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How’s this for eerily relatable entertainment: On The Stand, a nine-episode thriller based on Stephen King’s 1978 bestseller, a deadly global pandemic strikes, dividing Americans. But this catastrophe makes our real-life virus struggle look puny in comparison. The fictional superflu kills 99 percent of the world’s population, and after the survivors rebuild civilization, opposing factions clash in a deadly battle. Plus, everyone’s having extremely weird visions. At least no one’s hoarding toilet paper. “It was very surreal coming to the end of production just as COVID was start...

Every week, hosts  Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and  Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executive and other guests and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as the case may be). This week's five topics are: 1. Disney's Investor Day. Following a tidal wave of news during a four-hour presentation, Disney hammered home a message that they're all in on streaming (in case you didn't notice). Ten Star Wars shows. Ten Marvel shows. Plus scores of reboots and remakes for ...

The Stand showrunner Benjamin Cavell explains the nonlinear approach to the story, and that much-hyped coda sequence.

The night before he was set to begin work on The Stand, a CBS All Access miniseries event in which he plays one of the key villains, Nat Wolff found himself freaking out. Faced with the task of squaring off with Alexander Skarsgård's big bad, the walkin' dude known as Randall Flagg, Wolff was second-guessing the months he'd spent developing his own character, Lloyd Henreid. Then he went to get some dinner, and inspiration struck over sandwich shop loudspeakers. "The night before shooting, I had a panic attack, and I thought, 'This character is so extreme,' and I went really out on the edge,...