Top 250 Best TV Show News, Reviews and Resources

• 6 Takeaways From the Christopher Reeve Documentary ‘Super/Man’ - "The new film chronicles the life of the paralyzed star, covering his friendship with Robin Williams and gut-wrenching details about his care and family."
• 7 new Bridgerton filming locations you can visit - "Bridgerton is back, and from London palaces to Bath ballrooms, here are some of the best places to experience Regency-era England."
• 8 David Lynch Films to Watch Before ‘Twin Peaks’ - The New York Times.
• 9 Essential Moments on ‘The Daily Show’ - The New York Times.
• 10 Best TV Shows of 2018 - "Find out what TIME TV critic Judy Berman chose as the best TV shows of 2018, from 'The Good Place' to 'Atlanta'."
• 10 Best TV Shows of the 2010s - "From Mad Men to Fleabag to The Leftovers, these are TIME's picks for the best TV series of the decade."
• 10 HBO Shows That Are Perfect From Start to Finish - "10 'The Wire' (2002-2008). 9 'Veep' (2012-2019). 8 'Sex and the City' (1998-2004). 7 'Band of Brothers'. 6 'Silicon Valley' (2014-2019). 5 'The Sopranos' (1999-2007). 4 'Game of Thrones' (2011-2019). 3 'Succession' (2018-2023). 2 ‘The Leftovers’ (2014-2017). 1 ‘Barry’ (2018-2023)."
• 10 most terrifying TV shows of all time - The Telegraph.
• 12 Best Curb Your Enthusiasm Cameos of All Time - TIME Magazine.
• 14 Things I Learned from And Just Like That... The Documentary - Vogue.
• 15 Best Curb Your Enthusiasm Episodes Of All Time, Ranked - "From 'The Doll' to 'Palestinian Chicken,' Curb Your Enthusiasm has delivered plenty of classic episodes throughout its two decades on the air."
• 15 Greatest Sex and the City Episodes of All Time - VOGUE.
• 15 TV Shows to Watch Summer 2016 - The New York Times.
• 20 Best TV Dramas Since The Sopranos - The New York Times.
• 20 best TV shows on YouTube - The Telegraph.
• 40 best lines from the Star Wars saga - The Guardian.
• 50 best TV detectives & sleuths - The Telegraph.
• 50 best TV shows of 2023 - 50 to 1 - "At the top table sits a series that added a fresh serving of joy to its intense, fork-throwing family drama for its second season. Yes Jeff!"
• 50 Greatest TV Shows of all time - TV Guide.
• 55 best Game of Thrones quotes - The Telegraph.
• 80 best BBC shows of all time - The Telegraph.
• 100 best TV shows of the 21st century - "Where’s Mad Men? How did The Sopranos do? Does The Crown triumph? Can anyone remember Lost? And will Downton Abbey even figure? Find out here – and have your say."
• 100 Greatest British Television Programmes - Wikipedia.
• 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time - "Variety breaks down the best TV shows of all time. From The Sopranos to Community, these are the best series ever aired."
• 2012–13 United States network television schedule - Wikipedia.
• 2024: 20 best TV shows - "From an electrifying action thriller with Keira Knightley to Ted Danson's latest sitcom and a brutal Japanese period epic, we pick the year's greatest programmes to stream right now."
• A list of the best TV shows on YouTube - The Telegraph.
• 'A peculiarly English epic': the weird genius of The Archers - "Strangely eventless, yet swelling with high drama, The Archers is the longest-running series in the world. But does this rural soap reflect the reality of country life, or is it a fantasy liberal never-never land for urban audiences?"
• After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight - Contestants lost hundreds of pounds during Season 8, but gained them back. A study of their struggles helps explain why so many people fail to keep off the weight they lose.
• Agent Dale Cooper's 'Twin Peaks' hangover cure - "'Surefire cure for a hangover, Harry,' Cooper begins. 'You take a glass of nearly frozen, unstrained tomato juice. You plop a couple of oysters in there and you drink it down. Breathe deeply. Next, you take a mound and I mean a mound of sweetbreads sauteed with some Canadian bacon and chestnuts. Finally, some biscuits, big biscuits, smothered in gravy.'"
• Alan Alda on ‘M*A*S*H’: ‘Everybody Had Something Taken From Them’ - "As the acclaimed 'situation tragedy' turns 50, the star reflects on its innovations: 'The crazy behavior wasn’t just to be funny. It was a way of separating yourself for a moment from the nastiness.'"
• Alec & Hilaria Baldwin & their 7 children get a reality tv series - "'We’re inviting you into our home,' the actor, who is set to stand trial next month on an involuntary manslaughter charge, said as he announced a show about his family on TLC."
• All the Books Carrie Bradshaw & Co. Have Been Reading in And Just Like That... - "Eagle-eyed fans will have noticed a lot of books appearing on the series so far - Carrie is a writer and literature is her forte, after all. But many have clearly been put there to be noticed by viewers, with some (hello, Miranda’s book on sobriety) even having their own storylines. It turns out a lot of work went into carefully selecting every single one of the books—including the hundreds visible in background shots of Carrie’s bookshelves - and Sarah Jessica Parker helped to select them herself."
• 'Allo 'Allo's Fallen Madonna sells for £15,000 at auction - "The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies was supposedly painted by fictional artist Van Clomp."
• Amazon Tackles Hollywood’s Scott Fitzgerald Obsession - "The Last Tycoon," a nine-episode series, is the latest good-looking attempt to adapt F. Scott Fitzgerald for the screen.
