‘Cheer,’ ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Lead Critics Choice Real TV Awards Nominations
Jun08

‘Cheer,’ ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Lead Critics Choice Real TV Awards Nominations

Nominations for the second annual Critics Choice Real TV Awards were announced Monday morning with Netflix topping the leaderboard at 31 nods for its reality programming. The streamer’s “Cheer” and VH1’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” each with five nominations, lead the nominees for the awards contest, whose winners will be announced June 29. Other series landing multiple nods are Netflix’s “Queer Eye” with four and...

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HBO Max Launches with ‘Friends,’ Movies, Series, Docs and Specials
May27

HBO Max Launches with ‘Friends,’ Movies, Series, Docs and Specials

Back in the day when “Friends” ended its iconic run in 2004, to steal a line from its catchy theme song, no one told you life was gonna to be this way. And by this way, we mean today’s landmark launch of HBO Max, the subscription streaming platform that promises to give Netflix, Amazon and Hulu a run for their money. It’s the latest entry in the competition for eyeballs that also includes Disney+, Apple TV+, the soft-launched Peacock,...

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Who Will Win? Meet the Top Five Finalists on ‘The Voice’
May18

Who Will Win? Meet the Top Five Finalists on ‘The Voice’

The process may have changed because of the pandemic, but one thing about “The Voice” remains the same. Five very talented artists will compete to win the title as the reality competition series concludes on NBC May 18 and 19. There won’t be confetti falling from the ceiling as the audience roars its approval, but the winner will always have the distinction of owning the trophy. During the course of the Season 18, I’ve have had the...

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‘Belgravia’ Wraps up its Victorian Era Mystery
May16

‘Belgravia’ Wraps up its Victorian Era Mystery

Blink and you might have missed it but “Belgravia” wraps up its limited series run on Epix Sunday night, May 17. The six-episode drama set in the first half of the 1800s is adapted from the novel by Julian Fellowes, by Fellowes himself, just as he wrote all the episodes of “Downton Abbey.” Many fans of that dearly-missed drama have migrated to “Belgravia,” the name of an upper-class section of London that was being developed in the...

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FOX Announces Fall 2020 TV Schedule
May11

FOX Announces Fall 2020 TV Schedule

The Masked Singer returns with Season 4 Monday, May 11 would have been the day that FOX took over New York City’s Beacon Theater to present its fall programming slate to a packed crowd of advertisers and media people. Instead of its glitzy annual upfront, which always includes a festive afterparty in Central Park which goes late into the night, the news went out via press release about what’s coming up on the fall schedule. The new...

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