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John Oliver took a jab at Apple TV+ through 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 introduced up TikTok movies of retail staff complaining in regards to the work circumstances, together with a staffer who was requested to reopen her retailer shortly after it had been robbed.
“An armed theft is a traumatic occasion folks want time to get well from,” Oliver mentioned earlier than delivering the punchline, “It’s not one thing you may simply ignore like a spam name or a damaged mild bulb or any present on Apple TV.”
Oliver then requested his viewers, “Do you know Octavia Spencer starred as a real crime podcaster on a present referred to as Fact Be Instructed for 3 seasons?”
“After all you didn’t. It’s Apple TV, the place celebrities go to cover,” he quipped.
Earlier this 12 months, Spencer introduced that Fact Be Instructed would finish after three seasons thanking producers and her co-stars “in your artistic imaginative and prescient throughout this unimaginable journey.”
Fact Be Instructed was a authorized, crime drama present created by Nichelle Tramble Spellman based mostly on Kathleen Barber’s novel Are You Sleeping. Within the sequence, 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 appearing 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 a number of.
Apple TV+ is Apple’s subscription streaming service that launched in 2019 with star-studded reveals 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. One among their most acknowledged reveals has been the comedy Ted Lasso starring Jason Sudeikis.
