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News Articles: Television

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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Linda Holmes
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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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  • 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
F. Murray Abraham says his <em>White Lotus</em> character Bert is "nothing but a male chauvinist pig" but that the women who respond to him "understand that he really has a good heart."

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  • Television

Winning an Oscar almost cost F. Murray Abraham his career — but he bounced back

The White Lotus star won the 1985 Best Actor Oscar for Amadeus. "I became full of myself," he says, and began turning down film roles — after a while, the phone stopped ringing.

January 24, 2023
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  • Dave Davies
For Rapp, the goal was always a solo music career.

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  • Arts & Life

Reneé Rapp wants to burn out by 30 — and it's all going perfectly to plan

You may know about Rapp from TikTok, TV or Broadway. But she says all of that has just been in service of her true passion: a solo music career.

January 21, 2023
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  • Mia Venkat

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  • Arts & Life

Anime broadens its reach — at conventions, at theaters, and streaming at home

Manga artist Hajime Isayama says when he was growing up in Japan, anime wasn't considered cool. Now, he says, he has a "global audience" in mind.

January 21, 2023
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  • Maison Tran
Twenty contestants are sequestered in a castle in <em>The Traitors. </em>Three of them are designated as traitors. If all the traitors have been banished when the game ends, the remaining faithfuls split the money. If there are any traitors left, the traitors split the money.

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  • TV Reviews

You will not be betrayed by 'The Traitors'

The Peacock competition series combines a solid cast, the perfect host, an entertaining atmosphere and a nice, juicy game design. And it all adds up to a highly binge-able show.

January 15, 2023
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  • Linda Holmes
Kento Yamazaki as Ryohei Arisu and Tao Tsuchiya as Yuzuha Usagi in <em>Alice in Borderland</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: Alice in Borderland Season 2, and the films Aftersun, After Yang and Jeanne Dielman.

January 13, 2023
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  • Ronald Young Jr.,
  • Chris Klimek,
  • and 2 more
"I like the rug. It brings the room together." Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Tess (Anna Torv) in HBO's <em>The Last of Us.</em>

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  • TV Reviews

At the end of humanity, 'The Last of Us' locates what makes us human

Like the video game it's based on, the HBO series about a mutated fungi that destroys civilization spotlights the connections between its compelling characters, not the monsters they face.

January 12, 2023
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  • Glen Weldon
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