News of the show’s renewal was announced last January, but now comes the first chance to see what Season 2 of the anthology series has in store. Patricia Clarkson and Brendan Gleeson step into the show as Ellen and Scott, a married pair sorting out more than just their diverging political ideologies as they prep for their weekly counseling sessions. Each 10-minute episode is a conversation unfolding in real time as they grab a drink across the street — this season swaps a pub for a coffeeshop — where they dissect their three decades together and how they’re dealing with the world as it is right now....

“TÁR” is set to make waves at the fall festivals with stops at Venice and NYFF before Focus Features releases the whopping two-hour-and-40-minute film on October 7 stateside. Cate Blanchett stars as renowned (and highly fictional) composer Lydia Tár, in the film regarded as the first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra. While plot details are scarce, it’s clear from this latest teaser that she’s up against a moment of crisis....

Variety and Deadline reported on Monday afternoon that a Penguin-focused television series was in the works. Colin Farrell, who will portray the iconic supervillain in “The Batman,” has been approached to star in the spinoff. No deals have been inked, according to the publications. Deadline stated that the series was “‘Scarface’-like”; Variety reported that the show would delve into the Penguin’s rise to power in Gotham’s criminal underworld. An HBO Max representative declined to comment....

The upcoming PBS documentary reveals how Black people have worshipped and, through their spiritual journeys, improvised ways to bring their faith traditions from the African continent to the New World while interpreting them into a form of Christianity that was truly their own, in a nation whose original sin was the enslavement of their ancestors across the Middle Passage. “The Black church is the oldest, the most continuous and most important institution created in the history of Black people in this country, and I’m honored that we have made this series, and will be sharing it with audiences at a time when these stories of grace and resilience, struggle and redemption, hope and healing would be so desperately needed, given all that we’ve lost and all that we’ve endured in the last year,” Gates said on Friday during the TCA’s Winter Press Tour virtual PBS panel....

While original musical numbers have long been a part of the “Bob’s Burgers” repertoire, the cinematic spin-off takes things to the next level. “It’s not so much that we wanted to do it differently, but we wanted to do it bigger and as make as much of a spectacle as we could manage, to make it fill the speakers and fill the room,” series creator and “Bob’s Burgers Movie” writer-director Loren Bouchard told IndieWire....

The CNN+ sign-up page boasts “live news coverage and exclusive reporting,” “on-demand original series and films,” and “up to 12 live daily and weekly shows each day,” but what CNN+ does not have is a live feed of the CNN cable channel. You can only digitally consume CNN proper the same way you always did: with a traditional cable television subscription that includes the linear channel. A common compromise for media companies with both a linear and streaming presence is to re-air its top programming on delay; CNN+ does not....

Rigid on-set protocols are now a way of life for the series, and that life is being reflected similarly on the show. In the show’s storyline, the loud-mouthed Conner family is quarantining together — and the producers explained that with four episodes are already shot, they’re hoping to continue focusing on the ramifications of the pandemic throughout the entire season. On top of that, when the team discovered they’d be premiering at the end of October, they rushed into production on an election episode, as well as one exploring how the Conners celebrate Halloween this year....