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T8 WHATS UP! February 6 - 12, 2022 BY RAYE SMITH TV Media WHAT'S NEW ON PRIME "I Want You Back" (2022) "All's fair in love and war," as the proverbial saying goes, and the lead characters of this new film are taking it to heart. "I Want You Back" premieres Friday, Feb. 11, on Prime. Both nursing bro- ken hearts after an abrupt end to their relationships, strangers Pe- ter (Charlie Day, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia") and Emma (Jenny Slate, "Bob's Burg- ers") became acquaintances on the worst day of their lives. Though both of their exes have already moved on and started new relationships, Peter and Emma are determined to win back the loves of their lives. Hatching a hilariously hare- brained scheme to break their former partners apart from their new loves, these newfound friends see their plan turn up some unexpected results. Creat- ed and written by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, the writers behind "Love, Simon" (2018) and "This is Us," this fun, new ro- mantic comedy is directed by Ja- son Orley ("Big Time Adoles- cence," 2019). The film also stars Scott Eastwood ("Suicide Squad," 2016), Gina Rodriguez ("Jane the Virgin"), Manny Ja- cinto ("The Good Place") and Clark Backo ("Letterkenny"). WHAT'S NEW ON DISNEY "Alice's Wonderland Bakery" - Season 1 Tune in for a batch of magically tasty treats when Disney Ju- nior's new computer-animated series, "Alice's Wonderland Bakery," premieres on the Dis- ney+ streaming service on Wednesday, Feb. 9. This fun children's adventure series fol- lows Alice (voiced by both Lib- by Rue, "Nightlight," 2019, and newcomer Emily Hinkle), the great-granddaughter of the original Alice from Lewis Car- roll's 1865 novel "Alice's Adven- tures in Wonderland." A bud- ding young baker in the magical Wonderland Bakery, Alice ex- plores the kingdom while em- barking on culinary adventures, creates delicious new treats and learns about friendship with new and old friends, including the Cheshire Cat (Max Mittel- man, "Miraculous: Tales of La- dybug & Cat Noir"), Princess Rosa (Abigail Estrella, "Wolf- boy and the Everything Facto- ry"), Hattie (C.J. Uy, "The Ball Method," 2020), Dinah (Audrey Wasilewski, "My Life as a Teen- age Robot"), Fergie the white rabbit (Jack Stanton, "The Mick") and more by her side. Executive produced by Chelsea Beyl ("Vampirina") and Frank Montanga ("Mulan," 1998), the series is directed by Nathan Chew ("Elena of Avalor") and written by Beyl. Secunda Wood ("Jurassic World: Camp Creta- ceous") and Marcel Nahapetian ("Why Women Kill") also voice star, while Craig Ferguson ("The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson"), Eden Espino- sa ("Rapunzel's Tangled Adven- ture"), Jon Secada ("Just Anoth- er Day"), Vanessa Bayer, Ana Gasteyer and Bobby Moynihan (all of "Saturday Night Live"), Donald Faison ("Scrubs"), Rich Sommer ("Mad Men") and Yvette Nicole Brown ("Com- munity") guest star in the se- ries. WHAT'S NEW ON NETFLIX "Bigbug" (2022) Humans take on machines in the not-so-ordinary French science fiction film "Bigbug," coming to Netflix on Friday, Feb. 11. The film is set in the year 2050, when artificial intelligence is a part of everyday life and humanity re- lies on it to fulfill their every need and desire. However, this happy, easy existence is threat- ened when a group of domestic robots in a quiet residential home rebel and decide to take their masters hostage in their own house. While the dysfunc- tional family and their nosy neighbor become increasingly hysterical indoors, a new gener- ation of android is trying to take over the outside world. From di- rector and writer Jean-Pierre Jeunet and writer Guillaume Laurant (both of the 2001 hit "Amélie" and 2004's "A Very Long Engagement"), "Bigbug" is produced by Frédéric Doniguian ("Them," 2006) and Richard Grandpierre ("Brotherhood of the Wolf," 2001). Dominique Pi- non ("Delicatessen," 1991), Elsa Zylberstein ("I've Loved You So Long," 2008), André Dussollier ("Tell No One," 2006), Isabelle Nanty ("Amélie," 2001), Alban Lenoir ("Taken," 2008), Claude Perron ("Workingirls"), Claire Chust ("Guépards"), Youssef Hajdi ("The Extraordinary Ad- ventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec," 2010), Stéphane De Groodt ("Tout Nous Sourit," 2020), François Levantal ("Les Kas- sos"), Sébastien Gill ("Madame Claude," 2021) and newcomer Guy Donald Koukissa star in the film. WHAT'S NEW ON HBO MAX "Kimi" (2022) Academy Award-winning direc- tor Steven Soderbergh ("Traf- fic," 2000) and acclaimed action writer David Koepp ("Jurassic Park," 1993) come together to bring audiences the new crime thriller "Kimi," available to stream on HBO Max beginning Thursday, Feb. 10. Zoë Kravitz ("Mad Max: Fury Road," 2015) stars as Angela, an agoraphobic voice-streaming analyst in Seat- tle, where her quiet, easy life is accompanied by her voice-pow- ered digital assistant, Kimi. When Angela hears what she believes to be a violent crime in one of her recordings, her com- pany's reluctance to take the is- sue seriously means doing the thing she hates the most: Going outside. Starring alongside Kravitz in the film are Rita Wil- son ("Sleepless in Seattle," 1993), India de Beaufort ("Run Fatboy Run," 2007), Robin Givens ("Bat- woman"), Jaime Camil ("Jane the Virgin"), Jacob Vargas ("Sons of Anarchy"), Charles Halford ("Constantine"), Emily Kuroda ("Gilmore Girls"), Devin Ratray ("Home Alone," 1990) and Erika Christensen ("Traf- fic," 2000). The cast of "I Want You Back" Misery loves company: Day, Slate lead new Prime rom-com STREAMING The cast of "Bigbug" Dinah, Alice, Fergie and Hattie from "Alice's Wonderland Bakery"