• Amazon Video - Internet video on demand (VOD) service by Amazon in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Austria, Germany and soon India. It offers television shows and films for rental or purchase. Selected titles are offered for free to customers with an Amazon Prime subscription.
• And Just Like That Series 2 finale: How the Sex & the City sequel became the ultimate 'cringe-watch' - "With a Kim Cattrall cameo finishing off the season with a flourish, the show has become mocked and loved in equal measure. Why does it inspire such conflicting emotions, asks Laura Martin."
• And the loser is ... why everyone is sick of award shows - The Guardian.
• ‘Annika’ Review: The Detective Would Like to Have a Word With You - "Nicola Walker plays a cop who works out her issues by talking to the audience in a 'Masterpiece' mystery on PBS. A detective whose unit investigates waterborne crimes walks onto a bridge, looks into the camera and says, 'Call me Annika.' She then proceeds to chat with the audience about Ahab and his white whale while she watches a murder victim being pulled from the River Clyde. That was our introduction to the British crime drama 'Annika,' and through two seasons (the second premieres Sunday as part of PBS’s 'Masterpiece') the heroine has continued to talk to the audience: agonizing over her complicated relationships, thinking through her cases, delivering deadpan ripostes unheard by the other characters onscreen."
• Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace Donald Trump as Celebrity Apprentice host - The Telegraph.
• BBC withdraws Human Planet over editorial breach - BBC.
• Behind ‘Making a Murderer,’ a New Documentary Series on Netflix - The New York Times.
• Best TV Shows of 2015 - The New York Times.
• Best TV Shows of 2018 So Far - TIME Magazine.
• Best TV Shows of 2024 - “English Teacher,” “My Brilliant Friend,” “Shogun,” “Babylon Berlin” and “Somebody Somewhere” were among the series that stood out in a year when television felt more mid than ever.
• BET Awards 2020: from Beyoncé to Michelle Obama - in pictures - "From Megan Thee Stallion’s Mad Max inspiration to Tracee Ellis Ross’ cursive baby hairs it was a stylish (if socially distanced) night, one of the first award shows since the pandemic, with a conscious nod to black-owned fashion brands."
• 'Better Call Saul' inches closer to 'Breaking Bad' as the end draws nearer - "'Better Call Saul' returns for its second-to-last season, inching closer to 'Breaking Bad's' turf both in its narrative timeline and its impressive quality. Although the prequel is running out of room, the AMC drama continues to achieve a dazzling balancing act in building toward an ending that is, in some ways, a beginning."
• Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk: ‘Without CPR I’d have been dead in minutes’ - "Actor opens up about on-set heart attack and reunion with Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul ahead of Breaking Bad prequel’s finale."
• Big Little Lies & big, big houses: TV's sexiest interiors - The Telegraph.
• Bigger than the big screen: can Netflix conquer cinema? - The Guardian.
• Bill Cosby freed after top court overturns sexual assault conviction - "The judges said there had been a 'process violation' by the prosecution, but admitted their ruling was unusual."
• Bill Cosby granted right to appeal against sexual assault conviction - "Decision could test legal framework of #MeToo cases. Cosby, 82, serving three- to 10-year sentence in prison."
• Bill Cosby, in Deposition, Said Drugs and Fame Helped Him Seduce Women - The New York Times.
• Bill Cosby: The rise, fall & release of 'America's Dad' - "Bill Cosby was once known to millions as 'America's Dad', but the comedian had his reputation shattered when he was sentenced to three to 10 years in jail after being convicted of sexual assault."
• Binge-Watching Guide: Miami Vice - Wired.
• Binge-watching may lead to depression and other health problems: study - New York Daily News.
• Black Doves - the truth about female spies - "The hit show stars Keira Knightley as an assassin and devoted mother. Television is catching up with the reality of women in espionage, says intelligence expert Gordon Corera."
• Blood, sex & needlework: Game of Thrones recreated in 90-metre tapestry - "A team of 30 volunteers has embroidered all eight seasons of the HBO drama in the style of the legendary Bayeux Tapestry."
• Borgen is back: here's why you should catch up before its Netflix return - "A new series of the Danish political drama is in development, and its depiction of government is in stark contrast to our current, gloomy reality."
• Borgen: This political drama from Denmark stands out - "Borgen has a lot to say about coalitions and the people who form them." GatesNotes. The Blog of Bill Gates.
• Breath of fresh heir: how Succession became the must-watch TV of the year - "With revenge raccoons and boardroom satans, the drama about media tycoons is casually masterful, absolutely hilarious - and has anarchy in its DNA."
• Can Netflix Survive in the New World It Created? - The New York Times.
• Carole Baskin awarded the zoo once owned by 'Tiger King' Joe Exotic - "Carole Baskin, whose longstanding feud with Joe Exotic was chronicled in the hit Netflix docuseries 'Tiger King,' has been awarded the zoo once owned by her nemesis."
• Closing Arguments for ‘The Good Wife’ - New York Times.
• Computer algorithms predict next characters to be eliminated in “Game of Thrones” - Technical University of Munich.
• Conan O’Brien Ends Late Night Run, Will Ferrell & Jack Black Join Series Finale - "After nearly three decades, the host's late night run came to an end Thursday."
• Could it BE any funnier? The 25 best Friends episodes - "Joey’s hand twin, Rachel’s meat trifle, Ross’s luminous teeth ... as the most popular show on the planet hits 25, here are its most classic moments."
• Crime dramas are often set in English villages because they are places of 'hatred, mistrust and bitterness' - The Telegraph.
• CULT FIX - "News, spoilers and updates on your favourite cult TV shows."
• ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Made Something Out of Nothing - "Larry David's HBO series never aimed at grand statements. But its reflection of modern grievances was pretty, pretty good."
