The traditional multicamera sitcom, shot on a stage in front of an enthusiastic studio audience, looks much easier to make than it actually is. The format is close to 70 years old, dating back to I Love Lucy, but its roots go back much further than that, to the earliest …
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The “Lie Witness News” team at Jimmy Kimmel Live tracked down some inattentive Los Angeles Rams fans Monday to get their reaction to the team’s Super Bowl “victory.” While the Rams lost to the New England Patriots 13 – 3, several people still had vivid memories of where they were …
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To many people who watched it over the weekend, Netflix’s Russian Doll — about a video game designer who keeps dying while celebrating her 36th birthday only to be repeatedly reborn at the start of the party — will play like science fiction. To the show’s co-creator and star,Orange Is …
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Brexit, the HBO docudrama premiering tomorrow about Britain’s 2016 vote to leave the European Union, arrives at an unexpectedly timely moment. Three years ago, most of the world was shocked when a slim margin of the country’s population, angry over trade deals and immigration, edged out those wanting to maintain …
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A heckling Andy Samberg thwarts Jimmy Fallon‘s late-night serenade of “Escape(The Piña Colada Song)” in a bizarre sketch from Tuesday’s Tonight Show. Peter (Fallon), decked out in a mushroom haircut, earrings and piano tie, smoothly croons Rupert Holmes’ 1979 soft-rock hit – with Samberg interrupting at every vocal pause to …
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“Sex is complicated,” Leila, the hero of Hulu’s The Bisexual, tells her best friend Deniz in the show’s premiere episode. “Like, you strategize how you’re gonna get it, and then you anticipate it, and then once it’s finally happening don’t you wish you could just flash-forward because all the pressure’s …
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