It’s crazy to think that we once lived in a time before television. People wanted to make shows, of course, but just didn’t know how. Who would star in them? Who would produce them?

“The good Dale is in the lodge, and he can’t leave.”

It’s been 25 years since Laura Palmer told Special Agent Dale Cooper that she’d see him again, and tonight we’ll expect her to make good on that promise. (Even if she doesn’t show up in this particular episode, just imagine Laura’s David Lynch, and we are all Special Agent Dale Cooper).

Over the past few weeks, television news has consisted primarily of stories about series cancellations or renewals, and pilot pickups or failures. The basis behind all these network decisions—as it is for most decisions in a capitalist society—is whether or not the series will provide a return on investment. Will…

In a profile of Jimmy Fallon published today in the New York Times, The Tonight Show host addresses why his comedy has been more apolitical than his peers Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers.

Italian director Paolo Sorrentino has announced that he is working on a new series tied to his series The Young Pope, which starred Jude Law as a maniacal new pope named Lenny Belardo.

Real Housewives of New York star and Skinnygirl Cocktails founder Bethenny Frankel announced Monday that she would appear on next season of the greatest show on television, Shark Tank. In a tweet, Frankel shared a photo of herself watermarked with the show’s iconic logo alongside the caption, “I guess I am a shark…

Back in the early ’90s, the ad wizards at NBC came up with a clever way of packaging their most popular Thursday night shows—as well as the shows they wanted to convince viewers would eventually be popular—called “Must See TV.” The name stuck around until the shows that helped defined it—like Seinfeld, Friends, Frasier…

Because of how insanely successful Bravo’s website has been (last month the site reached 13.5 million people), the channel has decided to add more digital series to its site after premiering its first web series Going Off the Menu, about foodies, last year.

Elisabeth Moss and Nicole Kidman continue to take over 2017, with Kidman right off Big Little Lies and debuting four new projects at Cannes and Moss starring in The Handmaid’s Tale. And now the universe has gifted us the trailer for the new season of the Jane Campion-directed crime drama Top of the Lake in which…

Scandal, currently in its sixth season, will end next year after it’s seventh season. The news is expected to be formally announced at ABC’s upcoming upfront presentation. The show recently marked its 100th episode.

Last season’s Orange Is the New Black had a storyline that addressed the epidemic of cops killing unarmed black people, and it looks like Season 5 will also take a page from reality: In the trailer for the new season, the ladies of Litchfield appear to be protesting their unsafe and inhumane living conditions. As…

For a show that’s a sort of telenovela that also features telenovelas—which means there’s a lot going on all the time—the writers of Jane the Virgin have done a remarkable job with pacing. That they’ve managed to keep their tone both light and touching, while hitting on a mix of current stories (the Women’s March,…

In a move that’s “incomprehensible” at best and “very, very bad” at worst, ABC is currently in talks to bring American Idol—the former jewel in Fox’s crown that ended its 14-year run last April due to low ratings—back from the dead. TMZ reports Tuesday that the show is “the hottest property out there” (out where?) and…

An ongoing negotiation between the Writers’ Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has been building for months, threatening all of us with reruns and shoe string late night TV productions. It looks like things may have been resolved, to the benefit of the viewing public.

May is here, which means we have almost exactly six months until Netflix releases the second season of Stranger Things on Halloween. And, according to the show’s stars, that second season is going to borrow heavily from a certain genre.

Where glimpses of Game of Thrones’s seventh season are concerned, HBO has been intensely stingy. To date we have one trailer devoid of any plot hints—and we also know that Ed Sheeran, rosy-cheeked purveyor of Nice Guy Rock, will make a cameo appearance. We’ve acquired a bit more information on that front: Sheeran’s…

The Handmaid’s Tale is one of the finest dystopian novels ever written, and it is, inescapably and fundamentally, about women’s oppression under an ultra-conservative regime. The much-anticipated Hulu series based on the book doesn’t shy away from the original subject matter; it couldn’t, really, and remain the …

Season 3 of Catastrophe tackles everything from job loss to infidelity, alcoholism to addiction recovery, and death—and it’s hysterically funny. The show’s appeal has always been about the humor in life’s, well, catastrophes and the latest season, which returns to Amazon on April 28, continues to explore the comedic…

Great news for fans of Dana Scully, Fox Mulder and their indefatigable search for the truth, which is certainly still around somewhere—there will be more X-Files coming our way.