Television
Never Seen Star Trek? Start With These Eight Picard Episodes
Seven seasons is a lot of television, and some of it is about a broken holodeck. These are the eight hours where Picard, and the man playing him, are the whole point.
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Seven seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation add up to a lot of television, and plenty of it is about a malfunctioning holodeck. Nobody grieving Patrick Stewart this week should have to wade through those. These eight are the…
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Ian McKellen tried to stop Patrick Stewart from taking Star Trek: 'You can't throw that away to do TV'
Back in 1987, Patrick Stewart had a decision to make, and his closest friend in the business thought he was about to make a terrible one. He had spent sixteen years at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He had an Olivier…
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Eight films over 22 years, two blink-and-miss cameos and one more still to come in December. The order matters more than you would think, and it is not release order.
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The BBC Had Patrick Stewart Playing Lenin Long Before Hollywood Gave Him a Starship
I, Claudius, Tinker Tailor and David Lynch's Dune, ranked for a first watch, plus the 1985 job he called the biggest embarrassment of his career.
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Why Did Mel Brooks, Ricky Gervais and Seth MacFarlane All Want Patrick Stewart?
A Mel Brooks king, an Emmy-nominated Frasier suitor and a cable-news sitcom that deserved better, ranked from first watch to watch-once.
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Your Kids Probably Know Patrick Stewart's Voice Better Than His Face
Eleven family films ranked for a night on the sofa, a Star Trek reunion almost nobody noticed, and one cartoon to keep away from the kids.
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Patrick Stewart's Captain Ahab Took His Sermon From Gregory Peck, the Ahab Before Him
Henry II opposite Glenn Close, Ahab in a two-part sea epic and King Lear on a Texas ranch: the costume TV films of his star years, ranked.
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Patrick Stewart Was 85 When He Agreed to Voice a Talking Pig's Head
A ballet teacher with a secret, a pianist who can no longer face the stage and an elderly ram: the small films Stewart chose in his seventies and eighties.
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