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TV News Programming

18 Degrees North - A TV news magazine whose main purpose is to uncover stories related to the Caribbean that have gone unreported or been underreported for too long.
60 Minutes - CBS News magazine providing investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news
7.30 - Transcripts and related video and image media content to this Australlian news program. Also see Archives.
ABC News Online - Australian Broadcasting Corporation news and current affairs.
ABCNews - American Broadcasting Corporation news.
Al Jazeera Live Streaming - Drawing on the legacy of the groundbreaking Al Jazeera Arabic channel, Al Jazeera English (AJE) was launched on November 15, 2006 to more than 80 million households worldwide. The 24-hour news and current affairs channel is the first international English-language news channel to broadcast across the globe from the Middle East. Al Jazeera English's global footprint continues to grow and now broadcasts to more than 220 million households on six continents in more than 100 countries. Al Jazeera English is broadcast from four strategic broadcast centres: Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London, and Washington, D.C. Unlike other international channels, Al Jazeera English's broadcast shifts as the world turns providing the most comprehensive and contextual news coverage. Also see Programs page.
Al Jazeera Satellite Channel - Qatar.
All In with Chris Hayes - Focuses on politics including the day's top headlines, newsmaker interviews, and panels of pundits, politicos and voices from outside the mainstream.
Associated Press Television News (APTV) - The international television arm of The Associated Press, the world's oldest and largest newsgathering organisation. APTN is the world's leading video news agency, serving over 500 broadcasters, major portals and web sites with video.
Backlight - VPRO's weekly 50-minute 'Future Affairs' program. The series shifts between two modes of communication: it provides in-depth analysis of new developments by leading intellectuals, visionaries and mavericks - the architects of change. At the same time, it applies daring cinematic techniques, capturing the effects these changes have on the daily lives of the real world's citizens.
BBC News - The UK's British Broadcasting Corporation international news coverage.
BBC Programmes - A permanent rolling record of everything on BBC Television and Radio.
Bill Press Show - William "Bill" Press is a U.S. talk radio host, liberal political commentator and author. He was chair of the California Democratic Party from 1993 to 1996. See Wikipedia.
C-SPAN Networks - A public service created by the American cable television industry to provide access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated and decided - all without editing or commentary.
CBC News Online - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation international news coverage.
CBS News - CBS Broadcasting Inc. news coverage.
CBS News Video - Top stories and video news clips at CBSNews.com.
CCTV - Chinese international news channel.
CNBC - Headlines, portfolio, stocks, funds, bonds, markets, MoneyTalk, tools.
CNN - World, U.S., Local, Politics, Weather, Business, Sci-Tech, Nature, Entertainment. Also, see CNN Headline News.
Dateline - News programming with anchors Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips. Also features Tom Brokaw, Katie Couric and Maria Shriver each of whom contributes to and anchors some of the editions. M-W, Fr and Su on NBC.
Face the Nation - Each Sunday, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer interviews newsmakers on the latest issues.
Four Corners - Australia's premier television current affairs program.
Fox News - U.S., World, Market Wire, Fox Sports, Health, Hi-Tech, Entertainment.
Global 3000 - DW's globalization magazine. News, reports and portraits on globalization issues.
GRITtv - Reaches millions of viewers weekly on Free Speech TV on Dish network (9415), on cable and public television stations nationwide, and anytime, anywhere online. Distributed in multiple platforms, GRITtv is a daily, 30-minute discussion for people who want to make a difference. Incorporating viewer-submitted content, grassroots activism, and a positive, progressive message that aims to go beyond the one-way format of traditional media, GRITtv talks to the people commercial media ignore.
House Hunters International - Globe trots from Sao Paolo to Prague. Home hunters and their real estate agents check out all sorts of architectural styles and work through the idiosyncrasies of buying real estate in other countries.
i-24 News - Global news broadcasting live from around the world bringing you the day’s biggest stories from the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. Broadcasting from Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Indymedia Newsreal - Brings progressive grassroots organizing, going on in your backyard, to a national television audience. This site lists times and dates for satellite/cable broadcasts, screening venues, and information on how you can get a free satellite dish and receiver to downlink Indymedia.
ITN - British broadcast service producing television, radio, and multimedia news and documentaries.
Meet the Press - Interviews with world-renowned guests hosted by David Gregory. Sundays on the NBC-TV network.
MSNBC - News, Business, Sports, Local, Health, Technology, Living, TV News, Opinions, Weather.
NASA Television (NasaTV) - A resource designed to provide real-time coverage of NASA agency activities and missions as well as providing resource video to the news media, and educational programming to teachers, students and the general public.
Need to Know - PBS TV- and web- newsmagazine.
Nightly Business Report - Daily business and economic news and investment information.
NY1 News - Time Warner's 24-hour newschannel in New York City.
PBS News and Public Affairs - Directory of PBS news programming.
PBS Newshour - PBS news magazine. News summary, special reports, letters, essays and dialogue, archived material.
Real News, The - A television news and documentary network focused on providing independent and uncompromising journalism.
Reality Check TV (RCTV) - Television showcase for alternative celebrities, cutting edge performances, the hottest bands and the world's strangest nightclubs.
RT [previiously Russia Today] - On-air programming here.
Ruptly TV -An international video news agency headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Seeks to supply online broadcasters as well as traditional television broadcasters with comprehensive digital video content, covering all major issues of our time with an emphasis on stories widely ignored by the mainstream media. Home page here.
Sky News - UK and world news, political and business news plus live webcasts, weather reports and the latest from the world of showbiz.
Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University) - The world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001.
Thom Hartman Program - News, opinion, debate.
This Week ABC (George Stephanopoulos)
Up with Steve Kornacki - Analysis of daily headlines, political commentary and informed perspectives.
Weather Channel - Timely weather information.

TV Program Guide / Station Directory

A&E - Weekly schedule.
BBC America - TV schedule.
BBC Media Packs - Press releases on BBC programming.
BBC Newsnight - Up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories.
BFI Film & TV Database - Since 1933 the BFI has been collecting information about film and television from around the world, with records dating from the beginning of film production to the present day.
BookTV - From C-SPAN.
Bravo
British TV Comedy Resources - Casts and characters database to hundreds of British situation comedies. Links to hundreds of websites which feature British TV comedy programs.
Broadband-Television - A comprehensive directory of live and on-demand broadband broadcasts. Enjoy international television and CD quality radio using your computer and free software. A high speed internet connection such as cable, ADSL, ISDN or TI is required. Broadcasts are available in English and other languages.
Broadchurch - British crime drama television series broadcast on ITV for three series between 2013 and 2017. It was created by Chris Chibnall, who acted as an executive producer and wrote all 24 episodes. The series is set in Broadchurch, a fictional English town in Dorset, and focuses on police detectives DI Alec Hardy (David Tennant) and DS Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman). The series features an ensemble cast that in addition to Tennant and Colman includes Jodie Whittaker, Andrew Buchan, Charlotte Beaumont, Arthur Darvill, Jonathan Bailey, Vicky McClure, and Matthew Gravelle.
C-SPAN - C-SPAN TV schedules.
C-SPAN Congressional Chronicle - An index to the C-SPAN video recordings of the House and Senate floor proceedings. The video recordings are matched with the text of the Congressional Record as soon as the Record is available.
C-SPAN Video Library - C-SPAN current programs and archives.
CapitolHearing (C-SPAN) - Distributes gavel-to-gavel audio coverage of U.S. Senate Committee hearings.
