You might remember the American adaptation of it, Ugly Betty. But American Ferrara’s comedy hit was actually based on the most famous Latin American telenovela of all time, Yo Soy Betty, La Fea. After breaking Prime Video’s Latin American viewership records, Amazon has launched what they’re calling a second season of the Columbian version, Betty
A TV-14 remake of the 1997 Francis Ford Coppola film, which was an adaptation of the hit John Grisham novel, the new USA Network/Peacock series brings timely new twists, a brisk pace, and Southern wit to the story of a young, hotshot law school grad who gets fired from a big prestigious firm — only
In SãoPaulo, Brazil, a wealthy heiress secretly imprisoned and abused her longtime domestic worker in her run-down mansion for years, unbeknownst to close neighbors or authorities, until a determined journalist named Chico Felitti launched an investigation. The three-part docuseries, adapted from the podcast A Mulher da Casa Abandonada, unfolds as a haunting and bewildering real-life
Become a rock star overnight, build your memory cells, and become more resilient as you (safely) watch handsome Aussie Chris Hemsworth hard at work pushing all his limits. Since learning he had the Alzheimer’s gene, the movie star has embarked on this National Geographic series to tap into the latest science while tackling daunting feats,
Tyler Perry’s timely political satire about race, sexism and media scrutiny in modern day state politics returns with its second batch of episodes. It follows Mississippi’s first Black lieutenant governor (Terri J. Vaughn), as she juggles her dismissive boss and her family’s sudden fame. Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is an executive producer, adding
In time for football season, and for anyone trying to understand the hype around Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs, this joint ESPN+ and Disney+ series will demystify the franchise, its history, and it’s most visible star. It comes from the team behind the Emmy-winning The Last Dance, so expect a deeper probe as
A high-adrenaline espionage thriller set against South Korea’s vibrant nightlife and sleek bullet trains, Butterfly stars Daniel Dae Kim as a former spy whose daughter is sent to assassinate him in this six-episode Amazon Prime series based on the graphic novel series created by Arash Amel. “Viewers just looking for an easy distraction might find
Decades after her father’s disappearance, a powerful LA divorce lawyer returns to Ireland to discover that she wasn’t abandoned after all, as she begins to uncover secret relatives, local crime rings, horse racing cons, and family betrayals. Alicia Silverstone stars in the taut six-episode drama that traipses across the moody and cinematic backdrops of modern-day
Alien gets a timely, thought-provoking prequel series that taps into our current angst about AI and corporate overlords. Set in 2120, in a world run by five mega-companies, a deep-space vessel with experimental life forms crashes to earth, leaving it up to the first human-AI hybrid, Wendy, and rival corporate soldiers to contain an outbreak.
A prequel to the Outlander series that stands on it own, Blood of My Blood is a romantic historical drama that tells the alternating love stories of the future Jamie Fraser’s parents in 18th-century Scotland and Claire Beauchamp’s parents in World War I England. Grounded in actual historical events and shot in the Scottish Highlands,