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6 days ago
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Harrison Ford gives emotional speech on last day of 'Shrinking' season 3 filming: 'Just f---ing amazing'
Harrison Ford isn't quick to display the ooey-gooey side of his emotional range. So when he does, he really means it. Ford was captured delivering a stirring speech in a state of visible emotion on the day his Apple TV+ series, Shrinking, wrapped its third season. "You guys are the best. The very, very best - at what you do, and how you do it, and how you make people feel is just f---ing amazing," he said in a video shared on Tuesday to the streamer's official Instagram page. The American Graffiti actor, 83, looked around at the assembled cast and crew of the comedy drama during an exterior shot, and continued, "I love this place. I love working with you guys, I hope we can all get back here and do it again." Ford's co-star and one of the series' co-creators, Jason Segel, rapidly snapped Ford back to his usual, comically cantankerous self by remarking, "Yeah buddy." Ford quickly snapped back, "I wasn't talking to you," causing the whole crew to burst into laughter as he walked off his mark. Shrinking has been a major hit for everyone involved: Segel, who co-created the show alongside Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein three years after his previous attempt at helming a series, Dispatching From Elsewhere, stalled after just one season; Ford, who earned the first Emmy nomination of his career for his work on the second season; Lawrence, who's riding high after having created two hit series for Apple TV+, with Ted Lasso; and that streamer, which has been producing a high volume of quality television since its 2017 inception, but has failed to break most series through to the level of audience fervor Shrinking has series follows Segel's Jimmy Laird, a therapist who begins shocking his patients by telling them exactly what he thinks, who in turn shock him by actually implementing (or at least, attempting to implement) meaningful changes into their lives. Ford was at the center of one of the second season's most gripping storylines, as his Dr. Paul Rhoades waged a tragic battle against Parkinson's while falling for his own doctor, Julie (Wendie Malick). Ford will vie against the formidable competition of Colman Domingo (The Four Seasons), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear), his own Shrinking costar, Michael Urie, and more for the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series trophy when the Emmys air September. As for season 3 of Shrinking, while no premiere date has been announced, stars Segel and Jessica Williams did tease what fans can expect to see. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in June, Segel revealed, "Each season we have a word that is our true north for the theme of the season. Season 1 was 'grief,' season 2 was 'forgiveness,' and season 3 — I acknowledge that this is two words — is 'moving forward.'" Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
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6 days ago
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Shrinking Season 3 Release Date Could Be Sooner Than Expected After This Update
The release date of Shrinking Season 3 could arrive sooner than fans expect, given the recent update shared by Apple TV. The first season of the series premiered on Apple TV+ on January 27, 2023, and consisted of 10 episodes, concluding on March 24, 2023. The sophomore season, comprising 12 episodes, streamed between October 16, 2024, and December 24, 2024. Its third season was renewed in October 2024. Apple TV officially announces Shrinking Season 3 filming wrap after Michael Urie's update Apple TV officially revealed that Shrinking Season 3 has wrapped production through a video featuring stars Jason Segel and Harrison Ford. Seemingly addressing the cast and crew of the series, Ford says in the video, 'You guys are the best. The very, very best at what you do, and how you do it. And how you make people feel is just f——- amazing. I love this place. I love working with you guys. I hope we can all get back here and do it again.' This prompts Segel to say, 'Yeah, buddy.' However, Ford jokingly responded, 'I wasn't talking to you.' He then took his jacket from Segel and walked off. This came a few days after Segel and Ford's fellow cast member Michael Urie announced Shrinking Season 3 filming had wrapped through his Instagram handle. He shared a photo with another castmate, Devin Kawaoka. In the caption, Urie teased that he could not 'wait for you to see what's in store for Brian (Urie), Charlie (Kawaoka), and the whole gang.' Notably, production for Season 3 began in February this year. Given the release pattern of previous seasons and what Urie posted, we can assume that Shrinking Season 3 could arrive in the last quarter of 2025. Returning cast members for Season 3 include Segel as Jimmy, Ford as Dr. Paul, Urie, Kawaoka, and Jessica Williams. Some of the new additions for the third season are Jeff Daniels, Michael J. Fox, and Sherry Cola. The post Shrinking Season 3 Release Date Could Be Sooner Than Expected After This Update appeared first on - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More. Solve the daily Crossword
