After Nick Kroll’s first standup special, Thank You Very Cool, arrived over a decade ago, the comedian shifted his focus toward his star-performing television endeavors, like the Netflix animated series Big Mouth. But Kroll is all grown up now, and he has a new standup special, Nick Kroll: Little Big …
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The man charged with storming onstage and tackling comedian Dave Chappelle during his Netflix Is a Joke show at the Hollywood Bowl last May will be moved to a new jail dorm to receive mental health services as he awaits trial in his misdemeanor battery case, a judge ruled Tuesday. …
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These days, Neil Gaiman‘s most frequent collaborator is his own twentysomething self. As an executive producer on the decades-in-the-making Netflix adaptation of The Sandman and the showrunner of Amazon Prime’s Good Omens (based on his 1990 novel with the late Terry Pratchett), the wildly successful and prolific fantasy author keeps …
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King’s Landing. The Iron Throne. The Red Keep, the theme song, the sex and the violence, more platinum-blonde Targaryens than you can shake a Valyrian steel sword at. And dragons. Big, flying, fire-breathing dragons. Based on its premiere episode — you can’t properly call it a pilot, since the whole …
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A satirical take on Prince Andrew is headed for Channel 4. On Monday, the British network announced that it’ll air Prince Andrew: The Musical, a comedic musical based on the Duke of York’s life, including his BBC interview about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in 2019. The network said the …
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This post contains spoilers for the season finale of The Rehearsal, which is now streaming on HBO Max. Among the most clever things about Nathan Fielder‘s The Rehearsal is that its very structure, along with the secrecy behind how Fielder and company produced the docu-comedy, makes it almost entirely analysis-proof. …
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In the first trailer for the forthcoming three-part docuseries Sins of Our Mother, archival footage depicts Lori Vallow engaged in some uncomfortably eerie foreshadowing. “Being a good mom is very important to me, and a good wife,” she says, adding with a light laugh: “Being all those things together is …
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On the surface, Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s Free Chol Soo Lee tells the story of an infamous wrongful conviction and its long cultural aftermath. If you recognize the name, you know the story. In Chinatown, San Francisco, in 1973, a man named Yip Yee Tak was gunned down on …
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Actor Gary Busey is facing four criminal charges, including two counts of criminal sexual contact in the fourth degree. The Cherry Hill Police Department confirmed the charges, which relate to “incidents occurring at the annual Monster-Mania Convention hosted by the Doubletree Hotel.” The event, held during the weekend of Aug. …
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The family of actor Bill Paxton has reached a settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the surgeon who performed his heart surgery shortly before he died on Feb. 25, 2017. According to a court filing obtained by the Associated Press, the suit was filed …
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