Digital Duo - The the independent, irreverent video review of all things digital. Every week on public television, hosts Stephen Manes of Forbes Magazine and PC World and Susan Gregory Thomas, a nationally syndicated columnist, cut through the hype and show you how the latest innovations of the electronic age really work - and how they don't.
Discovery Channel - Adventure, nature, travel.
eguides - This site contains Episode Lists for over 2000 TV shows. Each list contains titles and airdates. For over 500 shows there is a more detailed episode guide containing guest stars and plot summaries.
E-online - Television news, gossip, and spoilers.
epguides.com - Contains episode lists for over 6400 TV shows. Each list displays only titles and airdates, but in most cases the episode title is a link to the page for that episode at TVRage.com (or sometimes TV.com), where there is more information such as guest stars and a plot summary.
FORA.tv - Delivers discourse, discussions and debates on the world's most interesting political, social and cultural issues, and enables viewers to join the conversation. It provides deep, unfiltered content, tools for self-expression and a place for the interactive community to gather online.
Foreign Exchange - A weekly, half-hour PBS international affairs series, hosted by noted author, journalist and international commentator, Fareed Zakaria.
Free Classic TV Shows - Assembling the largest collection of early television shows that is organized by genre and by date.
Globalvision - An independent film and television production company specializing in information, entertainment and educational programming for both domestic and international markets.
HBO - Schedule grid. Also see HBO Max.
History Channel - TV listings.
History of Comedy, The - A CNN documentary series. The documentary explores the underlying questions of what makes American people laugh, why, and how the laughter influenced their social and political landscape throughout American history. The show utilizes archival footage, punctuated by contemporary interviews with comedians and scholars.
Independent Film Channel (IFC) - Features independent movies, documentaries, animation, shorts, exclusive originals, and coverage of all the major independent film festivals.
Independent Lens (PBS) - Airing weekly on PBS, Independent Lens is like an independent film festival in your own living room. Each episode introduces new documentaries and dramas made by independent thinkers - filmmakers who are taking creative risks, calling their own shots and finding untold stories in unexpected places.
Independent Television Service (ITVS) - ITVS brings independently produced programs to television - programs that engage creative risks, advance issues, and represent points of view not usually seen on commercial or public television. ITVS is committed to programming which addresses the needs of under-served audiences, particularly minorities and children.
Jett - An American action crime drama television series created by Sebastian Gutierrez. It stars Carla Gugino and premiered on June 14, 2019, on Cinemax. The drama ended with only 1 season and 9 episodes. Jett begins when "fresh out of prison, world-class thief Daisy "Jett" Kowalski is forced back into doing what she does best by dangerous and eccentric criminals determined to exploit her skills for their own ends.
JustWatch - A streaming search engine that allows you to search and browse through different providers, including Crackle.
Knick, The - An American television drama series on Cinemax created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler and directed by Steven Soderbergh. The series follows Dr. John W. Thackery (Clive Owen) and the staff at a fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital (the Knick) in New York during the early twentieth century. In New York City in 1900, the Knickerbocker Hospital operates with inventive surgeons, nurses and staff who struggle against the limitations of medical understanding and practice, to minimize morbidity and mortality. Dr. John Thackery (partially based on historical figure William Stewart Halsted), the new leader of the surgery staff, balances his cocaine and opium addictions against his ambition for medical discovery and his reputation among his peers. Dr. Algernon Edwards, a Harvard-educated Black American surgeon (probably based on the historical Daniel Hale Williams and Louis T. Wright) who trained in Paris, and is much more qualified than any other candidate, must fight for respect among the all-white hospital staff, as well as in the racially charged city. While struggling to keep the lights on, the hospital attempts to attract a wealthy clientele, without sacrificing quality of care. In September 2020, Soderbergh confirmed that a new season of The Knick is in development led by Barry Jenkins and André Holland, who would return as his character Dr. Algernon C. Edwards, and that original creators Jack Amiel and Michael Begler have written a pilot episode.
KQED - Public TV Channel 9 in San Francisco weekly schedule.
LINK TV - Daily program schedule. Also see Online Series and RSS Feeds/Podcasts.
LyngSat Guide - Program schedules for 733 TV channels with 258,860 programs.
Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) - Responsible for administering the public access cable television services in Manhattan, New York. MNN programs include local issue talk shows, cultural and arts exhibitions, live call-in programs, public service announcements, religious and numerous foreign language shows.
NOVA - Get local PBS schedules.
Radio Times - BBC guide to radio, TV, and film.
Replay Media Guide - Find and record online radio and video.
SadGeezers Guide to Cult TV Sci Fi - Guide to cult sci fi shows, films, books etc.
Starz - Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG) is the largest provider of premium movie services in the United States with approximately 174 million pay units. SEG offerings include the Starz Encore Movie Pack with 13 digital movie channels and more than 750 movies per month, Starz HDTV, Starz On Demand, and Starz Ticket, an on-demand premium Internet movie subscription service available on the broadband platform. Starz Entertainment Group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation.
Sundance Channel - Schedule. Also, search for a film.
SyFy - Sci fi shows and schedules.
Television Without Pity - Reviews and criticism of television programming.
Trover - A leading weblog for news and information about IPTV, Internet TV, online video and related topics. Also provides a directory of web sites offering online video and Internet TV, forums for discussion (IPTV Forums), an informational site (IPTV Information).
TV - TV episode and actor guide.
TV Acres - Guide to television program facts. An on-line subject guide that finds information about the characters, places and things that appeared on television programs broadcast from the 1940s to the present.
TV Guide Online - Articles on television's major issues and trends, personality profiles, and comprehensive TV listings.
TVEyes - TVEyes watches TV 24 hours a day looking at every spoken word. At this free site, type in a search word, and the instant that word is spoken on TV, TVEyes will send you an email alert. Then just link back to the site to read the transcript.
TVRage - Reference guide to the television shows you love. View episode guides, cast and crew information, analysis, reviews and more.
Windows Media Guide - Microsoft's audio-video guide.
World Wide Internet TV (wwiTV) - An index to streaming media available on the web.
WorldLinkTV - Participatory television channel focused on critical global issues from human rights, justice and conflict prevention to environmental protection, sustainable development, preserving cultural integrity, and the presentation of music and culture from around the world.
WWW Virtual Library of Broadcasters - Comprehensive list of national and international TV and radio broadcasters and other relevant links.
Xfinity.TV Listings - Watch your favorite TV shows on Xfinity TV by viewing local television listings, tv schedule, full length episodes, movies, sports, kids and HD channels by Comcast. Also provides What's Playing Now, On Demand, and MyTV.
Yahoo! TV - TV portal. Also see TV Show Database.
Zap2It - TV listings, movie showtimes.

TV Program / TV Series

12 Monkeys - American television series on Syfy created by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett -- a science fiction mystery drama with a time traveling plot loosely based on the 1995 film of the same name.
30 Rock - An American television comedy series created by Tina Fey that currently airs on NBC. It takes place behind the scenes of a fictional live sketch comedy series depicted as airing on NBC; the name "30 Rock" refers to the GE Building where NBC Studios is located and which has the address 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The series has an ensemble cast that consisting of 10 regular cast members, including Fey, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer, Scott Adsit, Judah Friedlander and Alec Baldwin.
Absolutely Fabulous - BBCi comedy.
Affair, The - Premiered on Showtime on October 12, 2014. The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah Solloway and Alison Lockhart (Dominic West and Ruth Wilson) when they meet in the resort town of Montauk in Long Island. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher and Williams College alum who has had one novel published and is struggling to write a second book. He is happily married with four children, but he resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of her child's sudden death. The story of the affair is depicted from Noah's and Alison's perspectives respectively, complete with memory bias. See Wikipedia.
