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‘Feud: Capote vs. the Swans’ Trailer Unites Ryan Murphy Favorites for Long-Awaited Second Season
The FX anthology about writer Truman Capote and New York society women, his "swans," unspools Jan. 31.
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‘Watson’ Drama With Morris Chestnut a Go at CBS
The series was put in development a year ago at the network.
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard Opens Up About Her Revealing Lifetime Documentary, Time in Prison, Mother and What’s Next
"There are a lot of things to unpack in my life — more than just with my mother," she says of the revelations she shares in 'The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.'
Netflix’s ‘Captains of the World’ Trailer Relives Thrills and Heartbreak of 2022 World Cup
Last year’s World Cup is proving to have legs, as Netflix shared the first trailer for its forthcoming soccer-centric series Captains of the World. The streaming giant and FIFA+ are behind the six-episode project launching Dec. 30, going behind the scenes of the 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament that took place in November and December […]
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‘The Gilded Age’ Nabs Season 3 Renewal at HBO
HBO will continue chronicling The Gilded Age. The period drama from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has scored a third-season renewal at HBO. The pickup comes just four days after The Gilded Age’s second-season finale on Dec. 17. “We’re so proud of what Julian Fellowes and The Gilded Age family have achieved,” said Francesca Orsi, […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ Has Big Opening
Squid Game: The Challenge may not be as big as the show that inspired it, but the competition series still got off to a very strong start. Netflix’s unscripted offshoot of its most popular series of all time scored a strong opening in the Nielsen streaming rankings for Thanksgiving week. Adam Sandler’s animated movie Leo […]
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‘The Crown’ Final Episodes: Did Queen Elizabeth Really Consider Abdicating? And 5 Other Questions, Answered
[This story contains spoilers from the final season of The Crown.] With the release of the last six episodes of The Crown on Netflix have come new questions about the fictionalized depiction of the British royal family. In part two of the sixth and final season of the critically acclaimed historical drama, the stage is […]
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‘Shining Vale’ Canceled After Two Seasons on Starz
Starz has canceled its horror-comedy Shining Vale after two seasons. The series, starring Courteney Cox as a woman who begins seeing and communicating with ghosts, finished its second (and now final season) on Dec. 1. In addition to canceling the show, Starz will also remove Shining Vale from its streaming library at the end of […]
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What the ‘Doctor Who’ 60th Anniversary Specials Mean for the Future of the Show
Sixty years is but the blink of an eye for a time-traveler like The Doctor. But for a television series, a Diamond Anniversary is an extremely rare and impressive occurrence. BBC’s Doctor Who recently celebrated such a milestone with three one-hour specials which, for the first time, streamed globally on Disney+. Russell T Davies, fresh […]
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‘House of the Dragon,’ ‘Conversations With Friends’ Stars Board ‘Mare of Easttown’ Creator’s HBO Crime Drama
The HBO drama from Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby continues to build out its cast. House of the Dragon regular Fabien Frankel and Conversations With Friends star Alison Oliver are the latest to join the limited series, which revolves around members of a law enforcement task force and the people they’re trying to apprehend. […]
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Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts Are a Leader and Her Loyal Soldier in ‘The Regime’ Trailer
Matthias Schoenaerts’ “nobody” soldier is the only person Kate Winslet’s European leader can trust as she loses her grip on power in the first trailer for The Regime. From the mind of The Menu and Succession writer Will Tracy, the new Max limited series “tells the story of one year within the walls of the […]
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‘The Crown’ Boss on Critiques of Diana’s “Ghost” and Return of Claire Foy, Olivia Colman in Series Finale
[This story contains spoilers from the series finale of The Crown.] The final six episodes of The Crown have arrived on Netflix, concluding a decade of work that culminated in the fictionalized retelling of Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign over the United Kingdom. Written and created by Peter Morgan in 2016, the six-season series began […]
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‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ Team on Bringing Rick Riordan’s Books to TV
[This story contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Percy Jackson and the Olympians on Disney+.] To say that devoted readers of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Disney+ series based on them would be a Titan-sized understatement. A decade-plus after a pair of movies […]
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‘Percy Jackson’ Premiere Moves Up on Disney+, Hulu
Percy Jackson’s quest is beginning a little sooner than anticipated. Disney+ moved up the premiere of its Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by a few hours. The first two episodes, which had been scheduled to begin streaming early Wednesday, instead dropped at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT Tuesday. The first episode is also streaming […]
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‘What We Do in the Shadows’ to End With Season 6 on FX
FX is preparing to say goodbye to Staten Island’s favorite coven of vampires. The cable outlet will bring its comedy What We Do in the Shadows to a close with its forthcoming sixth season. The series is entering the back half of a two-season renewal that will take the show to its conclusion. A spinoff […]
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‘My Life With the Walter Boys’ Earns Speedy Season 2 Renewal at Netflix
Netflix is going back to Colorado. The streaming giant has handed out a speedy second-season renewal for the series My Life With the Walter Boys. The young adult drama, based on the book from author Ali Novak, bowed Dec. 7 and is currently the No. 1 show on Netflix’s global English top 10 TV list, […]
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‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ Star Wyatt Russell on Why He Waited to Work With Kurt Russell and ‘Thunderbolts’ Anticipation
[This story contains spoilers from Monarch: Legacy of Monsters episode six, “Terrifying Miracles.”] Monarch: Legacy of Monsters star Wyatt Russell has had several opportunities to work alongside his father Kurt over the years, but the younger Russell insisted on establishing himself on his own first. On the Chris Black- and Matt Fraction-created Monarch, the father-and-son […]
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‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves’ Creator Chad Feehan on Exploring Good v. Evil in Season Finale and Where They Could Go Next
[This story contains spoilers from the season finale of Lawmen: Bass Reeves.] In the season finale of Lawmen: Bass Reeves, the audience witnessed a standoff between former Confederate soldier Esau Pierce (played by Barry Pepper) and the hero lawman Bass Reeves (Golden Globe-nominated David Oyelowo). While Esau seemed to see something admirable in Bass from […]
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Hannah Waddingham-Octavia Spencer Action-Adventure Show Lands at Amazon
Consider this Thelma & Louise meets Jack Ryan. Amazon, following an intensive bidding war, has landed the action-adventure show starring Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer with an eight-episode, straight-to-series order. The untitled show is based on an original idea from Tessa Coates (Feel Good) that was taken out to six of the major streamers, four […]
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