Cinema, Theater & TV news

• Surviving the Virus: My Brother and Me review – a rigorous dispatch from the Covid frontline

  05-08-2020 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken treat vulnerable care home residents and gravely ill coronavirus patients in this intelligent, emotional one-offThe boys are back in town – and not a moment too soon. As practising doctors and personable presenters, twin brothers Chris and Xand van Tulleken have carved out a neat niche for themselves across various channels over the past few years. They are good at delivering programmes that make medicine and sociomedical issues accessible to the lay viewer,
  
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• Eric Bentley, Critic Who Provoked Lovers of Broadway, Dies at 103

  05-08-2020 22:16 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Bentley, who was also a playwright, was an early champion of modern European drama in the 1940s but had little use for American plays.
  
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• Where Are We? Theatrical Adventures in Digital Dislocation

  05-08-2020 21:54 via nytimes.com
  
  What happens when the edgy Ice Factory festival goes online? A sense of discovery tempered by frustrating technological glitches.
  
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• ‘La Llorona’ Review: The General in His Horrific Labyrinth

  05-08-2020 20:45 via nytimes.com
  
  The Weeping Woman returns in a thoughtfully creepy Guatemalan movie in which real-life terrors commingle with genre frights.
  
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• Stream These 12 Movies Before They Leave Netflix This Month

  05-08-2020 20:42 via nytimes.com
  
  “Groundhog Day” for when every day feels the same, “Candyman” for when they feel like a nightmare: Watch them while you can in August.
  
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• All 8 Harry Potter Films Are Coming to Peacock!

  05-08-2020 20:12 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Get excited, Potterheads!You'll soon be able to binge all 8 Harry Potter movies for free on Peacock! NBCUniversal's streaming service announced today that the beloved film...
  
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• ‘She Dies Tomorrow’ Review: When Anxiety Goes Viral

  05-08-2020 19:44 via nytimes.com
  
  A film made before the pandemic now feels uncomfortably timely.
  
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• Comcast shelves plan to take on CNN with new international channel

  05-08-2020 18:05 via ft.com
  Business model of NBC Sky World News project has become unviable due to Covid-19, staff told
  
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• China continues to exert damaging influence on Hollywood, report finds

  05-08-2020 16:53
  
  A study from Pen America warns of the long-term effects of studios censoring content to appease the Chinese governmentA new report has found that the Chinese government’s influence on Hollywood is posing a serious threat to free expression.The 94-page study, from literary and human rights group Pen America, details the many ways that studios and film-makers continue to change “cast, plot, dialogue and settings” in an “effort to avoid antagonising Chinese officials”
  
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• ‘Godspell’ in 2020: Masks, Partitions and a Contactless Crucifixion

  05-08-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The first professional musical staged in the United States since theater shut down is also a de facto public health experiment.
  
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• Disney/Mulan: let’s get down to business

  05-08-2020 15:32 via ft.com
  Live-action remake should offer a sales bump at a time when group’s other businesses are suffering
  
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• New York Times digital revenue passes print for the first time

  05-08-2020 15:00 via ft.com
  Company now has 6.5m total subscribers but advertising continues to take a hit from pandemic
  
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• Big Finish: 'We gave Benedict Cumberbatch a long lunch hour so he could audition for Sherlock'

  05-08-2020 14:05 via theguardian.com
  
  A band of cult TV fans are keeping their favourite shows alive in audio form – with the help of some serious A-list talentIt used to be that when the axe fell on a television show, that really was it. Full stop. Game over. Move on, people. But being cancelled does not necessarily mean that a series is for ever dead, as the audio production company Big Finish has been successfully proving for the past 22 years.It was in 1998 that a small band of entrepreneurially minded Doctor Who fans conv
  
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• Biden aims to outspend Trump on TV ads ahead of US election

  05-08-2020 13:26 via ft.com
  Presumptive Democratic nominee’s campaign sets aside $220m for 17 battleground states
  
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• Blondie in rapture after selling song rights to Hipgnosis fund

  05-08-2020 13:13 via ft.com
  Merck Mercuriadis’s growing fund buys catalogue including ‘Heart of Glass’ and ‘Call Me’
  
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• ‘Sunless Shadows’ Review: A Harsh Look at Iranian Women in Prison

  05-08-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Mehrdad Oskouei’s documentary brings empathy to a tough subject: women and girls convicted of murdering male family members.
  
