Television

Earlier this fall, HBO’s remake of Scenes From a Marriage began most episodes with an odd structural device, in which we watched actors Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac, as themselves, moving through the Scenes stages and getting into character before the opening scene began. It was a distracting creative choice that didn’t fit in with anything that the miniseries was otherwise doing or about, and only seemed designed to remind the audience that they were watching two world-class actors practicing their craft. Now along comes Landscapers, another HBO limited series...

A newly shared official trailer for And Just Like That, the Sex and the City reboot heading to HBO Max, finds Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) falling into familiar routines with some new characters along the way. The series premieres on Dec. 9 with a two-episode debut before shifting to a weekly Thursday release schedule. Where the initial teaser trailer introduced the revival through a classic Carrie Bradshaw voiceover, the lengthier preview shows a more conversational dynamic to the trio of friends and the...

The second season of Black Market with Michael K. Williams will premiere on Jan. 10, VICE TV has announced. It marks the late actor’s final documentary project. He died of acute intoxication in September at the age of 54. Hosted by Williams, Black Market sets out to pull back the curtain on the secretive, shadow economies that build a complex network of illegal markets. The series premiered in 2016 with a 12-episode debut. This upcoming season features the first new episodes since then. “Our goal is just to simply show...

If this were a Saturday Night Live skit, Bill Hader’s partygoing character Stefan would be announcing that Miami, Florida’s hottest end of the year event is Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party, hosted by none other than Miley Cyrus and Pete Davidson. Produced by SNL ​​executive producer Lorne Michaels, the New Year’s special will air live on NBC starting Friday, Dec. 31 at 10:30 p.m. EST before wrapping half an hour into the new year. It will also be streaming live on Peacock. Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party will feature special...

A review of this week’s Succession, “Too Much Birthday,” coming up just as soon as I say no to the tiny Wu-Tang Clan… Plotwise, the most significant event of “Too Much Birthday” comes right after the opening theme song has finished: Gerri informs the inner circle that Waystar Royco will emerge from the DOJ’s cruise ship investigation with nothing more than a monetary fine. Nobody goes to jail and nothing happens to the company as a whole: They get to keep on with business as usual. And, in fact, a...

Jimmy Fallon has a few tips for anyone preparing to reveal their Thanksgiving dinner on Instagram today. In a clip on The Tonight Show, the late night host offered up a “tiny Thanksgiving song” to remind viewers what to do and what not to do on social media. “PSA, Thanksgiving food doesn’t photograph too good,” he crooned, playing along on an acoustic guitar. “It just looks like a big, old pile of beige. I’m sure your dinner tasted great, but that tan rainbow’s not showing up on anyone’s ‘For You’...

Depending on your age, you either know LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte on the groundbreaking Seventies series Roots, as the host of the classic Eighties educational TV show Reading Rainbow, or, of course, as Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation. So when fans approach him, can he tell where on that timeline they fall? “Ninety-five percent of the time,” the actor says. “More often than not, I am absolutely able to tell what’s their entry point to LeVar and the work I do. It’s cool....

David Tennant stars in a new trailer for Masterpiece PBS series Around the World in 80 Days. The clip teases the epic story, based on the novel of the same name by Jules Verne, and showcases Tennant’s Phileas Fogg alongside his companion Abigail Fix, played by Leonie Benesch. The eight-episode series, which also stars Ibrahim Koma, premieres Sunday, January 2nd, 2022. The story centers on an adventurer named Fogg who places a £20,000 wager against the members of the Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in only eighty...

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 of The Beatles, rejoice: the Fab Four’s long-awaited documentary, The Beatles: Get Back, is finally here and available to stream on Disney+. Here’s everything you need to know about the new film, the group’s participation and how to watch Get Back online. When Does The Beatles: Get Back Premiere? Release Date, Time The Beatles: Get Back was...

One of the countless perfect moments in Get Back, the new three-part docuseries which begins streaming today on Disney+: The Beatles jam on a new Paul McCartney song called “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window.” They love this tune. George Harrison wilds out on guitar. Ringo Starr bangs the drums. John Lennon pounds the piano, bouncing off Paul in a mocking counterpoint. Paul: “So I quit the police department.” John: “Get a job, gob!” Paul: “Got myself a proper job.” John: “Bloody ‘bout time, too, if ya ask me!”...

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. After time-travelling in Endgame and returning to the life of a family man after leaving vigilantism behind, the long underdeveloped Hawkeye will finally be getting his own solo entry in the MCU with the eponymous Hawkeye, streaming on Disney+. This new series centers around Jeremy Renner back again as Avengers veteran Clint Barton who’s tracked down by a...

Hawkeye today became the latest Disney+ entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We’ll be recapping it for the next five weeks, starting with spoilers for the two-part series premiere, coming up just as soon as I have monogrammed butterscotch… “Your whole thing is that you’re low-key,” Kate Bishop tells Clint Barton midway through the second episode of Hawkeye. “It’s a very hard brand to sell.” This has been Clint’s burden throughout a long fictional life going back to his days as a third-rate Iron Man villain in the mid-Sixties. In...

“People think that they know me because I made them laugh or because they’ve been to a show. But they don’t know what I did to get here. Or what it takes to stay here.” This is Kevin Hart at the start of his new Netflix thriller True Story. Well, technically, it is the character Hart is playing in the limited series, a comedian known only as the Kid. But, like when Prince called himself by the same nickname in the autobiographical Purple Rain, Hart and True Story creator Eric...