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Still ripping from the headlines: 'Law & Order' reboot continues with tradition

1:21pm February 23, 2022

by David Bianculli

The original series, which debuted in 1990, leaned heavily on current news stories. The new show does the same. Its debut episode centers on the crimes of a TV personality reminiscent of Bill Cosby.

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Abbott Elementary creator and showrunner Quinta Brunson plays second grade teacher Janine Teagues on the mockumentary.

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'Abbott Elementary' creator Quinta Brunson finds humor and heart in the classroom

12:16pm February 23, 2022

by Terry Gross

Brunson stars as a rookie second grade teacher in an under-resourced public elementary school in the new mockumentary. Brunson says she conceived of the show with her mother — a teacher — in mind.

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'The Wendy Williams Show' is ending

4:42pm February 22, 2022

by Andrew Limbong

The long-running daytime show The Wendy Williams Show, which had a reputation for being raw and irreverent, is ending. It will be succeeded by a show hosted by its producer Sherri Shepherd.

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The 'Wendy Williams Show' is ending with Sherri Shepherd waiting in the wings

4:04pm February 22, 2022

by The Associated Press

"Sherri" will "inherit" the time slots on Fox owned-and-operated stations that have been the backbone of Williams' nationally syndicated talk show since 2008

The final episode of the cartoon 'Arthur' ends a 25-season run on PBS

6:50am February 22, 2022

In the series finale which aired Monday, all the characters all grown up. Arthur's sister D.W. is a police officer, his friend Buster is a teacher and Arthur has become a graphic novelist.

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Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill in a still from Season 6 of Better Call Saul.

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Hiatus brain: When your favorite show returns, but you can't remember a thing

10:03pm February 18, 2022

by Aisha Harris

When months — even years — separate TV seasons, plotlines are lost to the sands of time.

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What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend reading and viewing

5:01pm February 18, 2022

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Secret History, a Futurama reboot and more.

Netflix's 'jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy' is (mostly) genius

7:02pm February 17, 2022

by Eric Deggans

The three-part docuseries tracks the rappers rise, starting as an up-and-coming producer in Chicago.

Mark (Adam Scott) greets new employee Helly (Britt Lower) in the Apple TV series Severance.

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In the thriller 'Severance,' Adam Scott's humanity hangs in the (work-life) balance

2:44pm February 17, 2022

by Glen Weldon

This darkly comic series about corporate drones who retain no memory of their lives outside the office gets quickly weirder, funnier and more thrilling after a slow-burn start.

Docuseries offers a more complete history of Lincoln's journey to end slavery

6:25am February 17, 2022

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to directors Jacqueline Olive and Barak Goodman about the Apple TV+ docuseries, Lincoln's Dilemma, and how the fight for emancipation was larger than one man.

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