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The pandemic shutdown has enabled “Supernanny” star Jo Frost to shift into high gear — off-camera — to help parents cope with the virus and its impact on their family dynamics. Frost, 49, was in the midst of shooting her series, which moved to Lifetime in January after a six-year run on ABC (2005-2011), when …
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It’s looking like the fall TV season won’t see its traditional September launch due to the industry shutdown in place since mid-March. The broadcast networks are, however, moving ahead with their 2020-21 schedules, even though episodes of new and returning shows have yet to be filmed. CBS and Fox have mostly kept their fall schedules …
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British actor Dominic Sherwood is no stranger to the supernatural. His career has involved vampires (“Vampire Academy,” 2014), angels and demons (“Shadowhunters,” 2016-2019), and now Showtime’s “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels,” an ensemble period piece drama about murder and the occult set in 1938 LA, with Natalie Dormer co-starring as a shape-shifting demon. Sherwood’s character, …
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HBO’s “Perry Mason” shares a title with its TV series predecessor — and that’s where all similarities end. This new eight-episode drama, with Matthew Rhys in the title role, deviates sharply from the CBS series (1957-66) starring Raymond Burr as the brilliant, no-nonsense Eisenhower-era LA defense attorney who, with his penetrating stare and rising-crescendo cross-examinations, …
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Cree Cicchino’s summer TV schedule is fully booked. On Wednesday, the 18-year-old Queens native returns as fan-fave high-school student Marisol Fuentes for Season 2 of “Mr. Iglesias,” the Netflix sitcom starring stand-up comedian Gabriel Iglesias as a kind-hearted teacher. Later this summer, Cicchino will co-star in the Netflix movie “The Sleepover,” a comedy starring Joe …
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Abigail Shapiro joins the roster of “Doom Patrol” as Dorothy Spinner when the superhero series returns June 25 on HBO Max and DC Universe. Shapiro, who celebrates a birthday next week — “It’s my golden birthday: I’m turning 20 on June 20 in 2020,” she says — is no stranger to acting. She was 12 …
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Philip Ettinger’s dual role in “I Know This Much Is True” hit very close to home. Ettinger, 34, plays teen/college-age identical twins Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in the acclaimed HBO drama starring Mark Ruffalo (as the older brothers). As the series progresses, Thomas’ paranoid schizophrenia manifests itself when the brothers get to college; Dominick, who …
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Justina Machado didn’t even need to leave her house to shoot the “One Day At A Time” animated episode. “I did it in my living room,” Machado, 47, tells The Post about the special, “The Politics Episode,” airing June 16 at 9:30 p.m. “That was a day that everybody in my neighborhood decided they wanted …
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Fox and The CW have proactively shaken up their fall schedules — compromised by the industry-wide shutdown in place since mid-March. Both networks have been importing series that weren’t originally on their fall slates to fill the gaps until their regularly scheduled programming can return. (The CW has pushed the official launch of its “fall” …
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If the narrator of popular rock docuseries “Breaking the Band” sounds familiar, that’s because it’s former Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider — who’s parlayed his hard-rockin’ raspy pipes into a successful voiceover career. “I’m blessed with a voice that people like hearing,” says Snider, 65, on the phone from Belize, where he and his wife …
The pandemic shutdown has enabled “Supernanny” star Jo Frost to shift into high gear — off-camera — to help parents cope with the virus and its impact on their family dynamics. Frost, 49, was in the midst of shooting her series, which moved to Lifetime in January after a six-year run on ABC (2005-2011), when …
