Television

Netflix has shared the new trailer for their supernatural mystery series Archive 81, arriving on the streaming service on Jan. 14. Archive 81, loosely based on a popular podcast, weaves together two story lines: In 1994, a documentarian named Melody is working on a film about her bizarre and possibly cult-filled apartment building, and — 25 years later — an archivist reconstructs Melody’s story by restoring her scorched videotapes. “I’m obsessed with mystery box shows, the kind that lead us down a rabbit hole into a strange, dark world,” showrunner,...

The legend of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s sex tape gets the limited series and critical reassessment treatment in the new trailer for Pam and Tommy, set to premiere Feb. 2 on Hulu. The new trailer — which aptly opens with a shot of a small camcorder, although this time it’s just recording a deposition — offers a succinct overview of the story: A disgruntled electrician (played by Seth Rogen) steals a safe from Lee and Anderson’s home, cracks it open and finds the illicit tape, which he then starts...

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. Fans all over the globe mourned the death of Betty White in December, just days before her 100th birthday, though the iconic actress’ legacy will continue to live on. Her birthday celebration was set to be accompanied by the release of Betty White: 100 Years Young — A Birthday Celebration, which (as of this writing) will still be...

Temuera Morrison is 60 years old. Ming-Na Wen is 58. They are not at the age where many actors would be asked to play an action hero. Yet here both are on The Book of Boba Fett, her chasing assassins across rooftops in last week’s series premiere, and him robbing a train in this week’s episode. Nice work if you can get it — and if you can do it as well as these two can. On Tuesday night, Morrison and Wen spoke with Rolling Stone about how lucky they...

Chris Noth will no longer appear in the finale episode of HBO Max series And Just Like That, according to TVLine. The actor was cut from the final episode of the Sex and the City sequel, set to air Feb. 3rd, following several sexual assault allegations. Noth’s character Mr. Big, the on-again, off-again significant other of Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie, was killed off in the premiere episode while riding a Peloton. Noth was reportedly set to appear in the finale in a fantasy sequence where Carrie reunites with Big while visiting...

The second season of The White Lotus has booked its first guest, with actor Michael Imperioli checking in as the first confirmed cast member for Season 2 of the HBO black comedy series. According to Deadline, Imperioli will portray Dominic Di Grasso, who travels with his elderly father and recent college-graduate son to whatever White Lotus exotic locale the second season is based in; writer-director Mike White previously stated that the show would not return to the Season 1 confines of Hawaii. The casting is a return of sorts to...

Netflix has shared the new trailer for the first part of Ozark’s fourth and final season ahead of its release on Jan. 21. The preview finds the Byrde clan continuing the family business (money laundering) in the Ozarks region of Missouri, but they’re presented with a way out of their life of crime and their debt to a Mexican drug cartel. However, “some past sins won’t stay buried and the most dangerous threats come from blood,” Netflix warns in its synopsis.  Ozark stars Jason Bateman and Laura Linney as the...

The Late Late Show host James Corden has tested positive for Covid-19. He’s the third late-night host in a week to announce they had recently been diagnosed with the virus. Upcoming episodes of Corden’s CBS show have been canceled. “I just tested positive for Covid-19. I’m fully vaccinated, boosted and because of this am fortunate enough to say I feel completely fine,” Corden posted on Instagram on Thursday. The show will be off the air for the next few days. Stay safe everyone. All my love, James x.” On Tuesday,...

Saturday Night Live is ushering in its first 2022 episode, on Jan. 15, with West Side Story star Ariana DeBose as host and Roddy Ricch as the musical guest. It marks the first time either artist has appeared on SNL. DeBose and Lorne Michaels have previously worked together when the actress portrayed Emma in the Michaels-executive produced Schmigadoon! Ricch dropped his sophomore LP, Live Life Fast in December. The episode follows the late-night comedy show’s Covid-impacted final episode of 2021, which was void of a live audience due to the...

A review of the Succession Season Three finale, “All the Bells Say,” coming up just as soon as I’m a plane crash away from becoming Europe’s weirdest king… The castaways keep trying and failing to build a raft to escape Gilligan’s island. The Wire‘s Major Crimes Unit keeps coming agonizingly close to solving Baltimore’s problems, only to earn hollow victories at best. And Logan Roy’s children will keep coming at the king of their family, and will miss every time. Whether we’re talking defiantly lowbrow or spectacularly highbrow, television is...

One of the longtime General Hospital actors fired from the iconic soap opera last month for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19 has filed a lawsuit against ABC claiming the production’s on-set mandate violates his civil rights. Ingo Rademacher, who has played Jasper “Jax” Jacks on the daytime show for more than two decades, had his contract terminated Nov. 5 after he submitted a request for a religious exemption that was denied, according to his lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. A copy of his exemption request...

In his 15 years as MacGruber, a hapless special ops agent who only occasionally saves the day, Will Forte has attempted to violently dispatch his enemies with rubber bands, Q-tips and a stalk of celery wedged up his keister. So it’s a bit alarming to see the 51-year-old actor and comedian brandish a jar of smelling salts before he even says hello. A gift, or so he claims. How often do people collapse unconscious around him? “It’s not something I like to do,” Forte jokes. “Every once in a while...

Stationary bike company Peloton — facing a stock drop after its product was tied to the fictional death of a beloved Sex and the City character — responded swiftly and effectively Sunday with a new ad that revives the character, or at least the actor that plays him, for “another ride.” Ryan Reynolds, who narrates the ad, shared the 30-second commercial on Twitter with an “Unspoiler Alert” warning. The video stars actor Chris Noth, a.k.a. Sex and the City’s Mr. Big, who dies of a heart attack shortly after riding...

Kate McKinnon finally returned to Saturday Night Live on the show’s Billie Eilish-hosted episode, making her first appearance of Season 47 to reprise her Dr. Anthony Fauci role and answer questions about the Omicron variant. “I’m baaaaaack,” McKinnon’s Fauci declared at the onset of the cold open, although she was heralding her own return eight episodes into Season 47. The sketch itself harkened back to a cold open last season where Fauci enlisted the “CDC Players” to run through scenarios regarding face mask guidelines; this time around, McKinnon’s Fauci presented...