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Rapid Insights: 2023 Emmy Nominations: Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series

Earlier this month, the Television Academy announced its 2023 Emmy Awards nominees, so we wanted to take a closer look at the high-quality shows representing the best of this past year’s TV. First up: the category of Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, filled with five compelling miniseries that really stood out on their respective streaming […]

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Rapid Insights: Special Ops: Lioness, a Female-Focused Spy Thriller That Expands the Sheridan Universe

Prolific writer/creator Taylor Sheridan’s relationship with Paramount+ will once again pay robust dividends with Sunday’s premiere of his newest streaming series. The show is an intense spy thriller featuring Zoe Saldaña, Nicole Kidman, and Morgan Freeman and will follow a newly recruited CIA agent as she goes undercover among Middle Eastern power brokers who sponsor […]

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Rapid Insights Trend: Justified: City Primeval and Other IP-revivals

2010’s Justified will become the latest series to receive a years-later revival with next week’s release of Justified: City Primeval on FX. Such revivals traffic in nostalgia, appealing to fans by continuing a beloved story rather than rebooting it, with original cast members playing their original characters a crucial part of the deal; shows as varied as Gilmore Girls, Roseanne, Dexter, and The […]

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Rapid Insights: Gran Turismo Brings a Popular Video Game to Life

This August, Sony’s mega-hit PlayStation video game series comes to the big screen as a biographical coming-of-age sports drama set in the franchise’s beloved high-octane racing world. The movie tells the true story of Jann Mardenborough, a top-notch teen gamer who turned his superior virtual skills into a clinch tournament win and, ultimately, a real-life […]

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Rapid Insights: Full Circle, a Steven Soderbergh Kidnapping Conspiracy Thriller

Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh returns once again to episodic TV with next week’s debut of his new limited series on Max. The mysterious crime thriller boasts a stacked ensemble cast led by Claire Danes along with Timothy Olyphant and Dennis Quaid, and tells the story of a botched kidnapping that unearths long-held secrets and connects […]

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Rapid Insights Trend: The Horror of Dolores Roach and Other Podcast-Inspired Shows

Amazon Prime Video’s newest original series, releasing next week, will be joining the swelling ranks of buzzy scripted shows developed from popular podcasts. This notable list includes the likes of Gaslit, The Dropout, Dirty John, and The Shrink Next Door from the based-on-a-true-story side, as well as Homecoming and Archive 81 from the purely fictional; Prime’s horror-dramedy will join the latter as the Sweeney Todd-inspired […]

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Rapid Insights: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning and Top Gun: Maverick

Next month, a year and change after last summer’s runaway smash Top Gun: Maverick, Paramount will release the newest fruit of its long-time collaboration with megastar Tom Cruise: the next entry in the Mission: Impossible franchise. With the story split across two movies, the spy-based action-thriller will follow Ethan Hunt and his IMF team as they race around […]

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Rapid Insights: LA Fire & Rescue Brings Firefighting Drama to Reality

Tomorrow, NBC will be premiering a new reality docuseries that honors the risks and sacrifices of some of LA’s most dedicated heroes. From mega-producer Dick Wolf, the show follows a group of men and women from the Los Angeles County Fire Department as they fight fires, save lives, and put themselves on the line. Here’s […]

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Rapid Insights: Hijack Pits Idris Elba Against Terrorists at 30,000 Feet

Later this month, Apple TV+ will be releasing a tense new thriller that’s sure to take viewers on an unforgettable ride. Taking place in real time, the seven-hour limited series stars Idris Elba as a skilled corporate negotiator who must broker a peaceful ending after his flight from Dubai to London is taken hostage by […]

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Rapid Insights: Barbie vs. Oppenheimer: Two Tentpoles on Same July Weekend

On July 21, two aspiring blockbusters will be going head-to-head in a theatrical release weekend for the ages. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, will bring the iconic doll to life in a sparklingly pink fantasy-comedy. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, and Matt Damon, will revisit the morally complicated invention of […]

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