Amy Poehler is set to direct a documentary on comedy husband-and-wife duo Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz for Imagine Documentaries and White Horse Pictures, the two companies announced Monday. The film, under the working title Lucy & Desi, will explore the rise of comedian icon Lucille Ball, her relationship with Desi …
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Hulu shared the second trailer form Season 2 of its offbeat comedy series Pen15 Friday as part of the streaming service’s CTAM Press Tour. “Pen15 is an R-rated ‘traumedy’ set in middle school as it really happened in the year 2000,” Hulu says of the series. “Anna Konkle and Maya …
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John Oliver delivered a detailed and devastating look at China’s treatment of the Uighurs, a predominately Muslim ethnic minority in northwest China, on Last Week Tonight. The Uighurs, as Oliver explained, live primarily in the Xinjiang province; they’re culturally and ethnically distinct from most of the rest of China (which …
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Trevor Noah opened hisDaily Show interview with Jim Carrey with an odd question: “Can you explain what you have written?” Noah had just finished readingCarrey’s new book,Memoirs and Misinformation, and was confused as to whether the contents of the book were truthful or not. And as is his typical style, …
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The Star Trek franchise enters a Rick and Morty-like universe in the new trailer for Star Trek: Lower Decks, an animated comedy series heading to CBS All Access this summer. The show, developed by Rick and Morty vet Mike McMahan, “focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s …
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All I Can Say Comprised of the late singer’s self-recorded video footage, the new film’s trailer shows Blind Melon‘s Shannon Hoon laying down vocals for the bands 1992 hit, “No Rain.” Part historical record and part diary, the film shows some of Hoon’s milestone moments – including the birth of …
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Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor and songwriter Darren Criss and director Amy Heckerling (Clueless, Fast Times at Ridgemont High) discuss their new Quibi show Royalties on the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The Breakdown. Royalties tells the tale of two songwriters (Criss and Kether Donahue) trying to write music …
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Spike Lee issued an apology Saturday following comments he made in a radio interview where he defended Woody Allen and admonished “this cancel [culture] thing.” “My words were WRONG,” Lee tweeted Saturday after his remarks drew criticism. “I do not and will not tolerate sexual harassment, assault or violence. Such …
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Darren Criss and Kether Donohue star as Top 40 pop songwriters in the new Quibi musical comedy seriesRoyalties, which dropped its first trailer on Tuesday. The show is co-written and executive produced by Criss along with long-time collaborators Nick and Matt Lang — the team behind the YouTube series Team …
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The filmed performance of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award-winning and record-breaking Broadway musical Hamilton is getting a much earlier release date than initially planned.Hamilton will be premiering on Disney+ on July 3rd, just in time for Independence Day and nearly 15 months earlier than its original theatrical date of October 15th, 2021. …
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