April Neale Warning: Spoilers for episode six of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. NBC’s genre-busting hit, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, is neither sitcom or musical, but a fresh hybrid from showrunner Austin Winsberg, that has been telling some overdue Black and brown workplace stories on network TV. This high concept series is deft in handling really big awkward topics—the sudden
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s incredible early life is portrayed in upcoming NBC show Young Rock. Co-created by Nahnatchka Khan and Johnson, the comedy series based on the wrestler-actor’s colorful life premieres on February 16, and will star three young actors playing Dwayne Johnson at age 10, 15 and 22 years old. In the trailer, below,
If you’re a fan of Outlander then it’s time to start getting excited, as Men In Kilts — a nonfiction offshoot of the dramatic series created by writer Diana Gabaldon — arrives on Starz this weekend. This new effort starring Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish (Jamie Fraser and Dougal Mackenzie on the show) is part road
A refreshing change from the status quo of film award lists is the just-released nominees from the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA) which has revealed the top film picks for this year’s award season. And the critically acclaimed film Minari is folded into the best film category instead of being relegated to the foreign
In the new documentary, Meltdown, not since The Cove has an environmentally-focused film captured the immediacy of a worldwide concern. The ice floes and glaciers of Greenland are disappearing at a rate that has the scientific world on edge. Not just scientists, but one woman, a photographer named Lynn Davis, drawn to the area after
CBS series Tough As Nails Season 2 premiere kicks off on Wednesday and is back with producer and Emmy-winning host of The Amazing Race, Phil Keoghan. The series defies gender tropes and features individual and team tests to celebrate everyday Americans who get their hands dirty while working long, hard hours to keep the country
Syfy’s new sci-fi dramedy, Resident Alien, is the fun, quirky new series that showcases actor Alan Tudyk at his very best. Not since E.T., Mork & Mindy, and even the TV yesteryear hit, My Favorite Martian starring Ray Walston as “Uncle Martin,” has an Earthbound alien on a mission captured our attention. Resident Alien is
Making a move from the mothership of Discovery to the new streaming arm, discovery+, this week’s latest episode of Undercover Billionaire, now in season two, features the progress of one of three billionaires the shows’ producers have taken into the fold. The premise was established by last season’s Glenn Stearns and has since expanded to
Mike Rowe’s TV work has taken a strange, trippy turn of late. The Dirty Jobs star, whose foundation has raised millions since 2008, now has a discovery+ series that is fueled by curiosity, and perhaps a few fingers of bourbon. The new series is titled Six Degrees With Mike Rowe, and with loads of well-sourced
Discovery is taking a new original Discovery+ series, Gold Rush: Freddy Dodge’s Mine Rescue, and putting it on the mothership this Friday night. The series is yet another spin-off, like Parker’s Trails and White Water. But, it has a very different premise. Monsters & Critics spoke to Freddy yesterday about this new hit series that