Television

Midway through Season Two of Apple TV+’s Dickinson, Aunt Lavinia (Jessica Hecht) takes all the Dickinson women out for a 19th century spa day, promising that by the end of it, “You won’t be the same sick, disease-ridden, melancholy women you are right now.” The show’s title character, rebellious young poet Emily Dickinson (Hailee Steinfeld) considers this promise, then asks, “What if that’s my brand?” The brand was strong for the first season Dickinson: messy but energetic, audacious in a way none of Apple’s other inaugural shows bothered to be,...

“I want to watch that, but who has the time?” Like the personal injury lawyer ads ask, has this ever happened to you? In the age of Peak TV, it’s hard to imagine that it hasn’t. When there are more scripted TV shows each year than even a professional TV-watcher like myself can get to, what hope do civilians — or even the people responsible for making these shows — have to keep up with it all? That’s why Rolling Stone has partnered with OBB Sound for a new podcast...

America’s greatest and most important sporting competition, the Puppy Bowl, will return this year, February 7th at 2 p.m. ET on Animal Planet and streaming via Discovery+. The annual Super Bowl counter-programming classic will feature 70 adoptable puppies from 22 shelters and rescues from around the Northeast United States. The competitors will be split into two teams, Team Ruff and Team Fluff, with the latter hoping to defend their 2020 Puppy Bowl title. A handful of kittens will also take the field during the Kitty Half-Time Show, and for the...

Well, we made it through 2020 though it’s easy to forget that awful year is behind us. It’s cold outside, the vaccine is still making a slow rollout, and movie theaters remain closed in much of the country. Change is coming but it’s not here yet, so the only sensible reaction is to see what’s on TV. Fortunately, January will bring some enticing options. As in a normal year, it’s thinner than the end-of-the-year harvest season, but any month that includes a whole series dedicated to dirty words and features...

HBO Max has released the Season 4 trailer for Search Party, the former TBS comedy series that will premiere the first three episodes of its new season on January 14th. (Three more will premiere on January 21st, with the final four coming to the streamer on January 28th.) In the latest installment of the dark Brooklyn comedy, Dory (Alia Shawkat) is captured and held prisoner by her stalker Chip (Cole Escola), who desperately tries to coax Dory into being his friend while recreating a “perfect” version of her own life. Meanwhile,...

The Office moved from Netflix to Peacock on January 1st as part of a $500 million deal, and never-before-seen cut scenes are part of the package. First up is a deleted scene from the series finale where Jim and Pam convince Dwight the Matrix is real and he has been selected to enter it. The final episode of The Office aired on May 16th, 2013, and focused on Dwight’s marriage to Angela and the Dunder Mifflin crew reuniting for a panel discussion one year after their documentary aired. Despite a...

Marvel Studios has released a new TV spot for Wandavision, the latest Avengers spin-off television series. It’s set to premiere on January 15th on Disney Plus. The one-minute clip sees the series’ main couple, Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany), sending off classic Fifties family sitcoms such as I Love Lucy, portraying a happily married pair in idyllic suburban America. Of course, beneath the monochrome, there’s a twist: Wanda and Vision’s double life as super-powered beings begins to creep into their domestic bliss, and villains lurk behind every manicured lawn...

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. It’s 2021, and if you haven’t cut the cable cord yet, it’s time to consider making the switch to streaming. With a ton of affordable options in the marketplace, streaming services get you the same content as conventional cable, with the added convenience of taking your programming on the go — whether on your phone, tablet, or laptop....

President-elect Joe Biden and Jill Biden will stage their last interview of the year during the Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2021 broadcast on December 31st. Three weeks before the inauguration, the Bidens will speak with host Ryan Seacrest and send “a special message of hope, unity, and best wishes for the year ahead,” producers said. “In a year marked with many challenges, we are honored that President-Elect Joe Biden and Dr. Biden will join America’s most-watched tradition — Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve — to share an...

Dawn Wells, the actress who portrayed Mary Ann on the beloved Sixties sitcom Gilligan’s Island, has died at the age of 82. Wells’ publicist confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter that the actress died from complications related to Covid-19. A former beauty queen — she represented Nevada in the 1960 Miss America pageant — the Reno-born Wells moved to Hollywood in the early Sixties, appearing in bit roles before reportedly beating out over 200 actresses for the role of Mary Ann in Gilligan’s Island, the iconic sitcom about a group of...

Before we begin this exercise in nostalgia gone awry, two things of note. I only watched The Star Wars Holiday Special for the first time, and am writing this review, as a stretch goal for The George Lucas Talk Show‘s fundraiser for Feeding America. And this review will contain spoilers for the Mandalorian Season Two finale, which I wrote about here. I saw two phony Luke Skywalkers this month, even if both were kind of the real thing. The first imposter Luke was in the Mandalorian finale, where he was essentially a...