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In the early 2000s, industry scouts would sift through Cosmopolitan 's roundups of hot, eligible guys. They'd approach attractive randoms at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica to see if strangers might be open to appearing on this cool new genre of TV where the stars weren't professional actors.

Sam Cooper (Alfred Molina) is a recently widowed, retired aeronautical engineer who (very) reluctantly moves into The Boroughs retirement community. It was his late wife's choice to move there, and the company refuses to let him out of the contract he co-signed when Lilly (Jane Kaczmarek) was still alive. So he's grumpy about the whole arrangement, snapping at his long-suffering daughter, Claire (Jena Malone) and pretty much anyone else who crosses his path.

He said that he believed he should be in the villa, as he would bring "all of my undiagnosed whatever I have to the table. Do you understand me?" However, he added he wouldn't be pulling someone for a chat, saying that there will be "none of that shite... I would just be normal and Irish," before finishing the video by kissing the screen.

When Clarke Peters talks about Art Daniels, the former radical, current drug enthusiast and spiritual seeker he plays on The Boroughs, he tends to slip into the third person. He'll talk about how Clarke relates to Art, or what Clarke and Art have in common, and it's a reveal of how personal this role became for the longtime actor. At first, Peters turned The Boroughs down: "Someone had likened it to Stranger Things, and having seen a little bit of Stranger Things, I thought, At my age, I don't want to be chasing monsters for the next five years," Peters says with a laugh.

CBS suspended further copyright takedown notices targeting uploads of Stephen Colbert's surprise return to the Michigan public access show Only in Monroe on Sunday after backlash erupted online over the move. The backlash came over unofficial uploads of the episode, which aired Friday night, just 24 hours after Colbert's Late Show finale aired. Several clips and full uploads posted by third-party accounts had already amassed hundreds of thousands of views before Colbert launched an official YouTube channel carrying the episode.

For years, Karla Cameron, a retired Dr Pepper executive in Georgia, taught Bible-study classes to teen-agers, a task that became more challenging during the COVID-19 pandemic. She wanted to show videos to her students, but most of the Biblical movies she found had cheesy writing, bad acting, and costumes with visible zippers. One day, she learned about a new television program that told the story of Jesus and his disciples. It was called "The Chosen," and blog posts praised the show for its authenticity and its humanity.

Korean Central Television, the state broadcaster, is the only channel North Koreans get, and it's showing the farmers at work, he says. This leaves North Koreans largely in the dark about all the rushed diplomacy happening in the lead-up to June 12. "You can keep 25 million people completely in the dark. So the propaganda apparatus and the way the North Korean government tells different things to its people, and also restricts them from hearing things, is one of the things I was most interested in," says Martyn Williams, who records and watches North Korean state television every day from satellite TV, as part of his blog, North Korea Tech.

TV TakeOff is about one thing, accelerating growth for ambitious Australian brands. We've spent decades helping businesses scale through television, and we've seen the same pattern play out across every category, when you introduce TV at the right stage, it unlocks disproportionate growth. This isn't theory. It's proven. TV TakeOff is about taking that proven growth engine and putting it behind the next generation of scale-up brands,

“We see this over and over again, where the Trump administration is weaponizing its power over mergers to try to get what it wants in the media space,” says David Sirota, editor-in-chief of The Lever and host of the Master Plan podcast.

It’s a good weekend to think about buying a new TV! This week, Devindra is joined by CECritic founder Dipin Sehdev to discuss the new RGB TVs and how they compare to OLED, the previous high-end TV technology of choice. Is RGB tech actually worth the premium, especially when OLED TVs have come way down in price? We also offer up a few tips for choosing the best TV today.

Based on Elle Kennedy's best-selling novel The Deal, the series is a delicious combination of competitive campus hockey and college romance, and follows the lives of Hannah Wells (played by Ella Bright) and Garrett Graham (Belmont Cameli). Their unexpected spark soon turns into something more... Like a great lineage of rom-coms before it, the series starts with a fake boyfriend proposal from Hannah. A music major, she asks Garett, a star hockey player, to pretend in exchange for her helping him with his grades.

Hawkins, Indiana, the Boroughs presents as an idyllic, tight-knit community, a place where, as the slogan plastered on every flat surface reminds us, “you’ll have the time of your life.” But underneath its facade is-would you believe it?-a dark and deadly secret that the people who guard it will stop at nothing to keep hidden. And a ragtag group of friends, in this case thrown together more by circumstance than inclination, are the only ones who can uncover the truth.

The Testaments follows the sparks of a feminist revolution at the Aunt Lydia School, an elite academy that prepares the daughters of Gilead for their destiny - i.e., marriage to a decorated general. The legacyquel reunites us with Agnes (Chase Infiniti), the daughter of Handmaid's Tale heroine June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss), but she's just one of many highlights in the series. Its first season has moved from strength to strength with each episode, introducing a tight-knit band of prospects whose coming of age reframes the stakes of this world.

“Speaking to Kripke this time, he briefly talked about the expanding BCU... or, at least, I thought it was BCU,” Shepherd said in his Substack, Bonus Content. “But I was wrong. Amazon clarified in a follow-up email after our print deadline that Kripke actually meant to say VCU, or Vought Cinematic Universe. In other words, the whole Boys enterprise has been renamed.”