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Hugh Laurie, Tegan and Sara, Jonathan Van Ness Face Awkward Interviews in Peacock’s ‘In The Know’ Comedy Trailer – Hollywood Reporter
- Hugh Laurie, Tegan and Sara, Jonathan Van Ness Face Awkward Interviews in Peacock’s ‘In The Know’ Comedy Trailer Hollywood Reporter
- Mike Judge and Zach Wood Pepper Real Celebrities With Dumb Questions in ‘In the Know’ Trailer Rolling Stone
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- Zach Woods NPR Parody ‘In the Know’ Trailer Vulture
- Mike Judge’s new show looks like a cross between Celebrity Death Match and NPR. The Verge
Hugh Laurie, Tegan and Sara, Jonathan Van Ness Face Awkward Interviews in Peacock’s ‘In The Know’ Comedy Trailer – Hollywood Reporter
- Hugh Laurie, Tegan and Sara, Jonathan Van Ness Face Awkward Interviews in Peacock’s ‘In The Know’ Comedy Trailer Hollywood Reporter
- Mike Judge and Zach Woods Pepper Real Celebrities With Dumb Questions in ‘In the Know’ Trailer Rolling Stone
- ‘In The Know’ Trailer: Hugh Laurie, Finn Wolfhard, Tegan And Sara & More Get Pulled Into Awkward Interviews in Peacock’s Adult Semi-Animated Series Deadline
- Zach Woods NPR Parody ‘In the Know’ Trailer Vulture
- Mike Judge’s new show looks like a cross between Celebrity Death Match and NPR. The Verge
Martha Stewart’s pet peacocks eaten by coyotes
Martha Stewart mourned the loss of six peacocks savagely killed by a marauding group of coyotes that has been hanging around her Connecticut compound, the TV personality and businesswoman said Saturday in a sad social media post.
“RIP beautiful BlueBoy,” Stewart wrote on Instagram. “The coyotes came in broad daylight and devoured him and five others, including the magnificent White Boy.”
Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection warns that coyotes are common throughout the state, and advises homeowners to be wary of attacks, listing several “Tips on Preventing Conflicts with Coyotes” on its website that include never allowing pets to run free, especially at night.
“Any solutions for getting rid of six large and aggressive coyotes who have expensive tastes when it comes to poultry?” Stewart posted. “We are no longer allowing the peafowl out of their yard. We are enclosing the top of their large yard with wire fencing etc.”
Stand-Up Comic From Peacock’s ‘Bust Down’ Was 28 – Deadline
Jak Knight, a stand-up comic, writer, and actor with film, cable and streaming credits, died last night in Los Angeles at 28. His family confirmed the death but did not provide details on the circumstances.
Knight most recently co-created and starred alongside Chris Redd, Sam Jay, and Langston Kerman in the Peacock original series Bust Down. A co-executive producer on Pause with Sam Jay for HBO, Knight had recently wrapped filming Chelsea Peretti’s feature directorial debut, First Time Female Director.
Knight played Devon on the hit animated Netflix series Big Mouth, and was previously a writer on the show for five seasons. Knight had toured as a comedian around the world, and his half-hour Netflix Special aired in 2018 as part of The Comedy Lineup series.
No details on survivors or memorial plans have been released.
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Bloody Disgusting’s Firestarter review is spoiler-free.
The Stephen King renaissance continues with a modern adaptation of his 1980 novel, Firestarter. Considering the lackluster response to the 1984 adaptation, it’s likely long overdue. But the real question is whether there’s any thematic depth or storytelling to mine amidst superhero cinema’s current oversaturation and popularity. While The Vigil director Keith Thomas does get Firestarter off to an energetic and engaging start, this reimaging ultimately fails to ignite.
The exposition of how couple Andy (Zac Efron) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon) gained supernatural abilities, courtesy of an experiment, gets relayed over the opening credits. One nightmare sequence later, Firestarter jumps a decade ahead, where Andy and Vicky attempt to raise their gifted daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) and avoid detection by the federal agency that would reclaim them. As if being perpetually on the run isn’t draining enough, Charlie is losing her struggle to repress her mounting powers. Cue an incendiary event that places the family back on the agency’s radar, putting them all in danger.
