In a typical election season — remember those? — right about now we would be preparing for, or recovering from, the final presidential debate. But Oct. 23, the date of a proposed CNN showdown that Kamala Harris accepted and Donald J. Trump declined, came and went without one. Instead, as …
Read More »‘Good Omens’ Season 3 Cut Short Amid Allegations Against Neil Gaiman
“Good Omens,” a series based on a novel by the author Neil Gaiman written in collaboration with Terry Pratchett, will return for a third and final season, but it will consist of only one episode, Prime Video announced on Friday. “Good Omens” is the third production to face turmoil this …
Read More »‘Saturday Night Live’ Welcomes Back Alec Baldwin
A contentious interview of Vice President Kamala Harris conducted on Wednesday by Bret Baier, the chief political anchor for Fox News, was an inevitable subject of satire on this week’s “Saturday Night Live.” The opening sketch that parodied this interview also marked the return of Alec Baldwin, a frequent “S.N.L.” …
Read More »Lynda Carter Never Played Wonder Woman: ‘I Was Always Just Diana’
When Lynda Carter released the pop single “Pink Slip Lollipop” over the summer, she saw it as a way to give men who ghost and gaslight a candy-coated boot. “I just thought it was funny,” she said in a video call from her home outside Washington, D.C. Carter may forever …
Read More »Toni Vaz, Stuntwoman and Founder of N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards, Dies at 101
Toni Vaz, who cut a path as one of the first Black stuntwomen in Hollywood, with appearances in more than 50 movies, and then created the N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards to recognize the often unsung work of Black writers and performers, died on Oct. 4 in Los Angeles. She was 101. …
Read More »Bruce Campbell on ‘Hysteria!’ and Why the Satanic Panic Never Ended
In 1981, Bruce Campbell knocked horror fandom’s socks off as Ash Williams, the iron-jawed demon fighter in “The Evil Dead,” Sam Raimi’s outré and now-beloved film about friends who battle unholy hell at a cabin in the woods. It was, it seems fair to say, a defining role. Now at …
Read More »At CBS, Everything Old Is New Again, Including ‘NCIS’
CBS is reconvening this week, premiering a dozen of its dramas and comedies, including 10 of last season’s 15 most-watched scripted shows. You might dismiss the network’s dominance of the broadcast ratings as a case of being the top dog on a small playground, but the seven million to 10 …
Read More »‘It’s Florida, Man’ Reveals the Lives Behind Bizarre News Stories
“It’s Florida, Man,” premiering Friday at 11 p.m., on HBO, takes a “Drunk History” approach to the intimacy and portraiture of “How To With John Wilson.” It uses familiar comedic actors in cheeky re-enactments of real events, but those events are all personal sagas; they are obscure and strange, sometimes …
Read More »Ananda Lewis, Former MTV V.J., Says She Has Stage 4 Breast Cancer
The former MTV V.J. Ananda Lewis said in a CNN round-table discussion that was posted online on Tuesday that her breast cancer, which she first learned she had in 2019, metastasized last year and had reached Stage 4. In a phone interview with The New York Times on Wednesday, Lewis, …
Read More »What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Wranglers’ and ‘Elsbeth’
For those who still enjoy a cable subscription, here is a selection of cable and network TV shows, movies and specials that broadcast this week, Oct. 14-20 Details and times are subject to change. Monday THE WRANGLERS 9 p.m. on the CW. This new documentary is like the reality show …
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