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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 5 William Shakespeare once wrote, "Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?" He just needed a TV. Though in fairness to the bard, we might have finally reached that point of excess. After all, Apple TV Plus released two seasons of the excellent "Slow Horses" last year. And though everyone is still trying to catch up on 2022's best shows - we're not even 12 months removed from "The Bear" and "The White Lotus"! - 2023 is already off to a prodigious start. The first episode of HBO's zombie video-game-turned-series "The Last of Us" was the network's second-biggest premiere of the past 13 years, eventually reaching more than 10 million viewers - only hinting at the deluge of shows to come. Meanwhile, Rian Johnson of "Knives Out" fame is attempting to revive television of a bygone (see: pre-streaming) era with his Natasha Lyonne-starring case-of-the-week dramedy … [Read more...] about Here comes spring TV, even if you’re not caught up on fall TV

Austin City Council voted 10-1 Wednesday in favor of firing City Manager Spencer Cronk following a review of the city's botched response to freezing rain that crippled Travis County and swathes of central Texas in February. Council Member Natasha Harper-Madison was the lone "no" vote. The aforementioned winter storm knocked out power for more than 170,000 in the Austin area , according to an AP report, and Wednesday's vote came as a rebuke to city management that has been roundly criticized for the city's slow recovery of utilities in the days following the freeze. Cronk's firing marks the first ouster of a city executive in connection to February's outages. The former city coordinator of Minneapolis, Cronk took over as Austin city manager in 2018 and as recently as January received endorsements of confidence from Austin Mayor Kirk Watson, according to The Texas Tribune. Last Tuesday Cronk apologized for "shortcomings" in the city's freeze response during a Council … [Read more...] about Austin city manager fired over city power outages caused by freeze