Articles

Today’s Trailers: Coming Soon to Your Television…
Trailers for some of the most anticipated new TV shows airing this fall
Brief Panic as Blanks Fired During Cannes TV Show
A live outdoor television broadcast from the Cannes Film Festival was briefly interrupted Friday when what sounded like gunshots sent crew and spectators...
Popular Psychologist Joyce Brothers Dead at 85
(LOS ANGELES) — Popular psychologist, columnist, and television and film personality Joyce Brothers has died. She was 85. Longtime publicist Sanford Brokaw says...
TV-over-Internet Service Aereo Hits Atlanta Next Month
Aereo, the startup that offers live television broadcasts over the Internet starting at $8 a month, said it will start service in the Atlanta market on June 17,...
John McCain Wants to Lower Your Cable Bill
In an ideal world, television viewers would only pay for those shows and channels that they actually care about. The concept, known as TV a la carte, has been a...
Photo Essays

Barbara Walters: A Career in Pictures
It seems almost inconceivable to imagine Barbara Walters not being on television. This is a woman, after all, who entered the business (as a segment producer on...

LIFE Watches TV
Television gets a bad rap. As early as 1961, President Kennedy’s FCC chairman, Newton Minow, famously characterized most programming as a “vast wasteland.”...
Time.com Specials

Late-Night Laughs: The 5 Best Comedy Clips of the Week
This week in the world of late-night television, Colbert rounded up Yelp reviews of prisons and Conan reviewed Martha Stewart’s new online-dating profile.

Bloody Death: Six Ways to Die on TV
In this week’s issue of TIME, James Poniewozik explores the question of why today’s TV dramas—even the really good ones—are increasingly dependent on violence...


