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Almost five years after the release of Netflix’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018) film, main character Lara Jean’s (Lana Condor) younger sister Katherine “Kitty” Song Covey (Anna Cathcart) embarked on an adventure and spinoff show of her own, Xo, Kitty.

The Netflix series was teased in the third To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before film, Always and Forever, Lara Jean (2021), when Kitty met Dae, who was portrayed by Jeon Ho Young in the short scene, during a family trip to Korea.

Announced in Oct. 2021, eight months after the arrival of the final film on the streamer, Netflix’s first spinoff series inspired by a Netflix original film hit screens mid-May 2023. Just like her older sister, Kitty got herself tangled up in some complicated love triangles last season. She also picked up on an intriguing mystery to solve thanks to some things her mother left behind.

It was another cruel summer for on-location film and TV production in Greater Los Angeles.

FilmLA said Wednesday that shoot days fell 5% during the July-to-September period to 5,048, marking the weakest quarter of 2024 and surprisingly falling below the strike-riddled Q3 last year. The recent surge in scripted TV production stalled during the summer and reality retreated again ahead of the year’s final production push.

The L.A. County’s film-permitting office said it was the region’s second-slowest summer period as industry output and employment continued to fall below expectations set during the post-Covid, streaming-bubble era. The current levels for every category of scripted production FilmLA tracks trail their adjusted five-year averages on both a per-quarter and year-to-date basis.

Scripted television producers logged 758 shoot days during Q3 across the vital TV Drama, TV Comedy and TV Pilot categories. Unscripted production in L.A. continues to decline as TV Reality production fell by 56.3% to 946 shoot days.

Today, Wednesday (August 28), marks the four-year anniversary of Chadwick Boseman‘s tragic death and one of his past co-stars, Lupita Nyong’o, is remembering him and his legacy publicly.

The 41-year-old actress took to Instagram with an emotional tribute in memory of the late Black Panther actor.

She captioned the photos with a quote, “Grief never ends. But it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It’s the price of love.”

While the author of this quote is unknown, Lupita seemed to know exactly what it meant and just how helpful it could be to those grieving. The comments on the post were flooded with love and grief and memories of the late actor.

She finished the caption with “Remembering Chadwick Boseman. Forever.”

Chadwick was just 43-years-old when he passed in 2020 after battling colon cancer.

Valorant is always known for its tricky and intricate maps. Players need to have proper tactics to use the advantages and counter-setups of the maps. For example, Split and Bind have always been defender-friendly maps. Whereas Lotus and Sunset are helpful for the attacker with more choke points.

With the recent patch 8.11, Riot has announced a new map called Abyss, which was launched on June 11. Initially, it wasn’t added for the competitive scenario, but now the map is available for ranked matches as well. And that’s where the trouble began.

Abyss in Ranked Matches is the New Drama in Valorant

Abyss in Valorant has divided the fanbase. | Credit: Riot Games

Valorant has made Abyss available for ranked matches on PC on June 25, 2024. However, other maps are available to play in ranked matches on consoles. But fans are divided in their respective opinions regarding this decision. So, why’s that?...

After being blown away by the Prime Video adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel Daisy Jones & The Six, I decided to circle back and read the author’s debut novel, the “tragic love story” drama Forever, Interrupted… and as the story went on, I became more and more surprised that it hadn’t yet received an adaptation of some sort. It seemed ready to be brought to the screen as a heartbreaking and heartwarming movie or TV show, with solid roles for two lead actresses. Well, now it’s getting its adaptation. Glamour reports (via Deadline) that Margaret Qualley (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) and Laura Dern (Jurassic Park) are set to star in a limited series adaptation of Forever, Interrupted that’s coming our way from A24 and the Netflix streaming service.

Julia Bicknell, whose previous credits include 13 Reasons Why, The Haunting of Bly Manor,...

Exclusive: In a competitive situation, Netflix has landed for development Forever, Interrupted, a limited series based on the 2013 bestselling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, sources tell Deadline. Laura Dern and Margaret Qualley are set to star in and executive produce the project, from A24 and company-based producer Jessica Rhoades. Julia Bicknell is writing the adaptation and will serve as showrunner. Netflix declined comment.

