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Forest Whitaker on ‘The Emperor of Ocean Park’ and How the TV Adaptation Avoids the Current Political Climate
When Yale law school professor Stephen L. Carter received a $4.2M advance from publisher Knopf for his 2002 novel The Emperor of Ocean Park, journalist David Gates scoffed at the large figure, writing in an article for Newsweek: “So why did anyone pay more than $4 million for this book? Well, there might be a […]
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Kerry Washington on Therapy Sessions With John Stamos and Digging Deep in ‘UnPrisoned’ Season 2
When the Kerry Washington and Delroy Lindo dramedy UnPrisoned debuted as Onyx Collective’s most-watched Hulu premiere in March 2023 and became the most-watched original scripted series of the year, a second seasoned seemed like a sure bet. Yet renewal news for the Tracy McMillan-created show of which Yvette Lee Bowser is executive producer and showrunner, […]
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Daniel Ezra Unpacks the ‘All American’ Season 6 Finale and Stepping Down as Series Lead
[This story contains spoilers from the two-episode season six finale of All American.] Two couples in the vortex, as the group of friends at the center of CW’s All American call themselves, have forever changed their relationship statuses from will-they-won’t-they romances to ‘til-death-do-us-part bonds in season six of the sports drama. After Jordan Baker (Michael […]
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Heather Dubrow and Tamra Judge Say ‘RHOC’ Feels Like the “Glory Days” After a Tumultuous Season 17
Being a reality TV housewife is big business. Not just for the Bravo network which, upon the premiere of season 18 of The Real Housewives of Orange County on Thursday, marks 100 seasons of The Real Housewives franchise over a span of 18 years and 11 cities. But also for the women who are chosen […]
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‘Land of Women’ Star Santiago Cabrera on Nearly Landing the Role of Aquaman and His Secret ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Part
In Land of Women, Chilean actor Santiago Cabrera stars as Amat, a Spanish resident in the fictional Catalonian town of La Muga and the sole male participant in the all-female wine cooperative on which the city’s economy relies. He also becomes an unexpected and much-needed aide to Eva Longoria’s Gala Scott, who, along with her […]
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‘UnPrisoned’ Creator on Her Dad and the Real Nadine Dying One Day Apart Before Show’s Launch
Comedy isn’t the first genre most would assign a show about a man getting out of federal prison and reuniting with his family after serving decades behind bars. But humor is the instinctive approach UnPrisoned creator and writer Tracy McMillan took for the Hulu series, which draws from her lived experience growing up in the […]
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Eva Longoria Has Been Stressed Watching Streaming TV. So She Pitched ‘Land of Women’
After spending the last decade directing other actors, Eva Longoria is back in front of the camera in the new Spanish-language dramedy Land of Women. The six-part Apple TV+ series is Spanish writer and producer Ramón Campos’ adaptation of Spanish journalist Sandra Barneda’s novel La Tierra de Las Mujeres. In it, Longoria stars as Gala […]
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Behind the Most “Badass” One-Take Scene in ‘Hacks’
Season three of Max’s Hacks begins with a suspended camera pan above the Las Vegas Strip that guides viewers inside Caesars Palace, where it follows a familiar figure through the casino for a gag of a reveal. Captured in one take, the shot, which the show’s director of photography Adam Bricker calls “kind of badass,” […]
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Jane Lynch on Walking the Line Between Biting Wit and Saying “Insulting Things”
Chatting with Jane Lynch about The Weakest Link, I set myself up for a dose of the biting humor that keeps audiences tuned in to the NBC game show week after week, when I ask an unfortunately cliché question. “Is there any celebrity guest you’re dying to have on the show?” I quiz. “Not dying […]
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Wayne Brady Brings Pansexuality to Reality TV, Along With His Blended Family
It’s Wayne Brady’s first Pride Month since announcing his pansexual identity in August, but not much feels different for the actor and Let’s Make a Deal host. “I think the only difference is my own visible stamp of myself saying, ‘This is who I am,’ and celebrating this month going forward and every other month […]
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Kendrick Lamar Brings 25 L.A. Artists Together for Juneteenth Show, Playing Drake Diss Track “Not Like Us” Five Times
Kendrick Lamar may have begun his set during Wednesday evening’s Ken & Friends – the Pop Out with a performance of “Euphoria”— one of multiple diss tracks the Compton lyricist has aimed at Drake amid their recent rap beef — but the focus of the Juneteenth event was to showcase unity among West Coast talent, […]
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Bill Pullman Reveals He Almost Passed on ‘Murdaugh Murders’
You can’t blame Bill Pullman for feeling hesitant about taking on the lead role in Lifetime’s two-part limited series Murdaugh Murders: The Movie. It’s not that the SAG-nominated actor was worried about going dark — he’d done so not long ago, and brilliantly, in USA’s The Sinner — he simply just wasn’t aware of the […]
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