together in a baroque house on Staten Island with energy-draining “daywalker” Colin Ferguson (Mark Proksch) and Guillermo (Harvey Guillen) — the good-natured sweater-clad human “familiar” to Nandor (Kayvon Novak), his belittling vampire boss.

The Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution was on its way to ratification — until Phyllis Schlafly went on the attack.

Season 3 of “Fauda” finds Israeli Defense Force member Doron Kavillio (series star Lior Raz) working undercover in the Gaza Strip, as the Netflix series continues its dramatization of the ongoing (and deadly) Arab-Israeli conflict.

“Killing Eve” kicked off its third season Sunday by doing something a popular American series of the same genre would never think of doing — disposing of a main character.

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Move over, Chip and Joanna Gaines — here come the “Flipped” team of Cricket and Jann Melfi.

Life imitated art for “Paradise Lost” star Bridget Regan when she filmed the new Spectrum drama.

The glittering chandeliers in the ballrooms of London’s one-percenters are given a good throttle by sordid and tragic revelations in the new Julian Fellowes’ melodrama “Belgravia.”

Emily Hampshire, aka “Schitt’s Creek” motel owner Stevie Budd, is convinced Tuesday night’s series finale will please its legion of fans.

After late-night and daytime talk shows one by one returned to television with remotely produced episodes amid the coronavirus outbreak, we have the first primetime scripted series to embark on virtual production to make a fresh episode reflecting the current realities while complying with the rules of social distancing.

Splats off to the chef!

After treading the boards in live theater and the concert stage for 45 years, Christine Ebersole was ready for a change of address.

Waka Flocka and Tammy Rivera are back to share their love on We TV’s “Waka & Tammy — What The Flocka.”

It was no easy task creating the creepy half-organic/half-mechanized aliens in “War of the Worlds,” which wraps its first season  Sunday at 9 p.m. on Epix.

The new HBO comedy “Run” is one of those high concept, “What if?” shows that doesn’t quite hang together.

Apple’s new series “Home Before Dark” is a crime drama with child reporters.

Amber Midthunder didn’t have to go far from home to film her role in “Roswell, New Mexico.”

“You know that I came here to kill you.”

The single mom struggling to make ends meet is a well-worn TV series premise. In “Broke,” a new comedy on CBS, the cliché is given a timely twist.

“Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” returned Wednesday night with a new studio — Bee’s woodsy suburban backyard.

Five weeks ahead of its intended launch, Nicole Kidman‘s HBO limited series “The Undoing” has been pulled off of the pay cabler’s spring schedule due to the coronavirus pandemic.

NBC has yanked its April 7 episode of hospital drama “New Amsterdam,” about a flu epidemic in New York City, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that’s strafing the city.

Nolan Gould was 10 years old when he was introduced to America as sweet-but-clueless kid brother Luke Dunphy on ABC’s “Modern Family.”

The history of television can be written by its copycats.