The L.A. Times’ Dirty John was a minor podcasting sensation last year, one of the most easily consumed of the wave of glossy, tightly edited true crime podcasts that the first season of Serial inadvertently left in its wake. Centered on an affluent Newport Beach interior decorator with borderline-apocalyptic taste in…
American Horror Story is a series already burdened by excess, so it’s a bit exhausting to hear that the upcoming Apocalypse will fold in characters and plotlines from both Murder House and Coven, not to mention task Sarah Paulson with reprising her roles from both of those seasons in addition to playing an entirely…
For its upcoming eighth season, American Horror Story is trying out something weird by combining its best season (Murder House) and its worst season (Coven) into a crossover called Apocalypse. We’ve already seen the Coven gang getting back together with their old pal Stevie Nicks, and now The Wrap says that Murder…
Last week, Bravo invited Connie Britton back to the world of anthology TV shows by casting her as the female lead in Dirty John, an adaptation of Christopher Goffard’s L.A. Times podcast of the same name about the true story of a handsome conman who nefariously tore apart the life of a woman named Debra Newell—with…
After appearing in just the first seasons of American Horror Story and American Crime Story, Connie Britton will be returning to the world of anthology TV shows with Bravo’s Dirty John. The first season of the show will be based on the true-crime podcast of the same name, which followed Los Angeles Times reporter…
Nashville is ending—again. The country music drama will ride off into the proverbial sunset after its upcoming sixth season, its second on CMT. The show was previously cancelled after four seasons on ABC before being revitalized on the cable network.
Ryan Murphy’s latest TV project, 9-1-1 has been kicking around for a while now, steadily picking up a pretty hefty cast of TV talent—Angela Bassett, Connie Britton, Peter Krause—to tell its stories of harried first responders and the beatific, Mrs. Coach-esque voice directing them on their calls. World Series…
Having sorted out what the “S” in SMILF stands for, we’re now trying to grasp Connie Britton’s involvement in the Showtime comedy. The press release describes Britton’s—late of Nashville, but who will always be Tami Taylor to us—role in the series as your garden variety overbearing boss, who makes frequent inordinate…
ABC’s TGIT drama Scandal has survived cast departures, onscreen breakups, and even the fact that nearly every main character has killed someone at one point or another. The Shonda Rhimes-steered show hits its 100th episode this Thursday, and The Hollywood Reporter, for one, is celebrating with an extensive oral…
You’ve got to hand it to that plucky Nashville show: Cancelled by ABC at the end of its fourth season last year, it got picked up by an appropriate new home at CMT. Then its leading lady, Connie Britton, decides she wants out, so her character dies midway through season five. But Variety reports today that even these…
This post references a weeks old plot point in Nashville. If you care but have not gotten around to watching the episode that is your fault, but still beware.
[Note: The following post discusses plot points of the most recent Nashville episode.]
Note: The following contains major plot points from the most recent episode of Nashville.
When thirtysomething was on the air in the late ’80s, it had many fans, won a bunch of Emmys, and was noted for its exemplary scripts by creators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick and above-par performances by its cast. And yet… there was a substantial contingent that out-and-out hated the show, which showcased…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, December 15. All times are Eastern.
How’d we miss this? Last week, the Italian luxury fashion brand Prada released Past Forward, a nightmarish black-and-white short film directed by David O. Russell that features (among other things) a mouthless Sacha Baron Cohen, a bleached blond Allison Williams, futuristic technologies, Bernard Herrmann’s scores for …
Even if there weren’t a highly-anticipated movie on the horizon, we’d be getting a lot of Wonder Woman news this year anyway. 2016 is the 75th anniversary of the character’s first appearance, which was in All Star Comics #8. Since then, the superhero’s gotten her own title, TV show, Ms. magazine cover, and United…
Sometimes it’s just a similar premise. Sometimes the resemblance is uncanny. But every now and then a TV episode can’t help but recall another. In Double Takes, we explore the doppelgangers of television, the unshakable connections between them, and the illuminating distinctions.
It wasn’t a fever dream. As we previously reported, CMT really is saving Nashville from ABC’s cancellation and forcing—we mean allowing—Connie Britton to play the role of Rayna Jaymes for at least one more year. And now the show’s fifth season has an official premiere date, further crystallizing the reality that a…
Queens of country Rayna James and Juliette Barnes will be a part of the new incarnation of Nashville. TV Line reports that both Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere will be back for the fifth season of the show, which got a second life on CMT after ABC canceled it. Not all of Nashville’s stars have opted to follow the…
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