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“Twilight” and “Harry Potter,” will get TV series adaptations doesn’t mean you’ve time-traveled back to a decade ago.This still is 2023.The reboot culture in television has run rampant for a while — “Magnum P.I.,” “True Lies,” “Fantasy Island,” “Hawaii Five-0,” “Queer Eye” and “Cobra Kai,” to name a few.This month alone will offer upcoming small-screen adaptations of “Dead Ringers,” and “Fatal Attraction,” with A-list stars attached to each project (Rachel Weisz and Joshua Jackson, respectively). But at least those stories have been lying dormant for 20-odd years (or more) before their resurrection.But in turning to the early 2000s regarding “Twilight” and “Harry Potter,” Hollywood has gone too far in that “How can we miss you when you won’t go away?” vein.Let’s face it: not enough time has passed for either franchise from their first round in the spotlight.The last “Potter” film came out in 2011, while the last “Twilight” movie was released a year later, in 2012. Even Gen Z was around then.Both franchises are still beloved by audiences, warts and all.

resurfaced controversy surrounding show star David Choe, who joked in 2014 about being a “successful rapist.”The trio called Choe’s massage story “undeniably hurtful and extremely disturbing” on Friday, but said he has “put in the work to get the mental health support he needed.”“The story David Choe fabricated nine years ago is undeniably hurtful and extremely disturbing. We do not condone this story in any way, and we understand why this has been so upsetting and triggering,” they said in the statement released to media outlets.

“Florida Man” memes that include news reports that have “Florida Men” engaging in absurd crimes spurring real-life headlines: “Naked Florida man leads cops on chase in stolen school bus” or “Florida man punches bobcat to save daughter’s dog.” On the show, this manifests in situations including an incident where Mike tries to save a woman from drowning on a beach — only to get be accused of assaulting her. On top of this indignity, he then get his unmentionables bitten by a shark … and the incident goes viral on social media.There’s also a plotline involving a dismembered dead man found in a storm drain. In theory, it’s a good idea to make a show around these notorious “Florida Man” headlines that have become ubiquitous punchlines.

Apple TV+ thriller “The Last Thing He Told Me.” Premiering April 14, the miniseries (executive-produced by Garner and Reese Witherspoon) is based on a bestselling novel by Laura Dave (and is co-written by Dave and her husband, Oscar-winning “Spotlight” screenwriter Josh Singer).The storyline follows Hannah (Garner), an artist and a newlywed who, for just over a year, has had what appears to be a great relationship with a widower, Owen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, “Game of Thrones”) — even though his churlish teenage daughter, Bailey (Angourie Rice), hasn’t warmed up to her new stepmother. When Owen mysteriously vanishes after a fraud investigation at his tech startup — “It’s like what they did at Enron,” Hannah’s friend Jules (Aisha Tyler) helpfully contextualizes — Hannah’s life gets turned upside down. She’s blindsided, since Owen never seemed like the white-collar criminal type.

Just For You Café, a cozy brunch spot in the city’s Dogpatch neighborhood — the blueprint for the Belcher family’s burger joint on the Fox series — shuttered after 43 years on Monday.Pandemic-incurred debt, rising inflation rates and building issues led to its closer, owner Reid Hannula told SFGATE. “The long and short of it is that we really haven’t been making money since COVID, and it’s just been kind of a battle,” he told the outlet. “I used a disaster loan to float us, personal money to float us … I love the restaurant, but it hadn’t been able to pay me for the last two years.”In the long-running series, which debuted in 2011 and is now in its 13th season, Bob Belcher runs his dream restaurant, Bob’s Burgers, with his wife, Linda, and children Tina, Gene and Louise.

West 53rd Street sandwich shop made famous by the “Late Show with David Letterman,” is closing its doors after 31 years.“It has been a heck of an adventure,” owner Rupert Jee — who appeared on the show over 400 times — told The Post on Thursday.“The office workers were extremely loyal, the ‘Late Show’ fans were amazing. We got the best of both worlds.”Jee, 66, and his business partner May Chin, announced the news on social media on March 18 and are waiting to find the right buyer.

