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Dexter Limited Series Revival Coming to Showtime
Halloween is the one time of year everyone wears masks, not just Dexter Morgan. That makes this the perfect time of year to announce the character’s return, and indeed a limited series revival of Dexter has been set at Showtime. The Hollywood Reporter has it that the premium cable network has ordered 10 new Dexter episodes — seven years after the original run ended. Michael C. Hall is set to return as the title character alongside original showrunner Clyde Phillips. Phillips ran the show and executive produced it during its first four seasons from 2006 through 2009 — widely considered to be the series’ peak. Dexter was nominated for Best Drama Series thrice during his tenure. Hall, meanwhile, was nominated for Best Leading Actor five times straight and won a Golden Globe in 2010 for h...
‘I’ve Never Cried That Loud’: Ali Reveals A Heartbreaking Teen Mom 2 Injury
Ali went to her semi-annual muscular dystrophy-related doctor’s visit earlier this season on Teen Mom 2, and Dr. Tsao (a neuromuscular specialist who viewers have seen through the years) complimented Leah’s daughter on her strength. However, he remarked that she had “weakness in the upper legs.” And during tonight’s episode, Dr. Tsao’s feedback was on full display when the Simms twin hurt her foot after a fall while she was at her dad Corey’s house. Fast-forward a week later, and Ali was still in pain. “She didn’t say nothing about it all weekend,” Corey told Leah over the phone. “And then yesterday evening, like all of a sudden, she said it hurt.” Leah explained to her sister Victoria, who was in labor and about to we...
Meet The Fresh-Faced Cast Of Netflix’s Grim Teen Drama Grand Army
How did you begin acting? I started really young, acting in church plays. Every year for Christmas, the church youth would make a play, and I would perform in it. In middle school, I was really interested in taking acting classes, but I couldn’t afford to, so I waited until high school and joined a film and theater program that got defunded a few weeks after I joined. After that, I joined another nonprofit theater program in my school called Opening Act. I was performing off-broadway, creating plays at the end of every semester, and that’s how I met Katie [Cappiello], through one of the Opening Act students. Since then, I’ve been acting, doing theater, and touring plays around America for almost eight years. Now, I’m here. What was your first-ever audition like? My first big audition was f...
The Simpsons Lists 50 Terrifying Reasons To Vote Against Trump: Watch
It’s hard to imagine how a Treehouse of Horror edition from this year could muster up anything scarier than what’s going on outside of Springfield. Appropriately, the next episode of The Simpsons doesn’t even bother trying to toe that line with comedic subtlety. In an exclusive Variety preview clip from the 31st (!) installment of the annual Halloween-themed Simpsons episode, Homer is presented with a frightening list of 50 reasons why Trump needs to be voted out on November 3rd. After considering writing in Judge Judy, Lisa comes to the rescue and reminds her father of all the insane bullshit that our president has served over the last four years. A literal scrolling list of political atrocities (kids in cages, gutting the E.P.A.) and cringe-worthy moments (serving McDonald’s to the ...
R.I.P. Conchata Ferrell, Two and a Half Men Co-Star Dies at 77
Conchata Ferrell, the veteran actress best known for her Emmy Award-nominated roles in Two and a Half Men and L.A. Law, has died at the age of 77. According to Deadline, Ferrell passed away Monday (October 12th) due to complications from a cardiac arrest. Ferrell portrayed Berta the Housekeeper on Two and a Half Men, appearing in a total of 212 episodes between 2003 and 2015. She was twice nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Support Actress — Comedy category. Prior to that, Ferrell received recognition for her recurring role as Attorney Susan Bloom on the sixth season of L.A. Law, which earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Drama. Ferrell’s other notable television credits included Good Times, E/R, Grace and Frankie, and Buffy the Vampi...
