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Despite high-profile cuts, streaming isn't as brutal on new shows as network TV was. (But it's not the paradise we hoped for, either.) It is time that we have a [...]

Despite high-profile cuts, streaming isn’t as brutal on new shows as network TV was. (But it’s not the paradise we hoped for, either.) It is time that we have a [...]

A strange evening on Fox News was most passionate when it involved the contestant who didn't show up. Primary debates don't have episode titles. But if the first one of [...]

Saved from cancellation, the porn-mag comedy is still a chaotic ride, but its ideas are more than skin-deep. ''This feels like the beginning of something,'' Joyce Prigger (Ophelia Lovibond) says [...]

Byline: James Poniewozik Why should you care about the strikes in Hollywood? Because they are much more than a revolt of the privileged. In Hollywood, the cool kids have joined [...]

Saved from cancellation, the porn-mag comedy is still a chaotic ride, but its ideas are more than skin-deep. “This feels like the beginning of something,” Joyce Prigger (Ophelia Lovibond) says [...]

Why should you care about the strikes in Hollywood? Because they are much more than a revolt of the privileged. In Hollywood, the cool kids have joined the picket line. [...]

The difference between comedy and drama is hazier than ever, as is the future of the Emmy Awards ceremony itself. The 2023 Primetime Emmy nominations were announced on Wednesday. James [...]

The difference between comedy and drama is hazier than ever, as is the future of the Emmy Awards ceremony itself. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/07/12/arts/emmy-nominations JAMES PONIEWOZIKWeirder than usual Emmys season this year, Margaret! [...]

Ten years after ''Sharknado'' spun Twitter and TV together, the online water cooler is running dry. On July 11, 2013, a superstorm made landfall on the internet. ''Sharknado,'' the meteorologically [...]

Ten years after “Sharknado” spun Twitter and TV together, the online water cooler is running dry. On July 11, 2013, a superstorm made landfall on the internet. “https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/arts/television/sharknado-has-led-a-summer-tv-attack.html,” the meteorologically [...]

Three Times critics agree: The HBO pop fable is bad television. Ahead of Sunday night's season finale, they break down its baffling missteps and occasional bright spots. Created by Sam [...]

Three Times critics agree: The HBO pop fable is bad television. Ahead of Sunday night’s season finale, they break down its baffling missteps and occasional bright spots. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/arts/television/the-idol-the-weeknd-sam-levinson-lily-rose-depp.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/arts/television/the-idol-lily-rose-depp-the-weeknd-sam-levinson.html JAMES [...]

Season 2 of the restaurant dramedy is more uplifting, more team-focused and more magnificent. This review discusses plot points throughout Season 2 of FX's ''The Bear,'' now airing in full [...]

Season 2 of the restaurant dramedy is more uplifting, more team-focused and more magnificent. Last year, I https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/arts/television/tv-shows-american-dream.html Season 1 of “https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/dining/hulu-the-bear-season-2.html” as “a war story that happens to take [...]

Boots Riley's surreal satire about a teenage giant and an authoritarian superhero is a larger-than-life achievement. Boots Riley doesn't aim small. In his 2018 directorial debut film, ''Sorry to Bother [...]

For decades, the soon-to-retire ''Wheel of Fortune'' host was ... just there. That was the whole point of him. The best game show hosts personify their programs. Regis Philbin, on [...]

Byline: James Poniewozik The lo-fi 'Tucker on Twitter' finds the former prime-time host at the intersection of Fox News and Fox Mulder. Most of the time, it does not qualify [...]

This Peacock dark comedy targets a ubiquitous guilty pleasure, but its knife is dull. ''The great American art form isn't music or film or television,'' says a podcast host in [...]

For decades, the soon-to-retire “Wheel of Fortune” host was … just there. That was the whole point of him. The best game show hosts personify their programs. Regis Philbin, on [...]

This Peacock dark comedy targets a ubiquitous guilty pleasure, but its knife is dull. “The great American art form isn’t music or film or television,” says a podcast host in [...]

The lo-fi ''Tucker on Twitter'' finds the former prime-time host at the intersection of Fox News and Fox Mulder. Most of the time, it does not qualify as newsworthy to [...]

Bill Hader's dark comedy made the culture of violence and the culture of showbiz into collaborators. This article includes spoilers for the ''Barry'' series finale. When ''Barry'' premiered, the dark [...]

