Television

Pop, Six, Squish, Uh Uh, West Covina, Lipschitz: Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) attempts to escape the prison of her guilt in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

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In Its Final Season 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' Comes In For A Landing, Claims Its Baggage

1:45pm October 12, 2018

by Glen Weldon

It's a musical comedy! It's a romantic comedy! Mostly, however, it's a dark comedy. But in CExG's fourth and final season, Rebecca (Rachel Bloom), and the entire cast, are inching towards the light.

A big bird and her chicks: Alyssa Edwards teaches dance in Mesquite, Texas, in the reality series Dancing Queen.

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'Dancing Queen': Alyssa Edwards Doesn't Let Dance Moms Drag Her Down

5:00am October 11, 2018

by Glen Weldon

The Netflix reality series follows drag queen Alyssa Edwards (and her alter ego, Justin Johnson) through her/his offstage life as a dance instructor in Texas.

Daniel Ezra plays Spencer James on the CW's new football series All American.

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In 'All American,' High School Football Is Back On TV, As Is Taye Diggs

9:10am October 10, 2018

by Linda Holmes

The CW's new football series isn't the new Friday Night Lights. But it just might be the next well-made high school drama full of twists, turns, and — in this case — tackles.

Don't be TARDIS for the ... part ... is. Yasmin (Mandip Gill), Graham (Bradley Walsh), The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and Ryan (Tosin Cole) in the new season of Doctor Who.

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'Doctor Who' Goes Back To Basics, With A Twist

5:35pm October 07, 2018

by Glen Weldon

In a down-to-earth yet emotional season opener, Doctor Who introduces Jodie Whittaker's Doctor and her three companions.

Beck Bennett as Sen. Mitch McConnell, Heidi Gardner as Dana Bash on Saturday Night Live on Saturday.

'Believe Women, Until It's Time To Stop': Republican Senators Celebrate In 'SNL' Open

5:58am October 07, 2018

by James Doubek

Republican senators were in full party mode in Saturday Night Live's cold open, the day of Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation. Here's a look at the show's political parodies this week.

Jameela Jamil in character as the "conceited but deeply kind, insecure, vainglorious" socialite Tahani al Jamil.

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Jameela Jamil: 'My Career Is Not Reflected By The Size Of My Body'

7:46pm October 05, 2018

Jamil plays flighty socialite Tahani al Jamil on the NBC sitcom The Good Place, but in real life she's a disability rights advocate who speaks out against body shaming and extreme beauty standards.

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Giving a schvitz: Missy (Jenny Slate), Connie the Hormone Monstress (Maya Rudolph) and Jessi (Jessi Klein) barrel full steam ahead through puberty in the second season of Netlfix's Big Mouth.

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Life, Puberty And The Pursuit Of Horniness: 'Big Mouth,' Season 2

5:00am October 05, 2018

by Glen Weldon

The filthy, sex-crazed animated series returns to Netflix with some new cast members, and a renewed commitment to charting — hilariously, yet sweetly — the hellish landscape of adolescence.

Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) and Richard (Paul Giamatti) will have what she's having, in writer/director Tamara Jenkins' Private Life.

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A Couple Contends With Conception In The Honest, Funny 'Private Life'

5:09pm October 04, 2018

by Scott Tobias

Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti play a New York couple struggling to conceive in writer/director Tamara Jenkins' latest, which examines how infertility tests a relationship with humorous candor.

Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn play a couple who are desperate to have a child in the Netflix film Private Life.

How A 'By Any Means Necessary' Quest For A Child Inspired Netflix's 'Private Life'

5:07pm October 03, 2018

by Terry Gross

Writer and director Tamara Jenkins drew on her own experiences with IVF treatment to create what she calls a "buddy movie" about a New York City couple who are desperate to have a baby.

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On 'SNL,' '60 Minutes' And More, How Networks And Cable Covered Kavanaugh

3:23pm October 01, 2018

by David Bianculli

Critic David Bianculli looks back at the history of televised government hearings, including the Senate Confirmation Hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

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