Amazon Freevee prank-comedy series that combines “The Office” and “The Truman Show” with a dash of “The Rehearsal” thrown in for good measure.“Jury Duty” follows a fake court case, complete with bumbling lawyers and oddball members of the jury, with one catch: only one of the jurors — Ronald Gladden, a solar panel contractor from San Diego — is not in on the ruse. His fellow “jurors” include self-important actor James Marsden (as himself), who’s trying to get the judge to recognize him so he can be excused from the trial; Jeannie (Edy Modica) a retail associate and self-proclaimed “anarchist”; and Todd (David Brown), so obsessed with hydrating that he straps a water bottle to his body.“I thought that would be a lot of fun to have the ability to send up Hollywood [and] entitled actors,” Marsden, 49, told The Post.

told GQ in April’s cover story. “There is no animosity between us or anything like that, but [Tina Fey] said it herself.”“The last two people who were fighting for the job were me and Kenya Barris.

told Insider. “We talk about how much would that change him or how much do we change him?” he said. So far in “The Mandalorian,” which is currently in Season 3 on Disney+, Baby Yoda, a k a Grogu, who was reportedly inspired by ET, hasn’t said a word. The show follows the Mandalorian, a k a Mando (Pedro Pascal), a bounty hunter who travels with his adopted son, Grogu. Ever since the adorable green creature first appeared onscreen, Baby Yoda has taken the world by storm.

Hulu, was created by Liz Tigelaar (“Little Fires Everywhere”) based on a book by Cheryl Strayed (author of the hit memoir-turned-movie “Wild”). Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern are executive producers — in other words, it’s catnip for the “moms in a bookclub” demographic, but not in a bad way. (And if you’re neither a mom nor in a book club, it’s more of a state of mind.)The story follows Clare (Hahn), a woman whose life is in shambles.

streaming giant has been hiding how it sorts its massive catalog of content.The secret menus can be accessed using codes that correlate with very specific genres and sub-genres including Deep Sea Horror, Irreverent TV Comedies and 90-Minute Movies.The numerical codes represent different categories that have been stored away in the depths of Netflix’s library of “secret category codes.”Netflix’s main home menu is individualized from an algorithm that uses viewing history data and user interests.There are two ways to access the secret menu: If using a desktop, you type “netflix.com/browse/genre/” into the URL and add the code you want at the end.

telling Variety: “He’s getting on! He’s getting old. He’s tired — he’s very tired!”Cox, 76, stars in the hit HBO drama as patriarch and business titan Logan Roy, whose children are constantly at odds over control of his media empire. He’s had health problems throughout the series.

Apple TV+ series “The Big Door Prize,” because he’s at a similar place in his life. “It did feel like a middle-aged story, and I was feeling very f–king middle aged,” the Irish-born O’Dowd, 43, told The Post. “It felt like this character had a more grown-up set of problems than what I usually deal with, which are usually either romantic or frivolous.” Premiering March 29, “The Big Door Prize” — a half-hour comedy with a light sci-fi bent — is based on a novel of the same name, adapted by David West Read (“Schitt’s Creek”). The story follows the fictional small town of Deerfield, which is forever changed when a mysterious retro-looking machine appears and reveals each person’s “true potential” (in the form of printing it on a card).

Kenya, 48, told The Post. They decided to see a marriage counselor, who told Kenya and Carl to stay monogamous, work on their relationship and “just forget about it” when they noticed other people.

Netflix thriller “The Night Agent.” “I don’t think I’ve ever played a character like this as an adult,” Basso, 28, told The Post.“I was a child actor, really [before]. So, all I had to do was be a kid.

The Daily Mail.During the scene, Bailey’s fictional sister comes to the door and watches what’s going on, when her boyfriend sees her, gives her a wink and continues to have sex with the actress.Online, many had concerns about the racy scene, especially coming off of the 24-year-old’s collaboration with Chris Brown last month, The pair recorded a song together called “How Does It Feel.”The Post reached out to Bailey’s rep for comment.“Where is a Chloe Bailey’s mentor pls???” one fan wrote on Twitter. “She’s been making terrible decisions lately, she should have never done that sex scene in Swarm and I’m not even gonna go into her most recent collab.”Another agreed, typing, “Something about Chloe Bailey’s sex scene makes me so uncomfortable like i don’t wanna see her in that light.”“The scene between Chloe Bailey and Damson Idris was very unnecessary.