In Forever, Interrupted, Elsie (Qualley) and Ben’s whirlwind romance is electric – within months they’re married and living happily ever after – when Ben’s unexpected death forces Elsie to come face to face with Susan (Dern), the mother-in-law who doesn’t know that she exists. Told through a dual timeline, the series recounts Elsie and Ben’s once-in-a-lifetime love, intercut with Elsie and Susan’s unexpected journey as their at first turbulent connection ultimately brings both women cathartic new beginnings.

Executive producing are Rhoades and Alison Mo Massey for Pacesetter Productions,...

Following Sara Ramirez’s departure from And Just Like That… last month, Max’s Sex and the City spinoff has lost another cast member. Karen Pittman, who played Dr. Nya Wallace in the show’s first two seasons, will not be returning for Season 3. In a statement to Variety, a Max spokesperson said Pittman was departing Ajlt because of scheduling conflicts with two other streamer series, likely Apple TV+’s The Morning Show and Netflix’s upcoming Forever. Max “It has been a joy to have Karen Pittman play the smart and stunning Professor Nya Wallace on the first two seasons of And Just Like That…,” the spokesperson said. “As we have thoroughly enjoyed working with this dynamic actress, so too have others. Due to her commitments to two other streamer series, it has become apparent that filming three shows at once isn’t possible. Due to the production realities,...

Dakota Johnson's attachment to "Forever, Interrupted" signaled promise, but updates on the movie's development have been scarce since 2014. Tricia McAlpin from Brooklyn Nine-Nine was hired to adapt the novel, but the lack of news has left fans uncertain about the project's future. "Forever, Interrupted" tells a heart-wrenching story of love, loss, and healing, offering a deeply moving narrative that could resonate with global audiences.

The Forever, Interrupted movie, an adaptation of the Taylor Jenkins Reid novel, was in development with Dakota Johnson in 2014. The novel, which delves into the heart-wrenching story of a woman who must grapple with the sudden death of her husband just nine days after their whirlwind romance culminates in marriage, has captivated readers with its raw emotional depth and complex character development. Reid's narrative prowess not only sketches a vivid portrait of grief but also examines the resilience of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable tragedy,...

Judy Blume is a national treasure. She's the award-winning author of 25 novels, including "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" (1970), "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" (1972), "Deenie" (1973), "Blubber" (1974), "Forever... " (1975), and "Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself" (1977). Blume was the first widely-read author (certainly the first one I encountered as a kid) who spoke frankly about things like changing bodies, menstruation, masturbation, sex, and birth control.

Today Prime Video has released a new trailer for "Judy Blume Forever," which interviews Blume about her history and speaks to people like Molly Ringwald, Lena Dunham, Anna Konkle, Samantha Bee, Jason Reynolds, and Justin Chanda about the influence this trailblazing author gifted us with. As a girl who grew up with these books as a sort of personal schoolhouse, I admit to tearing up as I watched even this brief look at the documentary. In a time when books are under attack in America and facing banning and censorship,...

Exclusive: Noah Robbins (The Trial of the Chicago 7) is the newest addition to the cast of Project Artemis — the film, set against the space race of the 1960s, that Greg Berlanti is directing for Apple.

Details as to the plot of the film, written by Rose Gilroy, remain under wraps. But Robbins joins an ensemble led by Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum that also includes Jim Rash, Ray Romano, Anna Garcia and Donald Elise Watkins.

Apple acquired the hot package for 100Mm+ when it hit the market in the spring, as we told you first. Johansson is producing alongside Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn under their These Pictures banner, as well as Sarah Schechter for Berlanti Productions. Robert Dohrmann is serving as executive producer.

Robbins has previously appeared in such notable films as tick, tick… Boom!, The Trial of the Chicago 7, The Assistant, Set It Up, The Week Of,...

There's a fitting symmetry to actor Michael B. Jordan's move into the director's chair for "Creed III," where he will also be starring as Adonis Creed, the ascending son of Apollo (Carl Weathers) from the original "Rocky" franchise. "Rocky" star and writer Sylvester Stallone also went on to direct several films in the series, helming the second, third, and fourth "Rocky" movies before returning 20 years later to star in and direct 2006's "Rocky Balboa." In a surprise continuation of the franchise, director Ryan Coogler re-imagined the property's underdog story for a new generation with 2015's "Creed." In the film, Michael B. Jordan and Tessa Thompson became the new Rocky and Adrian (Adonis and Bianca), and Stallone returned as the Mickey character (an older Rocky), the scruffy mentor role originally occupied by Burgess Meredith.

