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The Shameless cast reunion during the SAG-AFTRA strike highlights the importance of recognizable faces onscreen and their collective power in the industry. The photo serves as a reminder of Jeremy Allen White's success in The Bear and the cast's continued talents in other projects. The Shameless reunion is one of many exciting moments captured during the SAG-AFTRA strike, showcasing solidarity among familiar faces in the industry and spreading their message for fair compensation worldwide.

Jeremy Allen White reunited with his former Shameless co-stars on the picket lines. The actor is currently the star of the buzzy Hulu series The Bear, which was recently nominated for 13 Emmys. However, before that, he played Lip Gallagher on the long-running series Shameless, an adaptation of the UK dysfunctional family comedy of the same name, which ran for 11 seasons between 2011 and 2021.

On Instagram, Shanola Hampton – who played Veronica Fisher on Shameless – posted a photo from...

Movies directed by James Cameron are the closest Hollywood studios will ever come to finding a sure thing. Cameron has spent over 40 years directing blockbusters, and the man simply does not miss at the box office. His unique command of spectacle and ongoing commitment to technological innovation have allowed him to craft a seemingly endless string of hits, and he has consistently been able to pull rabbits out of his hat on even the riskiest film projects.

Cameron launched his career in 1984 with “The Terminator,” a groundbreaking sci-fi blockbuster that turned Arnold Schwarzenegger into a bona fide movie star. From there, he dipped his toe into Ridley Scott’s sandbox to direct “Aliens,” which quickly became regarded as one of the best sequels of all time. Cameron never lost his knack for sequels, and his decision to blow up his original premise turned “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” into an instant classic.

On today’s The Arrow In The Head Show, Lance Vlcek and John “The Arrow” Fallon take on the little seen yet highly entertaining Raw Deal (1986) starring the inimitable Arnold Schwarzenegger at his smug best. After Conan, The Terminator, Red Sonja and Commando – Arnie took on a very different kind of role at this point in his career and showcased glimpses of the charm and gravitas that he would eventually fully display in films like True Lies and Kindergarden Cop.

The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kathryn Harrold, Robert Davi and Paul Shenar and is about:

A former FBI agent turned small-town sheriff agrees to help the FBI chief infiltrate the Chicago mafia when the FBI chief’s son is killed by them.

The M.O. of The Arrow in the Head Show is: After many years behind the scenes, we’ve decided to take our sarcastic, booze-influenced style into the...

The television networks introduce dozens of new TV shows each season, hoping each will be a big hit in the ratings. Unfortunately, most are cancelled after one season. How are the new 2022-23 TV series doing? Which have the best ratings and which have the worst? How many will survive to see a second season? Stay tuned.

Here are the final season average ratings of the new 2022-23 network TV shows -- through the end of week 43.

New ABC shows (so far): Alaska Daily, Celebrity Jeopardy!, The Company You Keep, The Game Show Show, Jeopardy! Masters, Not Dead Yet, The Parent Test, The Prank Panel, The Rookie: Feds, and Will Trent.

New CBS shows this season (so far): East New York, Fire Country, Lingo, The Real Love Boat, So Help Me Todd, and True Lies.

With Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Fubar topping the Netflix Top 10 for two weeks, it’s no surprise that the series has gotten a brisk season 2 renewal. The announcement was made at Netflix’s Tudum event, which featured an appearance by the man himself. While the show has gotten mixed reviews (even from our own critic), the numbers don’t lie, and it’s good to see Arnold return to prominence, between this and a very good three-part documentary series the streamer just released.

In the series, Arnold stars as a secret agent who discovers that his daughter (played by Top Gun: Maverick’s Monica Barbaro) is also an agent. The two team up to take on an arms dealer, bonding along the way over their shared love of carnage. In addition to announcing the second season, Netflix, who’ve gone all-in on Arnold, dropped a blooper reel, revealing the Austrian Oak...

Well, we can file this one under the least surprising TV news of the year.

Netflix has confirmed it is staying in business with Arnold Schwarzenegger with the pickup of Fubar Season 2.

The series got off the ground running for the streaming service in May, vaulting to the #1 spot in the weekly Netflix Top 10.

Any project featuring the Terminator alum will perform well, and it's because he's a global star.

Fubar reached the Top 10 in 90 countries worldwide, solidifying its renewal after a decent reaction to the episodes from viewers.

It's unclear when Fubar season 2 will actually premiere, but it probably won't be in production in the near future.

The WGA strike will delay several projects, so the writing won't resume until a fair deal is reached.

