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Italian director Luca Guadagnino has become an art house darling over the past 15 years, making films about desire, longing, relationships and identity that have resonated with audiences and catapulted his actors to superstardom. His latest film, “Challengers” is his biggest yet, starring Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor in a steamy tennis love triangle that plays out over the course of 13 years.

Perhaps you’ve already torn through the eight-episode limited series “Ripley,” now streaming on Netflix. Created by Steve Zaillian, who also wrote and directed every episode, this gorgeous and gritty black-and-white noir is a far cry from the lush 1999 film “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” adapted from the same 1955 book by Patricia Highsmith.

The ever prolific Tyler Perry has signed a new, nonexclusive deal with BET to ensure fresh seasons of eight existing shows as well as a brand-new series.

CBS Television Studios has ordered a new daytime drama developed under its partnership with the NAACP, the network announced on Monday.

Don't blame the local TV station for cutting off Billy Joel. It was the CBS network that started the firestorm Sunday night when it decided to break away early from the taped broadcast of "Billy Joel: The 100th — Live at Madison Square Garden," forcing local affiliates to start their late-night newscasts.

English writer and filmmaker Alex Garland’s latest film “Civil War” takes on American politics this weekend, with the provocative epic that imagines a war-torn United States as seen through the eyes of a team of photojournalists capturing the action.

"The Sympathizer," an intriguing adaptation of the 2015 novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, is a portrait of the Captain, a North Vietnamese mole who is torn between his love for American pop culture and his loyalty to the Communist party. But his struggle keeps getting interrupted by a familiar face. Robert Downey Jr., fresh off his Oscar win for "Oppenheimer," takes on four different versions of the ...

The official date has been set for Pat Sajak‘s final turn on “Wheel of Fortune.” The longtime host will bid farewell with his last appearance on June 7, according to Deadline. The episode, which has already been filmed, will also serve as the season 41 finale of the game show.  

Despite her claim that her fifth time hosting “Saturday Night Live” would not be celebrated with a parade of celebrity guests and other “SNL” alums wishing her well, Kristen Wiig turned her opening monologue into just that as she marked this milestone with help from Paul Rudd, Matt Damon, Ryan Gosling and other famous pals.

Dave Coulier is sharing the “audio hug” he received from dear friend and “Full House” co-star Bob Saget, shortly before the comedian’s sudden death in early 2022.

Lin Qi was a billionaire with a dream. The video game tycoon had wanted to turn one of China’s most famous science-fiction novels, “The Three-Body Problem,” into a global hit. He had started working with Netflix and the creators of the HBO series “Game of Thrones” to bring the alien invasion saga to international audiences.

On Friday, April 5, the documentary “Girls State” premieres on Apple TV+, the much-anticipated sequel to the lauded 2020 documentary “Boys State,” also on Apple TV+. Directed by accomplished documentarians Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine, the film takes an anthropological approach to studying the inner workings of the weeklong political camps for American high schoolers sponsored by the American ...

Though he worked steadily into the second decade of this century, Joe Flaherty, who died Monday at 82, will be remembered for two series: the Canadian sketch comedy "SCTV," which sneaked onto American television by way of late-night syndication in the late 1970s, and "Freaks and Geeks," the 1999 CBS comedy that would prove to be ground zero for American comedy in the 2000s.

Martin Short‘s next gig will be the mayor of Funner, California. The two-time Emmy Award-winning “Only Murders in the Building” star will be inaugurated on May 13 as the next city leader of the small town. It is the home of the sprawling Harrah’s Resort Southern California, about one hour northeast of downtown San Diego.  

My Ukrainian Jewish parents, grandparents and great-grandparents were comfortably ensconced in the Midwest when Hitler began persecuting the Jews; I have no familial connection to the Holocaust. Still, the sight of a swastika gives me shivers, and all the more so given that, in this age of denial and renascent fascism, the symbol has outlived its ironic uses (punk rock, Mel Brooks) and is simply a sign of antisemitism.

Streaming Friday on Apple TV+ comes a revealing two-part documentary about beloved comedian Steve Martin, directed by Oscar winning “20 Feet from Stardom” director Morgan Neville. “Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in 2 Pieces,” is a truly unique documentary project, the two halves distinctly different but fitting together to create an illuminating portrait of Martin and his relationship to fame and creativity.

Among the 32 women trying to win over Joey Graziadei’s heart in Season 28 of “The Bachelor” was a Gonzaga University graduate.

It's a quiet, spring-like day on a recent Monday afternoon as cars rush by on Woodward Avenue outside Unorthodox Club, an unassuming Detroit nightclub near Seven Mile. But inside, there's drama with a capital D, and tension is mounting as yet another turf war over the club's ownership rights is set to erupt between rival parties. It's all part of the storyline of "The Dirty D," the tawdry Detroit soap opera that is filming episodes for its third season, which is set to debut in April on Tubi.