The Hollywood Reporter - 21.08.2019

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 71 AUGUST 21, 2019

TV Personalities

Actors Unscripted TV

“This is what an updated

Home Alone would actually

look like,” Culkin tweeted,

with a photo of himself in an

ill-fitting shirt and under-

wear while on a laptop. The

post, retweeted 168,000

times, was in response to

news that Disney aims to

reboot the franchise.

The Al Rojo Vivo host

makes her Top TV

Personalities debut with

a 1,855 percent leap in

social conversation. Her top

posts, all on Facebook,

discussed fellow Telemundo

employee Edgardo Del Villar,

who underwent surgery to

remove brain tumors.

The long-running CBS

reality show zooms to a

new peak, after previously

reaching No. 5 in mid-July.

The show’s social media

accounts made multiple

posts about the latest

episode of its 21st season,

which premiered June 25

and will conclude Sept. 25.

The “number neighbor”

challenge (in which phone

users text the phone num-

ber one digit above or below

theirs) hit Evans, whose

tweet denying a post ID’ing

him as a neighbor number

was the biggest by an

actor in the tracking week

(1.8 million likes).

A ranking of the week ’s top actors, unscripted TV shows

and personalities based on social media engagement across

Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and more

Source: The week’s most active and talked-about entertainers on leading social networking sites Facebook, Google Plus, Instagram,

Twitter and YouTube for the week ending Aug. 13. Rankings are based on a formula blending weekly additions of fans as well as cumulative

weekly reactions and conversations, as tracked by MVP Index.

Data Compiled By

11 ↓ I 8 IDebby Ryan

12 ↓ I 4 IGeorge Takei

13 ↑ I - IAlexandra Daddario

14 ↓ I 9 IAlyssa Milano

15 ↓ I 14 IGaten Matarazzo

16 ↑ I 20 ICaleb McLaughlin

17 ↑ I - IRoss Lynch

18 ↑ I - IJameela Jamil

19 ↑ I 21 IYara Shahidi

20 ↑ I - IEugenio Derbez

21 ↑ I - IJoshua Rush

22 ↓ I 19 ICheech Marin

23 ↑ I - ISean Astin

24 ↑ I - IBilly Eichner

25 ↓ I 3 IChina Anne McClain

2 ↓ I 1 IJennifer Lopez

3 ↑ I - IPriyanka Chopra

4 ↑ I 10 IZendaya

5 ↑ I 17 IKevin Hart

6 ↑ I 7 IDwayne Johnson

7 ↑ I 12 IGabrielle Union

8 ↓ I 2 ISofia Carson

9 ↓ I 6 IRicky Gervais

10 ↑ I - IMacaulay Culkin

4 ←→ I 4 IBachelor in Paradise

5 ↑ I 6 IQueer Eye

6 ↓ I 5 IAmerica’s Funniest ...

7 ↑ I - IWorld of Dance

8 ↓ I 7 ILive PD

9 ↑ I - ITo p G e a r

10 ←→ I 10 IKeeping ... Kardashians

1 ↑ I 5 IChris Evans

1 ←→ I 1 IWild ’N Out

2 ←→ I 2 IAmerica’s Got Talent

3 ↑ I 8 IBig Brother

6 ←→ I 6 IBill Maher

7 ↑ I - ILawrence O’Donnell

8 ↓ I 7 IBobby Berk

9 ↓ I 4 IMike Huckabee

10 ↑ I - ISteve Harvey

1 ←→ I 1 IEllen DeGeneres

2 ←→ I 2 IJonathan Van Ness

3 ↑ I - IGordon Ramsay

4 ↓ I 3 IBear Grylls

5 ↑ I - IMaría Celeste Arrarás

Orlando

Bloom is a

detective

and Cara

Delevingne

a fairy

and former

love.

Amazon is pushing resolutely into sci-fi and fantasy, and
its latest offering, Carnival Row, ambitiously mixes ele-
ments of mythology with contemporary issues of race,
immigration and sexual identity. The show already has
been picked up for a second season, pre-premiere.
Created by Travis Beacham (from his feature-film
screenplay) and René Echevarria (Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine) and directed by Jon Amiel (Seven Seconds), the series
takes its time introducing and spinning out its strange
universe — and may lose some viewers along the way —
but works well enough when it gets going. Carnival Row
benefits particularly from a strong cast and effective
CGI. If you’re in the mood to see how humans, fairies and
inter species creations get along in a world of magical real-
ism, serial murder and Jack the Ripper-era British police
tactics, this may be your stew.
Orlando Bloom plays Rycroft Philostrate, a detective in
The Burgue, a dark, muddy, steam-punk Victorian era city.
The fae, a collection of fairies persecuted by a nebulous,
dangerously powerful group of nation-states known as
The Pact, have been coming into The Burgue as refugees.
Philo, as he’s known, was once in love with Vignette (Cara
Delevingne), a fierce fae librarian turned warrior. When
she flees The Pact and arrives in The Burgue, the two
reunite — not pleasantly, since she has been under the
impression that he was dead all this time.
Bloom and Delevingne are front and center for most
of the eight-episode season (episodes run an hour) and
are solid and compelling. They anchor this odd ecosys-
tem and play deftly off the strong supporting cast, which
includes Jared Harris (Chernobyl) and Indira Varma (Game
of Thrones) as a powerful politician and his scheming wife;
David Gyasi as a rich outcast; Andrew Gower and Tamzin
Merchant as brother-and-sister aristocrats with sinking
fortunes; Simon McBurney (The
Loudest Voice) as a theater actor
and key piece to a larger murder
mystery; and Karla Crome as
a fae prostitute and best friend
to Vignette.
It’s not a knockout, but there’s
vision and potential here.

Carnival Row

Starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne,
Amazon’s series is an alluring Victorian fantasy
with smart modern touches By Tim Goodman

AIRDATE Friday, Aug. 30

(Amazon Prime)

CAST Orlando Bloom, Cara

Delevingne, Jared Harris,

Indira Varma, David Gyasi

CREATORS Travis Beacham,

René Echevarria

DIRECTOR Jon Amiel

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