Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes appears in the following:

Pop Culture Happy Hour: Our Great Big Summer Movie Preview

Friday, April 28, 2017

Every year at this time, we sit down to make reckless box office predictions and talk up the films we're most excited to see. This time around, we're joined by Audie Cornish of All Things Considered.

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The Good And Goofy 'Great News' Comes To NBC

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

A new NBC comedy has a lot of 30 Rock DNA, and it shows. While it's uneven at first, viewers who stick with it will get a satisfying blast of very silly jokes.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Fate Of The Furious' Plus Clapbacks And Feuds

Friday, April 21, 2017

This week's show combines a chat about The Fate Of The Furious that we had with Gene Demby and Chris Klimek and a discussion of clapbacks and feuds from our Chicago live show, led off by Sam Sanders.

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Hey You, Prestige Television Fan: Here's Why You Should See A New Play

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

While musicals have good pop-culture presence in many cases, plays tend not to. But in an environment that has embraced idiosyncratic and complicated TV, there's no better time to change that.

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'Veep' Reinvents Itself In The Shape Of A New Humiliation

Monday, April 17, 2017

Selina Meyer dreamed of being president. Then she was. Now she isn't. With that shift, Veep finds itself, in many ways, back where it began.

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First Listen: Groundhog Day The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Monday, April 17, 2017

Stream the original cast recording to the new Broadway musical before its release.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: Diversity In Comics And 'RuPaul's Drag Race'

Friday, April 14, 2017

This week, while we recover from our live show, we bring you a segment from Code Switch about diversity in comics and we revisit our segment on RuPaul's Drag Race.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'S-Town' and 'Chewing Gum'

Friday, April 07, 2017

On this week's show, we delve into the latest hit podcast, S-Town, and we breeze through the delightful sitcom Chewing Gum, imported from the UK and available on Netflix.

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'Beauty And The Beast,' Music, And More From South By Southwest

Friday, March 24, 2017

This week, we visit the new Disney live-action adaptation of Beauty And The Beast, and we all report back from Austin about the happenings at South By Southwest.

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'Missing Richard Simmons' And The Nature Of Being Known

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

The podcast came to an anticlimactic end as a mystery, but it says a lot about the demands of being a public figure.

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Never Mind The Emojis: 'Monopoly' Welcomes The T-Rex, Duck And Penguin

Friday, March 17, 2017

Somehow, we got all wrapped up in the evolution of Monopoly pieces, so we're here to close the circle by letting you know what's staying and what's going in the new editions of the game.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: Memes, Fads And A Chat With Neil Gaiman

Friday, March 17, 2017

This week, we bring you two segments with comedian Guy Branum from our fall tour, and our friend Petra Mayer chats with author Neil Gaiman about Norse mythology.

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Remembering Bill Walsh's Way With Words

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Language authority and Washington Post copy editor Bill Walsh died Wednesday after a long career making other people's writing better.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Get Out' and 'The Americans'

Friday, March 10, 2017

It's a week of high tension as the team welcomes Gene Demby and Kat Chow of NPR's Code Switch team to talk about 'Get Out' and the return of 'The Americans.'

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Anthology TV Series Undergo Renaissance With 'American Crime,' 'Feud'

Thursday, March 09, 2017

The third season of American Crime debuts this week on ABC. It's one of a number of interesting anthology series on TV now. NPR takes a look at the pros and cons of anthology series.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Big Little Lies' And 'Feud'

Friday, March 03, 2017

Weekend Edition editor Barrie Hardymon joins the panel to talk about the gorgeous and mysterious HBO drama Big Little Lies and the new Ryan Murphy anthology series, FX's Feud.

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First Listen: 'Come From Away,' Original Broadway Cast Recording

Thursday, March 02, 2017

Stream songs from the Broadway musical based on a small Canadian town's crazy few days following Sept. 11.

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A Shocking Ending Caps A Big Oscar Night For 'Moonlight'

Monday, February 27, 2017

It wasn't a terribly exciting or unusual Academy Awards telecast — until all of a sudden, it made all kinds of history.

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'Top Chef' Is Delivering A Satisfying Season Right On Time

Thursday, February 23, 2017

If you need a lift and a bit of diversion, it's not too late to enjoy the last two episodes of an awfully satisfying season of Top Chef.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Legion' And 'Planet Earth 2'

Friday, February 17, 2017

On this week's show, TV critic Alan Sepinwall joins the table to talk about two new shows: FX's 'Legion' and the follow-up to the BBC's beloved 'Planet Earth.'

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