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Secrets And Betrayals Upend A Seemingly Perfect Life In 'The Undoing'

1:35pm October 23, 2020

by David Bianculli

Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant star as a married couple on the brink of unraveling in David E. Kelley's new HBO miniseries, based on Jean Hanff Korelitz's novel, You Should Have Known.

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'Peanuts' Halloween Special Won't Be Broadcast On Network TV

6:01am October 22, 2020

It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown has been airing on network television since 1966. But if you want to see it this year, you'll have to watch it on Apple TV Plus.

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Arts

'The Queen's Gambit' Centers On The Kind Of Chess Prodigy We Seldom See

2:21pm October 21, 2020

by John Powers

A brilliant young woman crashes the traditionally male world of chess in Netflix's seven-part miniseries based on Walter Tevis' addictive novel.

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Mrs. Danvers (Kristin Scott Thomas) is forbidding, foreboding and fierce — easily the best thing about Netflix's Rebecca remake.

Arts

A Flat 'Rebecca' Remake For Netflix Is Haunted By The Ghost Of Hitchcock

5:01am October 21, 2020

by Glen Weldon

Netflix's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's swooning gothic novel strips it of subtext — and sex — and tacks on a ending that misunderstands the "romance" at its center.

Channing Dungey was named the next chairman of Warner Bros. Television Group. She previously served in executive roles at ABC and Netflix. She is seen here at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit 2018.

National

Channing Dungey Named Chairman of Warner Bros. Television Group

6:56pm October 19, 2020

by Brakkton Booker

Dungey previously held executive roles at ABC and Netflix. She is set to take over in early 2021 replacing Peter Roth who ran the television division for two decades.

It's the titular role(s): Hank and Dean Venture starred in The Venture Bros.

Arts

'The Venture Bros.' Creators On The Show's Legacy, Its Fans — And Its Cancellation

11:04am October 19, 2020

by Zach Schlein

Co-creators Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer discuss The Venture Bros., its nerdy influence and its surprising cancellation.

Dominique (Odley Jean) is one of several high school students in Netflix's sprawling, ambitious Grand Army.

Arts

'Grand Army': Breakout Performances In A Depressing High School Tale

7:00am October 16, 2020

by Aisha Harris

Netflix's latest teen melodrama attempts to tackle a lot of social issues and ills at once, to mixed results.

Siblings Ana (Sydney Lemmon) and Daimon (Tom Austen) have a rivalry that causes infernal conflict in Hulu's Helstrom.

Arts

Damned If You Do: Hulu's Less-Than-Marvelous 'Helstrom'

5:19am October 16, 2020

by Glen Weldon

A surfeit of subplots and secondary characters — and a complicated production history — take a minor Marvel occult hero on a journey that turns out to be a dead end.

Demi Lovato performs "Commander in Chief" during the Billboard Music Awards, broadcast on Oct. 14 from Los Angeles.

Demi Lovato Addresses Trump With New Song, 'Commander In Chief'

7:47pm October 15, 2020

by LaTesha Harris

Demi Lovato performed "Commander in Chief," her politically charged single criticizing President Trump, for the first time at Wednesday's Billboard Music Awards.

In Season 4, 'Fargo' Tells A Story Of American Crime And Greed In Kansas City

4:08pm October 15, 2020

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Noah Hawley, creator and writer behind the FX show Fargo about the series' fourth season.