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‘The White Lotus’: Everything We Know About Season 3
After welcoming viewers first to The White Lotus: Hawaii and then to The White Lotus: Sicily, the hotel chain at the center of Mike White’s Emmy-winning HBO series is continuing to expand its global footprint as it heads to Thailand for season three. The White Lotus series sets each season around a different property within […]
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‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ Showrunner Unpacks That Open-Ended Finale
[This story contains spoilers from the season finale of Mr. & Mrs. Smith.] Prime Video unloaded all eight episodes of Mr. & Mrs. Smith on Feb. 2 — and, given the short order and relatively propulsive nature of the spy drama, it’s likely that more than a few viewers plowed through the entire run. That’s […]
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Why ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Is Ending and the Story Behind Season 12’s Premiere Kicker
[This story contains spoilers from the season 12 premiere of Curb Your Enthusiasm.] Jeff Schaffer has a lot to say about Curb Your Enthusiasm. And he has a lot that he can’t say about Curb Your Enthusiasm. Ever since the HBO darling’s comeback season in 2017, this writer has been chatting with the executive producer […]
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‘True Detective’ Star Breaks Down That Devastating Death: “I’m All In Now”
[This story contains spoilers from episode four of True Detective: Night Country.] What does a holiday episode of True Detective look like? If it was a question you were wondering before, well, wonder no more: It looks pretty much exactly as you would expect, based on the standard tone of the HBO horror procedural — […]
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How Francesca Sloane Reimagined a More Relatable ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’
Updating a 2005 action movie, one most remembered for a tabloid frenzy inspired by the on-set romance between its stars, was not on Francesca Sloane’s to-do list. And yet, Donald Glover called her a few years ago with that very proposition. Sloane had been writing and producing on the final two seasons of Atlanta, a […]
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‘Chicago Fire’: How Life Imitates Art for David Eigenberg in Season 12
[This story contains some spoilers from the first three episodes of Chicago Fire season 12.] With his 40-year career on stage and screen, actor David Eigenberg looks at his chosen profession as a roller-coaster ride of good fortune with some down times. Upon trying his hand at acting after an honorable discharge from the United States Marine […]
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TV Premiere Dates 2024: The Complete Guide
Hundreds of TV series — new and old, scripted and not, on streaming, broadcast and cable outlets — will premiere in the next 12 months. As production ramped up in the final weeks 2023 following the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, pipelines started to get refilled, which could lead to a crush of premieres in […]
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Inside ‘The Chosen’ Phenomenon: “We Bristle Every Time Someone Calls This a Faith Show”
If you head out to movie theaters this weekend, you’re likely to see The Chosen on the marquee. The TV show, a historical drama based on the life of Jesus, is rolling out its fourth season theatrically, two episodes at a time, over the next month, before dropping in its entirely on apps and streaming […]
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Who Were Truman Capote’s “Swans”? The ‘Feud’ Cast Unpacks Their Counterparts
[This story contains spoilers from Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.] In Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, author Truman Capote’s close relationship with a group of wealthy American socialites unravels when he permits Esquire magazine, in 1975 and 1976, to publish four chapters of his unfinished novel Answered Prayers, in which the unsavory personal details of […]
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‘Star Wars’: 16 Animated Characters Who Made the Leap to Live-Action
[Warning: This story contains spoilers about key plot points and characters’ fates in several Star Wars series and movies.] It’s a good time to be a Star Wars fan. With numerous series and movies afoot, there are plenty of stories to be told in the years to come. Next up is the third and final […]
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10 TV Shows Based on True Stories Coming This Year
After a year in Hollywood largely defined by two massive strikes, the start of a new year makes way for exciting, upcoming series for audiences. The Hollywood Reporter rounded up some of the most anticipated series based on true stories (loosely, or otherwise) premiering in 2024 across streamers and cable networks that will feed into […]
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Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast”
On Monday, Prime Video subscribers who visited the platform were greeted with a new prompt: “Movies and TV shows included with Prime now have limited ads. You can upgrade to be ad free for $2.99 a month.” After a swift click on “not now,” this viewer cued up one of the more successful titles currently […]
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‘Vanderpump Rules’ Is Back: Fame, Feuds and Future of the Hit Bravo Show
Filming season 11 of Vanderpump Rules was a challenge. In fact, it was the hardest season yet. “The level of interest was just more fervent than it had ever been,” says executive producer and showrunner Alex Baskin. “There were chants for our cast while we were shooting and that makes it very hard to film […]
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‘Vanderpump Rules’ Boss Promises a “Worthy Successor” to Scandoval With Season 11
How do you follow Scandoval? That was the question facing Bravo and the Vanderpump Rules producers when they convened to discuss season 11. “Before we started the season, we had a meeting at NBCU,” executive producer and showrunner Alex Baskin tells The Hollywood Reporter of Bravo parent company NBCUniversal, “and we were like, ‘OK, we’ve […]
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How ‘Hazbin Hotel’ Explores What It Means to Be Human in a Hellish Place
[This story contains mild spoilers for season one of Hazbin Hotel.] “On paper, there’s a lot of people that might say no to something like this — a very raunchy animated musical comedy world written by a young woman,” Hazbin Hotel star Stephanie Beatriz tells The Hollywood Reporter. But for the Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Encanto actress, […]
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Evan Rachel Wood Still Doesn’t Know ‘Westworld’ Ending After Cancellation: “It Keeps Me Up at Night”
Evan Rachel Wood knows about as much as fans when it comes to what Westworld creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan had up their sleeves for the final season of their hit HBO series — which is to say, she knows nothing at all. Wood, who spoke to The Hollywood Reporter ahead of her New York […]
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