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The Saturday Night Live cast reflected on their wild year during the cold open for the Season 46 finale, with Chris Rock — who hosted the Season 46 premiere — also making a surprise guest appearance. In front of the first full-capacity audience of the season, cast members reminisced about the “crazy” year. “We went from doing very weird shows at home to terrifying shows in person,” Bowen Yang said. “At the beginning, our audience was mostly first responders, doctors and nurses,” Cecily Strong pointed out. Aidy Bryant added, “Which...

Billy Porter revealed that he’s been living with a positive HIV diagnosis for the last 14 years in an as-told-to story in The Hollywood Reporter. Porter said he was diagnosed in 2007 and that, at the time, he decided to tell everyone who needed to know, except his mother. He also kept his diagnosis as quiet as possible in his professional life, fearing it “would just be another way for people to discriminate against me in an already discriminatory profession.” Porter said that the Covid-19 pandemic afforded him a chance...

Paul Mooney, the comedian, writer and actor known for his close collaborations with Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle, has died at the age of 79. Mooney died Wednesday at 5:30 a.m. at his home in Oakland, California, his representative confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter. No cause of death was provided. Mooney’s official Twitter wrote to fans following news of the comedian’s death, “Thank you all from the bottom of all of our hearts …you’re all are the best!…… Mooney World .. The Godfather of Comedy – ONE MOON MANY STARS!...

If there’s one lesson Netflix learned from its runaway 2020 hit The Witcher, it’s this: In these troubled times, the viewing public is voracious for escapist fantasy television. And not just any form of the genre — the kind with big-budget effects, deep world-building, tangled romances, and labyrinthine, intertwining plots you can get blissfully lost in. Last month, Shadow and Bone leapt into that void with arms wide open. Eric Heisserer’s series was the second most-watched show in the U.S. the weekend it debuted (behind only Disney+’s The Falcon and...

HBO has announced a special episode of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark that will focus on the developments in the Golden State Killer case after the true-crime docuseries aired. The new episode will premiere June 21st, just under a year after former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo pleaded guilty to multiple counts of rape, kidnapping, and murder in connection to the East Area Rapist and Golden State Killer cases. When DeAngelo was sentenced to life in prison in August 2020, many of his survivors convened at his hearing to...

“Therapy doesn’t have a target audience,” psychologist Brooke Taylor insists. “Everyone can benefit.” The good doctor is right about the wide-ranging value of mental health. Scripted dramas about therapy, however, tend to have a very specific, niche audience — particularly when they are dramas like In Treatment, which are about therapy and nothing else. The original run of In Treatment, based on the Israeli drama Be’tipul, lasted for three seasons on HBO, from 2008 to 2010. The focus then was on Gabriel Byrne as Dr. Paul Weston, a brilliant, devoted...

Margaret Atwood has always been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Born in Ottawa in 1939, Atwood has been consumed with the specter of a sudden totalitarian takeover, like the one she imagined in her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale, since she was a girl. She watched with trepidation, then, if not necessarily surprise, as Donald Trump was swept into power in 2016. When the TV adaptation of her book debuted on Hulu in the early months of his administration, it was heralded as an allegory for our times....

HBO Max has released the official trailer for its long-awaited Friends reunion, which will air May 27th. The clip offers an extensive look at what the reunion will entail, starting with a bit of Friends trivia, with David Schwimmer asking the assembled cast who remembers the length of Rachel’s break-up letter to Ross (18 pages — front and back!). The trailer also features the cast revisiting the old Friends sets, sitting down with James Corden for an interview, and reminiscing about early table reads and the media coverage that came...

Namer Set to Revolutionize the Podcast World With Robust Slate of Programming Under FanVestor Umbrella /Actor Ken Davidian Reveals the Story of his Famous Comedic Scene in 'Borat' As opposed to other shows about the business, Everything Hollywood provides unique insight from people who are actually in the center of the media and entertainment business and not simply reporting on it. We hope to be able to span the entire scope of the entertainment world in terms of coverage of the things the celebrities do outside of their core skill area....

ABC has released a new teaser for its upcoming reboot of the coming-of-age series, The Wonder Years, which is set to premiere this fall. Like the original show, the reboot of The Wonder Years will start in 1968, but will instead center around a black family in Montgomery, Alabama, rather than a white family in a nameless American suburb. Elisha “EJ” Williams will star as 12-year-old Dean, while Don Cheadle will provide narration as the adult version of Dean. The new teaser — which is set to the original show’s...

It’s been more than a year since we last saw Uzo Aduba on television, but the next week is poised to fix that in a big way. On Friday, Aduba appears among the all-star cast of Amazon’s new sci-fi anthology series Solos, doing what’s essentially an episode-length monologue (with some interruption by her home assistant, voiced by Zachary Quinto) as Sasha, a woman who has been quarantining much longer than any of us have. On Sunday, she headlines the revival season of In Treatment, the HBO drama from the late 2000s...

Early this year, Joey Ryan, half of the indie folk duo the Milk Carton Kids, received a text from his friend Sara Bareilles. No surprise there — she, Ryan and Ryan’s musical partner Kenneth Pattengale have known each other for over a decade. This time, Bareilles asked if she could pass Ryan’s contact info along to some TV people she was working with. “I said, ‘Sure, of course, what is it?’ ” he recalls. “And she goes, ‘They want someone to do this song and it’s supposed to sound like...

Netflix has released the official trailer for Sweet Tooth, an original series based on the DC/Vertigo comic by Jeff Lemire. The eight-episode series premieres June 4th on the streaming platform. Set in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world, Sweet Tooth stars Christian Convery as Gus, a hybrid deer-boy who is one of several hybrid babies born after the “Great Crumble” disaster event. After spending the first decade of his life living in hiding in the forest, Gus befriends a wandering nomad named Jepperd (Nonso Anozie), who vows to protect Gus as the two set...

This column contains spoilers for the midseason finale of The Nevers, which is available now on HBO and HBO Max.  The Nevers has echoed many previous works of its creator, Joss Whedon, from its superheroines battling the patriarchy to its quippy, self-aware dialogue. Even outside the story of steampunk heroics in Victorian England, it keeps calling to mind past Whedon shows. Whedon left the series after completing principal photography on these first six episodes (and shortly before actors like Ray Fisher and Charisma Carpenter’s accusations of mistreatment by Whedon, which...