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Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “Welcome to the Porch Pirate,” the fourth episode of “The Neighborhood” Season 4.Meg DeLoatch, the new showrunner of “The Neighborhood,” knows there are many fans of the CBS sitcom who don’t follow the behind-the-scenes machinations or read news headlines about the show.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVStarz released a teaser for “Outlander’s” sixth season, which will premiere in early 2022.The new season, inspired in part by Diana Gabaldon’s “A Breath of Snow and Ashes,” will see the threat of the Revolutionary War looming over Fraser’s Ridge. A sign tacked up in the teaser, which you can watch below, advises townspeople to refuse British goods, for example.“It’s starting — a storm, the war.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVActor, comedian and writer Cristela Alonzo doesn’t like it when competition series make the judges or the hosts into the stars of the show, because she wants the contestants, who are the ones tasked with physically, mentally and emotionally demanding feats, to be celebrated.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the fourth episode of “The Morning Show” Season 2, streaming now on Apple TV Plus.Greta Lee blazed onto the second season of Apple TV Plus’ “The Morning Show” in a way that demanded audiences sit up and pay attention.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the Season 2 finale of “Ted Lasso,” streaming now on Apple TV Plus.The hourlong second season finale of Apple TV Plus’ “Ted Lasso” packed quite a few punches into its timeframe, from Sam (Toheeb Jimoh) choosing to stay with AFC Richmond not for Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) but for himself (plus opening up a Nigerian restaurant in London), to Keeley (Juno Temple) choosing to focus on fully setting up

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen Jorja Fox’s Sara Sidle steps back into the Las Vegas crime lab in the series premiere of “CSI: Vegas,” she can’t help but marvel at what she sees.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “The Long and Winding Road,” the third episode of “The Resident” Season 5.The third episode of the fifth season of “The Resident” finally fully answered how Nic (Emily VanCamp) would be written out of the Fox drama: She was killed off.The actor’s exit was announced in August, just a little less than a month before the fifth season premiered.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIn its first episode back after summer hiatus, “Saturday Night Live” dove back into pop culture headlines by producing sketches that parodied “The View” co-hosts’ experiences getting told they tested positive for COVID-19 live on air and mashed up Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ recent space flight with “Star Trek.” But it also threw things back a little bit by allowing guest host Owen Wilson to return to his “Cars” role.The former sketch featured Wilson

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThe first “Weekend Update” segment of “Saturday Night Live’s” 47th season paid tribute to former cast member Norm Macdonald.First, current cast member Pete Davidson joined “Update” co-anchors Michael Che and Colin Jost at the desk wearing a shirt with Macdonald’s image on it.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVNew “Saturday Night Live” featured player James Austin Johnson made his mark on the NBC late-night sketch comedy series immediately from the start of the Season 47 premiere: He debuted as Joe Biden impersonation during a “special message from the president” cold open sketch.After winning eight Emmys at the 73rd annual ceremonies last month, including the variety sketch series award for the fifth consecutive year, “SNL” returned to Studio 8H in New

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “Maid,” streaming now on Netflix.After playwright Molly Smith Metzler read Stephanie Land’s memoir, “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive,” she began to look at the world differently.Specifically, this was because of the passage in which Land described a time in her life when she and her daughter were living in an apartment that got so damp it was growing black mold, resulting in

