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- Justified's Margo Martindale Didn't Know Her Character's Fate Until She Got the Script (Exclusive)
"It was the best investment I ever made." The "it" that Margo Martindale speaks of is the role in Justified that would win her an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2011: Mags Bennett, the diabolical matriarch of a Kentucky...
March 14, 2025
- Realscreen to Honor the Television Academy's Cris Abrego and Dawn Porter
Two distinguished Television Academy figures will be honored at this year’s Realscreen Awards. Television Academy chair Cris Abrego will be inducted into the Realscreen Summit’s Hall of Fame at the Realscreen Awards, taking place February 4, in Miami...
February 4, 2025
- Michael McKean Almost Played Saul Goodman?!
"Slippin' Jimmy with a law degree is like a chimp with a machine gun." Those devastating (but somewhat tragically prophetic) words leveled at the morally-flexible attorney James McGill (Emmy-nominated Bob Odenkirk ) by his brother, the successful-but...
February 4, 2025
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Editorial Vice President, Content & Editor-in-Chief: Juan Morales Managing Editor: Maura Weber Senior Editor -- Features: Sarah Hirsch Senior Editor -- Departments: Stephan Horbelt Print & Digital Content Editor -- Departments: Phil Pirrello Editoria...
January 22, 2025
- 2024 Holiday Gift Guide
This time of year often comes with a variety of gift giving options for fans of television, especially in the niche realm of behind-the-scenes tomes regarding landmark or popular television and the extensive roster of creatives responsible for their...
December 10, 2024
- From The Simpsons to Gilmore Girls: 12 Memorable Thanksgiving Episodes to Watch
Another year, another Thanksgiving to spend valuable couch time watching some essential television episodes that celebrate the holiday. Thanksgiving-themed episodes of TV have been a cornerstone of the medium (across multiple genres) for decades. Fro...
November 22, 2024
- Yellowstone: By the Numbers
The Duttons are (finally) back. Yellowstone 's fifth and final season is coming November 10. With the landmark Paramount Network show finally set to conclude, the Television Academy has compiled some of the numbers generated by the series and its pro...
November 4, 2024
- Industry's Ken Leung Looks Back on Lost and Working with Tom Cruise (Exclusive)
"We just kind of got thrust into it." That was the reality Industry star Ken Leung faced when he joined ABC's Lost in its fourth season, where the popular sci-fi drama about plane crash survivors struggling to make do on their mysterious (and Smoke M...
November 4, 2024
- 17 Terrifying TV Episodes You Should Watch This Halloween
Every Halloween, the candy comes out and the scary movies get put on. But those looking for frights come All Hallow's Eve can also find them in various TV boxsets or across streaming service subscriptions. From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The X-Files...
October 30, 2024
- How Lost's "Walkabout" Forever Changed the Show (Exclusive)
If Lost 's pilot brought audiences to the edge of their seats, then "Walkabout" kept them there. The first season's fourth episode — which aired 20 years ago on October 13, 2004 — is a riveting hour that unpacks John Locke's (Emmy-winner Terry O'Quin...
October 23, 2024