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Frasier (1993-2003) is a cerebral sitcom starring Kelsey Grammer as popular Seattle radio psychiatrist, Dr. Frasier Crane, and it has several great season finales. When Frasier returns to his hometown in Washington state, his father, Martin Crane (John Mahoney), moves in with him, creating endless tension between the two. To top things off, Frasier’s brother, Niles (David Hyde Pierce), promptly falls hopelessly in love with their disabled father’s caregiver, Daphne Moon (Jane Leeves).

The Crane family antics have been a beloved mainstay of the sitcom genre for the past 32 years. This 90s comedy show was recently resurrected in the 2023 Frasier reboot, although the remake was greeted with less critical acclaim. Over the course of 10 years on the air, the original Frasier show created big shoes to fill with its interplay of screwball comedy and universally relatable themes. Many of the most memorable episodes of the show were its season finales,...

Even while the "Frasier" revival has struggled to match the original series, which ran from 1993 to 2004, the show is punctuated by moments of real charm. Most of those come as the result of pure jolts of nostalgia: the show is at its best when it brings in elements of its unimpeachably great predecessor.

Episode three of the "Frasier" revival was bittersweet for this very reason, bringing back Peri Gilpin as Frasier's former producer Roz Doyle and delivering one of the best installments of the reboot yet. Now, the revival has proven once again that all we really want to see is Frasier back with the characters we know and love. But this time, it isn't a main character that's restoring the charm to "Frasier."

It's not just that the original ensemble cast of "Frasier" provided the perfect support to Kelsey Grammer's fussy psychiatrist. The show also had some of the best recurring characters,...

Netflix Releases “Cobra Kai” Season 6 Part 1 Trailer

Enter the dojo for one final season. Netflix has released the official trailer for its highly anticipated final season of “Cobra Kai.”

“The Karate Kid” sequel spinoff series, which stars Ralph Macchio and William Zabka reprising their franchise-leading roles, will return for its sixth and final season on Thursday, July 18, with the first batch of episodes in a super-sized season.

In Season 6, per the official description, the Cobra Kai senseis and students must decide if and how they will compete in the Sekai Taikai, the world championships of karate after they are eliminated from the Valley.

Watch the trailer for “Cobra Kai” Season 6 Part 1 below:

The series also stars Martin Kove, Xolo Maridueña, Jacob Bertrand, Mary Mouser, Tanner Buchanan, Peyton List, Gianni DeCenzo, Courtney Henggeler, Vanessa Rubio, Dallas Dupree Young, Yuji Okumoto, Alicia Hannah-Kim, Griffin Santopietro, and Oona O’Brien, among others.

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The Big Door Prize is back for its second season with all of its fantastical and human elements. Created by David West Read, the Apple TV+ series is based on a 2020 novel of the same name by M.O. Walsh and it is set in a small where a mysterious Morpho machine suddenly appears in a supermarket that tells the residents of the town their true potential.

Season 2 of The Big Door Prize is ramping things up with more drama and human moments while dealing with the consequences of the decisions that the residents took because of the machine. If you are loving every episode in Season 2 here are the dates for every upcoming The Big Door Prize episode.

The Big Door Prize Season 2 – Episode Guide (When Will The New Episodes Air?) Credit – Apple TV+

The Big Door Prize Season 2 consists of ten episodes in total. The second season of the...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for The Big Door Prize Season 2 Episode 4 “Storytellers.”] The Big Door Prize, with its latest episode, not only offers more information about the blue dots that have appeared on some people’s backs—Hana (Ally Maki), though she’s never used the Morpho machine, has had them for a long time—but also shows how someone loses them. “Storytellers” flashes back to when Mr. Johnson (Patrick Kerr) was younger and met the repairman who would come by the shop to fix a broken machine … and the two had plans for dinner, only the other man didn’t show up. Through the Morpho machine, he confronts his problem—a pixelated version of the man offers up excuses for why he didn’t come—and acknowledges he’s been blaming himself. And then to his surprise, his dots disappear. But should we think that’s true for everyone, or could it depend on each person?...

The door is back open for Deerfield’s mystery machine! Led by Chris O’Dowd (“The It Crowd”), Apple TV+’s ensemble comedy series “The Big Door Prize” is for its Season 2 premiere and its small-town residents are readying themselves for the “next stage”… whatever that may be. “The Big Door Prize” Season 2 will premiere on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, April 24 with three new episodes. You can watch The Big Door Prize: Season 2 with a 7-Day Free Trial of Apple TV+.