Netflix confirmed Fubar's fate during the Tudum Global Fan Event, which also included an Elite Season 7 premiere date, a Witcher Sneak Peek, and so much more.

As TV academy voters fill out their 2023 Emmy Awards nominations ballots, they will have to consider 163 shows for Best Drama Series. This is only down by eight compared to last year. After six years of not having to limit their choices in any categories, members can now not let their selections exceed the number of eventual nominations for a given award, which will be eight in this case.

2020 and 2022 champ “Succession” is in the hunt for its third win in this category and will potentially only have to fend off two of its seven rivals from last year. “Better Call Saul” and “Yellowjackets” returned in time to meet the eligibility window of June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2023, while “Euphoria,” “Severance,” “Squid Game,” and “Stranger Things” did not. The last remaining 2022 contender, “Ozark,” officially finished its four-season run last April. Also back in the running are former winners “The Handmaid’s Tale” (2017) and “The Crown” (2021).

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When Netflix’s “Extraction” premiered in 2020, its elaborately constructed set pieces propelled it to become the streaming service’s most-watched original film to that point and marked director Sam Hargrave as a talent to watch. Hargrave and star Chris Hemsworth now return to the adventures of Australian black ops mercenary Tyler Rake (Hemsworth) for “Extraction 2,” a sequel that improves upon its predecessor in just about every way without losing sight of what audiences loved about the first movie. The action is bigger, the motivations more personal and affecting, and Hargrave’s command of his craft more assured.

Hargrave is part of one of the most positive trends in action filmmaking in recent years: The rise of directors with a background in stunts. The most famous examples are Chad Stahelski (the “John Wick” franchise) and David Leitch, who follow in the footsteps of ’70s and ’80s pioneers Hal Needham (“Smokey and the Bandit...

The television networks introduce dozens of new TV shows each season, hoping each will be a big hit in the ratings. Unfortunately, most are cancelled after one season. How are the new 2022-23 TV series doing? Which have the best ratings and which have the worst? How many will survive to see a second season? Stay tuned.

Here are the final season average ratings of the new 2022-23 network TV shows -- through the end of week 38.

New ABC shows (so far): Alaska Daily, Celebrity Jeopardy!, The Company You Keep, The Game Show Show, Jeopardy! Masters, Not Dead Yet, The Parent Test, The Prank Panel, The Rookie: Feds, and Will Trent.

New CBS shows this season (so far): East New York, Fire Country, Lingo, The Real Love Boat, So Help Me Todd, and True Lies.

It’s officially Filipino Heritage Month and we’re highlighting Filipino celebrities who have shattered boundaries and left an indelible mark in the entertainment industry.

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With over 200 million records sold worldwide, Mars, 37, has become synonymous with the Billboard charts. This trailblazing Filipino artist has revolutionized the entertainment industry with an impressive collection of accolades, including 11 Grammy Awards and multiple Billboard chart-topping hits. As a songwriter, producer and performer, he has hooked audiences with his infectious blend of pop, R&b and funk.

Olivia Rodrigo

Rodrigo, 20, made a meteoric splash onto the music scene in 2021 with the release of her Grammy-winning debut album “Sour”, with her single “Drivers License” giving her the record of youngest artist to score a No. 1 in the UK at the age of 18.

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Exclusive: Fresh off the series finale of CBS’ True Lies, Omar Miller has entered production in Italy on Naples to New York, an indie based on a story penned in the 1940s by a young Federico Fellini, who was not yet a filmmaker, and his longtime friend and collaborator Tullio Pinelli.

Set in 1949, this is a story of two children who set off on a journey across the ocean, as stowaways on a ship, looking for a family and opportunity in America. Along the way, they encounter characters both well-meaning and nefarious, who cement their faith in humanity. Miller plays George, an American cook on an international merchant ship who befriends our two young Italian stowaways. He’s a gentle giant with great comedic timing, and a strong sense of humanity.

Gabriele Salvatores is directing from his own script, with Paco Cinematografica, Isabella Cocuzza and Arturo Paglia serving as exec producers.

Netflix's Arnold sees the screen legend open up about his heartbroken response to Last Action Hero's failure. The second episode of Arnold focuses on Schwarzenegger's action movie career, where he scored back-to-back hits with movies like The Terminator, Commando, Predator and many more. The documentary series also sees his former rival turned friend Sylvester Stallone open up about how bitter their box-office feud used to be, and how they always sought to outdo each other in terms of physique, explosions or bodycounts.

