Television
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A 15-year-old singing 'prodigy' wins 'The Voice' - and also makes show history
Dec 15, 2020 10:00 pm - America loves stories about extraordinarily talented kids, and this season of "The Voice" was no exception: Carter Rubin, a 15-year-old from Long Island with soaring voc...
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New to streaming: 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' and CBS' 'A Home for the Holidays'
Dec 15, 2020 5:00 am - Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. Movies • "Ma R...
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J. Lo, Billy Porter to perform at 'New Year's Rockin' Eve'
Dec 14, 2020 10:00 pm - NEW YORK - Jennifer Lopez will help bring in the New Year with a headlining performance in New York's Time Square for "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seac...
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'Big Sky' stumbles in addressing Native American criticism
Dec 14, 2020 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - After ABC's 'œBig Sky'ť drew Native American censure for overlooking an epidemic of violence against Indigenous women and girls, its producers set abo...
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New movies to stream this week: 'Wild Mountain Thyme,' 'The Stand In' and more
Dec 13, 2020 6:15 am - If you can believe Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan as plain Irish farm folk - living on side-by-side parcels of land and both too shy and/or tetched to realize that they (a...
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TV's gay Christmas movies are as benign, charming and cliche as we always hoped they'd be
Dec 13, 2020 6:00 am - In olden times, the people behind the so-called gay agenda wanted nothing more than what everyone else already had: marriage, kids, suburban bliss, job security and equa...
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In HBO's magnificent Bee Gees documentary, broken hearts — and icon status — can at least be mended
Dec 13, 2020 6:00 am - Wherever you currently land on the subject of the Bee Gees (Forgotten glitter gods? Perpetual punchline?), director Frank Marshall's thorough and beautifully appreciativ...
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Kevin Bacon brings music back to venues for charity concertDec 12, 2020 6:30 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Musician and actor Kevin Bacon is bringing live music back to venues that have been shuttered this year with an all-star concert TV special. Bacon is ...
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Matthew Morrison's unsettling 'Grinch' is a natural conclusion to 2020
Dec 12, 2020 6:00 am - Reader, I tried. I tried to banish every preconceived opinion of Matthew Morrison playing the Grinch from my mind before flipping to “Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Musical!” on ...
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Diverse TV holiday season includes all-Asian Lifetime movie
Dec 11, 2020 6:00 am - In one scene from the Lifetime TV movie, 'œA Sugar & Spice Holiday,'ť a co-worker says to Suzy, an Asian American architect in Los Angeles: 'œI didn't know if Christmas ...