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “Midnight Mass,” streaming now on Netflix.British actor Rahul Kohli has a knack for picking out-of-the-box genre roles and then stealing scenes in all of them. He starred as the lovable Dr.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVNo matter what is going on in the outside world, one thing most of us can agree on is, there are few things better than sitting down and immersing yourself in a clever comedy for 30 minutes — or for a full season binge.On tough days, there is something therapeutic about it, while on good days, it often feels almost celebratory to toss your head back and laugh like you don’t have a care in the world.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVLive from the fictional Conner family living room in Lanford, Ill., ABC’s “Roseanne” spinoff called real-life fans while also telling a new story about navigating major relationship and other life changes, including planning a wedding.The fourth season premiere episode of “The Conners,” titled “Trucking Live in Front of a Fully Vaccinated Studio Audience,” took on a lot.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVHBO Max ordered an adaptation of “Station Eleven” in June 2019, months before the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep the globe. But the series will soon launch in a world in which the pandemic is still ongoing, and it will tell a dual story about the early days of a virus that wipes out much of humanity and about what the world looks like years later.Since the show has its roots in Emily St.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the fourth and final season of “Dear White People,” streaming now on Netflix.When Justin Simien was adapting his 2014 satirical film “Dear White People” into a half-hour television series, he created a bible for the show that included a reference to Donald Trump becoming president. And then Trump did just that.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVHBO Max announced that “The Sex Lives of College Girls” will debut with its first two episodes on Nov. 18 before then releasing the next three episodes of its first season on Nov.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVApple TV Plus released a trailer for “Invasion,” which launches Oct. 22 with it first three episodes.The new series hails from Simon Kinberg and David Weil and is set across multiple continents as citizens across the globe struggle to deal with the titular event, which at first presents as smaller and more manageable issues.“My fellow citizens of the world, what I have to say to you is not something I was ever prepared to say.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVABC’s reboot of “The Wonder Years” exists in the same universe as the original 1980s and 1990s coming-of-age sitcom, but creator and showrunner Saladin K. Patterson considers Kevin Arnold’s story, as told then, to be a parallel one to Dean Williams’ story, which is being told now.Both versions of the show are set in 1968 and told from a young boy’s perspective, in addition to that boy’s adult self narrating with present-day perspective.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVNBC has ordered “The Endgame,” starring Morena Baccarin and Ryan Michelle Bathé, to series.Described as a “high-stakes thriller,” the show follows Elena Federova (Baccarin), a “very recently captured” international arms dealer and criminal mastermind who can orchestrate many complicated and coordinated bank heists, even while in captivity, and Val Turner (Bathé), the “principled, relentless and socially-outcast” FBI agent who will stop at nothing to

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen “United States of Al” debuts its second season on CBS on Oct.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the series premiere of “Ordinary Joe.”“Ordinary Joe,” NBC’s latest tearjerker drama, starts simply enough with the eponymous young man (played by James Wolk) graduating from college.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the series premiere of “The Big Leap.”“The Big Leap,” the title of Simone Recasner’s new television series, has multiple meanings for the rising star. It is the name of the reality dance competition within the show, on which the main characters are competing, in the Fox dramedy, and it also refers to the chance they are taking in being a part of the show at all.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVLast year while Holly Robinson Peete was promoting her two Hallmark holiday films, she mentioned she wanted to do one featuring someone on the autism spectrum.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “My Least Favorite Year,” the Season 2 premiere of “The Morning Show,” streaming now on Apple TV Plus.It’s been almost two years since the first season of “The Morning Show” arrived on Apple TV Plus, starting its dramatic tale set the behind-the-scenes of a national morning news show with accusations of sexual misconduct against anchor Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell).

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThis time last year, Variety’s annual TV Producers Impact Report had a heavy bent on those who successfully and innovatively pivoted their productions post-shutdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVOne of the most exciting things about the shared Emmy nomination for visual-effects supervisor Stephan Fleet and VFX producer Shalena Oxley-Butler of Amazon Prime Video’s “The Boys” was being able to see each other in person again after a year of working remotely, over video conferencing software and email, from different countries.But the tone when the 73rd annual Primetime Emmy nominees finally gather might not be completely celebratory.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhile some say a village can help raise a child, it is indisputable that it takes a village to create a television show.Although actors have the greatest likelihood of becoming household names, with writers, directors and producers often following closely behind, there are dozens of others who are integral to the process.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVDuring Scott Foley’s 25-year film and television career, he’s gone meta and played someone working in the industry (as Roman Bridger in “Scream 3”), and he’s worked on a competition program (as a host and judge on “Ellen’s Next Great Designer”).