Stallone also admits Arnold won their box-office battle. Arnold explores the lows of Schwarzenegger's life and career too, including a notable turning point in his movie stardom. Last Action Hero was his follow-up to Terminator 2: Judgment Day and was naturally hyped to become a major blockbuster. However, the film had the misfortune to open next to Jurassic Park, which demolished it financially. Last Action Hero...

Arnold Schwarzenegger was riding high throughout the ’80s and early ’90s with hit after hit like Predator, Twins, Total Recall, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, but he had his first big box-office flop with Last Action Hero in 1993, an experience which upset him greatly.

Last Action Hero followed a young movie fan who received a magical movie ticket that transported him into the world of Jack Slater, a fictional action movie hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a fun concept, but the film was a critical and box-office disappointment with a domestic gross of $50 million. In Netflix’s recent three-part docuseries Arnold, the actor recalled how the failure of the movie affected him. “When Last Action Hero came out I had reached my peak after Terminator 2, having the most successful movie of the year worldwide, I cannot tell you how upset that I was [about the negative Last Action Hero reviews],” Schwarzenegger said.

When the man himself says the words “Always Hungry,” talking about the film that gave him his huge Hollywood career, all I could think about after finishing the series were those exact words. The bodybuilder, actor, and politician Schwarzenegger, the Austrian immigrant who made it big in America after being raised in a not-so-healthy environment post-World War II as a child, has less emotion and more drive to sell. In his own words, everything is about selling, and that’s potentially what he’s doing through the Netflix docuseries Arnold. Moreover, it seems like all the series really wants to show us is the successful “American Dream.”

From the beginning of the series, we hear Arnold giddily narrate his dream to move to America after being brought up in a violent home environment in a small town called Thal in Austria. His childhood was rather competitive, and because of this,...

The television networks introduce dozens of new TV shows each season, hoping each will be a big hit in the ratings. Unfortunately, most are cancelled after one season. How are the new 2022-23 TV series doing? Which have the best ratings and which have the worst? How many will survive to see a second season? Stay tuned.

Here are the final season average ratings of the new 2022-23 network TV shows -- through the end of week 37.

New ABC shows (so far): Alaska Daily, Celebrity Jeopardy!, The Company You Keep, The Game Show Show, Jeopardy! Masters, Not Dead Yet, The Parent Test, The Prank Panel, The Rookie: Feds, and Will Trent.

New CBS shows this season (so far): East New York, Fire Country, Lingo, The Real Love Boat, So Help Me Todd, and True Lies.

Bodybuilder, actor, and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger has crammed a whole lot of living into his 75 years on this planet — more living than could possibly be contained in a single documentary. Netflix's "Arnold" tells the story of Schwarzenegger in three hour-long episodes, following his life chronologically and his ascent through three separate careers. The intimate series uses interviews with those close to Arnold, but focuses most on Arnold himself, creating a documentary that feels something like an autobiography. This is Arnold on Arnold, and though it celebrates his successes and tries to paint him in a positive light, the series also doesn't shy away from his failures. Schwarzenegger faces his "f***-ups" head-on and is surprisingly candid; some audiences will find it to be too little, too late, but this reviewer was won over by what seems like a genuine desire for personal accountability.

Fans looking for deep dives into...

Enjoy a look into the life of a legend with Arnold, Netflix’s three-part docuseries about bodybuilder, actor, and governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Directed by Lesley Chilcott, the series utilized archival footage, new interviews, and more to tell the tale of a monumental figure. Arnold endeavors to paint a complete picture of its subject’s storied life and has something to offer for fans of any portion of Schwarzenegger’s many accomplishments, while filling in the gaps between each one.

For the look of the new footage in Arnold, Chilcott turned to director of photography Logan Schneider, with whom she has previously collaborated on projects like Watson and Codegirl. Schneider’s vision for Arnold was that the documentary borrows stylistically from the world of feature films as much as possible. To accomplish this, Schneider used Arri Mini Lf cameras with Signature Primes and prototype Signature Zooms, Arri Mastergrips for verite focus,...

Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to abandon some of his biggest franchises in favor of new projects like Fubar came as a surprise to many long-time fans. Given his iconic status in the action genre, it was always going to be difficult for Schwarzenegger to establish himself in new dramatic territory. As such, distancing himself from some of his most famous roles made sense. Nevertheless, the veteran action star's subtle attempt to move on in his career – however well-intentioned – is inherently flawed, as highlighted by his Netflix hit.