Hulu show “Up Here” gave her something new. “I can do anything on camera, I do not care. I don’t even notice that it’s there. I’m crying, I’m naked, I’m dying, whatever,” Whitman, 34, told The Post. “But when it comes to singing, it feels like I’m baring my soul and being completely vulnerable and terrified.

“Yellowjackets.” “That’s fine by me,” Browning, 34, told The Post. “Because it’s not like you watch one and you don’t need to watch the other.

The Favourite”). Set in the eighteenth century, the drama follows the famous last Queen of France (Schüle) beginning with her teenage years, as she’s sent from her home in Austria to France, in order to marry the awkward Louis XVI (Louis Cunningham), who won’t talk to her and doesn’t appear to bathe. She’s a fish out of water in Versailles, struggling to understand their way of life and deal with court intrigue, while Louis XV (James Purefoy, “Rome”) rules.  “It changed my view on her entirely,” said Schüle, who is German and is based in Berlin. “I do think that there is a very wrong image out there about her.

Ben Barnes co-stars as General Kirigan, aka The Darkling, in the Netflix fantasy series “Shadow and Bone,” and in Season 2 (premiering Thursday, March 16), “He enters this much nastier era,” Barnes, 41, told The Post.Based on a popular book series, the show is set in the fantasy land of Ravka. It follows orphan girl Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) as she discovers that she has special powers.

The following contains spoilers for the end of “You” Season 4. “There certainly could be more,” Gamble, 39, told The Post. “We have an idea for what happens next.

Hulu limited series of using exclusive reporting from her Spotify podcast without citation or payment.In an interview with The New York Times published Friday, Petrzela explained that she believes that content from her podcast, “Welcome to your Fantasy,” was used for Kumail Nanjiani’s “Welcome to Chippendales.”Petrzela further told The Post on Saturday that she is “troubled by the close similarities” between the two projects.“From story structure to certain characters and plot details to the almost identical title, which understandably led many to believe, mistakenly, that I was involved in the creation of the television adaptation,” Petrzela emailed The Post.“I am glad this case is being reported because it raises important questions about attribution and creative ethics, especially when reporting nonfiction.”The Post reached out to Spotify, Hulu, and Nanjiani’s reps for comment.Petrzela’s 2021 podcast, which was co-produced by Gimlet Media and Pineapple Street Studios, told the story of Somen “Steve” Banerjee, the late founder of the all-male revue Chippendales.The nine-episode series explored Banerjee’s rise and fall before his 1994 suicide ahead of sentencing for pleading guilty to arson, racketeering and murder-for-hire charges.Banerjee had hired Nick De Noia to help him manage the business, but after a bad deal, Banerjee became angry with De Noia and wanted to have him killed.“It was forbidden for dancers to take money for sex but some did,” Petrzela told The Post in a 2021 interview about Chippendales. “I heard of guys making $300 to $1,500 for encounters.”Petrzela worked on the Spotify series with Dr.

on “Supernatural,” plays Harvey Dent on the new CW show, “Gotham Knights.”“The dynamic on set was very different,” Collins, 48, told The Post. “On ‘Supernatural,’ I joined in the fourth season. I was the new kid on a show where everybody was children on a playground.

