When Lisa Taddeo got the call in early 2023 that Showtime was pulling the plug on her television series, she didn’t answer. “It was my birthday,” she recalls. “I picked up my daughter from her guitar lesson, got a flat tire and waited a couple hours for the tow truck. By the time we got …
A couple of years ago, Taika Waititi slid into Lisa Kudrow’s Instagram DMs with a once-in-a-lifetime proposition: How would she feel about visiting New Zealand for the first time and filming a fantasy show — a genre she had yet to explore — for six months? It was an offer that Kudrow, who was born …
Lisa Kudrow plays the jolly leader of a merry band of thieves in the official trailer for Time Bandits, the Apple TV+ fantasy comedy that co-creator Taika Waititi adapted from the 1981 Terry Gilliam film of the same name. “Nothing is too big for us to steal,” Kudrow’s character, Penelope, explains to the series’ hero, …