The Fraggles and Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Are Coming to Bay Area Theaters
If you’re a Jim Henson fan who misses the glorious puppetry of the 1980s, get ready to dance your cares away (clap, clap) because a 1984 holiday episode of Fraggle Rock, titled “The Bells of Fraggle...
View Article‘Downton Abbey’ Is Back! Watch the First Movie Trailer
It’s been 1013 days (that’s 87,523,200 seconds!) since Downton Abbey left our TV screens. Because life must go on, we moved on, filling the PBS-approved-Britsh-import-sized hole in our hearts with...
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NPR’s Favorite TV Shows Of 2018
Hundreds and hundreds of series air every year. They are good and they are lousy; they are new and they are old. There’s too much television for a comprehensive ranking, so Glen Weldon, Linda Holmes...
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‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ Makes You Choose Your Own Adventure
Netflix is hungry, and it’s got its eye on a juicy slice of interactivity. The streaming service started its originals business with prestige dramas and comedies. But its appetite increases, and now it...
View ArticleThe Best New Year’s Eve Episodes For Your Hangover
If the festive season is Sodom and Gomorrah, New Year’s Day is the fire and brimstone that comes to cleanse us of our sins. It’s a day to get our heads straight before work starts again, a day of quiet...
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Critics Get Vocal After Netflix Drops Hasan Minhaj Episode in Saudi Arabia
Last fall, the world watched as Saudi Arabia’s official story about the death of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi changed, and changed again. A series of contradictory claims and denials came...
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Introducing ‘The Masked Singer,’ Featuring TV’s Hottest Peacock-Hippo Battle
If you’ve always wondered what a sing-off between the Phillie Phanatic and Goofy from Disneyland would look like, The Masked Singer is about as close as you’re going to get. It premiered on Fox on...
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Golden Globes 2018: The Complete List Of Winners
Updated at 11:18 p.m. ET The 76th Golden Globe Awards aired Sunday night on NBC. Here is the complete list of winners. (Winners are in bold italics.) Film Best motion picture — drama Black Panther...
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The Very Best Gifs from the 2019 Golden Globes
Let’s start at the very beginning: the red carpet. All the stars were decked in their finest, but only two get a shout-out in this post because… well, just look at this: Bradley Cooper tracing Lady...
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How Ben Stiller Unlocked an Old-Fashioned Prison Break in ‘Escape at Dannemora’
Ben Stiller loves a good escape story. So when he heard about Richard Matt and David Sweat, two convicted murderers who used tools provided by a prison employee to break out of a New York state maximum...
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Meet the Trans, Non-Binary and Bio Queens Who Deserve a Spot on ‘RuPaul’s...
When the announcement was made that RuPaul’s Drag Race was getting a British version, the response on social media was rapturous. But as the search for queens got underway, criticism from the country’s...
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‘Victoria’ Season 3 Premiere Recap: God Save The Queen
For those who have no idea what this show is about, I advise you to catch up with my previous recaps. Everyone else, let’s do this thing! Boom! It’s 1848 and we’re in Paris! But hold off on adorning...
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Netflix’s Fyre Festival Documentary Arrives This Week
In April 2017, it was marketed as the party of a lifetime. The Fyre Music Festival was billed as a two-weekend, immersive experience in paradise where festival goers would enjoy top musical acts, party...
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Part ‘Walking Dead,’ Part ‘I Am Legend,’ ‘The Passage’ is Coming to FOX
The best-selling trilogy of novels by Justin Cronin—The Passage, The Twelve and The City of Mirrors—collectively form an epic tale, sweeping in scope. Combining apocalyptic fiction with straight-up...
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Everyone is a Traveler as The CW Returns to ‘Roswell, New Mexico’
As turn-of-the-millennium YA soaps on television go, Roswell was no Buffy or Dawson’s Creek, but it had its devotees. Furthermore, it was the big break for both Shiri Appleby and Katherine Heigl, both...
View ArticleHow On-Screen Depictions of Veterans So Often Betray Them
It’s been a trope for half a century: the damaged soldier returns home from war, depressed, confused and probably dangerous. There are the unhinged, Russian roulette-playing Vietnam vets of Deer...
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Fighting ‘Fyre’ With ‘Fyre Fraud’: Two Documentaries About the Same Disaster
Fyre Festival just keeps delivering drama. In the months leading up to April 2017, Fyre Festival was promoted as a glamorous music festival that would be filled with Instagram models and other...
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‘Victoria’ Season 3 Episode 2 Recap: The Guns of Brixton
In the previous episode of Victoria, the Queen spent so much time fighting with Lord Pam… …that she failed to notice her true battle was with the mob outside the palace strongly considering...
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‘Victoria’ Season 3 Episode 3 Recap: La Isla Bonita
In the previous episode of Victoria, the Queen gave birth to yet another baby (*lets out a pregnant sigh*). For those keeping score, that’s six down, three to go. Hang in there, everyone! Hot Italian...
View ArticleWhy the New Michael Jackson Documentary Won’t Have the Impact ‘Surviving R....
If anyone ever needed a reminder of the awesome power of documentaries, Surviving R. Kelly provided a particularly impactful one. Since the docuseries aired, Kelly has been dropped by RCA, denounced by...
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