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Netflix is rebooting a 43-year-old cop show that is considered to be one of William Shatner’s best non-Star Trekshows. Following news of the revival movie, the legendary actor is revealing his thoughts on the matter.

On Aug. 6, Netflix announced, via Deadline, that it has gained the rights for a new action-comedy movie based on the 1980s police procedural T.J. Hooker, which starred Shatner as well as Heather Locklear. Entertainment Weekly reached out to Shatner regarding his thoughts on the reboot, and a representative for the actor shared his answer via e-mail.

“I know nothing. It would be a lovely idea to resurrect the legendary character, but I have no idea what’s going on,” Shatner said in his response.

The original T.J. Hooker premiered on ABC in 1982 and ran for a total of five seasons and 90 episodes. Shatner, who is best known for playing James. T. Kirk, in the Star Trek franchise,...

Netflix has announced its next project, and it’s a take on a 1980s TV series that starred none other than William Shatner. While he may be most well-known for playing Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trekfrom 1966 to 1969 and in its subsequent feature films, it’s his cop show that’s being rebooted on the streamer.

According to Deadline, Netflix has gained the rights for a new action comedy movie based on the 1980s police procedural T.J. Hooker, which starred Shatner and Heather Locklear. T.J. Hooker ran from 1982 to 1986 and is regarded as one of Shatner’s greatest shows, aside from Star Trek, of course.

News of the new T.J. Hooker movie comes on the heels of the success of the recently-rebooted The Naked Gun franchise, which, as of Aug. 6, has earned more than $30 million worldwide, per Box Office Mojo.

Jarrad Paul and Andy Mogel are on board to write the T.

With The Naked Gun bringing cop comedy back to movie theaters, Netflix has just signed on to produce a lighter look at a classic cop show. T.J. Hooker, William Shatner's 1980s procedural staple, is being rebooted as an action comedy feature. The series was Shatner's first post-Star Trek role that allowed him to break out of the Captain Kirk mold.

The show's cheesiness and straight-laced nature makes it fertile territory for a comedic reboot, akin to the Channing Tatum-Jonah Hill21 Jump Street films. Deadline reports that Jarrad Paul and Andy Mogel have been signed to write the film. The duo has an extensive comedy resume that includes Yes Man, Huge in France, and Allen Gregory. They've recently done a number of projects for Netflix: they're currently showrunning Bert Kreischer's series Bert, and wrote the John Cena-Eric André comedy Little Brother. The most relevant item on their...

Exclusive: Hot on the trail of a strong weekend opening of The Naked Gun, the ’80s prime time procedural T.J. Hooker will be next procedural in line for promotion to an action comedy movie. Netflix has collared screen rights to the venerable cop drama, with Jarrad Paul & Andy Mogel tapped to write. The film will be produced by Sophie Cassidy and Matt Crespy for 2.0 Entertainment, Adrian Askarieh for Prime Universe Films, and Alex Westmore for Vali Vista Films.

The original series premiered in March 1982 on ABC and ended its five-season, 91-episode run in 1986, with its final season airing on CBS. The show starred William Shatner as Sgt. T.J. Hooker of the Lcpd, a hard-nosed veteran reeling from a divorce from his wife and the loss of his partner in the line of duty. Principled, moral, and driven to fight crime, the former plainclothes detective returns to uniform to...

To help you anticipate and navigate all that television has to offer across broadcast, cable and streaming, TVLine offers daily, weekly and monthly What to Watch digests, as well as an overview of every new TV show premiering in 2025.

This week, you’ll find eight new shows (including Dennis Quaid in Happy Face, Ellen Pompeo in Good American Family and Uzo Aduba in The Residence), seven finales (including Severance, Shifting Gears and Happy’s Place), five streaming debuts (including Anora, Wicked and the final episodes of Yellowstone) and more.

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The rapid advancement in the field of artificial intelligence has given birth to a number of Large Language Models (LLMs), each of which is distinct and has various applications. This post is examining the position of OpenAI’s models within the context of other AI platforms, their competitive analytics as well as potentialities in the market, and the user audiences.

What is OpenAI?

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence research organization founded in December 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

What is Llm?

Let’s start with the basics.

A Large Language Model (Llm) is an advanced AI system trained on vast amounts of text data to understand, generate, and predict human language, enabling tasks like translation, summarisation, and conversation.