• Curb Your Enthusiasm to officially end after 24 years - "Larry David will bid farewell to the fictionalised version of himself that formed the basis of 12 series of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The 12th season of the show, which is due out in February, will be the last. The award-winning series, created by and starring Larry David as a fictionalised version of himself, is HBO's longest running scripted comedy series."
• damn fine cup of coffee - FBI Special Agent Cooper's description of his favorite drink: 'Blacker than midnight on a moonless night' in the cult TV classic Twin Peaks, by David Lynch.
• DATING GAME SHOW - Wikipedia.
• David Letterman 2.0, the Non-Ironic Version - The New York Times.
• David Letterman Reflects on 33 Years in Late-Night Television - The New York Times.
• DCI Banks star Stephen Tompkinson is found not guilty of GBH - "DCI Banks star Stephen Tompkinson is found not guilty of GBH after drunk stranger was left with 'traumatic brain injuries' during row over noise outside actor's seaside home."
• Definitive Guide to the Game of Thrones Family Tree - TIME Magazine.
• ‘Desperate Housewives’ at 20: Why Bree Van de Kamp’s style still reigns - "With her witty one-liners, meticulous style and comically stoic demeanor, it’s easy to see why ‘Desperate Housewives’ Bree Van de Kamp became a fan favorite among viewers when it debuted 20 years ago today."
• Developers given go ahead to demolish Fawlty Towers hotel in Torquay - Western Morning News.
• Do you have what it takes to be a secret agent - The Telegraph.
• Don’t watch ‘Star Trek: Picard’ season three, it’ll only encourage them - "The third season is yet another misguided waste of everyone’s time."
• ‘Downton Abbey’: Saying Farewell to All That - The New York Times.
• ‘Downton Abbey,’ the Good, the Bad & the Forgotten - The New York Times.
• Ellen DeGeneres show staff fired over allegations - "Three top producers of the Ellen DeGeneres Show have been fired amid allegations of misconduct and sexual harassment."
• Ellen DeGeneres walks away from her talk show empire & leaves behind a mixed legacy - "DeGeneres won over audiences after she came out in 1997. But recent criticism of a hostile work environment undermined her friendly reputation."
• Emmy Awards 2022: See the full list of winners - "The 74th Emmy Awards, celebrating the best in television, were presented Monday in Los Angeles."
• Encyclopaedia Westerosa: the biggest Game of Thrones mysteries, solved - The Guardian.
• Every Season of 'Succession', Ranked - "'Succession' was one of HBO's wildest and most groundbreaking dramas. Of its four seasons, which was the Roy family's finest hour?"
• Explore Batman v Superman's incredibly detailed Batcave in Google Street View - The Verge.
• fact-checks Netflix's 'The Crown' - The Guardian.
• Family Viewing Hour - was a policy established by the Federal Communications Commission in the United States in 1975. Under the policy, each television network in the U.S. had a responsibility to air "family-friendly" programming during the first hour of the prime time lineup (8 to 9 p.m. Eastern Time).
• Famous TV cars: where are they now? - The Telegraph.
• Fawlty Towers 'Don't mention the war' episode removed from UKTV - "BBC-owned streaming service takes down episode that also features racial references."
• Feud: Capote vs the Swans: How a scandalous Truman Capote story exposed the secrets of US high society - "A star-studded new miniseries from Ryan Murphy looks at how the author betrayed the confidence of some of America's most elite women - and destroyed his career in the process."
• Forget Too Much TV. It’s Too Big TV We Should Worry About - The New York Times.
• ‘Frasier’ Returns, Tossed, Scrambled & Eggscruciating - Review - "One of TV’s longest-lived characters gets revived, in an anticlimactic museum reproduction of the original."
• Friends to reunite for one-off special on HBO Max - "The cast of Friends is to reunite for a one-off special, more than 15 years since the show ended."
• Game & Quiz Show - Wikipedia.
• Game of Thrones: 50 things you didn't know - The Telegraph.
• 'game of thrones' most pirated tv-show 2015 - TorrentFreak.
• Game of Thrones: the 30 most hated characters - The Telegraph.
• Game of Thrones vs history - Real characters & events.
• golden age of TV costume design - "Shows such as Insecure and I Hate Suzie are at the vanguard of a new era of fashion-forward TV, while sometimes, as with Emily in Paris, the clothes are a saving grace for an otherwise second-rate offering."
• Happy talk - additional and often meaningless commentary interspersed into news programs by news anchors and others on set. It may consist of simple jokes or simply a modified wording in asking a question of another reporter.
• Hate the Sopranos finale? You're not a real fan of the series - "Was he killed, or did Tony Soprano eat his onion rings in peace? The final scene was a masterstroke – don’t mess with greatness."
• HBO was ‘concerned’ about ‘Sopranos’ star James Gandolfini ‘staying alive’ - "A new tell-all book about what went down behind the scenes at HBO is shedding some light on 'Sopranos' star James Gandolfini’s health."
• 'He really believed he owned these women.' How Hugh Hefner demanded orgies five nights a week - "Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was a 'vampire' who manipulated and drugged dozens of young women into taking part in degrading orgies, while masquerading as a champion of sexual freedom, according to a shocking new documentary. 'Secrets of Playboy', a 10-part docuseries premiering on A&E on January 24, is set to lift the lid on the 'dark underbelly' of Playboy and how its venues became a seedy playground for drug use, sexual abuse, and even bestiality."
• Health chief slams Paltrow's Netflix series - "Gwyneth Paltrow's new Netflix series poses a 'considerable health risk' to the public, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has said."
