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In Season Two, 'Stranger Things' Offers More Scares And The Same Quirky Quartet Of Nerds

4:50pm October 27, 2017

by Eric Deggans

Netflix's Stranger Things quickly became a summer 2016 hit. After more than a year of waiting, it's back in all its '80s horror nostalgia with the show's second season sneaking up on viewers, just like the last time.

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'The Deuce' Looks At New York's Grimy 1970's Sex Trade

4:50pm October 27, 2017

In the HBO series, The Deuce, Maggie Gyllenhall plays a prostitute in Times Square, who's different from the other prostitutes because she doesn't have a pimp. Gyllenhall talks with NPR's Kelly McEvers about the show's grimy look at the sex trade in 1970's New York and her roles as an actress and a producer.

Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) returns in the second season of Stranger Things.

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'Stranger Things 2' Creators: 'We Wanted To Raise The Stakes'

10:09am October 27, 2017

In the next chapter of the sci-fi Netflix series, out Friday, the show's central children begin to grow up. Brothers Matt and Ross Duffer discuss their instant cult classic.

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Snoop Dogg Takes On A New Role: Game Show Host

5:05am October 27, 2017

by Eric Deggans

Snoop Dogg now has two high profile TV projects: Martha and Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party and the reboot of the game show The Joker's Wild. The infamous rapper has become an Emmy-nominated TV host.

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50 Years of 60 Minutes

2:54pm October 25, 2017

The iconic newsmagazine hits a milestone.

In Netflix's Mindhunter, FBI agents Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Tench (Holt McCallany) study those who would kill your friends and family to remind you of their love.

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'Mindhunter' Is A Procedural That Finds A New Way To Proceed

9:30am October 25, 2017

by Glen Weldon

Mindhunter's first episode promises The X-Files for serial killers. Instead, this Netflix series hews closer to Masters of Sex, placing viewers at the troubled, and troubling, birth of a new science.

Remembering Actor Robert Guillaume

5:19am October 25, 2017

by Eric Deggans

Emmy-winning actor Robert Guillaume has died. He was best known as TV butler Benson DuBois, a role which could have been an awful stereotype, but was transformed by Guillaume into a classic.

Amy Sedaris says her new show was inspired by everyone from Red Skelton to the Two Fat Ladies.

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The Best Hostess Gift? A Pound Of Butter, Says Amy Sedaris

10:38pm October 24, 2017

by Ari Shapiro

Sedaris says her new, accessibly imperfect hospitality show is inspired by local shows she loved growing up — and everyone from Red Skelton to the Two Fat Ladies. (But not Martha Stewart.)

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Actor Robert Guillaume in 2005. He died Tuesday at 89.

Robert Guillaume, Groundbreaking Emmy Winner In 'Soap,' 'Benson,' Dies

6:47pm October 24, 2017

by Christopher Dean Hopkins

Guillaume started as a stage actor, but playing refined butler — and later lieutenant governor — Benson DuBois for nine years starting in 1977 made him a TV star and a symbol of hard-won success.

The Long and Short of It: Peter (Tyler Alvarez) and Dylan (Jimmy Tatro) discuss subtle artistic differences in anatomical drawing.

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'American Vandal': True Crime That's Fake, But No Less True

5:00am October 24, 2017

by Glen Weldon

The minor crime at the center of this Netflix series never happened, but it's less a mockumentary than a hilariously precise dissection of our cultural fascination with true crime narratives.