Netflix
After disappearing from the radar for several months, Netflix has released the first look images from its long-awaited foray into 14th-century Italy, The Decameron. Initially greenlit in August 2022, the series is "inspired by" the contemporaneously published short-story collection of the same name by Giovanni Boccaccio, and was
Netflix
No one’s denying that the podcast zeitgeist has wholly vanished from popular culture – it’s still a veritable yet dubious industry now dominated by celebrity-hosted TV recaps, centrist history lessons, and, yes, the dark shadow of True Crime. But a TV show in 2024 centered on the ubiquity and
Movies
For whatever reason, our pop culture has never been all that interested in the woman who survived King Henry VIII. Everyone knows about Anne Boleyn's beheading and most people are aware that Jane Seymour's died after giving birth to his only son. Even Katherine of Aragon
Acorn TV
Lucy Lawless is back as Alexa Crowe, the fearless and unapologetic investigator who stars in the New Zealand-set mystery series My Life Is Murder. And this time, the trailer makes it clear she's bound and determined that everyone will know her name by the end of the two-minute
BBC
If the Olympics are coming around again, then so are the inevitable questions: “Will there be more W1A to go with them?” The comedy series, which initially began as a one-off film Twenty-Twelve, a BBC Four mockumentary, following the BBC’s attempts at organizing the 2012 Summer Olympics in London,
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies. That old adage is on full display in the trailer for Season 3 of Prime Video's wildly underrated comedy The Outlaws, which sees our favorite community service misfits involved in their biggest crime yet: Murder. (Maybe.) The series
PBS
When Great Performances was founded in the early 1970s, the Free Shakespeare in the Park series was already an institution, with Joseph Papp starting the series in the 1950s. However, it was still young on many levels, as the theater in which it performed had not been established until the
BritBox
Even before the BBC bought out BritBox International to make it the new streaming home of the British Broadcast Corporation, the service had gone all in on BAFTA, signing on to become the exclusive streaming home of both the annual Film and Television Awards, along with picking up the Oliviers
Paramount+
At this point, just about everyone in the entertainment business knows that Paramount Pictures will not make it out of the streaming wars alive. It's not the first time something like this has happened; the real oldheads remember when RKO Pictures failed to make it when the transition
Actors and Actresses
On Sunday, May 5, 2024, the BBC announced that actor Bernard Hill had passed away at the age of 79. Most Americans first saw Hill in the 1997 smash hit Titanic. In it, he played the ill-fated Captain Edward J. Smith, the man who led the ocean liner on her
Netflix
The coming-of-age story is a staple in the YA genre for a reason --- sometimes, we all need the reminder that who we are is exactly who we're supposed to be. That's the message at the heart of Geek Girl, the latest teen drama from Netflix,
PBS
Guilt has a penchant for starting with characters you’ve never seen before, which is annoying when you’re trying to wrap things up. In its second episode, we meet possible pill addict Aliza (Tamsin Topolski) – though her name is never actually spoken. A no-nonsense American at a large investment