• Hillary’s favorite TV show follows female Danish Head of State - New York Post.
• Homeland: the show that became a work of genius - after you stopped watching - "As its final season kicks off, here’s how the terrorism thriller went from the Carrie-Brody chemistry show to the most unnervingly prescient TV of our time."
• ‘House of Cards’ & the Art of Power Dressing - The New York Times.
• House of Cards box set binge: what happens when you sit down and watch all 39 episodes ... in a row - The Telegraph.
• House Of Cards: season four's 20 most shocking moments - The Telegraph.
• How a reality TV teen became a beauty giant - "Kylie Jenner: How the reality teen founded a cosmetics empire."
• How Better Call Saul bettered Breaking Bad - "The greatest prequel ever made? When Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan signed up to make a spin-off series, he wasn't sure it would work. So how did it actually improve on its predecessor? Stephen Kelly finds out."
• How Law & Order’s Dick Wolf Is Reimagining His Shows In The Wake Of The BLM Protests - "The undisputed king of the police procedural is scrambling to save one of TV’s most lucrative franchises."
• How Much Do We Love TV? Let Us Count the Ways - The New York Times.
• How Robin Wright Negotiated Equal Pay on ‘House of Cards’ - The New York Times.
• How The Jerry Springer Show splashed around in humanity’s worst excesses - "Even Springer repeatedly distanced himself from his own creation. But the nail in the coffin came when Jeremy Kyle got involved."
• How the Twin Peaks soundtrack came to haunt music - The Guardian.
• How the workplace became the star of TV - "Whether in the kitchen or finance world, work-centric shows have rocketed in popularity. This entertainment is hitting the sweet spot for audiences in spades."
• How Well Do You Know Your ‘X-Files’ Monsters? - The New York Times.
• Hunting, meth & big cats: Tiger King's rarely seen version of southern queerness - "Who could have guessed that a mullet-wearing, polyamorous exotic animal owner would become TV’s most talked-about gay star?"
• I’m Going to Spoil Your Favorite TV Show - "In the past few weeks, a dramatic revelation in 'Succession' reignited the debate over how long spoilers should be suppressed on social media - and whether having advance knowledge of a momentous plot development (in this case: Logan Roy dies) ruins our enjoyment of a story. Recently, my colleagues and I conducted research to address this very question. Spoiler alert: It doesn’t."
• Is Man vs Bear the weirdest TV show of the year? - "In a staggering, strange new series, people take on actual bears in physical tasks and, quite predictably, lose."
• Is reality TV also fuelling obesity? - "Love Island, Married at First Sight and Keeping Up with the Kardashians bombard viewers with junk food in up to 90% of episodes. Nine in 10 reality TV episodes show junk food, at a rate of once every 8 minutes."
• It’s Time for Shows to Start Saying No to Season Two - Wired.
• Jeremy Strong Isn't Sure He Knows Who He Is - "For years, Jeremy Strong was a relatively anonymous, steadily gigging actor. He did theater and some recurring TV work. Then 'Succession' changed everything. The hit HBO show, a biting satire about the emotionally dysfunctional, media-conglomerate-running Roy family, became an icon of 21st-century television. Within it, Strong created an icon of his own with his portrayal of the damaged and tragically self-defeating eldest son, Kendall Roy."
• Jerry Springer, former Cincinnati mayor & talk show host, dead at 79 - "Jerry Springer, the former Cincinnati mayor and and long time TV host whose tabloid talk show was known for outrageous arguments, thrown chairs and physical confrontations between sparring couples and homewreckers, has died, a family spokesperson said Thursday. Springer was 79."
• Jerry Springer Show: his most outrageous TV moments - "The death of the controversial talk show host leaves behind a wealth of hand-to-mouth moments that defined his shock-heavy career."
• Jerry Springer Show turns 25: 10 most outrageous moments - The Guardian.
• Jerry Springer: the man who changed US television for better & worse - "The host synonymous with hand-to-mouth television was also a progressive political mind and groundbreaking changemaker."
• Jesse Armstrong on Succession, strikes & what he will do next - "After seven years of ‘mad triage’ on possibly the best drama series ever, its creator is up for a lot of noodling, and football, and maybe a return to his first love - the sitcom."
• Jon Stewart, Sarcastic Critic of Politics & Media, Is Signing Off - The New York Times.
• Keeping Up Appearances is BBC's most popular overseas export - The Telegraph.
• Killing Eve to Game of Thrones: the biggest TV disappointments of 2019 - "Villanelle was too sadistic, the world of Westeros was too silly and Line of Duty swerved disastrously off-piste. Here are the TV turkeys of the year."
• Kim Kardashian & Kendall Jenner mocked for Emmys speech - CNN entertainment.
• Kim Kardashian announces end of long-running hit reality show - "The long-running TV reality show about the Kardashian family is coming to an end, Kim Kardashian West has announced."
• Landmark ruling could change reality TV as we know it - CNN.
• Larry David became the older man's fashion idol - "Understated smart-casual clothes made Curb Your Enthusiasm creator and star 'post-normcore' pin-up."
• Larry David, Philosopher King - "Larry David's long-running show was hilarious, but it also revolved around a complex view of modern philosophy. 'Curb' is full of observations about societal strictures that might otherwise go unspoken. Rules such as: You tiptoe at night; you always accept your friend’s invitation to tour her new house; you never steal from roadside memorials or caskets; you don’t go over your caviar allotment at a dinner party; you ask to split the check when you eat out with friends."
• Let's find you something to watch - The New York Times.
