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Episode 1

Stephen prepares to take over the family business following the death of his dad, but the unexpected arrival of Andrew changes everything.

Episode 4

Stephen and Andrew go on a road trip to meet the pub's suppliers, and Stephen learns more about his life than he would like.

Episode 2

After Andrew is left a share of the business in Laurie's will, he and Stephen have very different ideas about how to clear the pub's debts.

Episode 5

Cass finally goes off traveling and Stephen makes some quite startling discoveries about life, death and Andrew.

Episode 3

When Andrew's improvements to the pub bring 5-star reviews pouring in, Stephen gets suspicious.

Episode 6

The John Barleycorn is restored and a party is held for what would have been Laurie's 69th birthday.

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Drama Actresses

TV drama actresses discuss their careers.

Drama Actors

TV drama actors discuss their careers.

Comedy Actors

A discussion with TV comedy actors.

Comedy Actresses

A discussion with TV comedy actresses.

Comedy Showrunners

A discussion with TV comedy showrunners.

Drama Showrunners

A discussion with TV drama producers.

Reality

A discussion with reality masterminds.

Producers

Producers discuss the art of filmmaking .

Writers

Screenwriters discuss their process.

Directors

A talk with this year’s film directors.

Actors

Top film actors discuss their roles.

Documentary

Six outspoken top documentary filmmakers debate what truth is and their answers aren't what you might expect.

Drama Actresses

Six actresses discuss the TV landscape.

Cinematographers

The Hollywood Reporter's executive editor of features Stephen Galloway and contributing editor Carolyn Giardina lead a roundtable discussion with some of the cinematographers responsible for the year's most visually striking films.

Drama Actors

Six actors discuss demanding roles.

Comedy Actresses

TV’s leading funny ladies talk shop.

Drama Showrunners

Top drama showrunners discuss Hollywood.

Comedy Actors

Comedy masters talk shop.

Actresses

A conversation with top film actresses.

Actresses

Seven top actresses in conversation.

Producers

Six top producers discuss filmmaking.

Actors

Six actors discuss demanding roles.

Writers

Six screenwriters discuss their craft.

Documentary Filmmakers

Documentary filmmakers in conversation.

Reality

TV’s top reality talent talk shop.

Songwriters

Six songwriters talk about their craft.

Comedy Actresses

Six comedic actresses in conversation.

Comedy Actors

Six comedic actors in conversation.

Comedy Showrunners

Six TV producers discuss their craft.

Drama Showrunners

Six TV showrunners discuss their craft.

Actors

Six of the year’s most captivating actors discuss the pressure of portraying real-life characters and what it’s like working with your heroes.

Reality Stars

Five reality TV stars in discussion.

Directors

Six of the year’s most talented directors talk about their proudest moments, working with esteemed actors and overcoming their toughest days on set.

Actresses

Six of the year’s most talented actresses talk about which roles they gravitate towards and how certain roles have changed their lives..

Writers

Fatih Akin, Darren Aronofsky, Emily V. Gordon, Anthony McCarten, Jordan Peele, and Aaron Sorkin talk about the toughest writing moments that they overcame, the screenplays that they most admire and the best advice for new writers.

Actors & Actresses

Six actors behind the year’s top performances talk about the type of roles that make them nervous and how they prepare for them.

Comedy Actors

Ray Romano, Marc Maron, Louie Anderson, Sean Hayes, Tracy Morgan and Tony Shalhoub talk about their creative process and what it's like making comedy on television in the current climate.

Producers

Judd Apatow, Jason Blum, Eric Fellner, Amy Pascal, Seth Rogen and Ridley Scott talk about working with first-time directors, why certain films resonate with audiences and what traits they most appreciate in actors.

Comedy Actresses

Tracee Ellis Ross, Molly Shannon, Rachel Brosnahan, Debra Messing, Frankie Shaw, Alison Brie and Drew Barrymore talk about pushing creative boundaries, their most memorable auditions and the power of saying no.

