Author: Michael

The new trailer for “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story” has revealed the first look of Sarah Paulson as serial killer Aileen Wuornos. The official trailer for the upcoming installment in the Netflix anthology series offers the best look yet at the story — mainly the infamous Lizzie Borden murders, which the show depicts as inspiring generations of female killers to come. The video begins by showing Borden’s less-than-ideal upbringing and slowly musing about the best weapons to use for killing. “A knife is too easy,” Vicky Krieps’ character says. “And a rifle is almost too kind a way to go”…

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Playing a real-life person is never easy. There’s the responsibility of doing justice to the individual, not to mention expectations from a public forever ready to pounce. It’s even harder when the character is a modern-day figure still very much in the collective consciousness and remembered by living loved ones. And if the person was famous but so fiercely private that she never gave a single interview during her brief lifetime? Well, good luck. Such was the task that Sarah Pidgeon faced when she was cast in the FX limited series “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette.”…

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Charter Communications’ $34.5 billion merger with Cox officially closed on Thursday morning. Additionally, Charter has completed an acquisition of Liberty Broadband in an all-stock transaction. The Spectrum brand and pricing will now come to Cox markets in mid-September, with the combined entity taking the Cox name within a year. The company will also remain headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, and will maintain a significant presence on Cox’s Atlanta campus. The move comes after the deal, which will create the nation’s largest Internet and video provider by subscriber base, received approval from the FCC and regulators across 45 states where the companies…

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Netflix’s “Outer Banks” was built on a simple conceit, spoken both as an elevator pitch for the series and a promise to the audience by John B (Chase Stokes) in the first episode: “The Outer Banks, paradise on Earth.” When series creators Jonas Pate, Josh Pate and Shannon Burke launched their sun-soaked, treasure-hunting adventure in 2020, they did so with an incredibly specific sense of place, whether audiences had traveled to the titular North Carolina barrier islands or not. They bound themselves to the land, both the fantasy of its natural beauty and the reality of living at the beach…

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