Television

Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally once again play Jack McFarland and Karen Walker in NBC's Will & Grace.

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'Will & Grace' Is Back, But Will Its Viewers Be?

9:54am September 28, 2017

by Linda Holmes

NBC is bringing back Will & Grace for at least two revival seasons, more than 10 years after it went off the air the first time. But the show has some work to do to get its viewers back.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Candy, a prostitute who hopes to get out of the trade by learning to make porn films, on the HBO series The Deuce.

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'Deuce' Creators Capture The Birth Of America's Billion-Dollar Porn Industry

5:18pm September 27, 2017

by Terry Gross

David Simon and George Pelecanos' new show depicts the growth of porn from illegal enterprise to full-fledged industry. Since then, Simon says, "the 'pornographication' of America has been profound."

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Sterling K. Brown as Randall, still being the best thing about the season premiere of This Is Us.

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Death Watch: 'This Is Us' Kicks Off Its Second Season, Teary As Ever

9:19am September 27, 2017

by Linda Holmes

NBC's surprise hit of last fall, the drama This Is Us, began its second season with an episode that stayed mostly in the here and now before dipping dramatically back to the past.

'Will & Grace' Returns To TV

4:58am September 27, 2017

by Linda Holmes

Will & Grace was groundbreaking television when the show first hit prime time back in 1998. Now NBC has brought the gang back for a series reboot that starts Thursday night.

Miles Gaston Villanueva as Lyle Menendez and Gus Halper as Eric Menendez in Law & Order True Crime - The Menendez Murders.

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The 'Law & Order' Franchise Goes True-Crime With 'The Menendez Murders'

10:41am September 26, 2017

by Linda Holmes

Law & Order is a resilient franchise that's been on television in some form since 1990. Tuesday night, it makes a push into true crime, covering one of the most famous murder cases of the 1990s.

CBS' 'Star Trek: Discovery' Goes Boldly Where No Trek Show Has Gone Before

4:33pm September 25, 2017

by Eric Deggans

How does CBS's new Star Trek: Discovery stack up against all the TV series that have boldly gone before? NPR's Eric Deggans reviews the first new, original Star Trek series in a dozen years.

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TV Director Lesli Linka Glatter On Trusting Your Gut

6:01am September 25, 2017

by Eric Deggans

Director Lesli Linka Glatter is one of the rare TV directors who's worked in high-quality television for three decades. Her newest project is Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders.

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Not My Job: 'Empire' Creator Lee Daniels Gets Quizzed On Cookies

7:33am September 23, 2017

On the hit TV show, Daniels created one of the great characters of our time — the ambitious record company matriarch Cookie Lyon. So we'll see what he knows about actual cookies.

American soldiers advance through a rice paddy during the Vietnam War.

In 'Vietnam War,' Ken Burns Wrestles With The Conflict's Contradictions

4:54pm September 21, 2017

by Terry Gross

Burns says he and co-director Lynn Novick initially thought they understood the Vietnam War. But when they started putting together their new PBS series, they realized, "We knew nothing."

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Jimmy Kimmel, seen hosting the Academy Awards in February, has been thrown into political hot waters. His name has been invoked by a GOP senator looking to pass an Obamacare repeal and replace bill.

WATCH: Jimmy Kimmel Blasts GOP Health Bill, Says It Fails The 'Jimmy Kimmel Test'

1:19pm September 20, 2017

by Domenico Montanaro

After GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy invoked the late night host's name, Kimmel went after him and the Republican health care bill, pulling it apart point by point for an audience that might not normally care.