Director Steven Caple Jr.'s 2018 sequel, "Creed II," served as a bridge for the Cold War...

The animated series “Tuca & Bertie” has been canceled a second time, showrunner Lisa Hanawalt revealed on Twitter on Wednesday.

The animated show, which starred the voices of Ali Wong and Tiffany Haddish as anthropomorphic birds, was originally canceled after one season on Netflix before being picked up by Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim for Season 2. The network ordered a third season, which completed its run in August, but that’s the end of the road for the series for now.

“I still have a beautiful and weird ending to T&b in mind, hopefully someday we’ll get the chance to finish this story,” Hanawalt said on Twitter.

“To all our fans – we love you and can’t thank you enough for your support over the years,” Hanawalt said. “Please never stop making weird fan art (and dressing up as the characters for Halloween!), it brings me endless joy.

Jason Bateman has booked his holiday travel.

The multi-hyphenate is scheduled to star opposite Taron Egerton in the new Netflix thriller “Carry On,” TheWrap has confirmed. The film will be directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, a man who knows a thing about transportation-related terror thanks to “Non-Stop” and “The Commuter.”

Egerton plays a young Tsa agent who is blackmailed by a shadowy traveler (presumed to be the Bateman role) to let a dangerous package get through security (and onto a flight). And this happens, of course, during Christmas, which is already giving us “Die Hard 2” vibes. (The overall plot sounds like “Executive Decision” with a little “Red Eye” thrown in for good measure).

Tj Fixman wrote the first draft of the screenplay, with Michael Green doing the most recent polish. Dylan Clark will serve as producer. This is the first movie coming out of a recent Amblin/Netflix deal (which...

The theme of Code Orange’s new video for “Underneath” — the pummeling yet catchy title track off their upcoming LP — is total confusion.

Singer-guitarist Reba Meyers sings in a padded room. Keyboardist Eric “Shade” Balderose looks like a mad scientist. Bassist Joe Goldman is chained to a wall. The backdrop? Walls made of aluminum foil, cellophane-covered synchronized dancers and a burnt man crawling through tar.

This all unfolds as Meyers sings about how facing obstacles head on is the only way to overcome them and drummer-vocalist Jami Morgan screams about judging a generation.

Resident Evil is, without a doubt, one of the greatest survival horror series of all time. For years it dominated a once shallow market with its terrifying gameplay, monsters, and scream-worthy scenarios. This year, one of the franchise’s best entries, Resident Evil 4, turns 15. We look back on how one of the best survival […]

The post 15 Years of Resident Evil 4: How Resident Evil 4 Changed the Franchise Forever appeared first on Cinelinx.

Guillaume Nicloux’s “To the Ends of the World,” Erwan Le Duc’s “The Bare Necessity” and Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel’s “Jessica Forever” are among the ten French and French-language films set to compete at the 10th edition of MyFrenchFilmFestival, the online film showcase created by UniFrance.

Ira Sachs, the American director whose latest film “Frankie” competed at Cannes, will preside over the international jury which will comprise of the French actress Agathe Bonitzer (“Isadora’s Children”), Guatemaltec director Jayro Bustamante (“Ixcanul”), American actor-turned-director Brady Corbet (“Vox Lux”), Belgian director Judith Davis (“My Revolution”) and Czech director Michaela Pavlatova (“My Sunny Maad”). The other jury is made up of members of the international press.

“To the Ends of the World,” which world premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight last year, stars Gaspard Ulliel (“Saint Laurent”) as a young French soldier in Indochina, in 1945, who survives a brutal massacre in which...

A day after releasing his new track "Yummy," Justin Bieber has dropped the official music video! On Jan. 4, the 25-year-old singer shared the visual for the smooth tune, and it features a lot of food. Bieber is seen enjoying a full-course meal, surrounded by quirky characters, before taking off his sweatshirt and dancing on top of the dinner table. Considering the song is a loving tribute to Bieber's wife, Hailey Baldwin, something tells us she's going to be watching this on a loop.

