Television

5 Best Bets on TV This Week: 'The Big C' Prepares For the End, 'The Undocumented' Airs on PBS

Sure, Sunday tends to be overcrowded with high-end TV, including "Mad Men," "Veep," "The Borgias," "Game of Thrones," "Nurse Jackie" and more, but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlights from the other six days of the week.

'Doing bad for the greater good': Kevin Spacey, Beau Willimon and Co. Look Back at 'House of Cards' Season One

Late last week at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, "House of Cards" showrunner Willimon and cast members Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright and more gathered for for a panel discussion about the origins of the Netflix series.

S&A 'Scandal' Recap - What The Huck? And Where's Our Season 3 Renewal?

How 'Game of Thrones' Traded Easy 'Warrior Princess' Empowerment for Something More Complex

In "And Now His Watch Is Ended," the latest episode of "Game of Thrones" (you might want to stop here if you've yet to see it), Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), the exiled royal who's been building up an army of soldiers and dragons in order to take back her place on the Iron Throne, sacked the c...

Take a Look at All Five of Our '20 Years of TV' Articles

Last week, Indiewire partnered with Sundance Channel and their new original drama "Rectify" to present "20 Years of TV," a series of five articles exploring the past 20 years of television and its effect on the current "Golden Age." Here's a look at and links to all five.

5 Best Bets on TV This Week: Sundance Channel's New Death Row Drama and LCD Soundsystem's Farewell Concert Doc

Sure, Sunday tends to be overcrowded with high-end TV, including "Mad Men," "Veep," "The Borgias," "Game of Thrones," "Nurse Jackie" and more, but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlights from the other six days of the week.

20 Years of TV: How Television Has Caught Up to Film In Terms of Quality and Ambition

Two decades ago, Jeff Goldblum's character in "Jurassic Park" gave new life to Thomas Kuhn's philosophical writings on what he called "paradigm shifts" -- changes so revolutionary that afterward, assumptions about the physical world are different. And it's safe to say that, in terms of culture, the ...

20 Years of TV: How Cable Opened Up the Television Landscape to a Chorus of New Voices

Funny, cable television didn't look like a media juggernaut when it started out. First commercially available in the U.S. in the early '70s, regulatory complications, cost and infrastructure slowed its cultural impact. It also faced the now-antique notion of "Must-See TV" -- the idea that you'd sett...

Flashback To 1997 - Remember Arsenio Hall's Short-Lived Sitcom Co-Starring Vivica Fox?

I'm finally getting around to reading Nicole Laporte's tome, The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks. I bought it in 2011 when it was published, but just never go around to reading it until now.