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1923’s People We Care About body count climbs two, possibly three notches in this week’s episode. Sheesh, being attached to the Duttons really isn’t good for one’s longevity.

Read on to see who definitely doesn’t make it through “Ghost of Zebrina” (and who might not be around come next Sunday).

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Poor Emma | Cara drives to the post office — with two guards — and sees newspaper:

Two weeks after Peacock canceled One of Us Is Lying after its second season and fellow YA series Vampire Academy after its first, Susan Rovner has some explaining to do. Rovner, the chair of entertainment content at NBCUniversal TV and streaming, sounded off on those cancelations and Peacock’s young-adult challenges in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter’s TV’s Top 5 podcast. “Both One of Us Is Lying and Vampire Academy I hold up as excellent, quality shows,” Rovner said on the podcast. “I think [Vampire Academy co-creator] Julie Plec is really, truly one of the best showrunners, and she did a phenomenal, phenomenal job on that show. I’m really, really proud of it.” But Rovner speculated it was “too soon” for Peacock to release those two shows. “I think what we realized is we have to get the parents [watching Peacock] before we get the teens,” she said.

With a total of 91 awards to hand out on Sunday, the Grammys can’t afford to limit itself to a single televised event. Enter the Premiere Ceremony.

Streaming live at 3:30/2:30c, the Randy Rainbow-hosted event will give out the first awards of the year. In fact, more Grammy winners will be announced during the Premiere Ceremony than during the main event, which will air live at 8 pm on CBS.

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Another Saturday Night Live favorite is joining the NBC show’s hallowed Five-Timers Club: Woody Harrelson is hosting the sketch-comedy series’ February 25 episode. SNL’s Twitter account announced Harrelson’s upcoming five-peat, adding that Jack White will be the musical guest. Harrelson, who won an Emmy Award for his part on Cheers and has three Academy Award nominations to his name, previously hosted SNL in 1989, 1992, 2014, and 2019. The White House Plumbers actor also popped up in Cheers costar Kirstie Alley’s SNL monologue in 1991. And in 2019, he played then-presidential candidate Joe Biden in two SNL episodes. Saturday Night Live’s other five-timers are John Mulaney, Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Dwayne Johnson, Melissa McCarthy, Justin Timberlake, Ben Affleck, Candice Bergen, and former SNL cast members Bill Murray and Will Ferrell. Other SNL veterans have hosted even more times. Tina Fey, Scarlett Johansson, Drew Barrymore, Danny DeVito, and Elliott Gould have all hosted the show six times.

Charles Kimbrough, a stage and screen actor best known for his performance as anchorman Jim Dial on the CBS comedy series “Murphy Brown,” died Jan. 11 in Culver City, Calif. He was 86 years old.

Kimbrough’s death was confirmed to the New York Times by his son, John Kimbrough.

A celebrated theater actor who earned a Tony Award nomination for his performance as Harry in the original 1970 Broadway production of the Stephen Sondheim musical “Company,” Kimbrough’s talents reached the mainstream in the late-’80s, starring alongside Candice Bergen on the newsroom sitcom “Murphy Brown.” Kimbrough earned an Emmy nomination for

Charles Kimbrough, an Emmy-nominated star of Murphy Brown, has died. He was 86 years old. The actor passed away on January 11 in Culver City, CA, as his son, John, confirmed to The New York Times. Kimbrough is best known for playing dignified anchor Jim Dial on Murphy Brown for the CBS sitcom’s original 10-season run between 1988 and 1998. His performance earned him an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1990. And when CBS revived the sitcom for another season in 2018, Kimbrough brought Jim back for a multi-episode arc. “Charlie Kimbrough … wrote a whole biography for [Jim Dial] before he started to play him,” Murphy Brown creator Diane English said in a 2007 interview with the Archive of American Television. “His was different than mine, but, you know, his wins because he’s got to actually be that guy.” She added: “Charlie is the most lovable, lanky, rubbery, sweet, adorable man.

