Television

The Weeknd’s HBO series The Idol has been officially ordered to series, with Amy Seimetz coming on board to direct all six episodes. The cast, which already includes the Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp, has been expanded to include Troye Sivan, TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe and Anne Heche. The Idol was co-created by Euphoria‘s Sam Levinson, Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye and Reza Fahim. The series, which has been in development since the summer, will shoot in and around Los Angeles. HBO describes The Idol as “set against the backdrop...

Kevin Spacey has been ordered to pay nearly $31 million to TV studio Media Rights Capital for breaching his House of Cards contract with behind-the-scenes behavior leading up to his 2017 termination from the Netflix show amid allegations of sexual misconduct. On Monday, MRC filed a petition in Los Angeles County Superior Court revealing the actor was ordered to pay the eight-figure sum after a “confidential,” closed-door arbitration proceeding that ended with the judgment that Spacey failed to overturn on appeal. The new filing is asking the court to confirm...

A review of “What It Takes,” this week’s episode of Succession, coming up just as soon as I throw cake batter at a brick wall… “What It Takes” borrows its title from Richard Ben Cramer’s 1992 political nonfiction opus What It Takes: The Way to the White House, which chronicles the journeys of a half-dozen candidates in the 1988 presidential election (including George H.W. Bush, who actually won that race, and Joe Biden, who would have to wait another 32 years to do so). Long held up as one of...

In a 4-minute musical sketch, Pete Davidson put a twist on Marc Cohn’s 1991 hit “Walking in Memphis” with an homage to Staten Island. With “Walking in Staten,” Davidson paid tribute to the bagel joints and pizza places in his native borough while sporting an “I Love Staten Island” shirt. “Put on my bootleg Jordans and get on the train….yeah we got like 80 bagel spots and every block has a pizza place. Yeah, we’re walking in Staten,” Davidson sang. But he isn’t alone in the fun: Joining the SNL...

The Thanksgiving edition of Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update was jam-packed, with topics ranging from Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal of homicide charges and the climate crisis to a Baby Yoda float at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Kicking off the segment by taking aim at Joe Biden’s colonoscopy, hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che quickly dove into the serious topic of the Rittenhouse verdict, which found him not guilty after killing two people during a police brutality protest. “Hopefully, he got all of that shooting out of his system before he...

When Netflix executives scheduled the release of a seven-part docuseries on the wild world of private exotic animal zoos (or, more accurately, the people who run them) to debut on March 20, 2020, little did they know that they were contributing to what would become a cultural phenomenon. Of course, with a title like Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness it was bound to find an audience, but thanks to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting stay-at-home orders, that audience was massive, bored, scared, and looking for a...

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 Wheel of Time turns and ages come and pass…and the wait is now over to watch Amazon’s newest high-fantasy adventure, The Wheel of Time, premiering on Amazon Prime Video on November 19. The highly-anticipated adaptation of Robert Jordan’s fantasy series of the same name, follows Moraine (played by Rosamund Pike) as a member of the Aes Sedai, a...

Cowboy Bebop stars John Cho (Spike Spiegel), Mustafa Shakir (Jet Black) and Daniella Pineda (Faye Valentine) joined Rolling Stone on Twitch for an in-depth interview just hours before the series — a live-action adaptation of the late-Nineties anime classic — premiered on Netflix. The members of the Bebop crew discussed the differences between the new series and the original, the diversity of the cast, how they approached their characters, and the importance of music to the show’s overall vibe. The full interview can be viewed below: Cho, Shakir, and Pineda...

Billie Eilish, Paul Rudd and Charli XCX are among the lineup heading to Saturday Night Live in December, rounding out the final two 2021 episodes. First up is Eilish on Dec. 11, where the singer will serve as both host and musical guest. It marks the first time she will appear as a host for the sketch show. She previously performed during the Season 45 premiere in 2019, which was hosted by Woody Harrelson. The singer released Happier Than Ever in July. To close out SNL‘s 2021, Rudd will host...

One Friday night in February 2005, Robert “Bobby” Vaughn grabbed his phone from a nightstand in his Los Angeles apartment and dialled 911 to report a shooting. He told the operator that multiple shots were fired inside his home, leaving one person dead. Vaughn was also able to identify the person who killed Mark Rivas, his best friend and roommate: he did it himself. The fatal shot came at the end of a violent confrontation between the two men, and, Vaughn said, immediately after Rivas attacked him with a broken...

The first teaser trailer has dropped for Pam & Tommy, with stars Lily James and Sebastian Stan embodying Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee with uncanny likeness. The Hulu series, set to premiere with the first three episodes February 2, 2022, centers on the fallout after the famous pair’s sex tape leaked. In the clip, Seth Rogen plays Rand Gauthier, the man who stole and distributed the sex tape, and the Motley Crue drummer and Baywatch star are faced with the reality that their intimate act is available the public. “Not...

When it comes to the title of the new HBO Max comedy The Sex Lives of College Girls, the first half may be provocative, but the second half is where the show’s true appeal lies. Don’t get me wrong. The series, created by Mindy Kaling and Brooklyn Nine-Nine vet Justin Noble, and focusing on a quartet of freshman dorm roommates at a prestigious New England college — aspiring comedy writer Bela (Amrit Kaur); eager-to-please work-study student Kimberly (Pauline Chalamet); soccer star Whitney (Alyah Chanelle Scott); and mean girl Leighton (Reneé...

When you play the game to be the next Game of Thrones, you win, or you waste a whole lot of money. You remember Game of Thrones, right? Epic fantasy drama adapted from a beloved (but still unfinished) book series, kicked off a new blockbuster era in television in terms of both scale and audience size, then alienated most of its audience by the end? Ring a bell? Now, get ready for the Thrones clones. HBO has an expensive prequel series, House of the Dragon, coming sometime next year, and...