This has been one of the most draining weeks for the entertainment media in a long time. Inside the industry, it feels like the sky is falling (but sort of in a good way). Outside the indust…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:18PMSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “The Battle of the Mothers,” the Sept. 12 finale of “Top of the Lake: China Girl.” “Top of the Lake: China Girl” ends with Mira…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “Night,” the June 14 episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The last shot of Season 1 of “The Handmaid’s Tale” is June, now …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMWelcome to “Remote Controlled,” a podcast from Variety featuring the best and brightest in television, both in front and behind the camera. In this week’s episode, Variety’s exec…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:45PM“Trial & Error” should not be as funny as it is. The sitcom is kind of a tea-cozy murder mystery with a bemused affection for its rural setting that is reminiscent of NBC’s departe…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AMLady Gaga’s halftime show at Super Bowl LI wasn’t the showstopper that last year’s performance by Beyonce was, and it certainly wasn’t as provocative as the pop singer has been in th…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:31PMIt took about an hour for “Hairspray Live!” to find its sweet spot. The energy was a little low, a line got dropped, and the production — the most complex, it appeared, that NBC has at…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:53PM“Hamilton’s America” is a product of one of those weird cultural moments where multiple different mediums attempt to be the same thing — a documentary film about a work of musical th…
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