The two Scottish police procedurals are premiering new seasons on BritBox, one of the few streaming platforms (along with rival Acorn) to focus almost exclusively on UK TV series. Now in its eighth season, “Shetland” is a proven winner. Adapted from Ann Cleeves’ novels, the visuals create a thematically cohesive …

Master character actress Frances Sternhagen, who won two Tony Awards and became a familiar maternal face to TV viewers later in life with series such as “Cheers,” “ER,” “Sex and the City” and “The Closer,” has passed away. . She was 93 years old. Sternhagen died peacefully of natural causes …

After stepping down as music director of the Chicago Symphony in 2006, Daniel Barenboim returned to the orchestra only once, as a guest conductor. in 2018. His deteriorating health in recent years led Barenboim to officially resign as general music director of the Staatsoper Berlin earlier this year; Christian Thielemann …

For years, the massive, mostly intact dinosaur skeleton known as T-rex Sue has been at the center of a legal battle. The final dispute is over who gets what’s left of the money from Sue’s sale. Fossil hunters discovered the skeleton in 1990 on property owned by Maurice and Darlene …

Here, ladies and gentlemen, is Bob Newhart: “Someone called me and said, ‘Look, Don Rickles is calling his best friend… and none of us want to do that.’ ‘Can you do it?’ “And I said, ‘How long will it take?’ I said. They said, ‘One year at most’.” Bob Newhart …

Netflix must be doing something right. But killing the release potential of their own movies before release, right? That’s downright stupid when it comes to “Maestro,” the new movie from director, co-writer, producer and star Bradley Cooper. It opens in theaters this week, but not as you might notice. It …

“Alcohallelujah” sounds like the slogan of a brewer’s dreams. Dress that baby in a t-shirt or koozie and reap the sales rewards. For Lukas Nelson, the clever combination of booking weekend events is a breakthrough in the genre of songwriting that country music didn’t invent but certainly perfected: the drinking …

third season “Slow Horses” initially it’s about files. That’s right, paperwork. Shining! This is not sarcasm. I’m a sucker for paperwork stories. And for this cynic, it feels like the right choice. John Le CarreFlavored spy series set in England. With a ragtag team of MI5’s least talented men – …

There’s a moment in the Goodman Theatre’s annual production of “A Christmas Carol” when Ebenezer Scrooge’s lonely relative — here, his gender-swapped niece Frida (Dee Dee Batteast) — quotes Charles Dickens’s novella to extol the virtues of Christmas. “A gentle, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time in the long …

When he was about four or five years old, Leighton Tantillo sat in front of his parents’ piano and tinkered around, until his musician parents took a shine to him and got him a piano teacher. He began writing music at age 7, then playing the drums, and his interest …