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“Futurama” is coming back in the very near future. Season 11 of the beloved Emmy-winning adult animated series debuts on Hulu after 10 years off the air. “Futurama” premiered in 1999 and was later canceled in 2003. The show later returned in four TV movies from 2008 to 2009, which were split...

Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis) always comes out on top. Since Lewis stepped away from the series in 2021, the original lead star of the hit Showtime series returns as Wall Street savant Bobby in the seventh and final season of “Billions.” Per the official synopsis, in Season 7, alliances are...

The honest answer for why Hello Sunshine had such a prolific TV season is the pandemic. “The timing has a lot to do with COVID because there was this moment where everything was quiet, but we were still working, so we were driving all these different things forward,” said Lauren Levy...

James Gunn has been one of the most prolific comic book filmmakers of the 21st century, but even he understands why people get bored of the genre. In a new appearance on the “Inside of You” podcast, the newly minted DC Studios co-CEO explained how he hopes to avoid the franchise fatigue that...

The Academy Board of Governors voted to present Academy Honorary Awards to Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks and editor Carol Littleton and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to the Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter. They will accept the four Oscars at the Academy’s 14th Governors Awards event on...

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “The Idol” Episode 4, “Stars Belong to the World.”] “The Idol” Episode 4 paints a convincing picture of the chaos wrought by Tedros Tedros (Abel Tesfaye). Opening on armed guards patrolling the mansion and maids pulling dildos out of...

Natasha Lyonne’s Hollywood rise took her the better part of two decades. Before she emerged as one of the top showrunners of the prestige TV era after the success of “Russian Doll” in 2019, she found success as a teen star in films like “But I’m a Cheerleader” and the “Poker Face” star has some...

When HBO’s “The Idol” premiered earlier this month, it quickly became clear to fans of series co-creator Sam Levinson‘s “Euphoria” that they weren’t going to get a continuation of that show’s stylistic motifs. “The visual language is fundamentally different,” editor Julio C. Perez IV confirmed...

A show like “Skull Island” usually gets bogged down by demands and expectations. The new animated Netflix series isn’t about King Kong, but the big fella definitely makes his presence known. Given that this eight-episode season exists within a broader umbrella that also encompasses kaiju of all...

Kohn’s Corner is a weekly column about the challenges and opportunities of sustaining American film culture. Shame was never high on Warner Media Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s priority list: Over the past 12 months, he buried “Batgirl,” yanked close to 100 titles from its streaming service, and...

For Kelsey Grammer, bringing Frasier Crane back to Boston on an upcoming Paramount+ series isn’t just an opportunity to revive an iconic character. It’s a spiritual calling. In a new interview with The Independent, Grammer opened up about the impact that playing Frasier Crane through nine...

[Editor’s Note: The following story contains spoilers for the “Barry” series finale] The final season of “Barry” earned rave reviews, with critics praising Bill Hader — who directed all eight episodes — for skillfully guiding his dark comedy towards a fittingly bleak conclusion. But as it...

“The Bear” isn’t giving up its crown as one of TV’s most stressful shows. In Season 2, the FX “comedy” cranks up the ante with Episode 6, “Fishes,” an hourlong flashback to Christmas at the Berzattos written by Joanna Calo and creator Christopher Storer. Complete with jaw-dropping guest stars...

Brandon Cronenberg’s “Infinity Pool” shocked Sundance audiences with its neon-tinged story of psychological torture at a hedonistic resort. But even with all of the murdered clones and dog collars, the version that audiences saw was considerably tamer than what Cronenberg originally shot. When...

If a “midnight movie” is streamed on a laptop at two o’clock in the afternoon — and no one is there to obsess about it with you — is it even a midnight movie? Some films automatically qualify as midnight movies thanks to subject matter or conceptual guts; Divine didn’t eat dog shit for you to...

On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age. First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing. Then, the spoiler-filled...

We will update this article throughout the season, along with all our predictions, so make sure to keep checking IndieWire for the latest news from the 2023 Emmys race. The nomination round of voting takes place from June 15 to June 26, with the official Emmy nominations announced Wednesday...

We will update this article throughout the season, along with all our predictions, so make sure to keep checking IndieWire for the latest news from the 2023 Emmys race. The nomination round of voting takes place from June 15 to June 26, with the official Emmy nominations announced Wednesday...

The same analyst who said he believes Paramount should just shut down its streaming business has further thoughts on the future of Paramount Global: It doesn’t have one. Equity analyst Steven Cahall of bank Wells Fargo gives Paramount Corp. another “1-2 years” of throwing “good money… after...

To paraphrase a classic episode of the original HBO series, “New York City is a great place to be engaged. It’s also a great place to film in — if you’re ‘Sex and the City.’” As Michael Patrick King, the showrunner of Max’s “SATC” sequel “And Just Like That” told IndieWire, “Anytime you go to...