Although he spent much of his heyday being typecast as an acutely accented action all-star, Arnie's later work has seen him branch out into potentially more challenging roles. While recent years have seen him return to franchises like Terminator and The Expendables, Schwarzenegger has also taken on more interesting projects, such as the underrated apocalyptic zombie horror Maggie. His determination to move...

Daniel Fienberg: It’s hard to tell the story of Spring TV in 2023 without discussing HBO’s Succession and Barry, as well as Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso. Those three shows, two definitely finished and one seemingly coming to an end, represented four of the last six Emmy wins for outstanding drama and comedy series, as well as many nominations for acting, writing and directing. With their shocking deaths, wild deviations in tone and, in the case of Ted Lasso, expanded episode running times, they’ve dominated social media and water cooler conversations since March.

That’s why we’re not going to focus on them here. There’s more to TV than Barry, Succession and Ted Lasso — or at least HBO and Apple hope there is after the upcoming awards season concludes.

Even not counting the holy trinity of the spring, there were buzzy returning shows — Fxx’s Dave!

The television networks introduce dozens of new TV shows each season, hoping each will be a big hit in the ratings. Unfortunately, most are cancelled after one season. How are the new 2022-23 TV series doing? Which have the best ratings and which have the worst? How many will survive to see a second season? Stay tuned.

Here are the final season average ratings of the new 2022-23 network TV shows -- through the end of week 36.

New ABC shows (so far): Alaska Daily, Celebrity Jeopardy!, The Company You Keep, The Game Show Show, Jeopardy! Masters, Not Dead Yet, The Parent Test, The Prank Panel, The Rookie: Feds, and Will Trent.

New CBS shows this season (so far): East New York, Fire Country, Lingo, The Real Love Boat, So Help Me Todd, and True Lies.

Suffice it to say — he’s back. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the action star of the 80s and 90s who needs no introduction, has been gearing up for a big year. The former Mr. Olympia was cheekily given the title of the Chief Action Officer over at the Netflix offices since the star has recently partnered up with the streamer for an in-depth documentary of his life and career titled simply Arnold, and recently, he’s made a return to action comedy with a series for Netflix, titled Fubar.

Arnold has had a series of underwhelming performances in theater-released films in the past decade, where his only real moneymakers were the Terminator sequels and Expendables films. Now, Variety is reporting that Schwarzenegger’s new show has planted a firm seat atop the Netflix Top 10 most-viewed TV titles in English on the platform. Fubar has bumped Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story from the...

"He's ready to risk it all to protect his family... and save the world!" Ha! Dang this is pretty funny. Netflix has posted an amusing throwback action figure commercial promo video for the Fubar spy comedy action series. It just started streaming this past weekend (view here), and they're trying to build the buzz with some clever viral marketing stunts. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Fubar is a global spy adventure - when a father & daughter learn that they’ve each secretly been working as CIA Operatives for years, they realize their entire relationship has been a lie and they truly don’t know one another at all. It's pretty much a True Lies sequel. Fubar stars Arnold, along with Monica Barbaro, Milan Carter, Gabriel Luna, Fortune Feimster, Travis Van Winkle, Fabiana Udenio, Barbara Eve Harris, Aparna Brielle, Andy Buckley, and Jay Baruchel. I'm smiling at how much they pack into this 90 second video,...

Warning: Major Spoilers For Fubar Season 1 Below!Netflix's Fubar might put the focus on spy jinks, but it also - surprisingly - gives Arnold Schwarzenegger his best onscreen romance in years. Fubar marks Arnie's first time leading a TV series, and it comes with all the action and one-liners viewers might expect. That said, as an action-comedy, it leans harder into the latter. Fubar is one part a weirdly introspective look at the toll being a spy can take, and the other is a goofy comedy complete with gags that wouldn't feel out of place on The Big Bang Theory.

Needless to say, the drama side is the more intriguing. Fubar isn't quite True Lies 2, but the series shares a lot in common with that particular James Cameron blockbuster. True Lies played up the romance and adventure of the spy life and found Arnie's secret agent reconnecting with...

Clockwise from top left: True Lies (20th Century Fox), M3GAN (Universal Pictures), Air (Amazon Studios), Brokeback Mountain (Focus Features)Image: The A.V. Club

June is Pride Month (hooray!) and it’s also Month Two of the 2023 summer movie season (hooray?), so Prime Video is turning up the heat with...

Warning: Spoilers for Fubar season 1!

