Television
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‘My Mom Jayne’ charts an astonishing journey of self-discovery
Jun 27, 2025 12:30 pm - How do you relate to a parent you can’t remember? How do you uphold their legacy without ever having known who they really were? Actress Mariska Hargitay ponders those questions in the new HBO documentary “My Mom Jayne.”
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‘Squid Game’ ends on a squishy note
Jun 27, 2025 9:47 am - You started watching Netflix’s “Squid Game” for its intriguing, deeply bingeable premise. But as eye-popping and shocking as “Squid Game” can be, Season 3 ultimately never reaches any conclusions about humanity that weren’t depressingly obvious from the jump.
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Pint-size pioneer ‘Dora the Explorer’ celebrates her 25th anniversary
Jun 26, 2025 4:35 pm - Twenty-five years ago, a little girl with a bob haircut appeared on our TVs, speaking a mix of English and Spanish, with a spunky, can-do spirit. This was, of course, “Dora the Explorer.” Nickelodeon is celebrating her 25th anniversary with the feature-length live-action movie “Dora and the Search of Sol Dorado” and more.
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In its fourth season, ‘The Bear’ gets back to basics
Jun 26, 2025 12:09 pm - The fourth season of “The Bear” starts off feeling like a reprise. Once again, Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) responds to a crisis — here, a mixed review of his new restaurant in the Chicago Tribune — by promising his business partner Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri) he’ll do better.
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Playing with fire: Arson ignites the Dennis Lehane-created Apple TV+ firebug series ‘Smoke’
Jun 25, 2025 9:14 pm - Author and screenwriter Dennis Lehane has turned to fire for his latest project — Apple TV+’s new nine-episode crime drama “Smoke” debuting Friday. It’s based on the true story of a former arson investigator who was convicted in 1998 of serial arson.
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What to Stream: ‘The Bear,’ Lorde, ‘Smoke,’ ‘A Minecraft Movie,’ ‘Nosferatu’ and Nelly and Ashanti
Jun 23, 2025 5:30 am - All 10 episodes of season four of FX’s “The Bear” drop Wednesday, Nelly and Ashanti get their own reality show and Bill Skarsgård leads an update of the 1922 silent vampire classic “Nosferatu.”
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Anne Burrell, TV chef who coached the ‘Worst Cooks in America,’ dies at 55
Jun 17, 2025 8:41 pm - TV chef Anne Burrell, who coached culinary fumblers through hundreds of episodes of “Worst Cooks in America,” died Tuesday at her New York home. She was 55.
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‘The Chosen’ swaps Texas for Italy to film the crucifixion for the hit drama about Jesus Christ
Jun 17, 2025 3:11 pm - Matera, in the south of Italy, is known as the “City of Stones” for its architecture. For the next season of “The Chosen,” it’ll be known by another name: Jerusalem.
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What to stream: ‘The Gilded Age,’ Benson Boone, astronaut Sally Ride and digital dinosaurs
Jun 16, 2025 5:30 am - Lifelike digital Triceratops and Spinosaurus lumbering through a reimagined “Walking with Dinosaurs” and Benson Boone's sophomore album “American Heart” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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Macy’s Fourth of July show to feature Jonas Brothers, Eric Church, Lenny Kravitz
Jun 12, 2025 10:38 am - Macy’s will celebrate America's independence with a 4th of July fireworks show live on NBC featuring Jonas Brothers, Eric Church, Lenny Kravitz, Ava Max, Keke Palmer and Trisha Yearwood.