I first met Issa Rae in 2011 shortly after her web series, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, wrapped its first irreverent season. Though we’d never met, we laughed like old friends about everything from dating in L.A. to Idris Elba’s unstoppable swag. At the time, I didn’t know Rae was on the verge of stardom—I…
The public broadcasting network the BBC was ordered by the British government to publicly disclose the salaries of its top stars on Wednesday.
Oh gee. It appears that the ratings for Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly have plummeted even further this week, reaching a record low.
Pop icon, possessor of golden vocal cords, and Christmas enthusiast Mariah Carey is helming a drama series based on her rise to fame.
The Season 7 premiere of Game of Thrones was both more and less than we wanted, functioning mostly as an episodic prologue to the shitstorm that will presumably rain down on our dearly beloved characters later in the season. As a “where are they now,” it functioned fairly well, though, and especially interesting was…
After months and months of rumors, speculation, and flat out waiting, we finally know who is taking on the TARDIS as the thirteenth Doctor in season 11. Ladies and gents, say hello to your new Time Lord: Jodie Whittaker, the first woman in Doctor Who’s 54-year history to land the title role.
One of the highlights of The Defiant Ones—HBO’s four-part documentary about music magnate Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre, and the music and culture that launched their careers—is the trove of studio footage the filmmakers were able to access.
I’ve already said most of what I’d like to say about about Playing House, the USA show created by and starring Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair, but having just devoured Season 3, a new feeling came to me: a burning desire to shout out the talented cast of comedic actors these women have gathered to play their…
Actors Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park have reportedly quit the CBS show Hawaii Five-0, which they have starred in since 2010, after being unable to get the same pay as their white co-stars.
When Sense8, Netflix’s sci-fi drama created by Lana and Lilly Wachowski, was abruptly canceled earlier this month after just two seasons, there was a considerate amount of backlash. Now, the show will be returning with a surprise two-hour special.
If you don’t want to spoil the central mystery of Pretty Little Liars, please walk away from this blog post and return after you’ve watched all two hours of the series finale.
Pretty Little Liars, I. Marlene King’s moody, dark fever dream of a teen murder mystery, will air its final episode tonight. After seven long years, faithful viewers who’ve stuck with it through plot twists, lingering questions and infuriating red herrings will finally be rewarded with the answer they’ve been waiting…
There’s certainly a lot to love about the original 1986 TV show G.L.O.W.: big hair, plenty of glitter, and tons of expertly choreographed, theatrical ass-kicking. The professional women’s wrestling program titled Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling that ran for four seasons is a campy, vintage gem.
In The Handmaid’s Tale, women who can still have babies are used as a resource, vessels to keep the endeavor of splinter nation Gilead going. Sadly, the TV series based on Margaret Atwood’s speculative fiction novel does very much the same thing with the bodies of people of color.
The Keepers isn’t much of a true crime documentary, at least in the traditional sense of the genre. And that’s to its immense credit. Netflix’s seven-part docudrama flirts with the genre but resists its pitfalls; this series is no whodunit, no he-said-she-said narrative that concludes with neat resolution. Instead,…
Barb’s mucky demise on the first season of Stranger Things was, to say the least, a real bummer. In fact, some viewers were so distressed that they hoped—and in some cases convinced themselves—that she wasn’t really dead. Death, while seemingly pretty permanent ~IRL~, can sometimes be cheated in the sci-fi and fantasy…
At a screening this weekend for her new Netflix show GLOW at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, Texas, Alison Brie spoke about how the auditioning process for women is still as sexist as it was in the 1980s when the show takes place.
Lindsay Lohan hasn’t exactly been the most prolific actress in recent years, aside from a few guest spots on TV shows like 2 Broke Girls and a forthcoming movie in which she is a woman whose ancestors are wolves. But early this morning she announced she had a new role on the second season of the British television…
A hacking collective known as The Dark Overlord has been holding TV shows for ransom and threatening to leak them over the past few months.
When they leaked the fifth season of Orange Is the New Black, I thought to myself, “Well, at least this hacker has good taste.” And yet I spoke too soon! For what was next on the mischief maker’s checklist but ABC’s unaired, upcoming gameshow Steve Harvey’s Funderdome. Singling out Steve Harvey programming, of all…
