Television

Top to bottom: screenshots from trailers for shows being binge-watched around the world: The Bad Kids in China, Pasión de Gavilanes in Colombia, and Tehran in Israel.

A Global Guide To Binge-worthy TV For The Pandemic

12:13pm August 09, 2020

by NPR Staff

Lost children! Angry lovers! Time travel! A show referred to as 'The Muslim Game Of Thrones" We asked reporters to tell us about the shows that people are obsessing around the world.

Advocates For Deaf And Blind Laud Netflix's New Playback Features

5:24pm August 08, 2020

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Everette Bacon, a board member with the National Federation of the Blind, about Netflix's new playback features, which he says will improve accessibility.

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Tim Minchin plays Lucky in the new series Upright.

Tim Minchin Hauls A Piano Across Australia In 'Upright'

7:56am August 08, 2020

by Scott Simon

Singer, songwriter, and satirist Tim Minchin's new series opens with a bang: A frazzled man is driving an upright piano across the bare Australian landscape when he collides with a mouthy teenager.

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Why Subscribers Will Have To Pay $30 To Watch New 'Mulan' Movie

6:14pm August 07, 2020

NPR's Stacey Vanek Smith talks with Elaine Low, a senior reporter at Variety, about Disney's decision to charge subscribers $30 to watch the new live-action Mulan movie.

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Scientists, artists, thinkers, activists and journalists gather for meals and conservation in an episode of Pan y Circo, hosted by Diego Luna (center).

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Diego Luna Says Shared Meals On 'Pan Y Circo' Transformed Cast And Crew Alike

6:50am August 07, 2020

Scientists, artists, thinkers, activists and journalists gather for meals and conservation in the new Amazon Prime show. "We have to sit at the table," says host Diego Luna.

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L to R: Ensigns Tendi (voiced by Noel Wells), Mariner (voiced by Tawny Newsome) and Boimler (voiced by Jack Quaid) do the grunt work on Star Trek: Lower Decks.

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With 'Star Trek: Lower Decks,' A Venerable Franchise Loosens Up

5:00am August 06, 2020

by Glen Weldon

The animated series spoofs Trek with in-jokes and easter eggs and even if the gags aren't yet firing on all nacelles, the premise — Starfleet's D-listers — holds promise.

Seth Rogen stars alongside ... well, Seth Rogen, in the HBO Max movie An American Pickle.

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Seth Rogen Finds Himself (Twice) In 'An American Pickle'

7:00am August 04, 2020

by Linda Holmes

In a new film streaming on HBO Max, Rogen plays both a Polish immigrant who wakes up 100 years after falling into a pickle barrel and the great-grandson into whose modern life he emerges.

Author Michelle McNamara, in the HBO documentary series based on her book.

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'I'll Be Gone In The Dark' Sheds Light On Both Justice And Its Pursuers

10:11am August 03, 2020

by Linda Holmes

By the end of the HBO docuseries, you may not know much more about the case writer Michelle McNamara pursued until her death. But you will know more about the price of that pursuit.

BuzzFeed Reporter On 'Ellen Show' Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct, Harassment

5:25pm August 02, 2020

NPR's David Folkenflik speaks with journalist Krystie Lee Yandoli about the multiple allegations of workplace harassment and a toxic culture at The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Actor Wilford Brimley attends the premiere of Did You Hear About the Morgans? in New York City on December 14, 2009 Brimley passed away on August 1, 2020 at 85.

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'Cocoon' Actor Wilford Brimley Dies At 85

1:05pm August 02, 2020

by Suzanne Nuyen

The actor, who became an Internet sensation for his pronunciation of "diabetes" in a Liberty Medical ad, died Saturday morning at a Utah hospital.