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Hollywood Strikes Mean Steady Diet of Reruns, Game Shows and Reality TV

Scripted television series premiering at a slower pace. The “New Releases” and “Just Added” banners on streaming services piling up with reality shows, documentaries and international fare. Ninety-minute episodes of […]




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Ryan Seacrest, “Wheel of Fortune” and the Lasting Pull of Game Shows

One by one, as streaming services grow in popularity, old standbys of the TV landscape are falling by the wayside.The number of soap operas, a decades-old linchpin of daytime television, […]




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Late Night Shows Go Dark in First Fallout From Writers’ Strike

Just hours after the union representing thousands of television and movie writers announced that they were going on strike, hundreds of their members occupied an entire city block in Midtown […]




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With Its Future at Stake, the Academy Tries to Fix the Oscars (Again)

Linda Ong, the chief executive of Cultique, a consulting firm in Los Angeles that advises companies on changing cultural norms, said that people were still interested in the award show’s winners […]




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Is There a Future for Late-Night Talk Shows?

Big changes are coming to the longtime staple of television programming, as the genre struggles to make the leap to the streaming world. Read More




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TV Captures the End of a Tumultuous Presidency

Pomp and celebration, the usual TV tropes of the day, were laced with remarks about a potential outbreak of violence, not an unreasonable concern in the wake of what occurred […]




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Tension, Then Some Tears, as TV News Narrates a Moment for History

The tension mounted for days — and then broke, all at once. CNN went first, calling the presidential election at 11:24 a.m. Eastern. It was followed in quick succession by […]