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Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY On TV, where there's smoke, there's, well, more smoke. Smoking depictions continue to rise on a group of television programs popular with young people - [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY The premiere of Showtime's 'The Loudest Voice,' the seven-part limited series that charts Roger Ailes' controversial stewardship of Fox News Channel and pervasive influence on [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Just recently, basketball superstar Stephen Curry was on the court in the NBA Finals. Now he's back on TV playing another sport, miniature golf, as [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Spoiler alert! This story contains major details from Monday's premiere of 'Years and Years.' With all that happens in HBO's 'Years and Years,' one could [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Chef, restaurateur and cookbook author Ayesha Curry is expanding her culinary empire with ABC's 'Family Food Fight,' an eight-episode summer series (Thursdays, 9 EDT/PDT) that [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY James Corden's dodgeball matchup against Michelle Obama could create an international incident, but it's more likely to result in fun and laughter. 'The Late Late [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES - In the years since HBO's 'Deadwood' was canceled in 2006, the story of the show's potential return became almost as mythic as [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES - HGTV has built a time machine that takes viewers back 50 years to the fictional TV home of 'The Brady Bunch.' The [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Spoiler alert: This story contains significant details from Sunday's series finale of HBO's 'Game of Thrones.' Not surprisingly, Sunday's series finale of 'Game of Thrones' [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Archie Bunker and George Jefferson are getting a casting makeover, but they'll be saying the same things that entertained (and outraged) millions when first uttered [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Spoiler alert: This story contains significant details from Thursday's series finale of 'The Big Bang Theory.' Sheldon Cooper has some explaining to do about his [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, Columnist, USA TODAY As 'The Big Bang Theory' fades into the refracted light on the horizon, I'll remain indebted, for many reasons. But two stand out: It [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY As 'The Big Bang Theory' taped its final episode April 30, co-creator and sitcom king Chuck Lorre had the honor of handling the slate identifying [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY HBO's 'Game of Thrones' has delivered not just winter but a 'Mountain's' worth of merchandise aimed at the millions of fans obsessed with TV's most [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney USA TODAY The long-running success of CBS' 'The Big Bang Theory' might be explained as the Sitcom Theory of Evolution: survival of the ever-so-gradually maturing. 'The characters [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY All hail Brienne of Tarth and the actress who plays her, Gwendoline Christie. Christie's Brienne stands out as a beloved beacon of nobility in an [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney USA TODAY BURBANK, Calif. - It's early April and 'The Big Bang Theory' is shooting a scene from an episode of the top-rated CBS comedy that airs [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Carl Reiner didn't get to play Rob Petrie, the central character of the classic 1960s sitcom based on his life as a comedy writer and [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Spoiler alert: This story contains significant details from Sunday's 'Game of Thrones' episode, 'The Long Night.' When it came to 'The Long Night,' Arya Stark [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Winter is going - eventually. With just four more episodes until Westeros freezes over, burns to the ground or finds a comfy middle ground, , [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY BURBANK, Calif. - Twelve years gets a child from first grade to high-school graduation, and the cast of 'The Big Bang Theory' is keenly aware [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES - A day after live, pressure-packed Disney Night performances that saw the elimination of two 'American Idol' finalists, the remaining eight were back [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY You'd have to live somewhere east of Essos to have missed the hoopla surrounding the final season of HBO's 'Game of Thrones' (Sundays, 9 EDT/PDT). [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Winter is going - eventually. With just five more episodes until Westeros freezes over, burns to the ground or finds a comfy middle ground, , [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY You don't have to love baseball to enjoy 'Field of Dreams,' but it sure doesn't hurt. Yes, the 1989 Kevin Costner film, which celebrates its [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY BURBANK, Calif. - Not all the laughs in CBS's 'The Big Bang Theory' take place on-screen. During a recent set visit, the seven stars of [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY BURBANK, Calif. - New series featuring Marvel's Loki and a Falcon-Winter Soldier pairing; two more with characters dwelling in the 'Star Wars' universe; and another [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES - A first look at the 'Transparent' musical finale reveals the death of Maura Pfefferman, the lead character at the center of the [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Henry Winkler won millions of fans playing 'Happy Days' biker Fonzie and reaches new ones as 'Barry' acting coach Gene Cousineau, but the most meaningful [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, Columnist, USA TODAY It isn't easy reimagining a classic. 'Be careful what you wish for' is an enduring message of 'The Twilight Zone' and also a bit [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Long before 'Red Wedding' became a meme and Dany's dragons took flight, 'Game of Thrones' stars and producers have been sharing their thoughts on HBO's [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney USA TODAY LOS ANGELES - These are happy days for Henry Winkler. The Yale Drama School graduate, who rocketed to fame in the '70s as sitcom biker [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY The entertainment industry has a love-hate relationship with Wall Street. Hollywood knows viewers love stories about people who have, spend and waste piles of money, [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney USA TODAY HBO's 'Game of Thrones' is filled with numbers that fans can recite from memory: Eight Sand Snakes, the bastard daughters of Oberyn Martell; seven kingdoms [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Armed to the teeth and with tongue firmly in cheek, ABC's 'Whiskey Cavalier' breezily asserts its membership in a beloved TV genre: the 'romp-com,' a [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY The death of an actor on a TV show understandably elicits feelings of sadness, as is the case with Luke Perry of 'Riverdale.' The CW [...]

Byline: Kelly Lawler and Bill Keveney USA TODAY Some teen idols stay with you well into adulthood. Luke Perry was one of those idols. The actor, who died Monday at [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, Columnist, USA TODAY Spoiler alert: This story contains details regarding Spock's debut Thursday on 'Star Trek: Discovery.' When 'Star Trek: Discovery' tantalizingly described its central character, Commander [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Spoiler alert: This story reveals the winner and other details from Wednesday's season finale of Fox's 'The Masked Singer.' They had him at Monster. T-Pain, [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY It might seem difficult for a TV comedy to find humor in a #MeToo incident of workplace sexual misconduct. NBC's 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' has a two-word [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAYSpoiler alert: This story includes the name of the winner and other details from Monday's finale of NBC's 'America's Got Talent: The Champions.''America's Got Talent: The [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAYMillions of fans know Christina El Moussa from the HGTV hit 'Flip or Flop.'After a much-reported divorce from her 'Flip' co-host, Tarek El Moussa, she's back [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAYPASADENA, Calif. - After years portraying the beloved denizens of Bikini Bottom, the voice actors behind 'SpongeBob SquarePants' will be front and center as human versions [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAYDr. Ruth Westheimer isn't worried about younger generations having sex. Her concern is more about basic human connection.'I do not get any more questions these days [...]

Byline: Bill KeveneyUSA TODAYBURBANK, Calif. - Last week, the people who make TV's top comedy 'The Big Bang Theory' offered the press its first glimpse of an episode run-through as [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAYPASADENA, Calif. - The latest unmasked celebrity on Fox's 'The Masked Singer' went against her own nature to keep her participation a secret.Ricki Lake, the former [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAYPASADENA, Calif. - As 'Star Trek: Discovery,' a prequel set 10 years ahead of the original 1960s 'Star Trek' series, moves forward in its second season, [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAYPASADENA, Calif. - It's not every day that your friend becomes a member of British royalty. So Meghan Markle's former 'Suits' co-star Gina Torres and executive [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES - Reality mega-producer Mark Burnett tweaked the 'American Idol' format with blind auditions and spinning red chairs and came up with a big [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAYWhen Roseanne Barr's racist tweet last May led to the immediate cancellation of 'Roseanne,' there didn't seem any purpose in trying to salvage ABC's top-rated revival.Without [...]