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When 1923 premiered in December 2022, it quickly became Paramount+’s biggest debut ever, with 7.4 million viewers tuning in. The success of the highly anticipated series — which introduces viewers to new members of the Dutton family — doesn’t come as too much of a surprise. Series creator Taylor Sheridan has hit franchise gold with Yellowstone, 1883 and now 1923. And in the latest installment, he’s got two not-so-secret weapons: Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford. Both Mirren and Ford have said they signed on to do 1923 in part to work together again. (They starred in 1986’s The Mosquito Coast.) “He says, me,” Mirren, 77, quipped when asked what drew her and Ford to the project. “And I say exactly the same: Harrison.” The acting legends play Jacob and Cara…

THAT ’90S SHOW Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp reprise their roles as Red and Kitty in this That ’70s Show sequel. The sitcom follows their granddaughter Leia (Callie Haverda), who visits them in the summer of 1995 seeking adventure. What she finds is a group of pals who make their own memories in the Formans’ legendary basement. NIGHT COURT All rise! The NBC reboot stars Melissa Rauch as Judge Abby Stone — the daughter of Judge Harry Stone (Harry Ander son) — who presides over an NYC arraignment court where there’s never a dull moment. Fans of the ’80s original will recognize one familiar face: John Larroquette reprises his role as prosecutor Dan Fielding. PARTY DOWN Rejoice: The cult hit returns for a long-awaited third season on Feb. 23. Picking…

MY DAD THE BOUNTY HUNTER When two kids accidentally hitch a ride to outer space and discover their father is a secret alien bounty hunter, they’re thrilled. But how will mom feel about the family duking it out with dangerous space creatures and engaging in epic laser battles? Tune in to this new actioncomedy series to find out! PRINCESS POWER Based on the bestselling book series Princesses Wear Pants, this adorable animated show follows four royals from the fruit kingdoms — Kira Kiwi, Beatrice “Bea” Blueberry, Rita Raspberry and Penelope “Penny” Pineapple — on a mission to make the world a better place, one “fruitizen” at a time! CAILLOU: THE GREAT KNIGHT In September, Peacock debuted the first of five 44-minute Caillou specials, each focusing on significant childhood events. In…

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THE FABELMANS || MOVIE Leave it to Steven Spielberg to dominate the 2023 awards shows with his semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film, which stars the always excellent Michelle Williams and Paul Dano as versions of his parents. SHE SAID || MOVIE The gripping behind-the-scenes story of the journalists who took down accused rapist and Hollywood bigwig Harvey Weinstein was deemed one of 2022’s top 10 movies by the American Film Institute, with Carey Mulligan scoring a Golden Globe nod for her performance. SEVERANCE || SERIES Adam Scott and John Turturro are brilliant as employees who agree to have their personal memories erased when they’re on the job in the thought-provoking sci-fi psychological thriller. HOUSE OF THE DRAGON || SERIES Like Game of Thrones before it, this Targaryen-centered spinoff is packed with epic battles,…

He played a deceptively doting husband hiding a sinister secret in Don’t Worry Darling. Now Harry Styles is taking another turn as a man leading a double life — literally — in Prime Video’s romantic drama My Policeman. Styles stars as Tom Burgess, a closeted gay constable in 1950s Britain who marries schoolteacher Marion Taylor (The Crown’s Emma Corrin), only to begin a passionate affair with museum curator Patrick (David Dawson) — a forbidden romance at a time when homosexuality was still a criminal offense. The former One Direction frontman turned solo superstar, 29, spills on his conflicted character and why he thinks audiences will relate to his heartbreaking story. The movie plays out over decades, from when Tom starts his affair in the 1950s to his sad marriage 40…

He’s played everything from a Baltimore drug dealer and a London detective to a Star Trek villain and Knuckles the Echidna. Now Idris Elba is flexing his acting chops in his new thriller, Beast, (streaming now on Peacock) as Nate Daniels, a grieving, widowed doctor who takes his two teenage daughters on safari at a South African game reserve. But what starts as a journey of healing turns into a nightmare when a vengeful lion, whose family has been killed by poachers, begins stalking them. The versatile British actor, 50, himself a doting dad of two, talks about the challenges of filming the gripping lion fight scenes — and what he would do if he came face-to-face with the real thing. What was it about Beast that made you want…

There are lots of musicians turned actors in Hollywood, but Janelle Monáe is at the top of her class. With three albums and eight Grammy nominations under her belt, the trailblazing “Tightrope” singer took Tinseltown by storm with her movie debut in 2016’s Moonlight, which she followed up with stellar performances in Hidden Figures, Harriet and the acclaimed TV series Homecoming. Now she’s winning raves for her silly, scene-stealing turn in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (streaming on Netflix), in which she plays not one but two roles, joining a star-studded cast that includes Daniel Craig and Kate Hudson. Monáe, 37, reflects on both her career and personal life, including the challenges she has faced being open about her sexuality. A comedy murder mystery is something new for you.…

