From Italian Disco to Tupac Shakur, Master of None Music Supervisor Explains Tonal Twists &Turns
Aziz Ansari fans probably have no idea who "Mina" is, but they'll hear plenty from the famous-in-Italy pop singer when Master of None season 2 begins streaming on today. "Mina was an Italian pop star in the late sixties, very much in the Phil Spector / Dusty Springfield vein," says deejay-turned-music supervisor Zach Cowie. "Aziz found out about her when he was in Italy and now she's kind of become the guiding voice for the season."
New Twin Peaks Trailer has Actual Footage From Upcoming Show!
If loose lips sink ships, than David Lynch is an admiral for the ages—no one working on his Twin Peaks revival has breathed a word about the show's plot, or anything else. That ethos has also, at least in part, been driving the marketing campaign. Twin Peaks is a mystery, after all, so it makes some sense that the promo material up to now has been so…mysterious. Each new bit of information,
Your Summer TV Watch List
There’s plenty of amazing movies coming out this summer. However, we all know that there are some lazy summer days where the thought of leaving your cool and cozy home sounds daunting. Thankfully, a ton of your favorite shows are coming back (or making their debut) to the small screen this summer. So get ready to sit back and relax as you tune into these binge-worthy and incredible shows, we've got you sorted to mid-July, when a certain epic series featuring dragons roars its way back to your living room.
Watch the First Teaser for Bryan Singer’s X-Men Show The Gifted
With Legion already a critical and commercial success, one wondered what the X-Men movies most seasoned director, Bryan Singer, would do with his show The Gifted. One thing you can count on (and you’ll glean this from the teaser) is that it’s not going to be like Legion at all. As Singer told Mashable earlier this year, The Gifted is a very different kind of story from both Legion and his own work in the cinematic X-Men universe:
“I’ll tell you,
The Losers’ Club Clowns Around in the Worst Way in new IT Trailer
A sneak preview of Andres Muschietti’s It premiered on Sunday night at the MTV Movie and TV awards, following a few creepy teasers and photos we've seen over the past few weeks. The newest film adaptation of the Stephen King novel is not clowning around (apologies for that pun) as Pennywise the clown is one of the horror master's most iconic, unsettling monsters.
Taking place in the small town of Derry,
Fargo Song Picker Finds Obscure Gems to Underscore Quirky Criminality
It was weird enough that bleakly funny Minnesota noir series Fargo (Wednesdays on FX through June) kicked off its third season last month with an eight-minute interrogation set in Cold War East Berlin. Adding to the strangeness was the spooky recording of of an ancient Russian folk song performed by the Ural Cossacks Choir, which played throughout the scene. Maggie Phillips, the artist-turned song picker who supervises music selections for the series,
HBO Has Four (Yes, Four) Game of Thrones Spinoffs in Development
You can never have too much of a good thing. This, it seems, is a sentiment HBO might be putting to the test, as Deadline reports that cable’s premiere network has four Game of Thrones spinoffs in development. Now, a channel like HBO always has lots of stuff in development, some of which never see the light of day, so this shouldn’t be all that surprising—but—four projects is a lot,
Here’s the First Trailer for Marvel’s The Defenders, Their Biggest Series Yet
The Marvel Cinematic Universe should really be called the Marvel Entertainment Universe, as the studio and its massive cache of source material is taking over screens big and small. Their latest TV series, and biggest to date, is coming to Netflix this August—Marvel’s The Defenders—and we’ve got the new trailer below.
The trailer comes on the heels of Netflix teasing the return of Elektra (Elodie Yung), a beloved character from Marvel’s Daredevil.
Syfy Drops Trailer for Gonzo new Series Blood Drive
Fans of George Miller's 2015 epic Mad Max: Fury Road have known for ages that nothing makes a more satisfying spectacle than lunatics behind the wheel of insane cars. That's why we're excited about Syfy's new series coming out, which by the looks of it has a bit of Mad Max's DNA. Blood Drive is not only a bloody wink towards Miller's classic,
New Twin Peaks Teaser Reveals Changes to Creepiest Small Town in America
In less than a month one of TV's most iconic television shows will be reborn; David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks returns. We'll be revisiting the eponymous town 25 years after the murder of Laura Palmer, with a two-hour premiere on Showtime on Sunday, May 21. In this new teaser, Lynch takes us back to some famous Twin Peaks locations, including Laura Palmer's house, the sheriff’s department, and the Double R Diner—only things aren't quite the same.
