Month: July 2024

Amidst worries about protests, strikes, and other potential issues, Paris is preparing to take center stage for the upcoming Olympics after a long wait of nearly 19 days. Starting from this point, the City of Light will be under intense global scrutiny as over 10,000 athletes and countless fans gather in France for the Summer Games, marking the first time these events have been held with live audiences since eight years ago.

Television can be seen as a mirror reflecting our society, but it’s not always an accurate one. Sometimes it distorts the truth or adds unnecessary exaggerations for entertainment. It requires great skill and resources for TV to portray real life authentically, without the influence of scriptwriters or production teams. For such unfiltered representations, you should look towards public broadcasting.

I was thrilled to my core when I received not one, but two calls from the producers of “Cobra Kai” on that fateful day. The thought that I would be a part of this highly-anticipated spinoff series, set three decades after the iconic “The Karate Kid” movie ended, left me speechless and overjoyed.

Adjoa Andoh, the actress portraying Lady Danbury in “Bridgerton” on Netflix, has expressed her concern that the show doesn’t adequately capture the depth and complexity of Black skin tones in its Regency-era setting, despite its richly diverse cast.

Over the course of its impressive 35-season run and 768 episodes, “The Simpsons,” America’s longest-running animated series on TV, has uncannily foreshadowed future events. Some attribute this to the writers’ clairvoyance, while others view it as a fascinating coincidence. For those in the former camp: Yet another seemingly prophetic instance has surfaced.

“Beginning Wednesday on Apple TV+, ‘Time Bandits’ – a new series based on Terry Gilliam’s 1981 comic fantasy film of the same name – expands its captivating concept while staying true to the original. Developed by Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, and Iain Morris, this engaging television show is filled with humor, liveliness, and enjoyment.”

Tom Kenny is canonizing a popular “SpongeBob SquarePants” fan theory.

Mindy Cohn, famous for her role in “The Facts of Life,” shared that plans for reviving the beloved ABC sitcom hit a snag. It seems one of the co-stars, motivated by greed, quietly worked on setting up their own spin-off instead of supporting the group effort.

Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon have expanded their family.

We see London, we see France, we see — the “America’s Got Talent” audience’s underpants?