• Life, death & gabagool: how The Sopranos explains everything - "Ahead of the release of prequel The Many Saints of Newark, a look at how David Chase’s classic mob drama saw the world in a grain of parmigiano."
• life lessons from TV's top role models - The Guardian.
• List of fictional television shows - Wikipedia.
• List of reality television programs - Wikipedia.
• List of television shows - Wikiquote.
• List of television spin-offs - Wikipedia.
• Live Like The Roy Family At These Lavish Italian Villas From ‘Succession’ Season 3 - "Fans of award-winning HBO show Succession are captivated by the dysfunctional drama of the billionaire Roy family. And perhaps more interesting than their business woes and family feuds is the glimpse into the glamorous lifestyle of the world’s ultra-rich. The latest lavish properties seen in the show are from Season 3, Episode 8, called 'Chiantishire,' which aired on Sunday, December 5. As the family makes their way to Italy for Logan Roy’s ex-wife and the mother of his children Caroline Collingwood’s wedding, there are two fabulous Italian properties that take center stage: Cetinale and Villa La Cassinella."
• Long Before The Internet, 'Twin Peaks' Anticipated The Need For TV Recaps - "Throughout the ‘80s and early ‘90s, there were certainly some pretty damn weird pop-culture-themed 900 numbers. For a small (rapidly escalating as every minute passes) fee, you could use your touch-tone phone to call, say, pop-culture icon Captain Kirk or child-murderer Freddy Krueger or Mac, the McDonald’s-loving alien from Mac and Me. But really, who would want to talk to that grotesque creature -- other than Steven Spielberg’s attorneys, of course."
• MAD MEN & Its Love Affair With ’60s Pop Culture - The New York Times.
• Mad Men at 15: how the genius advertising drama foresaw the death of the American dream - "From the micro-aggressions toward Black, female and LGBTQ characters to its depiction of a worrying narcissist named Donald, this forward-thinking drama was a warning from history."
• Mad Men to Seinfeld – TV's most criminally overrated shows - The Guardian.
• Make them wait! Why the age of bingewatching may finally be over - "Disney’s new streaming service will release episodes once a week, rather than in one go, bringing an end to Netflix’s exhausting all-you-can-eat model."
• Mapped: Every single Game of Thrones filming location - The Telegraph.
• Matthew Perry: a life in pictures - "The Canadian-American actor best known for playing Chandler Bing in the international hit series Friends has died at the age of 54."
• Matthew Perry, ‘Friends’ star, dead at 54 - "Matthew Perry, the beloved actor who starred as Chandler Bing on 'Friends,' has died. He was 54. Perry died in an apparent drowning accident at his Los Angeles home on Saturday, according to the Los Angeles Times, citing law enforcement sources."
• Medical Drama - Wikipedia.
• Menendez brothers: A Los Angeles mansion has become the latest ‘dark tourism’ hot spot - "A new Netflix series about Lyle and Erik Menendez, brothers who were convicted of murdering their parents Jose and Kitty in 1989, has resulted in tourists flocking to the Beverly Hills mansion where the crime took place."
• #MeToo to MAGA: why Curb Your Enthusiasm is still TV's most daring comedy - "Ditching the heavy-handed slapstick of its last series, Larry David’s arch-misanthrope gets back to causing chaos in this furious return to form."
• Mindhunter is Netflix’s most binge-worthy show yet - The Verge.
• Miniseries - Wikipedia.
• Monica & Rachel's 'Friends' apartment is on Booking.com - "'Friends' fans are being given the chance to crash for a night at Monica and Rachel's apartment. More than a quarter century since Rachel sought refuge with Monica after running out of her wedding to Barry the dentist, 'The Friends Experience' - a two-story, immersive celebration of the show launched in New York in March - has teamed up with travel company Booking.com to provide what it calls 'The Ultimate Sleepover.'"
• Monsieur Spade casts Clive Owen in a series that's nearly the stuff dreams are made of - "The latest installment of True Detective gets overshadowed by another six-episode limited series premiering the same night, only this one featuring a detective out of the past, Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade. With a hat tip to The Maltese Falcon, AMC’s Monsieur Spade creates a nicely moody sequel built around the character, and if that's not quite the stuff dreams are made of, it comes wonderfully close."
• Most stunning 'Game of Thrones' locations - "Spain's most pivotal 'Game of Thrones' filming locations."
• Netflix finally reveals its binge scale - The Guardian.
• Netflix's The Keepers isn't just a true crime story - The Telegraph.
• Nordic Noir - (Scandinavian crime fiction, Scandi noir, Scandinavian noir) is a genre of crime fiction written from a police point of view. The language is simple and eschews metaphor, the settings have bleak landscapes, and the mood is dark and morally complex. The genre depicts a tension between the apparently still and bland social surface in Scandinavia and the murder, misogyny, rape, and racism it depicts as lying underneath. It contrasts with the whodunit style such as the English country house murder mystery.
• North Korea's 'pink lady' off air as state TV revamped with younger faces - "The melodramatic appearances of North Korea’s most famous television broadcaster may soon be consigned to the past as the regime’s state-controlled channel, KCTV, undergoes a modern makeover."
• OnePlus paid $300,000 to get phones into House of Cards - The Verge.
• ONLINE SERIES - "Watch Full Episodes - TV Shows, Seasons, Online Series."
• Paris Hilton's cooking show is really about something else - "Critics are taking issue with Hilton as host of a show about food, but be under no illusion, this woman isn't pretending she can cook. In fact, she's probably pretending she can't, but that hasn't deterred much of the internet from scoffing at her poor culinary skills, and wondering at the point of a food show that doesn't include knockout recipes."