Charles Kimbrough, the actor who portrayed Jim Dial in all 10 seasons of Murphy Brown and its 2018 revival, died on Jan. 11. He was 86.

His son, John Kimbrough, confirmed the news to the New York Times on Sunday.

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Kimbrough’s performance as Dial earned him an Emmy Award nomination in 1990. The CBS sitcom ran between 1988-1998 and followed the misadventures of Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen), a famous investigative TV journalist. Kimbrough played opposite Bergen as her stuffy colleague,

Songs can have the power to make or break a show just from their inclusion in a scene, but shows also have the power to reinvigorate songs because of their inclusion. Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (Make A Deal With God)” topped the charts because of its incorporation into the powerful fourth episode “Dear Billy” in Stranger Things. More recently, Linda Ronstadt’s “Long Long Time” was given new life after being used to tell the love story between Bill and Frank in the emotional third episode of The Last of Us. Scenes are sometimes only as compelling as the songs that accompany them. Get ready to create a new playlist because here are seven more of the best uses of songs in television shows that have elevated the narrative and contributed to their popularity in the charts and on social media. “I Think We’re Alone Now” by

Pedro Pascal made his “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut last night, making his first trip to Studio 8H to promote his role on “The Last of Us.” In his opening monologue, he looked back at the grueling shoots he endured to bring the video game adaptation to life — and wondered why he couldn’t have landed an easier gig like “The White Lotus.”

“Some HBO shows get to shoot in a five-star Italian resort surrounded by beautiful people,” Pascal said. “But I said no, that’s too easy. I want to shoot in a freezing Canadian forest while being chased around by a guy whose head looks like a genital wart.”

“The Last of Us” has turned into a bona fide cultural phenomenon, but Pascal was never a stranger to high-profile TV shows. The actor has been involved with some of television’s biggest brands, but he’s still getting

Nearly two years after playing the Titanic-sinking iceberg on Saturday Night Live, Bowen Yang played another news-making white object floating in the Atlantic: the Chinese spy balloon that the U.S. shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, February 4. Just hours after that Air Force operation sent the balloon plummeting into the Atlantic, NBC’s SNLparodied the diplomatic incident in the cold open of Saturday’s episode. “Good evening. It’s good to be with you,” Chloe Fineman said in the sketch, in character as MSNBC anchor Katy Tur. “Tonight, our long national nightmare is over. We got the balloon.” After reporting how the spy balloon “inflamed already volatile U.S./Chinese relations,” Fineman’s Tur turned to expert commentary from a Pentagon official named General William Hamilton, played by Kenan Thompson. And Hamilton said the balloon was “somehow able to get past our West Coast anti-balloon defense system,

When they met nearly three decades ago, The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal and American Horror Story vet Sarah Paulson couldn’t have known they’d one day appear together on Saturday Night Live. And yet there they were, joining forces for the “Fancam Assembly” sketch during Pascal’s SNL hosting debut on Saturday, February 4. In the sketch, Pascal plays Mr. Ben, a beloved teacher at St. Lawrence High School, who’s laying down a new rule for his students: No TikTok fan cams about faculty. “But we make them because you’re our beloved, and you have us in a chokehold!” Sarah Sherman’s student character responds. “Ok, don’t say that.” Mr. Ben replies. “I just don’t understand! Why do you make sparkly, fast, romantic montages of me every single day?” Eventually, the students explain. “Because three years [of] Covid made us online forever,” Sherman’s character says.

