Television

Activist and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and director Ava DuVernay have released the trailer for the upcoming Netflix series Colin in Black and White. The limited series premieres on October 29th. The show stars Kaepernick, Jaden Michael, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Offerman, Amarr Wooten, Mace Coronel, and Klarke Pipkin. In the trailer, Kaepernick narrates as his younger self plays football. He discusses his wide-ranging emotions on the challenges he faced as a Black kid growing up with white parents in a white community. “It turned out my competition wasn’t only...

Reigning Jeopardy! champ Matt Amodio ended his winning streak on Monday, losing his 39th game. The Yale Ph.D student had the second-longest winning streak in the game’s history and the third largest amount of prize money earnings. In total, he racked up $1,518,601, which puts him behind Ken Jennings ($2,520,700) and James Holzhauer ($2,462,216) for regular-season play, as Variety notes. Amodio is also only second to Jennings for all-time consecutive wins; Jennings holds his top spot with 74 wins. While his streak ended, it won’t be Amodio’s last Jeopardy! appearance as he’s slated...

Playing a bachelorette named Rachel, Kim Kardashian faced an all-star lineup of suitors in an SNL parody of the famed dating show, giving each guy a token that signified he’d survived another week in the competition. The first suitor to receive the prized token was Chace Crawford, a star of the original Gossip Girl, who reminded “Rachel” that he’s on some current shows too, like The Boys. Next, actual Bachelorette alum Tyler Cameron told Kardashian he’d meet her in the hot tub as he strolled off-stage. Kardashian invited Grey’s Anatomy star...

Following the finale of Keeping Up With the Kardashians in June, Kim Kardashian headed back to reality TV with her family on Saturday Night Live. In a courtroom sketch called The People’s Kourt, the SNL host portrayed Judge Kourtney Kardashian where she heard a handful of “serious family issues” from her family. Khloé Kardashian (playing herself) battled Kim (Heidi Gardner) over stealing her makeup artist. “No one can even see your face,” Khloé tells Gardner who is in a replica of the host’s face-concealing, Met Gala bodysuit. Then, Kris Jenner (playing...

When the latest episode of Saturday Night Live wasn’t focused on Kardashian-centric sketches, the show was slamming Facebook over a whistleblower’s scathing revelations into the social media company’s “betrayal of democracy,” with both the cold open sketch and Weekend Update dedicated to Facebook. “Internal documents show that Facebook knew their platform was used to spread hate and disinformation but they hid the evidence,” co-anchor Colin Jost — who attended Harvard at the same time as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg — said on Weekend Update. “Now the weird thing is, I...

The new Hulu limited series Dopesick adapts Beth Macy’s investigative bestseller about the causes of the opioid epidemic — and, specifically, the role that the family-run Purdue Pharma company and its chairman, Richard Sackler (Michael Stuhlbarg) played in getting America hooked on OxyContin. Pharma execs and sales reps insisted that the painkiller was both nonaddictive and long-lasting. Neither claim proved true, a fact that Sackler and his underlings tried to conceal by insisting that the drug’s failures were actually signs of patients suffering “breakthrough pain.” The only treatment for that...

Eugenio Derbez was already a well established film and TV actor in his native Mexico when he decided a decade ago to see if he could find similar success in the United States. He had a prominent role in Adam Sandler’s Jack and Jill as a gardener smitten with Sandler’s female alter ego, then wound up as Rob Schneider’s sketchy uncle in Rob, an insensitive-bordering-on-offensive CBS sitcom where Schneider struggled to relate to his new Mexican-American in-laws. The show was terrible — a beauty-versus-the-beast sitcom with a clumsy multicultural twist...

Dave Chappelle was greeted with a standing ovation from his fellow celebrities during the screening of his Untitled: Dave Chappelle Documentary, despite the recent controversy over his Netflix stand-up comedy special, The Closer. The comedian has received criticism about the special, which some critics say contains transphobic material. “If this is what being canceled is like, I love it,” he said on Thursday night at the Hollywood Bowl, The Hollywood Reporter reports. He also went further, calling out specific outlets during the night: “Fuck Twitter. Fuck NBC News, ABC News, all these...

A review of the Season Two finale of Ted Lasso, “Inverting the Pyramid of Success,” coming up just as soon as I give you a cool nod… It is halftime of Richmond’s final game of the season, and the club’s last chance to gain promotion back to the EPL(*). Nate’s false-nine strategy has thus far been an utter failure, leaving Richmond down 2-0 to Brentford. Nate’s paranoia and narcissism are at full boil, and he insists on abandoning the false nine because the players aren’t smart enough to do it...

The Simpsons have shared the Edward Gorey-inspired chapter from the never-ending animated series’ upcoming “Treehouse of Horror XXXII” episode. The annual Halloween episode has often turned horror classics — complete with faux-Vincent Price narration — into fodder for its chapters, and in this clip, Price reads Maggie Simpson a bedtime story called “The Telltale Bart”; however, despite its title, the chapter has little in common with Edgar Allen Poe’s version. “In January, Bart was awful, put earthworms in his father’s waffle,” the show’s Price reads aloud, with the animation more...

Monica Lewinsky appeared on The Daily Show Wednesday to discuss her new documentary 15 Minutes of Shame as well as the benefits of and problems with “cancel culture” with host Trevor Noah. Lewinsky first talked about how her role in the infamous Bill Clinton scandal — which made her “patient zero” in the realm of public shaming — helped set her on a path toward becoming an “anti-bullying advocate.” “After graduate school, I realized that I couldn’t run away from what happened, I had to integrate it,” she said. “It...

The work of Edgar Allan Poe will serve as the basis for a new Netflix show, The Fall of the House of Usher.  The eight-episode limited series was created by Mike Flanagan, and he’ll helm it with his partner Trevor Macy; the pair are responsible for a handful of Netflix’s recent horror hits, including the just-released Midnight Mass. The Fall of the House of Usher takes its title from a short story Poe published in 1839, although a press release notes the series will be “based on multiple works” by...

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. If you want to catch everything that looks promising in the world of film and television in October you’re going to be extremely busy. The intriguing projects just keep coming, whether they’re a prequel to one of the greatest TV shows ever made, a James Bond swan song, or the hotly anticipated return of a popular and unpredictable...

The people who live on Crockett Island, roughly an hour from the mainland, population 127, are the sort of folks you’d recognize if you’ve spent any time in quaint little American villages. There are still a handful of fishermen who remember when times weren’t so lean and the place was perfect for raising a family. There a few restless teenagers around, biding their time until they can leave. There’s the town doctor, who takes care of her ailing, geriatric mother, and the town drunk who, because of a tragedy years...