Paramount “Star Trek” is on the upswing in pop culture, with “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” playing a major emotional role in that resurgence. Engineered as a way to bring popular characters from the franchise’s past to a new generation, it has become one of the defining … Read more
As Steven Conrad‘s suburban murder mystery unravels on HBO, he’s reflecting on the real-life hookup app experiences that inspired him. The DTF St. Louis creator explained that he was influenced by hookup apps that he saw “destroy the lives of some friends” going through middle age, much like the characters in the limited series, which … Read more
SUNDAY, MARCH 8 🎵 3 p.m. “Harry Styles: One Night in Manchester” (Netflix)Styles performs his fourth studio album, “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally,” for the first time at The Co-Op in Manchester, England. 📺 8 p.m. “Crossroad Springs” returns (Great American Family) 📺 10 p.m. “Rooster” (HBO)Steve Carell leads this Bill Lawrence comedy about an author navigating … Read more
Alan Trustman, screenwriter of the 1968 films Bullitt and The Thomas Crown Affair, has died. He was 95. The Harvard-educated lawyer-turned-screenwriter died on Feb. 5 at a nursing home in Miami, his son John told The New York Times. Born Dec. 16, 1930 in Boston, Trustman graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1952, … Read more
NBC In the success of the 1994 freshman season of Michael Crichton’s “ER,” Julianna Margulies as Carol Hathaway played a pivotal part (just like she did in the next five seasons until her character was written out of the show). What many people may not know, however, … Read more
While Timothée Chalamet has been met with tomatoes over his dismissive comments about live performance, several troupes are extending an olive branch. After the 4x Oscar nominee quipped that “no one cares” about performance arts like ballet and opera, he’s been publicly inundated with both backlash and invitations to see several different troupes perform. “This … Read more
Jon Taffer is in the business of rescuing bars, but on a recent rainy Friday, he was off the clock. Taffer sat at an upstairs table in the Times Square Dallas BBQ, an array of barbecued meats and all their fixins laid out before him. Wearing a collared shirt and sports coat, no tie, and … Read more
Fox Lance Sweets (John Francis Daley) meets his maker in the “Bones” Season 10 premiere, marking a truly shocking TV death for fans of the show. And the worst part? The character might have returned if Daley’s other projects didn’t get in the way. Sweets was written … Read more
Amazon Prime “The Boys” is full of larger-than-life characters. From the fascistic narcissist Homelander (Antony Starr) to deep-sea pervert The Deep (Chace Crawford), bringing these colorful characters to life — and giving some of them gruesome deaths — has been the Prime Video hit’s secret weapon. Despite … Read more
It sounds like bad news bears for Ted fans, as Seth MacFarlane comments on the future of the Peacock series beyond its sophomore season, now available to stream. The creator and voice of the eponymous foul-mouth teddy bear admitted he has “no plan” for a Season 3 of the show, citing “really expensive” production cost … Read more