Friday, Aug. 14, 2015

The power of writer David Simon's work has drawn remarkable actors to TV dramas including "The Wire" and "Treme."

The latest evidence is "Show Me a Hero," HBO's six-episode miniseries based on a bitter 1980s battle over public housing in Yonkers, New...

Thursday, Jul. 30, 2015

Of the seven primetime Emmy nominations bestowed upon Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck--including the first four of his career, for Outstanding Directing, Outstanding Writing, Outstanding Picture...

Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2015

Last month Bessie premiered on HBO and  won the Critics Choice TV Award For Best Movie. The biopic stars Queen Latifah as iconic blues singer Bessie Smith, and Oscar winner Mo’Nique as her mentor, Ma Rainey. Latifah and Mo’Nique earned...

Thursday, Jun. 18, 2015

"True Detective" could drive you to drink. Its second season (Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT on HBO) arrives under cover of such darkness and psychic pain it seems to beg its audience to keep a bottle close by in a display of unity with its hard-drinking protagonists....

Tuesday, Jun. 16, 2015

The shock-filled season finale of "Game of Thrones" on HBO reigned as television's most-watched drama during a week when many eyes were watching the gripping NBA Finals between the Warriors and Cavaliers.

The Nielsen company said 8.1 million people...

Monday, Jun. 1, 2015

Network television, once wedded to a September-to-May schedule, saw the error of its ways as cable and online competitors demonstrated a brazen disregard for tradition.

So summer has evolved from a rerun graveyard to the home of lively offerings,...

Sunday, May. 31, 2015

The Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) tonight announced the winners of the Critics’ Choice Television Awards.  Eighteen of the best series in television were honored at the Beverly Hilton Hotel at a star-studded gala awards show, which was...

Thursday, May. 28, 2015

HBO's "Nightingale" is a small film with an indelibly big performance by David Oyelowo, who plays an emotionally damaged man losing himself further after a spasm of off-camera violence.

The demands of the one-character drama gave him pause, the...

Wednesday, May. 6, 2015

The Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) has announced nominations for the 5th annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards, which will be broadcast live on A&E from the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, May 31, 2015 (8pm ET/5pm PT), with a one-hour...

Friday, Apr. 17, 2015

Nick Broomfield is an accomplished documentarian, among his recent plaudits being an International Documentary Association Award nomination last October for Tales of the Grim Sleeper, which is slated to debut Monday, April 27, on HBO. An official...

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