Onward and Upward With the Arts - Game Theory

Can a critically acclaimed video game be turned into a hit HBO series?

Will You Be Seeing Emancipation?

Less than a year after his infamous slap and weak apologies, Will Smith is back in a new Oscar contender. The star hasn't earned his way to redemption. But the movie tells a story that America urgently needs.

Primetime Dramageddon

How money, personality, and ego almost cost HBO its most acclaimed drama since Game of Thrones. An exclusive excerpt from the media read of the year.

Christina Ricci

Rarely does a performance, let alone one by a child actor, become a cultural reset for an entire generation.

Everything Has a Story in Wakanda Forever

Production designer Hannah Beachler breaks down the history hiding in the sequel's two worlds.

Winning Friends, Influencing People

How JJ Redick has gone from being one of basketball's most hated players to one of its most beloved commentators

I Made a Lifetime Christmas Movie!

Over 100 made-for-TV holiday movies will premiere this season Here's what it's like to work on one.

'The Crown' Returns to Blur the Line Between Royals, Fiction

When “The Crown” returns after a two-year absence, the splintering marriage of Charles and Diana and more woes for Queen Elizabeth II are in the drama’s elegant but intrusive spotlight.

Another Week in Paradise

The White Lotus returns.

Suddenly Sorta Spielberg

Gabriel LaBelle beat out 2,000 actors toplay a version of the famed director as a teen by embracing the meta-ness.

Can The Rock Steady the DC Universe With ‘Black Adam'?

In Hollywood’s superhero era thus far, there has been one particularly conspicuous absence: While a parade of big-name actors have taken their turns donning various spandex suits, Dwayne Johnson — arguably the biggest movie star in the world — has, until now, sat out the trend.

‘Black Adam,' a Superhero Franchise Born on a Rock

Not long into “Black Adam,” a preteen boy looks up at the muscled hulk of Dwayne Johnson and begs for his help: “We could use a superhero right now.” Speak for yourself, kid.

Podcasting Is Just Radio Now

It's been ages since the last blockbuster narrative show. What does that mean for the medium as an art form?

THE RIGHT STUFF?

Hugh Laurie is at his best when everything goes all wrong on the hilarious lost-in-space comedy Avenue 5

WHAT'S WORTH WATCHING

Your day-by-day guide to the week's best television

Walker Independence

9/8c, The CW

The Simpsons

Sunday, Oct. 23, 8/7c, Fox

CSI: Vegas

10/9c, CBS

BEHIND THE WHEEL AGAIN

Jensen Ackles keeps the engine running on the Supernatural universe with this 1970s-set prequel series about Dean and Sam Winchester's demon-slaying parents

BUTTERART FAIR 2: COMMUNITY

Over $250,000 in fine art created by Black artists was sold at Butter 2 and 100% of the proceeds went to the artists.

365 ENTREPRENEUR

HEALTHY SOUL

REGINA WARREN

360 Model Experience

THAT'S MY DJ

DJ MARY JAN

DJ GENO

FOREVER YOUNG OG

You Gotta Have Faith

As he wraps 19 months of writing, directing, producing, and starring in the third season of his acclaimed eponymous TV series, ramy youssef looks back on the big questions that led him to big laughs

Bette's Second Act

After almost 30 years, Bette Midler Returns as the queen of Halloween in Hocus Pocus 2

Ana de Armas Digs Deep as Marilyn in Brutal ‘Blonde'

What a dream it must be to be Marilyn Monroe, a starstruck assistant tells her. “Everyone would give their right arm to be you!”

THE WHITE LOTUS

After an award-winning first season set at a ritzy Hawaiian resort, the distinctive anthology relocates to Sicily, where the (fictional) White Lotus hotel chain changes up more than the clientele.

THE EQUALIZER

"It's going to be pulse-pounding," executive producer Joseph C. Wilson promises of the thriller's Season 3 premiere. We'd expect nothing less from badass vigilante Robyn McCall (Queen Latifah).

YELLOWSTONE

Fifteen million viewers watched the Season 4 finale of TV's top-rated cable show in January and were thrilled when wild woman Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) finally wed longtime love Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) on her family's coveted Montana ranch.