Aftermath - Canadian television sci-fi drama series. The series is centered on the Copeland family, a couple with three almost-grown children, who struggle to survive as natural disasters, followed by the rise of supernatural beings, brings civilization to an end.
Ally McBeal - An American legal comedy-drama television series, originally aired on Fox from September 8, 1997 to May 20, 2002. Created by David E. Kelley, the series starred Calista Flockhart in the title role as a young lawyer working in the fictional Boston law firm Cage and Fish, with other young lawyers whose lives and loves were eccentric, humorous and dramatic. Also see TV.com.
American Gods - An American television series based on the novel of the same name, written by Neil Gaiman . The series focuses on Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle), a man serving three years in prison. With only days remaining in his sentence, Shadow is given an unexpected early release after his beloved wife Laura is killed. Shadow finds himself next to a man named Wednesday (Ian McShane), who offers Shadow a job. Wednesday appears to be nothing but a con artist who needs Shadow as a bodyguard, but is in fact the god Odin. Also see Wikipedia.
Animal Kingdom - American drama television series developed by Jonathan Lisco. It is based on the 2010 Australian film by David Michôd, who is executive producer for the series, alongside Liz Watts who also produced the movie. See Wikipedia.
American Masters - PBS series ongoing series of award-winning primetime specials examining the lives, works, and creative processes of outstanding cultural artists. Its body of work to date includes profiles of such American artists as Charlie Chaplin, James Baldwin, Helen Hayes, Andy Warhol, Charlie Parker, Aaron Copland, William Wyler, Martha Graham, Eugene O'Neill, Billie Holliday, The Group Theater, Philip Johnson, Paul Simon, Alexander Calder and Leonard Bernstein among others.
Americans, The - An American television period drama series created and produced by former CIA officer Joe Weisberg. Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys), two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. with their unsuspecting children (Holly Taylor and Keidrich Sellati), and their neighbor, Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), an FBI counter-intelligence agent. The series focuses on the personal and professional lives of the Jennings', sometimes incorporating real-life events into the narrative. See Wikipedia.
Animal Planet: Future is Wild - Become a time-travelling scientist and visit the animals of the future.
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown - The noted chef explores the food and dining rituals of little-known areas of the world.
Aquarius - An American period crime drama television series created by John McNamara for NBC. The show premiered on May 28, 2015. The show stars David Duchovny as Sam Hodiak, a fictional LAPD detective investigating the case of a missing teenage girl. Along with his younger colleague, undercover narcotics officer Brian Shafe (Grey Damon), Hodiak finds himself coming up against Charles Manson and his "family", a mostly ragtag group of hippies who follow Manson in drugs, sex, and rock-and-roll. The girl they are looking for, Emma Karn (played by Emma Dumont), is discovered by Hodiak to be with Manson and The Family. See Wikipedia.
Art Newspaper.tv - Publishes videos online affecting the visual arts and culture worldwide. Correspondents in more than 30 countries. Watch for free.
Art of More, The - An American television series which debuted on 9 Nov 2015, on Crackle. The series explores the underbelly and surprisingly cutthroat high-stakes world of New York auction houses.
Avengers Forever - Guide to The Avengers television series.
Babylon 5 - An American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski. The series follows the human military staff and alien diplomats stationed on a space station, Babylon 5, built in the aftermath of several major inter-species wars as a neutral ground for galactic diplomacy and trade. Major plotlines included Babylon 5's embroilment in a millennial cyclic conflict between ancient races, inter-race wars and their aftermaths, and intra-race intrigue and upheaval. The human characters, in particular, become pivotal to the resistance against Earth's descent into totalitarianism.
Banshee - Series set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country. Features an enigmatic ex-con who has assumed the identity of a murdered sheriff. He imposes his own brand of justice while also cooking up plans that serve his own interests. Also see Wikipedia and Welcome to Banshee.
Barry - An American dark comedy crime television series created by Alec Berg and Bill Hader that premiered on HBO on March 25, 2018. Hader stars as Barry Berkman, a hitman from Cleveland who travels to Los Angeles to kill someone but finds himself joining an acting class taught by Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler), where he meets aspiring actress Sally Reed (Sarah Goldberg) and begins to question his path in life as he deals with his criminal associates such as Monroe Fuches (Stephen Root) and NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan). The second season premiered on March 31, 2019. In April 2019, HBO renewed the series for a third season, while a fourth season has been written.
Baskets - American comedy television series was co-created by Louis C.K., Zach Galifianakis and Jonathan Krisel, who is also the showrunner. Galifianakis stars in the dual lead role as Chip Baskets, a failed professional clown in Paris, who instead becomes a local rodeo clown in Bakersfield, California and his twin brother Dale Baskets.
Batman: The Animated Series - n American superhero animated television series based on the DC Comics superhero Batman. Developed by Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, and Mitch Brian, and produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The series was praised for its thematic complexity, film noir aesthetics, darker tone, artistic presentation, and modernization of its title character's crime-fighting origins.
Better Things - American comedy-drama television series created by Pamela Adlon and Louis C.K. for FX, starring Adlon as a divorced actress who raises her three daughters by herself. Also see Wikipedia.
Battlestar Galatica - The story arc of Battlestar Galactica is set in a distant star system, where a civilization of humans live on a group of planets known as the Twelve Colonies. In the past, the Colonies had been at war with a cybernetic race of their own creation, known as the Cylons. With the unwitting help of a human named Gaius Baltar, the Cylons launch a sudden sneak attack on the Colonies, laying waste to the planets and devastating their populations. Out of a population numbering in the billions, only approximately 50,000 humans survive, most of whom were aboard civilian ships that avoided destruction. Of all the Colonial Fleet, the eponymous Battlestar Galactica appears to be the only military capital ship that survived the attack. Under the leadership of Colonial Fleet officer Commander William "Bill" Adama (Olmos) and President Laura Roslin (McDonnell), the Galactica and its crew take up the task of leading the small fugitive fleet of survivors into space in search of a fabled refuge known as Earth. Also see:
- Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV Series)
- Battlestar Galactica (TV miniseries)
- Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome - A spin off prequel of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica.
- Battlestar Wiki
- Caprica - A spin off prequel of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica.
- Religious and Mythological Issues in Battlestar Galactica
- Ronald D. Moore
Better Call Saul - American television crime drama series created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. It is a spin-off prequel of Breaking Bad, which was also created by Gilligan. Set in 2002, Better Call Saul follows the story of small-time lawyer James Morgan "Jimmy" McGill (Bob Odenkirk), six years before his appearance on Breaking Bad as Saul Goodman; events after the original series are briefly explored.
Better Things - An n American comedy-drama television series created by Pamela Adlon and Louis C.K. for FX, starring Adlon as a divorced actress who raises her three daughters by herself. Also see Wikipedia.
Billions - An American television drama series starring Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti about power politics in the world of New York high finance. Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Giamatti) and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod (Lewis) are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmaneuver the other.
Black Mirror - British television anthology series created by Charlie Brooker that features speculative fiction with dark and sometimes satirical themes that examine modern society, particularly with regard to the unanticipated consequences of new technologies. See Wikipedia.
