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Riz Ahmed, shown here in Dec. 2025, writes and stars in the Prime Video series Bait.

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Riz Ahmed is his own worst critic. His new show 'Bait' explores that

In his Prime Video series, Ahmed plays a struggling actor auditioning to be the next James Bond. Ahmed says Bond is a "symbol of aspiration, this unattainable kind of self" his character is pursuing.

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Norris karate chopped and kickboxed his way through more than a dozen action films in the 1980s, before leaping to TV in Walker, Texas Ranger. He's pictured above in California in October 2003.

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Obituaries

Martial arts star Chuck Norris dies at 86

Norris karate chopped and kickboxed his way through more than a dozen action films, before leaping to TV in Walker, Texas Ranger.

NORRIS, CHUCK, OBIT

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How Season 1 of 'Jury Duty' put James Marsden's improv chops on trial

Mardsen starred in the original Jury Duty, an experimental show about a man who becomes part of a staged fake jury. Now the series is back in a new setting. Originally broadcast May 2, 2023.

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Meet the billionaires who control your media

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It's Been a Minute

Meet the billionaires who control your media

What happens when tech billionaires control the media you consume?

Meet the billionaires who control what you watch

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Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders

Cillian Murphy returns as gangster Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. Robert Viglasky Photography/Netflix hide caption

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Movie Reviews

Six seasons and a sequel: 'Peaky Blinders' is easy to consume and impossible to forget

Tommy Shelby's estranged son has taken control of the old gang and is making new and dangerous moves and alliances. Cillian Murphy stars in this gripping movie-length Peaky Blinders sequel.

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Steve Carrell in Rooster.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour

In ‘Rooster,’ Steve Carell makes some college admissions

Steve Carell is a writer of pulpy crime novels and a hapless new writing teacher at a small college in the HBO comedy series Rooster. His daughter (Charly Clive) is also a teacher, and she’s the subject of campus gossip because her husband just dumped her for a student. The show’s got a great cast, including Danielle Deadwyler and John C. McGinley, and one of its creators is Bill Lawrence of Scrubs, Shrinking and Ted Lasso.

Rooster

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Nicole Kidman in Scarpetta.

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Nicole Kidman’s ‘Scarpetta’ is an overstuffed crime story

In the Prime Video series Scarpetta, Nicole Kidman plays a tough, smart medical examiner whose latest murder case is entangled with a much earlier one. The show's got a big cast including Jamie Lee Curtis, Bobby Cannavale and Ariana DeBose. Scarpetta is based on a series of successful crime novels by Patricia Cornwell.

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Frank Costello, New York mobster, sits patiently in court in 1951.

Frank Costello, the powerful New York crime figure, sits patiently during testimony before the Kefauver Senate investigating committee in 1951. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images hide caption

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Deep Dive

75 years ago, a viral TV moment ignited America's obsession with the Mafia

Crooked contracts, bribery, shady characters. In 1951, millions tuned in to watch the Kefauver organized crime hearings, showing the power of television.

75 years ago, a viral TV moment ignited America’s obsession with the Mafia

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Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis in Scarpetta

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TV Reviews

'Scarpetta' is a captivating murder mystery — and a high-wire balancing act

Based on a series of novels by best-selling author Patricia Cornwell, Scarpetta follows two different mysteries from two different timelines. It's structurally complicated — but it all holds up.

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Sinéad Keenan, Caoilfhionn Dunne and Roísín Gallagher play friends investigating a suspicious death in How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.

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'Derry Girls' creator returns with a gleeful riff on the murder mystery

In the hilarious Netflix series How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, three women learn that a long estranged school friend has died in a suspicious manner — and take it upon themselves to investigate.

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Harrison Ford accepts SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award in Los Angeles on March 1.

"I'm happy to be the age I am, and have no impulse to hide it," says Harrison Ford. He's shown above accepting the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in Los Angeles on March 1. Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Harrison Ford isn't retiring: 'I really wouldn't know what to do with myself'

Ford struggled to find his footing in Hollywood before being cast as Han Solo in Star Wars. Now 83, he plays a therapist in the Apple TV series Shrinking: "I really do love the work," he says.