COCKTAIL Tom Cruise goes from bumbling barman to master mixologist in this ’80s classic, which put flair bartending on the map. CASINO ROYALE A license to drink! The 2006 thriller — starring Daniel Craig as 007 — holds the title for the most martinis (shaken, not stirred!) consumed in a Bond film. SIDEWAYS The dramedy about a struggling writer (Paul Giamatti) who road trips through the Santa Ynez Valley caused visits to California’s wine country to skyrocket. THE GREAT GATSBY No one throws a bash quite like Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jay Gatsby, and the 1920s Prohibition-set drama leads the way for the wild parties of the Roaring Twenties. COYOTE UGLY Dancing on bar tops while serving stiff drinks made the bar-tenders of Coyote Ugly an instant hit with their patrons — and…

Call it the Wednesday effect. Since its Netflix debut in November 2022, the smash hit supernatural series has spawned a viral TikTok dance craze (Lady Gaga has filmed her own version of Wednesday’s wonderfully weird moves), a resurgence of all things goth and even Addamscore, a trendy home-design aesthetic inspired by the show’s macabre settings. The impact is no surprise. Based on the popular Addams Family franchise, the Netflix adaptation follows Wednesday (played pitch-perfectly by Jenna Ortega), a sarcastic and death-obsessed 16-year-old who’s expelled from her school for exacting revenge on classmates and sent to Nevermore Academy. There, at the alma mater of her parents, Gomez (Luis Guzmán) and Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones), the teen attempts to solve a slew of grisly murders while doing her best to not fit in…

1. Rogue Heroes These reckless recruits have only one order: go, kill, return. Based on a true story, the bold World War II drama series focuses on a brave brigade of British soldiers with a license to behave badly. It’s a risky plan that just might work. Alfie Allen, Dominic West and Jack O’Connell are among the cast. 2. Echo 3 When brilliant American scientist Amber Chesborough (Jessica Ann Collins) gets kidnapped along the Colombia–Venezuela border, the military men in her life — her brother, Bambi (Luke Evans), and her husband, Prince (Michiel Huisman) — go on a dangerous mission to extract her amidst the backdrop of a secret war. The politics get personal in this brawny and brainy thriller from Zero Dark Thirty writer Mark Boal. 3. Vikings: Valhalla…

Pressure Cooker Locked together in a “culinary fortress” for several weeks, top chefs have to learn how to cook, sleep and live with the competition. To make things even more intense, they’ll need to impress their peers because the contestants are also the judges. Love for the Ages The team that brought you Love Is Blind, Married at First Sight and Wife Swap is back with another social experiment: What happens when three middle-aged couples at a crisis point trade their spouses for much younger partners for a month? For better or worse, Love for the Ages finds out. Taste the Nation This spring, Padma Lakshmi takes audiences on a cross-cultural culinary adventure traversing around the United States to explore the rich and diverse cuisines of immigrant groups and indigenous communities…

STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH Peace was never an option! After the fall of the Republic, Clone Force 99 navigates a strengthened Empire, which mistakenly believes that the rogue crew had been killed in the attack on Tipoca City. In season 2 of the energetic animated adventure, our under-the-radar heroes take on a variety of mercenary missions, crossing paths with both friends and foes as they travel across the galaxy to unexpected — and dangerous — places. SHADOW AND BONE Season 2 (March 16) finds Alina (Jessie Mei Li) and Malyen (Archie Renaux) rallying their allies, determined to bring down the Shadow Fold and rescue Ravka. It won’t be easy: General Kirigan (Ben Barnes) returns with an army of seemingly indestructible shadow monsters. To stand a fighting chance, Alina and Malyen…

PAMELA, A LOVE STORY In March 2022, following the release of Hulu’s Pam & Tommy, Pamela Anderson announced that a documentary about her life was in the works. (“Not a victim, but a survivor. And alive to tell the real story,” she teased at the time.) Produced by Anderson’s elder son, Brandon Thomas Lee, the project (out Jan. 31) will recount the Baywatch alum’s trajectory from a small Canadian town to a bona fide sex symbol — and everything in between. GUNTHER’S MILLIONS Ruff life! This four-part investigative series, premiering in February, delves deep into the tale of Gunther VI, a German shepherd who inherited a $400 million fortune. (Yes, really: Legend has it that a German doctor and his countess wife named the dog’s great-grandfather their heir following the…