Fubar season 1 may be primarily an action comedy, but its shocking finale twist foreshadows an emotional roller coaster for season 2. The Netflix series pays homage to True Lies by casting Arnold Schwarzenegger as yet another CIA agent, this time named Luke Brunner, who struggles to balance his secret spy world with his family life. When he discovers that his daughter Emma (Top Gun: Maverick's Monica Barbaro) has been keeping her own spy life a secret from him, the two are paired together for a vital mission that's full of laughter and spectacle.

The supporting cast of Fubar includes comedic actors Milan Carter, Fortune Feimster, and Travis Van Winkle as part of Luke's team, as well Gabriel Luna (The Last of Us) as the season's villain. One character, however, is much harder to pin down by the time the credits roll on episode 8: Nsa analyst Tina,...

Plot: A CIA Operative on the verge of retirement discovers a family secret. Forced to go back into the field for one last job, the series tackles universal family dynamics set against a global backdrop of spies, action and humor.

Review: Over the six decades of his acting career, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been in comedies, dramas, action movies, and horror flicks, but until now, he has not starred in a television series. With streaming services now as robust as any movie studio, the biggest names in Hollywood have headlined their own small-screen shows. Schwarzenegger’s Netflix series Fubar tries to replicate the best elements of the iconic actor’s filmography by blending action and humor with some new blood in the form of Top Gun: Maverick star Monica Barbaro. Fubar aims high but feels barely more than a network television spy series that could have been so much better considering the talent involved.

Warning: Major Spoilers Ahead For Fubar Season 1!Fubar's first season is high on goofy comedy, but its shock mole twist could set up a darker second season. Previews for Netflix's Fubar play up the presence of action icon Arnold Schwarzenegger and the setpieces, but it's really more of a comedy than an action series. The True Lies-inspired premise has Arnie's CIA agent character Luke Brunner learn his daughter Emma (Monica Barbaro) is also a spy. While Fubar leans into the drama of a father and daughter connecting to connect, it features plenty of comic relief too.

Arnold gets to deliver some of his famous bad puns, and the show even features a strange homage to his love scene from Twins. Most of the comedy comes from Luke and Emma's CIA support team, made up of Milan Carter, Fortune Feimster and Travis Van Winkle's characters. Unfortunately,...

Warning: Major Spoilers For Fubar Season 1 Below!Netflix's spy comedy Fubar resurrects one of the most overused villain clichés of the 2000s. Being that it's Arnold Schwarzenegger's first TV series, Fubar is obviously going to lean somewhat on nostalgia. The show has plenty of gun battles, car chases and fist fights, and Arnie gets a few of his famous one-liners to go along with them. Fubar most clearly evokes True Lies, with Arnold's CIA agent learning that his daughter is also part of the agency. Fubar charts how the duo work together in the field, and also how the job affects their personal lives.

Fans of Arnold Schwarzenegger's action movies might be left disappointed by the show, as the setpieces can't really compare to some of his most famous outings. Fubar at least adds something fresh to the spy genre, as its focus on a retiring spy...

Warning: Spoilers Below For Fubar Season 1!Fubar is so indebted to True Lies that it should have just been a direct sequel. While Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared in TV shows early in his acting career, Fubar is his first time leading a series. Given his cinematic CV that comes with certain expectations, including high-octane action sequences and pithy one-liners. In his post-Governor career, Arnold has revisited some of his famous franchises, including two Terminator sequels and finally reprising his role as Dutch for the Predator: Hunting Grounds video game.

Despite True Lies being one of his biggest hits from the '90s, the movie failed to spawn a sequel, but Fubar feels like a spiritual successor to the film. Fubar cast Arnie as retiring CIA agent Luke Brunner, who decides to stay in the field to work with his daughter Emma (Monica Barbaro), who is also leading a double life as a spy.

Warning: Spoilers For Fubar Season 1 Below!Arnold Schwarzenegger's Netflix series Fubar might be an action comedy, but it saddles the screen icon with some of his lamest setpieces and one-liners. While The Terminator is the movie that made Arnie a star, it could be argued Commando is the one that defined his screen persona. His title character John Matrix shot, punched and hacked his way through dozens of villains, and often had a dry quip or bad pun to go along with it. This mixture of action and comedy made him one of the biggest movie stars in the world and can be found in everything from Total Recall to The Expendables movies.

Fubar is a riff on Arnie's own True Lies, where his retired CIA agent Luke learns his daughter Emma (Monica Barbaro) is also with the agency. Fubar is Arnold's first TV show, making it fresh...