Bill Hader’s dark comedy made the culture of violence and the culture of showbiz into collaborators. When “Barry” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/arts/television/barry-review-hbo-bill-hader.html, the dark HBO comedy seemed like a classic two-track TV series: [...]

The HBO drama, which ends on Sunday, updates past rich-people soaps like ''Dallas.'' But unlike those series, it argues that the problems of the hyper-wealthy inevitably become ours too. On [...]

The HBO drama, which ends on Sunday, updates past rich-people soaps like “Dallas.” But unlike those series, it argues that the problems of the hyper-wealthy inevitably become ours too. On [...]

On Sunday night, the Roys pondered whether to sell out democracy in exchange for their father's kingdom. In the real world, the going rate is usually cheaper. This article includes [...]

On Sunday night, the Roys pondered whether to sell out democracy in exchange for their father’s kingdom. In the real world, the going rate is usually cheaper. In Sunday’s episode [...]

A.I. screenwriting, a point of contention in the Writers Guild strike, may not yet be ready for prime time. But streaming algorithms and derivative programming have prepared the way for [...]

Byline: James Poniewozik Too many of TV's numerous adaptations promise 'faithfulness.' What they really need is a little creative infidelity. In a 2021 episode of 'What We Do in the [...]

Too many of TV's numerous adaptations promise ''faithfulness.'' What they really need is a little creative infidelity. In a 2021 episode of ''What We Do in the Shadows,'' the ancient [...]

The talk show populist threw the studio doors open, and all hell broke through. America's populace can be its most powerful force and its most terrifying danger. You can find [...]

The talk show populist threw the studio doors open, and all hell broke through. America’s populace can be its most powerful force and its most terrifying danger. You can find [...]

Even without a trial, the Dominion suit made plain that the network's main goal is the maintenance of a reality bubble. On Tuesday, Fox News reached a settlement in the [...]

A screwball thriller about a nun's fight against artificial intelligence proves that making a messy, big-swinging jumble of a story still takes the work of humans. If you're worried about [...]

A screwball thriller about a nun’s fight against artificial intelligence proves that making a messy, big-swinging jumble of a story still takes the work of humans. If you’re worried about [...]

The Roy family has never felt more human than it has in this season's third episode -- or more alien. In her 1969 book ''On Death and Dying,'' the psychiatrist [...]

The Roy family has never felt more human than it has in this season’s third episode — or more alien. In her 1969 book “On Death and Dying,” the psychiatrist [...]

The ex-president's indictment put him in the rare position of being forced onto a public stage not of his own choosing. The Manhattan Criminal Courthouse hallway was not the sort [...]

A thrilling dark comedy explores the complexity of anger, through a road-rage feud between two drivers who are more alike than it seems. ''I'm so sick of smiling,'' says Danny [...]

A thrilling dark comedy explores the complexity of anger, through a road-rage feud between two drivers who are more alike than it seems. “I’m so sick of smiling,” says Danny [...]

A well-meaning Apple TV+ series is the latest story to struggle with making an environmental wake-up call into good drama. Forty years ago this November, ABC blew up Kansas City. [...]

A well-meaning Apple TV+ series is the latest story to struggle with making an environmental wake-up call into good drama. Forty years ago this November, ABC blew up Kansas City. [...]

Byline: James Poniewozik In its stunning first-season finale, 'The Last of Us' became a video game - and, in the process, morally potent TV. If you watch HBO's 'The Last [...]

Bob Odenkirk returns to TV as an academic with a knack for talking himself into trouble. William Henry (Hank) Devereaux Jr., played by Bob Odenkirk, is a talker. But that's [...]

Bob Odenkirk returns to TV as an academic with a knack for talking himself into trouble. William Henry (Hank) Devereaux Jr., played by Bob Odenkirk, is a talker. But that’s [...]

In its stunning first-season finale, ''The Last of Us'' became a video game -- and, in the process, morally potent TV. If you watch HBO's ''The Last of Us'' there's [...]

Mel Brooks's human comedy gets a 'Part II' for streaming TV, with a sketch-star cast and a sharp makeover. Before his many lives as America's tummler-in-chief -- movie star, director, [...]

Mel Brooks’s human comedy gets a ‘Part II’ for streaming TV, with a sketch-star cast and a sharp makeover. Before his many lives as America’s tummler-in-chief — movie star, director, [...]