Television

TV has never met a zeitgeist it couldn’t embrace—so get ready for more flag-waving and backlash politics

Season six’s penultimate episode: ’She’s a bit of a bully, your Lady Mary’

Downton Abbey Devotees analyze the final season’s episode 7: crashes and cooking disasters

The fifth episode of Downton Abbey’s final season: romance among the pigs

Last night’s winners, losers and what the Emmys tell us about the psychology of television right now

In comedy, good intentions can only get you so far.

Before David Letterman turned cranky host, he ran TV’s edgiest show—and changed a generation

After four seasons of political intrigue and poisoned bloodlines, Game of Thrones heads off in a different direction

The success of ’Empire’ has TV execs suddenly noticing that non-white people exist. Jaime Weinman explains why the industry still sees diversity as a fad

With its philandering, drug-addled offspring, E!’s first soap is a royal show fit for a new era of royalty