Television

Nicola Walker as DCI Cassie Stuart in Unforgotten.

Arts

'Unforgotten' Is The Detective Show You Didn't Know You Needed

5:00am April 07, 2018

by Linda Holmes

Unforgotten, a new series on PBS that comes from the UK, is a satisfying mystery about secrets. And while it has some things in common with American prestige television, it also stands alone.

Al Pacino plays Penn State football legend Joe Paterno and Kathy Baker plays his wife, Sue, in the HBO movie Paterno.

Arts

'Paterno' And 'Killing Eve' Bring Complexity And Intrigue To Cable

4:20pm April 06, 2018

by David Bianculli

Critic David Bianculli highlights two new TV dramas: an HBO film starring Al Pacino as Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, and an eight-part BBC America series about a sociopathic killer.

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Dave East serves as contemporary counterpoint to his mentor Nas in an episode of Rapture.

Netflix Banks On Hip-Hop's Mass Appeal With 'Rapture'

2:18pm April 06, 2018

by Rodney Carmichael

The streaming giant hooks up with another veteran hip-hop journalist in Sacha Jenkins to add to its expanding roster of rap-related explorations.

Arts

Perfectly Preserved And Wallpapered With Nostalgia, 'Trading Spaces' Returns

9:18am April 06, 2018

by Linda Holmes

TLC's room-renovation show returns this weekend, almost unchanged after a decade off the air.

Donald Trump Names "Fox And Friends" As One Of His Favorite Broadcasts

Politics & Government

When The White House Is Watching

4:32pm April 05, 2018

President Trump's has made no secret that he has a favorite news network.

Arts

Post 'Downton Abbey,' Dan Stevens Embraces His Role As A Mutant On 'Legion'

1:39pm April 05, 2018

by Dave Davies

Stevens, who played Matthew Crawley on Downton Abbey, now plays a young man who's grown up thinking he has schizophrenia on Legion, an FX drama that's a spin-off of the Marvel Comics X-Men series.

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Books

Tyra Banks Takes Her Mama's Advice, Turns It Into A Book

4:37pm April 04, 2018

This is one fierce family.

Warm Relations With Trump Appear To Benefit Sinclair Broadcasting

9:12am April 03, 2018

by David Folkenflik

Sinclair owns more TV stations than any other company in the country. Critics say the company favors President Trump and that in exchange, the FCC has eased restrictions on its efforts at expansion.

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Oustanding in his Field: Dan Stevens is David Haller in FX's Legion.

Arts

'Legion,' Season 2: Welcome Back To The Weirdest Corner Of The Marvel Universe

5:01am April 03, 2018

by Glen Weldon

Showrunner Noah Hawley's defiantly trippy and visually stunning not-quite-a-superhero series returns to FX for a second season. Critic Glen Weldon says there's real substance beneath all that style.

Arts

Steven Bochco, Groundbreaking TV Producer, Dies at 74

4:29pm April 02, 2018

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to David Nevins about how producer Steven Bochco helped form the structure for many modern TV dramas. Bochco died Sunday at 74. Bochco introduced the private lives of police officers and the telling of multiple stories in each episode.