"Yummy" marks the beginning of Bieber's new musical era, as he stated in a teaser for his upcoming LP. "I feel like this is different than the previous albums just because of where I'm at in my life," he says in the clip. "My past, my mistakes, all the things that I've been through - I believe that I'm right where I'm supposed to be, and God...

As 2019 nears its end, you know what that means. No, not another “Something of the Decade” TV list. But close!

As TVLine prepares to turn nine years old on Saturday, Jan. 4 — and more specifically, sparked by yet another commenter pleading for a second season of The Messengers, which was cancelled more than four-and-a-half years ago by The CW — we thought we’d take a look of the axings that have elicited the most uproar from you, the sometimes not-so-gentle reader.

More from TVLineThe Village Cancelled at NBCRatings: NCIS Tops Tuesday With Finale, The Voice Hits Finale LowThe Village's Daren Kagasoff...

If we are indeed at the tail end of the era of movie stars, it’s worth considering the career of one of the medium’s brightest lights. Leonardo DiCaprio is one of a few actors who can still open a movie at the box office simply by being its star, and one of a similar few […]

The post 15 Years Ago, ‘The Aviator’ Transformed Leonardo DiCaprio’s Career – and Forever Changed Our Perception of Him as an Actor appeared first on /Film.

We've already run down our favorite action/adventure series, but now we're looking at a decade's worth of favorite procedural programming.

This is a reminder that we have almost two dozen favorites lists, and since we couldn't showcase every show on every list, we parsed them out a bit to make it more fun.

And these lists are not in any particular order. They're in the order the entries were received by TV Fanatic staff, so don't read into them!

To qualify, a show that began in another decade had to be airing during the decade, run a larger number of seasons from 2010 through 2019 if it started before 2010 or run the entire decade. Here we go!

Person of Interest - CBS (2011-2016)

Person of Interest started as a fairly standard CBS procedural before slowly morphing into one of the best science fiction shows of the decade.

The series was ahead of its time,...

Exclusive: NBC has put in development Bad Taste, a single-camera workplace comedy from writer Justin Shanes (Superstore), Forever creator Matt Hubbard and Universal TV, where Hubbard is under a deal.

Written by Shanes, Bad Taste is set in the intimate pressure cooker of a restaurant kitchen whose star chef is forced to make an uncomfortable alliance with the newbie female line cook in order to keep pursuing his passion.

Shanes and Hubbard executive produce. Universal TV is the studio.

The project reunites Shanes and Hubbard, who worked together for a time on another NBC workplace comedy, Superstore. Shanes joined Superstore in the second season and rose through the ranks to his current role as producer. Hubbard worked on the first three seasons as consulting producer. Shanes previously was a writer on The Late Late Show with James Corden and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. He’s repped by attorney Jeff Hynick at Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

The love story of Peter Kavinsky and Lara Jean Covey continues!

On Thursday, Netflix released the first trailer for To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, the sequel film to the hugely popular romantic teen drama To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, which stars Noah Centineo and Lana Condor.

In the sequel, Peter (Centineo) and Lara Jean (Condor) are finally a couple and prepare to spend their first Valentine’s Day together — as well as navigating their first real date.

While dealing with the emotions of balancing a relationship and trying to find her authentic self, Lara...

(Warning: This post contains spoilers for Wednesday’s Season 2 finale of “The Masked Singer.”)

The Fox contestant won Season 2 of the Fox network’s “Masked Singer” Wednesday night and was revealed to be comedian Wayne Brady. And Brady — who beat out fellow finalists Chris Daughtry (who was Rottweiler) and Adrienne Bailon (Flamingo), as well as the 13 other contestants from the singing competition’s second season — told TheWrap his ability to outfox everyone else for the Golden Mask trophy means more to him than scoring an Emmy.

The “Whose Line Is It Anyway” alum, who was nominated for a Grammy for a song off his debut album in 2008, says that the oddball competition is, “at its heart, it’s a singing competition.”

“It’s a singing competition and winning that means the world to me because I am a singer,” Brady told us. “It’s not something that I play at,...

