For the first time in its history, Netflix has canceled an original series after just one season. The victim: Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down, the ambitious, troubled series about 1970s hip-hop that ultimately proved too costly for even the deep-pocketed Netflix to continue producing.
Sorry, Jon Stewart fans—you’ll have to wait a little longer for the comedian’s return to television. HBO has scrapped Stewart’s much-anticipated follow-up to The Daily Show, the network confirmed. The New York Times first reported the news last night.
Roger Moore, the longest-serving James Bond ever, died today, his family announced. He was 89.
The internet just willed a film into existence.
To many of its conservative fans, the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing has been a rare find, an outlier in what they would argue is a sea of Hollywood liberal elitism. Both its star, the comedian Tim Allen, and the character he plays are outspoken about their right-of-center values. So when the network canceled the show after six seasons, it was easy to chalk up the decision to politics, as many conservative outlets did.
Based on early reviews, Wonder Woman will not only save the world, she might also save the floundering DC comic book universe.
Two days ago, American newspaper front pages and TV news shows were devoted to the explosive New York Times report that US president Donald Trump had sought to shut down an FBI investigation into his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn. Except for one—Fox News, the preferred cable news network for much of the country, which ignored the report and instead peddled grotesque conspiracy theories about a slain Democratic party staffer.
A man in Texas is suing a woman for allegedly texting nonstop during their movie theater date, the Austin-American Statesman reported. The man claims that his date texted “at least 10-20 times” over a 15-minute span as they watched Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. His petition argues that her texting was a violation of the theater’s policy and “adversely effected” his viewing experience of the Marvel superhero film.
Johnny Depp has made a living out of playing bizarre fictional characters: Edward Scissorhands, Captain Jack Sparrow, the Mad Hatter. What separates his next enigmatic role from all the others, however, is that it’s completely real.
Netflix announced this week that it has renewed the controversial teen suicide drama 13 Reasons Why for a second season. Given that Netflix renews most of its shows, and this one is particularly popular on social media, the news should surprise exactly no one.
In a small, opulent city on the French Riviera, the fight for the future of cinema is playing out before our eyes.
Reality television, a staple of the American entertainment diet for two decades, is indisputably in decline. But it’s not dead—far from it. And it may turn out to be indestructible.
Someday we will tell our grandchildren that we were alive during April and May of 2017, when American TV was at its greatest and most plentiful.
The last time Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Samantha Bee, Ed Helms, and Rob Corddry all worked together, George W. Bush was president of the United States, and Donald Trump was forcing his The Apprentice contestants to sell Domino’s pizza on the streets of New York City.
A decade of reworked budgets, rewritten scripts, and studio swaps has at last borne fruit: The Dark Tower film is here.
With the US in the throes of another contentious debate over healthcare, comedian Jimmy Kimmel used his late-night TV stage to put a very personal spin on an issue that is a matter of life and death for millions of Americans.
There are two places in the world where you can hear the Wu-Tang Clan, 1970s Christian folk music, and the theme song to Perfect Strangers all in the span of one hour. The first is an especially weird edition of Spotify Discovery Weekly. The other is on The Leftovers, the critically acclaimed HBO series that features the boldest and most diverse musical stylings on television.
The impending Hollywood writers’ strike will have far-reaching consequences across the entertainment industry, but none as immediate or as politically significant as the likely halt of US late-night TV production. Enjoy your Colbert, Bee, Oliver, and Conan now, because they may soon go off the air for awhile.
Disney released the first trailer for Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi today, and it looks stunning.
In 1967, on a hot summer night in Detroit, Michigan, three young black men were murdered in a motel by white police officers. Two days earlier, police had raided an unlicensed speakeasy a mile away and arrested its 82 black patrons, triggering one of the bloodiest civil disturbances in American history.
Marvel has found a formula for success, and it’s not going to stray from it. The Disney-owned comic book studio released the first trailer for its upcoming Thor sequel yesterday, and it looks like an amusing, visually resplendent jaunt around alien worlds—you know, exactly like Guardians of the Galaxy.
The Leftovers showrunner Damon Lindelof had a message for TV critics who were given advance copies of the HBO show’s final episodes: Try not to binge it.
If you were to list today’s biggest acts in music—the ones who regularly tour the globe and attract scores of rabid fans eager to pay a small fortune to see them perform live—you’d likely come up with the usual suspects: Beyoncé; Bruce Springsteen; Taylor Swift; Lady Gaga; Justin Bieber; Adele. You might even mention some rock legends who dust off their old guitars every now and then to perform for packed stadiums: The Rolling Stones; ACDC; Metallica; the remaining Beatles.
Alec Baldwin is hinting that he’s about done with his amusing impression of US president Donald Trump. But there’s someone else ready to assume the mantle: Anthony Atamanuik, an improv actor and arguably the world’s preeminent Trump impersonator, who will host a new show on Comedy Central, the network announced yesterday. Produced by veterans of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, the new series aims to be the definitive satire of Trump, even as the absurdity of his administration increasingly parodies itself.
