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Five top TV documentary filmmakers will reveal secrets behind their projects when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022 Emmy Awards nominees. They will participate in two video discussions to premiere on Tuesday, August 9, at 6:00 p.m. Pt; 9:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our contributing editor Charles Bright and a roundtable chat with all of the group together.

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This “Meet the Experts” panel welcomes the following 2022 nominees:

Controlling Britney Spears (FX)

Synopsis: Britney Spears has said that her conservatorship had become “an oppressive and controlling tool against her.” This investigation reveals much of how it worked, including an intense surveillance apparatus that monitored her every move.

The nominees are in for the 60th Annual Grammy Awards, and music's biggest night will feature some of your favorite artists ...though some were snubbed.

Singer-songwriter Andra Day announced the four major categories -- Best New Artist, Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Album Of The Year -- on Tuesday's CBS This Morning.

As far as snubs go, Ed Sheeran was only nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance for his track, "Shape of You," to the shock of many of his fans. Lady Gaga and Kesha also received minimal nominations, despite the popularity of their albums.

However, Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar earned quite a few Grammy nods, as well as Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito" song that features Justin Bieber.

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Looking for great stand-up on Netflix? We count down twenty-five highly recommended comedy specials on the streaming service...

In the face of ever-declining DVD sales, Netflix has quickly become the foremost place to discover new stand-up material. The streaming giant is on track to release over 50 exclusive specials in 2017 alone, signing big names (with big cheques) from both sides of the Atlantic and beyond.

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There is a downside to this remarkable release schedule, though. With so many new specials out there, instantly accessible, it can sometimes feel like the smaller fish in the pond are getting short shrift. Amy Schumer, Dave Chappelle and Jerry Seinfeld have all been featured this year alone: with only so many column inches (and so much screen space) to occupy,...

It’s been 19 years and fans are still debating the “Seinfeld” finale. One of the most-anticipated sendoffs of all time, the comedy’s last episode also proved to be one of the most divisive. Jerry Seinfeld was asked about the polarizing last hurrah at the New Yorker Festival last night, where he admitted that “I sometimes think we really shouldn’t have even done it.”

Read More:‘Jerry Before Seinfeld’ Trailer: New Netflix Stand-Up Special Shows If the Comedian’s Jokes Hold Up 40 Years Later

“There was a lot of pressure on us at that time to do one big last show, but big is always bad in comedy,” he continued. Rather, it should be “small and cheap and quick,” which is why Seinfeld also thinks TV is always funnier than movies, “because you don’t have that much time and that much money.” The episode ends with all four...

“For so many people, learning is a chore, but laughing is not. If we can combine learning with laughing, you can teach anybody, anything,” says famed American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who does exactly that as host of the National Geographic talk show StarTalk, which returns on Sunday, Oct. 1 with a new season of facts, laughs and plenty of A-list guests.

While the show regularly features scientific commentary and cosmic queries, it’s all delivered with a comedic punch. And in today’s polarizing political climate, Tyson says “it’s a comedian’s obligation to challenge social, cultural and political norms.” If they are not, then no one is being challenged to think, he adds.

So it makes sense then that so many funny people, including Ben Stiller, Jay Leno, Larry Wilmore and Whoopi Goldberg, have stopped by the show. “When a comedian is on the show as a guest, I don't seek...

Tom Cruise is back in the cockpit as Barry Seal in American Made, which means the Cinemaholics have just landed to discuss what they think about the new film that’s sweeping the box office.

For Mini Reviews, Jon Negroni, Maveryke Hines and Will Ashton cover some exciting new movies and shows worth checking out. Jon and Will saw Battle of the Sexes, starring Emma Stone and Steve Carrell, and have a battle of their own debating the film’s merits.

Maveryke, meanwhile, lets us know “what the deal” is with Jerry Before Seinfeld, a new comedy special on Netflix. Finally, Will boldly reviews Star Trek Discovery, arguing whether or not we’ll prosper from the new series, and Jon finishes out with a heartfelt review of Stronger, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tatiana Maslany.

As always, here are the links to what was discussed this week (your Cinemahomework):

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Maybe nothing can live up to the legacy of “Seinfeld,” but if you had to chart Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David’s careers following that show, as David might put it, they’ve both been “Pretty, prettyyy, pretty good.” With Seinfeld’s recent Netflix special “Jerry Before Seinfeld” and the return of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” TheWrap’s Sean Burch and Brian Welk have pitted the post-“Seinfeld” careers of both comics against each other in an epic battle royale… about nothing. Round 1: Shows Sean Burch: You’d have to be on bath salts to debate this one. Somehow, Larry David...

