When following up a profitable sitcom, ought to a author head off into new territory or not? That was the query dealing with Dan Levy after Schitt’s Creek and John Morton after WIA – and now we’ve got their solutions: ‘yes’ and ‘not really, even with a change of country’ respectively. Curiously, each appear to…
Laura Wright as Carly Corinthos (Image by way of ABC) The General Hospital star Laura Wright is all set to make a cameo in David Duchovny’s upcoming soap satire Soapbox. The soap satire is ready to comply with an ageing soap opera star who is ready to seek out himself questioning his place in in the present day’s…
The well-known paparazzi shot of Keanu Reeves sitting alone on a bench spawned “sad Keanu”; this comedy provides us “sad asshole Keanu”. It’s a Hollywood in-joke, in a movie written and directed by Jonah Hill who has persuaded his actor mates to look, together with Reeves, who performs Reef Hawk, some of the well-known actors…
Those of you who had been disenchanted by Downton Abbey’s blatant lack of chamber-pot gags would do properly to take a look at Fackham Hall (now streaming on HBO Max), a Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker-style spoof of buttoned-up British interval dramas within the Masterpiece Theatre and Merchant-Ivory vein. Comic/TV character Jimmy Carr and the Dawson Bros. conceived and…
A Better Life, by Lionel Shriver (Harper, 304 pp., $30) No one reads a Lionel Shriver novel anticipating a cheerful ending, and her newest, A Better Life, is not going to disillusion readers on this respect. An professional within the depiction and skewering of middle-class self-importance, Shriver is cruel in analyzing dainty liberal ideas, then…