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Field of Dreams TV Series Up to Bat at Peacock from The Good Place’s Michael Schur
Michael Schur is building it in the streaming corn fields of Peacock, and fans will definitely come. As Deadline reports, one of the great comedy showrunners is writing a Field of Dreams TV series based on the beloved 1989 movie. These days Schur is best known as the wholesome force behind Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Good Place, and most recently, Rutherford Falls. But to very-online sports lovers, he is fondly remembered under his pseudonym Ken Tremendous as one of the co-founders of the pioneering baseball blog Fire Joe Morgan. Ostensibly started with a single purpose (getting one particularly bad broadcaster canned) the site morphed into an early explainer for advanced baseball stats and one of the funniest sources for sports analysis...
What We Do in the Shadows Season 3 Trailer Released, Season 4 Renewal Confirmed: Watch
Everyone’s favorite undead Staten Island crew are taking over the Vampiric Council — and FX. The network has not only revealed the first full trailer for What We Do in the Shadows Season 3, but renewed the hit comedy-horror series for a fourth season. “Fans can’t seem to get enough of What We Do in the Shadows and FX is ready to feed that appetite by setting up the series for a fourth season,” Nick Grad, FX’s president of original programming, said during the network’s Television Critics Association press event (via The Hollywood Reporter). “Our thanks to the extraordinary job by the creative team, cast, and crew who keep making a great show better each season.” For Season 3, that continued success has led Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), and Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) to ri...
Atlanta Season 3 to Premiere in “First Half of 2022” on FX
More than three years ago, the second season of Atlanta aired on FX to more praise from fans and accolades from critics. Of course, a lot has happened since then, including a global pandemic, but it looks like the beloved TV series will finally return after taking quite a long break. According to FX chief John Landgraf, Season 3 of Atlanta is set to premiere in the “first half of 2022” — for real this time. While answering questions at the virtual Television Critics Association press tour today, Landgraf did not specify which month, exactly, the next season of Donald Glover’s hit show will kick off. However, he did say that filming on Season 3 of Atlanta was recently completed after being held up by the pandemic. With the episodes now in post-production, it bodes well for the supposed ...
B.J. Novak Has Butt Plugs, Sex Tapes, and Moral Quandaries in New Trailer for The Premise: Watch
A butt plug can change a life and a sex tape could correct racial injustices in the new trailer for B.J. Novak’s The Premise. The half-hour anthology series premieres September 16th on FX on Hulu. Novak is best known as a writer and actor on The Office, and since it wrapped in 2013 he’s stayed busy by authoring a couple of books and stealing scenes in films like The Founder and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. With The Premise, he’s returning to the medium that made him famous, but his first TV show is miles away from Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. Via Deadline, five episodes have been announced, with the first two available for streaming September 16th. The initial offering is “Social Justice Sex Tape,” which stars Ben Platt as a participant in an embarrass...
Game of Thrones Actor Kit Harington Covers Train’s “Drops of Jupiter” on Fallon: Watch
Last night, NBC rang in the 1,500th episode (!) of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with help from Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington. To celebrate the milestone, the TV star broke out a bold cover of “Drops of Jupiter” by Train while playing (?) the piano. Harington puts his whole self into the rendition, which you can see for yourself when watching the performance below. The video opens on Harington, dressed in a black suit and playing a grand piano covered in flower petals and burning candles. After the opening section, Harington immediately starts belting out the lyrics to “Drops of Jupiter” so loudly that you can see the veins popping out of his neck. Once the rest of Fallon’s band starts playing the backing track, Harington doubles down, his face turning red at points as he si...
Horatio Sanz Accused of Sexually Assaulting Underage SNL Fan in New Lawsuit
Horatio Sanz is facing allegations in a new lawsuit that he once groomed an underage fan and sexually assaulted her during a Saturday Night Live afterparty. According to a report by TMZ, the unnamed plaintiff is accusing the comedian of not only groping her during the May 2002 party, but also digitally penetrating her while in the presence of numerous NBC employees. At the time, the woman was just 17 years old. The court filing goes on to allege that Sanz — who was featured on the late night sketch series from 1998 to 2006 — first met the anonymous plaintiff two years earlier when she ran an SNL fan site at 15. From there, the suit claims the Chilean-American actor began grooming the young Jane Doe, leading online conversations to sex and and being overly affectionate in person despite bei...
Can Corey Inspire His Fellow Challenge Rookies To Overpower The Vets?