NOW STREAMING ON PRIME VIDEO The People We Hate at the Wedding Holy matrimony! There’s nothing like a fancy wedding to ramp up long-simmering family feuds. In the real world, the consequences can be maddening. At least in the movie world — especially in this acerbic comedy — everybody looks fab and can shoot off deliciously salty dialogue before arriving at a cathartic happily ever after. The film follows siblings Alice (Kristen Bell) and Paul (Ben Platt) and their uneasy feelings about attending the English wedding of their well-to-do semi-estranged half sister, Eloise (Cynthia Addai-Robinson). They each arrive with their own set of baggage: Alice, still reeling from a miscarriage, is caught up in an affair with her married boss (Jorma Taccone); Paul is struggling with the death of his…

Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Sigourney Weaver are back in a galaxy far, far away in Avatar: The Way of Water, the much-anticipated sequel to James Cameron’s eye-popping 2009 sci-fi epic, expected to stream on Disney+ in the coming months. (Avatar brought in $2.7 billion at the box office, making it the highest-grossing movie of all time!) Thirteen years after the events of the first film, paraplegic marine Jake Sully has a newfound family with Na’vi tribe woman Neytiri, whose people are forced to flee their lush homeland when a familiar human threat returns to Pandora. Worthington, 46, Saldaña, 44, and 73-year-old Weaver (who, in a casting twist, plays the couple’s adopted teen daughter, Kiri) talk about what it was like returning to that magical world. Sam, Zoe, can you…

Ryan Reynolds is used to being popular. His performance in the Deadpool films earned him a Golden Globe nomination, as well as loyal fans and a small fortune. So it was a shock when he found himself at a pub in Wales having to win over a suspicious community. Not content with Hollywood stardom, Reynolds was there because he had just bought the local football club with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Rob McElhenney. “The challenge was people looking around and thinking: ‘What are these guys doing here?’” recalls McElhenney. They battled hostility from fans — and at first, Reynolds’ wife, Blake Lively, who didn’t understand why he had spent so much on a Welsh football team — and were teased for not knowing the offside rule. But their…

Naomi Watts is no stranger to scary movies. She kick-started her career in David Lynch’s creepy Mulholland Drive, starred in the cult classic The Ring and most recently in the psychological horror Goodnight Mommy. In her Netflix series, The Watcher — based on a real-life New Jersey stalking case — she plays Nora Brannock, who moves into her suburban dream house with her husband, Dean (Bobby Cannavale), and soon finds her family terrorized by a sinister letter writer named “The Watcher.” The mom of two, 54, who also stars in the upcoming season of the anthology series Feud, talks about what drew her to her latest spine-tingler. What made you decide to do The Watcher? NW I found the story wildly compelling and super juicy. I knew that it would…

He had a long run as one of Hollywood’s favorite leading men, only to fall to the sidelines in TV and film in recent years. But thanks to his moving performance in The Whale (set to stream this year), Brendan Fraser is not only the talk of the town, but also a sure Oscar front-runner. The psychological drama from Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky follows Charlie, a reclusive, obese English teacher in the last days of his life, as he tries to reconnect with his estranged 17-year-old daughter, Ellie (Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink), for one last chance at redemption. Fraser, 54, and Sink, 20, open up about their roles, the challenges of fame and why it’s not called a “fat suit.” Darren said he searched for 10 years for the…

Back in December 2021, when Yellowjackets was halfway through its first season, the critically acclaimed psychological thriller was renewed for a second installment. Then, in late 2022, three months before season 2 was set to premiere on March 24, Showtime execs announced a third would soon follow suit. “With Yellowjackets’ runaway success in season 1 and the pent-up anticipation for season 2, we wanted to maximize the momentum by fast-tracking season 3 now,” explained Chris McCarthy, president and CEO of Showtime and Paramount Media Networks. “The show’s ambition is only exceeded by its execution.” Fans of the series — which was nominated for seven Primetime Emmys — are thrilled, as is the topnotch cast. “Look, I’ll do this show forever if they let me,” tweeted star Melanie Lynskey. (The…

YOUR HONOR Can a dad do good after breaking bad? Season 1 found judge Michael Desiato (Bryan Cranston) going to extremes to protect his kid Adam from the aftermath of a hit-and-run accident that killed the son of crime boss Jimmy Baxter (Michael Stuhlbarg) — only for Adam to be offed accidentally. Season 2 finds U.S. Attorney Olivia Delgado (Rosie Perez) offering Michael a chance at redemption — by eradicating the crime organization. FATAL ATTRACTION Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Caplan step in for Michael Douglas and Glenn Close in this miniseries, which modernizes the 1987 erotic thriller about lawyer Dan Gallagher, who gets more than he bargained for when he embarks on an affair with book editor Alex Forrest. By considering Alex’s point of view (and her mental illness), this…

