While social media is rife with AI celebrity deepfakes, videos featuring late night TV hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart are are easier to create than other kinds of deepfakes and potentially more disruptive.
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Few shows announce their roots more clearly than Diarra from Detroit, the smart, deliriously ambitious comic mystery series that's currently in its second season, on Paramount+.
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Kudrow is nominated for an Emmy for her final season playing Valerie Cherish on HBO's The Comeback. We'll also talk about her experience watching Friends after Matthew Perry's death.
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If Watchmen taught us that you can use superheroes to excavate the cracked foundations of the American experience, Lanterns seems content to linger in the shadow of another HBO prestige genre series, True Detective.
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Two weeks after being nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in Wonder Man, Abdul-Mateen found out that the series had been cancelled. He says Marvel could do more to support Black-led projects. -
Longtime Trump critic Rosie O'Donnell is hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week while Kimmel is on vacation. On Monday night, she called the president "Mango Mussolini."
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!["If I have a superpower that I can't take credit for ... [it's] that I'm very vulnerable," Shrinking star Jason Segel says. He's shown above in Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 2026.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8ccaec9/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1257x700+0+3/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnpr.brightspotcdn.com%2Fdims3%2Fdefault%2Fstrip%2Ffalse%2Fcrop%2F1257x707%200%2012%2Fresize%2F1257x707%21%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F36%2F12%2Ff8a4f2ef4859a87c96d08eed1312%2Fimage-13.png)
"If I have a superpower that I can't take credit for ... [it's] that I'm very vulnerable," Segel says. He plays a widowed therapist who offers very blunt advice in the Apple TV series Shrinking.
!["If I have a superpower that I can't take credit for ... [it's] that I'm very vulnerable," Shrinking star Jason Segel says. He's shown above in Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 2026.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c22e3f2/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1257x700+0+3/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnpr.brightspotcdn.com%2Fdims3%2Fdefault%2Fstrip%2Ffalse%2Fcrop%2F1257x707%200%2012%2Fresize%2F1257x707%21%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F36%2F12%2Ff8a4f2ef4859a87c96d08eed1312%2Fimage-13.png)
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A child actor since she was cast in various commercials as an 11-month-old, Panettiere was best known for her role as the country music star Juliette Barnes in the series Nashville. -
NPR's Eyder Peralta talks to show creator Liz Meriwether about her new dark and funny TV crime thriller, 'Furious.'
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With sharp dialogue and a strong cast, Lanterns is a mashup of superpower action, odd couple comedy, and old school cop story. It boasts the pleasures, and betrays the perils of pushing the comic book envelope.
