‘Final Week Tonight’ Host John Oliver Dings Apple TV+ Saying Streamer Is “The place Celebrities Go To Disguise” – Deadline
John Oliver took a jab at Apple TV+ in the course of the newest episode of his HBO present Final Week Tonight.
Throughout a section about the best way Greenback Tree and Greenback Common shops are run, Oliver talked about that the TikTok movies of retail staff complaining concerning the work situations weren’t one thing that you might simply ignore.
“An armed theft is a traumatic occasion individuals want time to get well from,” Oliver stated earlier than delivering the punchline, “It’s not one thing you may simply ignore like a spam name or a damaged gentle bulb or any present on Apple TV.”
Oliver then requested the viewers if that they had heard of Octavia Spencer’s collection Reality Be Advised which she starred in for 3 seasons.
“After all you didn’t. It’s Apple TV, the place celebrities go to cover,” Oliver quipped.
Earlier this yr, Spencer introduced that Reality Be Advised would end after three seasons thanking producers and her co-stars “on your artistic imaginative and prescient throughout this unbelievable journey.”
Reality Be Advised was a authorized, crime drama present created by Nichelle Tramble Spellman primarily based on Kathleen Barber’s novel Are You Sleeping. Within the collection, Spencer performs the position of Poppy Parnell, a podcaster who revisits the case that made her well-known in hopes of attending to the reality.
Spencer shared performing credit with Aaron Paul, Lizzy Caplan, Elizabeth Perkins, Michael Seashore, Mekhi Phifer, Merle Dandridge, Tracie Thoms, Haneefah Wooden, Ron Cephas Jones and Rico E. Anderson, simply to call just a few.
Apple TV+ is Apple’s subscription streaming service that launched in 2019 with star-studded exhibits like The Morning Present starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, See starring Jason Momoa, Servant starring Lauren Ambrose, Defending Jacob starring Chris Evans and Michelle Dockery, amongst many others. Certainly one of their most acknowledged exhibits has been the comedy Ted Lasso starring Jason Sudeikis.
