Eric Deggans
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Arts & Life
Older viewers are turning to YouTube. It's recently led me back to some favorite shows
Plus, Kevin Bacon plays a bounty hunter in The Bondsman starting Thursday, and a new medical drama premieres on Netflix.
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Television
What's at stake as 'Severance' gets ready to drop its final episode of the season
The season finale of Severance drops on Apple TV+ this week, wrapping up one of the most visually adventurous and conceptually mind-bending seasons of TV around.
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Television
How the TV landscape may be changing during Trump's second term
Amazon added the first season of The Apprentice to Prime Video. More seasons are on the way, along with a Prime Video documentary and docuseries on First Lady Melania Trump.
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Television
John Mulaney brings an 'anti-talk show' approach to his new Netflix program
The new late night show Everybody's Live with John Mulaney starts on Wednesday. It's intended to both boost Netflix's live offerings and reinvent the celebrity talk show format.
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Arts & Life
2025 is a year of on-screen superheroes – but where are they?
With Thunderbolts*, Superman, The Fantastic Four: First Steps and more, 2025 is shaping up to be a year of superheroes across film and TV. But Daredevil: Born Again shows a hesitance to embrace the hero in superheroes.
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Television
First new daytime soap on major network in 25 years to focus on wealthy Black family
There hasn't been a new daytime soap opera on a major broadcast TV network in 25 years — until today. "Beyond the Gates" debuts on CBS, focusing on a Black family living in a wealthy D.C. suburb.
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Arts & Life
The SNL 50th anniversary special: What worked and what didn't
The "Saturday Night Live" 50th anniversary prime-time special was full of sketches and nostalgia, and stretched over more than three hours. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans breaks it down.
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Arts & Life
4 decisions that turned SNL into a cultural juggernaut — and 3 mistakes
Critic Eric Deggans explains how Saturday Night Live became the long-lived force it is.
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Arts & Life
The best (and worst) Super Bowl commercials this year
At a time when every news alert seems to deliver a seismic jolt about the world, these ads mostly touch on safe subjects we expect in Big Game commercials: Nostalgia. Comedy. Celebrities. Patriotism. Poignant humanism.
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Television
Behind Netflix's record-setting quarter
Netflix announced record-setting growth in the fourth quarter of 2024, adding 19 million subscribers. This came when it had popular programming like the second season of Squid Game and NFL games.
