TV amp; Movies

Superhero films didn’t start with Robert Downey Jr. declaring “I am Iron Man” — there were blockbuster hits, huge swing-and-a-miss failures, and pockets of comic-book cinematic universes way before the MCU came along. The history of Marvel at the movies is long, complicated, and a virtual multiverse of copyright ownerships …

In the Emily in Paris trailer, Emily tells her best friend Mindy about the influx of eligible bachelors on her morning run, not realizing her old flame Gabriel is in the shower behind her. The offbeat drama takes off where the Season Three finale crash landed. Emily must decide between …

Homicide: Life on the Street is on the verge of abdicating the title of the Best TV Show You Can’t Stream. The network series and follow-up film Homicide: The Movie will premiere Aug. 19 onPeacock. On June 17, David Simon — whose nonfiction book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing …

After six weeks of around-the-clock drama in Fiji, the hit reality show Love Island USA Season Six ended on Sunday with viewers choosing the coupled-up Serena Page and Kordell Beckham as the $100,000 prize winners. Leah Kateb and Miguel Harichi were declared the season’s runners-up. While Page and Beckham, together …

Tony Bourdain died six years ago, ending the near-decade I spent as his assistant. I have yet to disable my “Anthony Bourdain” Google Alert, which is how I became aware of Omnivore, the Apple TV+ deep-dive food series executive produced by René Redzepi, chef of the world-renowned Noma restaurant in …

All-star games are usually known for being low-contact, injury-free affairs, but that didn’t prevent Aubrey Plaza — a spectator at this weekend’s WNBA All-Star Game in Phoenix — from tearing her ACL during the festivities. The actress, an admitted hardcore basketball fan, attended the WNBA’s Skills Challenge and 3-Point Contest …

Suits — the long-running USA legal drama that somehow became a streaming juggernaut last summer — will return to conventional television this fall with a spinoff titled Suits: L.A. NBC gave the spinoff a series order Friday, Variety reported, with original Suits creator Aaron Korsh back on board as writer …

Cheng Pei Pei, the pioneering “Queen of Martial Arts” who starred in dozens of wuxia films in Hong Kong before reaching a global audience with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has died at the age of 78. Cheng’s family revealed the actress died Wednesday in San Francisco after she was first …

Jane Fonda and Bob Newhart‘s paths didn’t cross much over the many decades of their respective careers —but in the last eight years, they became neighbors and friends, as Fonda wrote in an Instagram tribute to Newhart, who died Thursday at age 94. “He was just like on the screen: …

Bob Newhart and CBS had one of the most fruitful partnerships in television history, with Newhart starring on the network’s The Bob Newhart Show from 1972 to 1978 and Newhart from 1982 to 1990 —as well as two shorter-lived sitcoms in the Nineties, followed by a recurring role on The …