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The natural question about Apple TV+’s “Manhunt,” based on the book “Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer” by James L. Swanson, is going to be “Why now?” It does not seem coincidental that a story that’s essentially about one of the times our democracy was at its most fragile just happens to be coming out during one of the most contentious and divisive election years in U.S.

How can you be a leader to your people if you’re on the run from them? It’s a fascinating question, one that could serve as the basis for a great book or film, but one that’s hard to embed in a six-part mini-series, a format that proves the wrong one for the story of how a fake movie played a role in the life of Black Panthers leader Huey P. Newton.

bundle of the Disney+, Hulu and Max streaming services.“We’ve been bundling video successfully and creatively for 60 years. And so this is the latest iteration of that, and I think this will be a pretty compelling package,” Roberts said.Broadband subscriber loss has been a sore point for Comcast as it faces intense competition from telecom firms such as T-Mobile and Verizon.

“Franklin,” an eight-part series premiering April 12 on Apple TV+.“Franklin” tells the story of 70-year-old Ben Franklin’s secret diplomatic mission to France in 1776 to gain French support (money, arms) for America’s fight against the British in the Revolutionary War. There are a lot of moving parts here, so viewers would be apprised to pay attention as Franklin navigates French high society — and politics — in an effort to achieve his goal.The series is based on the book “A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America” by Pulitzer Prize-winner Stacy Schiff.As the series opens, Franklin — commissioned by Congress to undertake his clandestine journey across the Atlantic — has no diplomatic experience.

squarely among their tradition. Farrell joins Matthew Rhys (“Perry Mason”) and Clive Owen (“Monsieur Spade”) in the group of heavy-hitting recent actors who have dusted off the genre. The show constantly makes us wonder if his disposition is a front.

Apple TV+ drama premiering March 15 and starring Tobias Menzies as Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s confidant who led the search for his killer. It’s adapted from James L.

are missing “Yellowstone.”“Game of Thrones” creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are also returning to TV. Here’s a look at the essential new shows to keep on your radar.

“Livin’ La Vida Loca” — which translates to “Living the Crazy Life” — Ricky Martin is feeling a different kind of “loca” these days.Now 52, the Puerto Rican star — who became Latin pop’s hottest sex symbol after he released the first single from his English-language debut, “Ricky Martin,” in March 1999 — has revealed what he’s really wild for: feet.“I love feet. I have a foot thing,” Martin told GQ in a new profile.

Apple TV+), which follows an astronaut who returns home from space — only to find her reality seemingly changed. “I found it a really unique piece of writing,” D’Arcy, 48, told The Post. “It seems to me to defy easy comparison, which I liked enormously about it.

Apple TV+ series traces the modern French fashion world through the eyes of acclaimed haute couture designers Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn) and Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche) amid Nazi-occupied Paris and how each of them, and their compatriots, dealt with that adversity with different shadings of complicity.Created by Todd Kessler (“Bloodline”), “The New Look” co-stars John Malkovich as Lucien Lelong, Dior’s first boss; Maisie Williams as Dior’s French-resistance fighter sister, Catherine; Claes Bang as Nazi operator Spatz, with whom Chanel consorts; Emily Mortimer as Chanel’s sketchy friend Elsa Lombardi; and Glenn Close as powerful Harper’s Bazaar Editor-in-Chief Carmel Snow. Mendelsohn, Binoche and Malkovich spoke to The Post about their characters’ motivations.When we first meet Dior, he’s happy working for Lelong and somewhat ambiguous about the Nazis, designing ball gowns for officers’ wives but refusing to meet with any of them in person. But when Catherine is taken prisoner by the Nazis — and sent to Ravensbrück, a deadly work camp — Dior’s attitude toward the war changes.Mendelsohn: “[Getting Catherine back] becomes his absolute raison d’etre from that point on.

Jon Stewart is coming clean about the real reason Apple TV+ canned his series, “The Problem With Jon Stewart,” last year — and it has everything to do with his mouth.“I wanted a place to unload thoughts as we get into the election season,” Stewart told “CBS Mornings” Monday while explaining why he’s rejoining “The Daily Show” as a Monday night host through the 2024 election cycle starting Feb. 12.“I thought I was going to do it over at — they call it Apple TV+,” he said about his former network home.

told Variety, “There was a fight scene and yeah, my rib cracked. It hurt and then I had to keep fighting.”“And it hurts for a long time after because every time you breathe, you feel your ribs,” he continued. “But it could have been worse.”The series, now streaming (new episodes out Fridays), is about the US Air Force’s 100th bomb group, which was nicknamed “The Bloody Hundredth” for their high volume of casualties.

