Television

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The latest singing competition show has hit the airwaves and it’s either going to bring the whole country together — or keep it ever divided. American Song Contest debuted this week on NBC and the show pits one contestant from each of the 50 states, five U.S. territories and the nation’s capital against each other to win the country’s vote for the best hit song. If the concept...

Lizzo is returning to Saturday Night Live for her first appearance since her performance as the musical guest in 2019. This time around, the rapper and singer will serve as both host and musical guest on the April 16 show. Also making a hosting debut is comedian Jerrod Carmichael, who will lead the first episode of the month with Gunna debuting as his accompanying musical guest on April 2. The following week, Camila Cabello will perform with Jake Gyllenhaal returning to host the show for the first time in 15...

Amanda Bynes is on track to exit her court-ordered conservatorship at a major hearing Tuesday. It marks an expected end to the arrangement that has managed her life since 2013 and drawn parallels to the recently terminated conservatorship of fellow former child star Britney Spears. In a tentative order issued Monday, the Ventura County judge overseeing Bynes’ case found that the Easy A actor, 35, provided sufficient “facts” in a Feb. 22 filing to convince the court her “conservatorship is no longer needed.” The facts included her submission of a...

A review of this week’s Winning Time, “The Good Life,” coming up just as soon as we attend the premiere of The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh… Midway through “The Good Life,” Magic Johnson joins the rest of the Lakers for the world premiere of The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, a 1979 basketball comedy which features several of his new teammates in small roles. Before we can talk more about this episode, we must first discuss a few things about one of the most infamous sports movies ever made: 1) The...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. A popular Adele special that went viral last year for reuniting the singer with her high school English teacher is finally available to watch here in the U.S. An Audience with Adele was filmed at the prestigious London Palladium in the U.K. and originally aired on the British broadcaster ITV last November. Now, the concert special is being broadcast stateside on NBC. Read on for everything you need...

On March 29, 2018, FX premiered an episode of Atlanta called “Barbershop,” in which rising rap star Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles (Brian Tyree Henry) goes through a series of ridiculous ordeals on behalf of his talkative con man of a barber. Seven nights later, Atlanta gave us “Teddy Perkins,” a chilling haunted-house story in which Paper Boi’s weed-dealing sidekick Darius (LaKeith Stanfield) meets the title character, a ghoul who functions as a fictional stand-in for Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, and other Black musical stars whose great art was inspired by...

Bill Maher slammed the GOP, the ACLU, MTV, Tucker Carlson and Playboy magazine in a Real Time segment Friday that took aim at how companies change their brand but keep their name. Maher opened his nine-minute “New Rule: Stand By Your Brand” by decrying how TLC, a.k.a. The Learning Channel, and A&E, short for Arts & Entertainment, have long deviated from their original mission statement. After noting how the former lived up to its Learning Channel name, Maher listed some of TLC’s current programming: “Cake Boss, Gypsy Sisters, Toddlers &...

Alexander Burchardt doesn’t look anything like Michael Hutchence. Yes, he’s handsome like the INXS singer, and has a similarly defined jawline, but the resemblance stops there. But through happenstance and Hollywood magic, the 29-year-old web developer from Copenhagen recently became an unlikely stand-in for Hutchence in the second season for HBO’s wildly popular show Euphoria. Like many other teenagers and twentysomethings, Burchardt had been binging the viral teen drama. He was a few episodes into the recently concluded Season Two when he saw one of the show’s most tragically romantic...

In one of the wildest cases of life imitating art, seven people in France have been charged with robbing the set of the Netflix heist series, Lupin, the French news agency AFP reports. The robbery took place Feb. 25 while Lupin was filming in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Some suspects were detained on March 9, but prosecutors didn’t file charges until today, March 18. The seven suspects, who are aged between 13 and 21, are accused of carrying out an armed robbery as part of an organized gang, as well...

In HBO Max’s new comedy series Minx, Ophelia Lovibond plays Joyce, an idealistic young writer who has spent most of her life dreaming of launching a magazine dedicated to trumpeting her feminist ideals. She pitches this idea to members of the magazine publishing elite but her invitation for them to “be on the right side of history” — the show takes place in 1971 — is not well-received. One of them looks at the woman on Joyce’s mocked-up cover and asks, “Why is she so angry?” Joyce does manage to...

Mike Myers returns — in eight different roles — in The Pentaverate, an upcoming Netflix comedy series about a secret society. According to the new teaser, the series takes place over 1,000 years in the future after a plague wipes out the population; the titular group works behind the scenes to orchestrate world events.  After spending the past decade and a half sporadically appearing in supporting parts and hosting game shows, The Pentaverate marks Myers’ first time in a starring role — and in many roles — since his disastrous...

Superhero-obsessed Kamala Khan winds up with some superpowers of her own in the new trailer for Ms. Marvel, the next Marvel Studios series arriving on Disney+ on June 8. The trailer for the new series offers a glimpse at Kamala’s Ms. Marvel origin story, as the Muslim American teen from Jersey City tries to navigate the general minefield that is high school, on top of juggling family commitments with her love of video games, fan-fiction, and superhero obsession, Captain Marvel. It’s a balancing act that grows even more complicated once...

Yalitza Aparicio is heading to the small screen thanks to the first all-Spanish-language series on Apple TV+. The Mexican actress, who starred as the beloved Cleo in Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, takes a lead role in Familia de Medianoche. The series is based on the documentary Midnight Family, according to Variety. The cast includes Joaquin Cosío (Narcos: México, Gentefied), Óscar Jaenada (Luis Miguel: The Series), and Renata Vaca (Dale Gas). The drama series will follow Marigaby (Vaca) who’s studying medicine during the day but helps her family’s private ambulance business by night. Alongside her...

This week’s Please Don’t Destroy sketch reunited host Zoë Kravitz with one of her co-stars from The Batman: Paul Dano. The sketch kicks off with Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy planning to give Kravitz, who plays Catwoman in the film, a kitten. But as she enters, the feline disappears and sends the group on a wild cat chase throughout the room. After destroying everything in sight, they finally find the cat in a drawer. But it disappears again shortly thereafter. There’s a brief panic when the group hears a...