Saturday, January 21, 2017
One of the nice surprises about the Netflix “reimagining” of “One Day at a Time” was the writers’ decision to define the show’s main character, Penelope Alvarez (Justina Machado)…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:05AMTuesday, January 3, 2017
The combative relationship between Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher was most famously captured in the roman a clef (and 1990 movie) “Postcards From the Edge,” but that story was told fr…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:59PMMonday, December 5, 2016
The live television musical has evolved into a bicoastal enterprise. What started out, with 2013’s “The Sound of Music Live!,” in a lower Broadway rehearsal space in New York, has evol…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:47AMSunday, October 9, 2016
Bull Tuesday, 9 p.m., CBS Geneva Carr is one of two New York theater actors on “Bull” (Christopher Jackson, the “Hamilton” star who plays stylist Chunk Palmer, is the other). Encoura…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:28PMMonday, September 19, 2016
“Dr. Phil” McGraw pioneered the field of trial science — of using a mix of psychological data and technology to influence jury selection and shape courtroom narratives. And that’…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:49AMSunday, September 4, 2016
Series premiere. Two young men who need to grow up real fast are the subject of FX’s new drama “Atlanta.” Earnest Marks (Donald Glover) and his cousin, Alfred Miles (Brian Tyree Henry)…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:10AMFriday, July 29, 2016
Television’s search for the first great musical drama has been a fraught journey, with a few expensive dead-ends. Either the music was there and the story wasn’t (“Smash”) or the sto…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:23AMMonday, June 13, 2016
They came to prominence in Hollywood films in the early 1980s and were rivals for the Best Actress Oscar in 1983. Meryl Streep won, for “Sophie’s Choice,” and Jessica Lange, who was no…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:07PMFriday, June 10, 2016
Aaron Tveit kicked off 2016 with a widely praised performance as Danny Zuko in Fox’s “Grease: Live,” considered the most successful of the four live TV musicals that have aired so far.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:31AMWednesday, June 8, 2016
In late April, Marymount Manhattan sophomore Maddie Baillio answered an open casting call to play Tracy Turnblad in NBC’s early December production of “Hairspray Live!” The theater per…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:33PMMonday, June 6, 2016
The legendary pop group ABBA gave an impromptu performance at a hotel in Stockholm. According to the Expressen, Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad were…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:42PMSaturday, May 21, 2016
Bryan Cranston was a child living in California when he and his mother and brother visited family in Texas. It was 1962, and segregation was rampant throughout the South. Cranston tells The …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:31PMTuesday, March 1, 2016
There is nothing “real” about “The Real O’Neals.” Or anything funny. A witless collection of offensive anti-Catholic cliches, the new ABC series takes a talented cast and saddles i…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:57AMSunday, February 14, 2016
American Masters: Carole King Friday, 9 p.m., PBS Carole King has been on an amazing winning streak. “Beautiful,” the Broadway show based on her hits, won two Tonys. King received a Kenn…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:48AMFriday, December 4, 2015
The hyperbole is flying on the set of “The Wiz Live!” at Grumman Studios in Bethpage, where the backstage personnel and the cast have come to talk to the press. To a person, this product…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:09AMMonday, November 23, 2015
1. The Making of The Wiz Live! Wednesday, 8 p.m., NBC Talk about a sneak preview. The cast of “The Wiz Live” takes you backstage for a look at rehearsals, from music arrangement and chor…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:41AMSunday, November 15, 2015
1. Chicago Med Tuesday, 9 p.m., NBC Fans of “The Affair” know Colin Donnell as Scotty Lockhart, the felonious younger brother of Cole Lockhart (Joshua Jackson), whose murder is still uns…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:39AMWednesday, April 8, 2015
Edie Falco is done with Nurse Jackie. After nearly back-to back runs on two cable dramas – the landmark “Sopranos” and the edgy “Nurse Jackie,” the Emmy-winning actress has returne…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:59PMSunday, March 15, 2015
“American Crime” Thursday, 10 p.m., ABC While police investigate the home-invasion death of Matt Skokie, his mother (Felicity Huffman) works with victims’ rights activist Nancy…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:01AMMonday, January 12, 2015
Scott Bakula is having the best year of his career. His new CBS drama “NCIS: New Orleans” is one of the few bona fide hits of the season, and Bakula...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:01AMThursday, January 8, 2015
Securing the rights to Whitney Houston’s music proved difficult for the producers of the upcoming Lifetime biopic “Whitney” (Jan. 17, 8 p.m.). So director Angela Bassett called up her …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:02PMSunday, December 21, 2014
1. THE AFFAIR Sunday, 10 p.m., Showtime Noah Solloway (Dominic West) has really put it all on the line, telling his wife, Helen (Maura Tierney) that he is living a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMFriday, December 5, 2014
The claws were in Thursday night during NBC’s production of “Peter Pan Live!” But something about untried “Girls” star Allison Williams (in the title role) made people go easy on...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:24PMSunday, November 30, 2014
Christopher Walken has played Vietnam vets, an undertaker, an Italian aristocrat, gangsters and drug dealers. After winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for “The Deer Hunter” in 1979, h…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMSaturday, November 29, 2014
Embraced by a trendy, if niche audience as Marnie — the uptight friend of Brooklyn hipster Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham) — on “Girls,” Allison Williams is about to test the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:25PMThursday, November 13, 2014
Ten years have passed since David Hyde Pierce’s last regular TV series role — and the actor admits he never thought of looking for a second series once “Frasier” wrapped...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:20PMThursday, November 6, 2014
Minnie Driver has joined the cast of NBC’s “Peter Pan Live!” The star of NBC’s “About a Boy” star will play the adult Wendy Darling in the production and will...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:50AMThursday, October 30, 2014
NBC has released is first promo of the Dec. 4 live production of “Peter Pan Live!” starring Allison Williams of “Girls” and Christopher Walken. Shot at the Bethpage Grumann studios,.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:58PMWednesday, November 6, 2013
The Tony award-winning production of Horton Foote’s play “The Trip to Bountiful” will be adapted for television. Lifetime will air the play, which was originally written for TV in 1953…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:29AM 
