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Want to listen instead of reading? Click here and we’ll read it to you.  Audience interest in royalty is evergreen, with recent years seeing a notable uptick in series focused on their private lives. Three have risen to prominence: The Crown, The Great, and Bridgerton. Netflix’s The Crown follows Queen Elizabeth II, Hulu’s The Great is a satire of Catherine the Great, and Netflix’s Bridgerton is […]

Want to listen instead of reading? Click here and we’ll read it to you.  Four years after the final sign-off of the BBC’s dark detective series Luther comes Netflix’s feature-length continuation to pick up where the show left off. When it releases for streaming next week, star Idris Elba will reprise his role as the tortured Detective Chief Inspector […]

Want to listen instead of reading? Click here and we’ll read it to you.  The never-actually-planned sequel to History of the World: Part 1 (the subtitle was a joke) is about to become an unexpected reality, as the illustrious Mel Brooks has at long last penned a continuation of his hysterically beloved 1981 film. The resulting sketch comedy limited […]

Grease will be the word once again this April, when Paramount+ releases its peppy new prequel series to the timeless 1978 film. Set four years before Sandy and Danny’s fateful summer nights, the upcoming show tracks a quartet of misfits who dare to defy their era’s stifling conventions, leaning hard into its predecessor’s DNA and […]

The newest film in the DC Universe will be releasing next month as the sequel to the wildly successful 2019 title Shazam! The franchise’s most family-friendly crusader, Shazam! tells the story of 15-year-old Billy Batson, an unhappy foster teen granted godlike powers by an ancient wizard; by simply uttering his alterego’s name, he gains the ability to transform into […]

Following the success of its alt-history astronaut drama For All Mankind, this Friday Apple TV+ will be releasing a new sci-fi dramedy that also understands the intoxicating lure of outer space. Set in a 1950s retro-future world reminiscent of Disney’s Tomorrowland, the series stars Billy Crudup as a talented, ambitious salesman promising desperate customers a bigger, […]

Coming to Amazon Prime next month is a hotly anticipated new limited series based on the New York Times bestselling novel by author Taylor Jenkins Reid. The show outlines the rise and fall of a fictional 1970s rock band partly inspired by Fleetwood Mac, with lead singer Daisy–played by Elvis Presley’s real-life granddaughter–vaguely channeling Stevie Nicks. Here’s […]

Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes Netflix’s buzzy new romantic comedy that sees two stalwarts of the genre working together for the first time. From the writer of rom-com classics The Devil Wears Prada, 27 Dresses, and Morning Glory, the film stars Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher as two long-distance best friends who trade lives for a […]

HBO will revisit Richard Nixon’s 1972 Watergate scandal in its anticipated new five-part limited series premiering in late March. From the showrunner of Veep and a producer of Succession, the show comedically turns the spotlight away from Nixon and onto his core operatives E. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux), the masterminds behind the […]

Now that The CW has officially changed hands, new owner Nexstar has been heavily paring down its scripted slate, including canceling nearly all of its previously-existing DC Universe series. This change in direction makes the March premiere of its newest superhero title all the more notable, and if the network is going to take a […]