In the 1980s, it was commonplace for networks to air their passed-on pilots as prime-time specials. Wyatt Cenac caught What’s Alan Watching?, a 1989 CBS sketch-sitcom hybrid produced by Eddie Murphy, on one such summer special. Besides giving Alan Sepinwall the name of his blog, What’s Alan Watching? provided early
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Breakout hits don’t come along as often as they used to in television, and this summer has been no exception. It’s not that audiences abandoned TV after Memorial Day: Unscripted warm-weather warhorses such as America’s Got Talent, Big Brother, and The Bachelorette keep plugging along on the broadcast networks, while
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My first instinct was to agree with Ethan Hawke.The actor sat down with the Film Stage the other day to gab about an array of topics and the conversation eventually turned to the pillar upon which contemporary Hollywood is built: superhero movies. To put it simply, he’s not much of
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How did Pete Davidson propose to Ariana Grande? “I didn’t want to do something corny,” he told Variety in a new cover story. Instead of doing something big and How He Asked-y, the Saturday Night Live star kept it simple: “We were in bed hanging, after watching a movie. I
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It’s tough to talk about the early-aughts indie-rock boom without name-checking Interpol’s 2002 debut album, Turn on the Bright Lights. That keen intersection of punk and dance, coupled with Paul Banks’s baritone vocal growl and obtuse lyrics, hurled them into the spotlight — and was a seismic encapsulation of what
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Catfish impresario Nev Schulman was so panicked about the sexual-harassment accusations against him that he came down with shingles. According to People, on Josh Peck’s podcast Curious Schulman said that his own strain from MTV’s internal inquiry (into accusations that he made inappropriate and sexual comments toward a woman) gave him
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When showrunner Peter Lenkov said at a press conference three weeks ago that there were no Latinx writers on the new Magnum P.I. — a CBS reboot starring Jay Hernandez — because “it’s incredibly hard to find writers,” it drew plenty of criticism from journalists, other TV writers and producers, and
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Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder — a pair of icons who may or may not be married — star in Destination Wedding, an end-of-summer rom-com stinger. They’re playing Frank and Lindsay, two misanthropic wedding guests traveling solo. One night, alone together in their hotel room, Lindsay ignores Frank’s complaints, uncorks
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