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Mikey O'Connell
TV Features Editor
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Mikey O'Connell is the TV Features Editor at The Hollywood Reporter, where he's held several positions since joining the magazine in 2011. Though his primary focus is covering the television industry, he frequently explores culture and film — writing and reporting features, news, interviews and profiles, as well as overseeing many annual editorial packages such as the Hollywood's 50 Most Powerful Showrunners issue. Mikey also manages weekly Q&A franchise Creative Space and wonders how many days will pass before his parents notice this new bio. (He'll report back on that.)
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D’Arcy Carden Will Be in the Final Season of ‘Handmaid’s Tale’
We won't say "booked," because she already filmed it, but the 'Good Place' alum is joining Elisabeth Moss in the last episodes of the Hulu series.
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Show and Tell With the ‘SNL’ Artist-in-Residence
For 25 years, Mary Ellen Matthews has photographed every host and musical guest for the show, broke building codes with Sarah Silverman and foisted hair spray on Donald Trump. She just wrote a book about it.
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How ‘The Hunting Party’ Even Spooked Its Own Star
Co-showrunners JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn joined lead actor Melissa Roxburgh for a 'THR Frontrunners' panel about the NBC serial killer drama.
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Amy Poehler Is Starting Her Own Podcast
The multihyphenate is teaming up with audio kingmaker Bill Simmons on 'Good Hang.'
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Chelsea Handler Is Back With Her “Ex Lover,” Cable TV
Well, at least for one night... the comic, who hosts the Feb. 7 Critics Choice Awards on E!, chats about the unlikely return, turning 50 and her new residency: "I don’t like to spend more than 24 hours in Vegas."
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‘Love It or List It’ Renewed With a Hilary Farr Replacement
After a year of limbo, realtor David Visentin is officially back with a new designer foil.
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John Mulaney Reveals Details of New Netflix Talk Show
“This is a really fun experiment. Not since Harry and Meghan has Netflix given more money to someone without a specific plan.”
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Inside Netflix’s Big Pitch for 2025 Domination
It's like Project 2025, only with Tina Fey instead of tyranny.
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Roy Wood Jr. Has One ‘Daily Show’ Regret
The comic, who has has a new series, a new special and a new movie, is happy to take a look back — but he's also preoccupied with the future of media: "The idea of taking a chance on someone and just putting a motherfucker on TV? That's done."
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“I Lost My Home in the L.A. Wildfire. This Is What I’m Holding On To.”
THR writer Mikey O'Connell lost his house in Altadena, a neighborhood that taught him many things — perspective, gratitude and, most recently, that he's not so good in a crisis.
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Netflix Made Me Watch WWE — And It’s Betting $5 Billion You’ll Watch Too
A first-time wrestling watcher bears witness to the formal Hollywoodification of one of America's most absurd and strangely appealing spectacles.
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Reintroducing Bozoma Saint John
The flamboyant marketing exec (Apple, Uber, Endeavor, Netflix) attempts to rebrand ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ with some much-needed diplomacy — if only her castmates would listen: “Sometimes people aren’t looking for the solution. They just want to yell.”
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