Five popular Large Language Models (LLMs) include:

Gpt-4 (by OpenAI) Bert (by Google) Lamda (by Google) LLaMA (by Meta) PaLM (by Google) OpenAI at a Glance Industry Artificial intelligenceFoundedDecember 11, 2015; 8 years agoHeadquartersSan Francisco,...

Acast, the world’s leading independent podcast company, today announced a new partnership with the Pionaire Network. As part of the deal, Acast will be responsible for the hosting, distribution, and monetization of all Pionaire Network podcasts, including the top ranking comedy podcast The Bert Show.

“Since The Bert Show first launched as a radio broadcast more than 20 years ago, the show and broader Pionaire Network have grown massively to reach new audiences and adapt with the evolving audio landscape,” said Bert Weiss, Host of The Bert Show and Co-Founder of the Pionaire Network. “In searching for a new ad sales partner, we knew we needed a team like Acast that shared our understanding of the history of the podcasting industry as much as they could anticipate the future of the space. Especially for a show like ours that shares a radio and podcasting audience.”

The Bert Show is an...

The hit CBS sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, catapulted its cast, such as Jim Parsons and Kaley Cuoco, to global fame. However, despite the show’s immense success, it can’t be denied that not everyone embraced its nerdy themes.

The Big Bang Theory | Credit: CBS

When Cuoco encountered one such critique during her appearance on the Netflix show, The Cabin with Bert Kreischer, the actress got visibly uncomfortable while struggling to defend one of the most successful projects of her career.

Kaley Cuoco’s Awkward Encounter with The Big Bang Theory Criticism

In 2020, Kaley Cuoco joined the Netflix show The Cabin with Bert Kreischer alongside Joel McHale and comedian Ms Pat. And what transpired further in their discussion did not seem a very pleasing experience for the actress.

Kaley Cuoco as Penny | Credit: CBS

One of the guests on the show, comedian Ms. Pat did not recognize the Emmy-nominated actress.

As Netflix makes room for rom-com galore this February, a slate of classic flicks and beloved favorites, from Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You” to the Samuel L. Jackson-led “Coach Carter,” will be exiting the platform.

“Air Force One” and “Walking Tall” and join the slate of action movies exiting the streaming service this month. Even spookier, several thrillers, including “Scream 4,” “Shutter Island,” “The Forest,” “Term Life” and “Margin Call” are also leaving Netflix this month.

Other notable titles that won’t be available on the streaming platform after February include “Cake,” “Mr. Right,” seasons 2 and 3 of “H2O: Just Add Water,” seasons 1 and 2 of “Versailles,” “The Paper Tigers,” “No Escape Room,” “Dragonheart: Vengeance” and several editions of “One Piece.” Catch up while you can!

Here’s the full list of what’s leaving Netflix in February 2023 below, and check out what’s new on Netflix here.

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Exclusive: Six time Emmy-nominated actress Anna Chlumsky has been cast in John Logan’s untitled Blumhouse movie which is set at a gay conversion camp.

She joins Logan’s feature directorial, which is billed as a Lgbtqia+ empowerment feature alongside already announced Kevin Bacon, Carrie Preston and Theo Germain.

Jason Blum and Michael Aguilar are producing. Bacon and Scott Turner Schofield are serving as EPs.

Chlumsky first blasted off opposite John Candy in Uncle Buck and Macaulay Culkin in My Girl back in the early ’90s. She played White House aide Amy Brookheimer on HBO’s comedy series Veep scoring six comedy series supporting actress Primetime Emmy nominations as well a nom for a Critics Choice Award. She won a SAG Award with the cast in the category of Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Chlumsky was also lauded with the Gracie Allen Award in 2015 for Outstanding...

British actor Geoffrey Palmer, known for appearing in a large variety of stage, movie, and television roles over the past several decades, has sadly passed away. Having appeared in several episodes of Doctor Who, the official Twitter account posted that they were "sad to report the death" of the veteran performer, listing the episodes he had starred in. It was also confirmed by his agent that Palmer died peacefully at his home following a short illness. He was 93 years old.

Palmer was born on the 4th of June in 1927 in London, England. After serving as a corporal instructor in small arms and field training in the Royal Marines, Palmer had turned his attention to performing. In the 1950s, he was appearing in stage productions at the Royal Court and for the National Theatre Company, including productions of Weest of Suez and Sabrina Fair.

He'd also begin appearing on television around...

