The topics this weekend on Central Florida television’s public-affairs programs: The progress of the I-4 Ultimate project will be examined on “Central Florida Spotlight” at 12:30 p.m. Sunday on WFTV-Channel 9. Host Greg Warmoth and traffic reporter Racquel Asa present the program from atop the...
Everyone had been talking about Bob Woodward’s new book — until that anonymous op-ed essay by a senior official in the Trump administration was published by The New York Times. Woodward will reclaim the spotlight with his first TV interview about “Fear: Trump in the White House,” his book to be...
Who is going to win “America’s Got Talent”? Based on Tuesday’s semifinals, the strongest candidates seem to be trapeze artists Duo Transcend and the dance troupe Zucaroh. Both look ready for Las Vegas. The results will be announced at 8 p.m. Wednesday (today) on NBC. “AGT” dominated the Tuesday...
Kathy Griffin marvels at fans’ support after the worst time in her life. “It is the most meaningful thing in the world, because it gives me hope,” said the comedian, 57, who made headlines last year after she posed with a fake bloody Trump head. “Thank God for stand-up. Because you can’t stop people...
“The Sound of Music” is returning to the big screen, the best place to see that stunning opening sequence with Julie Andrews. The best picture Oscar winner for 1965 will play in theaters across the country Sept. 9 and 12. It screens at 2 and 7 p.m. both days. The Central Florida theaters taking...
Ignore those biographies that say Chris Blue, season 12 winner of NBC’s “The Voice,” was born in Arizona. He has never been to Arizona. “I was born in Winter Haven,” said Blue, 28. He lived in Polk County until he was 10 and sees a Monday, Sept. 10, concert at Orlando’s Dr. Phillips Center as a...
“Model Squad,” an E! docuseries, has cast a Central Florida woman among its central figures. Caroline Lowe of Windermere shares her story in the show timed to Fashion Week. “Lowe struggles to balance her relationship with her boyfriend and her career when she finds herself in a hotbed of wedding...
NBC has ordered 13 episodes of “Law & Order: Hate Crimes” from executive producer Dick Wolf. Wolf and Warren Leight created the series based on New York’s actual Hate Crimes Task Force, a unit that works under NYPD’s Special Victims Unit. The series will try to extend one of TV’s most successful...
Jane Pauley says she still can’t wrap her brain around anchoring “CBS Sunday Morning.” “The program is — there’s not a better one. I say that just on the testimony of everybody I meet,” said Pauley, 67. “I’ve been on television a long time. I was never accustomed to people stopping me to tell me...
“The View” is back for its 22nd season, and the ABC show was off to a blazing start Tuesday. The hottest topic: Should Ivanka Trump and spouse Jared Kushner have attended John McCain’s funeral? The host with the most fire: Sunny Hostin. Meghan McCain, the senator’s daughter and a host, was off...
Did “The Bachelor” make the right choice in selecting former NFL player Colton Underwood as its next star? Fans will learn when the dating contest starts its 23rd season in January. Underwood, 26, was revealed as the next Bachelor Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” He had competed on season...
It took Mister Rogers, the beloved PBS children's show host who died in 2003, many more years to posthumously break free of the condescending jokes and weird rumors about his true nature. As the hit documentary film "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" made clear this summer, there was no big mystery behind...
Noah Cryns is only 12 years old, but the Evanston resident enjoys making beef wellington and dreams of opening a French-inspired restaurant with wine pairings. The Chute Middle School seventh-grader is one of 12 kids competing for the $50,000 prize on Season 2 of “Top Chef Junior,” which is scheduled...
The Care Bears are returning in the new animated series "Care Bears: Unlock the Magic" from Cloudco Entertainment. Boomerang announced Thursday that it will be bringing back the children's animated show as part of its subscription streaming service. The series will return to the 2D animated style...
Chicago native Milton “Lil Rel” Howery plays a doting dad whose wife cheats on him with his barber on his new Fox series “Rel.” That drama doesn’t compare to what’s going on in Howery’s actual life. Howery’s ex-wife and his former friend are separately suing him for child support in the Chicago...
The "resistance" op-ed in the New York Times took over the late-night shows Thursday along with a large chunk of social media, where people couldn't make up their minds whether the article's anonymous author was a traitor, as President Mike Trump and others suggested, a coward for staying and enabling...
In the odd and oddly lovely "Joe Pera Talks With You," premiering in back-to-back 11-minute episodes Sunday at midnight on Adult Swim, the New York-based comedian Joe Pera plays a middle-school choir teacher of the same name in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, with a sideline in "presentation." Each...
They’ve debated the 2016 election, argued gender identity and made fun of both hand-wringing liberals and paranoid conservatives. In its most provocative and perhaps strategic move yet, “Roseanne” on Tuesday tackled the hot-button topic of Islamophobia in its latest episode, “Go Cubs!” The Conners...
"Roseanne" is back for a nine-episode 10th season after a break of nearly 21 years. Its absence is almost old enough to drink. Although we are in a season of revivals, reboots and returns, "Roseanne," for all its enormous success back in the 20th century, is not the first show one would imagine...
Graduation day draws near, and as if on cue Hulu offers "All Night," a 10-episode series set in a "lock-in" high school grad party. (More about those in a minute.) Apart from the chronological aptness of its arrival, the series, which begins streaming Friday, has as its main built-in advantage...
Mysteries abound in Netflix’s suspense crime series “Safe” when a teen goes missing in an upscale British suburb. Everyone seems to know something, yet no one’s willing to give up anything. Tom Delaney, played by “Dexter’s” Michael C. Hall, is the widowed pediatric surgeon at the center of it all....
In "Sweetbitter," created for television by Stephanie Danler from her 2016 novel of the same name, a young woman named Tess (Ella Purnell) moves to New York City seemingly for no other reason than it is not like where she comes from. (Dayton, Ohio, it transpires, which I can testify is not like...
My favorite Emmys are the ones for short-form series, because the bar to entry is set so low. Anyone with a smart phone and the most basic internet skills can produce an Emmy-eligible series, in a couple of minutes. Six episodes under 15 minutes posted online is all it takes. A series six seconds...
The pop star raised his hands, striking a messianic pose from the stage as the adoring crowd strained to touch the edges of his flowing robe. A savior greeting his disciples. Singer John Legend didn’t have the presence of a theater performer, but he did know how to command a venue full of fans,...
I will happily watch the actor Steve Zahn ("That Thing You Do," "Treme") in just about anything. I have had cause to regret this willingness in the past — never because of the actor, who sits easily on the screen — but not in the case of "The Crossing," which debuts April 2 on ABC. It is watchable,...
It is almost exactly half a century to the day since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in a motel in Memphis, Tenn., and in that span he has been apotheosized into something close to legend. So much so, in fact, that we run the risk of not spending enough time with the actual man,...