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Benedict Cumberbatch stars as an ordinary British businessman – who has been recruited by Mi-6, the U.K.’s intelligence service, and a CIA operative. The goal? infiltrate the Soviet Union. The film is based on the true-life of Greville Wynne. He’s the farthest thing from a spy, but the mission is hinged upon Wynne’s ordinariness. (March 19th)

Ginny and Georgia

“We’re like the Gilmore Girls,” Georgia says to her daughter, Ginny, in order to get her to crack a smile. “But with bigger boobs.

Known to friends and family as Sparky, “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz died in 2000. Since that time, Schulz’s work has remained almost universally beloved — as was demonstrated in October when the internet erupted in outrage at Apple TV Plus’ announcement that it would become the exclusive home to three “Peanuts” holiday specials. (A subsequent deal with PBS ensured that two of the specials would be available outside the Apple ecosystem for at least 2020.) Apple is also home to the first new “Peanuts” television projects in roughly two decades.

On Feb. 5, “The Snoopy Show,” a full-length animated comedy series produced in collaboration with Schulz’s family, will debut. Jean Schulz, Sparky’s wife of 27 years, spoke with Variety about the venture.

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It's hard to think of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, and the rest of Charles Schulz's Peanuts gang and not smile. The heart-warming and hilarious comic-strip spanned 50 years and has included countless animated specials, toys, games, and even a feature-film – the franchise has clearly stood the test of time. The latest iteration of the Peanuts franchise has arrived with the latest trailer for The Snoopy Show, a new animated series destined for Apple TV+. The six-episode…...

In today’s TV news roundup, ABC announced the premiere dates for new series “Pooch Perfect,” “Home Economics” and “Rebel,” and HBO Max unveiled the trailer for its five-part limited series “It’s a Sin.”

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Constance Zimmer will join the cast of Freeform’s “Good Trouble” in a recurring role as Kathleen Gale, a fearless yet secretive defense attorney who becomes a mentor for Callie (Maia Mitchell). The drama series follows the residents of Downtown Los Angeles’ the Coterie as they juggle their careers, love, friendship and speaking out for causes they care about. Zimmer is an Emmy-nominated actor, best known for her role on Lifetime’s “UnREAL.” She also had recurring roles on “Entourage,” “House of Cards” and “Shameless.” “Good Trouble” returns to Freeform Feb. 17 at 10 p.m.

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ABC announced premiere dates for three new series: the Rebel Wilson-hosted dog grooming competition series “Pooch Perfect,” which will debut on March 30 at 8 p.

AppleTV+ is still searching for its identity as a streaming service, and aside from the heartwarming and hilarious Ted Lasso, the streamer has yet to enter the zeitgeist in the same way that some of its rivals have. While it waits for the Next Big Thing to catch on in the public eye, families and kids […]

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Charlie Brown meets Snoopy for the first time in the new trailer for The Snoopy Show, out February 5th on Apple TV+.

The clip opens with Snoopy as a lonely puppy, perched on a pile of hay inside a barn. Brown hands him a bone and delightfully tells him they’re going to be best friends. Charlie brings him home, where they ride motorcycles, play football, bake cakes, and go sledding.

Of course, it wouldn’t be Peanuts without the rest of the gang: Woodstock, Snoopy’s partner in crime.

Apple TV+ dropped the trailer for its upcoming Peanuts series “The Snoopy Show” Monday, revealing the origin story of everyone’s favorite beagle.

In the video, which you can view above, Charlie Brown walks into a barn to find a sad-looking, black and white pup sitting on top of a bale of hay.

“Look what I have” the boy says, holding out a treat for the little guy. Snoopy is so excited that he immediately jumps up into Chuck’s arms.

“We’re going to be best friends,” Charlie Brown says to his new dog, snuggling him close. Then he brings Snoopy home and tells him, “Don’t be nervous, you’re going to like it here.”

The rest of the trailer proves Snoopy most certainly does, going through one crazy adventure after another with Charlie Brown, Woodstock and the rest of the Peanuts gang, including Lucy, Linus, Franklin, Schroeder,...

In October, Johnny Cloherty, co-founder of the digital marketing company Songfluencer, dashed off an email to several labels: Christmas was nearly three months away, but Cloherty advised his partners to act like the holiday was imminent. Christmas music owns the charts every December, and if labels wanted to enjoy a piece of the annual streaming bonanza, Cloherty wrote, “you should start your campaigns November 1.”

The Christmas canon is rigid: The ten most popular holiday singles on the Rs 100 this week, for example, were mainly released in the 1950s and 1960s,...

There are certain things that people look forward to every single year that signify when autumn comes around - the changing of the leaves, the slight chill in the air, and (of course) The Great Pumpkin.

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Despite ABC not airing It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown! on television for the first time since gaining the program back in 2001, Apple TV+ has picked it up to remind us that the simple yet lovable character created by Charles M. Schultz will always be here. The half-hour special will be available for free from Oct 30-Nov 1 and has plenty of memorable moments for fans to reminisce over.

Well, if your big Halloween 2020 plans were to stay inside and partake in the yearly ritual of snuggling up on the couch and watching It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown on ABC like you have for the last several decades, we have some sad news. Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang have a new exclusive home on Apple TV+.

Apple TV+ has teamed up with WildBrain, along with Peanuts Worldwide and Lee Mendelson Film Productions, to become the home for all things Peanuts, bringing together new original series and specials, along with iconic beloved specials to fans around the world, all in one place.

