Television

Great Performances series executive producer David Horn, Tony Award-winning actor Daveed Diggs and filmmaker Alex Horwitz at the 2016 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour.

Arts

Upcoming PBS 'Hamilton' Documentary Puts Us In the Room Where It Happens

7:00am July 29, 2016

by Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes' latest dispatch from the Television Critics Association meeting focuses on Hamilton's America, which combines history, performance and the making of the Broadway smash.

MTV's Rewinding The '90s With A New Channel

5:52am July 29, 2016

The '90s are back! Pokémon has taken over the world again. A Clinton is running for president. And now, MTV is reviving '90s favorites like Beavis and Butt-head on a new channel, MTV Classic.

Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhand) and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown).

Arts

Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Stranger Things' And Onscreen Weddings

5:00am July 29, 2016

by Stephen Thompson

The panel tackles the Netflix horror thriller Stranger Things before discussing favorite weddings from movies and TV. Then, as always, it's on to What's Making Us Happy this week.

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Skylan Brooks, Justice Smith, Tremaine Brown Jr., Shameik Moore, and Jaden Smith in The Get Down.

Arts

'It's Not My Story': Baz Luhrmann On Collaborating To Make 'The Get Down'

12:00pm July 28, 2016

by Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes offers another update from the Television Critics Association meeting, this time on Luhrmann's hip-hop Netflix series The Get Down.

Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) and Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham).

Arts

Stars Hollow Intel: A Few New Beans Are Spilled On The 'Gilmore Girls' Return

10:20am July 28, 2016

by Linda Holmes

From the Television Critics Association meeting in Los Angeles, Linda Holmes reports on Netflix's upcoming Gilmore Girls reunion.

Economy

When A Game Show Contestant Almost Won Too Much Money

6:44am July 28, 2016

by Keith Romer

There's an art and a science to running a business that has to pay out money, like a casino or insurance firm. See how game shows craft the appearance of risk while trying to limit it.

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Episode 714: Can a Game Show Lose?

3:37pm July 27, 2016

Crafting a TV game show is a balancing act. Producers have to carefully calibrate the rules, the drama and the prizes just right. Sometimes they get it way wrong.

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Schwinners and Losers: The cast of Netflix's Stranger Things.

Books

Kids On Bikes: The Sci-Fi Nostalgia Of 'Stranger Things', 'Paper Girls' & 'Super 8'

2:19pm July 27, 2016

by Glen Weldon

Three recent properties - a Netflix series, a comic book and a 2011 Hollywood film - borrow key elements from Steven Spielberg and Stephen King to comment on adolescence in very different ways.

The Democratic Convention May Be Too Funny For Comedy Writers

11:06am July 26, 2016

The writers of the HBO comedy Veep say truth can be stranger than fiction when it comes to politics. NPR's Don Gonyea and Democratic pollster Margie Omero also join the conversation.

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Herizen Guardiola and Justice Smith in Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down, coming to Netflix in August.

Arts

Netflix, HBO, PBS And More Bring Their Upcoming Shows To Critics

7:00am July 26, 2016

by Linda Holmes

It's about time again for the Television Critics Association to meet in California, and we have a preview of the week to come.