(from left) Vicky (Sydney Lemmon) and Andy (Zac Efron) in Firestarter, directed by Keith Thomas.
Written by Halloween Kills scribe Scott Teems, Firestarter breaks down into two vastly different halves. The first half builds character dynamics and establishes the emotional stakes. Andy and Vicky are doting parents but with two distinctly different approaches to parenting a young child with immense combustible power. Complicating the conflicting ideals are the contrasting yet similar ways their diminished abilities are ill-equipped to support and control Charlie’s tenuous restraint of her emotions, often resulting in catastrophe. Zac Efron brings a lot to his role, doing a lot of heavy lifting in the front half.
Once Rainbird (Michael Greyeyes) enters the equation fully, prompting a more action-heavy shift with the family on the run, the script derails. Early explorations of morality and consequences get dropped in favor of pyrotechnics, choppy and bland action sequences, and thinly rendered archetypical baddies in Captain Hollister (Gloria Reuben).
It’s all significantly underdeveloped. There’s a clear arc intended for Rainbird, a significant departure from the source material, but Greyeyes is woefully underutilized. While Firestarter wants to make Rainbird an imposing central antagonist, his screen time is far too limited and cringe dialogue too cryptic to grasp motivations and identity fully.
Michael Greyeyes as Rainbird in Firestarter, directed by Keith Thomas.
The entire back half gets rushed. It eschews the source material in favor of a streamlined narrative set in a nondescript concrete facility. A central internal struggle gets tidily squared away with a simple montage. Set pieces, major confrontations, emotional payoffs, and the climax come across so haphazardly that none of it lands. The goodwill built up in the front half gets squandered by the strange narrative and stylistic choices.
It results in a disjointed adaptation that entails two very different features at diverging levels of craft. It feels like chunks of story were excised, leaving behind remnants that hint toward something more interesting. Its protagonists fare much stronger, all given a bit more to work with and time to develop them. The antagonists are so blandly and vaguely written that Firestarter collapses quickly once the narrative attempts to widen the scope beyond the family’s cozy bubble. Despite a strong performance by Zac Efron, a few fun charred corpses, John Carpenter‘s superior score, and brisk pacing, Firestarter winds up mirroring Charlie’s story a little too closely. A promising beginning comes unraveled by the desire to burn it all down.
Firestarter releases in theaters and on Peacock on May 13, 2022.
Financial ‘jackpot’ unlikely for cash-strapped Saint Peter’s Peacocks despite generating NCAA tournament revenue
PHILADELPHIA — One of the most endearing facets of Saint Peter’s NCAA tournament run is the proportional size of the school’s athletic budget compared to the schools that it has slayed.
Saint Peter’s has beaten No. 2 Kentucky, No. 7 Murray State and No. 3 Purdue, which is remarkable considering Saint Peter’s spent $130 million less on athletics last year than Kentucky. Saint Peter’s athletic director Rachelle Paul said the school’s basketball operating budget, which does not include coaching salaries, is less than $250,000 and the lowest number, by far, in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
When No. 15 Saint Peter’s plays No. 8 North Carolina for a chance at the Final Four on Sunday, a vexing question will loom for the MAAC and Saint Peter’s going forward. How do they split up the spoils from Saint Peter’s magical run?
NCAA tournament money math is wonky, but it’s safe to estimate that Saint Peter’s three wins in the tournament will mean a windfall of at least $6 million in additional money from the three extra NCAA units. That money is distributed to the MAAC over the next six years, and the league has autonomy as to how to distribute the money.
“I would like to see however it’s distributed among the members of the MAAC, I’d like to see Saint Peter’s get a little bit more,” Paul said. “We’re the ones doing this, quite frankly.”
Paul added that Saint Peter’s accomplishment and accompanying financial uptick are “unprecedented.” MAAC commissioner Rich Ensor, who is a Saint Peter’s graduate, acknowledges this but said there’s unlikely to be a windfall headed Saint Peter’s way.
Ensor said the ultimate decision on how to fairly compensate Saint Peter’s is something that he’d have to “take up with my board,” which is made up of MAAC presidents. Ensor said there’s already a distribution system in place that allows for a “modest” slice of money for teams that have won in the tournament. The rest of the excess money is expected to be dedicated toward improving basketball in the league.