On May 8th, avid stargazers eyeballing the cosmos were treated to a rare spectacle: the sight of a network reboot flaming out. CBS’s astonishingly ill-conceived adaptation of James Cameron’s “True Lies” premiered in March, concluded last week, and was unceremoniously canceled before the finale aired; “steady but low” isn’t the viewership the company hoped for. That’s what happens when you repackage IP without the people who made it a success, and bank on audience nostalgia for the title instead of the cast.

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Warning: Spoilers For Citadel's Season 1 Finale Below!Citadel season 1's shock twist ending answers some key questions - and promises a darker second season. It will be curious to see what the response is to Citadel's first season overall. The show is part of a planned shared universe of series from Amazon, with Citadel's season 1 costing $300 million to produce. This made it the second most expensive TV show of all time - behind Amazon's own The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - but reviews for Citadel have been largely mixed.

In terms of story, Citadel has been a mashup of famous spy movie titles, from Total Recall to True Lies and - of course - The Bourne Identity; Richard Madden does his best Bond audition too. One benefit of Citadel's large budget is that it didn't skim on scale or action, and season 1 ran for a lean six episodes.

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Through Tuesday, May 30 (so act fast!), Sling TV is granting new subscribers free access to Fxm for one week. (The channel is normally accessed through a $6 add-on.) With Fxm, you can stream movies including 27 Dresses, Hidden Figures, Jojo Rabbit, Alien Covenant, Date Night, On the Basis of Sex,...

Venerable action megastar Arnold Schwarzenegger is back with "Fubar" on Netflix, his first-ever television series (read the /Film review here). With the cancellation of "True Lies" on CBS after just one season, the eight-episode run of "Fubar" will be the closest thing to a quasi-sequel to James Cameron's 1994 action comedy hybrid that starred Schwarzenegger as a covert agent who keeps his spy adventures a secret from his suburban wife and teenage daughter. In "Fubar," Schwarzenegger plays Luke Brunner, an aging CIA operative on the verge of retiring when he finds out his daughter Emma (Monica Barbaro) is also an undercover agent working on the same case. 

In the series, the action takes a backseat to the relationship between Luke and Emma as they try to stay alive long enough to sort out their family issues and complete a mission that's suddenly grown a lot more complicated. "Fubar" could have...

Warning: Major Spoilers For Fubar Season 1 Below!The ending of Fubar season 1 lives up to its title and sets up a potential second season. While he appeared in some TV shows early in his career like The Streets of San Francisco, Netflix's Fubar marks Arnold Schwarzenegger's first time leading a TV show. It's essentially a loose remake of True Lies with Fubar casting Arnie as retiring CIA agent Luke Brunner, who discovers his daughter Emma (Monica Barbaro) is also part of the agency. Luke then has to put his retirement to one side as he mentors Emma on the cost - both professional and personal - of being a good spy.

Fubar might be billed as an action comedy, but in truth, it's more of a workplace sitcom; that workplace just happens to be the CIA. Arnie's Luke spends a lot of Fubar trying to reunite with ex-wife...

The Arnold Schwarzenegger Netflix spy comedy “Fubar” starts out so unfettered by reality that it holds real promise.

Luke Brunner, the CIA operative played by Schwarzenegger, who is 75, is described as being 65. He is on the eve of retirement when they pull him back in to infiltrate the Guyana compound of arms dealer Boro (Gabriel Luna), a guy so brutal that he kills an associate on stage at an outdoor party and orders the blood-splattered band to keep playing.

Also in Guyana is Luke’s do-gooder daughter, Emma. Unbeknownst to her father, she is also a CIA operative and so deeply embedded in Boro’s world that she has become his favorite fight-club competitor.

Monica Barbaro and Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Fubar.” (Christos Kalohoridis/Netflix)

Worse yet, horrified patriarch Luke discovers that Emma smokes, drinks and uses curse words, when he thought he had raised a lady. Emma, who always found...

When Arnold Schwarzenegger first announced his new TV series Fubar, he sold it as “another big action-comedy like True Lies.” There’s just one problem with that statement: True Lies was actually good. Fubar (now streaming on Netflix) tries to recapture Arnie’s glory days as an action movie hero with a big-budget, explosion-filled tale of international espionage. But based on the first three episodes, Fubar is unfortunately just a very pale True Lies imitation: a parade of meaningless violence and flaccid one-liners that pairs ludicrous action scenes with hacky comedy. It’s a mess — and not even an entertaining one,...

Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in Fubar, a new Netflix series created by Nick Santora.

