TV Shows to Watch the Week of Dec. 24, 2018: ‘Orville’ Season Premiere, ‘Escape at Dannemora’ Finale
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Each week, Variety’s TV team combs through the week’s schedule, selecting our picks of what to watch and when/how to watch them. This week, “The Orville” begins its second season and “Escape at Dannemora” concludes.
“Alexa & Katie,” Netflix, Wednesday
In the second season of this multi-camera comedy, the indomitable best friends go through their sophomore year of high school. With hair on their heads, Alexa and Katie tackle the challenges of high school and the lingering complications of Alexa’s cancer with the comfort of knowing that together, they can get through anything.
“The Orville,” Fox, Sunday, 8 p.m. (Note: Start time dependent on length of NFL doubleheader)
In the second season premiere, Ed and the crew race to save a small group of survivors on a planet...
Each week, Variety’s TV team combs through the week’s schedule, selecting our picks of what to watch and when/how to watch them. This week, “The Orville” begins its second season and “Escape at Dannemora” concludes.
“Alexa & Katie,” Netflix, Wednesday
In the second season of this multi-camera comedy, the indomitable best friends go through their sophomore year of high school. With hair on their heads, Alexa and Katie tackle the challenges of high school and the lingering complications of Alexa’s cancer with the comfort of knowing that together, they can get through anything.
“The Orville,” Fox, Sunday, 8 p.m. (Note: Start time dependent on length of NFL doubleheader)
In the second season premiere, Ed and the crew race to save a small group of survivors on a planet...
- 12/24/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Last year, the Academy documentary branch had to grapple with a record 170 documentary feature submissions for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. This year, it’s not so bad: only 166 were entered. The short list of 15 will be announced, along with eight others for the first time on a single date this year: December 17.
All year, branch members have been getting lists of secure online screeners available to watch on the Academy website, increasing in volume until last month, when they received a batch of 77, with more to come. It’s a burden to watch them all, so the ones with the most attention move to the top of the much-watch list. Give the advantage to early box office hits that were made available in the summer such as “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” “Rbg,” and “Three Identical Strangers,” as well as September’s list including critically hailed “Dark Money,...
All year, branch members have been getting lists of secure online screeners available to watch on the Academy website, increasing in volume until last month, when they received a batch of 77, with more to come. It’s a burden to watch them all, so the ones with the most attention move to the top of the much-watch list. Give the advantage to early box office hits that were made available in the summer such as “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” “Rbg,” and “Three Identical Strangers,” as well as September’s list including critically hailed “Dark Money,...
- 11/8/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
“Bigger than the game” is a phrase that gets tossed around quite often during major sporting events. The World Cup is certainly no exception, as national soccer teams, regardless of who they’re playing, have come to symbolize more than just a group of athletes. Through their resiliency in competition and the pride they instill in fandoms, sports teams are almost never just a collection of jerseys.
“Nossa Chape,” the newest documentary from “The Two Escobars” filmmakers Jeff and Michael Zimbalist, recognizes this fact almost immediately. About Chapecoense, the team born from a western Brazilian city that grew to national and international prominence, the film wastes no time showing how both team and community are intertwined. It also doesn’t take long for “Nossa Chape” to detail the tragic aftermath of a plane crash that killed 71 players and club staff in a late November 2016. Rather than treat this cataclysmic event as a prolonged,...
“Nossa Chape,” the newest documentary from “The Two Escobars” filmmakers Jeff and Michael Zimbalist, recognizes this fact almost immediately. About Chapecoense, the team born from a western Brazilian city that grew to national and international prominence, the film wastes no time showing how both team and community are intertwined. It also doesn’t take long for “Nossa Chape” to detail the tragic aftermath of a plane crash that killed 71 players and club staff in a late November 2016. Rather than treat this cataclysmic event as a prolonged,...
- 6/23/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
The list of executive producers who have worked on films in Fox Sports’ “Magnify” documentary series reads like the lineup of an all-star revival of the old MTV show “Rock N’ Jock.” EPs on previous and forthcoming installments include LeBron James, Common, Dwyane Wade, Chance the Rapper, and Kevin Durant. The newest addition to the series, director Andrew Renzi’s “They Fight,” boasts Drew Brees, Tony Parker, Derrick Brooks, and Michael Finley in exec producer roles.
Fox announced the acquisition of “They Fight” last week. The film tells the story of an after-school boxing program in Washington D.C.’s Ward 8 — one of the city’s most economically challenged areas. The movie fits the mission of the “Magnify” series — leveraging the power of star athletes and entertainers, as well as Fox’s television platforms, to push eyeballs to off-the-beaten path socially conscious sport stories.
“It’s been pretty crazy how quickly it happened,...
Fox announced the acquisition of “They Fight” last week. The film tells the story of an after-school boxing program in Washington D.C.’s Ward 8 — one of the city’s most economically challenged areas. The movie fits the mission of the “Magnify” series — leveraging the power of star athletes and entertainers, as well as Fox’s television platforms, to push eyeballs to off-the-beaten path socially conscious sport stories.
“It’s been pretty crazy how quickly it happened,...
- 6/12/2018
- by Daniel Holloway
- Variety Film + TV
It was tragedy, not triumph, that made the Chapecoense football club world-famous. The small-city team's Cinderella story came to a calamitous halt in November 2016, when their charter flight to the Copa Sudamericana finals in Colombia crashed into a mountain, decimating the team's roster of players as well as its staff. Their losses and their resilience are brought into clear-eyed, sympathetic focus in the documentary Nossa Chape, a stirring portrait of individual and communal grief.
Filmmakers Michael and Jeff Zimbalist and their co-director, Julian Duque, begin their story in the traumatic weeks after the crash and follow the ensuing months'...
Filmmakers Michael and Jeff Zimbalist and their co-director, Julian Duque, begin their story in the traumatic weeks after the crash and follow the ensuing months'...
- 3/9/2018
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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