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‘The Jinx’ Director Andrew Jarecki Feared for His Safety Before Robert Durst Arrest
[This story contains some spoilers from the premiere of The Jinx — Part Two.] When speaking recently about the remarkable series of events that led to Robert Durst’s arrest one day before The Jinx aired its season one finale in 2015, the filmmakers behind The Jinx — Part Two, which premiered its six-episode follow-up on […]
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‘The Jinx’ Finally Explains Mystery of Robert Durst Arrest One Day Before TV Confession
For anyone who needed a refresher on The Jinx, the follow-up series to the 2015 true-crime phenomenon that led to the arrest of Robert Durst did just that with its first episode. Except it delved deeper — much deeper — when it took the audience behind the curtain of the murder case against Durst to […]
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‘The Jinx’ Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki Says Despite True-Crime Boom Robert Durst “Is Kind of a Unicorn”
Since HBO’s The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst aired in 2015, Durst, who was arrested shortly before the docuseries’ shocking finale, was convicted of murder in 2021 before dying months later. In that time, true-crime projects have proliferated in the wake of hits like The Jinx and contemporary docuseries Making a Murderer, […]
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‘Blue Lights’ Star Siân Brooke on How the BBC’s Belfast Police Drama Has “Hope at Its Heart”
Siân Brooke is back on U.K. screens this week as Grace Ellis in the BBC’s Belfast, Northern Ireland-based police drama Blue Lights season 2. Blue Lights, about three probationary police officers in the Police Service of Northern Ireland struggling with the general pressures of the job and crime and tensions in Belfast, has become a hit […]
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‘The Sympathizer’ Review: Robert Downey Jr. Dazzles and Distracts in HBO’s Adaptation of the Pulitzer-Winning Novel
Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar turn Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel about a Vietnamese double agent into a limited series also starring Hoa Xuande and Sandra Oh.
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Kit Harington-Led Jon Snow ‘Game of Thrones’ Sequel No Longer Happening
HBO’s Jon Snow-centered Game of Thrones sequel has been shelved, Kit Harington confirmed on Tuesday. “There are no plans for it at the moment. It’s off the table for the foreseeable,” Harington told the Associated Press while promoting his new film, Blood For Dust. Game of Thrones, based on the fantasy book series by George […]
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Comedian Jerrod Carmichael Sees Backlash Over Race-Based Slave Play Joke
Comic Jerrod Carmichael’s testing of modern comedy audiences’ ability to grasp idiosyncratic race-based humor hit the skids quickly, as many online criticized a gag he made on his new HBO series. Carmichael, 37, dipped his toes into the concept of “slave play” as a sexual kink during a live stand-up moment on HBO’s Jerrod Carmichael’s […]
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‘Brandy Hellville’ Director Hopes Teens and Parents Will Be “Horrified” by Fast-Fashion Doc
The director of HBO’s new documentary Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion never wanted the film to be just another brand exposé, even though it does, in part, operate on that level. In the film, which airs on HBO on Tuesday, helmer Eva Orner highlights allegations of a racist, sexist and discriminatory work […]
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Adrian Schiller, Star of ‘The Last Kingdom,’ Dies at 60
Adrian Schiller, the British actor who starred as Lord Aethelhelm in the Netflix drama series The Last Kingdom, has died. He was 60. Schiller died on April 3 of unspecified causes, his agent, Amanda Evans at Scott Marshall Partners in the U.K., confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. “It is with the heaviest and saddest hearts […]
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HBO Commemorates ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Finale With Larry David — and Some Surprise Guests
In 2000, Larry David returned to TV for the first time since Seinfeld, turning the focus on himself with Curb Your Enthusiasm, reaching a new audience with his heightened, fictionalized version of himself. More than two decades later, he’s closing the curtain on the hit HBO series. On Friday, ahead of the April 7 finale, […]
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Alex Edelman Knows There’s Power in the Third Rail
Alex Edelman’s go-to order at Barney Greengrass is whitefish on an everything bagel with a side of scrambled eggs. The Upper West Side institution isn’t exactly his local haunt — he lives out of a blue Samsonite bag these days — but this New York deli is a magnet for the Boston-born comic. “It’s where […]
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Georgia Secretary of State Sent Letter to Larry David Over ‘Curb’ Voting Law Plot
The plot from this season’s Curb Your Enthusiasm has captured the attention on the state of Georgia’s top elections official. The premiere episode of the final season for the HBO improv comedy featured star-creator Larry David being arrested for violating the state’s election integrity law after giving his friend Leon Black’s (JB Smoove) aunt (played […]
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