Now 90, Dr. Ruth Westheimer had resisted past overtures to do a documentary, but she was won over by filmmaker Ryan White. Ask Dr. Ruth, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, opens in theaters this weekend via Magnolia Pictures after screening at Tribeca Film Festival this week. The theatrical run…

Dr. Ruth Westheimer came to TCA to tell TV critics what questions she will not take. “You will never know how much money I have and with whom I am sleeping,” she grinned, as she and director Ryan White came to talk about documentary Ask Dr. Ruth coming to Hulu after its high-profile premiere at 2019 Sundance Film Festi…

Hulu leapfrogged Netflix in January when it dropped its documentary on the Fyre Festival but content chief Craig Erwich urged that this was not a "dig" at its SVOD rival. Moreover, Erwich, speaking at TCA, said both docs, its own Fyre Fraud and Netflix's Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, created a cultural…