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David Giesbrecht/MGM+ Copyright: MGM+ Description: Kevin Kline as Richard Bean, Laura Linney as Kristen Forrest-Bean

Kevin Kline plays actor Richard Bean, and Laura Linney is his sister-in-law Kristen, in American Classic. David Giesbrecht/MGM+ hide caption

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'American Classic' is a hidden gem that gets even better as it goes

In this charming TV series, Kevin Kline plays a Shakespearean actor who retreats to his small hometown after a crisis, and gets engaged in an effort to save the local theater.

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Wild Card with Rachel Martin

Lena Waithe (Encore)

At 41, Lena Waithe already has an impressive legacy, with dozens of writing, acting and production credits. She was the first Black woman to win an Emmy for comedy writing (for "Master of None"). And she’s also the creator of "The Chi," which recently wrapped its seventh season. She tells Rachel one of her core beliefs is a lesson from "The Wizard of Oz." They also discuss being bad at being wrong.

Lena Waithe (Encore)

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Paul Anthony Kelly in FX’s Love Story: John F. Kennedy & Carolyn Bessette.

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‘Love Story’ navigates the complex Kennedy mythology

John F. Kennedy Jr. was an object of public fixation his entire life, and he’s now the subject of the FX series Love Story. It focuses on Kennedy’s (Paul Anthony Kelly) relationship with his wife, Carolyn Bessette (Sarah Pidgeon). The show follows their courtship, their marriage, and the great strain that she experienced as part of what was, for a time, one of the most closely watched couples in the world.

Love Story

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Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe in The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins.

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‘The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins’ is (30) Rock-solid

The new comedy series The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins stars Tracy Morgan as a disgraced former football star and Daniel Radcliffe as a documentary filmmaker who team up to make a movie. I know what you’re saying - another mockumentary sitcom? What if I told you that the creators come from shows like 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Girls5eva? And that the joke density bears that out? The NBC/Peacock series also stars Erika Alexander, Bobby Moynihan and Craig Robinson.

‘The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins’ is (30) Rock-solid

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Marisa Abela and Kit Harington in Industry.

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'Industry' paid out its investments handsomely

HBO’s addictive drama Industry has never been afraid to wade in the muck, and the fourth season and finale was especially messy. The paths of frenemies Harper (Myha’la) and Yasmin (Marisa Abela) erratically converged and diverged, Sir Henry Muck (Kit Harington) lands at a fintech startup, and the parallels to real-life headlines became impossible not to notice. So after that harrowing season finale, we’re wondering what just happened, and where might the show go from here?

Industry

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Linda and Paul McCartney

Man on the Run is filmmaker Morgan Neville's new documentary about former Beatle Paul McCartney. Above, Linda and Paul McCartney in an undated photo. Linda McCartney/Amazon Studios hide caption

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A new film follows Paul McCartney's 2nd act after The Beatles' breakup

While previous documentaries captured the frenzy of Beatlemania, Man on the Run focuses on McCartney in the years between the band's breakup and John Lennon's death.

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'I don't need helium' to play SpongeBob SquarePants, comic Tom Kenny says

Kenny has voiced SpongeBob since the animated series began in 1999. Now he's playing the character in a new film, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants. Originally broadcast Nov. 16, 2004.

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Rob Rausch in the fourth season of The Traitors.

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We promise, we're faithful watchers of 'The Traitors'

The Peacock reality show The Traitors has become weekly appointment television, as the always impeccably dressed Alan Cumming presides over an unfriendly game full of alliances, secrets, treachery and murder. This season has been rich with drama. Players like Love Island contestant Rob Rausch and former Real Housewife Lisa Rinna have created some truly memorable moments in Traitors history. Ahead of the finale, we convene in the turret to debrief on it all.

The Traitors

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