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Writer/showrunner Bill Lawrence has entered the streaming series world with the Apple+ comedy “Ted Lasso.” Premiering Aug. 14, it follows Ted (Jason Sudeikis, the show’s co-creator and star), an affable American college football coach who’s hired to run a Premier League soccer team in the UK — despite having no knowledge of the sport or …
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Move over, Villanelle — Freddy Lane is the new charming murderer in town. Freddy (Hermione Corfield) is a twentysomething blonde with a shadowy past who quotes philosophers and works as a phone-sex operator. She’s also a killer, and in “We Hunt Together” — a six-episode British crime drama premiering Sunday on Showtime (10 p.m.) — …
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Two people take a wild ride through the Australian desert in “Upright,” a dark comedy on Sundance Now. The eight-episode series, which originally aired on Australia’s Fox Showcase and the UK’s Sky Atlantic, was co-written and co-directed by star Tim Minchin. He plays Lucky Flynn, a depressed musician driving to visit his dying mother, his …
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Leslie Chilcott’s docuseries, “Helter Skelter: An American Myth,” adds some new wrinkles to the exhaustively chronicled story of Charles Manson, his “family” of followers and the horror they unleashed on LA in August of 1969. And that’s saying a lot, since you’d think, by now, that we know everything there is to know about the …
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Christopher Meloni shows a completely different side of himself in “Maxxx,” Hulu’s six-episode comedy series created by star O-T Fagbenle. Meloni, 59, plays Don Wild, the flamboyant, coke-snorting, sex-fueled record exec who takes a second chance on Maxxx (Fagbenle), a washed-up boy-band singer attempting a precipitous comeback. Meloni and Fagbenle previously worked together on Hulu’s …
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Comedian and actor Adam Devine has entered the reality arena. In “Bad Ideas with Adam Devine,” out weekdays on Quibi, Devine and his celebrity pals travel to different far-flung locations to do dangerous activities. Each episode features a new jaunt with a well-known friend. “For the most part, everyone I talked to [who appears on …
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Jerry Springer is back and taping new episodes of “Judge Jerry,” one of last season’s biggest daytime success stories. The syndicated show marked Springer’s debut as a TV judge a la “Judge Judy” et al. — and was quite a departure from the raucous “Jerry Springer Show” he hosted for 27 years. “We were mixing …
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English comedians Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc have traded biscuits on “The Great British Bake-off” to bloodshed in their new comedy series “Hitmen.” “The writers had envisioned it as a couple of young guys,” Perkins, 50 tells The Post. “And we said, ‘Look, that trope is great, but it’s pretty well known. How about you …
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Veteran actress Amy Smart has taken her first steps into the world of superheroes in “DC’s Stargirl.” The series, airing Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on both The CW and DC Universe — and based on a comic of the same name — follows high school student Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger), who discovers a magic staff …
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“Wynonna Earp” returns Sunday night on Syfy — two years after its Season 3 finale. The long delay was caused by financial troubles at IDW Entertainment, which produces the supernatural Western series, says creator/showrunner Emily Andras. “It was insane,” Andras tells The Post. “I feel like ‘Wynonna Earp’ has always been cursed but [also] blessed. We …
Writer/showrunner Bill Lawrence has entered the streaming series world with the Apple+ comedy “Ted Lasso.” Premiering Aug. 14, it follows Ted (Jason Sudeikis, the show’s co-creator and star), an affable American college football coach who’s hired to run a Premier League soccer team in the UK — despite having no knowledge of the sport or …
