This Week in Comedy Podcasts: The True Story Behind the Movie Tag

The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week

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NBC Cancels Timeless, But Might Make Time for a Movie

Timeless has been canceled for a second and what seems like will be final time. After killing and bringing back the series after its first season, NBC canceled Timeless today after its second season aired to modest ratings. Still, according to Deadline, the network may work with Sony Pictures TV

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Justin Hartley on Kevin’s Transformation in This Is Us

The 2018 Emmy race has begun, and Vulture will take a close look at the contenders until voting closes on June 25.This Is Us star Justin Hartley looks back on his character’s evolution from a rich, vapid actor to an emotionally raw, broken-down addict. Plus, he dishes on what it

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Is There Any Way for the Roseanne Spinoff to Succeed?

Let’s imagine a world where ABC’s Roseanne spinoff The Conners is not an eleventh-hour financial decision by ABC to salvage a catastrophe and plug a giant hole in their fall schedule. Let’s imagine a situation where The Conners is a passion project, a just-so-strange-it-might-work idea for a sitcom that speaks

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Roger Rabbit Changed the Way Hollywood Animates

When Who Framed Roger Rabbit hit theaters in June of 1988, there was no telling exactly what impact it would have on pop culture. But now, 30 years later, the three key animation techniques animator Richard Williams and his team implemented are still being used to create the CGI characters

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The Late-Night Generation Gap

Digital video has changed late night from the libido-crushing activity of old married folks to a viral video factory for attention-span-deprived youths. Many of the guests on the shiny floor shows this week — Cher, Sir Paul McCartney, Whoopi Goldberg — appealed to the former demo, while the things they

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The 38 Best Queer YA Novels

While queer-lit history stretches back to the days of Sappho mooning over girls, queer YA is significantly younger. It was less than 50 years ago that the first queer YA novel was published: I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip, by John Donovan. This tragi-queer novel set the

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Kamasi Washington Brought Jazz to a Pop Audience, Where Does He Go Next?

Kamasi Washington both looks and sounds larger than life. And that’s before you factor in that the Angeleno tenor saxophonist and composer towers at six-foot-three with an Afro like a nimbus crowning his head, his dashiki garments flowing around him so that he appears to float across a stage. A

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