Idris Elba‘s new Netflix comedy Turn Up Charlie seems less a TV show than a checklist of things Elba wanted to do on camera. In the series (it debuts March 15th; I watched six of the eight episodes), which Elba co-created with Gary Reich, he plays Charlie, a Nineties one-hit …
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A review of this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, “The Golden Child,” coming up just as soon as I give myself a Dickensian backstory… During that dark and strange two-day period last spring after Fox had canceled Nine-Nine, but before NBC rescued it, the show’s celebrity fans came out in force, none …
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The armies of Westeros and Esteros prepare for one last fight in the chilling new trailer for the final season of Game of Thrones. Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) sets the tone for the trailer, which opens with footage of her running through a castle while she says in a voice …
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Luke Perry‘s first appearance on Beverly Hills, 90210 as West Beverly bad boy Dylan McKay aired on Perry’s 24th birthday. That was relatively young compared to some of his co-stars (Gabrielle Carteris turned 30 midway through that first season), but Perry had a lived-in face and physicality. And as the …
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Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer resume their surreal cat-and-mouse chase in the thrilling new trailer for Season Two of Killing Eve. The show returns to BBC America April 7th. The clip picks up just moments after the show’s Season One finale with — spoilers ahead — Oh’s MI5 security operative, …
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Woody Allen has filed a lawsuit against Amazon, claiming the internet giant’s film and TV Studio wrongfully terminated his contract over allegations that he sexually abused his adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow, when she was seven years old, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Allen filed the breach of contract lawsuit in …
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At first, Pen15 plays like a sketch comedy idea ill-advisedly stretched out to sitcom length. Co-created (along with Sam Zvibleman) by stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle — you might vaguely recognize them from… that thing, or… that other thing — the new Hulu comedy features the31-year-old actresses playing themselves …
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Big Mouth previews a surreal Valentine’s Day for the show’s permanently aroused tweens in a trailer announcing the “My Furry Valentine” special, which hits Netflix on February 8th. The wacky clip includes make-out sessions, romantic meals, dance sequences, Coach Steve showing off his “girlfriend Reese’s Wertherspoons” (a hodgepodge of candy …
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Before he learned to tell stories of his own, Jordan Peele was a scared little kid, cringing from monsters in closets and other products of an imagination that would one day reshape Hollywood. As theUs and Get Out director explains in our new cover story, a key moment in his …
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“The universe is trying to fuck with me, and I refuse to engage,” announces Nadia, played by Natasha Lyonne, early in Netflix’s new comedy Russian Doll. Co-created by Lyonne (along with Amy Poehler and Sleeping With Other People director Leslye Headland), the series centers on Nadia, a video game designer …
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