In response to the global Covid-19 crisis and the health and safety challenges facing live, in-person events, Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival (Gff) has announced revised dates for its 4th edition, now set to run Oct. 23-31, a month after it was originally planned.

Gff director Intishal Al Timimi said in a statement: “Several film festivals have been impacted by the ongoing global Covid-19 pandemic and their return to the scene will send a positive signal that the world is on its way to normalcy. At Gff, we choose to live in this hope and positivity and continue our commitment to make a contribution to the development of cinema internationally and in the region, and to ensure a safe yet enjoyable experience for all participants.”

This year’s festival will be the first public event held in the newly built 8,000 square-meter Gouna Conference and Culture Center. The festival program...

Next year, one of the most iconic characters in all of cinema is back on the big screen in Disney's highly-anticipated Mary Poppins Returns. We've already seen first look photos of both Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins and Lin-Manuel Miranda as the lamplighter Jack, but today we have even more new images, along with behind-the-scenes photos and concept art. We also have more details from director Rob Marshall, who teases how he brought Mary Poppins back to life.

Entertainment Weekly debuted its new cover for this week's print edition, which features Emily Blunt in full costume as Mary Poppins. The site also has new photos featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda as Jack, Pixie Davies as Annabel Banks, Joel Dawson as Georgie Banks, Nathanael Saleh as John Banks, Emily Mortimer as Jane Banks and Ben Whishaw as Michael Banks. There are also behind-the-scenes shots with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Emily Blunt, Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh,...

Broadway’s delightful — but wickedly accurate — satire of big business was brought to movie screens almost intact, with the story, the stars, the styles and dances kept as they were in the long-running show that won a Pulitzer Prize. This is the place to see Robert Morse and Michele Lee at their best — it’s one of the best, and least appreciated movie musicals of the 1960s.

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1967 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 121 min. / Street Date March 14, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95

Starring: Robert Morse, Michele Lee, Rudy Vallee, Anthony Teague, Maureen Arthur, Sammy Smith, Robert Q. Lewis, Carol Worthington, Kathryn Reynolds, Ruth Kobart, George Fennemann, Tucker Smith, David Swift.

Cinematography: Burnett Guffey

Film Editor: Allan Jacobs, Ralph E. Winters

Original Music: Nelson Riddle

Art Direction: Robert Boyle

Visual Gags: Virgil Partch

From the play written by Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows,...

Disney has some incredible reboots in store, but one of the most highly anticipated has to be the upcoming sequel to Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Returns. While nothing can top the original, the film certainly has some incredible stars lined up, including cameos from the original cast! Not to mention, the production team certainly knows a thing or two about musical adaptations. Get all the details about the movie, as well as the release date, here. The Cast Emily Blunt will take on the coveted role of Mary Poppins, and Lin-Manuel Miranda will play a lamplighter named Jack. The film also stars Colin Firth, Meryl Streep, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, and Julie Walters. Dick Van Dyke (who played Bert in the original movie) will also make a special appearance as Mr. Dawes Jr., the chairman of Fidelity Fiduciary Bank. Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, and Joel Dawson will play the three new Banks children.

Emily Blunt has officially landed the role of Mary Poppins in a Disney sequel set for release in 2018.

Rumours suggesting 33-year-old British actress was the frontrunner to take on the titular role in the family movie first emerged in February (16), and on Tuesday (May 31), Disney executives officially announced she is their leading lady.

Variety reports Blunt will be joined by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the star and creator of Broadway smash Hamilton, and the sequel, entitled Mary Poppins Returns, will hit cinemas on Christmas Day (25Dec18).

Blunt will be reuniting with the director and production team behind her hit 2014 Disney musical Into the Woods, and filmmaker Rob Marshall can't wait to work with her again. Marshall, who is also producing the upcoming film with John DeLuca and Marc Platt, says, "I am truly humbled and honoured to be asked by Disney to bring P.L. Travers’ further adventures to the screen.

"The iconic...

Disney's Mary Poppins sequel is moving forward in the right direction, with Emily Blunt entering talks to play the magical nanny last week. Today, Variety has word that Lin-Manuel Miranda, the star and creator of the hit Broadway sensation Hamilton, has engaged in talks with the studio to play Jack. This character is said to be a lamplighter, who resembles Dick Van Dyke's character Bert from the original Mary Poppins.

