More from Mikey O'Connell
‘Twisters’ Director Missed Flying Cow in His Own Movie After VFX Team Snuck It In
[This story contains spoilers for Twisters.] Missed the flying cow in Twisters? You’re in good company. Director Lee Isaac Chung said he initially didn’t spot the homage to the original franchise installment himself. “My god, everybody’s been wanting a cow in this movie,” says Chung, who recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter. He was […]
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The Incredible Shrinking Press Tour
Jimmy O. Yang hadn’t been onstage for 20 minutes when the nameless reporter — they never announce their names — asked him “where he went wrong” during his journey from UC San Diego economics major to stand-up and actor. Yang was facing roughly 100 members of the Television Critics Association to plug his new series, […]
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Dana Walden on Disney’s Emmy Noms, ‘Shogun’ Future and Giving Kimmel a Hosting Break
Dana Walden had an above-average Wednesday morning. The co-chair of Disney Entertainment, with a sprawling portfolio of platforms (Hulu, Disney+, FX) and studios (20th Television, Disney-Branded Television), saw her various outfits earn a total of 183 Emmy nominations earlier in the day. Buoyed by FX output like Shogun and The Bear, perennial Hulu darling Only […]
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Emmy Nominations: FX Eclipses HBO, Trails Only Netflix With Record Turnout
The people over at FX have a lot to be psyched about today. In a TV awards cycle increasingly dominated by the HBO-Netflix horse race — which, for HBO, technically includes steamer Max — it was the other premium cable network and its Hulu offerings that came out tops among individual programs during Wednesday’s Primetime Emmy […]
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Lee Isaac Chung Says ‘Twisters’ Is a Road Movie… With Tornadoes
Lee Isaac Chung is barely settled in a café chair parked on this South Pasadena sidewalk when he begins our conversation with the question he’s most expecting: “So how did I go from Minari to this?” He laughs about it now, but this late June meeting is on the eve of a global Twisters media […]
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Reba McEntire Is Recording a Theme Song for Her Latest Sitcom
Reba McEntire starred in six seasons of her self-titled WB (later the CW) sitcom, Reba — but, for all of the 127 episodes that aired, it’s probably the opening 29 seconds that still clung on the hardest to popular culture. “I’m a Survivor,” Reba‘s theme and a slightly tweaked version of a track of the same […]
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Nobody Else Is Making Art Like Julio Torres
Eleven o’clock on Friday night is easily one of the worst time slots in what remains of linear TV. But, for the past five weeks, that’s been the designated drop for Fantasmas. A surrealist odyssey through New York, one rendered via sets that recall Dogtown and Gremlins 2: The New Batch in equal measure, each half-hour depicts […]
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‘Baywatch’ Stars Describe “Love-Hate Relationship” With Series
The original Baywatch went off the air 25 years ago, yet it still processes a cultural ubiquity that eclipses arguably every other defunct TV series. There was a brief spinoff and a panned movie (more of a spoof than a theatrical remake) and, just recently talk of a reboot. But no ancillary project has ever had […]
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Jeff Bridges Reveals the Biggest Change in ‘The Old Man’ Season 2
With a September premiere for their FX drama officially set only hours earlier, Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow and the creative team behind The Old Man offered up one significant piece of info about the spy thriller’s second season. The two stars will actually share scenes together. When originally promoting the 2022 launch of The Old […]
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Why You Won’t See Michelle Visage on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Anytime Soon
Later this summer, Michelle Visage graduates from Drag Race judge to host when the longtime producer of RuPaul’s global competition takes over as emcee of the Down Under installment of the franchise. For Visage, the multihyphenate who first made a name for herself as part of the 1980s girl group Seduction, new endeavors are something […]
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Sheryl Lee Ralph and Tony Hale to Announce Emmy Nominations
With the nominations round of Emmy voting done, all that’s left to do is tabulate the choices and reveal the nominees in July. And then vote again. And tabulate again. And hand out the actual awards. Regardless, the nominations news will be delivered by two previous Emmy winners: Tony Hale and Sheryl Lee Ralph. The pair […]
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The Greening of Reality TV
When Cyle Zezo left The CW last year after a decade working in unscripted, he knew he didn’t want to leave the world of reality TV behind. (He segued to a new role as executive producer, on such shows as Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Mysteries Decoded.) But he also wanted to serve his original […]
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