In 2001, the TV mini-series was forever altered by HBO’s “Band of Brothers,” a towering achievement in the form and quite simply one of the best WWII films or shows of all time. Based on the book by Stephen E.

on her BBC podcast “Rule Breakers.” “I thought, I will do. Come hell or high water, I will work on screen,” she told Visage, 55, who had asked Waddingham what was the biggest rule she had ever broken. The British actress said the harsh words “gave me a complex for years.” According to Waddingham, who won an Emmy award for her role as Richmond FC owner Rebecca Welton in the Apple TV+ series in 2021, she used her teacher’s words as an influence in her acceptance speech.

“Ted Lasso” stars Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt are clapping back at Joy Behar’s claim that she was asked to guest star on the Apple TV+ show.“The View” co-host, 81, alleged on Wednesday that she was invited to play the role of Sudeikis’ mom on the comedy.The “Horrible Bosses” star, 48, and Hunt, 51, appeared with cast members Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, Phil Dunster, Cristo Fernandez, Kola Bokinni, James Lance and Billy Harris during a a panel discussion at the PEOPLE X IHG Conversation in Los Angeles Thursday.The men were surprised at Behar’s claim, with Sudekis joking: “I, no. Joy Behar from ‘The View?’” when asked if the news that she was set to appear in the third season was valid.“She’s welcome to sit at the table,” he added.“Respectfully, it would be news to us.

Joy Behar may be able to dish on “Hot Topics” — but she can’t take the hot weather. Behar, 81, revealed Wednesday that she didn’t want the role of Jason Sudeikis’ mom on the hit Apple TV+ show “Ted Lasso” due to the fact that the weather in London was too warm for her. “You were contacted about the possibility to be on my favorite show of all time,” Brian Teta, producer of “The View,” said on the show’s “Behind the Table” podcast.However, he added that Behar “quickly dismissed” the role.

Apple TV+, posits Jumbo and Capaldi as June Lenker and Dan Hegarty, London detectives linked by a murder committed 10 years earlier — with the wrong man imprisoned for a crime he did not commit.Whether justice will prevail is anyone’s guess.Lenker’s investigation into the murder pits her against the more-senior Hegarty, a well-connected cop who moonlights as a limo driver and runs with his own crew of colleagues called “The 62s.” He seems to be steering June away from finding the real culprit for reasons involving racial and ethical issues … and deep-seated police corruption.The action starts with an anonymous phone call to police from a hysterical woman claiming that her ultra-violent boyfriend (who she doesn’t name) is going to kill her — with the same knife he used to kill a woman named Adelaide Burrows in 2012 while her 6-year-old son, Patrick, cowered in the next room.The woman claims that Errol Mathis, who’s serving 24 years in prison for Adelaide’s murder — they were lovers — was wrongfully convicted of the crime, for which he confessed and then recanted, and that the real killer (her boyfriend) is still roaming the streets and even boasting to her about the murder.Lenker plunges headlong into the case, trying to discover the anonymous caller and digging into what really happened in 2012 with Burrows.

at Rockefeller Center, celebs are in the streets verbally sparring with crowds … December is well underway. Christmas 2023 is here at last. And whether or not you celebrate the holiday, Dec.

go here. Season 2 of the “Sex and the City” spinoff starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis continued to make the point that the “Sex and the City” franchise should have left well enough alone. Even John Corbett and Kim Cattrall’s brief returns couldn’t invigorate this world that’s become a pale parody of itself.

raunchy Jon Hamm sex scene. Viewers of “The Morning Show” went wild in October when an episode of the AppleTV+ series, now in its third season, featured a steamy scene with Jennifer Aniston, 54, and Jon Hamm, 52. In a new interview with Variety, Aniston opened up about the steamy moment with the “Mad Men” star.

took part in a screening in Los Angeles with her “The Morning Show” co-stars Reese Witherspoon, 47, and Jon Hamm, 52, where they participated in a Q&A onstage. Currently with three seasons under its belt and renewed for a Season 4, the Apple TV+ series follows Alex Levy (Aniston) and Bradley Jackson (Witherspoon), the stars of a fictional news network and their drama, both in front of the camera and behind it. The show got six Critics Choice Awards nominations this year, beating “Succession” (which got five), despite “The Morning Show” having wild plot lines like sending Bradley to space.