52 stories by "Danielle Turchiano"
SPOILER ALERT:Â Do not read if you have not yet watched “I Want to be Here,” the fourth season premiere of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.” The final season of “Crazy E…
Welcome to “Remote Controlled,” a podcast from Variety featuring the best and brightest in television, both in front of and behind the camera. In this week’s episode, Varie…
Bryan Cranston has had an illustrious career over the decades, winning four Emmy awards for his portrayal of anti-hero Walter White on “Breaking Bad” and a Tony Award for “…
No Emmy category demonstrates the wealth of material on TV these days better than lead actress in a drama. The nominees run the gamut and voters have a near-impossible choice of parsing stan…
When The CW’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” returns for its fourth and final season this fall, it will do so with a “reimagining” of the character of Greg. Played origi…
Coming off smash musical "Hamilton," in which he originated the dual role of John Laurens and Philip Hamilton in 2015, Anthony Ramos dove into his first small-screen role as Mars Blackmon on…
The third season premiere of "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" opened with a song entitled "Where's Rebecca Bunch?" to address the second season's cliffhanger: how and when Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) would …
Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom) certainly went through the ringer in the third season of CW musical comedy “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” " which ended on a note that not only saw her bigges…
With all due respect to Barney Stinson, Doogie Howser, Hedwig and his id alter-ego in the “Harold & Kumar” films, Neil Patrick Harris believes that Count Olaf in “A Ser…
As “RuPaul’s Drag Race” enters its 10th season, the queens who compete come in with a savvy awareness not only of the larger drag culture and reality television space but o…
In order to keep the momentum of movements like Time’s Up and Frances McDermond’s Oscar night plea for inclusion riders, the key next step is to create jobs, “Crazy Ex-Girl…
Shock and alarm may have been the emotions that first started Anna Deavere Smith's path to create "Notes From the Field," but it was love that fueled the one-woman play through the process. …
A graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts (PCPA), Vincent Rodriguez III cut his teeth on musicals such as “Hello, Dolly” and “Peter Pan,” the latt…
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the 11th episode of the third season of "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," entitled "Nathaniel and I Are Just Friends!" With the season finale of "…
SPOILER ALERT:Â Do not read until you have watched the Jan. 12 episode of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” entitled “Nathaniel Gets The Message!” When Scott Michael Foster fi…
More than a decade and a half ago, in 2002, Tony Shalhoub portrayed a police consultant with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) on USA's procedural "Monk." Given the show's comedy roots, hi…
They say repetition is key to retention and in Disney/Pixar’s animated feature “Coco,” the song “Remember Me” is the tie that binds multiple generations and gen…
Michael Cerveris' television resume reads like a wishlist of projects, starting with his earliest days in the industry, when he appeared on the acclaimed 1986 series "Fame" with Debbie Allen…
Although Kristen Bell rose to fame with the titular role in the WB cult teen private detective drama "Veronica Mars" in the early aughts, she had actually been performing for more than a dec…
SPOILER ALERT:Â Do not read if you have not yet watched the Nov. 17 episode of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” entitled “Josh Is Irrelevant.” Until now on “Crazy Ex-Gi…
SPOILER ALERT:Â Do not read if you have not yet watched the Nov. 10 episode of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” entitled “I Never Want To See Josh Again.” On “Crazy Ex-…
In the wake of the mounting sexual assault and harassment allegations against Kevin Spacey, CBS is severing ties with him as well. The actor is being cut out of the upcoming 50th anniversary…
Variety hosted the annual Power of Women: Los Angeles luncheon, presented by Lifetime and hosted by Judd Apatow Friday in Beverly Hills, Calif. And the esteemed producer got the ball rolling…
In its upcoming third season, Netflix’s “Fuller House” will embrace its family sitcom roots more than it ever has. While the show has always explored the complicated dynami…
The first award John Lithgow ever won was not an Emmy but a Tony (in 1973 for "The Changing Room"). While he was certainly excited by the achievement, much of his happiness came from the fac…
