US late night television is a cultural institution that keeps night owls up with comedy, political commentary, and satire, with some programmes like Saturday Night Live stretching back decades. Often...
Many viewers of AMC’s The Walking Dead have complex feelings for the show. It’s kind of like a high school relationship that makes you listen to a lot of Cure and repeatedly doodle broken...
SPECTRE opens in a burst of colour and noise on the streets of Mexico City as James Bond fights his way through crowds of Day of the Dead celebrants and into the customary attempted...
Aziz Ansari, like many before him, has taken to Netflix as the platform for an intriguing series that allows him to explore television in a new way—with the added bite at pushing at how the United...
“In Praise of Joanne Rowling’s Hermione Granger series” was all over my social-media @-replies a few weeks ago. Again. This has happened often, in the four years since I wrote the piece....
Please Like Me has just begun its third series on ABC2 in Australia and Pivot in the US, and it looks to be as tender, sharp, wry, and thoughtful as the programme’s initial run. Deemed ‘too...
Homeland, now in its fifth season on Showtime, attracted global headlines this weekend for an entirely unintentional reason — it wasn’t plot twists and characterisation the public wanted to talk...
The 2015 Man Booker Prize was announced on Tuesday, with the winner being Jamaican author Marlon James for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. James is the first Jamaican writer to win the...
Something is brewing on ABC, notorious for its primetime soap operas and baroque plotting, especially after the rise of Shonday, the full block of Shonda Rhimes helmed programming on Thursday nights...
Graphic Journalism is emerging as one of the most compelling ways to talk about an urgent issue: migration. From Persepolis to Vietnamerica, authors are creating stories where the political history...