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• Seth Rogen and Seth Rogen on Playing Ancestral Homies

  05-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “An American Pickle,” the actor contemplates how our forebears would view us, something he’s thought about a lot during the pandemic.
  
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• Hey Duggee: how a cult CBeebies show became the surprise TV smash of lockdown

  05-08-2020 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Its songs have been played on Newsnight, fans include Orbital – and the show’s storylines ask the big questions about art and life. No wonder it has become a massive hit with children and adults alike
  It wrestles with some of life’s biggest philosophical questions, from the nature of existence to the meaning of art. It is littered with pop-cultural references: Apocalypse Now, Donkey Kong and the Cure to name just three. And it touches on diversity and disability with a lightnes
  
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• Hey Duggee: how a cult CBeebies show became the most surprising TV smash hit of lockdown

  05-08-2020 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s songs have been played on Newsnight, and Orbital are among its fans, while the storylines ask the big questions about art and life. No wonder the TV show has become a crossover hitIt wrestles with some of life’s biggest philosophical questions, from the nature of existence to the meaning of art. It is littered with pop-cultural references: Apocalypse Now, Donkey Kong and the Cure to name just three. And it touches on diversity and disability with a lightness of touch rarely seen
  
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• The Little Rascals Turns 26: Where Are the Child Stars Now?

  05-08-2020 09:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Calling all members of the He-Man Woman Haters Club!It's been 26 years since director Penelope Spheeris collected the cutest group of child stars the '90s has ever seen for The...
  
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• BBC Three to work with young people on sitcom about pupil referral units

  05-08-2020 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Scripted comedy PRU will ‘look past the stereotypes of kids who can’t behave’They’re the last option for many vulnerable and struggling pupils – but is there also potential for laughs in the world of pupil referral units? The BBC are set to produce a scripted comedy based around one such facility, partnering with an organisation who works with young people who have been removed from mainstream education.The pilot, titled PRU, is a collaboration between th
  
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• TV tonight: twin doctors return to the wards to fight the pandemic

  05-08-2020 07:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken go behind the scenes to join the battle against coronavirus. Plus: Portillo, sharks, Hitler and Harlots. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...
  
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• Coups, lies, dirty tricks: The Police's Stewart Copeland on his CIA agent father

  05-08-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The drummer was brought up in the Middle East – not realising that his father Miles was a spy sent to destabilise the region. But, he says, was Miles’s claim that the Police were a psy-ops outfit that upset StingIn 1986, a 69-year-old Miles Axe Copeland Jr gave a memorable interview to Rolling Stone magazine. His three sons were all music industry powerhouses – Stewart played drums in the Police, Miles III was their manager and Ian their booking agent – and Miles himself
  
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• Billy Crudup: ‘Life is hard. It’s filled with grief, confusion, unpredictability … '

  05-08-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Raised by a ‘hustler’, always worried the acting work might dry up, Crudup is now riding high in Apple TV’s hit The Morning Show. He talks about childhood, coronavirus and #MeTooA few years ago, when he was still a couple of years off his 50th birthday, Billy Crudup liked to half-joke that his 50s would be his time. It looked as if he would be proved right, at least until a global pandemic stopped his career – along with everyone else’s in his business – in it
  
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• UK broadcasters lose ground to streaming services during lockdown

  05-08-2020 05:00 via ft.com
  Disney+, Netflix and Amazon enjoying sustained boom, regulator’s report on viewing habits shows
  
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• Vivica A. Fox Is Having a Blast Guest Hosting Nightly Pop: Is Her Own Talk Show Next?

  05-08-2020 01:44 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Vivica A. Fox isn't letting quarantine slow her down--if anything, this past year has been one of her busiest yet!In addition to recently appearing on E!'s Celebrity Call Center,...
  
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• Disney, Staggered by Pandemic, Sees a Streaming Boom

  05-08-2020 00:52 via nytimes.com
  
  The company lost $4.7 billion in the latest quarter, but also reported that Disney+ has about 60.5 million subscribers after nine months of operation.
  
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• Little Birds review – Anaïs Nin adaptation is risque and resonant

  05-08-2020 00:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Juno Temple and Hugh Skinner star in this lush, intelligent reimagining of the author’s short stories, set in a land of unsuspected delights and fabulous degeneratesIt says nothing good about the age I am or the one we are living in that the thing I find most erotic about Anaïs Nin’s famously risque short stories is that she was paid a dollar a page by “a collector” to write them. Adjusted for inflation, it’s a rate freelancers today would weep to see and I wou
  
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