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News Articles: Television

Connie Britton plays Dee Dee, a wealthy woman who has lost her husband, in <em>Dear Edward.</em>

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  • TV Reviews

'Dear Edward' tugs — and tugs, and tugs — at your heartstrings

If you enjoyed having a good cry over This Is Us, then Dear Edward, about the aftermath of a plane crash, is for you. But it's a Very Sad Show and your heartstrings should know what they're in for.

February 04, 2023
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  • Linda Holmes
Pedro Pascal plays Joel Miller in <em>The Last of Us</em>.

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  • Pop Culture

What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Last of Us, The Looney Tunes Show and Ice Merchants.

February 03, 2023
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By:
  • Marc Rivers,
  • Ayesha Rascoe,
  • and 2 more
Ill-informed TV correspondent Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan) travels around the world in <em>Cunk on Earth.</em>

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  • TV Reviews

Clunky title aside, 'Cunk on Earth' is a mockumentary with cult classic potential

An ill-informed TV correspondent travels the world — with hilarious results — in Netflix's new oddball show. Diane Morgan's delivery is deliciously dry, and her improv skills are formidable.

February 03, 2023
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  • David Bianculli
GPB News NPR

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  • Obituaries

Tom Verlaine, frontman of Television, dies at 73

Tom Verlaine, singer and guitarist for the iconic 1970s rock band Television, died at 73 years old.

February 01, 2023
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By:
  • Erika Ryan and
  • Sarah Handel
Phil McGraw, pictured here at a 2016 premiere, plans to end his long-running daytime TV show to take on a new prime-time partnership.

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  • Television

Phil McGraw, America's TV shrink, plans to end 'Dr. Phil' after 21 seasons

CBS Media Ventures announced it would stop producing new episodes of Dr. Phil after the 2023 season. The show's host plans to expand his following with a new "prime-time partnership."

February 01, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
Luke Tennie and Jason Segel star in Apple TV's <em>Shrinking</em>.

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  • TV Reviews

'Shrinking' gets great work from a great cast

The new comedy series Shrinking shares some DNA with Ted Lasso. But it's a smaller-scale piece with one of the strongest across-the-board casts that's been assembled in recent memory.

February 01, 2023
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  • Linda Holmes
Libby (Lizzy Caplan), the narrator of <em>Fleishman is in Trouble, </em>is a stay-at-home mom who begins to question all of her life choices<em>. </em>

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  • Television

'Fleishman Is in Trouble' is a Trojan horse for women's stories, says Lizzy Caplan

Caplan started out on Freaks and Geeks and now plays the narrator of Fleishman Is in Trouble. She says Fleishman seems like a story about a man going through a divorce, but it turns into much more.

January 31, 2023
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By:
  • Ann Marie Baldonado
Cindy Williams arrives to the TV Land Awards 10th Anniversary in New York on April 14, 2012. Williams, who played Shirley opposite Penny Marshall's Laverne on the popular sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," died Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, in Los Angeles at age 75, her family said.

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  • Obituaries

'Laverne & Shirley' actor Cindy Williams dies at 75

Cindy Williams, who played Shirley opposite Penny Marshall's Laverne on the popular sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," has died, her family said Monday.

January 31, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
<em>The Addams Family</em> characters Wednesday and Uncle Fester. The actress who played the iconic Wednesday, Lisa Loring, died this weekend.

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  • Obituaries

Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday Addams, is dead at 64

Lisa Loring will be remembered as a Hollywood icon for playing the gloomy Wednesday Addams at age 6. She went on to fill roles on As the World Turns and the Girl from U.N.C.L.E..

January 31, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
Verlaine was known for his jagged guitar playing style involving heavy vibrato and distortion and off-kilter lyrics.

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  • Music

Tom Verlaine, guitarist and singer of influential rock band Television, dies at 73

The founding father of American punk and a fixture in the 1970s New York rock scene died Saturday as the result of a brief illness.

January 29, 2023
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Lesley Manville stars in<em> Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris.</em>

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  • Pop Culture

What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, and more.

January 27, 2023
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By:
  • Ella Ceron,
  • Marc Rivers,
  • and 2 more
Jimmy Kimmel during a recent taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live!

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  • Television

Jimmy Kimmel celebrates 20 years as a (reluctant) late night TV institution

Kimmel says he thought he was going to stop; then he didn't.

January 27, 2023
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By:
  • Eric Deggans
In <em>Poker Face,</em> Natasha Lyonne stars as Charlie Cale, a casino worker who is gifted at knowing when people are lying.

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  • TV Reviews

No lie: Natasha Lyonne is unforgettable in 'Poker Face'

Natasha Lyonne is a Columbo-like accidental visitor to crime after crime in a case-of-the-week show arriving on Peacock with an impressive roster of guest stars.

January 25, 2023
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
GPB News NPR

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  • Obituaries

'Sesame Street' co-creator Lloyd Morrisett dies at 93

Sparked in part by the civil rights movement, the show aimed to teach children basic skills. His hope was to "help those children who would otherwise not succeed in school, do better," he said.

January 25, 2023
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By:
  • Kaitlyn Radde
Carrie (Sofia Oxenham), left, and Jen (Máiréad Tyers) get powered up in <em>Extraordinary</em>.

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  • TV Reviews

'Extraordinary' is a super-powered comedy that's broad, brash and bingeable

In Hulu's sardonically silly comedy, everyone in the human race acquires different powers except for one young woman. And she's not happy about it.

January 25, 2023
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  • Glen Weldon
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