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The Big-Money, Big-Deal Books of the Fall

Autumn — especially the autumn of a bizarre midterm-election year — is the season of fierce competition in publishing. Some books only want enough fans to be prize-winners, or cult favorites, or genre best sellers. But some want to command readers’ most precious commodity: well, money, to be sure, but … More » Source: Ent […]

Every Episode of Sports Night, Ranked

The thing to keep in mind about the version of Aaron Sorkin that created and ran the two-season ABC dramedy Sports Night, which premiered 20 years ago this week, is this: He was not yet a name. A respected playwright, sure; an accomplished screenwriter, definitely. But he was still relatively … More » Source: Ent […]

Michael Moore Won’t Give Up On America

Michael Moore is in two modes tonight. In this particular moment, he’s on CNN jousting with Chris Cuomo, who’s tanned and ready with opinions and pointed fingers. It’s Tuesday night and they’re discussing the just-breaking news that Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh … More » Source: Ent […]

Raphael Bob-Waksberg, In Good Faith

Raphael Bob-Waksberg is reading me some numbers. As the seasons of BoJack Horseman progressed, he had his team create some quantitative data to look at the show’s hiring practices for voice actors: over five seasons, 35 percent of the people cast have been nonwhite actors. Not bad, he explains, but … More » Source: Ent […]

Jordan Peele Will Enter Another Dimension, Host CBS’s Twilight Zone Revival

You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. Your host: Jordan Peele. CBS announced Thursday that Peele will host and narrate CBS All Access’s “modern reimagining” of The Twilight Zone. Peele will also executive-produce, and his company Monkeypaw Productions will produce. “Rod … More » Source: Ent […]