High School
‘TV’s Top 5’: The CW, Freevee and Brands That Could Have Been
Welcome to the 260th episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. 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, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as […]
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‘High School’ Canceled at Amazon’s Freevee (Exclusive)
Amazon’s Freevee is dropping out of High School. The ad-supported free streamer has opted to cancel the heartfelt series inspired by the memoir from Grammy-nominated twin sibling performers Tegan and Sara Quin after a single season. The writing for the cancellation has been on the wall. Despite rave reviews, High School last aired in October […]
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Critic’s Appreciation: How Twins Railey and Seazynn Gilliland Went From Average Teenagers on TikTok to ‘High School’ Stars
Depending on how you look at it, the trajectory of High School stars Seazynn Gilliland and Railey Gilliland is either a Cinderella story as old as showbiz itself or a thoroughly modern fable from the age of social media. As it goes, the pair hadn’t even considered careers in acting when their goofy TikToks happened […]
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Angie Han: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2022
The THR TV critic’s picks include a searing British medical drama, a poignant Canadian coming-of-ager, an unclassifiable HBO experiment and the latest creation from Issa Rae.
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Critics’ Conversation: Dragons, Dahmer and Other Fall TV Phenomena
Four blockbuster streaming and cable series dominated the discourse — raising questions about the benefits of weekly, rather than binge-friendly, rollouts — but there were less flashy and expensive gems to discover as well.
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Clea DuVall on Bringing Tegan and Sara’s ‘High School’ to TV
Welcome to the 189th episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. 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, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as […]
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Tegan & Sara Quin Find Their ‘High School’ Counterparts in TikTok Twins
Grammy-nominated twins Tegan and Sara Quin have cast their onscreen counterparts in the IMDb TV coming-of-age series High School. TikTok twins Railey and Seazynn Gilliland will make their television debuts in the series co-created by Tegan and Sara and exec producer Clea DuVall (Happiest Season). Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother) and Kyle Bornheimer […]
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