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to top Nielsen’s streaming rankings. According to Amazon, “Reacher” is one of the streaming platform’s top five most-watched shows of all time.

The Dick Van Dyke Show,” so ingrained into the fabric of early 1960s pop culture — and lovingly replicated to within inches of its original form.It joins a replica of the rooftops and chimneys from “Mary Poppins” and the flying car from “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” in recalling Van Dyke’s multi-faceted career in the CBS special, airing Dec. 21 at 9 p.m.“The star of the show is Dick Van Dyke himself, the legend, but the co-star is the set,” said Craig Plestis, co-executive producer of “Dick Van Dyke 98 Years of Magic.”Plestis, who developed Fox’s hit series “The Masked Singer,” worked with Van Dyke when he appeared on that show last February (as the Gnome).

book series by Rick Riordan. It first arrived in 2005 as part of the young adult fantasy boom that included “Harry Potter,” “The Hunger Games,” “The Mortal Instruments” and “Twilight.” Created by Riordan and Jonathan Steinberg (“Black Sails”), the series follows the adventures of 12-year old Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell, “The Adam Project”), as he learns that the strange events that he’s been experiencing during his New York City childhood don’t mean he’s a troubled kid, as his teachers have said — it means that he is a “demigod” who is secretly the son of the Greek god, Poseidon (Toby Stephens). “I started reading the books in third grade.

return to host the Oscars in 2024, didn’t seem concerned about this potential legal issue. Instead, he gleefully said, “Can you imagine if I get sued by George Santos for fraud? How good would that be? It would be like a dream come true.”Former Long Island Rep.

shady, Bible-thumping Sheriff Roy Tillman, who rules over his North Dakota roost through fear and loathing in Season 5 of “Fargo.”But Kennedy, who’s worked on four seasons of the FX anthology series, said she wasn’t as surprised by the odd request as you might expect.“Every year I say to [series creator] Noah Hawley, ‘Write me a challenge,’ and he does come through for me,” Kennedy told The Post. “And this season there were several challenges in the makeup room.”Among those was creating Sheriff Roy’s nipple rings, first seen by viewers as he lies “in moist repose” in an outdoor hot tub on his ranch (he’s connected to a local militia) and then again when he’s bare-chested and in bed with his wife.

Adult Swim after an eight-year hiatus and with its original title — no surprise to series co-creator Dave Willis.“The network cancelled the show,” he told The Post. “I think Adult Swim is probably run by a lot of whimsy.

“Harry Potter” films, “Black Hawk Down,” “Peter Pan,” “The Death of Stalin” and “Star Trek: Discovery” — he said he was apprehensive about this miniseries.“Because it’s Cary Grant,” he said. “If you ask people on the street about him, the same adjectives come to the surface: debonair, smart, ladykiller, the epitome of masculinity. I thought, ‘Why would anybody try and step into boots which are 100 feet long?’ And, you have that unusual voice.

Morgan Fairchild (“Falcon Crest”), Linda Gray (“Dallas”), Donna Mills (“Knots Landing”), Loni Anderson (“WKRP in Cincinnati”) and Nicollette Sheridan (“Knots Landing”) to appear together onscreen for the first time.“We’re not divas — it’s an easy label to slap on powerful women,” Fairchild told The Post in a dual interview with Mills to talk about the movie. “I don’t think, having worked with these ladies, that anyone is a diva in real life … everyone is expecting you to be a diva but I have people coming up to me saying, ‘You’re so down-to-earth.”“Ladies of the ’80s” — a holiday movie premiering Dec.

Angus T. Jones and Charlie Sheen reunite for a poker-playing scene in the premiere of the new Max comedy “Bookie.”In the “Bookie” scene, protagonist Danny (Sebastian Maniscalco) and his sidekick, Ray (Omar J.

Obliterated,” a raunchy Netflix ensemble comedy series, with touches of “The Hangover,” shot mostly in Las Vegas with stars Nick Zano (Navy SEAL Chad McKnight); Shelley Hennig (CIA agent Ava Winters); Terrence Terrell (Navy SEAL Trunk); C. Thomas Howell (bushy-bearded, far-out Army explosive expert Haggerty); Eugene Kim (straight-laced Air Force pilot Paul Yung); Paola Lázaro (Marine sniper Angela Gomez); and Kimi Rutledge (nerdy National Security Agency information expert Maya Lerner).Costa Ronin (“The Americans,” “Homeland,” “Gotham”) plays bad-guy Russian mastermind Ivan Koslov.