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6 days ago
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Harrison Ford gives emotional speech on last day of 'Shrinking' season 3 filming: 'Just f---ing amazing'
"I wasn't talking to you," Ford joked to costar Jason Segel after wrapping up his poignant wrap speech. Harrison Ford isn't quick to display the ooey-gooey side of his emotional range. So when he does, he really means it. Ford was captured delivering a stirring speech in a state of visible emotion on the day his Apple TV+ series, Shrinking, wrapped its third season. "You guys are the best. The very, very best - at what you do, and how you do it, and how you make people feel is just f---ing amazing," he said in a video shared on Tuesday to the streamer's official Instagram page. The American Graffiti actor, 83, looked around at the assembled cast and crew of the comedy drama during an exterior shot, and continued, "I love this place. I love working with you guys, I hope we can all get back here and do it again." Ford's co-star and one of the series' co-creators, Jason Segel, rapidly snapped Ford back to his usual, comically cantankerous self by remarking, "Yeah buddy." Ford quickly snapped back, "I wasn't talking to you," causing the whole crew to burst into laughter as he walked off his mark. Shrinking has been a major hit for everyone involved: Segel, who co-created the show alongside Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein three years after his previous attempt at helming a series, Dispatching From Elsewhere, stalled after just one season; Ford, who earned the first Emmy nomination of his career for his work on the second season; Lawrence, who's riding high after having created two hit series for Apple TV+, with Ted Lasso; and that streamer, which has been producing a high volume of quality television since its 2017 inception, but has failed to break most series through to the level of audience fervor Shrinking has series follows Segel's Jimmy Laird, a therapist who begins shocking his patients by telling them exactly what he thinks, who in turn shock him by actually implementing (or at least, attempting to implement) meaningful changes into their lives. Ford was at the center of one of the second season's most gripping storylines, as his Dr. Paul Rhoades waged a tragic battle against Parkinson's while falling for his own doctor, Julie (Wendie Malick). Ford will vie against the formidable competition of Colman Domingo (The Four Seasons), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear), his own Shrinking costar, Michael Urie, and more for the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series trophy when the Emmys air September. As for season 3 of Shrinking, while no premiere date has been announced, stars Segel and Jessica Williams did tease what fans can expect to see. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in June, Segel revealed, "Each season we have a word that is our true north for the theme of the season. Season 1 was 'grief,' season 2 was 'forgiveness,' and season 3 — I acknowledge that this is two words — is 'moving forward.'" Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly Solve the daily Crossword
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Harrison Ford gives emotional speech on last day of 'Shrinking' season 3 filming: 'Just f---ing amazing'
Harrison Ford isn't quick to display the ooey-gooey side of his emotional range. So when he does, he really means it. Ford was captured delivering a stirring speech in a state of visible emotion on the day his Apple TV+ series, Shrinking, wrapped its third season. "You guys are the best. The very, very best - at what you do, and how you do it, and how you make people feel is just f---ing amazing," he said in a video shared on Tuesday to the streamer's official Instagram page. