Television

Products featured are independently selected by our editorial team and we may earn a commission from purchases made from our links; the retailer may also receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. The first two months of 2021 have brought no shortage of compelling, even great, movies and TV series but in March we’re getting some full-on events. A big, new animated Disney movie! Eddie Murphy returns to one of his most famous roles! Godzilla fights King Kong! Zack Snyder fights the limitations of a theatrical running time! It’s madness...

After years of rumor and speculation, word finally came down yesterday that Frasier is returning after a 17-year absence. The new show will air on the Paramount+ streaming service, which will also be home to nostalgic reboots of The Real World, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Beavis and Butt-head. “Having spent over 20 years of my creative life on the Paramount lot, both producing shows and performing in several, I’d like to congratulate Paramount+ on its entry into the streaming world,” Frasier star Kelsey Grammer said in a statement. “I gleefully anticipate...

Tina Filled with never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, and audiotapes, the new HBO documentary tells the story of the legendary Tina Turner. In the film’s first trailer, the singer tells the story of her mother. “I thought she was so pretty March,” she says. Turner recalls how she used to love to watch her mother cook, until one day — she ran off and never came back. Over a moving rendition of “Proud Mary,” Turner says:  “I wanted her to come for me, and I waited. She never did. And...

Products featured are independently selected by our editorial team and we may earn a commission from purchases made from our links; the retailer may also receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. The 2021 Golden Globe Awards are upon us, serving as the unofficial kickoff to the 2021 awards season. The annual event celebrates the best of film and television, and this year’s edition is the 78th Golden Globe Awards ceremony. The Netflix movie, Mank, leads all movie nominees this year, with six Golden Globe nominations, including Best Motion Picture...

A review of this week’s WandaVision, “Previously On,” coming up just as soon as I make breakfast for dinner… Collaborative fiction can be a complicated thing, where any one writer’s take on a character or story can last only as long as it takes for another writer to undo it. Michael Scott’s personality on The Office seemed to shift from week to week depending on who was writing that episode. President Bartlet’s staffers started arguing with each other constantly after John Wells replaced Aaron Sorkin as West Wing showrunner. It...

June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) makes her escape from the dystopian world of Gilead where women are subjugated in a new teaser for Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Season Four of the series premieres on April 28th. Based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, the series follows June, one of the handmaids in Gilead who are enslaved and used for the purpose of their fertility. In addition to Moss, the show stars Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Samira Wiley, Alexis Bledel, Ann Dowd, Max Minghella, Madeline Brewer, O-T Fagbenle, Amanda Brugel, Bradley Whitford and...

Amazon Prime Video has shared the first teaser trailer for The Underground Railroad, director Barry Jenkins’ limited series about the Civil War-era slave-liberating network. Based on author Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel, the 10-episode series focuses on a slave named Cora Randall who, following her escape from a Georgia plantation, journeys out of the Antebellum South via the rumored “Underground Railroad.” Along the way, she is pursued by a bounty hunter harboring a grudge, as the only slave ever to evade him was Cora’s mother. Jenkins serves as showrunner and director...

Kelsey Grammer will reprise his role as Dr. Frasier Crane in an upcoming reboot of Frasier via digital streaming service Paramount+. The beloved show originally aired for 11 seasons before signing off in 2004 with one of the best sitcom finales of all time. “Having spent over 20 years of my creative life on the Paramount lot, both producing shows and performing in several, I’d like to congratulate Paramount+ on its entry into the streaming world,” Grammer, who will also serve as executive producer of the series, said in a...

The Mighty Ducks are back — with a twist — in the first official trailer for Disney+’s reboot about the youth hockey team, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers. Whereas the Mighty Ducks of the Nineties movie franchise were a ragtag crew of Minnesota misfits, the reboot finds the Ducks as a strict hockey powerhouse that shuns uniqueness; essentially, the Mighty Ducks are now what the bully Hawks were in the first film. The 10-episode season takes place in 2021 Minnesota and follows 12-year-old Evan Morrow (Brady Noon), who, after being...

Netflix has released the trailer for Murder Among the Mormons, a new documentary series that investigates the 1985 pipe bombing at Salt Lake City’s LDS Church, which killed two people and severely injured another. The three-part series explores the history of the Mormon community in Utah and the role that the infamous White Salamander Letter played in the bombings. The injured victim of the bombing, Mark Hofmann, was a renowned collector of rare documents including the letter, worth a collective total of $1.5 million. “The Salamander Letter gave a far different...

Welcome to the latest episode of Too Long; Didn’t Watch, a new podcast produced by Rolling Stone and OBB Sound, presented by Google Assistant, and hosted by yours truly. In each episode, we attempt a new method of scaling Peak TV, by pairing a celebrity guest with a series they’ve never seen and showing them only the very first and very last episodes, to see if they can figure out what in the world happened in between. This week, we welcome the First Couple of TV Comedy, a.k.a. spouses Nick...

Gillian Anderson has been cast as Eleanor Roosevelt in the upcoming Showtime anthology series The First Lady. Anderson joins previously announced series leads Viola Davis and Michelle Pfeiffer, who will portray Michelle Obama and Betty Ford, respectively. “Gillian Anderson is an actress of incredible range and exquisite talent — she is the perfect choice to complete this powerhouse trio, who will inhabit the roles of these iconic women,” Showtime Executive Vice President of Scripted Programming Amy Israel said. “It’s inspiring to have Gillian, Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susanne Bier, and Cathy...

When Willow Smith was 11, she made a request of her mom, the actress and musician Jada Pinkett Smith: “I know you as my mother, but I want to know who you were before you were my mother.” Pinkett Smith was shocked that her daughter was already curious in that way. She was also open to revealing more of herself. So, that Mother’s Day, Pinkett Smith called up her own mom, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, and the three of them settled in for a deep, mutigenerational talk. “We saw how much it...