Television

The galaxy’s most notorious bounty hunter, Boba Fett, returns to rule over Tatooine in the new trailer for the upcoming series, The Book of Boba Fett, premiering Dec. 29 on Disney+. The new series is a spin-off of The Mandalorian, with Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen reprising their roles from that show as Boba Fett and Fennec Shand, respectfully (Boba Fett was played by Jeremy Bulloch in the original Star Wars trilogy, while the character of Shand debuted in The Mandalorian). The Book of Boba Fett finds the pair heading...

A review of this week’s Succession, “The Disruption,” coming up just as soon as we get less question-y questions… Early in “The Disruption,” Kendall is in a stretch limo on the way to a black-tie fundraiser for the Committee for the Protection and Welfare of Journalists. He invites Naomi Pierce, Cousin Greg, and the rest of his sycophantic crew to join him in a game of Good Tweet, Bad Tweet, where everyone trades off reading alternately complimentary and insulting social media posts about him. Even the most widely beloved figures...

The Roy Family and their family business Waystar Royco will serve up more dysfunctional drama for another season. The Jesse Armstrong-created series is in the midst of Season Three, which premiered on October 17th. A date for the upcoming season has not yet been announced. “With each season of Succession, Jesse Armstrong has continued to surpass our wildest expectations, pulling us deeper into the Roy family’s inner sanctum with indelible wit, humanity, and precision,” Francesca Orsi, Executive Vice President, HBO Programming, said in a statement. “This season is undoubtedly no...

Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin, and Jeff Lowe are back for more “batshit crazy” stuff — as one person comments — in the new trailer for Tiger King 2. The next season of the show about the illicit world of big cat ownership arrives on November 17th via Netflix. Other regulars from the first series also appear, including Tim Stark, Allen Glover, and James Garretson. The series kicks off with Exotic behind bars after trying to hire two men to kill animal rights activist Baskin. As the true-crime documentary presented in...

Three elementary schools in New York are banning Squid Game costumes for Halloween and warned parents in a letter that students have been emulating elements of the hit Netflix show during recess, Syracuse.com reports.  Last Friday, a letter went out to the parents of children at three schools in the Fayetteville-Manlius district saying Squid Game costumes — which are unsurprisingly incredibly popular this year — do “not meet our school costume guidelines due to the potential violent message aligned with the costume.” Costumes based on the show join other banned...

“War has just begun” in the first Season Two trailer for The Witcher, Netflix’s Henry Cavill-starring fantasy series that returns to the streaming service on Dec. 17. Based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s best-selling Polish book series — which became an even more popular video game franchise — Rolling Stone touted The Witcher’s first season as “bonkers” and “completely insane, not very good, and totally addictive.”  Those superlatives are on full display once more in the second season trailer as Cavill’s yellow-eyed swordsman, Geralt of Rivia, faces off against giant bats, tree...

Warning: This story contains spoilers for the Season Three finale of What We Do in the Shadows, which aired tonight on FX and will be streaming on Hulu starting on Friday Oct. 29. The penultimate episode of the third season of What We Do in the Shadows featured one of the more shocking moments in recent sitcom history: Superhumanly boring “energy vampire” Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) lies on his mattress, apparently dead at the end of the 100-year life cycle for any energy vampire. His housemate Nandor (Kayvan Novak), recalling...

Netflix’s Squid Game — a South Korean show in which working-class people compete in life or death children’s games — may be the streamer’s most popular show of all time, but it has gotten some knocks when it comes to its English subtitles, which some say miss crucial cultural context. Rolling Stone News sat down with comedian Youngmi Mayer, who posted about the issue on TikTok, to break down scenes and give some clarity to what the English subtitles miss. Fair warning, there are spoilers. Scenes discussed include the first...

Tucker Carlson previewed an upcoming special called Patriot Purge with a disturbing trailer, which suggests the January 6th insurrection was a “false flag,” among other unfounded claims. The three-part series via Tucker Carlson Originals is headed to Fox News on November 1st. The trailer, which Carlson shared on Wednesday, opens with “The true story behind 1/6 The War on Terror 2.0 and the plot against the people” flashing across the screen. “The domestic war on terror is here,” one person alleges. “It’s coming after half of the country.” Carlson adds...

Prime Video has shared the immersive official trailer for their upcoming fantasy series The Wheel of Time, arriving on the streaming service on November 19th. Presented in YouTube’s 360 player with spatial surround sound, the new trailer for the series — based on the popular fantasy novels by author Robert Jordan — allows the viewer to watch the trailer as a virtual three-dimensional “wheel.”  The series stars Rosamund Pike as “Moiraine, a member of the incredibly powerful all-female organization called the Aes Sedai, as she arrives in the small town...

Mort Sahl, the incisive standup comic who called out hypocrisy as he addressed politics and social issues and served as a trailblazer for future generations in the comedy world, died on Tuesday in Mill Valley, California. He was 94. The New York Times confirmed his death with his friend, Lucy Mercer. Sahl made the Top 10 of Rolling Stone‘s “50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time” list for his ability to riff on politics “in a way no one had heard before. Just imagine a comic digging through the headlines...

Production has been halted on the Showtime limited series The Comeback Girl after it was revealed that the show’s producers failed to secure Joan Rivers’ life rights, currently held by her daughter Melissa Rivers. (via Variety) The Comeback Girl was set to be produced by Warner Bros. Television, Atlas Entertainment, and Berlanti Productions with Kathryn Hahn as executive producer in addition to portraying Rivers in the leading role. Cosmo Carlson had been brought on to helm the script for the series with Greg Berlanti as director as well as executive...

Dave Chappelle leaned into the already dubious notion that he’s been “canceled” to promote a run of special screenings for his new documentary, Untitled: Dave Chappelle Documentary Film. Chappelle shared a clip from a recent stand-up appearance on Instagram in which he addressed the ongoing controversy over his jokes about trans people in his recent special, The Closer. He claimed that, because of the backlash, festivals that had previously invited him to show Untitled had since reneged their offers. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dave Chappelle (@davechappelle)...

James Michael Tyler, who portrayed the Rachel Green-obsessed Central Perk barista Gunther on Friends, died Sunday at the age of 59. Variety reports that Tyler died at his Los Angeles home following a diagnosis of stage IV prostate cancer; the actor revealed his diagnosis in June. “The world knew him as Gunther (the seventh “Friend”), from the hit series ‘Friends,’ but Michael’s loved ones knew him as an actor, musician, cancer-awareness advocate, and loving husband,” Tyler’s family said in a statement to TMZ. “Michael loved live music, cheering on his...