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Raúl Esparza will return to “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” as attorney Rafael Barba in the season 23 finale, NBC confirmed to TheWrap on Thursday.

In the May 19 episode, Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish) asks for his help when a victim of domestic violence — who’ll be played by Jordana Spiro of TBS comedy “My Boys” — is prosecuted.

The former Assistant District Attorney was last seen in the December episode “The People Vs. Richard Wheatley,” in which he defended Dylan McDermott’s mobster for the murder of Kathy Stabler. He successfully deadlocked the jury, resulting in a mistrial, and also succeeded in alienating Svu captain Olivia (Mariska Hargitay), who had begged him not to take the case.

Esparza made his “Svu”debut in Season 14 and became a series regular the following season, before leaving in Season 19. He has since returned as an “Svu” guest star and also appeared on “Law & Order: Organized Crime.

Netflix’s “Bridgerton” was viewed for more than 2.5 billion minutes during the week of its Season 2 debut, according to Nielsen’s newly released streaming Top 10 rankings.

The Chris Van Dusen-created period romance was easily the No. 1 program on streaming for the week of March 21-27 on Nielsen’s charts, even though only its first season was available for the majority of that week, as Season 2 premiered on March 25. Nielsen does not breakdown its streaming data by season, so the 2.5 billion minutes tally counts viewership across all 16 episodes of “Bridgerton” Season 1 and 2 combined.

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Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you haven’t watched the season finale of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 13 winner Symone was hailed for her high-fashion runway style that saw her glide to victory and become America’s next drag race superstar. Earlier this evening, she crowned Willow Pill as Season 14’s winner, thereby concluding her reign.

Symone spoke with Variety about her favorite looks from this season’s queens, and shared the inspiration behind her own finale ensemble.

Willow Pill and the Roast of Ross Mathews (Ep. 13)

“This look is one that is so visceral in my head.

In a season full of twists, RuPaul’s Drag Race just delivered the biggest one yet: it actually ended!

The longest competition in the show’s herstory finally reached its conclusion on Friday with an extravaganza filmed on the Flamingo Las Vegas stage, with the largest group of “final” queens — Angeria Paris VanMichaels, Bosco, Daya Betty, Lady Camden and Willow Pill — battling for the crown, the title and the 150,000 grand prize.

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An all-winners season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars requires an all-winners panel of guest judges, and that’s exactly what we’re getting.

The Season 7 trailer has arrived, revealing a star-studded assemblage of guests: Cameron Diaz, Daphne Guinness, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Nikki Glaser, Tove Lo, Betsey Johnson, Janicza Bravo, Ben Platt, Ronan Farrow and Hannah Einbinder.

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Start your engines, and may the best winner win (again)!

During the season finale of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” on Friday night, fans got an extended first look at Season 7 of “All Stars,” which will feature a cast of eight previous winners for the first time ever. The trailer revealed some of the upcoming season’s celebrity guests, including supermodel Naomi Campbell, “Charlie’s Angels” star Cameron Diaz, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and journalist Ronan Farrow.

The new season is set to premiere May 20 on Paramount+, as the cast competes for the title of “Queen of All Queens” and a cash prize

“Swimming with Sharks” has waded into dangerously realistic waters while showcasing the abuse at the heart of Hollywood, but showrunner Kathleen Robertson wants to clarify that the Roku Channel series is anything but a woman-versus-woman cautionary tale.

The psychological thriller, now streaming, stars Kiernan Shipka as a Los Angeles newcomer who becomes the assistant to an ambitious studio executive played by Diane Kruger. Inspired by the 1994 film of the same name, “Swimming with Sharks” gender-swapped its two lead characters for a female-driven story.

