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Norway's TIX (Andreas Haukeland) performs during the Eurovision Song Contest dress rehearsal in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Lights! Camera! Factions! Your Eurovision Song Contest 2021 Cheat Sheet

2:30pm May 21, 2021

by Glen Weldon

After taking a year off, the Eurovision Song Contest is back, and for the first time a major streaming service — Peacock — is carrying it live in the U.S. Here's what to look for.

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'Solos' And 'The Bite' Showcase How To Create New TV During A Pandemic

1:57pm May 21, 2021

by David Bianculli

The Amazon anthology series Solos features a different actor in each installment. The Bite, on Spectrum On Demand, is comedy-drama that combines COVID lockdown with an outbreak of a zombie contagion.

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Remembering Charles Grodin, Of 'Heartbreak Kid' And 'Midnight Run' Fame

1:57pm May 21, 2021

by Terry Gross

Grodin, who died May 18, was known for his deadpan humor and his ability to make even the most unpleasant characters likable and funny. Originally broadcast in 1989.

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Check-In: Scoring Zombies

12:32pm May 21, 2021

Ask Me Another's house musician Jonathan Coulton adds another credit to his resume: scoring a zombie TV show. He walks hosts Ophira Eisenberg through his bag of spooky audio tricks.

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Which Came First?

12:32pm May 21, 2021

Love About Town podcast hosts Kenice Mobley and Rohan Padhye are given two things and guess which came first.

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The Who... Dunnit?

12:32pm May 21, 2021

Podcast hosts Kenice Mobley and Rohan Padhye (Love About Town) work together in a music parody game where songs by The Who are rewritten to make them about famous fictional mystery-solvers.

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Line Reading

12:32pm May 21, 2021

Actor Micah Stock and comic Beth Stelling play an audio game where great quotes from theatre are read poorly by an emotionless robot. "Oh, yeah? See if you could do any better." Said the robot.

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O?hio

12:32pm May 21, 2021

Ohio natives and childhood friends comic Beth Stelling (Girl Daddy on HBO Max) and actor Micah Stock (Netflix's Bonding) are challenged to a fact-filled game about The Buckeye State.

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Ryan O'Connell

12:32pm May 21, 2021

Creator and star of Netflix's Special, Ryan O'Connell, discusses writing about his cerebral palsy and reveals the best playground swing in Los Angeles.

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Marvin Gaye, photographed in 1970, one year ahead of the release of What's Going On.

Remembering Marvin Gaye's Iconic 'What's Going On'

10:10am May 21, 2021

by Elizabeth Blair

Marvin Gaye released his landmark album What's Going On 50 years ago today. We hear from artists and activists who were deeply inspired by the album's music and its messages.

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