Television

There are only so many stories to tell, especially in the picked-over underdog-sports genre. So it doesn’t feel egregious that the new Disney+ series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers blatantly rips off the premise of Cobra Kai by making the heroes from the movies — a ragtag-turned-champion youth hockey team — into the bad guys. After all, the overarching plot of Cobra Kai — unhappy middle-aged man finds renewed purpose by teaching kids about the sport he loved in his youth — is more or less the same as the one...

Members of the Touched are disconcerting people in Victorian-era London with their supernatural abilities in the new trailer for HBO Max’s The Nevers. The series premieres on April 11th. The new trailer reveals that an underclass, known as the Touched who are primarily made up of women, had awoken from an unexplained event three years ago with supernatural powers. “They have weird deformities and afflictions,” one person remarks of what they understand of the Touched. Some are out to capitalize on the abilities of the Touched, viewing them as a...

John Oliver explored the increasingly dire problem of plastic pollution and how the plastics industry has misrepresented the possibilities of recycling on Last Week Tonight. Planet Plastic At the top of the segment, Oliver cited a study that claimed that less than nine percent of plastics actually get recycled in the United States, with most of that refuse ending up in landfills or in the environment (there’s so much plastic in the ocean, in fact, that it can break down, fish can eat it, and then people can consume it...

Imagine growing up with Superman as your dad. He constantly misses your Little League games to battle Lex Luthor and Brainiac, yet you can’t even brag to your friends about what he does because of the whole secret identity thing. Oh, and good luck feeling worthy to fill his red boots some day. There have periodically been comic-book stories about Super-Sons — some referred to as “imaginary” (as opposed to the real kind?), some part of the canon — and now they’ve made their way to television. The CW’s Superman...

Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak’s Grammys performance as Silk Sonic on Sunday night must have left a big impression on James Corden, who spoofed the duo’s Seventies throwback vibe on The Late Late Show Monday. The segment began with Stephen Colbert, host of CBS’ preceding talk show The Late Show, introducing Corden via an analog television set. Corden and his band, holed up in a yellow-walled studio, then performed “Leave the TV On,” a parody of Silk Sonic’s “Leave the Door Open” that essentially boils down to, “Please leave your...

Killing Eve will end after its upcoming fourth season, BBC America announced Tuesday. But fans of the show will have plenty more in store: AMC Networks and Sid Gentle Films Ltd., which produces Killing Eve, are developing potential spinoffs. “Killing Eve has been one of my greatest experiences and I look forward to diving back into Eve’s remarkable mind soon,” Killing Eve star Sandra Oh told Variety. “I’m so grateful for all cast and crew who have brought our story to life and to the fans who have joined us...

A review of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier premiere — complete with spoilers — coming up just as soon as I take you out for pinochle… The Kevin Feige era of Marvel TV began earlier this year with WandaVision, a show about television that was clearly made for television (at least until the finale), and an example of how versatile the Marvel brand can be. Without that MCU tie-in, would a tribute to the history of the American sitcom have been a sensation, or a pop-cultural afterthought? With several...

Audiences want to see their experiences reflected back at them on television. Audiences want to see aspirational stories on television. People don’t like to feel challenged, they want escapist entertainment. People want to feel challenged, they don’t want to waste time watching fluff. These are just a few of the cherished maxims that TV executives have been throwing around the halls of development for decades. And my personal favorite, as a working writer-producer for many years: You know what this show needs? A strong female character. It’s not clear when...

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. Following up an immensely popular, genre-bending season of Wandavision, the next series to come out of the MCU, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, is premiering on Disney+. After the streaming platform pushed the show back due to pandemic-related delays, Marvel fans are more hyped than ever see Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson (Falcon) and Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes...

Hulu has released the trailer for Sasquatch, a three-part documentary series that explores a series of murder investigations in Northern California, which have been linked to both the area’s cannabis farming and its local Bigfoot legends. It premieres April 20th on the streaming platform. The series was inspired by the work of investigative journalist David Holthouse, who is heavily featured in Sasquatch as both an interview subject and interviewer. In 1993, Holthouse visited the infamous “Emerald Triangle” in Northern California — home to some of the most renowned cannabis growers in the...

You could not ignore Yaphet Kotto when he came on the screen. There was his sheer size: 6’3″ and broad as a barn in a business where most actors are much smaller than the camera makes them seem. There was that voice: hard as gravel, but also with an unmistakable lisp that lent just the right degree of vulnerability to the characters he played. And there were those eyes, so often red with a mix of rage, regret, and sheer weariness about the many travails his characters had been through....

Kid Cudi and St. Vincent have been tapped to perform on Saturday Night Live in April. St. Vincent will perform on April 3rd, with Daniel Kaluuya set to host, while Kid Cudi will be the musical guest on April 10th with Carey Mulligan hosting. Saturday Night Live is set to return March 27th, after a month-long hiatus, with previously-announced host Maya Rudolph and musical guest Jack Harlow. 🔜🔜🔜 pic.twitter.com/9JDXA3hJWD — Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) March 16, 2021 This will mark Kid Cud’s first time performing solo on Saturday...