How to Watch ‘The Big Door Prize’ Season 2 Premiere When: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 Where: Apple TV+ Stream: Watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of Apple TV+. 7-Day Free Trial$9.99+ / month apple.com About ‘The Big Door Prize’ Season 2 Premiere

Created by David West Read (“Schitt's Creek”) and based on M.O. Walsh’s novel of the same name, Apple TV+’s “The Big Door Prize” is set in a small town...

The Big Door Prize will return to Apple TV+ for its second season later this month. The streaming service has released new key art and a trailer for new episodes of the comedy series. Photos for 10-episode second season were released in February.

Chris O’Dowd, Gabrielle Dennis, Ally Maki, Josh Segarra, Damon Gupton, Crystal Fox, Djouliet Amara, and Sammy Fourlas star in the series based on Mo Walsh's novel. The story follows what happens after a mysterious machine arrives in the small town.

Justine Lupe, Aaron Roman Weiner, Mary Holland, Patrick Kerr, Cocoa Brown, Carrie Barrett, Elizabeth Hunter, Jim Meskimen, Matt Dellapina, and Melissa Ponzio have joined the cast for season two.

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Apple TV+ has unveiled the trailer for the second season of ‘The Big Door Prize,’ the critically acclaimed and character-driven comedy from Emmy Award-winning creator David West Read (“Schitt’s Creek”).

Based on M.O. Walsh’s novel, season two follows the residents of Deerfield as the Morpho machine readies them for the mysterious “next stage.” As everyone’s potentials are exchanged for visions, new relationships form and new questions are asked.

Dusty (Chris O’Dowd) and Cass (Gabrielle Dennis) decide to take time apart while Trina (Djouliet Amara) and Jacob (Sammy Fourlas) learn that they can shed their old labels. Giorgio (Josh Segarra) and Izzy (Crystal Fox) each find romance while Hana (Ally Maki) and Father Reuben (Damon Gupton) attempt to discover the purpose of the machine. The small town is once again left questioning what they thought they knew about their lives, relationships, potentials and about the Morpho itself.

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“The Big Door Prize” Season 2 Gets Trailer

Let’s see what’s behind door number two! Apple TV+ has released the trailer for the upcoming second season of its critically acclaimed comedy series “The Big Door Prize,” which will premiere on the streamer on Wednesday, April 24.

Led by Chris O’Dowd and based on the novel of the same name by M.O. Walsh, the series is set in a small town that is forever changed when a mysterious machine appears, promising to reveal everyone’s true potential. In Season 2, the residents of Deerfield ready themselves as the Morpho machine prepares them for the mysterious “next stage.”

Watch the trailer for “The Big Door Prize” Season 2 below:

In addition to O’Dowd, the ensemble comedy stars Gabrielle Dennis, Djouliet Amara, Sammy Fourlas, Josh Segarra, Crystal Fox, Ally Maki, and Damon Gupton. Season 2 will also feature Justine Lupe, Aaron Roman Weiner, Mary Holland,...

Today, Apple TV+ unveiled the trailer for the second season of The Big Door Prize, the critically acclaimed and character-driven comedy from Emmy Award-winning creator David West Read (Schitt’s Creek).

The 10-episode second season will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, with three episodes, followed by one new episode every Wednesday through June 12, 2024.

Based on M.O. Walsh’s novel, the second season of The Big Door Prize follows the residents of Deerfield as the Morpho machine readies them for the mysterious “next stage.” As everyone’s potentials are exchanged for visions, new relationships form, and new questions are asked.

Dusty (Chris O’Dowd) and Cass (Gabrielle Dennis) decide to take time apart while Trina (Djouliet Amara) and Jacob (Sammy Fourlas) learn that they can shed their old labels. Giorgio (Josh Segarra) and Izzy (Crystal Fox) each find romance, while Hana (Ally Maki) and Father Reuben (Damon Gupton) attempt to...

The Big Door Prize has a premiere date for season two. Apple TV+ has announced an April return date along with the release of some first-look images. Ten episodes have been produced for the season. The streaming service renewed the series a week after its premiere in April 2023.

Starring Chris O’Dowd, Gabrielle Dennis, Ally Maki, Josh Segarra, Damon Gupton, Crystal Fox, Djouliet Amara, and Sammy Fourlas, The Big Door Prize series is based on the novel by Mo Walsh and tells the story of a small town that receives a mysterious machine. Season two will also feature Justine Lupe, Aaron Roman Weiner, Mary Holland, Patrick Kerr, Cocoa Brown, Carrie Barrett, Elizabeth Hunter, Jim Meskimen, Matt Dellapina, and Melissa Ponzio.

