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Josh Gad’s Reunited Apart web series has proven to be quite the delight, with the Frozen actor having used his considerable clout to bring together the casts and crews of the ‘80s classics upon which he was raised in an effort to raise money for various charities. We previously dropped in on his Goonies and Back To…

After 15 seasons and 324 episodes, Criminal Minds finally came to an end in February. Whether you were a fan or not, the CBS drama’s long run is impressive. But over the years, the series became as known for its off-camera drama as it was for its wildly gruesome crime scenes. In fact, the show was back in the news…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: David Lowery’s The Green Knight, starring Dev Patel as King Arthur’s nephew Gawain, has been postponed. But there are plenty of other interesting takes on the…

In the wake of former cast member and professional wrestler Hana Kimura’s death, Japanese broadcaster Fuji Television Network has canceled the reality show Terrace House Tokyo. Per Variety, the network announced the decision locally on Wednesday evening. It did not specify any plans for future iterations of the…

Corporate social media accounts can be pretty hard to pin down these days. They can range from politically radicalized to fully irony-poisoned to somehow blissfully ignorant of internet culture in general. Then, there is the Big Dogs Instagram account, which appears to be promoting the ‘90s sportswear brand that was…

It’s not TV. It’s not HBO—nor is it HBO Go, or HBO Now. It’s HBO Max, the subscription service that’s streaming the conglomerated content libraries of Warner Bros., Cartoon Network, Turner, and all the other brands AT&T recently scooped up and reshaped into WarnerMedia. It’s why Friends left Netflix, how future…

Acclaimed author, playwright, and AIDS activist Larry Kramer has died. Kramer’s passing was confirmed to The New York Times by his husband, David Webster, who cited pneumonia as the cause of death. Kramer had struggled with various illnesses over the years, including liver disease and H.I.V.—the latter of which he was…

Back in 2016, around the same time the poorly received Zoolander 2 was hitting theaters, an animated miniseries depicting the crime-fighting adventures of the world’s premier male supermodel, Derek Zoolander, was released on Netflix. Of course, fans in the U.S. likely wouldn’t know that because the show’s single,…

Kathryn Hahn, Tituss Burgess, and Leslie Odom Jr. are family. At least, they’re family in Apple TV+’s new animated musical Central Park, which hits the streaming service May 29. Hahn and Odom play the parents of Burgess’ dog-loving tween who, alongside his supportive sister (played by Kristen Bell), struggles to both…

Amazon, the company so secure in its public image that it gets swarms of fake Twitter accounts to defend it on social media, wants everyone to think it’s treating its employees really well during the pandemic despite plenty of evidence to the contrary. At this point, most people know that Amazon regularly conducts…

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The biggest takeaway from the latest episode of The Kingcast, in which former Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara opens up about his nixed plans for an epic adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, is this: Amazon done goofed up real good this time. If you’re a Stephen King fan, this week’s edition of The…

For too long, the old have had to give the young unwarranted advice through inconvenient methods like yelling at them on the street or cornering them at Thanksgiving dinner. Thankfully, writer/director/real “punk kid” Alex Frecon has streamlined this process by airing a commercial for a new hotline that allows boomers…

Insecure’s seventh episode of the season, “Lowkey Trippin’,” sent viewers on one of the tensest vacations we’ve seen in a while. Molly, played by Yvonne Orji, and Andrew’s [Alexander Hodge] trip to Mexico should have been a thoroughly sexy, relationship-strengthening sojourn with sun and cocktails. Instead, an…

When Fred Willard died earlier this month, fans and friends everywhere mourned his comedic genius and his kindhearted nature. He could turn any scene into a knee-slapper with a few minutes of solid improv, adding moments of shine to even the most middling productions.

As if HBO Max didn’t have enough content to tout, the newly available streaming services managed to summon the rights to all eight Harry Potter films at the last possible moment, per TVLine. The deal was finalized just before the platform’s launch and the films are currently available in WarnerMedia’s vast library. …

One of Mrs. America’s main challenges is we know how the story ends: we know Phyllis Schlafly effectively prevents the ERA from passing, and we know Ronald Reagan wins the 1980 election. We know how the tides turn politically—we’re living with the results. Not to mention the comparisons between Reagan’s campaign and…

Have you ever baked something from a really complicated recipe? You’ve got to be extraordinarily precise; one wrong measurement, and the entire baking experiment goes to hell. It’s not like cooking, where you can play fast and loose with the rules. Baking benefits from a surfeit of right-brained thinking—measured and…

From its inception, the Toy Story franchise has focused on cowboy Woody’s attachment to his owner, Andy. In the first movie, Woody feels threatened by the addition of action figure Buzz Lightyear to the toy stable. In the second, Woody has separation anxiety and fear of abandonment after Andy doesn’t bring him to…

With Jimmy Kimmel Live being the only late-night game in town this week, Kimmel spent an unhurried seven minutes chatting with former Friends and current Space Force star Lisa Kudrow at one of her homes. (Friends money is a glorious thing, if you can get it.) Sort of a bummer for Kudrow, really, as tomorrow is her…

Doomworld is old news. Welcome to Looworld. In Loomworld, the powers that be assert, over and over again, that the world is right. (The Loomworld doth protest too much, methinks.) In Loomworld, you get the gray mush, unless you’re very fancy, and then you get the blue mush. In Loomworld, Fates be praised, they have…

I don’t want to become one of those people who write to you complaining about how I married someone I wasn’t sexually compatible with ten years ago and now my sex life still sucks. I already know I need to break up with my boyfriend and I was about to do it when he got sick with the flu. This was at the beginning of…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, May 27. All times are Eastern. 

In April, Apple resurrected The Jim Henson Company’s Fraggle Rock as a series of weekly shorts, with each episode being filmed at the homes of the cast and crew on [unnamed smart phones] as they observe social distancing guidelines (we don’t want to turn this into an ad, so you’ll have to figure out what kind of…

Almost three years ago, Twitter released a statement that was almost refreshing in how blatantly insulting and self-important it was, explaining that the company would never do anything about Donald Trump’s tweets because everything he has to say is “newsworthy” and therefore deserves to be read, unfiltered, by anyone…