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How Tina Fey Wrote the Most Realistic—and Optimistic—Marriage on TV
Long before the term heteropessimism was coined, Tina Fey made the sentiment a staple of her comedy on “30 Rock.” Her…
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Kareem Rahma and the Tyranny of Web Video Shows
Everything on the internet now is a “show.” No longer can we consider selfies, pithy text posts, or even monologues on front-facing…
Culture
In “Hacks,” Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder Gave Us an Odd Couple for the Ages
The depth of Deborah and Ava’s unlikely bond led the show, in its home stretch, to what many viewers considered its best episode. In this…
Culture
The Stories That TV Tells About Online Sex Work
Much of the emotional potency of the show’s début season came from Levinson’s canny, perhaps even prescient, channelling of Zoomer…
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Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon Discuss Donald Trump’s Obsession With Late-Night on Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’: ‘I Appreciate That He’s Watching Linear Television’
Stephen Colbert hosted his fellow late-night frontmen Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver on Monday’s episode of “The…
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“Big Mistakes” Is a Crime Show for the Girls and the Gays
At the start of the new comedic thriller “Big Mistakes,” the lives of Nicky Dardano (Dan Levy), a quasi-closeted pastor, and his sister…
Business
Sony Pictures Television Releases First Look Images for ‘S.W.A.T. Exiles’ With Shemar Moore Ahead of London TV Screenings (EXCLUSIVE)
Sony Pictures Television has shared with Variety the very first look stills from “S.W.A.T. Exiles,” the upcoming 10-episode spinoff of…
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Sony Pictures Television Takes ‘100 Choices’ Game Show Format to Thailand’s Columbia Pictures Aquaverse Water Park (EXCLUSIVE)
Sony Pictures Television has secured an option agreement with Thailand’s TV Thunder and Columbia Pictures‘ Aquaverse to develop “100…
Culture
With the Podcast “I’ve Had It,” Jennifer Welch Goes “Dark Woke” on Politics
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in…
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The Delicious Anticipation–and, Yes, Release—of “Heated Rivalry”
The show, a sexy romance between two closeted hockey players, began on a small Canadian streaming platform, but has become a huge,…
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How Disney Entertainment Television Fosters New and Rising Talent, From ‘Camp Rock’ to ‘Percy Jackson’
Since being founded in 1996, Disney Entertainment Television has become a platform for rising actors to begin their careers on screen. As…
Business
Suzanne Todd Signs First Look Deal With MGM Television (EXCLUSIVE)
Veteran producer Suzanne Todd, whose credits include the “Austin Powers,” “Alice in Wonderland” and “Bad Moms” franchises, has sealed a…
Culture
The Best TV Shows of 2025
Fourteen years ago, Emily Nussbaum, one of my esteemed predecessors in the TV-critic chair, notoriously titled her Top Ten list “I Hate…
Business
Tim Robinson Finds Humanity—and Tests It—in “The Chair Company”
In this outline, “The Chair Company” could be a sketch premise: “guy loses it after embarrassing himself at a big meeting.” This was the…
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Trump says television networks shouldn’t be able to ‘enlarge’
US President Donald Trump said no television networks should be able to expand, citing the potential growth of what he considers left-wing…
Culture
‘The Motherload’: 20th Television to Develop Series Adaptation of Sarah Hoover Memoir (EXCLUSIVE)
Sarah Hoover‘s memoir “The Motherload: Episodes From the Brink of Motherhood” is in development as a drama series at 20th Television,…
Culture
The Comic Genius Who Pushed Television Further Than It Could Go
At its peak, “Your Show of Shows” had twenty-five million viewers, and Caesar was hailed as a genius. Albert Einstein and Leonard…
Culture
ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky
Faarea MasudBusiness reporter ITV has said it is in "preliminary" discussions to sell its television business to Sky for £1.6bn. The talks…
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When a Crackdown Involving the I.R.A. Backfired, Comically, in “The Ban”
In Dublin in 1981, at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis—an annual convention for what was widely regarded as the Irish Republican Army’s political…
Business
One of the Worst Sitcoms of All Time Earned a Rare 0% on RT and Is Everything Television Should Avoid
TV networks, in the face of a poorly reviewed sitcom, will do whatever it takes to avoid addressing early critical negativity, hoping that…
Culture
Mo Amer Has Survived by Being Funny
During our conversation, which has been condensed and edited, Amer talked about his reasons for accepting the gig in Saudi Arabia, his…
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30 Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned off in support of public television
Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for…