DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

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LINDA DONOVAN

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2020
May
2
 
 
Despite the challenges that talk shows and unscripted entertainment programs currently are facing, though, certain of them are starting to feel very comfortable and familiar in their new formats...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
1
 
 
If you’re missing The Good Place, which you absolutely should be, check out Amazon Prime’s new dramedy, Upload...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
1
 
 
It’s no secret that with the wonderful golden-age Hollywood movies, as with sausage, you didn’t want to know what went into making them...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
1
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: You might expect Upload, the new series coming from Greg Daniels, to be very funny and clever and wry – and it’s all of that. Daniels, after all, was the guy who cracked the code, and adapted the brilliant British version of The Office into what became its impressive American equal – surprising skeptical TV critics, including myself, in the process. Upload is about a young man who dies in a freak accident, but whose consciousness a
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
1
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Rafe Spall and Esther Smith star in this new comedy as Jason and Nikki, a young couple who discover they have infertility problems – and set out not only to enhance the frequency and passion of their lovemaking, but to explore other avenues, including adoption. All of which means they have to start seriously thinking of themselves as future parents, which is where the conflict and comedy in Trying resides.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
1
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: When Ryan Murphy moved from FX to Netflix, this was the kind of series he and the streaming service had in mind. It’s glitzy, easily promotable, and aggressively “woke,” even though it’s set in 1930s Hollywood. As a tale of starlets and handsome young men with dreams of stardom, and of studio heads and scribes with their own ambitions and secrets, Hollywood feels very, very much like a modern version of Bracken’s World. But since
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
1
 
 
Tonight’s virtual interview guests, so to speak, include one guest who used to visit Real Time all the time by actually showing up on set: Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi. These days, he just phones it in. But these days, that’s the norm…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
1
 
 
Among tonight’s not-in-person guests: Jeff Goldblum, who always seemed to love sharing the couch with other celebrities on Norton’s show (pictured, in pre-virus days). Here, the technology is making them do more traditional, one-on-one interviews. But, I guess, that prospect is more entertaining than one more Zoom chat…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
1
 
 
This day in 2004 marked the last telecast of the CBS drama, The District...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
30
 
 
On this day in 1997, ABC's Ellen presented the first part of the groundbreaking two-parter, "The Puppy Episode"...