Television

Downton Abbey Devotees recap: That Christmas-special scene between Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes? The most perfect of the series.

It’s time for the interfaith wedding Downton Abbey has been waiting for, despite Lady Flincher’s evil schemes

How a network started by NASA went super low-brow and became one of our most influential cultural voices

Old shows are being reformatted to fit modern TVs. It looks weird.

Networks, suffering from a lack of confidence, hope to get extra mileage out of creaky hits in 2015

Television is a writer’s medium, and that can limit the creativity of a show’s director. But times are changing.

Can John Mulaney’s comedy save the studio-audience sitcom? Can anyone?

It’s not Jon Stewart 2.0. British import John Oliver is mobilizing viewers with a whole new kind of comedy

Television’s most profound religious explorations are on secular shows like The Leftovers

Life is tough and then you die. And then the ratings go up.