Drama Actors

Jeff Daniels, Jason Bateman, Matthew Rhys, J.K. Simmons, Darren Criss and Michael B. Jordan sit for a candid conversation about advice, lucky breaks and the key to longevity in Hollywood.

Comedy Showrunners

Top TV creators Pamela Adlon, Whitney Cummings, Justin Simien, Mike Schur, Amy Sherman-Palladino and Alec Berg talk about pushing boundaries in comedy, what inspires them creatively and writing for networks versus streaming and cable.

Genre

Seven top film and TV creators, talk about blending genres, expanding fictional universes and the responsibility of casting the right actors. Guests include Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), Shawn Levy (Stranger Things), Salim Akil (Black Lightning), Melissa Rosenberg (Jessica Jones), Jonathan Nolan (Westworld), Jason Blum (Sharp Objects) and Simon Kinberg (Legion).

Drama Showrunners

Six of TV's most talented showrunners, including Bruce Miller (The Handmaid's Tale), Courtney A. Kemp (Power), Peter Morgan (The Crown), Lena Waithe (The Chi), Dan Futterman (The Looming Tower) and David Shore (The Good Doctor, Sneaky Pete), talk about race in the writers' room, shooting awkward sex scenes and killing off favorite characters.

Drama Actresses

Claire Foy, Angela Bassett, Elisabeth Moss, Thandie Newton, Sandra Oh and Maggie Gyllenhaal talk about the power of playing strong female characters and navigating nude scenes on set.

Cinematographers

Roger Deakins, Robert Elswit, Hoyte Van Hoytema, Janusz Kaminski, Dan Laustsen and Rachel Morrison talk about collaborating with directors, battling the elements on set and their favorite onscreen visuals of all time.

Comedy Showrunners

Comedy TV writer-producers talk shop.

Directors

Film directors discuss their craft.

Drama Actors

Six top actors discuss their craft.

Drama Actresses

Six top actresses discuss their craft.

Producers

Ceci Dempsey, Bill Gerber, Kevin Feige, Paul Greengrass, Nina Jacobson and Gabriela Rodriguez discuss their work as film producers.

Actresses

Glenn Close, Lady Gaga, Kathryn Hahn, Nicole Kidman, Regina King and Rachel Weisz discuss the craft of acting.

Songwriters

Jack Antonoff, Mark Ronson, Kesha, Tim McGraw, Boots Riley, Diane Warren and David Crosby discuss the craft of songwriting.

Comedy Actresses

Regina Hall, Natasha Lyonne, Maya Rudolph, Jane Fonda, Constance Wu, Tiffany Haddish and Phoebe Waller-Bridge discuss acting in a comedy role.

Comedy Actors

Sacha Baron Cohen, Jim Carrey, Ted Danson, Don Cheadle, Henry Winkler and Timothy Simons discuss the craft of acting.

Drama Actors

Stephan James, Hugh Grant, Diego Luna, Billy Porter, Richard Madden and Sam Rockwell discuss the craft of acting.

Comedy Showrunners

Jerrod Carmichael, Tanya Saracho, Alan Yang, Bill Hader, David Mandel and Ali Rushfield discuss creating a comedy for television.

Actresses

Rebecca Ford, Renée Zellweger, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Lupita Nyong’o, Jennifer Lopez discuss the craft of acting.

Actors

Stephen Galloway, Adam Driver, Adam Sandler, Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks, Jamie Foxx, Shia LaBeouf discuss the craft of acting.

Producers

Rebecca Ford, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Charlize Theron, David Heyman, Dan Lin, Peter Chernin, Debra Martin Chase discuss producing films.

Directors

Greta Gerwig (Little Women), Todd Philipps (Joker), Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Fernando Meirelles (The Two Popes) and Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) discuss their films.

Writers

Stephen Galloway, Taika Waititi, Anthony McCarten, Lorene Scafaria, Kasi Lemmons, Destin Daniel Cretton discuss writing in films.

Documentary

Julie Cohen, Rashida Jones, Bing Liu, Morgan Neville, E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Tim Wardle discuss documentary filmmaking.