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Curb Your Enthusiasm season 12 is in production, and while the show has been successful for over two decades, season 12 should be its last. Seinfeld creator Larry David has played an exaggerated version of himself on the celebrated HBO series for 11 seasons, and he's TV's most beloved grumpy old man. However, David put the show on hiatus for five years after season 8, and when it returned in 2019, it has steadily declined in quality. Season 11 featured some of the series' best cameos, but it also had the worst reception based on its IMDb rating.

Curb Your Enthusiasm season 12 started filming in November, and while David's return is exciting, it should wrap up the entire series. David is one of the greatest comedy writers of this generation, but Curb Your Enthusiasm's narratives have been slipping, as season 11, while entertaining, had a lot of loose ends that likely won't get wrapped up. It's also repeating the same storylines,...

BroadwayWorld has a first look at Cyrano at Goodspeed Check out all new photos below Led by Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Peter Dinklage as Cyrano alongside film actress Haley Bennett as Roxanne and film and TV actor Blake Jenner as Christian, the cast of this bold new musical includes Tom Riis Farrell, Damon J. Gillespie, Patrick Kerr, Laith Nakli, Gayle Samuels, Claire Saunders and Charlie Thurston.

Tom Stoppard’s Tony-winning 1974 play Travesties, stuffed thick as a English gentleman’s armchair, its ideas on art, war, patriotism and purposeful nonsense fashioned into a nonstop tourney of wit and erudition, has often been called a brainteaser, but brain tickler comes so much closer to the jubilant staging presented by Broadway’s Roundabout Theatre Company.

Directed by Patrick Marber and starring Tom Hollander, this Travesties arrives at Roundabout’s American Airlines Theatre following its well-received 2016 London staging, its mostly new cast missing not so much as a breath or a notion.

The play, which points to the luxurious density of Stoppard’s later masterworks Arcardia and The Coast of Utopia, launches with a hang-on-tight monologue delivered by Henry Carr (Hollander), an aging British consul whose first claim to literary immortality was a passing mention in James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Here, Carr, a real-life figure,...

La Jolla Playhouse presents the worldpremiere of Hollywood by Tony Award winner Joe Dipietro Memphis, Chasing the Song and directed by Playhouse Artistic Director Christopher Ashley. Starring Harriet Harris, Patrick Kerr, Kate Rockwell and more, Hollywood runs through June 12 in the Mandell Weiss Theatre, with an official opening on May 18. Check out a first look at the cast in action below...

Neighbors star Rose Byrne will make her Broadway debut this fall opposite James Earl Jones in the upcoming revival of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play You Can’t Take It With You.

Bryne will play Alice Sycamore, the youngest daughter of an eccentric family who brings home her fiancé for their parents to meet. In addition to the previously announced Jones and Tony nominee Kristine Nielsen, the play will also star Tony nominee Annaleigh Ashford (Kinky Boots), Mark Linn-Baker (Perfect Strangers), Crystal A. Dickinson (Clybourne Park), Julie Halston (Anything Goes), Marc Damon Johnson (Lucky Guy...

The constellation of stars signing on for the late-summer revival of You Can’t Take It With You starring James Earl Jones just expanded by two: Rose Byrne (Neighbors, Damages), in her Broadway debut, and Annaleigh Ashford (Masters Of Sex, Broadway’s Kinky Boots) will appear, along with Kristine Nielsen (Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike). The cast will also include stage veteran Mark Linn-Baker (also Perfect Strangers), Crystal A. Dickinson (Clybourne Park), Julie Halston (Anything Goes), Marc Damon Johnson (Lucky Guy), Patrick Kerr (Stage Kiss) and Reg Rogers (Holiday). The director is Scott Ellis. Jason Robert Brown (The Bridges Of Madison County, the upcoming Honeymoon In Vegas) is writing incidental music for […]...

This week! A look at how gay Frasier was and how brilliant Modern Family is, a chat with United States of Tara's gay couple Michael Hitchcock and Sammy Sheik, and an exploration of bad performances in hit movies. Plus, truly unlikely gays!

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Q: When it comes to positive portrayals of gay characters on TV, I've seen coming out stories, displays of affection, and lots of sweaty workout scenes, but I don't think I've ever seen the love and loyalty that is portrayed between Cam and Mitchell on Modern Family. Do you agree that the "gas station scene" – where Cam, as Fizbo the Clown, mightily defends Mitchell against a jerk – qualifies as one of the most natural, and therefore important, portrayals of gay (or straight) love we've seen on TV?...