Every network and streamer has been searching for a series that can become the next piece of monoculture, but so far nothing has captured the world's attention like the fight for the Iron Throne.
From "I Love Lucy" to "The Big Bang Theory," here are the most-viewed TV shows for the past 70 years.
Showtime's late-night lords Desus & The Kid Mero chop it up about their interview style, share their thoughts on the Knicks and much more.
From the carmakers that say they're "here for you" to the pizza chains that swear they're clean now, TV commercials have become awkward for everyone.
What is dead may never die, though some who have died are better than others. Let's separate the good (Tywin Lannister) from the bad (Olly) and the totally useless (sorry, Sand Snakes).
A look at Kyle MacLachlan's breathtaking acting process from behind the camera.
Reality TV now feels like a constant reminder of life pre- and post-pandemic.
One America News is the straight truth for Trump fans and completely surreal for everyone else.
A roundup of the best sketches of the 45th season of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" featuring Eddie Murphy, John Mulaney, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Harry Styles and more.
Animators are not just behind-the-scenes workers, they enact, visualize and direct the characters we see on screen.
This is the only "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" reboot we'd ever watch.
HBO released the full version of "L to the OG" and it's glorious.
Peak TV hasn't slowed down (yet).
The cast of "Community" did a table read of the episode "Cooperative Polygraphy" over Zoom and hilarity ensued as Pedro Pascal could not read one line in particular without cracking up.
Will "Space Force" be good? That's still up in the air (up in space?), but one thing is for certain: the cast is out of this world. "Space Force" hits Netflix on May 29th.
If you've ever traveled abroad in Russia and spotted Супер Макс (Super Max) on TV, you might have thought it looked familiar…a little too familiar.
A Zoom meeting led by Michael Scott would, understandably, be a bit of a disaster.
Audiences are more splintered than ever, and even the most popular television series can't seem to generate the same level of discussion as "Thrones." But there's reason to think the TV monoculture isn't gone forever.
"The Last Dance" was entertaining and gave us a glimpse inside Michael Jordan and the 1998 Chicago Bulls. But when it came to Jerry Krause, the documentary could be downright cruel.
It was only a matter of time before reality-TV producers began disguising their meddlesome ways with the surveillance tools we use in everyday life. Right on cue this year, Netflix has debuted "The Circle" and "Too Hot To Handle."
The new kings of late night are providing some much needed comic relief from the epicenter of the crisis.
John Krasinski was on Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey's podcast "Office Ladies" to talk about pivotal Jim and Pam moments.
Soap operas have this soft, dreamy look that sticks out like a sore thumb on television.
The sports documentary event of the year plots the tale of Michael Jordan's rise alongside hip-hop's. It also invokes feelings from the past at a time when we need them the most.
There's something familiar with all of these hit reality television programs.
You might want to see how a show fares over various seasons before investing your time into it. A developer named Benjamin Mizrahi came up with a neat solution. He made a web app that rates episodes across all seasons.
You can't talk about America without talking about television; you can't talk about television without talking about reality TV; and you can't talk about reality TV without talking about "Survivor."
The man behind Frank Costanza died on Monday morning at the age of 92. In his honor, we recount his greatest performances as the hollering, red-faced, Steinbrenner-hating father.
TV trays — and eating dinner in front of the TV — have gone out of fashion, but maybe they should've stuck around.
If you're a fan of "The Office," you can rewatch the entire series right now… as it might have played out in a world with Slack. That is, as long as people don't ruin it the way people tend to do.
You don't win six rings in eight years without pissing off a lot of friends and teammates.
In the latest episode of John Krasinski's "Some Good News" show, the cast of "The Office" reunited to surprise a couple whose marriage proposal mirrored Jim and Pam's in "The Office."
Actor and comedian Jerry Stiller passed away recently at the age of 92, and this old blooper clip of a "Seinfeld" episode really shows how much of a comedic talent Stiller was.
Chloe Fineman (Spears, Waller-Bridge) and Melissa Villaseñor (Mulaney) have some tips for surviving quarantine life.
As the show wraps up its 40th season and nears its 20th anniversary, here are the defining moments that made it great.
Unlike its previous at-home episodes, last night's show embraced the existential crisis of the moment.
Rewatching the 24-season series shows how Tyra Banks was the villain of "America's Next Top Model" all along.
How many steps does it take to run a curl route? Are teenage kickers suddenly infallible? And what else can we learn from the CW series now streaming on Netflix?
"Sometimes the way some of our stuff comes off isn't really about what's on the page. It's what happens in rehearsal or when we're shooting it."
Nearly five years since its series finale, the prestige TV drama has seen an uptick in viewers—old and new—since quarantine began in March. It might sound weird, but there are several reasons.
It references some of the most terrible things we've experienced this year: an epidemic and, also, improbably, bees.
Yes, it was done intentionally.
We're glad that there's more diverse representation on TV, but it would have been even better if there was more research to back it up.
"Damn, those eight years weren't for nothing," the elder Obama daughter says in the Netflix documentary.
Ryan Murphy's latest show throws out an old lie and gives us a new one.
Whatever I am about to say about Jerry Seinfeld's new special, Seinfeld has already preempted.
Dee Bradley Baker, voice of the giant talking rock-god Olmec from "Legends of the Hidden Temple," Daffy Duck in "Space Jam" and hundreds of other TV and movies, can mimic any animal with his phenomenal voice.
The cast of this show is truly incredible (John Malkovich! Lisa Kudrow! Jane Lynch!) and we cannot wait. "Space Force" comes to Netflix on May 29.
To try to get one's girlfriend to sign off on a wild weekend in Vegas with friends, you have to come up with a really good proposal.
TV sadcoms probe life's bleak truths more pointedly than many dramas do.
Baskin doesn't seem too put off by the whole thing, telling US Magazine that "it gave us a very welcome good laugh."
Besides Red Shoe Diaries there were few shows in the '90s as unabashedly sexual as Xena.
They spent silly amounts of money on content and then seemed to focus the "technology" money on a completely pointless and weird setup where the orientation of your devices changes what you see.
"Love Is Blind," "The Circle," and "Too Hot to Handle" exist in worlds where face-to-face interactions are limited and social skills are beginning to regress, which feels all too real in 2020. Let's dive in.
Monsters meet 1950s Jim Crow America? Count us in. "Lovecraft Country" hits HBO Max in August.
The Netflix reality show can teach you to master philosophical dinner chats, awkward hand-holding and, most importantly, the art of staying home all day. Here are 12 key lessons.
Will Smith reunited with his "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" co-stars Tatyana Ali, Alfonso Ribeiro, Daphne Maxwell Reid, Karyn Parsons, Joseph Marcell and DJ Jazzy Jeff on the season finale of his Snapchat show "Will From Home," and shared an emotional moment.
In a time when comedy is usually infused with drama or sadness ("Fleabag," "Bojack Horseman," "Flowers"), here is a shortform sketch show that revels in its simple and glorious silliness, toilet humor and all.
The mockumentary boom of the early aughts — highlighted by "The Office" — ran parallel to the reality TV boom. Now, as reality TV has become entrenched, its parodic cousin has waned in popularity.
In the late '90s and early '00s, the MTV reality show was so prevalent that countless other shows and movies — from "Reality Bites" to "Chappelle's Show" to "Scrubs" — used it as a reference point.
