TV
Sesame Workshop enlists Elmo, Cookie Monster on hand washing
Elmo, Rooster and Cookie Monster are doing their part to help keep kids safe as the coronavirus pandemic grinds on.
5 years ago
Social distancing with the kids? WHYY offering expanded educational programming on PBS
WHYY has expanded its TV and online educational programming as the coronavirus pandemic keeps more and more families indoors.
5 years ago
Philly underdog makes it to the ‘Project Runway’ finale
Nancy Volpe-Beringer has survived to tonight’s final round of this season’s TV fashion-design competition.
5 years ago
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‘Inside the Actors Studio’ host James Lipton dies at 93
Lipton died of bladder cancer at his New York home, his wife, Kedakai Lipton, told the New York Times and the Hollywood Reporter. He was 93.
5 years ago
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‘Dispatches from Elsewhere’ drinking game: Watch Jason Segel’s Philly-set AMC show
Amid the weirdness, Philadelphians can expect plenty of familiar sights.
5 years ago
All the city’s a stage: Jason Segel’s new TV show gifts Philly a mural of itself
On the eve of its premiere, the new AMC show created and starring Jason Segel gives thanks to Philadelphia.
5 years ago
Billy Penn
The UArts senior is headed to Hollywood
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Philly designer stays in the game on ‘Project Runway’
Philadelphia’s Nancy Volpe-Beringer got into the design biz late in life, but she’s proving she can keep the pace on the reality TV show.
6 years ago
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13 Philly locations in the new trailer for Jason Segel’s AMC series
“Dispatches from Elsewhere”? More like “Dispatches from Philadelphia.”
6 years ago
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‘Pronounce Conshohocken’: Philly-area cast members dish on new Netflix reality show
What’s it like to be on “The Circle”? Cold shrimp, hot rooms and a lasting bond.
6 years ago
How streaming, diversity, #MeToo shaped TV decade of change
Streaming is behind the biggest media revolution in 30 years, since cable TV's rapid growth in the 1980s, and it is looking to expand.
6 years ago
Caroll Spinney, who played Big Bird and Oscar on ‘Sesame Street,’ dies at 85
Caroll Spinney, the actor and puppeteer who portrayed Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street over five decades, died Sunday at age 85.
6 years ago
New Mr. Rogers film pushes superstar actor Tom Hanks to take a risk
Patrick Stoner interviewed the Oscar winner about portraying the PBS children’s TV legend. Here’s a conversation with WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn about that chat.
6 years ago
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Texting, emojis and meerkats at the zoo = Always Sunny’s funniest episode this year
There’s even a rare happy ending.
6 years ago
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When you won’t save a choking friend: ‘Always Sunny’ gets dark as the Gang toys with death
Episode 4 of Season 14 doesn’t have a lot of local Philly flavor, but displays plenty of the city’s sardonic wit.
6 years ago