“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” had a successful four-season run on Netflix that concluded last year. However, it didn’t take long for the streaming service to dust off the franchise and go for one last hurrah. This time, instead of a new season, ‘Kimmy Schmidt’ is returning as an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure film, titled “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. The Reverend.”

As the title implies, ‘Kimmy vs.

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The adorable, child-in-an-adult-body Ellie Kemper and her adorable-child-in-an-adult-body character, Kimmy Schmidt, who is inexplicably not traumatized after being kidnapped and trapped in an underground bunker for years and simply expresses a child-like wonder about the world she re-enters, is returning to TV soon! And by TV, I mean Netflix, of course, because I’m not entirely sure that TV exists anymore). The fourth, and unfortunately final, season will debut on May 30th, so start compiling a list of things you plan on beginning on May 31st when you finish “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” day of.

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“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” isn’t the most talked about original series on Netflix. The series may not have the same pop culture impact as something like “Stranger Things,” but ‘Kimmy Schmidt’ was one of the first Netflix Originals to really hit big for the streaming service. Not only that, but the comedy series is one of the most critically-acclaimed on Netflix, earning over a dozen Emmy nominations over the last three seasons.

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It’s time to add a new word to your lexicon. We all know about binge-watching, but binge-racing — as defined by the wordsmiths at Netflix — is watching the entire season of a show within 24 hours. According to the streaming service, 8.4 million subscribers are into that habit, and they’ve released the list the top twenty shows that get consumed in the span of a single day.

While we may be living in the era of Peak TV, people still enjoy their disposable programming, as the top five slots are occupied by “Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life,” “Fuller House,” “The Ranch,” “Marvel’s The Defenders,” and something we never heard of called, “The Seven Deadly Sins” (it’s an anime series).

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Louie Anderson won this category last year. Tony Hale won two out of the past four years. Ty Burrell won in 2011 and 2014. None of that matters because Alec Baldwin is taking this easily for his iconic performance as Donald Trump on “SNL.” You can even expect a Trump tweet about it is already ready to go. [Posted July 24]

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In the past two seasons of Netflix‘s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” we’ve seen Ellie Kemper‘s character come to terms with her psychological scars from a childhood spent in captivity, embrace her repressed sexuality, and finally complete her GED after years of struggle. Gosh, if you were to read only this sentence, you’d be forgiven for thinking that ‘Schmidt’ was a serialized version of Lenny Abrahamson‘s “Room“!

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This is an interesting race. Is “Veep” still the powerhouse that can take this category for the third year in a row?  Or does the critically acclaimed newcomer “Atlanta” rise to the top?  Or does “Black-ish” finally break through after earning its second nomination?  The safe bet is “Veep” but… [Updated July 21]

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With the fall festivals showing off their wares, Oscar season is firmly underway, with some films falling, and others — “La La Land” and “Jackie,” most notably, rising. But before we get into all of that with full gusto, we still have the minor matter of one of the biggest awards ceremonies in America to deal with, in the shape of this Sunday’s upcoming Emmys.

The biggest thing in the TV calendar, and traditionally marking the end of one ‘season’ and the beginning of a new one for the small screen (though that’s increasingly irrelevant in the days of year-round programming), this year’s winners will be announced in a Jimmy Kimmel-hosted ceremony on Sunday night, though below-the-line Creative Arts Emmys were already announced this past weekend.

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While you might pejoratively call it “The Oscars for TV,” the truth is that these days, television has some of the best storytelling going, and Emmys are taking on a prestige not unlike those of the Academy Awards.

However, the landscape has changed with Netflix and Amazon becoming serious challengers to veteran networks like HBO and AMC, which has made the awards all the more exciting to watch.

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If you’re an Oscar watcher and starting to come out in hives at the lack of awards speculation between now and the festival season kicking off at the end of August, you’re in luck, because this week sees the announcement of the 2016 Emmy Award nominations. With TV increasingly threatening to take the pop culture limelight from the movies (if it hasn’t already), the small-screen landscape has changed a fair amount over the years, but the Emmys still don’t quite seem to have the same glitz level as the Oscars.

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It’s Emmy season, and we’re just a week away from the Television Academy announcing their 2016 nominees, and as has been the case in the last few years, they have a wealth of stuff to choose from, with “Game Of Thrones,” “House Of Cards,” “Orange Is The New Black,” “Downton Abbey,” “Veep,” “Transparent,” “Silicon Valley,” and “Fargo” all expected to bring in mighty hauls of nominations.

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At the midway point of the year, we recently took a look at our favorite movies of 2016 so far. But unless you’re a total big-screen, 35mm purist, your favorite movies of the year only tell part of the story of your viewing —these days, the cultural conversation around quality filmed entertainment revolves just as much around TV.

Indeed, the era of peak TV continues, and barely a week goes by without a new show debuting on networks, cable channels or streaming services that demands attention.

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Only a few years ago, Netflix was a company that sent you DVDs in the mail. They still are, at least in the U.S, but that side of the business became overshadowed after the company moved into online subscription-based video streaming in 2007. The innovation wasn’t a hit straight out of the gate, but in the last five years or so, it’s become the central feature of the company’s service, attracting 80 million subscribers worldwide.

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