Vladimir is that rare visitor to the screen – proper television for proper grownups. The eight-part adaptation of Julia May Jonas’s provocative 2022 debut novel of the same name has not shied away from the properties that made the book great – black comedy, bleak insight, evisceration of accepted pieties – and fitted them perfectly … Read more
Suddenly it feels like the 2000s again, with a revived “Scrubs” premiering Wednesday on ABC and Tracy Morgan reincarnating the spirit of “30 Rock” in NBC’s “The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins” — network television shows, too, as in the days when streaming was just something tears and traffic did. Beginning as a tale … Read more
NBC is coming off the purge of 2025 when six scripted series — dramas Found, The Irrational, Grosse Pointe Garden Society and Suits L.A. and comedies Night Court and Lopez vs. Lopez — were canceled ahead of NBA’s arrival to the network’s primetime last fall. NBC added two new comedy series with shorter orders for … Read more
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Creator: Ira Parker Cast: Peter Claffey, Dexter Sol Ansell, Daniel Ings, Shaun Thomas, Tanzyn Crawford, Danny Webb, Henry Ashton, Sam Spruell, Finn Bennett, Bertie Carvel Rating: ★★★★.5 Minus that final season (which we shall not talk about from hereon), Game of Thrones really set the standard for world-building in … Read more