Blacklist, The - American crime thriller television series that premiered on NBC on September 23, 2013. Raymond "Red" Reddington (James Spader), a former U.S. Navy officer turned high-profile criminal, voluntarily surrenders to the FBI after eluding capture for decades. He tells the FBI that he has a list of the most dangerous criminals in the world that he has compiled over the years and is willing to inform on their operations in exchange for immunity from prosecution. However, he insists on working exclusively with a rookie FBI profiler by the name of Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone). See Wikipedia.
Book TV - Each weekend on C-SPAN 2, Book TV features 48 hours of nonfiction books from 8am Saturday to 8am Monday. This web site enhances information on those books, provides an opportunity to watch or listen to programs you might have missed, and provides additional information not available on the network. Also see particular series/topics, including:
- After Words - An interview show in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed by journalists, public policy makers, legislators, and others familiar with their material.
- Authors on Writing - Authors give viewers an insider's look at how they write.
- Biographies - Book TV regularly covers author talks on biographies of prominent and historical figures. These can be searched by author name or subject and viewed here.
- Booknotes - For sixteen years, from 1989 to 2004, Booknotes was C-SPAN's signature author-interview program. Booknotes format was simple: One author, one book, one hour. Booknotes had another editorial guideline: authors could only appear on the program once in their careers. As a result, the Booknotes archive is a collection of 800 first-person interviews with some of the best known non-fiction writers of the late 20th century. In addition, contemporary political leaders are seen and heard in their own words, as they discuss their autobiographies and memoirs.
- Encore Booknotes - Hour-long interviews from the archives of one of the network's long-running programs, Booknotes.
- In Depth - A comprehensive, live three-hour look at one author's work, with questions from viewers via phone and e-mail.
Booknotes - For sixteen years, from 1989 to 2004, Booknotes was C-SPAN's signature author-interview program. Focusing exclusively on contemporary nonfiction books, the Booknotes series created an unparalleled television forum for writers of history, biography, politics, and public affairs. Booknotes format was simple: One author, one book, one hour. For a full hour every Sunday night, fifty-two weeks a year, nonfiction writers were asked to discuss their most recent work. Beyond the book's subject matter, authors were also queried about their research, their writing process, and their own lives and influences. The result is a valuable video resource for authors, researchers, students, readers and educators. 800 intrerviews from April 1989-December 2004.
Breaking Bad - Official site. Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He turns to a life of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine with a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). White's primary goal, when he begins manufacturing the methamphetamine, is securing his family's financial future before he dies. See Wikipedia. Also see Wiki and Breaking Bad Music.
Bridge, The - A Nordic noir crime television series created and written by Hans Rosenfeldt. A joint creative and financed production between Sweden's Sveriges Television and Denmark's Danmarks Radio, it has been shown in more than 100 countries. The first series begins with the discovery of a dead body exactly on the Denmark–Sweden border, the centre of the Øresund Bridge, which links Malmö with Copenhagen, necessitating a joint investigation. Sofia Helin, as the Swedish police detective Saga Norén, stars in all four series.
Brotherhood - An American television drama series created by Blake Masters. Produced and almost entirely written by Masters and Henry Bromell, the series is broadcast by the premium cable network Showtime in the United States. Brotherhood premiered on July 9, 2006 and ended its third season on December 21, 2008. Set and produced in Providence, Rhode Island, the series revolves around the Irish-American Caffee brothers and their friends, family and colleagues. Tommy (Jason Clarke) is a local politician; Michael (Jason Isaacs) is a professional criminal involved with New England's Irish Mob.
C-SPAN - American Writers, American Presidents, Book TV, Booknotes, Capitol Hearings, Broadband C-SPAN. Also see the C-SPAN Schedule.
California Channel - Politics and public affairs in California. Unedited, unbiased legislative news.
CartoonNetwork - The best cartoons from the past and best new cartoons, on TV and on the web.
CBC Archives - Features hundreds of radio and television clips from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Cinemondo (Link TV) - Features the U.S. television premiere of 11 outstanding movies that explore the distinctly human side of critical social and political issues faced by people in countries as diverse as Iran, Holland, China, Greece, Palestine, Bosnia and Mauritania.
Colony - An American science-fiction drama television series created by Carlton Cuse and Ryan J. Condal. In a dystopian, near-future Los Angeles, a couple, Katie (Callies) and Will (Holloway) Bowman, live with two of their three children, under a regime of military occupation by an organization known as the Colony Transitional Authority. They are part of a larger invading force, of extraterrestrial origin, who are referred to as the "Hosts." The Hosts have built an enormous wall, around 20–30 stories tall and many meters thick, that surrounds the central part of Los Angeles, and similar walls around other major cities (now called "Blocs"), while various buildings still display severe damage from the armed conflict during the invasion, known as the "Arrival." See Wikipedia.
Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy - The purpose of this site is to promote better understanding of globalization, world trade and economic development, including the forces, values, events, and ideas that have shaped the present global economic system. Provides a complete netcast of the six-hour television program as originally broadcast by PBS -- in three two-hour episodes.
ComedyCentral - Comedy programming.
Consuelo Mack WealthTrack - Public TV show devoted to long-term diversified investing in stocks, bonds, real estate, insurance, art and collectibles.
Conversations with Great Minds ...with Thom Hartmann - Hartmann is a progressive national and internationally syndicated talkshow host. His evening TV program, The Big Picture, is wholly owned by his own production company, produced in the RT studios, and licensed to and carried by Free Speech TV in the US and into over 600 million homes in 104 countries by the RT TV network, and distributed worldwide on Hulu. Weekly, on Conversations, Hartmann conducts 25 minute interview with politicians, activists, journalists, scientists and the like.
Corporate - An American comedy television series created by Pat Bishop, Matt Ingebretson, and Jake Weisman. A ten-episode first season premiered on Comedy Central on 17 Jan 2018. Corporate takes you inside Hampton Deville – your average, soulless multi-national corporation – and follows the miserable lives of two downtrodden employees. Also see WSWS review.
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - American science documentary television series presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson. A follow-up to the 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which was presented by Carl Sagan. Also see Wikipedia.
Culture Show, The - BBC programming providing best of the week's arts and culture news. Covering books, art, film, architecture and more.
Curb Your Enthusiasm - An American comedy television series produced and broadcast by HBO that premiered on October 15, 2000. The series was created by Larry David, who stars as a fictionalized version of himself. The series follows Larry in his life as a semi-retired television writer and producer in Los Angeles, and for one season, New York City. Also starring are Cheryl Hines as his wife Cheryl, Jeff Garlin as his manager and best friend Jeff Greene, and Susie Essman as Jeff's wife Susie. Curb Your Enthusiasm often features guest stars, many of them playing fictionalized versions of themselves.
Da Vinci's Inquest - Official page. Also see Wikipedia article.
Daily Show with Trevor Noah - Current events and pop culture news and comedy.
Deadwood - HBO series. In an age of plunder and greed, the richest gold strike in American History draws a throng of restless misfits to an outlaw settlement where everything - and everyone - has a price. Welcome to Deadwood, a hell of a place to make your fortune.
Deep Dish Television - A national satellite network, linking access producers and programmers, independent video makers, activists, and people who support the idea and reality of a progressive television network. Deep Dish TV is programmed on more than 300 cable systems around the country as well as selected public stations. Many stations run Deep Dish in several time slots each week, reaching audiences at various times on different days.
Design: e2 - PBS series on sustainable architecture.
Designated Survivor - An American political drama television series created by David Guggenheim, starring Kiefer Sutherland. On the night of the State of the Union, an explosion claims the lives of the President and everyone in the presidential line of succession, except for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Tom Kirkman, who had been named the designated survivor. Kirkman is immediately sworn in as President, unaware that the attack is just the beginning of what is to come. Also see Wikipedia.
