Photo: Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs are requesting a two-month delay in his sex-trafficking trial, which is slated to start May 5 in New York. Diddy’s team said in a letter to the judge that the delay will give them “the necessary time to prepare his defense” after a …
Photo: Julieta Cervantes Halfway into Broadway’s new WWII farce Operation Mincemeat, Hester Leggatt, a stern secretary, stops the show in its tracks with “Dear Bill.” The six-minute ode feels like a separate production from the rest of the musical — a true showstopper. The otherwise frantic show gives way to a crushing, stoic reflection. …
Jak Malone’s Guide to Singing the Best New Song on Broadway Read More »
Photo: Apple TV+ Ike Barinholtz’s Sal Saperstein listens with his eyebrows up, his forehead wrinkled into a semi-permanent state of worry. His face, malleable and wide, absorbs everything from advice and feedback to abuse and the odd compliment. In Apple TV+’s The Studio, Sal is the devil atop Seth Rogen’s studio exec Matt Remick, …
Photo: Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty Images Chappell Roan going on Las Culturistas was a long time coming. After all, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess won Album of the Year at the Las Culturistas Culture Awards well before it even came out. The fated podcast dropped April 16, and she used her …
Photo: Disney+/Marvel Studios/Everett Collection Even before the creative overhaul that took the new Daredevil revival in a more serialized direction, this series was always planned with around 18 episodes in mind. That makes “Straight to Hell” a natural midpoint for this story — a dark, Empire Strikes Back-y conclusion where all seems lost, but …
Daredevil: Born Again Season-Finale Recap: Resist, Rebel, Rebuild Read More »
Photo: BritBox How does one update an Agatha Christie story? Kenneth Branagh has his increasingly elaborate Poirot mustache. Rian Johnson uses his Christie pastiche to swipe at the Trump-coded megarich. And now Agatha Christie’s Towards Zero has a secret weapon that shakes it out of its very staid, very proper presentation into an adaptation …
Photo: Dolly Faibyshev The Summer House girls just want to pose. This is an understandable desire for the five Bravo veterans, sick of having to constantly be “real” for cameras that, each weekend from late June to Labor Day, document their movements across every room of a sprawling Hamptons mansion. On Summer House, currently …
Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS via Getty Images In the future … we will have a country where there is an awards ceremony for television where the shows are separated by comedy and drama, but nobody will actually be able to tell the difference between those genres. Comedian Nate Bargatze will host the 2025 Emmy Awards, …
Photo: Carsten Koall/picture alliance via Getty Images The seeker better be working overtime to get us the full story. The Who has parted ways with Zak Starkey after three decades of service on the drums, with Starkey claiming he was unceremoniously fired for overplaying at a series of recent gigs. Starkey, Ringo Starr’s son, …
The Who Fired Ringo Starr’s Son As Their Drummer Read More »
Photo: Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Images It’s apparently not well-known among Tom Green fans that he’s Canadian. The comedian, best known for the early-aughts MTV phenomenon The Tom Green Show and his cult-classic 2001 film Freddie Got Fingered, has never kept his identity a secret, but he belongs to a long line of Canadian comics …
