NBC puts together a high-profile tag team in "Young Rock" and "Kenan," comedies featuring Dwayne Johnson and Kenan Thompson. While the former feels a tad overinflated in its biographical dive into the star's early life, the latter crafts a pretty conventional series around the "Saturday Night Live" star, all the way down to the dead wife and smart-alecky kids.
Chris Harrison's announcement that he would step aside as the host of "The Bachelor" for an undetermined length of time following controversial remarks he made has reignited conversation about the reality franchise's problematic history regarding issues of race and diversity.
The pandemic has upended the calendar in a variety of ways, and the movie awards "season" is no exception. That explains why this year, February is beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
"Bachelor" host Chris Harrison said Saturday he is "stepping aside" from the show "for a period of time" after defending a frontrunner on the current season who came under scrutiny for social media photos from her past.
Actress Ashley Judd is in an ICU unit in South Africa after her leg was "shattered" in an accident in the Congo, which she recounted in an Instagram Live interview.
Dave Chappelle has given his blessing to Netflix to run "Chappelle's Show," which will start streaming again Friday after the service pulled it over the comedian's displeasure with the licensing of the show.
Sterling K. Brown became involved with the CNN Original Series "Lincoln: Divided We Stand," in part, to learn more about the man who served as America's 16th president.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was already the subject of a splendid documentary in CNN Films' "RBG" and a dramatic movie ("On the Basis of Sex"), both released before her death last year. But "Ruth - Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words" serves as a fitting companion, drawing heavily from Ginsburg speeches, appearances and interviews, garnished by fond reflections from those who knew her.
As the wife of Trump administration Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Louise Linton seems to understand there's no separating the art from the artist, so her new movie, "Me You Madness," doesn't try. Instead, this whatever's-beyond-vanity project that she wrote, directed, produced and stars in winks at the camera so often you begin to fear for her eyelids as well as your own.
The sobering history of detentions at Guantanamo Bay has already been well documented, yielding a so-so movie last year in "The Report." "The Mauritanian" thus feels like an earnest but uninspired movie that only marginally advances the ball, assembling a stellar cast in the service of one detainee's terrible ordeal, while its marquee stars largely take a back seat to Tahar Rahim in the central role.
