More from Mikey O'Connell
Chelsea Peretti Has Enough on Her Plate
Breakfast at Little Dom’s is doing nothing to assuage Chelsea Peretti’s current frustration with Los Angeles. We’re discussing how inescapable the entertainment industry can be in a booth branded with a dedicatory plaque to Jon Hamm. One table over, Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao is taking a meeting and, on the other side of the window, […]
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Yes, Zendaya Will Attend the 2024 Oscars
Let out that sigh of relief: Zendaya will be an attendance at the 2024 Academy Awards. The actress, whose Dune: Part Two arrives in North American theaters this Friday, is among the first crop of Oscar presenters announced by ABC on Monday morning. She’ll be joined by reigning performance winners Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, […]
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Rory Scovel, Stand-Up’s Unexpected Renaissance Man
Rory Scovel sweated his way through postproduction of his latest stand-up special. The night it taped, he’d been sure his Minneapolis set had killed. But the laughter was barely audible in the cuts he was watching. “I thought I bombed,” he says. “Here I am, entering year 20 in comedy, only to find out I’m […]
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Jenny Slate Is Nobody’s Clown
Jenny Slate is one of today’s most frenetic stand-ups. She begins her latest special, Seasoned Professional (Feb. 23 on Prime Video), like a bottle rocket, eventually sending her mic stand flying with wild gesticulation and delivering a primal scream of love for her therapist. Offstage, Slate seems downright Zen and reflective about a still-young career. […]
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Tig Notaro Returns to Amazon With New Stand-Up Special
Tig Notaro is heading back to Amazon — and live action — for her latest comedy special. Prime Video will debut Tig Notaro: Hello Again this March. The new hour marks Notaro’s first project at Amazon since the end of her two-season Prime Video comedy One Mississippi in 2017 and her first flesh-and-blood taping in […]
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New CW Regime Defends Its Radical Shift in Focus
“We’re ready for people to stop writing about the Big Four networks and start writing the Big Five,” announced Brad Schwartz, The CW’s president of entertainment, at the top of a Thursday morning meeting with TV press. It’s an obvious aspiration for broadcast’s long-suffering stepchild, but the timing is a bit odd. The cachet of […]
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Alan Cumming Almost Spoiled the Biggest ‘Good Wife’ Twist
[This story contains spoilers from a nearly 10-year-old episode of The Good Wife ] On Mar. 23, 2014, The Good Wife pulled something of a TV coup. The CBS legal drama aired an episode that killed off a major character, the No. 2 actor on the call sheet, without even a whiff of the departure […]
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Jimmy Kimmel Reunites ‘Barbie’ Cast for Patriarchy-Skewering Oscars Promo
Jimmy Kimmel is ripping the Barbie parody band-aid a full month before the Oscars. The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host dropped a five-minute short on Monday night, directed by JKL‘s Will Burke, hyping his March 10 gig emceeing the Academy Awards — re-creating many Barbie sets and reuniting four of its castmembers in a spoof that finds […]
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‘Tokyo Vice’ Is Back — and Alan Poul Is Thrilled About The Slow Rollout
Tokyo Vice is back from quite a lengthy hiatus. And despite the nearly two-year gap between seasons — one that saw a full rebrand for streamer Max — things pick up pretty much exactly where they left off. Series executive producer and director Alan Poul, who helmed the first two episodes, suggests the handling of […]
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James Cameron Takes a Break From ‘Avatar 3’ Pickups to Talk Octopi
Would the Avatar sequels arrive on time if James Cameron weren’t so committed to his side gig producing documentary series about the planet he actually lives on? Perhaps we’ll never know. But even as the director has a full slate of blockbuster features in the pipeline, he remains as committed as ever to his work with […]
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‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’ Director on Dramatic Liberties Taken for Black and White Ball Episode
[This story contains spoilers from the third episode of Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, “Masquerade 1966.”] The catalyst for Feud: Capote vs. the Swans‘ third episode is absolutely true. On Nov. 28, 1966, Truman Capote held the Black and White Ball at New York City’s Plaza Hotel — an event so lavish, boasting a guest […]
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Tony Parsons’ ‘Your Neighbour’s Wife’ Eyed for TV Adaptation
Tony Parsons’ novel Your Neighbour’s Wife is being eyed for adaptation. U.K. screenwriters Rebecca Pollock and Kas Graham are attached to write the serial, which is being described as a “propulsive erotic thriller.” The book, which dropped in 2021, follows Tara Carver — a happily married mother who finds herself willing to go to extremes […]
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