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‘Euphoria’ Dominates Twitter Conversation for Third Week in a Row
'Euphoria' topped Variety's Trending TV chart for the third straight week.
HBO Leads Twitter Buzz With Teen Angst, Heroes and Video Games
It was a big week for HBO/HBO Max, which led overall fan engagement on Twitter for Variety's Trending TV chart for the week of Jan. 10 - 16.
‘Euphoria’ Season 2 Premiere, ‘Sesame Street’ Feud Rock Twitter
A 2004 clip of everyone's favorite red muppet, Elmo, seeing red resurfaced and made the rounds on Twitter this week.
The 40 Most Anticipated New TV Shows of 2022
Our critics' picks for the best TV shows of 2021 range from "Succession" and "Hacks" to "The Underground Railroad" and "Top Chef."
The 20 Best ‘Seinfeld’ Episodes, Ranked
Variety breaks down the 20 best episodes of "Seinfeld," from "The Soup Nazi" to "The Contest."
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Syfy’s ‘Astrid & Lilly Save the World’ Is ‘Buffy’ by Way of the Disney Channel: TV Review
Halfway through the pilot of “Astrid and Lilly Save the World,” best friends Astrid (Jana Morrison) and Lilly (Samanatha Aucoin) stare down a mysterious stranger (Oliver Renaud) with awe…
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‘The Woman in the House…,’ Kristen Bell’s Mystery Parody, Isn’t Mysterious or Funny: TV Review
A comedy mystery should, ideally, be both comic and mysterious. Unfortunately, the new Netflix series “The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window” drops one of its…
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‘This Is Us’: Milo Ventimiglia on Jack’s Tearjerking Breakdown and Approaching His ‘True End’ in Series Finale
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Don’t Let Me Keep You,” Tuesday’s episode of “This Is Us.” While there are many loose ends that “This Is Us” still has left to tie up…
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‘Promised Land’ Creator Matt Lopez Talks Bringing the Richness of the Latino Experience to ABC
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the premiere of “Promised Land” on ABC or Hulu. One could say that Matt Lopez was born to be the first to break ground at ABC as the creator…
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‘Euphoria’ Dominates Twitter Conversation for Third Week in a Row
“Euphoria” continues to reign over Variety‘s Trending TV chart, hitting the top spot for the week of Jan. 17 – 23. This marks the third week in a row the HBO series has landed there with just as…
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ABC’s ‘Promised Land’ Combines Smart Family Drama With (Too) Many Soap Twists: TV Review
. It has a sprawling cast spread across two timelines that intersect in a way that sets the show apart, but which ABC nonetheless has barred coverage from mentioning before the show’s…
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In ‘Phoenix Rising,’ Evan Rachel Wood Doesn’t Hold Back on Hollywood, Marilyn Manson or Herself: TV Review
Having been in the spotlight the vast majority of her life, both onscreen as an actor and offscreen as a Hollywood cautionary tale, Evan Rachel Wood understands how media works. She sees…
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‘We Need to Talk About Cosby’ Unpacks a Toxic Legend: TV Review
Deep into W. Kamau Bell’s new four-part documentary, “We Need to Talk About Cosby,” panelists are asked to describe who Bill Cosby is, as if to a person who had never heard of him before. Does…
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How ‘General Hospital’ Said Goodbye to the Iconic Luke Spencer
Early this year, “General Hospital” killed off Luke Spencer, the iconic character who was played by Anthony Geary on and off for decades. Luke’s current wife Tracy Quartermaine (Jane Elliot)…
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The CW’s ‘March’ Documents an HBCU Marching Band: TV Review
In the long tail of Netflix’s “Cheer” comes the CW’s “March” — a documentary series about a group of collegiate athlete-performers in Texas. And this series, set at the historically Black…
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Jason Katims’ ‘As We See It’ Handles Neurodiverse Stories With Gentle Care: TV Review
With “As We See It,” creator Jason Katims (“Friday Night Lights,” “Parenthood”) has clear objectives: to let people on the autism spectrum be at the centers of their own stories, and to tell…
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‘The White Lotus’ Season 2 Will Be Set in Sicily (EXCLUSIVE)
The highly anticipated second season of Mike White’s “The White Lotus” will be filmed in Sicily, Variety has learned — confirming previous reports that Season 2 of the HBO show will take place…
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Julian Fellowes’ ‘The Gilded Age’ Conjures a Bygone World: TV Review
There’s a scene on HBO’s new series “The Gilded Age” in which Carrie Coon, playing the aspirant socialite Bertha Russell, lectures one of her rivals. Bertha has the money to break into the whirl…