I Hate SuziedirectorGeorgi Banks-Davieshas joined Amazon’s adaptation ofPaper Girls, a coming-of-age comic book about four teenagers trapped in the middle of a time-travelers war. Banks-Davies revealed she’s acting as a directorvia her personal Instagram account, together with a cute picture of a pink bicycle, a direct reference to the comics. Banks-Davies’ picture shows the bicycle and a chair that has the title of “DIRECTOR” written on the back. With the simple description of “This show is fun …”, Banks-Davies leaves the hashtags to confirm her new role in the upcoming series, clarifying in the comments that she indeeduses her bicycle to move around the set....

After honing his craft in his native Germany, directorEdward Bergerhelped bring life to hit shows likeYour HonorwithBryan CranstonandThe TerrorwithJared Harris. In 2022, Berger blew audiences away with his monumentally powerful adaptation of the seminal war classicAll Quiet On The Western Front, winning Berger an Academy Award for Best International Picture. With films firmly in the “anticipated directors” category, Berger has introduced a new religious drama calledConclave, primed to pique interest worldwide....

One ofReese Witherspoon’s next roles will be as a cheerleading coach. According toDeadline, Witherspoon will star in the upcoming Prime Video comedy seriesAll Stars,where she will play a former cheerleader, who is able to con her way into teaching cheerleading at a school in England. Throughout the series, she shows the team of cheerleaders, as well as herself, how to be an all star. She will also be an executive producer for the series, along with Hello Sunshine’sLauren Neustadter....

It’s been alongtime sinceSaturday Night Livewas must-see television, but the election ofDonald Trumpas president lit a fire under the writers and performers over there, and it’s nearly every week now that there’s a sketch that has everyone talking on Sunday morning. So it’s fitting thatSNLis venturing into uncharted territory for its final four episodes, as the show will for the first time ever air live coast to coast. Yes indeed, the next four episodes ofSaturday Night Livewill start, locally, at 11:30pm Eastern, 10:30pm Central, 9:30pm Mountain, and 8:30pm Pacific....

Star Trek: Lower Decks, created byMike McMahan(Rick and Morty,Solar Opposites,theTNGSeason 8 Twitter feed), spotlights the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos — specifically, the ship’s junior officers, who otherTrekseries rarely acknowledge. It’s an eclectic mash of personalities: Ensign Boimler (Jack Quaid) wants to advance in the ranks with an ambition fueled by his worship of Starfleet, while the usually-loud often-drunk Ensign Mariner (Tawny Newsome) might be Starfleet’s most promising young officer, if she’d stop finding ways to get herself demoted....

Star Warsis a cultural phenomenon. It’s been so weird watching episodes ofThe Mandalorianthese past few weeks because it’s the future of the franchise—not an Earth-shattering event that’s decades in the making, but a weekly series that comes at you gradually without the weight of mammoth expectations. Of course, there will still be movies and those movies will be important, but we now live in a world whereStar Warsis more constant rather than being some fascinating piece of pop culture that has morphed from blockbuster to cult fandom and back again....

Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 sci-fi classicStarship Troopersis celebrating its 25th anniversary and with it comes a return to 4K Ultra HD. A new limited edition steelbook is coming to bring viewers back to the Fleet Battlestation Ticonderoga and the Arachnid-plagued planet of Klendathu in style. For any super fans of the film, this home release will have everything including a new never-before-seen reunion with the cast and crew for the special occasion....

Steve Carellhas had yet another very busy year with a number of challenging performances.Beautiful Boyhit theaters in October, he plays Donald Rumsfeld inAdam McKay’s upcoming movieVice, and then there’s alsoWelcome to Marwen, which takes Carell into the world of performance-capture for the very first time. The movie is based on the documentary fromJeff MalmbergcalledMarwencol, which tells the story ofMark Hogancamp, a man who was nearly beaten to death and lost a significant amount of his memory....

Perhaps the biggest question hanging overSuicide SquadisJared Leto’s performance as the Joker. We know he went to great lengths to torment his co-stars as a way of staying in character, but how does that translate to his performance?Heath Ledgerset an unbelievably high bar with his interpretation of the character, so how will Leto compare? Furthermore, how will the Joker perform in a group setting and with other villains as opposed to Batman’s antagonist?...

On The CW seriesThe 100, Clarke (Eliza Taylor) is struggling with how to proceed after learning the fate of the world, and even though she’s trying to find a way to save everyone, that just might not be possible. At the same time, fighting among the clans threatens to tear them all apart first, as they each try to figure out the best political power plays. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, actressMarieAvgeropoulostalked about Octavia’s evolution from scared teenager to skilled assassin, how much fun it is to play one of the most bad-ass women on TV, how connected she feels to Octavia, just how dark her journey will get, the Octavia-Indra (Adina Porter) dynamic, what’s to come for Octavia and Bellamy (Bob Morley), the alliance she has with Roan (Zach McGowan), and whether Octavia could ever attain happiness....

OhThe Americans. One of the most intense, nuanced, anxiety-inducing series to ever air on television is soon coming to an end. I can’t take it! Long before the Russians were infiltrating our elections, they were infiltrating our hearts thanks to Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, i.e.Keri RussellandMatthew Rhys' beautiful and complicated portrayal of two deep undercover spies. While the show didn’t initially grab me (I’m not big into spycraft), the relationship between the two, and the honesty and realism of their family life (even among such extraordinary circumstances) kept me coming back....

It’s been five years since season 1 of theSerialpodcast miraculously gave everyone on the internet their criminology degrees all at the same time, but the conversation still burns around the real-life murder of high-school studentHae Min Leeand the ensuing conviction of her ex-boyfriendAdnan Syed. A new four-part HBO documentary from Oscar-nomineeAmy Berg,The Case Against Adnan Syed, is looking to explore the investigation once again, and a new trailer gives a glimpse of evidence, testimonials, and interviews that weren’t featured in the original podcast....

The Giftedjust wrapped up its first main plot arc — the integration of the Strucker family into the Mutant Underground — in style, with Caitlin, Lauren, and Andy helping John, Clarice, Sonia, Harry, and Marcos to rescue Lorna and Reed from the clutches of Sentinel Services. “Exit Strategy” wasn’t as strong as last week’s episode, but it demonstrated just how muchTheGiftedhas done narratively in only four episodes. After only four hours of television, this show has formed a complex found-family dynamic that successfully taps into the themes that make the X-Men story so important....