Food Network Kicks Its Programming Up a Notch
An adventurous new show proves you can’t boost your ratings without breaking a few eggs.
Television
A collection of 88 issues
Letter From Hollywood
Striking TV and film writers should be shutting down the industry, right? Not so fast. Hollywood has a plan for a new kind of synergy, and now that the writers are out of the way, it’s showtime.
America’s Next Top Model Democracy
The winning country receives billions in government contracts and becomes the show's next host. Who will it be?
Television: How Novel
People who hate television love to talk about it, not realizing they could be spending their time improving their minds--with novelizations. The best of the oeuvre, with and without Steve Urkel.
The Adventure of the Missing Stocking
The writers of the television series “Lost” take time out of their busy schedules to write this pastiche—the latest chapter in the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Run for the Hills
The world MTV depicts is anything but real. But we don't watch to escape, we watch because we can't look away.
Betting Wrong
Session after session, congressional battles have us rooting for one side or the other. But it's not easy to tell who the good (and bad) guys are. A theory by way of He-Man and the Masters of the United States Congress.
Longing for the Sad Bastards
When did our angst-driven movie men get all tangled up in their apron strings? A screen history of damaged males.
But I Play One on TV
Saving lives is hard enough—what medical professional has time for significant romantic moments in the supplies closet? A lifetime of TV role models.
Drumroll Please
A million-plus viewers will tune tonight to watch costumed young people dance with fake weapons and play bugle—and that’s just the fans already in the know. America, you live in a drum corps world, you just don’t know it yet.