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TV shows and streaming video

All the latest news, reviews and interviews about your favourite television series, as well as shows and films on Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+ and other streaming platforms.

last updated:

9 September, 2024

Go Min-si recently starred in The Frog. Photo: Netflix

K-drama casting news about Go Min-si, Rain and more

K-pop star Rain will play a promoter of illegal fights in Bloodhounds 2, while Cha Eun-woo has been tapped for a new K-drama with Go Min-si.

25 Jan 2025 - 6:15PM

Fame and celebrity

Meet Succession actor Jeremy Strong’s multitalented partner, Dr Emma Wall

25 Jan 2025 - 5:00AMvideocam

Korean drama reviews

Review | The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call, starring Ju Ji-hoon, is thrilling

24 Jan 2025 - 4:00PMvideocam

Food and Drinks

Why Netflix star chef Edward Lee hasn’t opened a restaurant in Korea

Korean-American Lee, a star of Netflix’s Culinary Class Wars and Chef & My Fridge, on a life-changing visit to South Korea with his mother.

23 Jan 2025 - 11:15AMvideocam

Korean-American chef Edward Lee in Washington. Photo: The Washington Post via Getty Images

Meet Gabriel Basso, the lead in Netflix show The Night Agent

Basso, who plays FBI agent Peter Sutherland, has a black belt in karate, comes from a family of actors, and has been commissioned by Keanu Reeves to create artwork.

23 Jan 2025 - 6:00AMvideocam

Icons and Influencers

Meet Will Douglas, who may’ve dated CNN star Kaitlan Collins

Kaitlan Collins, CNN’s youngest chief White House correspondent, has a rumoured past with the aspiring politician, who owns a pharmacy and wishes to make medications affordable for communities

21 Jan 2025 - 6:00PM

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Fame and celebrity

Who is Ricki Lake’s third husband Ross Burningham?

Following a whirlwind romance, the Raised by Ricki host married Burningham in 2022 in their luxurious Malibu home – which has just been destroyed in the Pacific Palisades fire.

20 Jan 2025 - 6:00PM

Ricki Lake and her husband Ross Burningham lost their Malibu home in the Palisades fire. Photo: @rickilake/Instagram

The Penthouse K-drama actor Um Ki-joon marries ‘at 49, finally’

Actor posts announcement with photo of himself in white tuxedo, having revealed he had not expected to find ‘someone to spend my life with’.

19 Jan 2025 - 10:34AM

Fame and celebrity

The Bachelorette star Jenn Tran on using her television fame for good causes

After becoming the first Asian-American star of The Bachelorette, Tran took on Dancing with the Stars – now she’s leaving reality TV behind to help with the California fires, then return to med school.

19 Jan 2025 - 6:00AM

Profile | Meet Ju Ji-hoon, star of K-dramas Light Shop and The Trauma Code

Ju Ji-hoon was a successful model, then actor, before a scandal brought him down. He fought his way back, and today his talent is in demand.

18 Jan 2025 - 1:15PM

Ju Ji-hoon in a still from Light Shop. Photo: Disney+.

Fame and celebrity

Who is Friends star David Schwimmer’s former partner, artist Zoë Buckman?

Buckman was raised in London in a creative family; she met Schwimmer while waitressing in 2007 and they married and had a child before divorcing in 2017, although they remain cordial co-parents.

18 Jan 2025 - 4:00AM

David Schwimmer’s ex-wife Zoë Buckman is an artist. Photos: IMDB, @zoebuckman/Instagram

Korean drama reviews

In K-drama Unmasked, Kim Hye-soo plays investigative news for laughs

Given recent events in South Korea, a K-drama about investigative-news journalism may appear timely. Unmasked mixes the heavy with the light.

17 Jan 2025 - 8:41PMvideocam

Fame and celebrity

Meet televangelist Joel Osteen’s co-pastor, fellow preacher wife, Victoria

Known as the First Lady of Lakewood Church, 63-year-old Victoria Osteen has forged a career for herself as a co-pastor and social media sensation. But what’s she really like?

21 Jan 2025 - 12:01PM

Why so many webtoons and web novels are being made into K-dramas

More K-dramas based on web fiction are launching, as streamers seek to reverse falling viewership. Webtoon platforms are getting involved.

17 Jan 2025 - 6:15PMvideocam

Na In-woo (left) and Park Min-young in a still from Korean drama series Marry My Husband, based on a web novel and webtoon of the same name. Webtoon adaptations are increasingly common.

