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It’s very tough to pick out the most accomplished member of MTV’s vast Real World/Road Rules/Challenge universe, considering Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, podcast giant Theo Von, and WWE icon Mike “The Miz” Mizanin all got their start there. But speaking purely about the world of reality television, Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio …

For 13 seasons from 1997 to 2009, Hank Hill, the hero of the classic Fox animated comedy King of the Hill, existed at a precarious middle point of American culture. In some episodes, his fixation on old-fashioned values made him come across as the most repressed, clueless old man in …

When a director arrives at a filming location, they have a lot of important tasks before the real work can begin. Department heads to consult. Actors to be prep. Schedules to lock. When Noah Hawley got to Bangkok to direct the first episode of Alien: Earth, he immediately had to …

Long before HBO turned Sunday night into TV-monoculture ground zero, there was Ed Sullivan. Born in Harlem and raised in Port Chester, New York, the sportswriter, syndicated columnist and radio-program personality was tapped by CBS to host a weekly variety show for the television network. The master of ceremonies had …

This post contains spoilers for the Season 27 premiere of South Park, which is streaming on Paramount+. Nearly three decades after South Park debuted, its creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are still capable of displaying impeccable timing. The animated comedy’s 27th season premiere, “Sermon on the ‘Mount,” arrived a …

Every Wednesday for the rest of this summer, fans of The Summer I Turned Pretty will tune in to the hit Amazon Prime series to find out who main character Isabel “Belly” Conklin (Lola Tung) will choose to spend the rest of her life with. Her options? Conrad Fisher (Christopher …

My favorite episode of The Cosby Show is “Theo’s Holiday.” It’s one from 1986, in which all the Huxtables band together to turn their stately Brooklyn brownstone into a real-world simulation for the family’s only son, Theo — who owes three of his four sisters money (even the pint-sized youngest …

If the shirt that Malcolm-Jamal Warner wears at the end of The Cosby Show episode “A Shirt Story” isn’t the single worst garment in television history, its competitors are few and far between. It’s meant to be a perfect replica of a shirt by (fictional) hot new designer Gordon Gartrell …

“I wanted a Superman who could be beaten,” Superman writer-director and DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn told Rolling Stone before the release of his film. David Corenswet’s Kal-El does take more than his share of punches in the film, but he turns it around in the end —and the movie …

At the start of Thursday night’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the veteran talk show host announced that on Wednesday, his bosses at CBS informed him that Late Show would be coming to an end next May. As the studio audience booed at great length and volume, …