Drama Showrunners

Sam Esmail, Marti Noxon, John Singleton, Steve Canals, Sera Gimble and Nic Pizzolatto discuss the challenges in creating a drama series today.

Actors

Mahershala Ali, Chadwick Boseman, Timothée Chalamet, Richard E. Grant, Hugh Jackman and Viggo Mortensen discuss the craft of acting.

Executives

Matthew Belloni, Tom Rothman, Scott Stuber, Toby Emmerich, Donna Langley, Jennifer Salke, Jim Gianopulos, Alan Horn discuss their roles as studio executives.

Drama Actresses

Michelle Williams, Emilia Clarke, Danai Gurira, Niecy Nash, Patricia Arquette and Christine Baranski discuss the craft of acting.

Writers

Bo Burnham, Peter Farrelly, Tamara Jenkins, John Krasinski, Eric Roth and Paul Schrader discuss the craft of screenwriting.

Directors

Ryan Coogler, Bradley Cooper, Alfonso Cuarón, Marielle Heller, Yorgos Lanthimos and Spike Lee discuss the craft of film directing.

TV Directors

Ava DuVernay, Adam McKay, Ben Stiller, David Nutter, Patty Jenkins and Jean-Marc Vallee discuss their work as TV directors.

Documentary

Rebecca Keegan, Julia Reichert, Asif Kapadia, Lauren Greenfield, Nanfu Wang, Todd Douglas Miller discuss creating a documentary.

Comedy Actresses

Jameela Jamil, Robin Thede, Jane Levy, Elle Fanning, Amy Sedaris and Tiffany Haddish discuss their work as comedy actresses.

Comedy Actors

Dan Levy, Kumail Nanjiani, Ramy Youssef, Kenan Thompson and Ricky Gervais discuss their work as comedy actors.

Drama Actresses

Jennifer Aniston, Helena Bonham Carter, Janelle Monae, Reese Witherspoon, Zendaya and Rose Byrne discuss their roles as drama actresses.

Drama Showrunners

Damon Lindelof, Liz Tigelaar, Michelle King, Alexander Woo and Courtney Kemp discuss their work as drama showrunners.

Drama Actors

Kieran Culkin, Tobias Menzies, Bob Odenkirk, Patrick Stewart, Daveed Diggs and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II discuss their role as drama actors.

TV Directors

Deborah Chow, Jon M. Chu, Janet Mock, Alex Garland, Jonathan Nolan and Anna Boden discuss their work as TV directors.

Comedy Showrunners

Kenya Barris, Liz Feldman, Rob McElhenney, Tony McNamar, Amy Sherman-Palladino and Greg Daniels discuss their work as comedy showrunners.

Columbo (1988)

Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star

Lt. Columbo matches wits with a defense lawyer who has never lost a case in his career.

No Time to Die

Columbo attends the wedding of his nephew, who is also with the LAPD. Suddenly it turns out that the bride is missing, possibly kidnapped. Columbo sets up the investigation to figure out what happened.

Green Porno

Bee

Isabella Rossellini explores the mating habits of bees.

Dragonfly

Isabella Rossellini explores the mating habits of dragonflies.

Firefly

Isabella Rossellini explores the mating habits of fireflies.

Earthworm

Isabella Rossellini explores the mating habits of earthworms.

Fly

Isabella Rossellini explores the mating habits of flies.

Snail

Isabella Rossellini explores the mating habits of snails.

Praying Mantis

Isabella Rossellini explores the mating habits of the praying mantis.

Whale

Isabella Rossellini explores the mating habits of whales.

Spider

Isabella Rossellini explores the mating habits of spiders.

Anglerfish

Isabella Rossellini fills us in on the deep sea sexual antics of anglerfish.

Barnacle

Isabella Rossellini explores the special reproductive talents of the barnacle.

Limpet

Isabella Rossellini explores the hermaphroditic reproductive abilities of the limpet.

Starfish

Isabella Rossellini on the reproductive miracles of starfish.

Why Vagina

Isabella Rossellini explores the wonder of compatible vaginas and penises.