Why American Primeval actress Betty Gilpin is a ‘true American legend’

The Glow star, who filmed parts of Netflix’s new Western series six months pregnant, will make her Broadway debut this month in Oh, Mary!

17 Jan 2025 - 4:15PM

Betty Gilpin (right) and Chloe Lysenko in a still from the new Netflix TV series American Primeval. Gilpin also recently finished shooting the coming Netflix drama Death by Lightning. Photo: TNS

Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Profile | How Hong Kong singer G.E.M. became ‘China’s Taylor Swift’

Early in her career, Gloria Tang enjoyed success and an awards nomination for her music. Then mainland Chinese TV shot her to superstardom.

17 Jan 2025 - 10:38AMvideocam

Fame and celebrity

Who is Severance star Adam Scott’s wife Naomi Scott?

The couple met at a bar on Sunset Boulevard in 1998, and Adam joked that she ‘left promptly’ upon hearing he was an actor … but he turned things around, and the couple now have 2 children.

17 Jan 2025 - 6:00AM

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Fame and celebrity

Meet Pete Hegseth’s bestie Will Cain, who’s replacing Neil Cavuto on Fox News

Long-time Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto is stepping away from the network and being replaced by Will Cain – here’s what you need to know about him.

17 Jan 2025 - 5:00AMvideocam

Fox News host Neil Cavuto (left) is being replaced by Pete Hegseth pal Will Cain. Photos: Getty Images, @cwillcain/Instagram

Trump vows to help ‘troubled’ Hollywood with Gibson, Voight and Stallone

Special envoys are typically chosen to respond to troubled hotspots like the Middle East, not California.

17 Jan 2025 - 2:35PM

Celebrity children

Meet Katie Springer, daughter of controversial TV show host Jerry Springer

Born without nasal passages, legally blind and deaf in one ear, Katie is now married with a child and appears briefly in a new, 2-part Netflix documentary about her father’s show.

17 Jan 2025 - 4:00AM

Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks director David Lynch dead at 78

Lynch was considered a master of surrealism and one of the most innovative filmmakers of his generation.

17 Jan 2025 - 12:24PM

David Lynch appears at the Governors Awards in Los Angeles in October 2019. Photo: AP

Review | XO, Kitty season 2: Netflix’s Seoul-set spin-off series disappoints

Anna Cathcart returns as Kitty Song Covey for a second semester in Korea, but the new season wastes opportunities to explore engaging topics.

17 Jan 2025 - 10:41AMvideocam

Anna Cathcart as student Kitty Song Covey in a still from XO, Kitty season 2. Photo: Netflix

Fame and celebrity

Meet Yuyu Kitamura, who stars as Niko in the Netflix series Dead Boy Detectives

Kitamura’s journey has been one of resilience, creativity and mental health awareness after she overcame body-image issues, depression and self-harm as a teenager

16 Jan 2025 - 2:00PM

Fame and celebrity

Meet Andy García’s wife of 42 years, Marivi Lorido García

Fans were not expecting to see Andy García in Landman’s season finale, which aired on Paramount+ on Sunday – what do we know about his wife, who he said swept him off his feet?

15 Jan 2025 - 6:00AM

Fame and celebrity

Who is Casey Wortmann, wife of Yellowstone actor Jefferson White?

Wortmann, who has a master’s in social work and cares about social justice, may have known White since at least 2013; the couple have been married for a year and a half, after eloping in June 2023.

14 Jan 2025 - 6:00PM

Meet actress Casey Wortmann, wife of Jefferson White, who plays Jimmy Hurdstrom in Yellowstone. Photo: @wortsey/Instagram

Celebrity Families

Who is Griffin Steinfeld, big brother of Spider-Man star Hailee Steinfeld?

The 28-year-old actress of True Grit fame is best friends with her big bro, who even joined her on the set of Bumblebee as a stunt driver and personal adviser.

14 Jan 2025 - 4:00AM

Who is Griffin Steinfeld, Hailee’s big brother? Photo: @haileesteinfeld/Instagram

Korean drama reviews

Check-in Hanyang midseason recap: hotel/period K-drama gets political

Netflix period drama about trainees at a prestigious guest house is shifting focus towards political intrigue and a royal backstory.

13 Jan 2025 - 7:15PMvideocam

Meghan Markle’s Netflix show delayed as LA fires wreak havoc

With Love, Meghan has been pushed back until March. As wildfires halt TV productions, one actress urges Hollywood to scrap its awards season.

14 Jan 2025 - 8:43AM

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