Downton Abbey Movie Screening with the Cast
In the midst of its box office-busting opening weekend, key members of the cast of the Downton Abbey movie took the stage after an American Cinematheque screening at Santa Monica’s historic Aero Theater. The film picks up about 18 months after the television series ended in 2016. It’s 1927 and the residents of Downton have just learned that England’s King George V and Queen Mary are coming to visit. The household staff gets turned...
Amazon’s ‘Undone’ Takes Animation in a New Direction
Rosa Salazar in Undone It has been said that the soon to premiere “Undone” is a television series unlike any other before it. Yet its creators find issue with some of the statements being made about their show in the lead-up to it. More on that in a moment–but one thing is for certain: it is Amazon’s first-ever animated series for adults. Featuring a largely Latinx cast and set in San Antonio, the half-hour series focuses on the...
CNN Examines the Lasting Legacy of Iconic Fashion Designer Halston
CNN Films Premieres ‘Halston’ He was a contemporary of Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein and paved the way for other illustrious fashion designers who created global empires including Donna Karan, Tom Ford, Vera Wang, Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors. Yet the name of Halston has largely faded into the sands of time. Born Roy Halston Frowick in Des Moines, Iowa, Halston was an influential and larger-than-life American designer...
CBS’s Norah O’Donnell on Her New Anchor Job and the ‘Century of Women’
Three mass shootings and the heart-wrenching soul searching and calls for stricter gun laws in their aftermath. The shocking jailhouse suicide of a notorious sexual predator. A seemingly never-ending flow of incendiary tweets from the president. The jockeying of Democratic presidential candidates during their nationally televised debates. These are just some of the stories that have broken under the watch of Norah O’Donnell in her new...
Ted Danson’s Tearful Tribute to ‘The Good Place’ Caps NBC’s TCA Day
Ted Danson was choking back tears. It was the final session of the final day of the Television Critics Association summer press tour at the Beverly Hilton and he was getting misty-eyed talking about the fourth and final season (September 26) of NBC’s “The Good Place.” “It’s a gift,” he said when asked what he would take away from the Michael Schur drama, in which he stars with Kristen Bell. “We are all full of respect because Mike...