Anchovy

Isabella Rossellini takes a closer look at the life of an anchovy

Shrimp

Isabella Rossellini explores the shrimp (includes photos provided by Sarah J. Foster/Project Seahorse).

Harem on the Beach

Isabella Rossellini finds that size does matter in the hierarchy of elephant seals.

Squid

Isabella Rossellini takes an intimate look into the perilous life of a squid.

Hogan’s Heroes

The Collector General

Hogan tries to prevent a German general from stealing French art.

Axis Annie

Hogan uses propaganda broadcaster Axis Annie to get information to an underground agent.

What Time Does the Balloon Go Up?

The POWs plan to smuggle out an agent in a balloon; Basket weaving and kite flying.

Le Beau and the Little Old Lady

LeBeau hides information about the agent whom he uses as a contact.

How to Escape from a Prison Camp Without Really Trying

Hogan hides 30 prisoners to tie up the German reserves out hunting for them.

Law & Order

The Brotherhood

A prison guard is charged with killing a released member of a white supremacist prison gang. The guard says the victim threatened him and his family. The gang also threatens the judge presiding over the trial.

Gunplay

Black market gun dealers murder two undercover officers during a gun buy. During prosecution, McCoy begins to suspect that a bitter defense attorney may have masterminded the entire episode.

Coming Down Hard

Detectives investigate the deaths of two college students and find both were participating in a pharmaceutical company's secret testing program for an antidepressant that has resulted in many suicides.

Gov Love

McCoy takes on gay marriage at the state Supreme Court when a man refuses to testify in a case involving the death of the governor of Connecticut's wife, because he says that he is married to the defendant.

Cut

A novelist dies after undergoing multiple plastic surgeries. Detectives believe that her doctor took unnecessary risks and falsified documents to cover it up. The DA's office charges him with criminally negligent homicide.

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Tuxedo Hill

A female financial executive is framed for murder and blackmailed to hide her company's illegal stock practices.

Faith

Goren and Eames investigate the death of a magazine publisher and a brilliant scam involving a sick child no one has seen.

Dead

Several people are murdered, and Goren and Eames must find what connected them. Soon the detectives realize they are after a very intelligent and dangerous killer.

Bright Boy

Goren and Eames go up against a determined father and his gifted child while investigating the death of a social worker and the deputy mayor.

Anti-Thesis

A university president is killed and the suspects include a professor who wants a chairman position, a grad student, and a lecturer from Oxford.

Mammas

Dunnock

Raising babies can be expensive! That’s why Dunnock bird Mammas practice polyandry and have more than one male mate. More men means more dads bringing home the bacon. Or in this case, bugs and seeds.

Cuckoo

Good babysitters are hard to find, so Mamma Cuckoos use some slight-of-wing to trick other birds into hatching and raising their young. They slip their eggs into the nests of smaller birds. When the Cuckoo chicks are born they knock those other eggs out of the way and convince their fake Mammas to feed them instead. It sure cuts down on childcare costs!

Hamster

Hamster Mammas have a lot of babies. Up to 10 at a time! Sometimes that is too many mouths for one Mamma to feed, so she eats a couple up so she can give those remaining siblings some sustenance.

Cichlid FIsh

Cichlid Fish Mammas store their eggs in their mouths, so that’s where Cichlid fathers have to fertilize them. Naughty! Soon after that, lots of Cichlid babies swim out and those Mammas are free to use those mouths for things like eating again.

Oil Beetle

Oil beetle larvae can trick themselves onto a bee mamma and eat all that she provides for her babies, and the babies too!

Piping Plover

The Piping Plover is an actress! Charadrius melodius pretends to be wounded in order to protect its eggs from predators.

Wasp

Wasp Mammas don’t need fancy bottle warmers or breastfeeding pillows. They make sure their babies have all the nourishment they’ll need ahead of time by paralyzing caterpillars and burying them alive with their wasp eggs. That way, the little wasp babies have plenty of fresh meat when they hatch. Yum!

Toad

Toad mammas don't carry one big baby in their bellies, but many littles babies on their backs.