• Profumo affair ... seen, at last, through the female gaze - "Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies were dismissed as call girls in the 60s. A TV series now shows them as complex, vulnerable young women."
• Radio Times - since 1923. British weekly television and radio programme listings magazine. The world's first broadcast listings magazine.
• 'Real People Keep Getting Re-traumatized.' The Human Cost of Binge-Watching True Crime Series - "With millions confined to their homes, TV viewership is up. That's good for the true crime genre, but not necessarily for victims' families."
• Reality Television - Wikipedia.
• Review: In Twin Peaks, an Old Log Learns Some New Tricks - The New York Times.
• Review: On ‘Late Show’ Premiere, Stephen Colbert Tries to Bring Big Back to Late Night - The New york Times.
• Roman & Kendall Roy’s ‘Succession’ Pads Hit the Market - for Real - "Brokers are hoping the mystique of the fictional Roy family can help sell the multimillion dollar homes."
• ‘Roseanne’ Revival Wins Huge TV Ratings - The New York Times.
• Rowan Atkinson 'didn't enjoy Mr Bean' as character is 'stressful & exhausting' - "Rowan Atkinson has celebrated the success of his comic creation, Mr Bean, but has said that playing the character was not as fun as it looked."
• Rowan Atkinson: ‘In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything’ - "The actor talks to Patrick Freyne about Mr Bean and Blackadder, cancel culture and his first starring TV role in decades."
• Rowan Atkinson: why I just couldn't say no to Maigret - The Telegraph.
• Ruby Wax: ‘I’ve spent a lifetime giving the illusion all is well. It wasn’t & it isn’t’ - "The comedian’s plan to write a travel memoir took a darker turn when her depression returned after 12 years. She talks about her recovery, empty nesting - and stranding herself on a desert island."
• Same role, different show: what happens when TV actors get stuck in a rut - The Guardian.
• Secrets of Playboy Trailer, Which Addresses the "Dark Sides" of the House that Hef Built - "Women in the Playboy orbit are sharing never-before-heard details about the darker side of Hef's world in a new docuseries. Watch the E! News exclusive trailer ahead of the Jan. 24 premiere."
• Seinfeld: finally, you can stream the greatest US sitcom - The Guardian.
• Seinfeld: the show that invented modern television is still 'shockingly relevant' - The Guardian.
• ‘Seinfeldia,’ on Why We Still Can’t Escape ‘Hello, Jerry’ - The New york Times.
• 'Sex and the City' faces reality ... finally - "HBO Max says it will be releasing the 'Sex and the City' reboot -- 'And Just Like That ... ' -- sometime this fall, and it appears that Kim Cattrall's Samantha Jones character is being replaced by actress Nicole Ari Parker, who is Black, and who will play documentary filmmaker Lisa Todd Wexley, the new fourth friend of Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte York Goldenblatt (Kristin Davis), and Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon)."
• Sitcom - Wikipedia.
• Slow Horses: The anti-James Bond that gets to the heart of Britishness - "With a new series launching today, Apple TV+'s spy show about MI5 rejects is more popular than ever. As with the Mick Herron books it's based on, it has lots to say about the UK today."
• Soap Opera - Wikipedia.
• Soap opera effect - "Tom Cruise wants you to turn it off. Here's how. If you have a newer TV, chances are it's smoothing out your movies in a way that makes them look like daytime TV."
• Sopranos: Then & Now: Revisiting the Sopranos' New Jersey 25 Years Later - "On the anniversary of the show's premiere, its creator and location manager reflect on some of its iconic settings and why they were chosen."
• Star Wars, In One Chart - FiveThirtyEight.
• STEVEN SODERBERGH'S NEW APP WILL CHANGE HOW YOU WATCH TV - Wired.
• ‘Stop drinking fake coffee!’ Your most annoying things about TV - "We asked you to name your pet peeves of the small screen. Here are the things that rile you up - from empty cups to far too easy parking."
• Streaming TV Isn’t Just a New Way to Watch. It’s a New Genre. - The New York Times.
• Street Artists Infiltrate ‘Homeland’ With Subversive Graffiti - The New York Times.
• Succession: Did the poster give it away? The 12 clues that foreshadowed Succession’s ultimate winner - "From a specific catchphrase to some revealing marketing materials, maybe the victor of Jesse Armstrong’s drama was in plain sight all along. Here are the signs we should have spotted."
• Succession: Every Episode of 'Succession,' Ranked - "From Kendall's 40th birthday to Tom's bachelor party, the HBO series gave us a handful of instant classic hours & a few less-than-classic ones."
• ‘Succession’ Nailed the Unreal Way We Live Now - "The show captured the terrifying, mesmerizing interplay between fact and fiction and turned it into great television." The New York Times.
• Succession recap: season four, episode five - is Shiv about to be sent a brick of frozen blood? - "As Team Waystar descend on a Norwegian retreat for saunas and axe-throwing with GoJo, Roman snaps, Shiv cosies up to a creep - and Tom reaches peak excruciating."
• Succession recap: the finale - probably the most feel-bad ending in TV history - "Depressingly realistic but furious and heartbreaking from start to finish, the power balance truly tipped in the finale - and somehow became even more toxic."
• Succession: ‘Your earlobes are thick & chewy, like barnacle meat!’ Succession’s all-time best zingers - "From sweary nicknames to sarcastic putdowns, the Roys have cornered the market in sick burns. Here are 40 of the best - but which is your favourite?"
• 'Succession' star glues hand to Starbucks counter in protest - "Actor and activist James Cromwell has gone from 'Succession’s' Uncle Ewan to real-life supergluin’ - pasting his hand to a midtown Manhattan Starbucks counter on Tuesday to protest the coffee chain’s extra charge for plant-based milk."
