Television

UPDATE (9/13): Netflix has released the first trailer for its upcoming limited series based on the life of football player and activist, Colin Kaepernick. The clip for Colin Black & White features contemporary narration from Kaepernick, mixed with scenes from the show, in which Jaden Michael portrays the future quarterback as a teenager. ** Netflix has announced that Colin Black & White, the limited series about the life of quarterback Colin Kaepernick, will premiere on the streaming service on October 29th. The six-episode series, created and produced by Ava DuVernay and Kaepernick,...

The Wire creator David Simon penned a tribute to actor Michael K. Williams — who played the iconic character of Omar Little in the HBO series — in the New York Times. Willams died September 6th at the age of 54. The remembrance centers around a conversation Williams had about his character, and the series itself, with the writers prior to the acclaimed show’s second season, which Williams felt was straying fundamentally from the acclaimed Season One. “[Williams pressed the point: ‘I’m saying, there are all these shows on television,...

Bob Odenkirk has returned to AMC’s Better Call Saul following what he described as “a small heart attack,” which led to his hospitalization in late July. The show is in production for its sixth and final season. On Wednesday, the actor shared an update on Twitter along with a photo of him in makeup on set. “Back to work on Better Call Saul! So happy to be here and living this specific life surrounded by such good people,” he wrote. “BTW this is makeup pro Cheri Montesanto making me not...

One of television’s greatest serial killers goes on the hunt for a murderer in the latest trailer for Dexter: New Blood, a revival that picks up 10 years after the events of the original Showtime series ended. Michael C. Hall reprises the role of Dexter Morgan — or in this case, Jim Lindsay, as he’s calling himself — in the 10-episode revival, which transplants the character from Miami to sleepy Iron Lake, New York. However, his normal life is disturbed and Dexter’s serial killer urges resurface during an investigation into...

A review of this week’s Ted Lasso, “Man City,” coming up just as soon as I make some obscure reference to something very specific to a 40-year-old white man from middle America… Through the first seven weeks of Season Two, Ted Lasso was averaging about 35 minutes per episode. That’s very long for a sitcom (showrunner Bill Lawrence’s ABC and NBC comedies usually came in under 22 minutes), and a size at which many comedies can start to feel saggy and self-indulgent. That hasn’t really happened here, in part because...

The Many Saints of Newark, the Sopranos prequel film premiering October 1st (in theaters and on HBO Max), was designed to make sense to fans of the series as well as those who’ve never seen a single frame. But given that The Sopranos is one of the greatest and most influential television shows ever made, why not binge the entire series in the weeks leading up to the movie’s release? We’ll tell you why: 86 episodes is a lot of darkness to confront in such a short period of time....

Stephen Colbert tried to hold strong while watching the recent viral video Nick Jr. shared on Twitter of Steve Burns, the original host of popular television series Blue’s Clues, which updated fans on where he went. Burns left abruptly after hosting the show for six years, from 1996 to 2002. But the clip and a surprise visit from Burns during tonight’s The Late Show With Stephen Colbert had the late-night star tearing up. “I was a grown up in the late Nineties and although I was aware of the show...

Netflix has released a new trailer for its upcoming horror series, Midnight Mass, set to arrive September 24th. The seven-episode limited series is set on Crockett Island and centered around its small community, whose delicate balances are upended upon the arrival of two people: A disgraced young man (Zach Gilford), who appears to be trying to leave some unexplained crime behind him, and a charismatic priest, Father Paul (Hamish Linklater). Following Father Paul’s arrival in particular, Crocket Island is greeted with a string of seemingly miraculous events — like a...

Pete Davidson is a guest on tonight’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he plays a game with the host called “Wheel of Opinions.” During a preview of the segment, Jon Stewart makes a surprise cameo. The episode airs at 11:35 p.m. ET. The silly game involves Fallon hitting a button, which activates an “Opinion Topic Generator” and wherever it lands, the guest has to voice their opinion on it. The first topic asks which is a worse phrase: “I Went Glamping” or “I’m Hangry.” As Davidson admits he...

FX on Hulu’s Y: The Last Man begins with glimpses of a world transformed by a catastrophe. As we race around the globe, we see images of dead bodies everywhere and of impromptu memorials to the fallen. As an onscreen graphic tells us it’s “Three Weeks After” whatever happened, we see a figure in a poncho and gas mask leaving graffitied messages on walls, chasing a monkey through urban streets filled with more corpses, some of them still in the seats of the cars where they died. Our hero —...

Felicia Pearson, who portrayed chilling villain Felicia “Scoop” Pearson in The Wire after Michael K. Williams met her in a Baltimore club and brought her into the fold, has shared a tribute to the late actor, who died on Monday. The clip, which Pearson and Aiko Evans shot and edited, weaves footage of Pearson and Williams discussing their relationship, which they both describe as being “family.” “My brother I love you forever!! I do not think forever is long enough,” the actress captioned the tribute on Instagram. In the clip,...

Most episodes of HBO’s new limited series Scenes From a Marriage begin with an odd meta device, where we are watching stars Jessica Chastain or Oscar Isaac arriving on set, interacting with crew members who are wearing full Covid protective gear, studying dialogue and notes on their phones, and getting into character. There’s usually not even an edit in between someone calling “Action!” and when the scene itself begins. Why did Hagai Levi, the acclaimed Israeli-born TV creator (Be’Tipul, The Affair), choose these distracting behind-the-scenes glimpses as his way into...

They hear him before they see him, but they know who he is, and they’re terrified. He is whistling “The Farmer in the Dell,” and by the time he swaggers around the corner of the West Baltimore block, a shotgun visibly dangling beneath his trademark grey duster, Omar Little has sent an entire drug crew scurrying. They sprint down a nearby alley, right into the trap the larger-than-life stickup artist has laid for them, and when he gets a look at a gaudy necklace hanging from the leader’s neck, he...