Maternal Instinct

Mothers – all mothers – cannot help being maternal. What is this trait, this characteristic common to all mothers?

Spider

Being a Mamma requires some sacrifice, especially if you are a Spider, Diaea egrandros. The number one priority for almost all Mammas is to make sure their babies have all the food they need to survive. And for these spiders, that means letting their babies devour them.

Seduce Me

Salmon

Life and death surround the reproductive activities of salmon. Babies are born into the decay of their dead parents’ bodies but manage to avenge their deaths by eating the parasites that attacked them.

Cuttle Fish

Male cuttle fish play the field and often sneak into harems posing as females. Once infiltration is complete, the male liberally sows his seed leaving several members of the harem pregnant.

Noah's Ark

The Bible says that Noah brought a male and a female of every species onto his ark, thus ensuring the repopulation of the Earth after the flood. But what would Noah have said to the earthworm who tried to board solo? Or to other animal baby-bakers who are homosexual, transsexual, even nonsexual …

Bedbug

Bed bugs reproduce in mass numbers. This episode explores the violent nature in which the blood-sucking baby bugs are conceived.

Duck

While males show dominance by forcefully mating with her, she chooses which male will father her ducklings by rejecting and redirecting the seed that doesn’t suit her.

Spider

Music, bondage, dancing: different strokes for different spider folk.

Seahorse

Meet Dad, aka Mr. Mom. But, kids, don't get too attached, particularly if Dad is a pipefish, a cousin of the seahorse.

Dolphin

They're the smartest creatures in the sea, and anything goes -- anything.

Deer

No wonder bucks and does scarf up entire backyard gardens: they've got to keep their energy up for their swinging sex lives.

Snake

Monogamy is the goal of the male garter snake - he’s got to be the only one. Once he’s mated with his female lover, his hopes are high that no other males come along to ‘un-seal’ the deal.

SundanceTV + Jeep Short Adventure Films

Hustle & Motivate: A Williams Brothers Story

After years of setbacks in the professional cycling world, Justin Williams is revolutionizing the sport through a mentorship program he created with his brother Cory. Through this film, we get to know Justin, his family and the community who supported him on his adventure of forging a new path in Criterium cycling for people of color. Jeep is a registered trademark of FCA US LLC.

The Ground Up There

Kris Braden has been a hot air balloonist since he was 9 years old. This ethereal short film takes a look (aerial and otherwise) at Kris’s unconventional life as a professional balloonist, a devoted father, and a man who lives life on his own terms. We learn that leaving the ground can be the thing that grounds you most. Jeep is a registered trademark of FCA US LLC.

This Close

Like I Always Wanted

Best friends, Kate and Michael, who are deaf, travel to Seattle for a book signing and Q&A for Michael's first graphic novel. Their trip up north quickly goes south when Michael discovers Kate has been keeping a secret from him.

Who We Are

Kate represents her firm at an industry panel.

The Chances

Secrets ruin Thanksgiving.

Night and Day

Kate approaches her boss about a potential client.

The Way We Were

Michael makes a discovery.

No Place Like Home

Back home, Kate is reminded who she was and will discover who she wants to become.

What Happened to Us

Kate becomes more proactive.

Three’s Company

Kate throws herself back into work and Michael is offered a deal to get out of debt.

Wait Until Dark

Kate, Michael, Ryan and Jacob want to have a fun weekend, but can't after Jacob overhears a secret.

Games People Play

A brunch that Michael plans for Ryan reveals group tensions, exploding in a tragic meltdown.

Look Both Ways

Kate and Michael are determined to reboot their friendship. Kate’s past returns to haunt her in surprising ways and Michael tries to walk the straight and narrow path. Kate and Michael are going to have to lean on each other or fall apart.

It’s About Time

When Michael leaves town for a break, he must face the demons from his past.

Frog of Truth

An unexpected visitor surprises Kate at a bad time and Michael falls back on bad habits.

Begin Again

On Kate and Michael’s friendiversary, Michael confronts Kate about blowing him off since his return.