Popa Wu, the longtime Wu-Tang Clan affiliate and spiritual mentor to the group, has died, a representative for the Wu-Tang Clan confirmed to Rolling Stone. While no cause of death was given, according to The Source, Popa Wu — who was also known as Freedum Allah — died at his home in Brooklyn. He was 63.

Popa Wu was the older cousin of Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and also related to Gza and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. He played a crucial role in the group’s formation and would go on to serve as a spiritual advisor of sorts,...

TV and film development executive and producer Jennifer Gwartz has been appointed Evp of Development, Comedy and Drama of 20th Century Fox Television, part of Disney Television Studios.

Gwartz, who has been partnered with Jon Harmon Feldman in ABC Studios-based Random Hill Productions, will oversee the scripted development of the label’s live-action comedies and dramas as well as the teams of executives in the studio’s comedy and drama developments. Starting on Nov. 4, she will report to 20th TV’s President of Creative Affairs Carolyn Cassidy. Gwartz succeeds Terence Carter who departed last month to head TV for Jada Pinkett Smith & Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios.

“Jen is a smart, thoughtful leader and a champion of ideas and talent, which makes her the perfect person to lead our development,” said Cassidy. “I also value her ability to look at the process and possibilities of television from multiple perspectives...

Development exec and producer Jennifer Gwartz has been tapped to become 20th Century Fox Television’s executive vice president of development, comedy and drama.

At the Disney-owned studio, she will oversee scripted development of live-action comedies and dramas, identifying writing talent, guiding ideas from pitch to pilot, overseeing teams of execs in comedy development and drama development, and leading live-action scripted strategy.

“Jen is a smart, thoughtful leader and a champion of ideas and talent, which makes her the perfect person to lead our development,” said 20th’s president of creative affairs Carolyn Cassidy, to whom Gwartz will report. “I also value her ability to look at the process and possibilities of television from multiple perspectives as a result of her background as a studio executive and hands on producer. I know she will be an extraordinary asset as we seek to create quality television and bring both new and accomplished voices,...

20th Century Fox Television has hired Jennifer Gwartz as executive vice president of comedy and drama development.

Starting Nov. 4, she will report to Carolyn Cassidy, president of creative affairs at Twentieth Century Fox Television, which is a label of Disney Television Studios. In her new role, Gwartz will oversee the scripted development of the label’s live action comedies and dramas, from identifying writers to steering ideas from pitch to pilot order. She will also oversee the drama and comedy development executive teams and lead the label’s live action scripted strategy.

“Jen is a smart, thoughtful leader and a champion of ideas and talent, which makes her the perfect person to lead our development,” Cassidy said. “I also value her ability to look at the process and possibilities of television from multiple perspectives as a result of her background as a studio executive and hands on producer. I know...

Steven Van Zandt collects his first six solo albums and over 50 unreleased tracks for the E Street Band guitarist’s upcoming RockNRoll Rebel – The Early Work box set.

The limited edition, 7Lp/4Cd set, due out December 6th, features six of Van Zandt’s long-out-of-print albums – 1982’s Men Without Women, 1983’s Voice Of America, 1985’s Sun City, 1987’s Freedom – No Compromise, the U.S. vinyl debut of 1989’s Revolution and the first vinyl release ever of 1999’s Born Again Savage – remastered on colored vinyl.

RockNRoll Rebel‘s four compact discs are packed with 51 bonus tracks,...

Paul Rudd is such a naturally ebullient actor that it can be startling to see him ground down. A gifted physical performer who, at 50, looks so youthful that his appearance tends to precede all other attributes when he’s discussed, Rudd also still has the verve and energy of a rising star — a quality that he seems to enjoy playing against. Directed by Judd Apatow, Rudd helped give the films “Knocked Up” and “This is 40” their heft by sapping himself of fun and light. We wanted to see Rudd light on his feet because we know he shouldn’t be subject to entropy like the rest of us.

The new light drama series “Living with Yourself” makes this device literal: It forces us to compare the Rudd we think we know with Rudd as he might be, were he one of us. The pilot presents us with Rudd’s Miles in pieces,...

