Alec Baldwin‘s Donald Trump faced down the threat of impeachment in Saturday Night Live‘s Season 45 cold open. Despite Baldwin’s insistence that he was “so done” with playing the president on SNL, the show opened with the actor’s Trump phoning his accomplices – Kate McKinnon’s Rudy Giuliani, Beck Bennett’s Mike …
Read More »Watch Billie Eilish, Woody Harrelson's 'First Day of School' in 'SNL' Promo
Woody Harrelson takes “new kid” Billie Eilish on a tour of Saturday Night Live High in a new promo for the season premiere.SNLreturns this Saturday with Harrelson as host and Eilish as musical guest. Carrying a composition notebook and a backpack, Eilish is first seen outside of 30 Rock, nervous …
Read More »'Criminal' Review: Welcome to the Wide World of Cop Shows
Netflix‘s Criminal is, depending on how you want to look at it, either one big, bold experiment or four smaller experiments. A police procedural where every episode takes place only inside an interview room and its immediate surroundings, it is Bottle Episode: The Series — only with an international component …
Read More »Shane Gillis Dropped From 'Saturday Night Live' After Racist Jokes Resurface
Shane Gillis will not join the cast of Saturday Night Live this fall, a spokesperson for the show on behalf of Lorne Michaels told The New York Times. “After talking with Shane Gillis, we have decided that he will not be joining SNL,” the statement read. “We want SNL to …
Read More »Sean Spicer to Compete on 'Dancing With the Stars'
ABC will assist in the rehabilitation of former White House Press Secretary and known liar Sean Spicer by allowing him to compete on Dancing With the Stars. Spicer served as President Donald Trump’s press secretary for the first six months of his presidency, during which he lied about Trump’s inauguration …
Read More »'Atlanta' Renewed for Season Four
Donald Glover’s FX show Atlanta has been renewed for a fourth season, Variety reports. FX made the announcement Tuesday at a Television Critics Association tour stop. As with prior seasons, Season Four will be executive produced by Glover and his brother Stephen, along with Paul Simms, Dianne McGunigle and Hiro Murai. …
Read More »Best TV to See in Aug.: 'Succession,' 'Righteous Gemstones,' 'BH90210'
What’s on TV in August? How about a women-of-color sketch-comedy showcase; deep-dive retrospectives of hit machine Motown Records and the original Woodstock concert; two HBO comedies about obscenely wealthy and highly dysfunctional families (though only one features slapstick baptism gags); a most peculiar reboot of a his show from the …
Read More »Watch Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe Go Stir Crazy By the Sea in New Trailer for 'The Lighthouse'
After making a big splash at the Cannes Film Festival back in May, Robert Eggers’ new film The Lighthouse finally has its first official trailer. The “nautical psychodrama” arrives in theaters October 18th. The film, shot on 35mm black-and-white film and presented in Academy (“square”) ratio, stars Willem Dafoe and …
Read More »'Big Little Lies' Season 2 Finale Recap: Truth Be Told
A review of “I Want To Know,” the Big Little Lies Season Two finale, coming up just as soon as I have connections for my sugar cereals… Midway through “I Want To Know,” Ed calms Madeline‘s fears about their marriage by offering to renew their vows. But, he tells her, …
Read More »The 'Cats' Trailer Is Even More Terrifying Than Anticipated
We should’ve seen it coming. When we first learned that a film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long-running Broadway musical Cats, would be a mix of live-action and CGI, there was a collective dread over how the computer-generated human-cat hybrids would look on-screen. Earlier this week, the stars of the …
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