Television Series

After emerging as the bona fide TV sleeper hit of summer 2022, satisfying viewing palates of audiences and critics alike, FX’s The Bear is back for seconds from the crew at the grimy Chicago sandwich joint. The Bear follows culinary award-winning New York City chef de cuisine Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto, played by Jeremy Allen White, who earlier this year won both the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series.

Eight years ago, the neo-Western crime drama Justified concluded after six seasons, following a creative decision made by lead actor Timothy Olyphant and series developer Graham Yost to bring the story to a close. But FX cable network and fans were eager for more tales of Deputy U.

Following its acclaimed freshman run, multi-language Israeli period drama series The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem returns for a second season that will premiere on Netflix on July 14, when all 16 new episodes will be made available worldwide. Adapted from the 2013 best-selling novel by Israeli author Sarit Yishai-Levi, the series revolves around the drama of the tempestuous Ermosa family in 1940's Jerusalem and is also told through an earlier timeline in 1917, when the young man who will become the patriarch of the family, Gabriel Ermosa (Michael Aloni), has to sort out his future.

Golden Globe winner (The Practice) Dylan McDermott has just wrapped a fourth season of FBI: Most Wanted, the CBS and Dick Wolf procedural about an FBI Fugitive Task Force that goes after notorious criminals on the Bureau’s Most Wanted list. Wolf’s franchises have been some of the most successful shows in television, with the first Law & Order originating in 1990.

At the recent Monte Carlo Television Festival, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry and Lloyd Owen gave a sneak preview of what can be expected in the new season of the series. Owain Arthur was the first to speak.

Emily in Paris which stars Lily Collins as Emily Cooper, an American pursuing a dream job in advertising in Paris, is a confection of an ideal. Critics have castigated it for not being dark, brooding and ‘serious.

When Bobby Pontillas was asked to help create TJ, the first Filipino American muppet on Sesame Street, he immediately thought of the physical features that would represent most Filipinos, including himself. Growing up, he did not see himself represented onscreen so designing a Sesame Street character that would reflect his ethnic background felt monumental.

On June 6, 1998, the iconic TV series Sex and the City aired its first episode on HBO – and nothing would ever be the same in the way Hollywood portrayed women on TV. As the 25th anniversary of the show approaches, it’s hard to imagine life without Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon).

Irish-born actor Simon Phillips can’t help smiling as he talks about working with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the new Netflix action spy series, FUBAR (launching May 25). “When I was asked to audition and I realized I’d be working with him, I immediately said, ‘I will be there!’” Phillips says.

“I am sick of writing letters!” Dame Helen Mirren laughed when asked what changes she’d like for her character, Cara Dutton, in the surprise second season of the limited Series, 1923, the prequel to the hit Paramount+ show, Yellowstone and the sequel to 1923’s predecessor, 1883. “Brandon, come home!” She pleaded with a quip reminiscent of Spielberg’s E.