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A police officer recounts his harrowing rescue from the rubble of the World Trade Center in a new clip from National Geographic’s upcoming docuseries, 9/11: One Day in America, premiering August 29th. In the video — from the final episode of the series — Officer Will Jimeno remembers being pulled out by an array of rescue workers, including someone he knew from the Police Academy. His story is paired with actual footage of the event. “I felt like, ‘It’s somebody I know,’” Jimeno says. “And that meant a lot to...

A review of this week’s Ted Lasso, “The Signal,” coming up just as soon as I make a joke for people born in the early- to mid-Seventies… Midway through “The Signal,” Roy Kent offers a characteristically blunt assessment of what Ted’s leadership has done for Jamie on the pitch: Ted has ruined him. “You’ve made him a team player,” Roy explains. “You got him to pass and shit, and in doing so, you’ve made him average.” This notion is interesting on a few levels. First, it’s another reminder that as...

ABC has released the first full trailer for its upcoming reboot of The Wonder Years, which is set to premiere September 22nd. The series starts in 1968 — the same year the original Wonder Years began — and tells the story of a black family in Montgomery, Alabama, centering around their 12-year-old son, Dean. Dean is played in the show by Elisha “EJ” Williams, while Don Cheadle narrates as grown-up Dean. The new trailer offers a glimpse at how the show will try to balance adolescent growing pains with broader...

If there is an archetypal role for Beanie Feldstein, as an actor an a human, it’s the best friend. The 28-year-old became famous for her performances in two portraits of female friendship: Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, and Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart. “I’m still doing that here,” Feldstein says of her role as Monica Lewinsky in FX’s Impeachment: American Crime Story (premiering September 7th). “It’s just the single most painful side — the most infamous, disgusting act of betrayal between two female friends of all time.” Feldstein stars opposite Sarah Paulson’s Linda...

Spike Lee is “back in the editing room” and working on the final chapter of his new docuseries, NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½. The announcement comes after reports that the final episode of the four-part docuseries features interviews with members of the conspiracy group Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, including its founder Richard Gage. NYC Epicenters premiered on August 22nd, although the final episode isn’t slated to air until around the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Lee’s full statement read: “I’m Back In The Editing Room And Looking At...

Netflix has released a new trailer for its upcoming docuseries, Monsters Inside, about Billy Milligan, the first person to be acquitted of a major crime based on a defense that he suffered from a dissociative identity disorder. In 1977, Milligan was arrested and charged for a string of rapes that took place at Ohio State University. While the evidence clearly pointed to Milligan, when he was taken into custody, Milligan claimed he had no memory of the assaults. Milligan was later diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (then known as multiple...

“We should do our own podcast,” Oliver (Martin Short) suggests to Charles (Steve Martin) and Mabel (Selena Gomez). “I’m sure that every true-crime podcaster wishes he was on the case from the start.” The central characters of Hulu’s wonderful new comedy Only Murders in the Building, these three would know all about that. They are neighbors in an expensive Manhattan apartment complex who’ve never had much to say to one another until discovering two things in rapid succession: One, that they are all hooked on the same true-crime podcast (the...

Apple TV+ has released a full trailer for Season Two of the newsroom drama, The Morning Show, which is set to return September 17th. The new season finds TMS anchors Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) and Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) navigating a new set of pressures and conflicts after their explosive decision to reveal the extent of their workplace’s toxic culture on air. While network executive Cory Ellison (Billy Crudup) tries to inject some stability back into TMS and its network, UBA, the show and its personnel soon realize that they...

On a dark Toronto night in the middle of a bleak pandemic winter, the cast and crew of What We Do in the Shadows are cracking themselves up with poop jokes. In the scene being filmed, the four lead vampires of the FX mockumentary series — bickering lovers Laszlo (Matt Berry) and Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), ancient warrior Nandor (Kayvan Novak), and superhumanly boring “energy vampire” Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) — are debating what to do with Nandor’s human familiar, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), who recently outed himself as a vampire hunter....

Mike Richards announced that he would step down as the new host of Jeopardy! following a string of controversies that clouded his appointment as the show’s successor to Alex Trebek. In a statement issued Friday, August 20th, Richards said, “ver the last several days it has become clear that moving forward as host would be too much of a distraction for our fans and not the right move for the show. As such, I will be stepping down as host effective immediately. As a result, we will be canceling production...

Roy Kent arrived at the exact right moment in Brett Goldstein’s life. It’s already become a legendary bit of modern showbiz lore. The British actor, 41, was originally hired as a writer on Apple TV+’s breakout hit series Ted Lasso. After the writers room wrapped on the first season, however, Goldstein found himself struck by one of the characters — specifically, Roy Kent, the intimidating veteran forward of the show’s British premier league soccer team AFC Richmond. He felt such a kinship with this stoic tough guy, in fact, that...

A review of this week’s Ted Lasso, “Rainbow,” coming up just as soon as you have a ticket for Reba McEntire… Early in “Rainbow,” Ted and the team are watching video of yet another Richmond loss in what increasingly feels like a wasted season for the club. Our hero suggests that the key to escaping the spiral is for the players to put their faith in communism — or rather, “rom-communism,” as in movies like When Harry Met Sally or The Wedding Planner. Why? As Ted explains, “Believing in rom-communism is all about...

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. It’s almost a month until the 20th anniversary of one of the The Sopranos, considered to be one of the greatest TV shows ever made, although we’re a bit biased. Where would we be without Tony, Carmela, Paulie Walnuts and the story’s glorious love letter to all things New Jerseyian? With 21 Primetime Emmy Awards and five Golden...