“I don’t anticipate there’s going to be a jackpot,” he said of Saint Peter’s. “[The presidents] could go in a different direction. It’s really not my call. They tend to want to reinvest.”
Different leagues handle unit money distribution in different ways. It’s not uncommon for a league to weight distribution toward teams that win more games.
For a league like the MAAC, which lacks the revenue of major football conferences, a run like this is transformative. The MAAC hasn’t received more than one unit in the NCAA tournament since 2009.
The MAAC, like all conferences with an automatic bid in the NCAA tournament, is guaranteed one unit every year. This year, those units are worth $338,210.96, according to the NCAA. Those units are paid out over six years, and according to the NCAA, they fluctuate with broadcast rights. So that means each unit is worth at least $338,210.96 over six years, or $2,029,265. For the MAAC, that means this run is worth more than $8.1 million, $2 million of which was already guaranteed. How could a bigger slice of that money dedicated to Saint Peter’s help the infamously cash-strapped program?
“Oh, my gosh,” Paul said. “It could change our whole program. It could help with recruiting, it could help with scholarships, it could help with facility upgrades. There’s a million things that we could use that money for.”
Saint Peter’s coach Shaheen Holloway makes nearly $266,000 per year, according to the latest available tax documents. (The possibility of him leaving for Seton Hall, his alma matter, looms in part because they can pay him nearly ten times more than Saint Peter’s.)
The Saint Peter’s basketball staff has four members who are completely unpaid, according to Paul. And even Saint Peter’s as a university has a smaller endowment ($37 million) than the total amount of Kentucky coach John Calipari’s current contract ($86 million). Paul said the modest basketball operating budget doesn’t even include things like paying officials, as fundraising is required for things that many have money allocated for.
“I would say we’ve got a ways to go to just get to a point where we’re comfortable not crunching numbers for every road trip and every hotel,” she said. “I’m probably making it sound more dire than it is. But we’re very conscientious about what we spend the money on. It only goes so far.”
When Saint Peter’s run does end, there will be a lot of eyes on campus as to how it is rewarded financially for its efforts.
Peacock’s ‘Bel-Air’ reimagines The Fresh Prince’s origin story in first trailer
Bel-Air, Peacock’s modern-day reinterpretation of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, will debut on February 13th, the streamer announced on Monday and shared a first-look trailer. Announced back in 2020, Bel-Air re-envisions the classic ‘90s sitcom as an hour-long drama series. All the main characters from the original return, including Uncle Phil and Carlton, though they may not be like you remember them. That’s most apparent with Carlton who comes off as bashful in the trailer. Thankfully, at least Will’s best friend Jazz looks true to his inspiration.
The project was inspired by a fan film writer and director Morgan Cooper released in 2019. Both Cooper’s creation and the Peacock series lean into the original premise of The Fresh Prince, using Will’s journey from West Philidelphia to Bel-Air to tell a story about second chances, race and class. Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios produced the series, with Cooper serving as director, co-writer and executive producer. He told Smith in 2019 the idea for Bel-Air came to him while driving down Interstate 71. He was thinking about the original show when he drove an underpass and inspiration hit. “I knew I had a story to tell,” he said at the time.
Peacock will release the first three episodes of Bel-Air on Super Bowl Sunday, with subsequent episodes to follow weekly. The series is currently slated to run for two seasons.
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Here’s a trailer for Peacock’s Girls5eva
Tina Fey and Meredith Scardino’s comedy series Girls5eva was one of the more high-profile announcements of Peacock’s first wave (because it was co-created by Tina Fey and has a pretty famous cast), and now we finally have our first look at the series. Girls5eva, as you might be able to guess from that name, is about a ‘90s girl group that suddenly gets renewed relevance when a rapper samples their one hit, inspiring them to reunite and plan a comeback. The girls are played by Sara Bareilles, René Elise Goldsberry, Paula Pell, and Busy Philipps, making this Bareilles second big TV project in the last couple of years and second big TV project for a fledgling streaming service (she did the music for Apple TV+’s Little Voice and appeared in the series as herself).
Girls5eva will premiere on Peacock on May 6, and you can see a trailer for it below this.
[via Deadline]