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Mr. John Legend! Not just a silky-smooth crooner of the finest of piano-pop ballads and rap hooks anymore! Now he's out here making TV shows too. Why, just last night, HBO picked up a series coproduced by Legend and Tony Krantz, called Down Lo, for d...

Exactly one year ago Homeland aired its seventh episode. Titled "The Weekend," it marked the moment the freshman series went from good to great. It happens that way sometimes, in TV, when the panicked crush of production finally catches up to the pro...

Stephen King has had so many of his books and series turned into movies and TV shows that the "media based on Stephen King works" Wikipedia page is actually as long if not longer than the "Muggsy Bogues" Wikipedia page. (That's not just a random comp...

While Girls has dominated the blog cycle with forcefully divided opinions about its particular take on the modern youth experience, HBO's other freshman comedy series Veep has quietly become a mandatory part of jam-packed Sunday-night television view...

When Scream 4 opened last spring, it was less a film than a referendum ... and audiences voted no. The film grossed just $40 million, seemingly dooming the franchise. Fortunately for Ghostface and Sydney and Gale and Dewey and whoever else survived S...

This should heal some wounds for a nation of aggrieved, turned-away television writers: Even Jonathan Franzen can't get on the air. Against all outward signs of momentum, HBO has decided not to put in a series order for The Corrections, the adaptatio...

T.A. "Amarillo Slim" Preston Jr. (1928–2012).

Sunday-night television really put my emotions through the washing machine this week. While Pete Campbell was measuring himself for stereo coffins on Mad Men, Kenny Powers went out on a high/low note in the best series finale since The Sopranos left ...

Revisiting one of the most polarizing series finales in TV history.

One of the greatest World Series games ever played was one of the worst I'd ever seen. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, and the St. Louis Cardinals down two runs, I turned the television off, more or less in disgust. I didn't want to watch t...

This article almost didn't happen. When the idea of writing about one of my favorite childhood TV programs, MTV's Rock N' Jock series, popped into my head, I assumed it would be something I could crank out in one caffeine-induced evening. Around 5...

Jay Caspian Kang: Can we collectively agree to never, ever, ever desecrate the national anthem in the name of promoting bad television? I understand that Zooey Deschanel is currently starring in a show on Fox and that Fox is carrying the World Series...

With its eighth-season premiere on Monday, House became the fifth hit series this fall to return minus a major character. Though personnel changes happen all the time in TV, they can be treacherous. How did this year's affected shows — includin...

Our bro from Hipster Runoff talks about the lessons he learned from TV's most lesson-learningest show.