Nina Metz

From left: Larry David and Barack Obama have teamed up for the TV series “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America.” (Art Streiber/HBO)

TV for summer 2026: Larry David teams up with Barack Obama, ‘The Bear’s’ final season and the return of … ‘Ted Lasso’?

May 29, 2026 at 7:40 a.m.

"The Bear" concludes and “Little House on the Prairie” comes back. Plus the return of AMC's underrated "Interview with the Vampire," now retitled as "The Vampire Lestat."

A 1949 Triumph 2000 Roadster on display at Klairmont Kollections Automotive Museum, 3117 N. Knox Ave. in Chicago, on Sept. 10, 2025. The entire collection of vehicles amassed by Larry Klairmont will be auctioned off. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)

One of the country’s most distinctive car collections goes on sale in Chicago

September 17, 2025 at 10:20 a.m.

This isn’t the first time part of Larry Klairmont's collection is going up for sale.

Matthew Broderick in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” (Paramount Pictures/ZUMA Press/TNS)

Column: Teen movies used to be a genre Hollywood took seriously, young audiences too. But good luck finding them in theaters today

September 5, 2025 at 9:24 a.m.

Teen movies are a fascinating segment of cinema history.

Amy Poehler, seen side by side in her “Saturday Night Live” audition (left) and in the present in the episode “Five Minutes” of the docuseries “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night.” (Peacock)

Column: 50 years of ‘Saturday Night Live,’ half fascinating, half underwhelming

February 15, 2025 at 6:16 a.m.

The in-house documentaries produced for the "SNL's" 50th anniversary stay on-message — warm and laudatory — but have compelling moments as well

Simone Biles during her floor routine on Aug. 5, 2024, at Bercy Arena during the Paris Olympics. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

Column: The highlights and lowlights of watching the Olympics so far

August 6, 2024 at 11:15 a.m.

We’re more than midway through the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and the games have been full of drama, both good and bad. Here’s a look from a TV critic’s...

What are we being denied — if anything — when actors we admire aren’t “the biggest movie star in the world right now”?
(Procurator / Digital Vision Vectors / Getty)

Column: Do we need movie stars?

July 13, 2024 at 6:20 a.m.

Plenty of screen actors these days are successful but we don’t think of them as stars. Why is that, and what’s different from the era of De Niro and Dunaway?

Paramount Pictures is the longest operating movie studio in Hollywood. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Column: Paramount’s new president was fired last year as CEO of NBCUniversal after allegations of sexual harassment

July 9, 2024 at 10:44 a.m.

Jeff Shell's firing last year has been conspicuously absent in the reporting so far across numerous outlets about the Paramount-Skydance merger.

It won’t be long before the looming threat of AI in Hollywood becomes an all-consuming issue. (Qi Yang/Getty)

Column: AI is coming for Hollywood

June 19, 2024 at 12:18 p.m.

The looming threat of AI in Hollywood will arrive with all the subtlety of the Kool-Aid Man busting through a wall.

Elvis Presley performs during his “’68 Comeback Special” that aired on NBC on Dec. 3, 1968. (ZUMA Press/TNS)

‘Reinventing Elvis: The ’68 Comeback’ review: An aging pop star comes roaring back, if only for a moment

August 28, 2023 at 12:32 p.m.

The Paramount+ documentary offers a hint as to how Presley might have navigated his career if things had panned out differently — namely, if he had extricated himself from his...

Review: ‘Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love’ is an old-school special for an old-school talent

April 26, 2023 at 6:36 p.m.

It streams on Peacock starting Thursday.

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