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When the actress Nicola Coughlan joined the solid of Shondaland’s interval costume drama “Bridgerton,” because the younger socialite and secret gossip pamphleteer Penelope Featherington, the hair and make-up artist Marc Pilcher knowledgeable her that the artistic transient they’d for her character was just one phrase: “dowdy.” Penelope, the demure youngest daughter of the domineering matriarch […] More

“Doctor Who,” the BBC’s beloved sci-fi collection about an alien time traveler and his human companions, has had 875 episodes over 61 years. The present first ran between 1963 and 1989 on the BBC, was revived in 2005 and has been airing ever since. As a end result, the TV reveals has one of the […] More

An old school rap conflict that unfolded on-line at lightning velocity has despatched Kendrick Lamar to No. 1 on Billboard’s newest singles chart, whereas Taylor Swift simply holds off a problem from Dua Lipa’s new album. Relations between Lamar and Drake, two hip-hop giants and longtime rivals, exploded right into a public confrontation in current […] More

David Sanborn, whose fiery alto saxophone thrives earned him six Grammy Awards, eight gold albums and a platinum one, and who established himself as a celeb sideman, lending indelible solos to enduring rock classics like David Bowie’s “Young Americans,” died on Sunday. He was 78. He died after a protracted battle with prostate most cancers, […] More

During live shows, Carlos Niño could arrange a bass drum and a flooring tom, however his percussion is much from typical. Uninterested in sustaining a gradual beat, he creates shimmering atmospheres and earthen textures with the various bells, shells, rain sticks or rattles he totes in a giant black curler bag. He surrounds himself with […] More

Describing their collaboration on “Last Night Reprise,” a jazzy interpretation of a poem by the Thirteenth-century Persian author Rumi, Karpeh recalled Aftab taking the vantage of a movie director, utilizing visible cues to encourage completely different takes. “There’s a belief in how we method our music,” he mentioned of their shared method. “It felt very […] More

The season premiere of any installment in “The Bachelor” franchise all the time begins the identical: with the host speaking on to digital camera concerning the lead’s almost-certain path to discovering lasting love. Unlike different standard actuality courting exhibits, the franchise markets itself as a real probability to seek out love with out another incentives […] More

“There’s a way of reward when you determine it out, however there’s additionally a way of reward when you don’t,” he mentioned. Can the screenwriters “get past your creativeness”? Carmen Mugnolo had by no means seen an episode of “Grey’s,” now in its twentieth season, till his buddy Kelcey Werner instructed him a couple of […] More

Early in his daring and vexing new actuality present, Jerrod Carmichael hears a knock on the door and opens it to discover a very tall man in a ski masks and goggles simply standing there. He pauses to course of, then concludes: “This is smart.” Most viewers in all probability thought: Really? But sure comedy […] More

Sarah Paulson nonetheless doesn’t totally perceive why followers name her “mom.” At first, when she began seeing the phrase used on-line to explain her, she was bewildered and a bit irritated. She was in her 40s and childless. Did these folks actually assume she appeared like their mom? Once she started to know it as […] More

For those that nonetheless haven’t lower the twine, here’s a choice of cable and community TV exhibits, films and specials that broadcast this week, May 6-12. Details and instances are topic to vary. Monday THE PARENT TRAP (1998) 8 p.m. on Freeform. With Lindsay Lohan returning to the display in “Irish Wish,” why not return […] More

The ever-adaptable Post Malone strikes into nation with this duet with Morgan Wallen. It’s jovial on the floor, with cheerful steel-guitar hooks. But it’s deeply surly at coronary heart, as Malone and Wallen take turns lashing out at an ex who blames them after a relationship crumbles. “It ain’t like I could make this sort […] More