“My feeling was if I could use this world as a jumping-off point, but have it be told through the eyes of two very complex women, there would be something there,” writer-producer Robertson told Black Book Magazine. “I’ve been a working actor since the age of 10 so this industry is very much a part of my identity. I grew up on sets. I have my 10,000 hours,

Scripted limited-run dramas inspired by recent, buzzy true-crime tales have recently oversaturated the market. And yet for as many as there are, notably few have drawn from what is arguably America’s most consequential (and most intractable) criminal justice phenomenon. The problem of dysfunctional policing and its disproportionate impact on communities of color has been largely ignored by scripted television, save for occasional arcs on the fictional police dramas whose rose-tinted views of police work have contributed to that very issue. (The quality of such well-intentioned episodes generally ranges between “Not totally humiliating” and “May induce cringe spasms.”)

The recent

“A Very British Scandal” production designer Christina Moore spent time driving around the Scottish Highlands as she sought locations for the Amazon Prime limited series. Set in 1963, the historical drama charts the tumultuous marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, played by Claire Foy and Paul Bettany.

The Duke, who had inherited Scotland’s crumbling Inveraray Castle, married a series of women hoping to use their money to maintain the castle. His third marriage was to society figure and serial adulteress Margaret Whigham. As rumors of adultery, violence and alcoholism come into play, their divorce becomes a subject of hot gossip.

Jeopardy! contestants continue to reign supreme in Season 38 as current champion Mattea Roach joins the ranks of the game show’s all-time consecutive wins game list and all-time highest non-tournament cash winnings list. Roach, who is a 23-year-old tutor from Toronto, Ontario, won her 14th consecutive straight game of Jeopardy! on Friday, April 22, collecting 34,000 in final jeopardy and raising her total earnings to 320,081. She is now the show’s eighth-best all-time consecutive winner and tenth best all-time highest non-tournament cash winnings player. Along with her stats, Roach is also Jeopardy!‘s winningest Canadian contestant in the history of the game show. Through her run, Roach has answered 93 of clues correctly across the 14 games. Despite her success, Roach never anticipated that she’s be entering the ranks of Jeopardy!‘s top champions when arriving at the Alex Trebek Stage for taping. “This has been such a crazy season of streaks and

The last time HBO’s “Barry” aired on TV, the final season of “Game of Thrones” was unfolding, Donald Trump was president of the U.S. and nobody on Earth had ever heard of “Covid-19.” It was a much simpler time!

It’s been nearly three years since Emmy winner Bill Hader last played Barry Berkman, everyone’s favorite part-time assassin and aspiring actor. Barry has successfully avoided arrest following several murders, while also growing as a thespian and dating fellow actor Sally (Sarah Goldberg), but Season 3 puts him in his most precarious position yet. Barry’s former handler, Monroe

With her 14th consecutive “Jeopardy!” win on Friday, Mattea Roach snagged eighth place on the show’s all-time list of most consecutive game wins.

Roach, a 23-year-old tutor from Toronto, Ontario, has won a modest 320,081 in prize money, bringing her to 10th place on the list of all-time highest non-tournanment cash earnings. Roach is also the highest ranking Canadian contestant in “Jeopardy!” history, and has answered 93 of clues correctly throughout her 14 games.

Earlier this year, contestant Amy Schneider capped an impressive 40-game winning streak with overall winnings that totaled 1,382,800. Schneider currently holds the second highest winning streak in “Jeopardy!” history,

Jeopardy!‘s super-champ era shows no sign of slowing down.

The game show’s latest Mvp, Mattea Roach, notched her 14th straight victory in Friday’s episode, bringing her total haul to 320,081 and cementing her place in the game show’s record books.

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With her latest triumph, the 23-year-old tutor from Toronto, Ontario, entered

[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “Ozark” Season 4, Part 1 and the preceding seasons.]

“Ozark” is coming to an end. After bursting onto Netflix back in July 2017, the Byrde family will say goodbye on April 29, 2022. The streaming service premiered the first half of Season 4 back in January, and the final seven episodes will debut in just a few short days.

In case your memory is as wrecked as ours and Part 1 already feels like a distant, fuzzy memory, IndieWire has put together an “Everything To Know” guide for the final season, in the hopes of refreshing our collective memories. After all, with stakes this high, it’s best to be as prepared as possible before the ultimate end arrives.

