'Bates Motel' Is One Seriously Weird Show
The third episode of A&E's new thriller series Bates Motel aired last night and, man, is that show weird. A less affected Twin Peaks? An Oregon-based, incest-twinged Stephen King story?
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Summer is great, but one common complaint about the season is that nothing's on TV. But these days it is nevertheless chock-full of good stuff to watch. So draw the shades, turn on the air conditioning, and let's take a look at what you can look forward to.
The third episode of A&E's new thriller series Bates Motel aired last night and, man, is that show weird. A less affected Twin Peaks? An Oregon-based, incest-twinged Stephen King story?
What do Vladimir Putin, Lorne Michaels, Tibetan nomads, Dr. Who, a Japanese children's show, and Lena Dunham all have in common? They all caught the eye — as subject, storyteller, or both — of this year's Peabody Awards committee. Here's how to enjoy each, in just one click.
Existentialism, the Syrian Crisis, and volatility of the stock market—that's what the site's debut web series is tackling and, at the same time, is proving that the people behind a site that revels in memes like Socially Awkward Penguin and Actual Advice Mallard, are actually pretty smart and entertaining when they want to be.
Instead of paying cable-TV providers for a bundle of channels that nobody watches, Verizon wants to reward content owners for the viewers who tune in to each individual station, a plan that should lower costs — yay! — but that the Time Warners and Viacoms of the market aren't likely to adopt.
The New York Times has a chilling article today about the strangely renewed success of ABC's romance nightmare The Bachelor. After a few seasons of fading ratings, the fiance competition show has surged back, the current season (which ends tonight) posting seven percent growth in the all-important 18-49-year-old demographic over last year.
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We've sifted through all the 2013 television pilots to highlight the potential hits, the constantly recurring trends, and the ideas that are so crazy they just might work... but probably won't.
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Once Upon a Time has done well-enough, Fringe hobbled along as long as it could, and Fox's Awake made it to a second season, but so many others — Alcatraz, Do No Harm, Life On Mars — have tanked. Network television currently has a genre problem.
Discovered: the easily scared are more conservative by nature and politics; watching lots of TV linked to lower sperm count; a really big new prime number; Arctic squirrels that hibernate at sub-zero temperatures.
If art's great power is making the person who interacts with that art feel something, you could argue that HBO's Girls is highly successful television. But if a TV show consistently makes a watcher feel bad, can it be good?
Last night I was faced with a terrible dilemma. There I was, safely inside after braving the miserable cold, ready to sit down on the sofa and settle into a cozy night of TV-watching. But then, to my horror, I realized something awful: There was nothing on.
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As happens every so often, this Sunday is a night when many important shows are airing or premiering at the same time. So which should you watch? What will best suit your tastes? Here, let us tell you.
More networks will reveal new details throughout the week at the Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour, but here's what we've learned so far, from Steve Carrell's return to Donald Trump's real reality-show future.
Now that New Year's has come and gone, we can finally say goodbye to television's holiday hiatus and start watching some new stuff again. So we've put together this quick guide highlighting the best of what will be on.
Tiny independent television station KDOC in Orange County is hoping the worst part of the year came at the beginning, after its first-ever live New Year's Eve broadcast, First Night 2013 hosted by Jamie Kennedy, turned into an epic disaster.
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If you don't feel like watching football, tune in to these classic shows. They'll help you get through the day, hour by looming hour.
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Thirteen years of history might not have happened, because of jerks, the host revealed at a recent fundraiser.
From the youngs of Brooklyn to old-timey Jersey, the White Walkers to the regular old zombie walkers, here's our list of the 10 best television shows of the year ... and two that were not so much.
What are we really doing when we're sitting in front of the TV laughing at yet another smackdown between the Real Housewives of Wherever? Sometimes it's simple, sometimes it's more complicated, and the truth of the matter is, it probably varies for each of us. We look at 10 shows.
Google has stepped into the future of television with its new voice recognition feature, a seemingly gimmicky addition, which Google manages to make look pretty useful.
Today in show business news: America's favorite cheese monger moves to TV, Charlie Sheen is going to be an even richer man, and SNL announces some upcoming guests.
Word comes today that NBC has canceled its first-year veterinary sitcom Monkey Hospital Ape ER Dr. Doolittle's Wonderful, Blunderful ICU Animal Practice after weeks of poor ratings. What other shows are in danger? Let's take a look.
Alas, Made in Jersey, we hardly knew ye.
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Last night was the most intense night of television so far this season—not necessarily because of the nature of the content, but because there was simply so much of it. Here's how we strategized for the big Sunday night.
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If there is a magic to creating a successful TV show, NPR claims to have sort of maybe found it. Linda Holmes writes, as inspired by the premieres of two of the new fall shows tonight—Mob Doctor and Revolution—that just 25 words hold the key to all the TV we will see in the next 10 years.
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Now that we're almost in the middle of September, it's time for regular-season television shows to come back into our lives. So let's take a look at what's coming up and begin preparing our DVRs for all the hard work they'll soon be doing.
You, American Downton Abbey fan have a dilemma: Do we seek out bootlegs and torrents and all that illegal dirty business to watch the show in real-time with the Brits and thus (hopefully) when it airs next week avoid any spoilers, or do we patriotically wait to watch with the rest of our countrymen in January?
Yesterday brought us a rumor (via The New York Post) that Beverly Hills 90210's Kelly and Dylan, or Jennie Garth and Luke Perry, might actually be an item IRL. We can dream! While we're dreaming, we're going to dream big. Here are the other TV couples we want to see to forever and ever, onscreen or off.
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Avert your eyes. The oft-offended Parents Television Council has found something a little less than family friendly when comparing the 2010-2011 television season to this one: 407 percent more naked people.
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In an attempt to make the Internet more available to people in rural areas, Dish is working on expanding its Broadband Satellite services to the whole of America, a source told The Wall Street Journal's William Launder and Shalini Ramachandran, but the cost may still pose a barrier to entry for many.
Today we get a tantalizing glimpse of season three of Downton Abbey.
Let's set aside our snark and enjoy the time we have with the Olympics while we still can. We've only got until Sunday.
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Nathan Adrian, 23, the U.S. swimmer who won the 100-meter freestyle Wednesday and set a world record, is the team's breakout star. We think he should get more attention.
Frank Pierson, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Dog Day Afternoon and Cool Hand Luke, has died at the age of 87, after a career that saw him working in television on shows like Mad Men and The Good Wife right up to the end of his life.
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How should we be watching TV? Well, according to Slate's Jim Pagels, you should not be watching big heaping marathon hunks of it because that ruins the purity of the show or something.
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