Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is the most celebrated British TV creator of her generation. Her blistering 2016 traumedy broke big the moment it crossed the Atlantic via co-producer Prime Video, fueling rapturous reviews and spirited discourse about the comedy of female sexuality. A few years later, the surprisingly metaphysical second season dominated the Emmys, made " Hot Priest " Andrew Scott a sex symbol, and even got a shout-out from Barack Obama .

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. A whole subgenre of sitcoms revolves around odd couples: Felix and Oscar, Abbi and Ilana, Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy. Just as deserving of a place in that canon are Julio (co-creator Chris Estrada) and Luis (Frankie Quiñones), the cousins at the center of the uproarious two-season Hulu comedy (2022-2023). When they were kids, mischievous Luis bullied geeky Julio.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Cable's home for adult animation (and offbeat live-action comedies), Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block is a cult-TV factory. But not every Adult Swim gem gets the decade-plus run that its signature hits often enjoy, and some standout titles ultimately drop off the radar of even the brand's core audience.

Look Up Say More Versus Creator Hub Switch Off Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Trending Now Safety Net In My Bag VidCon with Mashable Back to School Furtastic All Series Shannon Connellan is Mashable's Senior Editor, General Assignments, based in London. She has been Mashable's UK Editor (and still manages the illustrious UK team) and Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives searching for . A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror, and loves to nerd out with movie stars, filmmakers, and TV creators . Belen Edwards is an Entertainment Reporter at Mashable. She covers movies and TV with a focus on fantasy and science fiction, adaptations, animation, and more nerdy goodness. She is a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Television Critics Association, as well as a Tomatometer-approved critic.

Ahead of the hit show's finale, cocreators Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello talk about media consolidation, the perils of censorship, and why they find AI "deeply disturbing." If you're a WIRED reader who uses AI in any creative context, I'd suggest staying far, far away from anyone involved in the TV show . In an interview earlier this year, actor Hannah Einbinder (who plays young comedy writer Ava Daniels on the show) described AI creators as "losers," "not artists," and "not special." In a wide-ranging conversation for ahead of the series finale on HBO Max, Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello were resolute about the value of human creativity--and what can be lost when AI enters the picture. If their work on is any indication, Downs and Aniello (along with their third cocreator, Jen Statsky) would be wise to stick with the tough, tiring, absolutely-no-shortcuts approach they take to making entertainment. Across five excellent seasons--if you haven't seen the show, I really do recommend it-- has been praised for its sharp writing and wit, and its thoughtful portrayal of Deborah Vance and Ava's complex, constantly evolving relationship. The show has also acted as something of a mirror for the real-world entertainment industry, weaving in plotlines that tackle everything from media consolidation to corporate censorship to, yes, artificial intelligence. The show's cast and creators have been on a media whirlwind as it all comes to an end. When they came knocking on WIRED's door, we jumped at the chance to chat, and I was lucky enough to spend an hour with Downs and Aniello--both WIRED subscribers, much to my delight--earlier this month. KATIE DRUMMOND: Lucia Aniello and Paul Downs, who I just learned are married, congratulations and welcome to . You should have been there. You should have been there. Ugh, why didn't we bring you? We are going to renew for our 10-year at the same place though. Lucia was born in Italy, so it was closer to a lot of family. And you were married in what year? You have time to find your look. A major priority for me in my life is perfecting my look. We do work at Condé Nast, and my boss is Anna Wintour.

Miniature people have been a staple of science fiction and fantasy going all the way back to Jonathan Swift's, and shrunken characters have taken the spotlight in everything from classic Hollywood movies like and to family-friendly blockbusters like and . References to these movies and others are strewn throughout the new Peacock limited series, but the drawn-out, 10-episode show isn't a particularly worthwhile addition to the sci-fi shrinking canon. Taking only the title and basic premise from Manuel Gonzales's 2014 short story, stars Elizabeth Banks as Lindy Littlejohn, a once-prominent author who now works as a university professor and has been overshadowed by her scientist husband Les (Matthew Macfadyen). Lindy, you see, feels metaphorically small in both her personal and professional lives, and is about to become literally small following an accident - or it? The most pressing problem for Lindy is that Les has yet to develop a stable antidote to his formula, and everything that he has attempted to return to its original size thus far has almost immediately exploded.

Collaborative filtering methods based on implicit feedback (e.g., purchase records and browsing history) are widely used in recommender systems. Compared to explicit feedback (e.g., 1-5 star ratings), implicit feedback is more abundant and accessible in real-world applications. However, the missing data of implicit feedback also brings two challenges.

Latent embeddings offer an effective way of defining a content gap.

The first non-European Pope in more than 1,000 years, the Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, a soul legend and one of the world's most famous designers - here are some of the well-known faces no longer with us. Among those we remember are Hollywood stars Robert Redford, Diane Keaton and Gene Hackman, and theatrical dames Joan Plowright and Patricia Routledge. Robert Redford's acting career spanned more than 50 films and won him an Oscar as a director. For many filmgoers though, he was simply the best-looking cinema star in the world - once described as a chunk of Mount Rushmore levered into stonewashed denims. As well as leading roles in hits such as All The President's Men, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Way We Were, Redford also launched the Sundance Film Festival to champion independent filmmakers. Los-Angeles-born Keaton shot to fame with her role in The Godfather, but enjoyed a long creative partnership with Woody Allen. Annie Hall, a comedy based on their off-screen relationship, earned her a Best Actress Oscar and they collaborated on several other films. She was nominated for three further Oscars - all in the best actress category - for her work in Something's Gotta Give, Marvin's Room and Reds. BASIL! - the unmistakable sound of Sybil Fawlty admonishing her pompous and incompetent husband, is probably how Prunella Scales will best be remembered. Apart from starring in sitcom Fawlty Towers, she played many other roles on screen and stage, including Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett's play, A Question of Attribution.

An ensemble of about 10 robots - which will not be androids but ground vehicles between 40cm and 2m tall - will work with humans to learn how to be funny. An ensemble of about 10 robots - which will not be androids but ground vehicles between 40cm and 2m tall - will work with humans to learn how to be funny. A robot walks into a bar: can a Melbourne researcher get AI to do comedy? Robots can make humans laugh - mostly when they fall over - but a new research project is looking at whether robots using AI could ever be genuinely funny. If you ask ChatGPT for a funny joke, it will serve you up something that belongs in a Christmas cracker: "Why don't skeletons fight each other? Because they don't have the guts."