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Photo Julia Louis-Dreyfus, left, and Anna Chlumsky in “Veep.” Credit Prashant Gupta/HBO ‘Veep’ Season 5, Episode 9: ‘Kissing Your Sister’ A year ago, “Veep” shook up its formula with “Testimony,” an episode which wrapped up Season 4’s big lobbying/hacking story line by having nearly all the major characters explain themselves in front of Congress, one…
Since the departure of Jon Stewart from The Daily Show last August, the oft-repeated question has been who would step into his shoes and assume the role of America’s late-night conscience. The incredible evolution of Stewart from journeyman stand-up comedian to his generation’s Walter Cronkite was one Stewart himself mocked because he hosted, as he…
For years, it was enough for the Sunday political talk shows to own the conversation for a single day on television. But if they want to reach young people who are getting their news on Facebook, they have to own social media around the clock, too. NBC’s “Meet the Press” realized this two years ago when it…
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In the 2011 book I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, Tom Freston recalls the origin of the first modern reality TV show. “People asked me, ‘How did you come up with The Real World? That is genius.’ It was just because we didn’t have any money.” Related Story The Fierceness of ‘Femme,…
Uncanny Silicon Valley The absolutely definitive, supremely authoritative, person-to-person mapping of “Silicon Valley” characters to real tech world personalities. When we say that a television show is “realistic,” what do we mean? Must the drug corners on The Wire resemble the streets of Baltimore? Do the mimetic set pieces on Mad Men engender more cinéma…
Getty Image Stephen Colbert is having a bad week. I think it’s fair to say this is one of the worst weeks we’ve seen a late night talk show host have since the Conan O’Brien The Tonight Show fiasco in 2010. This is not to say things are just going swimmingly everywhere else – Trevor…
There’s been a lot of concern lately about violence coming from Donald Trump protestors, but Bruce Campbell is pouring cold water on the mogul’s supporters for using a picture from his TV show as Twitter propaganda. The presumptive nominee recently held an event in San Jose, California, where things took a nasty turn as protestors…
I’m not going to get too far into the weeds of this thing, but here’s the basic deets: out of the current $420 million credit for film and TV productions in New York State, the amendment would allot less than 1 percent ($5 million) to be used as a credit for productions that hire qualified…
Start Article Post Content Hollywood is no stranger to stereotype casting. “Scandal’s” Kerry Washington and “Master of None” star and executive producer Aziz Ansari have come face to face with this reality on multiple occasions throughout their careers. The actors swapped nightmare stories during a sit-down for Variety‘s fourth season of “Actors on Actors.” “Before ‘Scandal,’ I was actually…