As the song says, time goes by. It’s inevitable and remembering past moments with James Cameron isn’t bad at all. On that occasion, it was with the great Jamie Lee Curtis, and now it is with the also great Monica Barbaro.

That movie, True Lies, was highly entertaining and spectacular. Fubar is not as entertaining, it has a different format, Mr. Pumpkin is a bit older, and times have changed, as the series insists on reminding us, in an amusing, if not brilliant, generational renewal.

But we like this gentleman and the series is, at least, enjoyable within its pretensions.

Fubar (2023-) About the series

Fubar is not spectacular for a spy series: the action scenes do not have a fast pace, nor, except for its good beginning, it behaves like one of those series...

People love to talk about a new Golden Age of Television, where buzzwords like Peak TV get thrown around to describe any number of respected, popular, or critically acclaimed television shows. Certainly, there’s something to be said for the quality of a show like Mad Men or The Sopranos. Even more recent shows from the shared Vince Gilligan universe have their champions, with devoted fans extolling the virtues of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul long after the final episodes air.

It’s good stuff, to be sure, but it’s not really peak television. Everyone knows television peaked in the early to mid 1990s when a wave of first-run syndicated action adventure comedies propped up the mid-afternoon schedules of every local broadcast channel and basic cable outlet. Thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Netflix’s new series Fubar, it all might be coming back.

Just ask your dad; TV...

We’re at least a decade past the point at which seeing a so-called “movie star” deigning to grace the small screen could be conceived of as a novelty. Heck, we’re coming off a spring in which Harrison Ford was starring in multiple television shows at the same time.

Still, there’s an immediate pleasure that comes from witnessing former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger make a late arrival to the streaming landscape as the star of Netflix’s new action comedy Fubar.

Like his Planet Hollywood comrade Sylvester Stallone, currently getting to relive his Oscar and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot salad days on the Paramount+ dime, Schwarzenegger is using his streaming platform as something of a time machine.

Fubar is a throwback — if you told me that creator Nick Santora has had some version of this script in his drawer since 1995, I would believe you — to a...

It's easy to love Arnold Schwarzenegger. While no one would claim the Austrian Oak was an acting great with the range to slip in and out of any character, there's always been a distinct, lovable charm to Arnold. Despite his hulking, muscular frame, there's something downright cuddly about the body builder-turned-actor. We want to give him a hug, even when he's firing huge weapons at nameless bad guys.

While he occasionally plays cruel killers — see the first "Terminator" — he thrives in roles that let him have fun — see the second "Terminator." We can't help but love the guy, with his huge biceps, his thick accent, and the mischievous little twinkle he always has in his eye. When he utters the phrase "Trust me" with a sly little smile in "Terminator 2: Judgement Day," we do trust him. How can we not? He's Arnold!

All of this is to say that...

"Stay liquid" is a popular phrase in the action-crime television series Swat. The show follows Los Angeles Swat lieutenant Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson (Shemar Moore), who leads a highly skilled special operations police unit. The action-packed series frequently takes inspiration from real-life events to fuel its adrenaline-pumping plots. Swat premiered on CBS in 2017 and is based on the original 1975 television show of the same name.

In a shocking move, Swat was recently canceled by CBS after six successful seasons. The Swat season 6 finale was then expected to serve as the show's series finale. And then in another abrupt shift, CBS reversed its cancelation and picked it up for a seventh season. As a result of the sudden changes at CBS, True Lies and East New York were both canceled, whereas Swat is slated to return. Ultimately, that means more high-stakes missions, car chases, and, of course, Hondo making constant use of the line,...

The television networks introduce dozens of new TV shows each season, hoping each will be a big hit in the ratings. Unfortunately, most are cancelled after one season. How are the new 2022-23 TV series doing? Which have the best ratings and which have the worst? How many will survive to see a second season? Stay tuned.

Here are the final season average ratings of the new 2022-23 network TV shows -- through the end of week 35.

New ABC shows (so far): Alaska Daily, Celebrity Jeopardy!, The Company You Keep, The Game Show Show, Jeopardy! Masters, Not Dead Yet, The Parent Test, The Rookie: Feds, and Will Trent.

New CBS shows this season (so far): East New York, Fire Country, Lingo, The Real Love Boat, So Help Me Todd, and True Lies.

Arnold Schwarzenegger lands the perfect job in a new Netflix promo. One of the most accomplished action stars of all time, the Austrian actor has starred in Conan the Barbarian, The Terminator franchise, Commando, The Running Man, Predator, Total Recall, and True Lies. At 75 years of age, Schwarzenegger's next project is his first leading role in a TV series, Netflix's Fubar, in which he stars as an aging CIA operative on the edge of retirement who, after learning a family secret involving his daughter (played Top Gun: Maverick's Monica Barbaro), is called back into action for one final mission.