Deuce, The - American drama television series set in and around Times Square, New York. Created and written by author and former police reporter David Simon and his frequent collaborator George Pelecanos, the series pilot began shooting in October 2015. It was picked up to series in January 2016. The series officially premiered on HBO on September 10, 2017. The Deuce tells the story of the legalization and ensuing rise of the porn industry in New York beginning in the 1970s. See Wikipedia.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - BBC America science-fiction detective series based on a humorous detective novel by Douglas Adams in 1987. Written by Max Landis, it stars Samuel Barnett as the time-traveling detective Dirk Gently and Elijah Wood as his reluctant sidekick Todd.
Downward Dog - An American comedy television series. The series follows the adventures of Martin, a philosophizing dog, who has to live with his owner, Nan, a millenial who has no more time for him because of her work at Clark and Bow Outfitters. Also see Wikipedia.
Dr. Who - News, video clips, photos and reviws from the official site.
Dust Bowl, The - A two-part, four-hour PBS documentary series by Ken Burns. The film chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s, destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts, and unleashed a pattern of massive, deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of the world. It was the worst manmade ecological disaster in American history.
Elegant Universe, The - All 3 hours of this PBS NOVA special TV program are available online: "Eleven dimensions, parallel universes, and a world made out of strings. It's not science fiction, it's string theory."
Expanse, The - American space opera / mystery science fiction drama television series on Syfy, based on the series of novels by James S. A. Corey. Set in a future where humanity has colonized the Solar System, it follows United Nations under secretary Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo), police detective Miller (Thomas Jane), and ship's officer Jim Holden (Steven Strait) and his crew as they unravel a conspiracy that threatens peace across the System and the survival of humanity. See Wikipedia.
Exterminate All the Brutes - An internationally co-produced documentary miniseries revolving around colonization and genocide, directed and narrated by Raoul Peck. The series consists of four episodes and premiered in the United States on April 7, 2021, on HBO. The series follows colonization and multiple genocides, and the effect of both, alongside imperialism and white supremacy.
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement - An American television series and 14-part documentary about the 20th-century civil rights movement in the United States. The documentary originally aired on the PBS network, and it also aired in the United Kingdom on BBC2. Created and executive produced by Henry Hampton at his film production company Blackside, and narrated by Julian Bond, the series uses archival footage, stills, and interviews by participants and opponents of the movement. The title of the series is derived from the title of the folk song "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize", which is used as the opening theme music in each episode.
Falling Water - An American supernatural drama television series. Three strangers realize they are dreaming parts of the same dream. As they delve deeper into the meaning behind their connection to each other, they realize that the implications are much larger than their personal fates, and the future of the world lies in their hands.
Fargo - An American black comedy-crime drama television series created and written by Noah Hawley. The show is inspired by the 1996 film of the same name written and directed by the Coen brothers, who serve as executive producers on the series. See Wikipedia.
Fault Lines - Al Jazeera's weekly documentary program that primarily examines the United States' role in the world.
Feed the Beast - An American crime drama television series based on the Danish series Bankerot by Kim Fupz Aakeson and adapted by Clyde Phillips for AMC, starring David Schwimmer and Jim Sturgess. Tommy Moran and Dion Patras are like brothers. Dion is unable to stay out of trouble and Tommy is unable to move past it. For two friends on the brink of losing everything, a dusty pipe dream of opening an upscale Greek restaurant in their hometown of the Bronx is all they have left to turn their lives around. See Wikipedia.
Flight Attendant, The - An American comedy-drama streaming television series based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Chris Bohjalian. It stars Kaley Cuoco in the title role and premiered on HBO Max on November 26, 2020. In December 2020, the series was renewed for a second season.[6] The second season is scheduled to premiere in the spring of 2022. American flight attendant Cassie Bowden is a reckless alcoholic who drinks during flights and spends her time off with strangers, including her passengers. When she wakes up in a hotel room in Bangkok with a hangover from the night before, she discovers the dead body of a man who was on her last flight lying next to her, his throat slashed. Afraid to call the police, she cleans up the crime scene, then joins the other airline crew traveling to the airport. In New York City, she is met by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents who question her about the layover in Bangkok. Still unable to piece the night together, and suffering intermittent flashbacks/hallucinations about it, she begins to wonder who the killer could be.
Free Speech TV - Provides free hosting for over 7000 non-commercial websites and 2500 media files. Free Speech Internet TV, in collaboration with Free Speech Cable and the new Free Speech Digital Broadcast Satellite Channel, also provides an internet venue for producers and directors of progressive film, video and audio.
Frontline - The PBS television public-affairs series. Distinguished writers and reporters such Garry Wills, Roger Wilkins, Shelby Steele, William Greider, Seymour Hersh, Richard Ben Cramer, James Reston, Jr., and Peter Boyer have worked with Frontline producing powerful and compelling documentaries.
Futurama - An American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening that aired on Fox from March 28, 1999, to August 10, 2003, and on Comedy Central from March 23, 2008, to September 4, 2013. The series follows the adventures of slacker Philip J. Fry, who is cryogenically preserved for 1000 years and is revived in the 31st century. Fry finds work at an interplanetary delivery company, working alongside the one-eyed Leela and robot Bender.
Game of Thrones - An original series based on George R.R. Martin's best-selling 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series. Filmed in a Belfast studio and on location elsewhere in Northern Ireland, Malta, Croatia, Iceland, and Morocco, it premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011. The series, set on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos at the end of a decade-long summer, interweaves several plot lines. The first follows the members of several noble houses in a civil war for the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms; the second covers the rising threat of the impending winter and the mythical creatures of the North; the third chronicles the attempts of the exiled last scion of the realm's deposed dynasty to reclaim the throne. Through its morally ambiguous characters, the series explores the issues of social hierarchy, religion, loyalty, corruption, sexuality, civil war, crime, and punishment. See Wikipedia.
G4 - On-air and online network dedicated to the digital lifestyle. Games, reviews, cheats, Xbox 360, PS3.
Genius - An American anthology period drama television series produced by National Geographic. The first season focuses on theoretical physicist Albert Einstein during different periods in his life in a nonlinear narrative: as a patent clerk struggling to gain a teaching job and doctorate in his early life, and as an older respected mind for his development of the theory of relativity. Geoffrey Rush and Johnny Flynn star as the old and young Einstein, respectively. Also see Wikipedia.
Ghost Wars - A paranormal action television series created by Simon Barry. Ghost Wars takes place in a remote Alaskan town that has been overrun by paranormal forces. The series focuses on local outcast Roman Mercer (Avan Jogia) who must overcome the town’s prejudices and his own personal demons if he’s to harness his repressed psychic powers and save everyone from the mass haunting that is threatening to destroy them all. Also see Wikipedia.
Girlfriend Experience, The - American anthology drama television series created, written, and directed by Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz. The first season stars Riley Keough as Christine Reade, a law student intern who also works as a high-end escort. Chicago-Burnham Law School student Christine Reade (Riley Keough), lands an internship at the law firm of Kirkland & Allen and struggles to balance her workload, expenses and classes. When her close friend Avery reveals that she has been working as an escort, she encourages Christine to tag along and introduces her to a friend of one of her clients who is also looking for an escort. Also see Wikipedia.
Globe Trekker TV - Spotlights the adventures of 10 solo travelers as they venture off the beaten path, exploring every corner of the globe: from cosmopolitan cities, to remote tribal villages, discovering a wealth of diverse landscapes and stunning natural beauty along the way.
