Every day 200 new shows are added to Netflix (only a slight exaggeration), so why shouldn’t you be in one of them? Fortunately, fate smiles upon you, Dallas residents, because The Circle, a new reality game show being produced exclusively for Netflix, is hosting auditions Saturday, April 13. The Circle,…
If you got punked on Monday because you forgot for a couple of seconds that it was also April Fools’ Day, you weren’t alone. Good Morning Texas host Alanna Sarabia was the target of an on-air prank Monday morning on WFAA Channel 8 thanks to Chad Cline, a local actor and Stomping Ground Comedy Theater…
Fans of comedy team Broken Lizard’s work can get a weekly dose of their raunchy and fun style with tonight’s premiere of Tacoma FD on truTV. Broken Lizard’s Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme co-created the weekly comedy series that follows a group of firefighters keeping themselves busy in a city…
A new addition to the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame features some collectibles that TV and movie geeks will find interesting. The Fort Worth attraction opened a new gallery in the building’s second floor Kit Moncrief Galleries earlier this month, and it includes some rare collectibles. The museum…
Familiar names like Jim Gaffigan, Elizabeth Moss and Dirk Nowitzki will appear in some of the more than 50 films screened at the Dallas International Film Festival (DIFF). DIFF released the full list of films that will get a screening at the 13th annual film festival, including five world premiere…
Any magician can fool their audience. Magician Michael Carbonaro, who stars in TruTV’s hidden-camera magic show The Carbonaro Effect, wants to leave his viewers with something much more powerful than feeling stupid for a few seconds. He wants them to question the nature of the reality around them. “I think…
The Festival de Cine Latino Americano and the Oak Cliff Cultural Center are introducing Cine Mexicano Film Series, a new five-part film series, which will highlight prominent Mexican filmmakers during March at Texas Theatre. The series kicked off March 2 with Alejandro González Iñárritu’s overlapping and intersecting triptych narrative Amores…
Dallas fashion connoisseurs may see a familiar face on tonight’s season premiere of Project Runway. Designer Lela Orr is set to compete on the show’s 17th season. In 2016, Dallas native Orr founded Ferrah, a fashion line produced in an environmentally conscious manner. “The fashion industry is the second most…
The 2017 documentary Abducted in Plain Sight could easily fall under the categories of horror or psychological thriller. The true crime story is a stranger-than-fiction tale that Stephen King couldn’t have conjured up while dreaming and on drugs. The film depicts a monstrous tale of child abuse and the destruction…
Morgan Willett has a seemingly charmed life. Her looks and Instagram tell you she’s the epitome of the all-American cheerleader. One of the fun facts she lists is “I’ve had abs since I was little and they won’t go away.” Her Instagram feed is filled with her blonde hair, hazel eyes…
Blake DeLong, a Dallas native, is a rising star on Broadway, Netflix, Amazon, network TV and the big screen. A few years ago, New York City playwright Taymor called DeLong one afternoon and asked, “Ready to be in a Spike Lee joint?” But this was, of course, after years…
Tonight one red carpet premiere is forgoing the luxury of an upscale cinema for the Ron Kirk Pedestrian Bridge. I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story, a new Lifetime movie starring Ginnifer Goodwin and Angela Fairley, will screen as part of the festivities scheduled at the annual Promise to…
Secure your wigs, Dallas, because the new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race has more drag queens from North Texas than any other season in drag race herstory. (See what we did there? Haha? Laugh.) Although no queen from Texas has ever snatched the crown to be America’s next drag superstar…
Dex Nichols loves bad movies. Cheap props, wooden dialogue and monsters with obvious zipper lines are the building blocks to a movie night at Nichols’ home in McKinney. And for one night each month, he wants you to watch them with him. Each month Nichols selects a bad movie or two, stocks…
Clark James Gable III, the most recent host of the long-running Dallas reality show series Cheaters, died suddenly Friday. The show’s creator, Bobby Goldstein, says the show and Dallas lost more than a charismatic and likable TV personality. “He was a great friend of mine,” Goldstein says. “He was just…
This Sunday millionaires will dress up in clothes that belong to other people, sing songs and worship a gold statue. No, it’s not an Illuminati meeting, it’s the Academy Awards! This year’s Oscars — or indoor kids’ Super Bowl — will surely have some dark-horse victories, a few surprise guests…
If the locations look familiar the next time you’re binging a new show on Amazon, that’s because you’re looking at scenes of your own backyard. #Washed, a new show premiering on Amazon Prime’s streaming service, was written and filmed completely in Dallas. #Washed follows Mark, played by Corey Pratt, as…
Launching an international film festival could mean that Mansfield has graduated from small town Texas. The city, which now boasts more than 70,000 people, is not only “minutes from everything” but also “second to none,” according to its website. And the inaugural Mansfield International Film Festival may set a stage…
Corsicana is only votes away from being thrust into the national spotlight. The Texas city is one of six still in the running to be the featured destination in Hulu’s original series Small Business Revolution: Main Street. Now preparing for its fourth season, Small Business Revolution selects one city and…
One more section. James Gross stands high above the crowd at Ninja Nation and reaches out for an apple-sized object suspended in the air in front of him. Grasping it between his palms, he hangs on as the bar above him slides down a U-shaped track. At the end of…
In what has become somewhat of a time-honored tradition for Americans on their way back up or back down the ladder of fame, Lindsay Lohan debuted her first reality TV series, Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club, earlier this year. Less than an hour and a half away from the birthplace of…
Last year, the cast of Pocket Sandwich Theatre’s comedy The Roof — which parodies actor, writer and director Tommy Wiseau’s unintentional comedic drama The Room — reached out to their characters’ Room counterparts before the premiere of their play. Except, of course, for Wiseau because, well, he’s Tommy Wiseau. Actor Dan…