This new Mary Poppins project will be set in the 1930s, 20 years after the events of the original movie, in Depression-Era London. The plot follows the adult Michael Banks, who now has children of his own. When his big sister Jane returns to town, after falling on hard times, their beloved Mary Poppins comes back to help. The story will be pulled from author P.L. Travers' eight literary sequels, including the first follow-up Mary Poppins Comes Back, but...

When Hamilton won at the Grammys last week, it only increased my jealousy for anyone who has already seen it in person. The Broadway sensation was created by (and stars) Lin-Manuel Miranda, and even though he's popped up in movies and TV shows before, the success of the musical means that he's poised for breakout stardom. Variety reports that he's one step closer to becoming a household name, since he's in talks to star in Disney's Mary Poppins sequel opposite Emily Blunt.

If the deal goes through, Miranda will play Jack, a lamplighter character similar to Dick Van Dyke's Bert from the original 1964 movie, and he's expected to contribute to the music as well. Here's a quick breakdown of the premise:

The story is set in Depression-era London and revolving around a now-grown Michael Banks, who has children of his own. In tough times, big sister Jane returns and soon after,...

When it comes to rock and roll fantasies, most of us would surely put "hanging with Keith Richards' near the top of our list. Really, who wouldn't want to spend some quality time with the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist, spinning records, playing Fender Telecasters (preferably named after Dickens' characters) and having the old pirate regale you with tales of over a half-century's worth of musical adventures?

Director Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom, Best of Enemies) got to do just that while making Keith Richards: Under The Influence, which premieres...

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Adam Sandler would do well to listen to “Game On,” which blares over the end credits of his latest movie, Pixels. “This is not a game now, nobody can save you /Spent up all your change and now your turn is done” sings Good Charlotte frontman Joel Madden as he pumps up Waka Flock Flame for improbable lyrics about video arcade stuntin’. As a merchandising tie-in, “Game On” mashes up two artists whose one shared interest is the contract they both signed. As a wake up call though, it’s unintentionally prescient, blasting out the very words Sandler has refused to hear for the past decade as his comedy persona has morphed from the underdog with something to prove to the sweatpants-wearing schlub yelling that he’s “still got it.”

Rest assured, Pixels fits right in with Adam Sandler’s string of films designed...

Sesame Street might not be as shmancy as, say, the Meatpacking District circa "Sex and the City," but it has its fair share of hip visitors.

The latest "Sesame Street" music video features the wondrous Janelle Monáe, and it's just what you need on a Friday afternoon. Bert's bumming, Cookie Monster is burning his snacks, Big Bird can't dunk a basketball, and the Two-Headed Monster can't seem to find the beat. It's easy to be discouraged, but just as they're all about to toss in the towel, Monáe appears in a stylin' tuxedo to teach them about "The Power of Yet." It's catchy, groovy, and completely adorable - and the perfect song to go with the 45th anniversary of the long-running show!

Monáe isn't the first musician to visit Sesame Street, and she surely won't be the last. Check out some of the other stand-out appearances from years past,...

The end is here – if someone asked you what the most important movie musical of all time was, it would come from this portion of the list. Obviously, it’s all subjective, but it’s difficult to make a case against the influence of these films on our culture and the industry as a whole. So, cue the orchestra and practice your dance moves, because the closing number is here.

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10. Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Directed by John Badham

Signature Song: “Stayin’ Alive” (http://youtu.be/Fa9n7GirhsI)

After making a name for himself with TV’s “Welcome Back Kotter,” John Travolta became a star with 1977′s cultural landmark Saturday Night Fever, a dance musical where Travolta plays Tony Manero, a young man who works a dead-end job, but spends his weekends as the king of the dance floor at a Brooklyn disco. The soundtrack, which was...

With Danny Boyle's opening ceremony setting the perfect tone, Britons can express patriotism with irony and genuine feeling

Maybe, ultimately, it was the pyjamas. Nobody, surely, has worn pyjamas on an Olympic stadium track before if not by mistake. But there was the deaf choir of children, in pyjamas, signing God Save the Queen. "It was as if someone had said: "If you get into your jimjams and brush your teeth, you can stay up late to sing for the Queen," said my colleague Tim, who was reduced to tears by that moment in Danny Boyle's opening ceremony. That was part of Boyle's crying-time genius: the human touch, the cultivation of empathy, the cunning manipulation of sentiment that any director worth his salt can deploy without – ideally – making us feel that it's phoney.

