#Why Nothing on Nikki Toscano’s Resume Is Like Her New Peacock Limited Series ‘Long Bright River’

#Why Nothing on Nikki Toscano’s Resume Is Like Her New Peacock Limited Series ‘Long Bright River’

Nikki Toscano has a long resume filled with many high-profile TV shows including Revenge, Bates Motel, Shades of Blue, Hunters, The Offer and American Gigolo. But nothing has delivered the “unique excitement” like her latest, Peacock‘s Long Bright River starring Amanda Seyfried. That’s because the eight-episode limited series marks her first creator credit (in tandem…

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#Amanda Seyfried on Going “Scary and Dark” in ‘Long Bright River’

#‘Long Bright River’ Review: Amanda Seyfried Stars in a Philly-Set Peacock Mystery That Treads Water for Too Long

Everything is not sunny in Philadelphia on the small screen this week. Both Apple TV+’s Dope Thief — review coming Thursday — and Peacock‘s Long Bright River set stories of blue-collar murder and misery against the relative hopefulness of the complicated relationships between their two main characters. Long Bright River The Bottom Line Becomes somewhat…

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#‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ Review: Renée Zellweger Shines in Poignant Moments of Closing Chapter Flush With Fan-Service

#‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ Review: Renée Zellweger Shines in Poignant Moments of Closing Chapter Flush With Fan-Service

It’s been almost a quarter-century since Renée Zellweger first stepped into the shoes of the wine-guzzling, smoking, babbling, pratfall-prone and terminally awkward title character in Bridget Jones’s Diary. Over the course of four movies, the erstwhile singleton, forever sorting out complicated romantic entanglements and riddled with self-doubt, has become a virtual compendium of tics and mannerisms…

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#Peacock is experimenting with mini-games and short videos

#Peacock is experimenting with mini-games and short videos

As Peacock continues to trail behind major players in the entertainment industry like Netflix, TikTok, and YouTube, the streaming service is adopting strategies similar to its rivals with two new initiatives: mini-games and a short-form vertical video feed. The company announced these experiments at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Monday. Starting this…

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#Peacock Catches ‘Friday Night Lights’ Reboot

#Peacock Catches ‘Friday Night Lights’ Reboot

A potential reboot of Friday Night Lights is staying within the NBCUniversal family. Peacock has won a bidding war for the project, which is now in development at the NBCU-owned streamer. Universal Television, which produced the critically beloved 2006-11 series, has been working on a new version of the show, but it wasn’t set up…

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