Harrow has been renewed for a third season. The series which airs on Hulu in the Us stars Ioan Gruffudd. He plays Dr. Daniel Harrow, a forensic pathologist, who does everything to give the victims of murders a voice and solve even the toughest cases. He last appeared on television in Forever. He will also go behind the camera this season. It will be his first time directing.

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Exclusive: Ioan Gruffudd is to move into directing for the first time on crime drama Harrow after the ABC Studios International-produced series was picked up for a third season.

The Welsh actor, who previously starred in U.S. drama Forever, will direct an episode of the third season for Australian public broadcaster ABC.

He joins the likes of Tony Tilse (Ash Vs Evil Dead), Grant Brown (Reef Break), Catherine Millar (Farscape), Mairi Cameron (The Second) and Peter Andrikidis (Reckoning) in directing.

Disney’s ABC Studios International produces in association with Hoodlum. It airs on Hulu in the U.S.

The is co-created by Secrets & Lies writer Stephen M. Irwin and producer Leigh McGrath and written by Irwin. Harrow tells the story of Dr. Daniel Harrow (Gruffudd), who is no ordinary forensic pathologist. Brilliant. Unorthodox. And a murderer? Harrow’s total disregard for authority and his unfailing empathy for...

Pearlena Igbokwe was an English major at Yale, so it’s no surprise that she loves the process of reading and analyzing a literary work, breaking down the text and identifying its major themes and conclusions. In grade school, she was the type of kid who didn’t groan when a book report was assigned.

These instincts have served Igbokwe well in her nearly 30 years as a creative executive in television. But the Showtime and NBC alum, who has headed Universal Television since 2016, didn’t know what work lay ahead in the spring of 1985, as her sophomore year at the Ivy League college was coming to an end. She only knew she needed to hurry up and find a summer job. While scouring the listings and fliers tacked up on the walls of the career services center at Yale, she was immediately intrigued by a notice described as a “summer...

Yes, folks, you read that header correctly, the original House of the Dead and its sequel are officially getting the remake treatment.

News of Sega’s classic arcade games being revived first made headlines last week via Polish website Graczpospolita, which stipulated that studio Forever Entertainment would be overseeing the series’ return to the limelight. The developer has since confirmed via social media that it has in fact signed an agreement “regarding remakes of the games,” though sadly, not the platforms on which the pair will appear.

“No platforms or release dates have been confirmed,” reads the statement, adding “unfortunately we can’t say anything more for now. Please keep fingers crossed for us and follow our official channels.” That final sentence is a strange one, for sure. From the wording, it’s clear that the remakes are either in the early stages of development or work is yet to commence,...

From Donatella Versace to Oprah Winfrey, Maya Rudolph is known for her wide array of impersonations on Saturday Night Live. She has since been in numerous films and TV series including Forever, which debuted on Amazon this week. In a recent interview with the New York Times Magazine, Rudolph opened up about how her mixed-race heritage has affected her career — specifically with her hair.

During the interview, Rudolph, the daughter of soul singer Minnie Riperton and producer-songwriter Richard Rudolph, talked about her “super, super, superthick and supercurly” hair made her feel like an outsider as a child. This would spill over into her life on camera when people didn’t know what to do with her hair and would say “the most awful, disgusting things.”

When she joined the cast of SNL in 2000, her hair struggle continued. She said: “My hair was natural when I started Saturday Night Live, but...

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What's This TV Show About?

A surreal Amazon dark comedy, Forever stars Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen, Catherine Keener, Noah Robbins, Kym Whitley, Sharon Omi, Julia Ormond, Obba Babatundé, Peter Weller, Charles Emmett, and Cooper J. Friedman. The story follows June (Rudolph) and Oscar (Armisen), a couple who have been married for 12 years. When the sameness of their lives gets to June, she suggests they take a ski trip, which changes everything and lands them in completely unfamiliar territory.

From co-creators Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard, the Amazon original dramedy series Forever follows a suburban wife and husband, June (Maya Rudolph) and Oscar (Fred Armisen), who live a comfortable and totally normal life, in which June is finding herself to be a bit restless. When they try to shake things up in their long-term marriage, after June encourages an adventurous ski trip instead of their typical annual vacation, everything changes for the couple, setting them on an existential journey that they never could have imagined. At a press day to discuss this new TV series, co-stars/…...

