I love Central Park. It's an animated musical comedy full of rapturous joy and beyond-catchy tunes, and I said as much in my review. But there's one very key element of it I did not love from the very beginning: The casting of Kristen Bell as a biracial character. We heard that they would recast the role with a Black actor some time ago, and now the new performer has been announced. Per Variety, meet your new Molly: Emmy Raver-Lampman. [caption id="attachment_912779" align="alignright" width="350"] Image via Netflix[/caption] Raver-Lampman is a musical …

In a surprising yet necessary move, yesterday it was announced that Jenny Slate would be exiting the Netflix series Big Mouth, with news of Kristen Bell’s exit from her role o the Apple TV+ musical series Central Park following shortly thereafter. Both white actresses voiced non-white characters in these animated series, and they themselves and the powers that be decided that, well, this was probably not a great idea. On Big Mouth, Slate voiced Missy Foreman-Greenwald, a young nerdy and extremely kind mixed race girl struggling through adolescences alongside the rest of the characters. In a statement …

When Josh Gad pitched a musical TV show to Bob’s Burgers creator Loren Bouchard, he was not—as he puts it—“fucking around.” The result, the delightful animated Apple TV+ series Central Park, is a full-on musical series that unites world-class Broadway performers and songwriters to tell a story about disparate characters living in and around New York City’s Central Park. Gad voices Birdie, a park regular and the show’s omniscient narrator; Hamilton alum Leslie Odom Jr. plays the park’s caretaker; Kathryn Hahn is his investigative reporter wife; Kristen Bell and Tituss Burgess voice …

We could all use some joy in our lives, right? Central Park, the new animated musical comedy on Apple TV+, is a joy machine. An endorphin generator. A great boost to any not so great feelings you may be feeling. Its jokes are rat-a-tat yet unpredictable, its characters are quick to understand yet ever-deepening, its performances are delightful, its animation is crisply fluid, and its songs? Wowee, its songs. They get you right in the heart upon first listen, and I promise you the first listen will not be your last listen. Simply put: Central Park is …

Central Park may have had to miss its SXSW premiere after the Caronavirus cancellations, but you can't stop a streaming debut! The new animated musical comedy series from Emmy Award-winning Bob’s Burgers creator Loren Bouchard, Josh Gad and Nora Smith (Bob's Burgers), and Apple TV+ has debuted the first trailer showing off the star-studded voice cast and charming ensemble of characters. The series features the voices of Gad, Leslie Odom, Jr., Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Tituss Burgess, Daveed Diggs, and Stanley Tucci in a story about a family of caretakers that live in Central Park …

If you love the charming characters, distinct animation, and catchy songs of Bob's Burgers, mark your calendar for Central Park, the new animated musical comedy series from Emmy Award-winning Bob's Burgers creator Loren Bouchard that's set to launch on Apple TV+ this summer. Written and executive produced by Bouchard and fellow EPs Josh Gad and Nora Smith, Central Park features the voices of Gad, Leslie Odom, Jr., Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Tituss Burgess, Daveed Diggs, and Stanley Tucci in a story about a family of caretakers that live in Central Park and the nefarious heiress (who …

The first image and synopsis for Apple TV+'s Central Park, a new animated musical show from the creator Bob's Burgers, has been released.

Netflix has released a new trailer for Ava DuVernay’s four-part miniseries about the Central Park Five, When They See Us. In 1989, five teenage boys--four black and one Hispanic--were rounded up at random and charged with the horrific rape of a white female jogger in Central Park. There was no physical evidence linking the boys to the crime, but the cry for “justice” railroaded these young men through the legal system and put them in jail for over a decade. This new trailer focuses primarily on their lives once they were released from prison. I started …

Netflix has released the full trailer for Ava DuVernay’s upcoming miniseries When They See Us. The four-part series is based on the injustice faced by the Central Park Five, five juveniles—four African American and one Hispanic—who were wrongly accused of raping a female jogger in Central Park in 1989. The series spans 25 years as the teenagers become men and fight their incarceration. DuVernay is making some of the most exciting work out there right now, from films (Selma) to documentaries (13th) and now to a miniseries with When They See Us. Judging by this trailer, …

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