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Check out our handy list of renewals across cable, premium channels, and streaming services.

Check out our handy list of renewals across cable, premium channels, and streaming services.

Check out our handy list of renewals across cable, premium channels, and streaming services.

Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021 | “DC’s Stargirl” returns on CW.

Actress Crystal Fox, 18 years removed from her regular role on CBS’s Carroll O’Connor police procedural “In the Heat of the Night,

Moonlight writer McCraney discusses his TV series, David Makes Man. Maureen Corrigan reviews Afterparties, by Anthony Veasna So. Peter Bergen talks about The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden.

Embed TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Our film critic, Justin Chang, says that "The Green Knight," which stars Dev Patel as a young adventurer from King Arthurs court, is one of the most magical movies hes seen so far this year. Its the latest film from David Lowery, the writer and director of the indie dramas "A Ghost Story" and "Aint Them Bodies Saints." It opens Friday in theaters nationwide. Heres Justins review. JUSTIN CHANG, BYLINE: As powerful a grip as King Arthur and his Knight...

This is FRESH AIR. Im Terry Gross. The movie "Moonlight," which won the Oscar for best picture in 2017, was adapted from a script by my guest, Tarell Alvin McCraney. He and the films director, Barry Jenkins, won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay. McCraney is now the creator of the series "David Makes Man," where hes also an executive producer and writer. Its in its second season on OWN, The Oprah Winfrey Network. Like "Moonlight," it begins with a boy growing up in the projects in a Miami n...

Embed TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Dana Spiottas novels have been shortlisted for most of the major literary awards. Her latest novel is called "Wayward." Our book critic Maureen Corrigan says its a novel about one womans extreme response to the pervasive low-level panic that marks our own time. MAUREEN CORRIGAN, BYLINE: Dana Spiottas new novel, "Wayward," is about a 53-year-old woman named Samantha - Sam - Raymond whos going through menopause and becomes a little unhinged. She leave...

Let Hollywood tell it, Miami culture can be summed up by three things: South Beach, salsa dancing, and drug cartels. Unfortunately, that representation of the southern Florida city that we often see on the big and small screen leaves out an important community that’s a huge part of its makeup: African Americans. Last year, OWN offered a new take on the 305 with the introduction of David Makes Man. The coming-of-age tale created, written, and directed by Moonlight‘s Tarell Alvin McCraney, ...