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Posted Saturday 12/15/18 at 12:22AM EST
How TV's blockbuster special effects have evolved to become "movie good"
"Today, every effects-driven series expects its monsters and spaceships and dragons to look like ones you’d see on the big...
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Posted Saturday 12/15/18 at 12:22AM EST
Celebrities pick their favorite TV shows of 2018
James Van Der Beek loved Atlanta and Ultimate Beastmaster, while Kathy Griffin's favorite show of 2018 was 90 Day Fiancé.
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Posted Thursday 12/13/18 at 1:17PM EST
FX: Streaming shows now outnumber broadcast shows and basic cable shows
FX's annual Peak TV report found there were 495 scripted original series in 2018: 160 streaming shows, 146 broadcast shows...
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Posted Tuesday 12/11/18 at 10:34AM EST
A limited series based on Audrey Hepburn's life is in the works
The iconic actress' second son, Luca Dotti, is teaming with Italian journalist and writer Luigi Spinola on the potential English-language...
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"Blank Check TV": Exorbitant spending on TV shows was the worst trend of 2018
From Amazon's Jack Ryan to Matthew Weiner's "expensive mediocrity" The Romanoffs, "2018 was the year when big money became a...
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Posted Friday 12/07/18 at 1:25PM EST
Broadcast TV is living in a "golden age" of long-running series: 18 network shows have been on for at least a decade
"Four of those 18 decade-plus series are in at least their 20th year, and at the extreme end of the...
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Posted Wednesday 12/05/18 at 10:56PM EST
As viewers are deluged with shows in the Peak TV era, TV critics must serve as curators
"People don't watch TV or even read about it in the same way they used to, so catering to an...
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Posted Saturday 11/17/18 at 6:41AM EST
Why do shows like Criminal Minds and Mindhunter exist when criminal profiling doesn’t appear to work at all?
"The research literature is genuinely strange," says Dylan Matthews.
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Posted Tuesday 11/13/18 at 10:47PM EST
Black Hammer comic book series to be adapted for TV and film
Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston's acclaimed comic book series is being developed into what its publisher describes as “a multiplatform,...
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Posted Friday 11/09/18 at 10:34PM EST
Will Homecoming popularize the the 30-minute drama?
"With today’s expansive TV drama installments typically running an hour (or more), each episode of Homecoming felt like a gift...
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Posted Friday 11/09/18 at 10:34PM EST
More than 7,000 British people still watch black-and-white TV
The figure was released by Britain's TV Licensing bureau, which found that there were still 1,768 black-and-white TV sets in...
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Posted Friday 11/02/18 at 10:48PM EDT
Is Peak TV making the TV stuntperson an even more dangerous profession?
Following the death of The Walking Dead stuntman John Bernecker in July and the serious injury to MacGyver stuntman Justin...
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Posted Friday 11/02/18 at 10:48PM EDT
Why aren't there more shows designed to put you to sleep?
"It hasn’t been that long that we’ve had devices to crawl into bed with, and it’s been even less time...
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Steve McQueen slams the current state of TV: "There’s more of it, but less quality"
“I’m not so keen on TV.
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Posted Saturday 10/20/18 at 2:43AM EDT
Streaming TV has opening weekends, too -- which Netflix has dominated
"Streaming television’s sheer density has created a sort of small-screen parallel to the film industry concept of opening-weekend box office,"...