Emily in Paris She’s back! Paris transplant Emily Cooper (a delightful Lily Collins) has a lot of big decisions to make in the third installment of the très chic series: Will she team up with her old boss back in the U.S. (Kate Walsh)? And who will win her heart, chef Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) or Alfie (Lucien Laviscount)? Bros Set in New York City, Bros is the story of Bobby (Billy Eichner), a commitment-phobic podcast host, and Aaron (Luke Macfarlane), the equally relationship-averse lawyer he meets at a club. Their road to happiness is paved with humor, heart and — in classic Eichner form — a whole lot of snark. Your Place or Mine Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher return to their romantic comedy roots in the Netflix flick, starring…

PITCH PERFECT: BUMPER IN BERLIN Taking place several years after the last Pitch Perfect installment, this series follows Adam Devine’s Bumper as he moves to Germany to make it big after his song goes viral on TikTok. While the road to superstardom isn’t quite as smooth as he hoped, he’s got his assistant (the always-adorable Sarah Hyland) to help him find his way. MATILDA THE MUSICAL This adaptation of the popular stage musical stars newcomer Alisha Weir as Matilda Wormwood, an extraordinary girl with a vivid imagination who uses her telekinetic powers to overcome bullies, her negligent parents and the evil Headmistress Trunchbull (played by Emma Thompson in a spirited, scenery-chewing turn). HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: THE MUSICAL: THE SERIES The third season of the Disney+ show (a mockumentary set at…

When it comes to acting, Margot Robbie is used to going all in. But for her new movie, Babylon (expected to stream on Paramount+), she really had to kick things up a notch. In the latest Hollywood extravaganza from La La Land director Damien Chazelle, the Aussie-born Oscar nominee plays Nellie LaRoy, a wannabe starlet and wild child in 1920s Tinseltown as it makes the transition from silent movies to talkies. Robbie, 32, whose character is based on the era’s real-life It Girl Clara Bow, talks about digging deep into the role and giving it her all. How would you describe your character? MR She’s an aspiring actress. She’s like a tornado, and she’s not going to let anyone stand in her way. I remember I had written a…

Olivia Wilde wants to give people something to talk about with Don’t Worry Darling. The twisty thriller centers around a 1950s housewife, Alice (Florence Pugh), who rebels when she starts to suspect that her picture-perfect life in a utopian experimental community is not what it seems — and that the town’s men, including her husband, Jack (Harry Styles), are hiding a dark secret. “The film is intentionally provocative,” says Wilde. “This was a time when women had very few rights and made an agreement not to ask questions. I want people to feel inspired by a heroine like Alice.” Wilde, 38, who also appears in the movie as Alice’s friend Bunny, talks about the conversations she hopes to ignite — and has the final word about her rumored falling-out with…

Jennifer Lawrence was only 20 when Winter’s Bone launched her acting career. In her new Apple TV+ movie, Causeway, the Oscar winner returns to the kind of raw, insightful performance that first made her a star. Lawrence plays Lynsey, a military engineer with a traumatic brain injury back home from Afghanistan who strikes up an unlikely friendship with James (Atlanta’s Brian Tyree Henry), a car mechanic suffering from demons of his own. Here, Lawrence, 32 — who welcomed son Cy with husband Cooke Maroney last year — reflects on her most famous roles and reveals what lies ahead. “I’m not stuck on the kind of movies I want to make,” she says. “I open everything with fresh eyes.” Can you tell us about Causeway and what drew you to the…

Since shooting to international superstardom in Rocky, Sylvester Stallone has made more than 50 films in his five-decade career. Now the action-movie legend is starring in his first-ever TV series, Paramount+’s Tulsa King, the latest heartland saga from Yellowstone cocreator Taylor Sheridan. Stallone plays Dwight “The General” Manfredi, a New York mobster released from prison who is exiled to Oklahoma to rebuild his criminal empire. The actor, 76 — who’s also set to star in an upcoming reality show that will chronicle his home life — talks about his pivot to TV and why he couldn’t resist the role. “It has heart, energy and humor,” he says. “What more can you ask for?” How did you come to get involved in Tulsa King? SS I met Taylor a while back,…

ARCHETYPES Whether you tune in for Meghan Markle’s empowering discussions with stars including Serena Williams and Mariah Carey — or to hear her dish on her personal life — the duchess has finally found a safe place to speak her mind. What follows are organic conversations about stereotypes, stigmas and the challenges of being a modern woman. YOU’RE WRONG ABOUT Hindsight is 20/20 — which is why Sarah Marshall reevaluates past narratives by looking at them with a 2023 lens. And after hearing the journalist probe topics like after-school specials and the infamous Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton scandal, you just may leave with a new perspective. SOUNDS LIKE A CULT Comedian Isa Medina-Maté and author Amanda Montell take deep dives into today’s trends — like Starbucks, plastic surgery and SoulCycle — and…