Netflix Ends Free Trial Offer in the US
Those of you hoping to catch Adam Sandler’s Hubie Halloween, David Fincher’s Mank, or Volume 2 of Unsolved Mysteries are going to have to pony up the dollars, or borrow your mom and dad’s password. Earlier this month, Netflix ended its 30-day free trial offer for new customers. Variety reported the news after receiving confirmation from a Netflix spokesperson. “We’re looking at different marketing promotions in the US to attract new members and give them a great Netflix experience,” said the spokesperson.” There are still ways to consume some Netflix content for free via its Watch Free site, which launched back in August. The sampler site offers films including Birdbox, Murder Mystery, and The Two Popes, as well as pilot episodes of Stranger Things, Love Is Blind, and When T...
MTV Knows What You Sickos Like, Announces New Property Porn from MTV Cribs
Times are tough, and many of us have had to to rent out our ski chalets or let go of our backup pool boy (he was getting chunky anyway). Whether you’re on the upside or downside of this K-shaped recovery, you’ll have fresh opportunities to pleasure yourself with the property porn of MTV Cribs. Variety reports that new international episodes are coming October 26th, with a US edition premiering early next year. The first round of announced guests includes Caitlyn Jenner, former Glee star Kevin McHale, British singer Stefflon Don, reality-star/musician JoJo Siwa, and Selling Sunset’s Christine Quinn. A starry group, to be sure, though they’ll have a tough time living up to the bonkers excess of the original. The show debuted in 2000 and went on to run for 13 seasons. The appea...
Sneak Peek: Rachelle Is 16 And Pregnant (With A Nine-Pound Baby!)
When you are at the tail end of being 16 and pregnant, the unknowns that come with giving birth are a big topic of conversation. And in the sneak peek below, Rachelle is readying herself for the delivery of her daughter and considering how much the doctor believes her mini-me weighs. “They said we’re having a nine-pound baby,” Rachelle tells her baby daddy Chase. “Do you think she’ll be nine pounds or no?” Chase’s reply: “I don’t know much about babies. I don’t know if nine pounds is heavy or not.” How does Rachelle react to her beau’s statement about having a nine-pound munchkin? And is Rachelle planning to receive an epidural when she is in labor? Watch the entire clip, and do not miss this episode of 16 and Pregnant...
16 And Pregnant Update: Are Madisen And Christian Back Together?
Madisen admitted on the season premiere of 16 and Pregnant that she had a hard time “moving on and letting go” after splitting with with her baby daddy Christian. But at the end of the episode, Camille’s mama predicted that despite her breakup with the young dad, the two would “work it out” and co-parent their little girl. So have the former cheerleader/football player reconciled, and are they boyfriend and girlfriend again? “We are working things out now,” Madisen reveals in the recently filmed catch up video above. “He’s living [back here] with me and the baby. So far things are going pretty good.” How is Madisen’s dad Nick — who appears in the clip as well — adapting to life as a grandfather? And is Madisen st...
Netflix’s Trailer for Unsolved Mysteries Volume 2 Guarantees Goosebumps: Watch
This past July, Netflix revived the classic cold case TV series Unsolved Mysteries for a new season. The first half of the season offered six goosebumps-inducing episodes filled with tales of UFOs, haunted homes, and unexplained deaths. Volume 2 is now set to arrive just in time for Halloween, and in anticipation, a new trailer has been released today. The creepy clip teases six new spine-tingling stories. If they’re brave enough, viewers will learn about tsunami ghosts, missing children, and a strange lake-dwelling figure. There will also be cases about a person who escaped death row and a suspicious murder all the way in frigid Norway. As with the first batch of episodes, Volume 2 won’t feature a central narrator — R.I.P. Robert Stack, man of my nightmares — but rather additional creepy ...
SNL Still Isn’t Sure How to Satirize Wokeness
When Saturday Night Live has a genuine stand-up comedian as a host, it can shift the whole structure of the show, which is what happened last week, with Chris Rock, and this week, with less famous comedian Bill Burr. Combined with the season’s endless debate sketches, a longer stand-up-based monologue can reduce the amount of airtime available for actual sketches. Unlike Rock’s gig, the Burr-hosted episode seemed to take some of its cues from Burr’s stand-up material — and with so few sketches making it to air, it only takes a few with common ground to make an episode feel more thematically unified than usual. In his monologue, Burr poked fun at notions of wokeness and allyship, making his case that white women have hijacked national conversations about equality and that a longer, warmer g...