Early this year, streaming giant Netflix announced a major deal with legendary comedian Jerry Seinfeld for two, brand new stand-up specials and the rights to his current series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” In the first special of the budding partnership, “Jerry Before Seinfeld,” which dropped on Sept. 19, Seinfeld returns to the The Comic […]...

Jerry Seinfeld's stand-up special Jerry Before Seinfeld launched earlier this week, so in honor of that here's yet another new commercial from Netflix that plays off their ad campaign "Netflix Is A Joke." In it, Jerry tries to entertain Frank and Claire Underwood from House Of Cards as the two stare at each other in silence, and in his typical Seinfeld way, Jerry makes the moment way funnier than it should be! 

Check him out in action below, and be sure to check out his special on Netflix!

Jerry Seinfeld dusts off some of the best jokes from the early years of his career and presents them to a 2017 audience in his new Netflix stand-up special “Jerry Before Seinfeld,” resulting in a surprisingly introspective hour from the famously impersonal comedian. And that gesture toward self-reflection extended to a Q&A session Seinfeld did with Netflix’s Ted Sarandos following the special’s premiere screening in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. The special traces Seinfeld’s career from the initial decision to pursue comedy through his first-ever show at The Comic Strip and his eventual appearance on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show,...

Sorry, “Seinfeld” fans, but it looks like a reboot isn’t in the near future. Jerry Seinfeld is certainly thankful for his Emmy Award-winning NBC sitcom, but these days, the 63-year-old comedian is focusing on new endeavours, particularly his new Netflix stand-up special, “Jerry Before Seinfeld”. With comedy shows like “Will & Grace” and “Roseanne” gearing up for […]...

Sorry, Seinfeld fans, but it looks like a reboot isn't in the near future.

Jerry Seinfeld is certainly thankful for his Emmy Award-winning NBC sitcom, but these days, the 63-year-old comedian is focusing on new endeavors, particularly his new Netflix stand-up special, Jerry Before Seinfeld.

With comedy shows like Will & Grace and Rosanne gearing up for revivals, Et's Nischelle Turner recently caught up with Seinfeld to chat about the possibility of bring his sitcom back.

"Why?" Seinfeld asked. "Maybe it's nice that you continue to love it instead of us tampering with something that went pretty well."

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Before Seinfeld, the comedian was doing stand-up in New York City, beginning his career at the young age of 21. So did he find it difficult to leave his nightly routine for a television show?

"No, oh no...

Planning on staying in for the weekend and not sure what to watch? TV Guide's Editor-in-Chief Mickey O'Connor has a few suggestions. Here's what you should stream this weekend.

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Jerry Seinfeld is in a safe space — too safe critics complain. “Jerry Before Seinfeld” hit the Netflix stage on Tuesday, and the reviews are mixed. Seinfeld already gave audiences an intimate portrait of his life in the 2002 documentary “Comedian,” which followed him getting back into stand-up following the conclusion of his sitcom. So people who were hoping for something more personal and telling from “Jerry Before Seinfeld” may be disappointed. The special is a look back on his life told through old family photographs and videos, but it’s mostly him going through his greatest hits and paying tribute to Johnny.

Jerry Seinfeld is a stand-up comedy legend. The comedian’s self-titled sitcom that he created with Curb Your Enthusiasm mastermind Larry David is one of the most successful network comedies of all time, which is impressive for a show that is famously about nothing. Plus, it’s kind of the inspiration for all the sitcoms following stand-up […]

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(Aotn) In the hour-long ​special, Jerry Seinfeld returns to The Comic Strip in New York City for an intimate ​stand-up ​set at the club that helped launch his career. Interspersed with never-before-seen material — including a library of legal pads with every joke he’s written since 1975, childhood videos, and more — Jerry performs the jokes that put him on the comedy map.

To quote Jerry Seinfeld, “Would I have been funnier if I grew up in Peoria in a whore house raised by prostitutes? Absolutely! But this is what I had to work with”

You can check out the trailer for the upcoming Netflix Original Stand-up series “Jerry Before Seinfeld” below:

“Jerry Before Seinfeld” will launch globally on September 19, so be sure to check it out!

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