Television

Moving images of the British monarchy are almost as old as the moving image itself, dating back to an 1895 American drama, The Execution of Mary Qu...

HBO's Carnivale was a critically-acclaimed, elaborate period narrative set in Depression era America that set the stage for the current explosio...

Fans of Channel 4's ground-breaking drama Shameless know and love Tina Malone for her portrayal of the loud-mouthed, larger-than-life Mimi Maguire....

Dermot O'Leary is the man with the dreamy good looks, the relaxed, natural charm and the real-life X-Factor. He's in every top ten of the sexiest m...

The fighting female archetype--a self-reliant woman of great physical prowess--has become increasingly common in action films and on television....

The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text ...

Despite years of propaganda attempting to convince us otherwise, popular media is beginning to catch on to the idea that the home is one of the mos...

The story of Star Trek's resurrection between the 1969 cancellation of the original series and the 1979 release of Robert Wise's Star Trek--The ...

Television is entering a unique era, in which women and minorities no longer serve under white captains but take the lead--and all the other rol...

In a prolific career spanning six decades, actor Burt Reynolds was one of the world's most famous stars of film and television. As much a folk h...

Since the early 20th century, animated Christmas cartoons have brightened the holiday season around the world--first in theaters, then on televi...

In November of 1937, NBC presented the first known pilot film, then called an experimental. Over the years that followed, thousands of aired pilot ...

During the Must See TV 1990s, Americans enjoyed such immensely popular sitcoms as Friends, Seinfeld, Home Improvement and The Drew Carey Show. S...

On December 31, 1939, nationwide radio audiences listened as 17-year-old Josephine Owaissa Cottle, a Texas schoolgirl, won Gateway to Hollywood'...

Jackie Gleason once said, Television critics are men who report traffic accidents to eyewitnesses. But aren't we all TV critics? It's a question th...

Fictional war narratives often employ haunted battlefields, super-soldiers, time travel, the undead and other imaginative elements of science fi...

Anne Bancroft (1931-2005) was an American film, television and stage actress, stage producer and film director. Respected for her acting prowess...

Launched in 1977 by the Christian Broadcasting Service (originally associated with Pat Robertson), the ABC Family/Freeform network has gone thro...