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...
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...
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...
CBS has announced its latest reboot subject: Nancy Drew. We have reached Peak Reboot, a point beyond which we surely cannot possibly go any further. It needs to stop. The television industry owes us...
Trevor Noah stepped into an extremely large pair of shoes on Monday night as he took the helm of the venerable Daily Show, replacing long-time host Jon Stewart. Stewart was largely responsible for...
Doctor Who is back with ‘The Magician’s Apprentice,’ part one of a double episode series opener, and it’s clear that this season, like the last, is going to be pure Moffat. The showrunner is...
“Straight Outta Compton” explodes with a blank screen, helicopter blades and media chatter. We could be starting another zombie apocalypse or alternatively listening to a multi-layered, cinematic...
