Anyone flipping past a cable channel late at night in the back half of the 1990s and early aughts probably had ads for “Girls Gone Wild” seared into their brains.  The instantly recognizable infomercials projected purposefully pixelated footage of young women pulling up their shirts to flash the cameras between shots at a college town […]

After a divided and divisive Season 11 post-Scandoval, “Vanderpump Rules” will be entirely recast, Bravo announced Tuesday morning. After hitting ratings highs during the show’s 10th season in 2023 in the wake of the cheating scandal known as the Scandoval — as well as being nominated for two Emmys — “Vanderpump Rules” faced unsustainable difficulties when the […]

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains major spoilers from “Interior Chinatown,” now streaming on Hulu. Chloe Bennet knows what it is like to straddle two worlds — both in life and on television. For seven seasons, the Chinese American actor starred as Daisy Johnson/Quake in ABC’s “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” a long-running, procedural-esque show that followed […]

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for “Cruel Intentions,” both the 1999 film and the entire first season of the new Prime Video series.”  Twenty-five years later, “Cruel Intentions” will still make you blush. The 1999 film about high-society stepsiblings Sebastian (Ryan Phillippe) and Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) curing their privileged boredom by corrupting the […]

More than 500 years after his death, the works of Leonardo da Vinci have never been more ubiquitous. “Mona Lisa” just got her own Lego set, and recently played a central role in Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” A controversial allusion to his famed “The Last Supper” during this summer’s Paris Olympics […]

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “The Lovesick Widow,” the eighth episode of the first season of NBC’s “Brilliant Minds.” Teddy Sears is the kind of character actor whose face is often more recognizable than his name. After making his professional acting debut in an episode of the daytime soap “One Life to Live” […]

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for “If You Leave,” the Nov. 14 episode of ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy.” After eight seasons and more than 130 episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy,” Dr. Levi Schmitt (Jake Borelli) has wrapped up his residency at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. In Thursday’s episode of the venerable ABC medical drama, the affable […]

SPOILER ALERT: The following interview contains spoilers from “Sixteen Steps,” the Nov. 14 episode of CBS’ “Matlock,” now streaming on Paramount+. The jig was almost up for Madeline “Matty” Matlock (Kathy Bates) in this week’s episode of the freshman legal drama when someone from her past who knows her by her real name, Madeline Kingston, pushes […]

Around this time last year, Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey were completing their rewatch of Season 8 of “The Office” — its penultimate season — for their podcast, “Office Ladies.” Having played Pam Beesly (Fischer) and Angela Martin (Kinsey) since the Emmy-winning NBC comedy premiered in 2005, the two actors affectionately break down each episode, […]