The creators of “Forever” would very much like it if you didn’t read this full review before watching the show — or any reviews, or anything that might reveal what the new Amazon comedy starring Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen is about. In fact, critics were sent a list of things not to mention in previews that essentially boiled down to “don’t talk about the characters, the plot, any of the other actors, or really even the fundamental premise.”

And honestly, having seen the series, Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard’s desire for secrecy makes sense. These eight episodes of “Forever” form a delicate soap bubble of a season, one that might easily be popped by coarse “it’s [blank] meets [blank]” comparisons. Like a bubble, it might be a little slight in some ways, but there’s something beautiful, peaceful — perhaps even transcendent — about watching it drift by.

This review...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Forever,” streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.

The word “forever” is often used flippantly, but as the title of Matt Hubbard and Alan Yang’s new Amazon series, it proves to be the actual amount of time its characters will spend together — because they’re both deceased and navigating a mysterious afterlife world.

Oscar (Fred Armisen) and June (Maya Rudolph) are first introduced to viewers as a married couple who easily slip into a routine. She started dating him, we’re told, because he was “nice” to her.

“Seeing their courtship is something that people can identify with because that’s how I think people imagine courtship looks like — that steady rhythm all the way through,” Armisen tells Variety.

As the show continues, though, both characters are “keeping a lot on the inside,” reveals Rudolph. “There’s so much...

[This story contains spoilers from the series premiere of Amazon's Forever.]

The creators of Amazon's Forever, ostensibly a comedy starring Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph, have kept nearly every detail about their series a secret. But now that the eight episodes are available to stream on Amazon, it seems safe enough to discuss the dialogue-free montage that opens the season.

The carefully choreographed opening minutes, set to Miles Davis' "It Never Entered My Mind," evoke shades of the tear-inducing Up beginning (watch that, below), the "Mornings" episode of Master of None or even the opener of the John ...

Spoiler alert: Do not read until you’ve watched the first season of “Forever,” which dropped in its entirety September 14 on Amazon.

Though its first episode tries hard to convince us otherwise, there’s really no way to talk about “Forever” without talking about its capital t Twist.

The premiere of Matt Hubbard and Alan Yang’s new comedy does its damndest to lure the audience into a false sense of security, following married couple June (Maya Rudolph) and Oscar (Fred Armisen) through both the biggest milestones of their relationship and the many banal moments in between. June and Oscar’s lives are perfectly pleasant, but as June realizes with growing discomfort, they could also be described as aggressively banal. Their mutual love and comfort with each other slides into a mind-numbing plateau where tradition calcifies into excuses to never grow or change. For a while — and for longer than...

Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen are likely the reasons why viewers will check out Amazon's new comedy Forever, but once in the door, they better buckle up. The eight-episode first season, which hails from Master of None's Alan Yang and 30 Rock's Matt Hubbard, is good. Like, really good. Forever, not to be confused with the short-lived ABC drama about an immortal medical examiner, follows married couple June (Rudolph) and Oscar (Armisen), they're comfortable in their predictable day-to-day lives, until one day things take a turn. The show starts out feeling like a more middle-aged version of Master of None. There are plenty of small moments, plus the trademark humor of Parks and Recreation and 30 Rock,...

Secrecy is the name of the game going into the Sept. 14 premiere of Amazon’s Forever, starring Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen and created by Alan Yang (Master of None) and Matt Hubbard (Parks and Recreation). Even at the Sept. 10 New York premiere at the Whitby Hotel, its cast and crew were mum about what’s in store for those looking to binge the show come Friday.

“We really wanted to keep the premise under wraps,” Hubbard explained on the red carpet. “But the one-liner of it for now is that it’s Maya Rudolph and Fred ...

Bobby Brown hits back against unnamed detractors on “Like Bobby,” his first new song since 2012.

“Like Bobby” starts out sounding like an early 2000s hit from the rapper Mystikal, full of growly energy that morphs to take into account modern pop trends. When Brown rap-sings over a brassy trap beat, he sounds defiant: “Everybody gonna talk about it, talk about it/ And I don’t really give a fuck about it, fuck about it/ ‘Cause in the end I gotta be real like Bobby B.”

To make “Like Bobby,” Brown...

