We’re only five months into 2025, but dozens of fan-favorite broadcast and streaming series have already been canceled. Last year we said goodbye to everything from The Acolyte and Our Flag Means ...

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today for a final viewing of the TV shows who met an untimely death this year. We’ll be keeping track of the losses on this living funeral of a post, though we ...

More than halfway through the decade, these exemplary offerings prove TV's artistic mettle remains intact. And yet, here we are: five years into the 2020s and flooded with more excellent TV shows than ...

For the past two decades or so, cinema’s loss has been television’s gain. As the mid-budget movie, once the natural home of grown-up fare, collapsed, prestige programming ballooned on the small screen ...

In real life, 2025 has been a chaotic year. We've navigated the beginning of a divisive presidential term, the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, witnessed a pope from Chicago get elected, a ...

In cultural criticism, every year ends the same way—with a deluge of top 10 lists for every imaginable art form, as though music and literature and film and TV and theater and dance all produce ...

Several best-selling books will make way for returning TV shows and new ones in 2026. One of the first major arrivals in January will be A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, based on George R. R. Martin’s ...

Not long after Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth Wing took the reading world by storm when it arrived in May 2023, the book was optioned for a television series adaptation. The news came just before the second ...

Undoubtedly, 2025 was a bad year for America—but it was a great year for television. The best TV shows of 2025 could be found on streaming, premium cable, and even (even!) public television. They’re ...