A 15-episode weekly medical procedural starring Noah Wyle! Live-event coverage, appointment TV and mega sports deals! Bundled content and stacks of commercials! Is it 1997, or is new television starting to look remarkably like old television? Variety's Michael Schneider looks at how streamers are dusting off some of the old broadcast playbook for a new era.
"Doctor Who" returned at the weekend with a double bill — "Space Babies" and "The Devil’s Chord." Here's a Rolling Stone U.K. interview from last year with the 15th Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa, in which he talks about his approach to the character and how he identifies with them. "As a child, Gatwa and his family fled Rwanda, escaping the genocide against the Tutsi minority. They settled in Scotland," writes journalist Alison Rumfitt. “This person survived a genocide. This person fits in everywhere and nowhere. I am the Doctor. The Doctor is me. I decided that I had to get this role,” Gatwa told her. How do you feel about the new series so far?
Today, May 10, is Springfield’s annual “Whacking Day”, when citizens drive snakes to the center of town and club them. It was invented in 1924 as an excuse to beat Irish immigrants (The Simpsons, s04e20 “Whacking Day”, 1993)
It's all systems go for a new series set in the same universe as "The Office." Variety reports that a mockumentary set at a dying historic Midwestern newspaper, ostensibly shot by the crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin, has been picked up for a full series at Peacock. Here's more:
Just finished the re-watch of Person of Interest. Like 10 minutes ago. God damn what a show. Still teary eyed. Needed a good cry after some heavy existential stuff I’ve been going through. The show did not hold back.
From a somewhat campy start with interesting philosopical implications to it’s incredibly heavy, dark, and impactful finish. Glad we re-watched it. Felt more relevant than ever.
#EU#Italy#PressFreedom#RAI#TV#Television#News#Media#Journalism: "An Italian union has called for political parties to be “eliminated from Rai” as journalists with the public broadcaster went on strike in protest against the “suffocating control” allegedly being wielded by Giorgia Meloni’s rightwing government over their work.
The ruling coalition has been accused of influencing programming, including censoring themes that are not in tune with its rightwing stance.
The strike on Monday came amid a growing debate in Italy about political influence in the media after Rai was accused of censoring an antifascism monologue that was due to be read on one of its TV talkshows by the high-profile author Antonio Scurati.
“This strike is in response to industrial themes … but also there is an aspect linked to the independence and autonomy of journalists,” Daniele Macheda, the president of Usigrai, the main union representing Rai journalists, told reporters in Rome. “Things have happened in Italy, also recently, that do not give us much hope in [the way] things are going.”
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🇲🇼 It was just a few days ago that I was telling you how happy I was to be reviewing my very first Somalian TV show... well today, we're heading to Malawi ! #MushroomShade follows three women in their affective lives, decidedly honest and realistic about what it means to be a woman today.
🇯🇵 A rare display of violence, Japanese drama #EVOL uses superheroes to talk about much somber, and political topics. It's hard to watch, but worth the effort...
🇹🇷 If you like single lawyers looking for love, and #AllyMcBeal didn't age all that well for you (don't worry, it didn't age well for anyone), then you might want to look into the latest Turkish romcom on Netflix, #KimlerGeldiKimlerGeçti (alias #ThankYouNext).
🇺🇸🇮🇪 Does the public still listen to true crime podcasts with the same enthusiasm as a few years ago ? American Irish dramedy #Bodkin seems to think so, but is only superficially interested in its podcast's investigation anyway.
🇨🇦 In our patriarcal societies, what power do women have against men ? French Canadian series #Discrètes asks this with an added power imbalance : its lead characters being janitors, and their aggressor being a lawyer. A short, but smart series that's not for the faint of heart.
🇺🇸 One of the tropes I like the least in television also happens to be one of the most common tropes in conservative television : go back home in your native small town, life is simpler there, happiness was there all along. US series #TheWayHome brings a fantasy twist to this, but I'm not sure it helps.