It is so unfair to compare one work of art or commerce, or streaming entity, against another. Yet here we are, the morning after the Emmy Awards. Best of luck with the fairness doctrine.

Amid the preordained “Ted Lasso” hardware roundup Sunday, and the expected big nights for “The Queen’s Gambit” and “The Crown,” the Emmy Award ...Read more

“Certified Lover Boy” has found comfort in being on top.

Drake’s new album has remained No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for the second straight week.

The Grammy winner’s sixth studio effort moved an additional 246,000 units after opening week sales of 613,000 units — the most of any album this year.

Meanwhile, Kanye West’s much-hyped �...Read more

The 73rd Emmy Awards telecast on CBS was watched by 7.4 million viewers, a significant 16% rise over last year’s all-time low, according to Nielsen data.

The telecast was likely helped by an NFL audience lead-in on CBS. The network had a national telecast of the Los Angeles Chargers-Dallas Cowboys game and overtime coverage of the Tennessee ...Read more

Late-night star Conan O’Brien didn’t win any Emmy Awards Sunday night but insisted on making his presence known by repeatedly enlivening the three-hour telecast with a few unscripted moments.

The “Conan” host’s TBS show went off the air in June and was in its final year of eligibility during this year’s ceremony. But the comedian’...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Lesli Linka Glatter is the new president of the Directors Guild of America after being elected at the union's national convention in Los Angeles.

The Oscar- and Emmy-nominated filmmaker ran uncontested and replaces departing president Thomas Schlamme.

"I am honored to have been chosen by my peers to serve as president and am ...Read more

They went to hell and back.

Michael Showalter’s “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” now in theaters and based on the 2000 documentary of the same name, explores the heavenly rise and hellish fall of televangelists and “The PTL Club” hosts Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker, played by Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield.

“Obviously there were the ...Read more

After a long drought, "Survivor" is back with all the intrigue and annoying players we've come to expect after 40 seasons of the first and ultimate reality game show.

The season, delayed by a global pandemic, is set in Fiji and will feature new twists and turns. Show host Jeff Probst has already warned the audience that we're going to hate them...Read more

Elvis Costello & The Attractions, 'Spanish Model' (UMe)

The concept of "Spanish Model" is as intriguing as its billing by Elvis Costello & The Attractions is at least somewhat misleading. That seems par for the course for an album as playful — and playfully subversive — as "Spanish Model," whose release date was pushed back from last year ...Read more

The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards — aka Hollywood's latest superspreader event — took place Sunday evening in Los Angeles. Didn't know that? You weren't alone. And this story is for you.

Droves of television's brightest stars gathered at the Event Deck at L.A. Live in what presenter Seth Rogen referred to as "a hermetically sealed tent" to ...Read more

At the 73rd Emmy Awards, favored front-runners "The Crown" and "Ted Lasso" dominated the drama and comedy categories, but the big winners Sunday night were clear: familiarity and caution.

Television Academy voters didn't take many chances when it came to their top-of-the-ballot choices. Perennial favorite "The Crown" went in with 24 nominations...Read more

With the new deportation drama “Blue Bayou,” Justin Chon and Alicia Vikander explore a legal loophole that horrified them.

The film tells the story of a Korean-born man who faces deportation from the United States, despite being adopted by an American family when he was 3.

Chon wrote and directed the movie, and also stars as Antonio ...Read more

Actor David Eigenberg may be fighting fires on NBC’s “Chicago Fire,” but he’s been burning all this life. “I was just an angry young kid. I think I was a little bit on fire,” he admits. “As you come into life as a young person it’s frustrating and you don’t understand it. And I think as you come into adulthood the ...Read more

DETROIT — Looking for inspiration for a mural she was painting on the side of the new Meijer Rivertown Market in Detroit, artist Desiree Kelly didn't have to look far. She used her 4-year-old daughter as a reference.

The mural — dynamic and bold, as so much of Kelly's work is — features Isabella with pineapple-accented sunglasses, her ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As the creator and top-billed executive producer of "Sex Education," Laurie Nunn has collaborated with several writers while humorously weaving the awkward, messy sex lives of teenagers navigating the highs and lows of adolescence at a fictional high school in Wales.

But the seventh episode of Season 2 — about a student ...Read more

Big-screen talents such as Michael Keaton, Jeff Bridges, Taika Waititi, Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen can all be found in various television projects this fall.

No one has yet cajoled Tom Cruise into doing a TV series. But the way things are going, it doesn't seem like a mission impossible.

More and more movie stars are abandoning the notion ...Read more

Jason Beghe's gruff voice sets him apart when he portrays troubled police Officer Hank Voight on NBC's "Chicago P.D." The actor has also used it to great effect playing tough guys and paying his dues in "G.I. Jane," "Thelma and Louise" and other movies and TV shows.

Beghe's rough voice is the result of a near-fatal car accident in 1999. He had ...Read more

Almost 29 million viewers stuck around after the 1988 Super Bowl to catch the premiere of "The Wonder Years," a nostalgia-driven sitcom that seemed to be as wholesome as mom, apple pie and "Happy Days."

But the pilot ended with a gasp: Right before the final credits, narrator Kevin Arnold learns that a neighborhood hero was killed in Vietnam. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Five years ago, a Twitter account with the handle Chicago Party Aunt appeared out of the digital mist as if conjured to life by the spirit of Bill Swerski and those old “Saturday Night Live” Super Fans sketches from the ‘90s.

An affectionate riff on a specific and proudly old school Chicago personality, the Chicago Party Aunt�...Read more