• Succession’s final season doubles down on its core conceit - to a fault - "While Succession’s fourth and final season makes good on the series’ name, it does so while feeling comfortably stuck in a familiar holding pattern of treachery and ‘gotcha’ backstabbing."
• Succession’s Jeremy Strong tried to jump into a river during final scene - "‘I didn’t know I was gonna do that.’ Known for his method acting, the Emmy-winning star spontaneously tried for an alternate ending - but it didn’t make the final cut."
• Tattoos, karaoke & a touch of film noir: What it was like to work with Anthony Bourdain in Thailand - "No food celebrity was more widely loved than Anthony Bourdain at the time, and his posthumous fame and recognition have only grown since. In an era where chefs are the new rockstars, he was Johnny Cash, keeping it raw and real."
• Tears, trauma and reality TV: inside Kim Kardashian West's legal crusade - "The Justice Project follows the reality star as she moves from influencer to legal advocate - but it leaves us wondering exactly what change she wants to see and why."
• TELEVISION SERIES - Wikipedia.
• Test Your ‘Downton Abbey’ Drama Quotient - The New York Times.
• The Apprentice review: Sebastian Stan is 'excellent' as a young Donald Trump - "With Sebastian Stan as the young Donald Trump and Jeremy Strong as his notoriously vicious lawyer mentor Roy Cohn, The Apprentice is part 'compellingly cynical buddy movie', part conventional biopic."
• The Classic TV Database - classic TV shows, theme songs, episodes guides, show ratings and cast lists.
• The Crown - Every episode of ranked! - "From devastatingly poignant drama about unforgettable events to ghost Diana and a breakdancing Prince Charles - the royal saga has been a rollercoaster ride. Here are the highs and lows."
• The Crown FIRST LOOK: Dominic West & Elizabeth Debicki are pictured as Prince Charles & Princess Diana - "Netflix bosses unveiled images of the actors, aged 51 and 30, in character as the royals in roles they will play for the next two series of the show."
• 'The Crown' gets a new queen - "While production of Season 6 of 'The Crown' was briefly paused after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Season 5 is still on track to start November 9. When the popular series returns to Netflix, Imelda Staunton will take over the role of the Queen from Olivia Colman who portrayed her in Seasons 3 and 4 of the royal drama."
• The Crown relives King Charles' toe-curling moments - "How The Crown will embarrass King Charles: New series shoehorns in toe-curling moments that seem designed to humiliate the monarch - from royal's break dancing in 1985 to THAT tampongate call with Camilla."
• The Crown sees surge in viewers after death of Queen Elizabeth II - "Viewership for Netflix series chronicling the life of the monarch rises up to 800% in the UK, with huge numbers watching in the US, France and Australia."
• The Crown: The one thing The Crown got wrong - "As the finale of Peter Morgan's six-season series of The Crown is released on Netflix, why did the once-admired British Royal Family drama go downhill? What went wrong with the show?"
• The ethereal legacy of David Lynch show 'Twin Peaks' 30 years on - "'I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange,'” speaks Agent Dale Cooper, the fervent detective that leads David Lynch’s dreamlike mystery. It’s a line that well foreshadows both the flourishing future of the iconic series, as well as the influential changes that such a programme would have on the landscape of serialised television. 30 years after the release of its final episode the reverberations of Lynch’s ethereal series can still be felt."
• The Gentlemen creates surge in sales for upper-class fashion - "Extravagant outfits in Netflix caper have led to increasing interest in posh eccentric style."
• 'The Good Wife’ Ends With No Easy Answers - The New York Times.
• The Idol: why the HBO show became 2023’s biggest TV disaster - "The co-creation of music superstar Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, and Euphoria creator Sam Levinson, the series seemed to have everything going for it. So what went so wrong, asks Laura Martin."
• 'The Love Boat': How a TV show transformed the cruise industry - "From steam-powered ships, to mega-liners, the cruise industry has been through quite a transformation over the years. And the market has skyrocketed."
• The Mirror and the Light: ‘Henry VIII is a serial killer & abuser’: why is Britain still so obsessed with the Tudors? - "England has long adopted the version of events informed by the Victorians’ biases and neuroses. But what is behind the flood of 21st-century retellings, including the new TV series The Mirror and the Light?"
• The Morning Show: TV so excellent it will make you totally resent Friends - "Apple TV+’s series is getting more brilliant by the week – and the revelatory central performance by Jennifer Aniston shows she was wasted in Central Perk."
• The New York of Mad Men - CN Traveller.
• The Night Manager final episode - a superb climax - Tom Hiddleston gave a convincing audition for Bond.
• The Night Manager: Majorca filming locations - The Telegraph.
• The Night Manager season 2 star shares new filming picture with Tom Hiddleston - "A sneak peek behind the scenes of the highly anticipated follow-up. The Night Manager season 2 star Camila Morrone has shared a behind-the-scenes picture of herself and Tom Hiddleston on set of the hit drama."
• The North Water is the best TV series you missed in 2021 - "A period drama like no other, this gut-wrenching show about a doomed voyage in the Arctic flew under the radar last year. Christina Newland explains why it deserves belated attention."
• The Penguin is TV’s biggest surprise of the year - "Colin Farrell’s show-stopping turn, and a scene-stealing Cristin Milioti, make this DC crime series an unlikely winner."
• The Perfect Couple review - Nicole Kidman’s gorgeous murder mystery is ludicrously good - "It’s almost impossible to resist bingeing the entirety of this classy detective drama set around a posh wedding in Nantucket. It’s a glorious, perfectly paced delight. The Perfect Couple is on Netflix."
