Sunday, April 30, 2023

Succession Recap: Look Out, Because Kendall's 'Got That Gleam in His Eye'

Kendall is hyped up for a big presentation this week on Succession. But did his new product launch turn out to be more of a rapid unscheduled disassembly? As Sunday’s episode opens, we’re greeted by the face of… Logan Roy! The old bastard (R.I.P.) is on video taping a pitch for Waystar’s new line of […]

American Idol's Top 10 Revealed Live, Following Pair of Brutal Eliminations

We can now count the number of remaining American Idol contestants on two hands, which is helpful for mathematically-challenged viewers like myself who really can’t go much higher than that. Sunday’s two-hour live installment paid homage to a dozen Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, while showing absolutely no respect whatsoever to two more […]

Fatal Attraction Premiere Recap: Are You Tempted to Watch More? Grade It!

Paramount+’s Fatal Attraction series shows us the first embers of an illicit affair… but it also shows us the damage it can cause once it catches fire. Sunday’s premiere opens with former lawyer Dan Gallagher (Joshua Jackson) sporting a scraggly beard and facing a parole board after spending 15 years in prison for second-degree murder. […]

Rebecca Ferguson Compares Silo Antihero to Mission: Impossible and Dune Roles: 'She's Very Broken'

If one descends to the lower-most depths of Apple TV’s titular Silo, you will find Rebecca Ferguson’s Juliette, an engineer who over the course of the early episodes will be nudged to rise — figuratively, as well as up many, many levels — to serve a new purpose. Based on Hugh Howey’s trilogy of novels […]

Yellowstone's Kelly Reilly Offers Explanation For Her PaleyFest Absence

On Saturday, Yellowstone‘s Kelly Reilly shared why she was a no-show at April’s PaleyFest. After Reilly posted a photo with Succession‘s Brian Cox to her Instagram feed, a commenter asked why she didn’t attend the Los Angeles event, despite her presence on the original RSVP list, which was announced in mid-January and seemed to confirm […]

Sweet Tooth Season 2 Finale Recap: Bodies Drop in the Final Showdown With Abbot — Who Didn't Survive?

In a show geared toward children, that finale sure had a lot of death, didn’t it? In the Season 2 closer of Sweet Tooth, Jepperd, Gus and Aimee are tired of running. The trio decides to lure General Abbot and his men to Pubba’s house for one last fight to end his reign of terror […]

A Small Light: 6 Things to Know About NatGeo's Gripping, Moving New Take on the Story of Anne Frank

A Small Light co-showrunner Joan Rater knows that Anne Frank’s story ends in heartbreaking, horrifying fashion. We all do. Frank’s diary, written while the teenage Jewish girl and her family hid from Nazis in World War II-era Amsterdam, comes to an abrupt close when their secret annex is raided. Anne, and most of her family, […]

Quotes of the Week: Sweet Tooth, Flash, The Daily Show, Good Trouble and More

The jury’s still out on those May flowers, but April showers definitely brought some top-notch television. (Bet you didn’t know those two things were related.) In our latest Quotes of the Week compilation below, we’ve gathered nearly two dozen of television’s most memorable sound bites from the past seven days, including moments both scripted and […]

Saturday, April 29, 2023

White House Correspondents Dinner: President Biden and Host Roy Wood Jr. Lob Jokes at Fox News, POTUS' Age

The Daily Show‘s Roy Wood Jr. this Saturday evening was the lead entertainer at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, a fundraiser for scholarships for aspiring journalists. The annual event is held in the Washington Hilton Ballroom, and this year aired on C-SPAN, CNN and MSNBC. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, as […]

Sweet Tooth's Nonso Anozie Pleads the Fifth on Fate of [Spoiler]: 'You Know You Shouldn't Be Asking Me That!'

The following contains spoilers for the first five episodes of Sweet Tooth Season 2. Tommy Jepperd — the Big Man to Sweet Tooth‘s Gus — is going through the emotional wringer. Not only did he lose his wife and child in the early days of the Sick, but now his chosen son has also been […]

The TVLine-Up: What's New, Returning and Leaving the Week of April 30

This weekly feature is in addition to TVLine’s daily What to Watch listings and our monthly guide to What’s on Streaming. With nearly 600 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. […]

Ratings: Grand Crew Ends Low; WWE and a Blue Bloods Rerun Lead Friday

In the latest TV ratings, Fox’s SmackDown led Friday in the demo, while CBS’ Blue Bloods rerun copped the night’s largest audience. FOX | Friday Night SmackDown (with 2.3 million total viewers and a 0.6 demo rating) was up week-to-week. ABC | NFL Draft coverage averaged 2.4 million viewers and a 0.5 demo rating. NBC […]

The TVLine Performers of the Week (tie): Keri Russell and Kieran Culkin

THE PERFORMER | Keri Russell THE SHOW | Netflix’s The Diplomat THE EPISODE | “The James Bond Clause” (April 20, 2023) THE PERFORMANCE | Midway through The Diplomat’s Season 1 finale, Russell’s nascent ambassador Kate Wyler gets into a heated power struggle on the streets of Paris and it’s tense, distressing, fraught, unsettling and incredibly nuanced. […]