There may be strength in numbers, but on the Season 37 premiere of The Challenge: Spies, Lies and Allies, the game’s most seasoned players proved that — even while operating from a deficit — they still know how to run the game. But could one newbie’s standout performance in The Lair inspire the rest of the rookies to get their acts together and take control of the competition series’ latest installment? On the Spies premiere, 17 international players — most of whom were new to the game — raced through an obstacle course to secure the American partner of their choice. Duos would then sprint to a finish line to cement their new teams and, for the second season in a row, Aneesa was the victor on Opening Day. “Surprise, surprise — the old bitch won,” she said as she celebrated alongside her ne...
Challenge Comeback: Amanda Is Entering Season 37 With A New Perspective
It’s been more than two years since Amanda Garcia has competed on The Challenge: The Are You the One? alum was partnered with then-rookie Josh Martinez on War of the Worlds (memories), with the duo being ousted nearly halfway through the Season 33 game. Now, the MTV mom — Amanda welcomed son Avonni in February 2020 — is attempting to nab her very first W on Spies, Lies and Allies. And she’s entering Season 37 with a family-first mentality. “I’ve been on the frontlines as a nurse during this pandemic, and it’s made me so much more thankful for my family,” Amanda stated during the Spies, Lies and Allies launch special. “My dad is older, and I had a brand-new baby. It’s just going to be the biggest fuel to my fire this season.”...
Christina Applegate Reveals Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis
Christina Applegate has revealed that she’s been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The 49-year-old actress, best known for roles in TV shows like Married… with Children and Dead to Me as well as the comedy blockbuster Anchorman, shared news of her diagnosis on Twitter. “Hi friends. A few months ago I was diagnosed with MS. It’s been a strange journey,” Applegate wrote. “But I have been so supported by people that I know who also have this condition. It’s been a tough road. But as we all know, the road keeps going. Unless some asshole blocks it.” Advertisement Related Video “As one of my friends that has MS said ‘we wake up and take the indicated action.’ And that’s what I do,” Applegate added. “So now I ask for privacy. As I go through this thing. Thank you xo.” According to the Mayo Clin...
Modern Family Star Julie Bowen Rescues Hiker Who Fainted in Utah
The best thing you can ask for after being injured in the wild is for a doctor to magically come to your aide. The next best thing you can ask for is that the doctor’s celebrity sister happens to be at their side while saving you. Luckily for one woman, that’s exactly what happened when she passed out while hiking in Utah and Modern Family star Julie Bowen came to the rescue. New Jersey mother Minnie John was on a “bucket list” trip to Utah’s Arches National Park to see Delicate Arch, a four-story sandstone arch in a red rock canyon, when she suddenly felt unwell. She told her husband and son to continue on ahead while she took a brief rest on the trail. Next thing John knew, she had passed out with nobody around, reports AP. When John started to regain consciousness, she found herself bei...
Sneak Peek: Challenge Host TJ Lavin Has a Kobe Bryant Keepsake In His Crib
TJ Lavin is away from his cribs when he’s on location for The Challenge. But where does the MTV host return to when he isn’t working on the hit franchise series? In a sneak peek of Cribs, returning August 11 right after Spies, Lies and Allies begins, the trivia enthusiast will invite viewers for a tour inside the elimination arena his home. “This is my loft. This is what my house used to look like before I got married,” TJ states in the clip above. “It’s like a museum.” First stop: a basketball with special meaning. “This is a Kobe Bryant basketball,” TJ explains. “Kobe and I did a photoshoot together in W magazine. I’m so happy that I got that now. He was a very awesome individual.” Who was TJ’s favorite basebal...
FX’s Reservation Dogs Is a Sweetly Incisive Series About Native American Life: Review
The Pitch: When we first meet the quote-unquote “Reservation Dogs,” a tight-knit gang of four Indigenous teens growing up in northeast Oklahoma, they’re making off with a stolen spicy chip delivery truck. It’s a risky, exciting gamble — they relish the danger of it more than the profit potential, right down to not wearing seatbelts — that should take them closer to their goal: saving up enough money to move away to California. The rez, they posit, killed their close friend Daniel a year ago, and they want to take his spirit with them when they finally escape. But amid the petty crimes and odd jobs they’ll take to scare up the scratch to leave, they’ll navigate the myriad pains everyone feels growing up, with the specific concerns and anxieties of Native American life — generational tr...