• The race for TV's last billions - "Dick Wolf Joins The Race For TV’s Last Billions."
• The real reason most late night talk show hosts sit behind a desk - "'It's less democratic, less egalitarian, if someone is sitting behind a desk in an elevated position, and his guests are not equal in stature in terms of how they're being seated,' production designer Keith Raywood said. Media scholar and professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University Robert Thompson points out the setup 'leaves the guests to be fully exposed.' Cavett, whose talk show slots included late night, preferred to sit more casually on comfortable chairs with his guests, putting them on equal ground."
• The Return of Kyle MacLachlan (and Agent Cooper) - The New York Times.
• The rise & fall of Roseanne - "How TV's biggest show fell apart."
• The Simpsons: Tiananmen episode not found in Hong Kong - "An episode of The Simpsons that refers to the Tiananmen Square massacre is reported to be missing from Disney's streaming service in Hong Kong."
• The Sopranos: from enduring TV hit to the hottest show of lockdown - "2020 has seen HBO’s mafia series win fresh fans, as a new generation relate to the emotional struggles of its antihero protagonist, and its stars preserve its legacy."
• The towns that inspired One Hundred Years of Solitude - "As a new Netflix series thrusts Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece back into the spotlight, these are the real-life places that inspired the writer's magical realism."
• The True Story Behind the Netflix Series Unbelievable - TIME Magazine.
• The White Lotus’ Bigger, Wilder, Darker Third Season - "On the scorching set with Mark White and the cast in Thailand."
• ‘The X-Files’: David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson Return to the Paranormal Beat - The New York Times.
• There's a reason most late night talk show hosts sit behind a desk - "How the late night talk show set became an American icon."
• Tiger King is a show about how the internet eats us all - "Netflix’s documentary series will hook you immediately and leave you feeling queasy when it’s over."
• Too Many Favorite Shows? Take Them In at High Speed - The New York Times.
• top 30 brands mentioned in 'Sex and the City' - The Guardian.
• top 30 TV shows on Amazon Prime Video - The Telegraph.
• Top Rated TV Shows - Top 250 as rated by IMDb Users.
• Totally real Ted Lasso actor who plays Roy Kent responds to conspiracy theory that he is CGI - "The man looks like he stepped straight out of FIFA 21."
• True Detective: Night Country review - "A blazing Jodie Foster makes this show better than ever before. At last, this show drops the bloated, male-dominated stories of earlier series for an icy murder case in Alaska - with blistering turns from Foster and Kali Reis."
• TV GUIDE's 50 GREATEST TV SHOWS OF ALL TIME - Wikipedia.
• The TV shows that reveal the real France - "French TV has never been more popular internationally – but the biggest shows at home reflect a conflicted nation, anxious about its place in the world."
• TV's 10 Best Teen Dramas of All Time, Ranked - TIME Magazine.
• Twin Peaks Series Trailer - YouTube 5:30.
• Twin Peaks' Agent Cooper: How TV's strangest detective was born - "In exclusive archive BBC interviews the creators of the 90s TV series talk about their unique vision - and how the eccentric character at its centre, Special Agent Dale Cooper, was based on the director David Lynch's own personality."
• ‘Twin Peaks’ Puzzle: How to Make That Cherry Pie - The New York Times.
• Twin Peaks season 3 cast, trailer, release date & everything else you need to know - DigitalSpy.
• was Twin Peaks inspired by a real murder case? - The Telegraph.
• Watchers on the wall - "A Game of Thrones Community for Breaking News, Casting, and Commentary."
• Welcome Back to Twin Peaks: An Illustrated Glossary - The New York Times.
• what do real psychotherapists think of TV shrinks? - The Guardian.
• What happened when our TV critic watched 67 hours of Game of Thrones? - "Ned Stark who? White Walkers? And what’s a Wall anyway? As the final series begins, one newcomer gets up to speed."
• What it was really like to work with Anthony Bourdain - "Kamau Bell opens up about working with the late great Anthony Bourdain."
• What We Owe the MythBusters - The New York Times.
• What Will Happen in the Next Season of And Just Like That...? - VOGUE.
• When good TV goes bad: how House of Cards came tumbling down - The Guardian.
• Where Did the 'True Detective' Magic Go? To Another Show. - "It just doesn't bring what the first one brought: The lead actors don't have the chemistry that the leads in the original enjoyed, there's nothing in the structure to match the effective flashback framing used in Season 1."
• Why Jack Bauer Is America's James Bond - "Just as James Bond represents a British archetype in the gentleman spy, 24’s Jack Bauer is the perfect and problematic model of a vengeful American agent."
• Why Julian Fellowes's new app Belgravia won't start a revolution - The Telegraph.
• Why the key message of Friends endures 30 years on - "'When you're single and in the city, your friends are your family': Why the key message of Friends endures - 30 years on. First broadcast 30 years ago this week, the hugely popular show Friends became much more than a sitcom - it brought a new way of living into the mainstream."
• Why the world still loves 1970s detective show Columbo - "Fifty years on, the cop show featuring a bumbling but brilliant homicide detective has attracted a new generation of fans."
• Why we changed The Night Manager ending - The Telegraph.
• Woody Allen: 'There are traumas in life that weaken us. That’s what has happened to me' - The Guardian.
• X Files: 10 essential episodes - The Telegraph.
• Your Ultimate Guide to Binge-Watching Every Game of Thrones Episode - "The premiere of the final season of Game of Thrones is coming on April 14, which means there's just enough time to catch up on every single episode."