“Da 5 Bloods,” “Malcolm X”), as well as projects such as “The Good Fight,” “The Cider House Rules,” and “The Harder They Fall.” “Based on the conversations that I had with Tracy McMillan and Kerry Washington, who approached me to do this work, I thought there was a real opportunity to illuminate a situation that people maybe have prejudiced thoughts about, when they think about somebody who has been in and out of prison,” he told The Post. “Kerry made it really clear to me not only why she wanted me in particular to do this work, but what I had meant to her as an actor.

mastered aging.“I Dream of Jeannie” star Barbara Eden, 91, stepped out Wednesday in a rare public sighting, for the Remus Pre Award Tea Time event held at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Eden showed off her enviable figure in a silk navy blouse, black slacks, black heels and dazzling dark gem jewelry.Her lipgloss shimmered and lashes fluttered as she flashed smiles while strutting on the red carpet.Eden told Page Six in 2021 that she frequented the gym, took spin classes and lifted weights until about 2018.She said she started having a trainer come to her house for resistance work and walks around her tennis court, but admitted that the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted her workout routine.The Hollywood glamour gal is best known for playing a genie discovered by an astronaut (the late Larry Hagman) in “I Dream of Jeannie,” which aired from 1965 to 1970.She even hit her legendary genie pose, with her arms crossed in front of her, on Wednesday’s red carpet.The Hollywood Walk of Fame star recipient appeared on “Dallas,” “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” and “How to Marry a Millionaire,” among scores of other projects.She even competed on “Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition” in 2016, going home on the second episode.Eden told Closer Weekly in 2021 that she’s “very careful” about her diet.“I’m a carnivore … I like steak. We eat a lot of pork, chicken, steak [and] vegetables,” she revealed, while noting she also has a sweet tooth.

Fox’s new dating show “Farmer Wants a Wife,” premiering Wednesday, March 8 at 9 p.m. On the first episodes, all of the ladies, who are from cities across the US, meet their eligible bachelors: Hunter Grayson, 31, a cattle and horse rancher in Watkinsville, Georgia; Ryan Black, 32, a horse trainer and breeder in Gastonia, North Carolina; Landon Heaton, 35, a cattle rancher and farmer in Stillwater, Oklahoma; and Allen Foster, 32, a cattle rancher in Santa Fe, Tennessee.AdvertisementThen, each of the four men select a group of the women they’re most interested in and host them back at their ranch. It’s essentially “The Bachelor” by way of “Yellowstone” — with plenty of potential for fish-out-water moments.

Amazon series “Daisy Jones & the Six” and fans were quick to notice that she wears a patterned red guitar strap in one scene that strongly resembles the one her grandfather Elvis Presley in his “’68 Comeback Special” on NBC.The scene in the second episode shows Keough performing a song called “Two Against Three” at the Troubadour in Los Angeles after she musters up the courage to perform in front of a crowd, which is when the guitar strap is spotted.Reps for the show confirmed to People that while the guitar strap is not the exact same one Keough’s grandfather wore, it is indeed a replica called the New Yorker/the Woodstock model made by the Ace Strap company.the little easter egg of elvis presley's guitar strap being used by daisy jones, aka riley keough, aka his granddaughter, that has really sent me over the edge with the attention to detail in daisy jones and the six pic.twitter.com/maby4vACWu“The little easter egg of Elvis Presley’s guitar strap being used by daisy jones, aka Riley Keough, aka his granddaughter, that has really sent me over the edge with the attention to detail in daisy jones and the six,” Buzzfeed’s senior TV editor Nora Dominick spotted.“I spent all three episodes trying to find an Elvis easter egg! Glad someone tweeted it!” someone wrote.Some people even admitted that this moment was how they found out about Keough’s rock ‘n roll lineage.“This is literally how I learned that she’s Elvis’ granddaughter.

Showtime’s “Yellowjackets,” was best known for starring as Wednesday Addams in “The Addams Family” 1991 movie and its 1993 sequel, as well as films such as “Sleepy Hollow” and “Prozac Nation.” An “It” girl for most of that decade who gave irreverent interviews referencing death and eating disorders, she told Rolling Stone, “I could have handled [fame] in a way that was less teenage … I always go too far. I never realize how awful a thing I’m saying is until someone else is like, ‘What the f–k?’“I was a bit of a dickhead.” In 1999, when she was 19, Ricci graced the cover of Rolling Stone in pink lingerie.

“Sons of Anarchy” and a ruthless, in-your-face chef in “The Bear.”“I’m very sarcastic, and now my two sons are very sarcastic, so that has come back to haunt me in a big way,” he said. “I was asking for it. So, I think that’s the part where I relate to Frank.