Hannah Waddingham’s kicking off the holidays. The “Ted Lasso” alum is returning to her musical roots with a newly released Apple TV+ special, “Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas.”The Emmy Award winner, 49, recorded the episode live at The Coliseum in London, and invited some of her former co-stars and more — Phil Dunster, Nick Mohammed, Luke Evans, Leslie Odom Jr. and Sam Ryder — as her special guests.Additional performances also include The Fabulous Lounge Swingers, the chorus of the English National Opera, the London Gay Men’s Chorus, and an 18-piece band.

viewing of “Violent Night.”The “Home Improvement” alum, who is known for his portrayal of Saint Nick in his “The Santa Claus” film franchise, prefers watching more wholesome, family holiday movies — like his own.“I can’t watch another Santa Claus movie. Especially when they’re bad Santas,” Allen, 70, told The Post in a joint interview with his daughter, Elizabeth Allen-Dick, while promoting “The Santa Clauses.”“I know there are people that like the ugly Santa movies but sometimes I’m like, ‘Eh, I don’t know if I like bad Santas.’ You know, dressed up with knives and stabbing,” he added. “I don’t like that.”The comedian stepped into Santa’s shoes as Scott Calvin in 1994’s “The Santa Clause,” going on to make two more films and his Disney+ series, which is now in its second season.While other actors (Ed Asner in “Elf,” Richard Attenborough in “Miracle on 34th Street” and Kurt Russell in “The Christmas Chronicles”) have played a light-hearted Kriss Kringle, David Harbour and Billy Bob Thornton have taken on darker versions in 2022’s “Violent Night” and 2003’s “Bad Santa,” respectively.“I’m not judging other shows,” Allen insisted.

the legendary “Sex and the City” costume designer, discussed returning to the series’ sequel and auctioning off Carrie Bradshaw’s Eiffel Tower bag. It’s for sale until Nov. 11.

a best-selling novel by Charmaine Wilkerson, “Black Cake” is a multigenerational saga that tells the sprawling tale of a family filled with secrets. The story begins in the West Indies in the 1960s. Covey (Mia Isaac), a 17-year-runaway bride who is half-Jamaican and half-Chinese, sprints on a beach at night.

Matthew Perry played a slightly fictionalized version of veteran Hollywood producer Doug Draizin in “Fools Rush In,” Perry’s first big-screen movie.So it was sad that Draizin, who produced the 1997 film with Michael McDonnell — a labor of love that took 10 years — was at the UCLA football game in LA with his son when he heard the news about Perry’s death.“We’re at the football game and my son looks at me and goes, ‘Matt Perry just died,'” Draizin told The Post. “The irony of it is [that] my son is the reason we made ‘Fools Rush In.’ It was about his birth.

“The Masked Singer” goes to great lengths to make sure that contestants do not get revealed before their eliminations. So much so, that even the travel from the car to the studio is planned well in advance — and there are clothing guidelines.“You’re completely covered. You’re wearing a hoodie, you have this mask on, you’re wearing gloves, can’t wear shorts,” Tyler Posey, who was revealed as Hawk on Wednesday night’s episode told The Post.

is playing one on TV.Osmond, 64, makes her soap opera debut as the calculating Countess Von Frankfurt on “The Bold and the Beautiful” starting Friday, Oct. 17 (1:30 p.m./Ch.

revealed her money won’t be going to her kids, noting it “breeds laziness.”Osmond, who has seven children and is married to Stephen Craig — her son Michael died by suicide in 2010 — said that children who’ve been left fortunes, are for the most part (“I’m sure there are exceptions,” she noted) robbed of learning about life’s realities.And she’s not alone in this belief. Celebrities including Warren Buffet, Sting and Mick Jagger have sworn off leaving their kids the bulk of their fortunes. “I don’t believe in it,” she told The Post.

looked back on his one-episode stint on “Friends” — calling the experience a bit “strange.”“My acting is so bad. I look so like a ham. Like, ‘Hey, girls.’ … It’s like, I’m ashamed of myself,” the actor, 63, told The Post while promoting his new Irish Whiskey brand, Old Oak.

Britney Spears very nearly snagged the lead role in “The Notebook.” Casting director Matthew Barry told The Post that the 2002 nationwide search for the part of Allie — in which he saw actresses such as Jessica Biel, Claire Danes and Scarlett Johannson — ultimately came down to Rachel McAdams and Spears.“It was tough because we did narrow it down to Rachel and Britney,” Barry said of the effort to find the perfect leading lady for the 2004 romance movie based on Nicholas Sparks’ popular novel. And star Ryan Gosling was impressed with Spears, Barry said: “I think Ryan would’ve preferred either of them.”The casting director added, “the studio, for obvious reasons, would’ve liked Britney.

Trilogy of Terror,” a Movie of the Week starring offbeat actress Karen Black (in all three episodes) that aired in 1975 and still elicits gasps and shivers.“[The wooden doll episode] was incredibly creepy, and it was great that it aired third in the trilogy because it really was a showstopper,” “Trilogy of Terror” co-producer Robert Singer told The Post in an exclusive interview.“[Producer-director] Dan Curtis was great,” Singer said. “He knew how to get scares.”Boy, did he.