Created by Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams, with Chris Mundy serving as showrunner, “Ozark” tells the story of Marty and Wendy Byrde, a married couple living in the Chicago suburbs with their two children, Charlotte (Sofia Hublitz) and

Fourteen years after the conclusion of The Wire — the seminal Baltimore drama about drugs, racism and police corruption — exec producers David Simon and George Pelecanos return to the scene of the crimes with a new limited series, We Own This City. “On the surface, this is about the [rise and fall] of the Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force,” Pelecanos says of the series, based on local reporter Justin Fenton’s nonfiction book. “But David and I saw it as a way to talk about policing in general and where it’s going wrong with regard to the drug war. The story and the players are real.” (Credit: Paul Schiraldi/HBO) Led by superstar sergeant Wayne Jenkins (a riveting Jon Bernthal), the Gttf was commended for its arrest and gun retrieval numbers. At the same time, its members shook down civilians, robbed cash and narcotics from dealers, and sold some of the confiscated drugs and arms.

Sean “Diddy” Combs will host the 2022 Billboard Music Awards, NBC and MRC announced Friday. The BBMAs will be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 15 and will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Et/5 p.m. Pt on NBC, in addition to streaming live on Peacock.

“This will be unlike any awards show – I’m bringing the love and setting the frequency at an all-time high,” said Combs. “The Billboard Music Awards truly represent the artists and where music is today, so I’m excited to curate the biggest live performances and surprises. The world has to tune in to see.

You know the story of the Watergate scandal, but you haven’t seen it told quite like this.

In Starz’s upcoming limited series Gaslit (premiering Sunday at 8/7c), the downfall of President Richard Nixon is explored from the perspective of his less-famous, but very power-hungry subordinates. But history, as we know, goes much deeper than that. Untold stories are unraveled, from the unhinged extremists who joined in to aid and abet the politicians’ crimes, to the whistleblowers who exposed the corruption and burned everything to the ground.

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Killing Eve, you’ve got some explaining to do. Author Luke Jennings has chimed in with his opinion about the finale, which aired Sunday, April 10 on BBC America, and he didn’t mince words. Jodie Comer‘s Villanelle is shot dead in the last moments of the Killing Eve series finale, after much of the episode was dedicated to showing her and Sandra Oh‘s Eve’s acceptance of their feelings for each other. Fans got to see the women acting like a normal couple for what ended up being fleeting moments, including a tension-breaking, cathartic kiss that’d been brewing for four seasons, just for the psychopath assassin to be killed in the very last moments. It’s an unfortunate addition to the “bury your gays” trope, where Lgbtqia+ characters — frequently queer women — are robbed of having happily ever afters. Jennings wrote the book series on which Killing Eve is based,

Kris Jenner took the stand for the second day in the 100M defamation trial brought on by Blac Chyna, the ex-fiancé of her son, Rob Kardashian. Chyna sued the Kardashian family in 2017, claiming they ruined her reality TV career. She has accused Jenner — the grandmother of her and Kardashian’s five-year-old daughter, Dream — of being the ringleader who facilitated a master plan to axe Chyna from E!’s airwaves because the famous family had a vendetta against her.

Chyna, a model and influencer whose real name is Angela White, says the Kardashian-Jenners are responsible for cancelling Season 2 of the former couple’s reality show,

Spoiler Alert: This article contains spoilers from the Restaurant Wars episode of “Top Chef” Season 19, which aired April 21 on Bravo.

The most stressful storyline on TV this year, bar none, has been the exquisite tension of waiting for everyone on the 19th season of “Top Chef” to find out that contestant Jackson Kalb was competing without a sense of taste, thanks to a nasty bout of Covid before production began. Incredibly, Kalb had kept it a secret for weeks as he cooked spectacular dishes lauded for their bold flavors — none of which he could taste at all. That it finally