Near the end of Bill Brioux’s podcast interview with legendary TV writer Ken Levine, Bill asks his guest what TV he’s watching these days. Levine – whose writing credits include M*A*S*H, Frasier, The Simpsons, Everybody Loves Raymond and many others – could only come up with baseball and Jeopardy! I feel your pain, Ken. The
If you are a fan of The Beatles, all you need is love and a Disney+ subscription to get back to where you once belonged. Every couple of months seems to bring another documentary. The next one, Beatles ’64, begins streaming on November 29. It is produced by Martin Scorsese (too busy, it seems, to
Looking for something to stream you can hum along to? You can do no better than Music By John Williams, streaming now on demand on Disney+. The documentary is directed by French filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau (Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind) and produced by many of the people whose films Williams has enhanced, including Steven Spielberg,
It seems as if I’ve been waiting years for two streaming favourites to return: The Diplomat (Netflix) and Somebody Somewhere (HBO/Crave). It has actually only been a year and a half. Those actors and writers strikes from 2023 contributed to the delays. Both shows feature intriguing leads at their best, surrounded by other interesting characters.
Is Martha Stewart’s new Netflix documentary Martha a good thing? Prolific documentarian R.J. Cutler (The War Room; Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry) delivers a brisk (even at one hour and 55 minutes), visually-dazzling chronicle of Stewarts dizzying highs and devastating lows. Cutler has access to many exclusive photos from the entrepreneur’s personal archives,
So far this fall TV season, I’ve checked out Matlock (a passable non-remake of the original), High Potential (gimmicky tripe), Rescue: Hi-Surf (standard beautiful-people-doing-heroic-things drama) and Murder in A Small Town (where there is a murder in a small town every week, until I assume the entire population is murdered). All of these programs are,
Shrinking does not refer to the time between seasons for several offerings that began back before the actors and writers strikes of 2023. One of those shows is Shrinking, which just returned to AppleTV+ after an initial run that began way back more than a year-and-a-half ago. The half-hour-ish streaming comedy, which is set in
Good news ladies: getting divorced in your forties is awesome! That’s the word from Ali Wong in her latest Netflix stand-up comedy special, Ali Wong: Single Lady. For this show, Wong looks like a wedding guest in an elegant, white, disarmingly pretty dress. Set against a backdrop of shimmering pink curtains, she looks like a