Good Wife, The - An American television legal and political drama. The series focuses on Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies), whose husband Peter Florrick (Chris Noth), a former Cook County state's attorney, has been jailed following a very public sex and corruption scandal. Alicia returns to her old job as a litigator (having taken 13 years out to be a stay-at-home mother) to provide for her two children. The series was partly inspired by the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, as well as by other prominent American political sex scandals, particularly those of John Edwards and Bill Clinton. Also see Wikipedia.
Gotham - American crime drama television series developed by Bruno Heller, based on characters published by DC Comics and appearing in the Batman franchise, primarily those of James Gordon and Bruce Wayne. Also see Wikipedia.
Great Museums - PBS celebrating America's museum world.
GreenWorks.tv - Hosts the largest collection of environmental video programming on the Web as well as interactive educational programming, environmental workshops, live webcasts and more. GreenWorks' mission is to spread one simple message: real people are making a difference to protect our environment.
Hacks - An American comedy-drama streaming television series created by Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky that premiered on May 13, 2021, on HBO Max. Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder, and Carl Clemons-Hopkins star. Deborah Vance is a legendary Las Vegas stand-up comedy diva trying to maintain relevance as the head of the casino where she performs tries to pare down on her performance dates. Ava is a Gen Z comedy writer who is unable to find work due to being "canceled" over an insensitive tweet. The two reluctantly team up to freshen up Vance's material and learn to respect each other's differences.
Halt and Catch Fire - Television series created by Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers, that premiered on AMC on June 1, 2014. The series, set in the Silicon Prairie of Texas in 1983, depicts a fictionalized insider's view of the personal computer revolution. See Wikipedia. If the series is extended to a third season, it will be set in California.
Happy Valley - A British drama television series that debuted on BBC One on 29 April 2014. Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) is a strong-willed police sergeant in the Yorkshire valleys, still coming to terms with her daughter's suicide. Just as she seems to be getting back on top of her life, she spots Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton), the man she believes is responsible for the brutal rape that drove her daughter to suicide, standing on a street in her town. She soon becomes obsessed with finding Royce, unaware that he is involved in the kidnapping of Ann Gallagher (Charlie Murphy), a plot instigated by Kevin Weatherill (Steve Pemberton) and orchestrated by Ashley Cowgill (Joe Armstrong). Things quickly take a dark turn. See Wikipedia.
HBO Online - HBO programming, including: Sopranos, Sex And The City, Oz, Chris Rock, Autopsy, Boxing, Band Of Brothers, Inside The NFL, Real Sports, On The Record, HBO Films, HBO Documentaries, Zone, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and The Wire.
Helix - An intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a terrifying life-and-death struggle that holds the key to mankind's salvation or total annihilation. Executive Producer is Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica).
Homeland - An American political thriller television series developed by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa based on the Israeli series Hatufim. See Wikipedia.
Homicide: Life on the Streets - An American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Homicide Unit. The series was originally based on David Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. Many of the characters and stories used throughout the show were based on events depicted in the book, which was also used for Simon's own series, The Wire on HBO. Also see List of Homicide: Life on the Street Episodes and epguides.com.
Horizon - BBC Two's flagship 50-minute science documentary series. Authoritative analysis of developments in science, medicine and technology.
House Medical Reviews - Episode guide and technical medical review of popular House TV series. Also see Wikipedia article.
How It's Made - See how everyday products are put together.
Human Voice, The - A 2020 Spanish-American short drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, based upon the play of the same name by Jean Cocteau. It stars Tilda Swinton and is Almodóvar's first movie acted in English. "A tale of someone isolated, regretful, anxious, unable to tell whether current arrangements are contingent or permanent, retreating into gestures of self-immolating despair." —Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Humans - A British-American science fiction television series, with the first season debuting on 14 June 2015 on Channel 4 and AMC. The series explores the emotional impact of the blurring of the lines between humans and machines. Also see Wikipedia.
I May Destroy You - A British drama television series created, written, co-directed, and executive produced by Michaela Coel for BBC One and HBO. The series is set in London with a predominantly Black British cast. Coel stars as Arabella, a twenty-something writer in the public eye who seeks to rebuild her life after being raped. It won the BAFTAs for Best Mini-Series, Best Director: Drama, Best Writer: Drama and Best Actress, in addition to two RTS Programme Awards, two Independent Spirit Awards, a Gotham Award, a GLAAD Media Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Peabody Award.
I'm Dying Up Here - American comedy-drama television series created by David Flebotte. Explores the struggles of “making it big” in the 1970’s L.A. comedy scene. Every night, a group of up-and-coming comedians wait to perform at Goldie’s, the hottest stand-up club in town. But first they’ll have to win over Goldie, who rules the Sunset Strip with an iron fist. Stand-up is a drug for these comedians, and they’re willing to sacrifice everything to get their fix. They brave the pain of sharing their innermost thoughts and darkest secrets, hoping that someone, anyone, will laugh. Executive produced by Jim Carrey. See Wikipedia.
Incorporated - American television sci-fi drama series. The series takes place in a dystopian Milwaukee in the year 2074, where many countries have gone bankrupt due to a number of crises and climate change. In the absence of effective government, powerful multinational corporations have become de facto governments, controlling areas called Green Zones.
Inside Amy Schumer - An American sketch comedy television series created and hosted by its star, Amy Schumer.
Internet Archive: Television - Collections of items recorded from television, including commercials, old television shows, government proceedings, and more, including:
- Classic TV
- Classic TV Commercials
Jane the Virgin - An American serial comedy-drama television series that debuted on The CW on October 13, 2014. It is a loose adaptation of the Venezuelan telenovela Juana la Virgen created by Perla Farías. Also see Wikipedia backgrounder.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - A seven-part British historical fantasy TV miniseries adapted by Peter Harness from Susanna Clarke's best-selling novel of the same name. Also see Wikipedia.
Justified - An American television drama series developed by Graham Yost. It is based on Elmore Leonard's novels Pronto and Riding the Rap and his short story "Fire in the Hole". Its main character is Raylan Givens, a deputy U.S. Marshal. Timothy Olyphant portrays Givens, a tough federal lawman, enforcing his own brand of justice in his Kentucky hometown. Also see Wikipedia.
Killjoys - A Canadian space adventure drama series.
KQED: Science - Follow KQED Public Media's science and environmental coverage from Climate Watch and QUEST, as well as PBS and NPR shows like NOVA, Nature and Science Friday.
La Femme Nikita Forever - Comprehensive resource to TV series La Femme Nikita.
Larry Sanders Show, The - An American television sitcom set in the office and studio of a fictional late-night talk show. The series was created by Garry Shandling and Dennis Klein and aired from August 1992 to May 1998 on the HBO cable television network. The series stars Shandling, Jeffrey Tambor, and Rip Torn and features celebrities playing exaggerated, parodic versions of themselves. The show has its roots in Shandling's stand-up comedy background, his experience as a guest host on The Tonight Show and his earlier sitcom It's Garry Shandling's Show. The program has had a marked and long-lasting influence on HBO as well as on television shows in the U.S. and Britain such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock and The Office. The supporting cast includes Janeane Garofalo, Wallace Langham, Penny Johnson, Linda Doucett, Scott Thompson and Jeremy Piven.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Presents a half-hour satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events. More on John Oliver here and here and here.
Law and Order - An American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It originally aired on NBC and, in syndication, on various cable networks, premiering on September 13, 1990, and completing its 20th and final season on May 24, 2010. See Wikipedia.
