https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d4aZI-S0S0 New drama focuses on Antonin Carême, history’s first superstar chef Legendary French chef Antonin Carême was a fascinating character. Abandoned as a child, the Parisian rose from obscurity to become head chef for French stateman Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, serving both Tsar Alexander I and Napoleon. Known as “the king of chefs and the…
From an all-star tribute to late comedy legend Joan Rivers to a new animated Canadian superhero comedy, we round up our top 10 shows to watch this week 1. The Judd Family – Saturday, May 10, Lifetime | Series Premiere LifetimeA family of entertainers whose lives have been defined by immense success, immense talent and…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVRFMd6dEOE&t=2s Jon Hamm stars as a wealthy guy who turns to burglary when his life crumbles in Your Friends & Neighbors When Andrew “Coop” Cooper (Jon Hamm) loses his job as a hedge fund manager, it is really just the cherry on top of an already crap cake. His ex-wife Mel (Amanda Peet) is in…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyVDq2bQlnU June (Elisabeth Moss) leads a revolution in the sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale When the television series adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s cautionary dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale premiered in 2017, the United States had just entered an unprecedented era, with New York businessman and reality TV host Donald Trump at the…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih01iblDuHg The latest from J.J. Abrams follows a 1970s getaway driver (Lost’s Josh Holloway) recruited by the FBI to take down a crime syndicate J.J. Abrams’ pedigree is well established, as creator of such TV series as Felicity, Lost, Alias and Fringe, and director of Star Wars and Star Trek movies. Not surprisingly, any new…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrCciU8nD98 The Twilight Zone meets Black Mirror with a dark comedic twist in comedian Tom Segura’s Bad Thoughts Rod Serling’s classic anthology series The Twilight Zone has influenced generations of television writers, and a new Netflix series mines similar (albeit sillier) territory. Created by standup comic Tom Segura, Bad Thoughts is described as “a six-episode…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDJxJd3FzDY To honour his late mother, a Staten Island man opens an Italian restaurant where the food is prepared by four local grandmothers Tutti a tavola a mangiare! Celebrate Mother’s Day this year with a reservation at Nonnas. Vince Vaughn (Bad Monkey) stars in the heartwarming new Netflix film as a man whose grief sparks…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKGgw7Ob5f4 Inside the gritty gangster hit from director Guy Ritchie Whether MobLand first came to its cast members as a script or a concept, what immediately drew them in was the calibre of talent associated with the series. A Guy Ritchie project based on proposed prequel to Ray Donovan, written by Black Mass screenwriter Jez…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-05wBhN6Vg The sister of literary giant Jane Austen is the focus of this new Masterpiece series In the literary world, the name Austen typically invokes images of women in billowing attire atop a breezy English cliff or traversing a John Constable-worthy pastoral landscape with book in hand, perhaps unwilling to — but about to —…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CNVhn5wA0Y The creators of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel take on the world of ballet in Étoile When an actor does a scene for Gilmore Girls and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, the note they most often receive is, “Faster.” The rapid-fire, tongue-twisting dialogue that Sherman-Palladino and her husband Daniel Palladino have become known…