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Artist Kehinde Wiley Mixes Modern Figures With Old European Art Traditions

6:27am October 20, 2015

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Wiley about his latest exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, "A New Republic." This story originally aired on May 22, 2015, on All Things Considered.

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Neil Patrick Harris Reimagines Variety Show Format In 'Best Time Ever'

6:10am October 20, 2015

by Eric Deggans

Song and dance man Neil Patrick Harris premiered his new show, Best Time Ever, Tuesday night on NBC. It's an attempt to bring back the variety show format.

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Manzano, shown above with Rosita — a bilingual Muppet from Mexico — recently announced that she will be retiring from Sesame Street after 44 years.

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In New Memoir, Maria Tells Us How She Got, How She Got To 'Sesame Street'

7:47pm October 19, 2015

by NPR Staff

Sonia Manzano has spent 44 years as one of the lucky residents of Sesame Street. In her memoir she describes how she sought comfort in TV during her own difficult childhood in the South Bronx.

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Andre Holland (left) and Clive Owen get serious in Episode 3 of the second season of The Knick.

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'The Knick' Returns To The Bloody Pursuit Of Knowledge

5:11pm October 19, 2015

by Michele Norris

The TV show, set in a New York City hospital in the early 1900s, depicts turn-of-the-century medicine in grisly detail. Stars Clive Owen and Andre Holland say there's no nostalgia involved.

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Comedian Tracy Morgan gives his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live. It was the comedian's first major return to television after being seriously injured in an accident 16 months ago.

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More Than A Year After Near Fatal Injuries, Tracy Morgan Returns To SNL

2:17pm October 18, 2015

by Brakkton Booker

"You may have seen on the news I was in a terrible car accident a year ago. It was awful. But it also showed me how much love and support I have in this world," Morgan said in his opening monologue.

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Former Fox News Pundit Is Arrested, Charged With Fabricating A CIA Past

7:01pm October 16, 2015

by Alexandra Starr

Federal prosecutors say Wayne Simmons claimed to be retired from a long CIA career and parlayed his bogus credentials into work as an intelligence adviser to senior U.S. military personnel overseas.

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'The Knick' Redefines Oscar-Winning Director's Role In Television

5:25pm October 16, 2015

by Eric Deggans

The Knick returns for its second season on Cinemax Friday night. And with it, Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh seems to be making good on his vow to turn his back on the film world and work exclusively in TV. He also has a new show on Amazon called Red Oaks, a comedy set in the 1980s. NPR reviews both and says Soderbergh's success is enabling him to shift power in the TV business from writer/producers to director/producers, and that power shift has a lot of repercussions.

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'Ebony Magazine' Explores 'The Cosby Show's' Tainted Legacy

5:23pm October 16, 2015

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Ebony Magazine writer Goldie Taylor about the cover of next month's issue, which features the Huxtables with shattered glass over the image of Bill Cosby.

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Beakman, played by performance artist Paul Zaloom, was on TV in the U.S. 20 years ago, but is still beloved in Latin America, where it plays in reruns.

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Remember 'Beakman's World'? The Wacky Scientist Is Still Big In Latin America

7:33pm October 15, 2015

by Jon Kalish

The children's TV show ran for just five years in the U.S. in the 1990s. But it's still hugely popular in Latin America, and a stage version of the show attracts audiences in the thousands.

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Grittier Telenovelas Are Ratings Gold For Telemundo

6:12pm October 15, 2015

by Jasmine Garsd

Telenovelas' standard plots grew stale and viewership was down. Then networks led by Telemundo in the U.S. began producing more realistic and lurid series. And it's working, Telemundos ratings are up.

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