Casting is everything.
ABC’s new comedy “Call Your Mother” (premiering Wednesday at 9:30 p.m.) has one great thing going for it, and her name is Kyra Sedgwick.
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NBC’s ‘Mr. Mayor’ risks impeachment from prime time
NBC’s “Mr. Mayor” (premiering with back-to-back episodes Thursday starting at 8 p.m.) plays it safe and simple.
That strategy has worked for many a real-life politician.
For a phony one in prime time?
Not so much.
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To celebrate its new home at Peacock, ‘The Office’ releases a never-before-seen scene
NBC’s “The Office” closed up shop in 2013, but apparently NBC has been holding on to comedy gold all these years.
To mark “The Office’s” move to the Peacock streaming service, NBC Universal released this never-before-seen cold open apparently filmed for the ninth and final season and never aired.
Remembering Dawn Wells
2020 just couldn’t leave without taking one more blessed thing from us.
Dawn Wells, best known to the world as sunny Mary Ann on “Gilligan’s Island,” died Wednesday from complications of COVID-19. She was 82.
‘Wonder Woman 1984’ gives us the hero we need
We’re so used to super-hero films ending in a flurry of fists and destruction, of the good guys pounding the bad guys into sand.
In “Wpnder Woman 1984,” the much anticipated, much longed for sequel to the groundbreaking 2017 film “Wonder Woman,” director Patty Jenkins creates a new way to tell the super-hero epic and demonstrates again how she knows the world’s greatest heroine better than anyone else.
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