New animated Peanuts originals coming to Apple TV+ include a second season of the Daytime Emmy-nominated Snoopy in Space, and a slate of brand-new specials that will find the Peanuts gang marking Mother's Day, Earth Day, New Year's Eve and going back to school - all...

If you wait up all night trying to watch It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown on ABC this year… you might wake up disappointed.

Three beloved Peanuts holiday specials — It’s the Great Pumpkin along with A Charlie Brown Christmas and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving — will now be available to stream on Apple TV+, the streamer announced on Monday. The deal is exclusive, according to Vulture, which means the specials likely won’t air on ABC this holiday season for the first time in decades.

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Apple TV+ has renewed “Snoopy in Space” for Season 2 and, just in time for the holidays, is set to become the home of iconic Peanuts specials and create new ones celebrating Mother’s Day, Earth Day, New Year’s Eve and “Back to School” season, the streaming service said Monday.

Apple’s streaming service, which launched the first season of “Snoopy in Space” in November 2019, has expanded its partnership with WildBrain, Peanuts Worldwide and Lee Mendelson Film Productions to create new shows and specials based on Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the gang. While you wait for those fresh installments, you can check out old favorites “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” and “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” as they begin to roll out over the coming months.

Additionally, Apple and WildBrain’s animation studio are partnering on a Peanuts 70th anniversary documentary film from Imagine Documentaries.

In today’s TV news roundup, Apple TV Plus released a teaser for ‘The Snoopy Show’ in celebration of the comic’s 70th anniversary, and the author of “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” will appear as a guest on “Oprah’s Book Club” and “The Oprah Conversation.”

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Peacock will debut original news shows “The Mehdi Hasan Show” and “Zerlina” Oct. 5 on its exclusive news commentary channel, The Choice. With host and award-winning journalist Mehdi Hasan, “The Mehdi Hasan Show” will delve into current events and provide deeper analysis through interviews and reporting. “Zerlina,” with host and political analyst Zerlina Maxwell, will offer timely coverage of politics through in-depth discussions that unpack the latest breaking news.

Season 7 of “Braxton Family Values” will premiere Nov. 5 on We tv. The reality TV series, which chronicles the life of singer Toni Braxton and her sisters Traci, Tamar, Trina and Towanda and mother Evelyn,...

Snoopy may be best known as Charlie Brown’s dog, but this black and white beagle has a life of his own, including a bunch of alter egos that make him one of the most eclectic dogs around. He’s a renaissance beagle, and soon you and your kids will get to see him and his bird […]

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Charlie Brown’s beloved dog stars in the new series The Snoopy Show, out February 5th, 2021 on Apple TV+. The announcement arrives on the 70th anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip.

The one-minute teaser features Charlie Brown training Snoopy to sit and make him shakes — “That’s delicious!” he tells the dog. Snoopy then embarks on myriad adventures — baking pizza, swimming, climbing mountains — and engages in silly antics with his bird-in-crime, Woodstock. “Why can’t I just have a normal dog?” Charlie Brown asks, sighing.

Later, the duo wreck havoc on a movie theater,...

That funny-looking kid with the big nose that Charlie Brown always hangs out with does it all in a new teaser for The Snoopy Show, which hits Apple TV+ on Feb. 5, 2021.

To mark the milestone 70th anniversary of the first Peanuts strip ever published — and, as it turns out, to take our minds off the real world for an all-too-brief 60 seconds — Apple TV+ on Friday release a teaser for its new animated series starring the internationally beloved beagle and his feathered best friend Woodstock as they tackle all-new adventures (while making time for pizza along the way).

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It’s the start of a new month and Disney Plus has a lot of great content coming across August for its subscribers to enjoy. This Friday will see the next batch drop on the streaming service and it’s a decent-sized haul, too. There are all the latest episodes of D+’s usual TV shows – One Day at Disney, Pixar in Real-Life, Disney Family Sundays, etc. – to enjoy, plus a few must-see movies.

To begin with, this week’s lot includes Howard, a documentary film honoring the late Howard Ashman, the acclaimed lyricist behind the songs of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Little Mermaid who tragically passed away at just 40 years old in 1991. There’s also the second episode of unscripted series Muppets Now as well as National Geographic shows Hidden Kingdoms of China and UFO Europe: The Untold Stories.

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Looking back on the last few months, many have indulged in bouts of self-pity, perhaps even despair. “I can’t get a haircut”, “The movie theatres are closed”, “The store’s outta’ Tp”, were often heard in conversation or on social media. But at least you could complain in the comfort of your home. What happens when that gets wiped out in minutes, or in this case, an entire town (comprised of long-time residents). This new documentary is not focused on faraway land ravaged by earthquakes or tsunamis. Yes, it’s set in the US of A, where parts of the country get battered by floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, along with some nasty tremors. For this film, the makers zero in the West where fire season looks to replace Fall or Winter for a look at an entire town almost wiped off the map. Oh, that filmmaker is an Oscar winner...

Cursing is a sign of weakness. You know who taught me that? Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Charlie Brown and the whole “Peanuts” gang, who never used an epithet in the comic strip harsher than “Rats.” More often it was just “Good grief.” “You don’t need anything stronger than that,” Sparky (as everyone called him) told me in one of our early interviews. He was a wise and gentle artist, who hailed from Minneapolis and made his home in Santa Rosa, California. So when I read that a Republican congressman from Florida named Ted Yoho called his colleague Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-ny) a “f—-ing bitch,” I was shocked. The words were uttered in full earshot of a reporter from The Hill, who reported it. I’m still in shock, actually. And now I’m in awe. Because Ocasio-Cortez made history on the floor of Congress on Thursday when...