Television
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‘Stick’ is one more Apple TV+ comedy about sad dudes
Jun 05, 2025 3:13 pm - If you crossed “Ted Lasso” with Woody Harrelson’s 1996 movie “Kingpin,” swapped in Owen Wilson and made the sport golf, you would probably get something like “Stick,” the 10-episode Apple TV+ comedy about a washed-up pro golfer trying to heal his psychic wounds by helping a teen prodigy live up to his potential.
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Immersive tech reshapes music and film landscape with Bono, Metallica and ‘Matrix’ taking the leap
Jun 03, 2025 2:22 pm - With a mic in hand, Bono belts out “Vertigo,” close enough to reach out and touch. The documentary film “Bono: Stories of Surrender,” which premiered last week on Apple TV+, gained new life through the Apple Vision Pro, which places viewers onstage with Bono, delivering it all in 8K with spatial audio for a fully immersive 180-degree video.
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What to stream: Ariana Madix returns to Fiji, ‘Presence,’ Nintendo’s Switch 2 and Addison Rae album
Jun 02, 2025 5:30 am - A Shaquille O’Neal docuseries about his time at Reebok’s basketball division and Ariana Madix returning to Fiji as host of a new season of “Love Island USA” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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Netflix reveals details about Lady Gaga on ‘Wednesday,’ ‘Squid Game’ and ‘Stranger Things’ finales
Jun 01, 2025 9:03 am - INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Netflix flexed its Hollywood star power with a live event where it unveiled details about its upcoming slate of streaming offerings, including Lady Ga...
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Bono’s memoir gets a third iteration, this time on the small screen
May 30, 2025 11:58 am - “Writing a memoir is a whole other level of navel-gazing,” the eponymous navel gazer tells us at the top of the new Apple TV+ release “Bono: Stories of Surrender.” What, then, is a concert film of a stage show adapted from a memoir?
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‘And Just Like That …’ finds its voice as season 3 embraces queerness, maturity — and messy truth
May 30, 2025 9:15 am - “And Just Like That...,” HBO’s “Sex and the City” revival, has come into its own in season three: less preoccupied with pleasing everyone, and more interested in telling the truth.
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Matthew Goode is both good and bad cop in Netflix’s ‘Dept. Q’
May 29, 2025 10:59 am - Being a leading man? Matthew Goode quite likes it. He’s the star of “Dept. Q,” based on the books by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen and set in the cold-case division of an Edinburgh police station.
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‘Like old times’: Phineas and Ferb return this summer with zany new episodes and a small change
May 28, 2025 9:50 pm - The beloved cartoon duo Phineas and Ferb are returning for new episodes this summer after a decade away and pretty much nothing has changed. Except maybe one thing.
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‘The White Lotus’ creator Mike White is coming back to ‘Survivor’
May 28, 2025 12:06 pm - Mike White seems to love an island getaway — the filmmaker and creator behind the HBO drama “The White Lotus” is headed back to “Survivor” for the show’s 50th season.
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A man of many talents: Award-winning actor Jeremy Piven takes on stand-up comedyMay 28, 2025 10:54 am - Three-time Emmy Award-winner and Evanston-raised actor-turned-stand-up-comedian Jeremy Piven headlines Chicago’s The Vic Theatre June 6 as part of his international comedy tour.