Despite the way it has flooded the zone for the past few decades, I find it hard to enjoy most food television as it exists in 2025. Glitzy fine-dining porn like Chef’s Table is just that — an overwhelming series of zero-context money shots. I used to love the instructional …
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When NBC’s reality show The Biggest Loser premiered in 2004, producers weren’t sure if they could sell America on the idea of weight loss being fun. But what started as a network experiment with less than 500 applicants for its first season became a global sensation. The show ran for …
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When Margaret Brown moved to Austin in 1996, she was greeted by the smiling faces of four young girls, peering down at her from faded billboards all over town. Highlighted in a shock of red, just underneath their black and white portraits was the question, “WHO KILLED THESE GIRLS?” In …
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The tagline for Hulu‘s documentary series Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari promises “a wild tale of greed, sex, and mysterious death.” The first official trailer for the three-part release delivers. Streaming beginning July 21, Murder on Safari follows the 2016 murder of Bianca Rudolph, who died in a safari cabin …
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The true crime story about a millionaire dentist, his wife, and his mistress, and one of their suspicious deaths on a Zambian safari — a mystery documented in the pages of Rolling Stone — will be the focus of a Hulu docuseries out next month. Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari …
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Sherri Papini recounts her “abduction” in her own words — truthful or not — in the new trailer for a four-part ID docuseries premiering next month. Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie, out May 26 and May 27 on ID and Max, features the California mother of two talking on …
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Netflix has shared the first trailer for Gone Girls, the upcoming docuseries about the Long Island Serial Killer. First announced back in August 2023, just a month after the arrest of LISK suspect Rex Heuermann, Gone Girls finds filmmaker Liz Garbus — who directed the 2020 dramatized filmLost Girlsabout the …
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The Stanford prison experiment, a prison simulation that took place over two weeks in 1971, forever shifted the field of psychology and its interpretation of human nature. Now, a new docuseries by National Geographic delves into the study and features firsthand accounts from the original “guards” and “prisoners,” many speaking …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. About halfway through the first episode of the new HBO docuseries Ren Faire, Jeff Baldwin likens his workplace to Shakespeare’s King Lear. Baldwin sees himself as Cordelia, the …
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Revisit the tragic and infamous Jonestown massacre in the new trailer for an upcoming docuseries that examines the final hours of Jim Jones’ cult in Guyana. Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown — the latest installment in Nat Geo and Hulu’s One Day in America franchise — features rare archival …
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