“Money Heist” is set to return with an expansion of the series universe, Netflix announced Saturday. It also issued a teaser.  Along with that came a statement which suggests what Netflix is aiming at is not just one more season of some kind but multiple spin-offs expanding the universe of “Money Heist,” “La Casa de […]

“It’s hours of boredom interrupted by a few minutes of pretty intense adrenalin,” says one jaded participant in the Florida Python Challenge, an annual government-organized effort to curb the state’s vast, destructive Burmese python population. Happily, in his aptly peculiar film, docmaker Xander Robin downplays the boredom in favor of the adrenalin, and even more […]

The BAFTA TV Awards are officially underway in London. Celebrating the best of British television, the ceremony is being hosted by Greg Davies and will broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer at 7 p.m. U.K. time. Netflix’s “Adolescence” looks set to sweep, with 12 nominations after taking home nine Emmys last year. Breakout Owen Cooper […]

For the second year in a row, a Brazilian feature swept top honors at the annual Ibero-American awards event Premios Platino, dubbed the Platinos Xcaret after its venue in the Riviera Maya, Mexico this year. Kleber Mendonça’s “The Secret Agent” took home best feature, director, screenplay and actor (Wagner Moura) honors and in four other […]

Actor-turned-politician Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar was sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on Sunday morning at Chennai’s Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, becoming the first in nearly six decades to have no connection to either of the Dravidian parties that have governed the southern Indian state without interruption since 1967. Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar administered […]

What are we doing? Come on. Is this who we are now? “Saturday Night Live” featured player Jeremy Culhane once again showed up on “Weekend Update” in his spot-on impression of right-wing talker Tucker Carlson — and this time his target was last weekend’s Met Gala. “A night of fashion and fun. Huh. Really. Come […]

Three of President Trump’s most alcohol-inclined confidants walk into a bar… That was the premise behind the cold open of the May 9 episode of “Saturday Night Live,” which found aggro secretary of war Pete Hegseth (as played the season by Colin Jost) causing trouble at a D.C. area dive bar (“Martin’s Tavern”) alongside Justice […]

Dua Lipa has filed a $15 million lawsuit against Samsung, alleging that the electronics manufacturer used her likeness to sell TVs without paying her and without permission. According to the complaint, filed on Friday, Samsung used Lipa’s image on the cardboard packaging of its TVs beginning last year. When Lipa became aware of it, she […]

“SNL U.K.’s” Weekend Update took aim at Met Gala attendees this week for Episode 7, with co-host Ania Magliano saying that this year’s theme “was people you’d like to see exploded.” “Beyonce looked amazing,” she said, adding of the singer’s elaborate silver headpiece: “Someone’s made the most of the Claire’s closing down sale” (a reference […]

Peter Serafinowicz, who has starred in “Guardians of the Galaxy” and Star Wars prequel “The Phantom Menace,” opened “Saturday Night Live U.K.” with a guest appearance as right-wing politician Nigel Farage. The cold open began with a voice-over explaining that the year is 1946 as it zoomed into the British Prime Minister’s residence of Downing […]

The drive to pass a post-production tax credit bill in the California legislature received a boost Friday night when the California Post Alliance announced that the Television Academy has joined the fight. News of the TV Academy’s decision was revealed at the California Post Alliance (CAPA) town hall that featured California Assemblyman Nick Schultz, who […]

The best midnight movies conjure a community experience, pleasing audiences who want to see reactions to the insanity onscreen. While many touchstones of the genre consist of notoriously strange and subversive visions that are primed for indie theaters — “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “The Room,” the works of David Lynch — the rise of home video, […]