Leftovers, The - An American television drama series created by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta airing on HBO. It is based on Perrotta's novel of the same name. The series stars Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Liv Tyler, Chris Zylka, Margaret Qualley, Ann Dowd and Carrie Coon. It premiered on HBO on June 29, 2014. See Wikipedia.
Legion - An American cable television series created for FX by Noah Hawley, based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller. Dan Stevens stars as Haller, a mutant diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Filming takes place in Vancouver, and on sets built in Burnaby. Hawley wanted to show Haller as an "unreliable narrator", including mixing 1960s design with modern-day elements, and filming the series through the title character's distorted view of reality. See Wikipedia.
Leonardo's Machines - Is it possible that the Renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci was hundreds of years ahead of other scientists, and had actually developed the means with which people could fly?
Liar - A thriller created by brothers Harry and Jack Williams, and co-produced by SundanceTV and ITV. The series stars Joanne Froggatt and Ioan Gruffudd. It follows Laura Nielson and Andrew Earlham, whose initial attraction leads to a date that has far-reaching consequences for the couple and their friends and families, as secrets and lies are revealed. See Wikipedia.
Louie - An American comedy-drama television series on the FX network that began airing in 2010. It is written, directed, edited, and produced by the show's creator, stand-up comedian Louis C.K. He also stars in the show as a fictionalized version of himself, a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City. See Wikipedia.
Low Winter Sun - An American television drama series developed by Chris Mundy, starring Mark Strong and Lennie James. A contemporary story of murder, deception, revenge and corruption in a world where the line between cops and criminals is blurred. Low Winter Sun begins with the murder of a cop by a fellow Detroit detective. Seemingly the perfect crime, in reality the murder activates forces that will forever alter the detective's life, and pull him into the heart of the Detroit underworld.
Mad Men - American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner. Mad Men is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce (later Sterling Cooper & Partners), located nearby in the Time-Life Building, at 1271 Sixth Avenue. The focal point of the series is Don Draper (Jon Hamm), initially the talented creative director at Sterling Cooper and later a founding partner at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, and the people in his life both in and out of the office. The plot focuses on the business of the agencies as well as the personal lives of the characters, regularly depicting the changing moods and social mores of the United States across the 1960s. See Wikipedia.
Magicians, The - A fantasy television series that premiered on Syfy and Showcase, based on the novel of the same name by Lev Grossman. Premise: Quentin Coldwater enrolls at Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy to be trained as a magician, where he discovers that the magical world from his favorite childhood books is real and poses a danger to humanity. Meanwhile, the life of his childhood friend Julia is derailed when she is denied entry, and she searches for magic elsewhere.. See Wikipedia.
Man in the High Castle, The - An American dystopian alternative history television series produced by Amazon Studios, Scott Free, Headline Pictures, Electric Shepherd Productions and Big Light Productions. The series is loosely based on the 1962 novel of the same name by American science fiction author Philip K. Dick. The story portrays an alternate history of the world in which the Axis powers won World War II.
Marcella - A British "Nordic"-noir detective series, written, directed and produced by Swedish screenwriter Hans Rosenfeldt, creator of The Bridge. The series is produced by Buccaneer Media for ITV and distributed worldwide by Buccaneer's parent company Cineflix. It was first broadcast on ITV on 4 April 2016, with seven further episodes broadcast weekly. The series stars Anna Friel as Marcella Backland, a former London detective who returns to work to investigate an open case from 11 years earlier involving an unidentified serial killer who appears to have become active again. Marcella also has to deal with a hectic home life, where her husband, Jason (Nicholas Pinnock), has made the decision to leave her and, at first, send their two children to a boarding school; but later on (in the second season) he uses Marcella's mental disorder as a means to take full custody.
Manhattan - A fictional American television drama series based on the project of the same name that produced the first nuclear weapons. While some historical figures are referenced in Manhattan, most characters are fictional, and the show is not intended to maintain historical accuracy.
Mare of Easttown - An American crime drama limited series created by Brad Ingelsby for HBO. Directed by Craig Zobel and written by Ingelsby, the series premiered on April 18, 2021, and concluded on May 30, 2021, consisting of seven episodes. It stars Kate Winslet as the title character, a detective investigating a murder in a small town near Philadelphia. Julianne Nicholson, Jean Smart, Angourie Rice, Evan Peters, Sosie Bacon, David Denman, Neal Huff, James McArdle, Guy Pearce, Cailee Spaeny, John Douglas Thompson, and Joe Tippett appear in supporting roles.
Marine Biz.tv - First global maritime channel. Initiated by Aries Marine, Dubai, the largest ship design consultancy firm in the Middle East.
Masterpiece Theatre - The longest running prime-time drama series on American television, presenting the works of classic and contemporary writers interpreted by the world's foremost actors.
Masters of Sex - Drama series on Showtime developed by Michelle Ashford and based on Thomas Maier's biography Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love. The series tells the story of Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson., the research team that pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s.
Max Headroom Chronicles - Compendium of nformation, episode guide, cast lists, commentary, and more on th US/UK TV series.
MercuryMedia International - Strives to deliver innovative and exciting television of the highest quality to the international broadcast market.
Mick, The - An American sitcom television series broadcast on Fox. Created by Dave Chernin and John Chernin, the series stars Kaitlin Olson who also serves as executive producer. Mackenzie "Mickey" Murphy, an irresponsible woman, relocates from Warwick, Rhode Island to Greenwich, Connecticut. She becomes the parental guardian for her niece and nephews after her estranged and wealthy sister Poodle and her husband Christopher have been arrested by the FBI for fraud and tax evasion. See Wikipedia.
Mildred Pierce - A five-part miniseries that first aired on HBO on March 27, 2011. Adapted from James M. Cain's 1941 novel of the same name, it is directed by Todd Haynes and stars Kate Winslet in the title role, alongside Guy Pearce and Evan Rachel Wood. Carter Burwell wrote the original score for the series.
Modern Family - American comedy series. Presented in mockumentary style, the fictional characters frequently talk directly into the camera. The program is the story of Jay Pritchett, his second wife, his stepson, and their infant son; and his two adult children and their families. Also see Wikipedia.
MoneyTrack - Public television series about money and investing that features real people.
Moyers & Company - The series continues Moyers' long-running conversation with the American public by offering a forum to poets, writers, artists, journalists, scientists, philosophers, and leading scholars. It also features Moyers' essays on democracy.
Mr. Robot - An American cyberpunk-thriller drama television series created by Sam Esmail. The series follows Elliot Alderson, a young man living in New York City, who works at Allsafe as a cyber security engineer. Elliot has social anxiety disorder, but connects to people by hacking them and acts as a cyber vigilante. He is recruited by a mysterious social-anarchist known as "Mr. Robot", and joins his team of hackers, known as "fsociety". One of their missions is to take down one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (known as "Evil Corp" by Elliot), a company that Elliot is paid to protect. See Wikipedia.
Murder in the First - An American detective anthology drama television series that airs on TNT. The series was created by Steven Bochco and Eric Lodal, and stars Taye Diggs and Kathleen Robertson. Set in San Francisco, the show follows a single case across an entire season. See Wikipedia.
Music Television (MTV) Online - News, music, shows, chat.
