Star Trek Turns 60 on Tuesday With No Series in Production for the First Time in Nine Years
Star Trek Turns 60 on Tuesday With No Series in Production for the First Time in Nine Years
Star Trek turns 60 on Tuesday — sixty years to the day since "The Man Trap" aired on NBC on 8 September 1966. Paramount has built a week around it: 750 cinemas, a Guinness record attempt, a Walk of Fame ceremony, a Delta badge on the ISS. What it does not have is a single Star Trek series in production.
The Gentlemen Is Back Thursday, and Netflix Renewed It Again Before You Watched a Frame
The Gentlemen Is Back Thursday, and Netflix Renewed It Again Before You Watched a Frame
The Gentlemen season two lands on Netflix on Thursday, all eight episodes at once, two and a half years after season one. Netflix already renewed it for a third season ten days before this one arrived — which tells you how the first one performed.
The Heated Rivalry Cottage Is Coming Back, and Its Owner Refused to Charge More
The Heated Rivalry Cottage Is Coming Back, and Its Owner Refused to Charge More
The Muskoka lake house that played Shane's cottage in the Heated Rivalry season one finale is coming back for season two — because its owner, a Toronto doctor, decided not to raise his price on a show that is now enormous.
In Praise of the Unlikable Female Lead
In Praise of the Unlikable Female Lead
There's a specific complaint that surfaces every time a woman anchors a difficult show. She's cold. She's selfish. She's hard to root for. I've been reading versions of this note for fifteen years, and it's almost never applied to the men in the same shows.
Netflix Dropped the Full Lizzie Borden Trailer and Sarah Paulson Is in It as Aileen Wuornos
Netflix Dropped the Full Lizzie Borden Trailer and Sarah Paulson Is in It as Aileen Wuornos
The fourth season of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's Monster arrives September 17, and the full trailer landed Thursday. Ella Beatty plays Lizzie Borden, the first woman to headline the anthology.
Eight TV Episodes That Work as Standalone Short Films
Eight TV Episodes That Work as Standalone Short Films
Some episodes step outside their own series for an hour and make something self-contained. You could show these to someone who has never seen the show. Several of them are better that way.
What a Showrunner Actually Does, Explained
What a Showrunner Actually Does, Explained
The credit appears on everything and almost nobody outside the industry knows what it means. Here's the working definition: a showrunner is the person who is simultaneously the head writer and the top boss of a television production. It's two jobs that have almost nothing to do with each other, welded together.
Eight Limited Series That Actually Stuck the Landing
Eight Limited Series That Actually Stuck the Landing
Endings are the hardest part and most shows fumble them. A limited series has no excuse — it knew where it was going from the first episode. Here are the ones that delivered.
The Two-Season Cliff: Why Your Favorite Show Keeps Getting Cancelled Right When It Got Good
The Two-Season Cliff: Why Your Favorite Show Keeps Getting Cancelled Right When It Got Good
There's a pattern you've probably noticed without naming it. A show arrives, builds an audience over two seasons, ends on something that clearly sets up a third — and then it's gone. Not because nobody watched. Because of arithmetic.
Yellowjackets Is Ending on November 20 and I Am Not Ready
Yellowjackets Is Ending on November 20 and I Am Not Ready
Paramount+ dropped the date on Thursday: the fourth and final season of Yellowjackets premieres Friday, November 20, on the premium tier. Five years, four seasons, one soccer team, an unspeakable amount of trauma. That's the run.