Film and TV

A documentary about Jim Henson, who began his career as a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park, is coming to Disney+ next month.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race“ Season 16 finalist Sapphira Cristál will headline a show June 15 at Baltimore Soundstage, while winner Nymphia Wind will headline a show June 27 at Guilford Brewery.

Black Marylanders will be featured in the documentary “Finding Us,” which will be shown on PBS. They are part of the newly formed Descendants of Jesuit Enslavement Historical and Genealogical Society.

The New/Next Film Festival returns to Baltimore this year, with expanded programming.

Season 8 of “The Real Housewives of Potomac” will be Robyn Dixon’s last after the network chose to not invite her back.

A “majority” of the star’s designer bags, including Birkin bags, and a “large amount” of her jewelry were taken during the reported theft, according to TMZ.

'Shark Tank' panelists Mark Cuban and Emma Grede invested $150,000 in Dawn Myers’ $400 thermal hair infuser called The Mint, which is manufactured in Baltimore. The all-in-one hair tool detangles — and distributes heated conditioners and gels throughout — a person’s hair.

After previously not confirming it, John Waters has found his leading lady in Aubrey Plaza for his coming movie “Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance.” He intends to film the movie in Baltimore.

The list of things to do in Annapolis opens with 70 movies, includes lots of original music and wraps up a partial eclipse of the sun.

“The Wire” isn't the only popular show based in Baltimore, but it’s the only one that gets brought up by people outside Maryland. Here are five other shows that took place in the area.

Co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che made two jokes about the disaster during the show's Weekend Update segment.

You could catch a local singer in his first show at Rams Head, participate in Holy Week or hear a clinical psychologist talk about serial killers. Those are just some of the things you can do in Annapolis through April 3.

Maryland Film Festival will lean into diverse communities with offerings that include a film selected by John Waters, a Luther Vandross documentary, a showing of a silent movie from the late-Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, and an offering of trans short films curated by one of the creators of “The Matrix Trilogy.”

The SEC Player of the Year has teamed with Goldman Sachs’ One Million Black Women initiative for a national TV and digital campaign to ask Congress to help narrow the racial wealth gap Black women are facing.

Elyscia Jefferson and L. Rodgers talk about the small world that is Baltimore and snagging the final two spots on Reba McEntire's team on “The Voice.”

Bill Kramer, the CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a Timonium native, talks about his passion for films and the cinematic beauty of Baltimore.

Upon learning of Wendy Williams' debilitating illness, Baltimore Banner Regional Reporter Royale Bonds recalls how the TV and radio star inspired her career choice.

Indigenous American representation is at an all-time high in films and TV shows. But they also serve as a harsh reminder of the struggle that Indigenous groups have endured in this country.

Thematic threads in all the Oscar nominees for best picture reflect the difficult but still strangely hopeful space we find ourselves in right now, around the world and here in Baltimore.

Taura Musgrove has tapped into her film school training, Hollywood connections, and work at Pixar to bring the public a series of avatars of civil rights figures, starting with Lillie May Carroll Jackson.