The Get Down’s Costume Designer on Hitting the Perfect 70’s Notes
Part two of Baz Luhrmann’s musical melodrama The Get Down was released earlier this month on Netflix, jumping forward from 1977 to 1978. The South Bronx tale of love and the pursuit of fame saw its religious and criminal secondary plot lines toned down, ever so slightly, to let the show focus on hero Ezekiel (Justice Smith), his girlfriend Mylene (Herizen F. Guardiola), her burgeoning disco stardom, and the divergent paths taken by Zeke and his childhood best friend,
Watch Catastrophe’s Rob Delaney & Sharon Horgan Talk 3rd Season
Today, Amazon’s hysterical comedy Catastrophe returns for its third season. Now’s the time to watch the first two seasons if you’re behind to catch one of the funniest shows on TV, period. Created and written by Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, the show follows what happens after an American (Delaney) and an Irish woman (Sharon) have a one-night stand in London that results in a pregnancy and, ultimately, a baby. Season one dealt with the shock of their new reality,
Here’s How VFX Artists Turned Neil Gaiman’s American Gods Into a Visual Feast
Starz takes a big swing starting April 30 with its eye-popping adaptation of Neil Gaiman's fantastical novel American Gods. The eight-episode spectacle follows fresh-out-of-prison "Shadow Moon" (Ricky Little) as he partners up with ancient trickster Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane) as he preps for battle against "New Gods" including the bratty "Technical Boy" (Bruce Langley).
Ricky Whittle (Shadow Moon), Ian McShane (Mr Wednesday). Courtesy Starz.
Shot in the hyper-crisp 4K resolution,
Why this Small, Rustbelt City Still Loves Lucy
This past August, thousands descended upon the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival or “Lucy Fest,” in Jamestown, New York, to laugh through sold-out performances from Trevor Noah, Lewis Black, Brian Regan, and the Farrelly brothers. The successful three-day festival, which drew attendees from 41 states this year, has previously featured performers like Jay Leno, Joan Rivers, Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres, and Ray Romano – just to name a few.
However,
Gearing up for Game of Thrones Season 7
As you prepare for Game of Thrones season 7, you'll likely want a refresher on where everything stands in Westeros. There’s no shortage of sites and articles devoted to schooling you on everything that’s happened in the series six bloody seasons thus far. Vanity Fair put together this handy guide on where we left off in season 6, while the USA Today put together a list of seven things to expect in season seven.
Breakups Abound in Season 3 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Netflix released the official trailer for the third season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and we can’t possibly wait to be reunited with our favorite mole person and her entourage. Still confused by the outside world yet just as bubbly and positive, Kimmy decides to go to college after finishing her GED. We don’t know what she will be studying, but we’re sure she will be learning a lot.
New on HBO: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
In 1951, at the age of 31, an African-American woman named Henrietta Lacks died at Johns Hopkins Hospital of a particularly aggressive cervical cancer. Unbeknownst to her husband or her heirs, prior to her death, a biopsy of her tumor cells was harvested and transported to a lab, where they were kept alive and growing. The cells, the first to live outside a human body, were named HeLa — at a time when there was no established practice regarding consent for cell donation,
Silhouettes Say it All in Dramatic Feud Title Sequence
When Feud: Bette and Joan creator Ryan Murphy envisioned a retro opening for his FX series about Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) and Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange), he reached out to Emmy-winning main title director Kyle Cooper with a simple mandate: take inspiration from mid-century graphic designer Saul Bass. "Ryan wanted this to be like the kind of thing Saul Bass did for Anatomy of a Murder in 1959, so that was our creative brief,"
Orange is the New Black Season 5 Teaser
The new season of Orange Is The New Black is picking up right where we left off, and if you watched season 4, you know that it’s a wild moment for the women of Litchfield Penitentiary.
The newly released teaser brings us back to Daya (Dascha Polanco) holding a gun at the terrible prison guard Humphrey (Michael Torpey), with all the women going absolutely nuts and adding to the chaos.
The Leftovers Production Designer on Season 3’s Mind-Bending Finish
"It's really hard to create Gary Busey as a blow-up doll," says production designer John Paino, and he should know. For HBO's third and final season of The Leftovers (debuting April 16), Paino oversaw the creation of a 35-foot inflated figure of the toothy celebrity, a major attraction for the Texas spiritual mecca-turned-tourist trap known as Jarden. "The blow-up doll is about this mix of a pop culture sensibility with the beginnings perhaps of some spiritual movement,"