And so began an unexpected festival of emotion that, by rights, London 2012 had no right...

Just this morning we were talking about how movie-like video games have become with Ellen Page leading the upcoming "Beyond: Two Souls," but it hasn't always been like that, and Disney is bringing back the old quarter pumping arcade memories with "Wreck-It-Ralph."

The first trailer for the movie has landed and it's a candy colored delight that will surely make gamers young and old pretty damn excited. The story centers on the title character, voiced by John C. Reilly, who is tired of being the bad guy against the squeaky clean Fix-It Felix (Jack McBrayer), so he decides to try his hand at being the hero of another game in the arcade. He hops from game to game, trying his hand at heroics, until he unintentionally unleashes a larger threat that could destroy all of the games.

This spot features a lot of great little moments from the support group...

Kinect Star Wars Composers Gordy Haab and Kyle Newmaster

Kinect: Star Wars was supposed to take players to a galaxy far, far away in ways unlike any other game. While the overall reviews were mixed, the game definitely had some high points, and some low ones – coincidently, the game's music happened to fall into both categories. While many critics, fans, and Star Wars enthusiasts took a bit of exception to the Dance Central-inspired, Galactic Dance-Off mode, the rest of the game's soundtrack was outstanding. It may have not been composed by the immortal John Williams, but two long-time Star Wars fans and franchise veterans, Gordy Haab and Kyle Newmaster, evoked the essence of the movies, while maintaining the fresh feel of the game. In case you missed out on the epic music from the game, never fear, you can give some of the best tracks a listen here while getting...

It’s a toss-up for whose life will change the most as a result of what happened on this week’s Mad Men. The same set of hours unfolded three times, from the perspectives of Peggy, Roger, and Don, and gave us a lot to ponder. Let’s review “Far Away Places.”

Peggy is becoming Don | Peggy, nervous about her second attempt to woo the Heinz people after her disastrous bean-ballet pitch, picked a fight with boyfriend Abe when he asked her to meet him at the movies that evening. At work, she was shaken even more when Don and Megan took off,...

Don't read this unless you've seen "Far Away Places," Sunday's episode of "Mad Men."

I began watching Sunday's episode of "Mad Men" a half-hour after it began airing, and before I logged off Twitter, I saw a few tweets along the lines of "What the hell?"

Then I began watching the episode, and it wasn't long before I was saying, "What the hell?" About 17 minutes in, before we'd fully figured out that the episode was toying with timey-wimey experimentation, my husband muttered, "We're going to meet some weird Europeans in a minute."

The comment was spot-on, given how much this episode reminded me of "Jet Set," which was tonally and structurally a rather odd hour of "Mad Men." It was an hour that, as I recall, inspired a lot of passionate "pro" and "con" chatter.

"Far Away Places" was much, much weirder than "Jet Set," and I'm of mixed minds about it myself.

Don't read this unless you've seen "Far Away Places," Sunday's episode of "Mad Men."

I began watching Sunday's episode of "Mad Men" a half-hour after it began airing, and before I logged off Twitter, I saw a few tweets along the lines of "What the hell?"

Then I began watching the episode, and it wasn't long before I was saying, "What the hell?" About 17 minutes in, before we'd fully figured out that the episode was toying with timey-wimey experimentation, my husband muttered, "We're going to meet some weird Europeans in a minute."

The comment was spot-on, given how much this episode reminded me of "Jet Set," which was tonally and structurally a rather odd hour of "Mad Men." It was an hour that, as I recall, inspired a lot of passionate "pro" and "con" chatter.

"Far Away Places" was much, much weirder than "Jet Set," and I'm of mixed minds about it myself.

In honor of the opening of the film Burlesque, starring Cher, Christina Aguilera and Stanley Tucci, the Movie Geeks are presenting what we feel are the best motion picture musicals.

Honorable Mention: Mary Poppins

“Practically Perfect in Every Way”, this is how the incomparably magical nanny Mary Poppins describes herself with nary a boastful smirk on a revealing tape measure in the still-charming 1964 Disney classic musical set in post-Victorian London circa 1910. Mary Poppins is the first movie I can remember seeing in a theater as a child I still feel genuine warmth about this movie as an adult. Such was the impact of Julie Andrews in her big screen debut, as she epitomizes the title character with equal quantities of starch and sugar. There are so many delightful scenes in Mary Poppins that it’s hard to choose which to highlight, though one of the best ones has to be...