Linda Holmes appears in the following:
Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'The Get Down' And What's Coming In TV
Friday, August 19, 2016
Brittany Luse and Kiana Fitzgerald join the roundtable for a chat about Netflix's The Get Down and what Linda Holmes learned at the annual Television Critics Association press tour.
TV Networks Unveil Fall Lineup At Summer Press Tour
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Broadcast and cable networks unveiled their fall lineup to television critics. NPR looks ahead at the good, the bad and the ugly for the upcoming TV season, and how the business is changing.
Dispatch From Halfway Through The TV Critics' Press Tour: Mariah, What's Good?
Thursday, August 04, 2016
Linda Holmes has been to 77 press conferences and counting (including one about a duck documentary); she updates us on what the networks are prepping for fall.
Upcoming PBS 'Hamilton' Documentary Puts Us In the Room Where It Happens
Friday, July 29, 2016
Linda Holmes' latest dispatch from the Television Critics Association meeting focuses on Hamilton's America, which combines history, performance and the making of the Broadway smash.
'It's Not My Story': Baz Luhrmann On Collaborating To Make 'The Get Down'
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Linda Holmes offers another update from the Television Critics Association meeting, this time on Luhrmann's hip-hop Netflix series The Get Down.
Stars Hollow Intel: A Few New Beans Are Spilled On The 'Gilmore Girls' Return
Thursday, July 28, 2016
From the Television Critics Association meeting in Los Angeles, Linda Holmes reports on Netflix's upcoming Gilmore Girls reunion.
Netflix, HBO, PBS And More Bring Their Upcoming Shows To Critics
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
It's about time again for the Television Critics Association to meet in California, and we have a preview of the week to come.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Ghostbusters' And 'Mr. Robot'
Friday, July 22, 2016
On this week's show, we bust some ghosts — well, we don't, but we watch those who do — and we address the beginning of the second season of USA's Emmy-nominated conspiracy thriller.
Remembering Garry Marshall, For Whom We Stayed Up Past 8 O'Clock
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Garry Marshall was the creator of Happy Days and the director of Pretty Woman and The Flamingo Kid. We look at his long career as a producer, director, writer and actor.
Despite Controversy, 'Ghostbusters' Opens With $46 Million
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
After considerable online hubbub about its all-female leading cast, the reboot of Ghostbusters brought in $46 million in its opening weekend.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: Spielberg, 'BFG,' And 'The Great British Baking Show'
Friday, July 08, 2016
We talk about The BFG, the state of Spielbergiana, and the joys and cakes and custards of The Great British Baking Show. All that, plus what's making us happy this week.
About Face: On Beauty, Characters And Threading The Needle
Thursday, July 07, 2016
The looks and faces of actresses provide endless fodder for debate and fascination. But some care is called for in where we take these arguments.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: On Sequels And Skipping 'Independence Day'
Friday, July 01, 2016
We thought we were going to see Independence Day: Resurgence. In this episode, we dive into why most of us didn't and we take a raucous quiz on sequel titles.
The Bun Also Rises: Why We Love 'The Great British Baking Show'
Friday, July 01, 2016
The rare competitive reality show with a gentle heart and a sense of nuance returns to American television Friday night on PBS.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Finding Dory' And Great Voice Acting
Friday, June 24, 2016
This week's show finds us swimming around in Pixar's latest, and then we talk about the finer points of the voice acting we love the most. Plus: what's making us happy this week.
Bill Simmons Brings Angry Ben Affleck To His Big Night On HBO
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Bill Simmons debuted his new HBO show Any Given Wednesday with a few very strong feelings from Ben Affleck about Tom Brady.
HBO's 'Suited' And The Search For The Perfect Fit
Monday, June 20, 2016
A new documentary follows the clients of a custom suiting shop that works with clients who are transgender or gender-nonconforming.
Lifetime's TV Movie Remake Is One Bad 'Mother May I Sleep With Danger'
Friday, June 17, 2016
In which we answer the question posed in the title of this self-consciously weird remake of a 1996 TV movie with a question of our own: why?
Remake Or Not, 'Uncle Buck' Is Your Usual Goofy TV Relative
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
ABC continues its single-camera family comedy brand with a remake of the 1989 comedy that starred John Candy.
'O.J.: Made In America' Is About America, Not O.J.
Thursday, June 09, 2016
The five-part, 7 1/2-hour documentary series O.J.: Made in America presents an expansive, meticulously constructed examination of the O.J. Simpson trial as an enduring, vexing cultural milestone.