Television

November 7, 2016

Night Out: Grandma, Grandson … Colleagues

Night Out By KATHERINE ROSMAN If you have not, over the course of the last six decades, tuned in to various public television stations to watch […]
October 27, 2016

Fans Flock to Town That Inspired ‘Gilmore Girls’

WASHINGTON, Conn. — In 1999, a television writer named Amy Sherman-Palladino vacationed at the Mayflower Grace, a five-star inn built high on a hill here. In […]
October 8, 2016

Future Tense: Awkward Sex, Onscreen and Off

Future Tense By TEDDY WAYNE Perhaps you’ve seen the new TV series whose pilot episode begins this way: A man and a woman are having sex, […]
October 6, 2016

Party Coverage: Scene City: Sarah Jessica Parker, Molly Shannon and Jerry Seinfeld at HBO’s Premiere of ‘Divorce’

Party Coverage: Scene City By ALEX WILLIAMS There was Sarah Jessica Parker (“Sex and the City”) huddling with Matthew Broderick (“Election”), as guests tucked into plates […]
October 5, 2016

Cultural Studies: The Rise of the ‘Bromosexual’ Friendship

A recent ad for the Bravo TV show “Shahs of Sunset” finds two of its male stars lazing on lounge chairs at the beach. Amid a […]
September 10, 2016

Future Tense: The Trauma of Violent News on the Internet

Future Tense By TEDDY WAYNE “The world has always been messy,” President Obama said in 2014 after a string of doom-and-gloom news events. “In part, we’re […]
August 26, 2016

Scene Stealers: From Pro Football to Hollywood, Trevor Pryce’s Plan B

Scene Stealers By BROOKS BARNES LOS ANGELES — When Trevor Pryce retired as a pro football player in 2011, it would have been very easy for […]
August 13, 2016

A ‘Sex and the City’ for African Viewers

Let’s get this out of the way up front: “An African City,” the steamy Ghanaian web series about five young women looking for love in Accra, […]
April 30, 2016

Up Next: A Pop Life After ‘The Walking Dead’

April 29, 2016 By STACEY ANDERSON Name Emily Kinney Age 30 Hometown North Bend, Neb. Now Lives In a small one-bedroom apartment near Lincoln Center, and […]
April 26, 2016

‘Real Housewives’ Invited Me In. How Could I Say No?

By KATIE ROGERS April 26, 2016 On a cold April morning in Manhattan, Ramona Singer, a cast member of “The Real Housewives of New York City,” is teetering […]