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Apple TV (@appletv) The American Graffiti actor, 83, looked around at the assembled cast and crew of the comedy drama during an exterior shot, and continued, "I love this place. I love working with you guys, I hope we can all get back here and do it again." Ford's co-star and one of the series' co-creators, Jason Segel, rapidly snapped Ford back to his usual, comically cantankerous self by remarking, "Yeah buddy." Ford quickly snapped back, "I wasn't talking to you," causing the whole crew to burst into laughter as he walked off his mark. Shrinking has been a major hit for everyone involved: Segel, who co-created the show alongside Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein three years after his previous attempt at helming a series, Dispatching From Elsewhere, stalled after just one season; Ford, who earned the first Emmy nomination of his career for his work on the second season; Lawrence, who's riding high after having created two hit series for Apple TV+, with Ted Lasso; and that streamer, which has been producing a high volume of quality television since its 2017 inception, but has failed to break most series through to the level of audience fervor Shrinking has series follows Segel's Jimmy Laird, a therapist who begins shocking his patients by telling them exactly what he thinks, who in turn shock him by actually implementing (or at least, attempting to implement) meaningful changes into their lives. Ford was at the center of one of the second season's most gripping storylines, as his Dr. Paul Rhoades waged a tragic battle against Parkinson's while falling for his own doctor, Julie (Wendie Malick). Ford will vie against the formidable competition of Colman Domingo (The Four Seasons), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear), his own Shrinking costar, Michael Urie, and more for the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series trophy when the Emmys air September. As for season 3 of Shrinking, while no premiere date has been announced, stars Segel and Jessica Williams did tease what fans can expect to see. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in June, Segel revealed, "Each season we have a word that is our true north for the theme of the season. Season 1 was 'grief,' season 2 was 'forgiveness,' and season 3 — I acknowledge that this is two words — is 'moving forward.'" Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
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17-07-2025
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Séamas O'Reilly: Apple TV+ has Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks and God, but is anybody watching?
Apple TV+ occupies an odd spot in the streaming world. Its library of original films has garnered dozens of Oscar nominations for the likes of Killers of the Flower Moon , Napoleon and 2021 Best Picture winner CODA , while its TV content includes hits such as Severance , Slow Horses and Ted Lasso . But it's also fair to say that its full roster is less heralded than those of Netflix and Amazon – or even Paramount+ . This is, I would argue, a shame, since Apple TV+ has hours of very good programming which, sometimes, it feels like nobody's watching. No other platform has the same talent for producing shows that have multiple series, five-star reviews, casts that appear to include Julia Roberts , Tom Hanks , the Statue of Liberty and God – and yet still draw a resounding blank if you bring them up over pints. Do I know a couple of people who share my love of Silo and For All Mankind? Yes. Do I know three? No. Let's be honest. Some of their shows sound made up. Consider a drama like Shrinking, in which Jason Segel and the Harrison Ford have played crotchety psychotherapists for two whole series. You'd have heard if that was real, wouldn't you? What about See, a three-season Jason Momoa -fronted sci-fi about a post-apocalyptic world in which everyone is blind? Or Roundabout, a spy thriller in which Idris Elba and Helen Mirren navigate gridlock traffic during a London terror attack. Or what about Stick , an Owen Wilson comedy about a washed-up former golf pro with a wisecracking caddie played by Marc Maron? Do any of those sound real to you? I mean, yes, I did make one of them up – but I'm willing to bet you don't know which. In fact, if I were to revisit this paragraph a year from now, I'm reasonably sure I wouldn't remember myself. READ MORE The return of Foundation (Apple TV+) , therefore, offers me a great opportunity to trumpet what Apple does best. Loosely based on Isaac Asimov's seminal novel series, Foundation takes place in a far-flung future in which space is ruled by a 'genetic dynasty' battling against the Foundation, a splinter movement inspired by enigmatic mathematician Hari Seldon (a typically superb Jared Harris). In the show's first series, we learned that his calculations predicted the end of the dynasty's reign, earning him exile from the empire, and attracting the brilliant young mind Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobel, who should be in more things) to join him in his work. The empire's dynasty is genetic in the sense that it's administered by a triumvirate of clones, each at a different stage of life: the presiding emperor in his prime years, Brother Day (Lee Pace, delivering a series of scenery-chewing masterclasses), a younger clone-in-training, Brother Dawn (played by a capable and sprightly Cassian Bilton), and an elder clone named Brother Dusk (Terrence Mann, who is thankfully given lots to do in this latest series). Marriage for them is forbidden, so the imperial line is continued via a rotation of euthanising Brother Dusk, so that a new Brother Dawn can be produced. The result is a remarkably clean storytelling engine for examining intergenerational conflict, which provides the additional benefit of allowing the same actors to reprise different iterations of themselves, centuries apart. Each series, after all, restarts with a substantial time jump, meaning almost every face you meet will be new, barring the emperors, as well as Gaal Dornick, and Hari Seldon, who get cryo-sleep treatment and/or live on as mental projections of themselves. In this latest series, each seems poised to join forces with the others to thwart a new enemy: a psychic pirate named the Mule who can bend whole planets to his will. Foundation: Leah Harvey as Salvor Hardin, Jared Harris as Hari Seldon and Lou Llobell as Gaal Dornick. Photograph: Helen Sloan/Apple TV+ But sure lookit, I'm getting ahead of myself. Foundation is the kind of knotty science fiction that's best described as loosely as possible so that new entrants to the cult can experience its labyrinthine constructions for themselves. The balance such storytelling must strike is, after all, impossibly delicate. Too much exposition and it becomes a treacly mire; too much action and it becomes inscrutable tosh. Some part of me yearns for nothing more than the slow machinations and devious politicking – what I'd call Wolf Hall in space – but, shorn of the splash and spectacle of technology and plottier elements, such a show could feel – even to a hardened dork such as I – like homework. [ Foundation: Set phasers to Overambitious – season two is like Game of Thrones on psychedelics Opens in new window ] The fact that Foundation manages to avoid either trap is, in my opinion, more impressive than its sumptuous futuristic visuals, canny acting or immense feats of world-building. It is spectacular entertainment, one which marries the palace intrigue of Game Of Thrones with the eye-catching bombast of Denis Villeneuve's Dune films. This is genre storytelling at its most rich and deep, and you should simply watch it now. Even just three of you. Please. So I'll finally have someone to discuss it with. I hold similar hopes for my other favourite science fiction show of 2025, the comedy-drama Murderbot (Apple TV+) , which last week concluded its first series on the platform, just as Foundation's third began. Alexander Skarsgård plays the titular homicidal android, a security unit dispatched to help humans on the off-world mining colonies and science missions which pepper the series' universe. Designed to be an unthinking automaton, he's hacked his programming to grant himself free will, and must now conceal this from his new clients, a hippyish crew of environmental scientists, working on commission for an evil, galaxy-spanning corporation. Alexander Skarsgård in Murderbot While (mostly) wishing them no harm, he finds himself affronted by their puny human failings, and perturbed by their constant attempts to share and connect with him. Instead, he indulges his true passions: constantly checking the perimeter to escape eye contact with his human charges, and scouring the galaxy's premium-quality media uplinks so he can download untold gigabytes of his favourite spacefaring soap operas. Murderbot began as a series of Hugo Award-winning novellas by Martha Wells, and the character has long been embraced by neurodiverse readers as a wry and loving commentary on their own cohort: awkward, perhaps, when it comes to real-life matters of the heart, but deeply obsessed with such themes in fiction. His addiction to schmaltzy 'premium content' – rendered, with hammy brio, throughout the series in snippets starring John Cho and 30 Rock's Jack McBrayer – begins as a joyously meta character quirk, before becoming a focal plot point, and a window into his own, tentatively human, emotional universe. All of which says nothing about the show's wider narrative of corporate spycraft, capitalist hegemony, workplace relationships, and the most astute and hilarious commentary on supposedly right-on people working within evil systems that you'll find anywhere in contemporary television. Murderbot is that best of things: a comment on genre which also typifies said genre's best tropes. It's smart-as-a-tack pulp that loves its characters, and the conventions they represent, while also pulling off enough novel twists and turns that its wonderfully crafted fake world hums with chaotic life. It is some of the funniest science fiction – and most dramatically gripping comedy – available today. It may not star Harrison Ford, or even the Statue of Liberty, but if you find yourself scouring the galaxy's premium-quality media uplinks, you have my strongest recommendation to give it a chance.