Yellowstone is, this season, giving us more of a look into the Duttons’ past than it has before, with a significant amount of flashbacks showing younger versions of John (Josh Lucas), Beth (Kylie Rogers), and Rip (Kyle Red Silverstein). When we last saw flashbacks, before the midseason break — the Paramount Network show returns in the summer — Beth and Rip’s relationship was, of course, complicated. Oh, and Rip had accidentally killed Rowdy (Kai Caster) and accepted the brand as a result. Here, Rogers opens up about playing Beth in the flashbacks. How much did you know about how much we’d be seeing you again after Season 3? Kylie Rogers: It was quite a bit of a surprise how prominent the flashback storyline would be in Season 5, and it was super exciting to find out about because in the past seasons, it was Beth as a younger girl. Now I get

As a great man once said, “February: It’s the worst month of the year, but it’s an honest month.” While I disagree with the “worst” part — August, and its sweltering heat, is abysmal— I can’t dispute the honesty inherent to February, especially when it comes to television. The cold weather, early sunsets, and lack of legitimate holidays can leave us exhausted, and when worn out, TV is often the quickest, simplest reprieve.

And in February, there’s no pretending. It’s too early for the networks to release their Emmy darlings, and too late to premiere their most-hyped projects. Instead, audiences are force-fed a whole lot of junk. Sure, there may be a few tantalizing tidbits stuffed into these big ol’ nothing burgers — a favorite actor or an entrancing subject — but the overall result is the same: a lot of bad food, that you may just have to eat anyway.

Inspired by Pedro Pascal‘s HBO hit The Last of Us, Saturday Night Live took a stab at adapting a different video game with a mushroom fixation: Mario Kart.

In the digital short, Pascal portrays Mario in a spoof trailer for the dystopian thriller. Pascal is tasked with helping Princess Peach (Chloe Fineman) get to Rainbow Road.

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“It’s a-me, Mario,” Pascal says mimicking his character’s speech pattern, but

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Pedro Pascal hosted Saturday Night Live with a case of the giggles. The actor broke character multiple times in what marked a charming SNL debut.

In one skit, Pascal and friends gather at an upscale restaurant to celebrate a birthday. Also in attendance is the birthday girl’s sister, Lisa (Ego Nwodim), visiting from Temecula for the occasion.

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The sketch, however, ultimately centers on an unlikely

REinvent International Sales has picked up “Fatal Crossing,” a crime series based on Lone Theils’s bestselling debut novel was published in 20 countries.

The eight-episode series is produced by Shuuto Arctic, the banner behind “Outlier” and “Catch and Release,” two popular Nordic crime series. The Scandinavian cast is led by Marie Sandø (“The Marco Effect”), alongside Jesper Paasch (“The Rain”), Anna Stokholm (“The New Nurses”), Siir Tilif (“Those Who Kill”) and Viktor Hjelmsø (“Boys”).

Created and written by Arne Berggren and Kristine Berg, who previously teamed on “Catch and Release” and “Outlier,” “Fatal Crossing” spans two different periods in time,

This weekend’s Saturday Night Live took aim at #PeakTV, and dissed a current Netflix hit in the process.

During a showbiz-themed game show parody featuring contestants Robert, Jacqueline and Mary — played respectively by host Pedro Pascal and cast members Ego Nwodim and Chloe Fineman — Big Hollywood Quiz host Jack Delmar (Bowen Yang) proceeded to ask the players questions about a number of seemingly buzzy TV series. And they whiffed each and every time.

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Most notably,

“Saturday Night Live” used Pablo Pascal’s Feb. 4 appearance as host to push a few buttons.

The NBC sketch comedy show featured a pre-taped segment imagining what an HBO drama using the famous Nintendo videogame characters Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach would look like. The answer: Pretty dystopian.

In the vignette, Pascal plays Mario and tells Peach that “Karting out here isn’t a game. If we’re going to make it, we’re going to need all the help we can get.” His backup? Luigi.

The spoof suggested that viewers were likely to see “all your favorite wacky racers reimagined as complex,

Welcome to Saturday Night Live‘s exclusive five-timers club, Woody Harrelson.

The actor — whose latest movie, Triangle of Sadness, was nominated for three Oscars — will host SNL on Feb. 25. Jack White will serve as musical guest.

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This will mark Harrelson’s fifth turn as SNL emcee, following stints in 1989, 1992, 2014, 2019.

Harrelson’s return to Studio 8H was announced during this weekend’s Pedro Pascal-hosted show.