Now, Netflix has released a new promo announcing that Schwarzenegger has accepted a job as their Chief Action Officer. In the two-minute promo, Schwarzenegger presents the streaming service's current and upcoming slate of action movies and TV shows. Check it out below:

The promo opens with Schwarzenegger rolling up to...

Fubar follows Luke Brunner, a seasoned CIA operative who has been lying to his family for decades and is on the brink of retirement. However, before he can finish serving his country, he is shocked to learn that his daughter, Emma, has also been lying to him for years and is a CIA operative as well. The father and daughter both feel betrayed and that they don't really know one another, but they will have to work together on a high-priority mission and slowly rebuild their fractured relationship.

Nick Santora is the creator and executive producer of Fubar. The legendary Arnold Schwarzenegger stars and serves as executive producer of the series. Fubar also stars Monica Barbaro, Jay Baruchel, Aparna Brielle, Andy Buckley, Milan Carter, Fortune Feimster, Barbara Eve Harris, Gabriel Luna, Fabiana Udenio, and Travis Van Winkle. Fubar is Schwarzenegger's first lead role in a scripted series.

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In the latest TV show ratings, CBS’ Survivor dominated Wednesday in the demo, while NBC’s Chicago Fire cooked up the night’s largest audience.

CBS | Survivor (with 4.5 million total viewers and a 0.7 demo rating; read recap) was steady week-to-week, as was the recently cancelled True Lies (whose double episode series finale averaged 2 mil and a 0.2, and a TVLine reader grade of “B+”).

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[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for the two-part True Lies Season 1 finale, “Lying Truths” and “Waking Dreams.”] Following its May 9 cancellation, the Steve Howey and Ginger Gonzaga-led True Lies came to an end with a two-part series finale on Wednesday, May 17 on CBS. Unfortunately, the series wasn’t planning for the Season 1 finale to be its last, as indicated by its cliffhanger ending. The finale was one scene short of ending on a positive, drama-free note. In the first part of the finale, “Lying Truths,” a van full of computer software containing confidential intel about Omega Sector operatives was hijacked, leading the team to enlist the help of teen hacker Max to figure out who was coordinating the attack. When Harry (Howey) and Helen Tasker (Gonzaga) discovered that Max is dating their daughter, Dana (Annabella Didion), their actions put the mission in jeopardy. Amid the chaos, Helen had to admit to Dana that she and Harry were spies.

The Taskers turn their weapons on each other in the final True Lies ever, and though their marriage — and Omega Sector — is intact by the end of the hour, a seed of trouble is planted that would’ve really messed with the spies’ mission in Season 2.

Alas, we’ll never know exactly how things would’ve turned out; CBS cancelled the action dramedy in early May. So let’s check in with Harry, Helen, Luther, Maria and Gib for one last time as we review the highlights of the two-hour series finale, “Lying Truths/Waking Dream.”

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It’s funny, as a child of the 90s, many peers of the same generation never once heard that the Arnold Schwarzenegger satirical send-up of action movies, Last Action Hero, was an unpopular flop. It was odd, sure. But it was fun. In a follow-up of yesterday’s report on Schwarzenegger’s candid interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the muscular icon responds to the newfound audience for the John McTiernan action comedy. Schwarzenegger was bombarded with criticism when the movie was released, but now he’s pleasantly surprised to see the reception coming around as he thinks it’s under-appreciated.

While he hit big with another action comedy, True Lies, just a year later, Arnold comes to Last Action Hero‘s defense when asked about what he feels is his most underrated role, even citing it as a victim in a political crossfire. He answered, “Last Action Hero. It was slaughtered before anybody saw it.

The television networks introduce dozens of new TV shows each season, hoping each will be a big hit in the ratings. Unfortunately, most are cancelled after one season. How are the new 2022-23 TV series doing? Which have the best ratings and which have the worst? How many will survive to see a second season? Stay tuned.

Here are the final season average ratings of the new 2022-23 network TV shows -- through the end of week 33.

New ABC shows (so far): Alaska Daily, Celebrity Jeopardy!, The Company You Keep, Not Dead Yet, The Parent Test, The Rookie: Feds, and Will Trent.

New CBS shows this season (so far): East New York, Fire Country, Lingo, The Real Love Boat, So Help Me Todd, and True Lies.

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