Amazon’s new series Forever, which debuts Friday, has been as shrouded in mystery as anything in recent Peak TV memory. For a long time, it was simply referred to as “Untitled Fred Armisen/Maya Rudolph comedy series,” and the identities of those stars and co-creators Alan Yang (Master of None) and Matt Hubbard (30 Rock) were about all anyone knew. Even the final title and the trailer gave away little, and when screeners of the whole eight-episode season arrived, they were accompanied by one of the more thorough lists...

Crystal Reed just can’t quit Dctv: The Gotham baddie has landed the lead role in Swamp Thing, the DC Universe streaming service’s upcoming series based on characters from Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson.

Per our sister site Deadline, Reed will star as Abby Arcane, a Cdc researcher who returns to her Louisiana stomping grounds in order to investigate a deadly swamp-borne virus — only to discover that the swamp holds horrifying and wondrous secrets.

DC Universe will launch on Saturday, Sept. 15 — aka Batman Day — while Swamp Thing is expected to debut on the streaming platform in 2019.

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Even in the era of Peak TV, fall has largely remained broadcast television’s time to shine. Cable and streaming outfits typically save their best material for the dead of summer or early winter, when the traditional networks have hit the snooze bar, and their big awards plays for March and April, which is to Emmy season what December is to Oscar season. But if there’s one principle that defines the TV landscape these days, it may be “more is more.” Meaning that over the next few months, the...

You know the new fall TV season is upon you when you can't watch a single TV show on ABC, CBS, Fox, or NBC without being inundated by an onsalught of commercials for all their new comedies and dramas (the vast majority of which likely won't be around next season). What you may not realize — because they're usually much more subtle about these things — is that there are quite a number of original shows coming to the various streaming services as well. Whether you subscribe to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, or any of the others — including the home of originals like HBO or Showtime — there's going to be lots to choose from. Julia Roberts in 'Homecoming.' Photo Credit: Amazon Prime) One of the amazing things about what's on the way is the caliber of stars involved with them. There was a time when actors from the big screen would...

Summer is coming to an end, but that doesn’t mean the binge-watching has to stop.

A number of original series and popular movies are hitting Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime in September. New offerings on Netflix include the mega-hit “Black Panther,” along with the streaming giants’ new show “Maniac” with Emma Stone and Jonah Hill. Meanwhile, Amazon Prime is debuting “Forever,” which stars “Saturday Night Live” alums Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph. Over on Hulu, Sarah Silverman’s “I Love You, America” will drop its second season.

And if you want to get ahead on a horror movie marathon before Halloween, there are also plenty of scary flicks that will be added throughout the month. “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning” is coming to Netflix, while both Amazon and Hulu will carry “The Amityville Horror” and “Jigsaw.”

Check out the full list of titles coming to Netflix, Hulu, and...

Last year Kenan Thompson officially became the longest-running Saturday Night Live cast member, with 15 seasons under his belt. And, when he started on the show in 2003, he was the show’s youngest performer—a situation that seems worthy of some sort of SNL careerist medal.

Instead, this year he got his first Emmy nom focused entirely on acting–last year’s was shared with Chance the Rapper for their co-written comedy song “Last Christmas”. Of being recognized in the supporting comedy actor category this year he says, “To get into the mainstream makes me feel like I have a real career”—a typically funny riposte from a man who’s been a roaring success since his teenage ’90s stint on Nickelodeon’s All That and Kenan & Kel.

Thompson will certainly go down in SNL history for some of the show’s best-loved sketches, like “What Up With That?” and “Black Jeopardy!

Netflix not only racked up the most Emmy nominations this year, but now the streaming giant and several of its competitors are preparing to give the Emmy Awards ceremony a run for its money.

Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu will all release either brand new shows or new seasons of current shows on Sept. 14, just three days before the annual TV awards show. Netflix announced earlier today that the second season of “American Vandal”–which will seek to unmask a villain known as the Turd Burglar–will bow on the 14th, along with the new talk series “Norm MacDonald Has a Show.” Netflix previously announced that “BoJack Horseman” Season 5 will debut on that date, as will the second season of the Mexican political drama “Ingobernable.”

That’s also when Amazon will launch the new comedy series “Forever” starring Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen. The duo will play a married couple whose...