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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about tonight's His Dark Materials Season 2 finale "Æsahættr" on HBO.  His Dark Materials wrapped up its second season, rife with exciting alliances and the return of original characters, with a dramatic buildup to the final installment of Phililp Pullman's fantasy…

Catie Lazarus, a writer, magazine contributor and comedian who developed and hosted an live, onstage New York celebrity talk show that grew from appearances at the Upright Citizens Brigade to a regular spot at Public Theater’s popular Joe’s Pub venue in Manhattan, died Sunday of cancer at her home in Brooklyn. She was…

The Tonight Show's Jimmy Fallon and Lin-Manuel Miranda are getting the goats in the boat back together for a special please to vote. The Hamilton creator will join the late-night host on the NBC series this evening for a new rendition of fan-favorite online video Two Goats on a Boat – this time dubbed Two Goats Who Wil…

A new world awaits the wondrous characters of His Dark Materials and a new trailer awaits fans of the HBO show. The premium network dropped the trailer for His Dark Materials season 2. The series, starring Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, Amir Wilson, Ariyon Bakare, Andrew Scott, Will Keen, Ruta Gedmintas and Lin-Manuel…

"See the whole board," a chess-instructing Martin Sheen's President Josiah Bartlet tells Rob Lowe's Sam Seaborn in HBO Max's A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote. Originally uttered in 2002's “Hartsfield's Landing” episode of the multiple Emmy winning political drama, the Aaron Sorkin penned words hang…

The original cast of Hamilton is reuniting this week for a fundraiser for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, the latest pop culture themed virtual event. The campaign announced that among those participating will be Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Christopher Jackson, Javier…

American audiences have come to love and praise Lin-Manuel Miranda for his range of works Hamilton and Moana, but come October they can meet his father Luis Miranda. The trailer for HBO’s new documentary Siempre, Luis sees the Broadway star’s father in the doctor’s office nearly a year after a heart attack brought his…

EXCLUSIVE: The Virtual Cannes Market was a bustling affair with several major films set up. Will we see a similar result at the Toronto Film Festival? Here’s a hot package to get things going. Endeavor Content will be handling worldwide sales on The Making Of, a romantic comedy written and produced by Ed Zwick and Mars…

Mobile news platform NowThis is set to exclusively stream a conversation between Hamilton‘s Lin-Manuel Miranda and presidential candidate Joe Biden as part of its Future Is Now event, a virtual community conversation presented by the Latino Victory Project about increasing Latino representation from the stage to the…

Howell Binkley, considered one of Broadway’s premier lighting designers, died Friday, Aug. 14 in North Carolina, his wife, Joyce, told the Winston-Salem Journal.. He was 64 and had lung cancer. Among his designs were the original Broadway productions of Jersey Boys and Hamilton for which he won the Tony Award in 2006…

It’s no surprise when any entertainment figure endorses the presidential campaign of a Democrat. Joe Biden’s campaign enjoys lopsided support from showbiz compared to Donald Trump, a difference between the candidates that is perhaps greater than any recent cycle. But the Biden campaign singled out an endorsement on…

The Comic-Con@Home panel for His Dark Materials did not waste any time to give the fans what they want. Before the panel even started, HBO dropped the first trailer for season 2 which included the first look at the mysterious city of Cittàgaze. The panel featured executive producers Jane Tranter and Jack Thorne, as…