More from Mikey O'Connell
How Tom Cruise’s Olympics Stunt Was Inspired by… Conan O’Brien
Ben Winston might soon lose count of how many times he’s sent Tom Cruise up in the air. Previously, the pair worked to get James Corden in aloft to go skydiving and then again to co-pilot a fighter jet on The Late Late Show. During Sunday night’s LA28 segment of the Paris Olympics’ Closing Ceremony, […]
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Jodie Foster Has Heard the ‘Longlegs’ Discourse — at the Gym
Six months after her media blitz for True Detective: Night Country, Jodie Foster is still singing her series’ praises. Now, thanks to 19 Emmy nominations (including an outstanding lead actress mention and, for her producer work, a best limited series nom), she says she’ll keep playing hype woman for Issa López’s spin on the HBO […]
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Stephen A. Smith Is Not Here to Play Games
Stephen A. Smith is riled up. Sort of. During a mid-July call from his New Jersey home, the conversation turns to labels and he’s suddenly yelling into the receiver: “I’m not a podcaster! I just happen to be doing a podcast.” The combative orator of ESPN morning flagship First Take and, yes, his eponymous podcast […]
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‘Evil’ Showrunners Break Down the Decision to Kill Off That Day One Character
[This story contains major spoilers from the tenth episode of Evil season four, “How to Survive a Storm.”] There are few mother-daughter relationships in recent TV history as complicated as that the one played out between Christine Lahti and Katja Herbers during the last four seasons of Evil. Lahti’s Sheryl, originally comic relief in the supernatural drama […]
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Michelle and Robert King Talk Ending ‘Evil’ and How TV Might Look During a Second Trump Presidency
In the immediate aftermath of the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, Michelle and Robert King were informed that Paramount+ would not be moving forward with a fifth season of their supernatural drama, Evil. They were given four additional episodes to wrap up the series, which were announced in February. But a funny thing happened just […]
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‘Bad Monkey’ Trailer: Murder, Voodoo and Primates in Vince Vaughn’s Apple TV+ Mystery
Bad Monkey, Bill Lawrence’s adaptation of the Carl Hiaasen 2013 novel of the same thing and a longtime passion project for the power producer, is finally set to premiere. Having firmed up plans for its Aug. 14 release, Apple TV+ dropped the first trailer for the project on Wednesday. The Florida-set dramedy mystery tells the […]
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‘Twisters’ Director Missed Flying Cow in His Own Movie After VFX Team Snuck It In
[This story contains spoilers for Twisters.] Missed the flying cow in Twisters? You’re in good company. Director Lee Isaac Chung said he initially didn’t spot the homage to the original franchise installment himself. “My god, everybody’s been wanting a cow in this movie,” says Chung, who recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter. He was […]
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The Incredible Shrinking Press Tour
Jimmy O. Yang hadn’t been onstage for 20 minutes when the nameless reporter — they never announce their names — asked him “where he went wrong” during his journey from UC San Diego economics major to stand-up and actor. Yang was facing roughly 100 members of the Television Critics Association to plug his new series, […]
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Dana Walden on Disney’s Emmy Noms, ‘Shogun’ Future and Giving Kimmel a Hosting Break
Dana Walden had an above-average Wednesday morning. The co-chair of Disney Entertainment, with a sprawling portfolio of platforms (Hulu, Disney+, FX) and studios (20th Television, Disney-Branded Television), saw her various outfits earn a total of 183 Emmy nominations earlier in the day. Buoyed by FX output like Shogun and The Bear, perennial Hulu darling Only […]
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Emmy Nominations: FX Eclipses HBO, Trails Only Netflix With Record Turnout
The people over at FX have a lot to be psyched about today. In a TV awards cycle increasingly dominated by the HBO-Netflix horse race — which, for HBO, technically includes steamer Max — it was the other premium cable network and its Hulu offerings that came out tops among individual programs during Wednesday’s Primetime Emmy […]
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Lee Isaac Chung Says ‘Twisters’ Is a Road Movie… With Tornadoes
Lee Isaac Chung is barely settled in a café chair parked on this South Pasadena sidewalk when he begins our conversation with the question he’s most expecting: “So how did I go from Minari to this?” He laughs about it now, but this late June meeting is on the eve of a global Twisters media […]
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Reba McEntire Is Recording a Theme Song for Her Latest Sitcom
Reba McEntire starred in six seasons of her self-titled WB (later the CW) sitcom, Reba — but, for all of the 127 episodes that aired, it’s probably the opening 29 seconds that still clung on the hardest to popular culture. “I’m a Survivor,” Reba‘s theme and a slightly tweaked version of a track of the same […]
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