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Adolescence review – the closest thing to TV perfection in decades
In the late 80s, there was a trilogy of dramas by Malcolm McKay called A Wanted Man. It starred Denis Quilley and Bill Paterson and at the centre had the most phenomenal performance by Michael Fitzgerald as Billy, a man arrested for gross indecency who comes to be suspected of the murder of a child.…
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Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall’s debut novel to be adaptated for television
Chris Chibnall’s debut novel Death at the White Hart (Michael Joseph) will be adapted for television by Chibnall’s company Imaginary Friends Productions and Red Planet Pictures for ITV. The series was greenlit by ITV’s director of drama, Polly Hill, and Kevin Lygo, ITV’s managing director for media and entertainment. The Broadchurch creator will write the script…
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Daniel Radcliffe Joins Tracy Morgan’s NBC Comedy Pilot | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip
Daniel Radcliffe is teaming up with Tracy Morgan! The 35-year-old Harry Potter star has joined the cast of NBC’s upcoming comedy pilot starring the 56-year-old 30 Rock actor from Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, and writer Sam Means. As of right now, the pilot is still untitled. Written by Carlock and Means, the new comedy stars…
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Shifting Gears Brought In Jay Leno For A Quick Cameo, And I Got Something Way Funnier Than The Last Man Standing Reference I Expected
Warning! The following contains spoilers for the Shifting Gears episode “Gummies.” Stream the episode with a Hulu subscription and read at your own risk! After recently bringing Nancy Travis onto Shifting Gears, Tim Allen welcomed another Last Man Standing co-star in the latest episode. Jay Leno showed up playing himself, and while I expected him…
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Remembering Michelle Trachtenberg: A Star who Shaped 2000s Television
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UCF chapter. American actress Michelle Trachtenberg was a prominent figure on television throughout the 2000s. Many know her as Dawn Summers, Buffy’s younger sister, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, while others recognize her as Georgina Sparks, the unforgettable drama queen in Gossip…
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Kathryn Apanowicz obituary
Kathryn Apanowicz, who has died aged 64 after a long illness, was a child performer who grew up to find her best roles as an actor in three TV soaps. From playing a bullying nurse at a London hospital in Angels, she created further drama in EastEnders as one of “Dirty” Den Watts’s lovers, then…
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FCC Approves Gray’s Acquisition of KXLT
ATLANTA—Gray Media has announced that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted a waiver of its local ownership rules to permit Gray Media to acquire KXLT-TV (FOX) in the Rochester, Minnesota, television market, where Gray already owns KTTC-TV (NBC). Gray reported that the ruling represents the first FCC approval of a new combination of two…
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Tony Etz, chairman of Knox College board, dies. He represented talent and packaged television shows.
Knox College Chair of the Board of Trustees Tony Etz (Knox College) Knox College Chair of the Board of Trustees Tony Etz, 64, passed away on March 10, 2025. Etz was a member of the Class of 1983 and a fourth-generation Knox alumnus, following his great-grandfather, John Murphy, Class of 1900; grandfather Robert Murphy ’31,…
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4 new and returning TV series with perfect 100% scores on Rotten Tomatoes
<!– _ _ _ ____ _ _____ _ ___ | | (_) | _____ / ___|___ __| | ___ | ____| |__|__ | | | | |/ / _ | | / _ / _` |/ _ | _| | '_ / / | |___| | 4 new and returning TV series with perfect 100%…
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How COVID Changed TV Production Forever
Five years ago this week, the television industry rose to the challenge of keeping news, daytime and late-night talk shows and other topical series on the air during the harsh early months of the COVID pandemic. We didn’t know it then, but March 2020 marked a huge inflection point for the television business. Stay-at-home orders,…