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Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIn its second season, one of the sharpest comedies on television has found a new note: Soulfulness.At least that’s among the takeaways from the fourth episode of the new season of “The Other Two,” currently streaming on HBO Max. The series, in its first airing in 2019 on Comedy Central, endlessly roasted its central duo, the siblings of a pop star who craved some of his shine for themselves, too.
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Michael Appler The Delacorte Theater, Central Park’s open air amphitheater home to New York City’s Shakespeare in the Park, contains nearly 2,000 seats. Each summer, those seats hold New Yorkers who’ve come to commune with the Public Theater’s free summer ritual—an exercise, the theater’s late founder Joe Papp would argue, in public art as democracy. “Over the past year and a half, all of us have liked to say, ‘the Delacorte isn’t empty.
Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticFox has lately made its name, and its success, on televised music competitions — everything from “The Masked Singer” and “Dancer” franchises to a revived “Name That Tune” to the amiably strange “I Can See Your Voice.” And so it makes a certain kind of sense that this fall, it launches a new scripted series about … the inner workings of a reality-TV contest.On “The Big Leap,” various Detroit residents are wooed by a series of the same name, one that aims to find
As cultural activities have begun drawing crowds again after the Covid-19 abyss of 2020, masks and other protocols have been a work in progress — especially when red carpets are involved.
On Thursday, HBO set a Season 2 premiere date for How to With John Wilson, announcing that it will return on Friday, November 26.
Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe first iteration of ABC’s “The Wonder Years,” which kicked off in 1988, featured a young Fred Savage as a kid growing up about twenty years in the past.If the revival of the format, now executive-produced by Savage along with Lee Daniels, Saladin Patterson, and Marc Velez, kept that gap, we’d be following a story that took place at the turn of the century, roughly the same territory occupied by Hulu’s “Pen15.” Instead, though, the show keeps its gaze fixed on
The New York Comedy Festival is paying tribute to beloved comedian Norm Macdonald following his passing today at age 61 after a nine-month private battle with cancer. Macdonald had appeared at the festival numerous times over the years and he was scheduled to perform for the fest’s in-person return in November. He was set for seven shows at Carolines on Broadway from Nov. 11-14.
Travis Fimmel, Brady Noon and Frances Fisher have been added to the cast of Rust, the feature Western that stars Alec Baldwin and is written and directed by Joel Souza (Crown Vic). The pic, originally set up in May 2020, now moves forward with a planned October start of principal photography in New Mexico.
Nia Dennis knows how to make an entrance!
Bob’s Burgers movie has a new release date locked in.20th Century Studios announced today (September 11) that The Bob’s Burgers Movie will hit US cinemas on May 27, 2022. A teaser poster was also shared, serving up our first look at the film’s logo.
EXCLUSIVE: USG Audio, the podcast division of Universal Studio Group, is ramping up its slate with two new series.
France, a 12th century poet who lived in England but is known for the romances and fables she wrote in French. From a handful of facts, Lauren Groff has written a richly imaginative account of her life that casts her as a mystic, warrior and proto-feminist separatist.The story begins with a cinematic flourish: A teenage Marie “rides out of the forest alone” to oversee an impoverished abbey in England.
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has taken the latest step in its highly publicized restructure, saying Tuesday that it has elected a newly expanded board of directors that will eventually select a president and CEO of the embattled organization.
EXCLUSIVE: Good Grief will make its way to IFC and Sundance Now, which have acquired North America and U.K. rights to the New Zealand comedy, from sisters Eve and Grace Palmer. IFC and Sundance Now have also teamed with Kiel McNaughton and Kerry Warkia’s Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions Ltd.’s to co-commission a second season.
Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“American Rust” is set on the opposite end of Pennsylvania from Easttown, where Mare solved crimes earlier this year. On that great HBO series, the town seemed to pulse with life and emotion — look past the chewy accents and Wawa sandwiches, and a sense of Easttown emerged through the slump of characters’ shoulders, the way they engaged with one another.
“To those New Yorkers who have yet to meet me, I say this – you may not know me. But I know you,” the State of New York’s first female Governor Kathy Hochul said in her debut public address after being officially sworn in early Tuesday.
Peabody and Emmy Award-winning documentary series Vice will premiere Return of the Taliban: A Vice Special Report on Sept. 10 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, a one-hour Showtime special following the current Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.
Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticAnyone who reads her work knows that Cindy Adams can’t be still.In normal times, the columnist — now 91 and still publishing multiple times a week — goes out to do reporting for her column in the New York Post. The column is a strange mélange of quotes from celebrities, conservative political analysis, invective against foes real and perceived, anecdotes about the peculiarity of life in Manhattan, and aphorisms and puns.