National Public Broadcasting Archives (NPBA) - Brings together the archival record of the major entities of non-commercial broadcasting in the United States. An extensive reference library contains basic studies of the broadcasting industry, rare pamphlets and journals on relevant topics. Besides the textual records of public broadcasting's major institutions, NPBA also collects and maintains a selected audio and video program record of public broadcasting's national production and support centers (NAEB, NPR, CPB/Annenberg) and of local stations WETA, WAMU-FM and Maryland Public Television (MPT).
NBC Bay Area Tech - Technology news and resources, webcast and TV show archives.
Nevers, The - An American science fiction drama television series created by Joss Whedon for HBO. The series is produced by HBO and Mutant Enemy Productions with executive producers including Whedon, Philippa Goslett, Doug Petrie, Jane Espenson, Ilene S. Landress and Bernadette Caulfield. The series premiered on April 11, 2021. The first season will consist of 12 episodes, split into two six-episode parts, with the second half debuting in 2022. The series is set in Victorian London and follows a group of people, mostly women, known as the Touched, who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities. Among them are Amalia True, a mysterious and quick-fisted widow, and her best friend Penance Adair, a brilliant inventor.
New Americans (PBS) - Follow a diverse group of immigrants and refugees as they leave their home and families behind and learn what it means to be new Americans in the 21st century.
Newsroom - From the mind of Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing and screenwriter of The Social Network and Moneyball, comes The Newsroom, a behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor (played by Jeff Daniels), his new executive producer (Emily Mortimer), the newsroom staff (John Gallagher, Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Olivia Munn, Dev Patel) and their boss (Sam Waterston), the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.
Night Manager, The - A British-American television miniseries directed by Susanne Bier and starring Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman, David Harewood, Tom Hollander and Elizabeth Debicki. It is based on the 1993 novel of the same name by John le Carré and adapted by David Farr to the present day. Former British soldier Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) is recruited by Angela Burr (Olivia Colman), an intelligence operative. He is tasked to navigate Whitehall and Washington, D.C. where there is an alliance between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. He must infiltrate the inner circle of arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper (Hugh Laurie), Roper's girlfriend Jed (Elizabeth Debicki), and associate Corkoran (Tom Hollander). See Wikipedia.
NOVA - PBS science programming.
Office, The (American) - An American mockumentary sitcom television series that depicts the everyday work lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania, branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. It aired on NBC from March 24, 2005, to May 16, 2013, spanning a total of nine seasons. Based on the 2001–2003 BBC series of the same name created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, it was adapted for American television by Greg Daniels, a veteran writer for Saturday Night Live, King of the Hill, and The Simpsons. Like its British counterpart, the series was filmed in a single-camera setup without a studio audience or a laugh track to simulate the look of an actual documentary.
Office, The (British) - A British television mockumentary sitcom first broadcast in the UK on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and produced by Ash Atalla, the programme follows the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough branch of the fictional Wernham Hogg paper company. Gervais also stars in the series, playing the central character David Brent.
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States - This ten-part Showtime documentary series looks back at human events that at the time went under reported, but that crucially shaped America's unique and complex history over the 20th century. From the atomic bombing of Japan to the Cold War and the fall of Communism. With newsreel footage, copious research and Stone's own understated narration, Untold History revisits familiar events, but through an unapologetically leftist lens.
OneWorld TV - Video sharing and social networking aimed at people interested in social issues, development, environment, etc. A unique public platform for filmmakers, video journalists, NGOs and just about anyone with an interest in video and a concern for a better world.
Orphan Black - A Canadian science fiction television series starring Tatiana Maslany as several identical women who are revealed to be clones. The series focuses on Sarah Manning, a woman who assumes the identity of her clone, Elizabeth Childs, after witnessing the latter's suicide. The series raises issues about the moral and ethical implications of human cloning and its impact on issues of personal identity. Also see Wikipedia.
Perry Mason - An American period drama television series based on the character of the same name created by Erle Stanley Gardner that premiered on June 21, 2020, on HBO. The series focuses on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry Mason. In 1932, Los Angeles is prospering while the rest of the U.S. is recovering from the grip of the Great Depression. Down-and-out private investigator Perry Mason is struggling with his trauma from The Great War and being divorced. He is hired for a sensational child kidnapping trial; his investigation results in major consequences for Mason, those around him, and local leaders
P.O.V. - P.O.V., a cinema term for point of view, is public television's showcase for independent, non-fiction film.
Paper Tiger (PPTV) - A public access TV show that looks at the communications industry.
Parks and Recreation - An American comedy on the NBC television network, starring Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, a perky, mid-level bureaucrat in the parks department of Pawnee, a fictional town in Indiana. See Wikipedia.
Penny Dreadful - A British-American horror drama television series created for Showtime and Sky by John Logan, who also acts as executive producer alongside Sam Mendes. The title refers to the penny dreadfuls, a type of 19th-century British fiction publication with lurid and sensational subject matter. The series draws upon many public domain characters from 19th-century British and Irish fiction, including Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Mina Harker, Abraham Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, Renfield and Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's Dracula, Victor Frankenstein and his monster from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Dr. Henry Jekyll from Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. See Wikipedia.
Play for Today - Introductory essay by Dave Rolinson. A British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. Over three hundred original plays, most between an hour and ninety minutes in length, were transmitted during the fourteen-year period the series aired, and it is by far the most famous programme of its type to have been screened on British television. Also see Wikipedia article.
Plot Against America, The - An American alternate history drama television miniseries created and written by David Simon and Ed Burns, based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Philip Roth, that aired on HBO from March 16, 2020, to April 20, 2020. The Plot Against America imagines "an alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism."
Political Animals - A six-hour American miniseries created by Greg Berlanti and Laurence Mark, that premiered on USA Network on July 15, 2012. Sigourney Weaver portrays Elaine Barrish, as a divorced former First Lady, currently occcupying the office of Secretary of State.
Portlandia - A satirical sketch comedy television series, set and filmed in and around Portland, Oregon; it stars Carrie Brownstein (lead guitarist/singer for Wild Flag and Sleater-Kinney) and former Saturday Night Live cast member Fred Armisen. See Wikipedia.
Preacher - An American television series developed by Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen and Sam Catlin for AMC starring Dominic Cooper. It is an adaptation of the comic book series created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, and published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.
Queen of the South - American television drama series, an adaptation of the successful telenovela La Reina del Sur.
Ray Donovan - Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players. The new one-hour series stars Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominee Liev Schreiber in his first lead television role as the go-to guy who makes the problems of the city's celebrities, superstar athletes, and business moguls disappear. This powerful drama unfolds when his father, played by Oscar winner Jon Voight, is unexpectedly released from prison, setting off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.
Rectify - An American television drama series created by Ray McKinnon. The first original series from SundanceTV. Daniel Holden was imprisoned as a teenager for the rape and murder of his 16-year-old girlfriend, Hanna. After he has spent 19 years on death row, new DNA evidence vacates his original trial, and he returns to his hometown of Paulie, Georgia. The subsequent adjustments and events in the lives of Daniel, his extended family, and the townfolk are related as a character study in a slowly unfolding Southern Gothic story.
Roadies - An American comedy-drama television series created by Cameron Crowe, the ten-episode first season premiered on Showtime on June 26, 2016. Sadly, it was cancelled. Roadies is an insider's look at the reckless, romantic, funny and often poignant lives of a committed group of "roadies," who live for music and the de facto family they've formed along the way.
Rome - A historical drama television series created by John Milius, William J. MacDonald, and Bruno Heller. The show, consisting of two seasons for a total of 22 episodes, aired on HBO, and BBC Two from August 28, 2005 to March 25, 2007, and was later released on DVD and Blu-ray. An international co-production between Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States, the series was filmed in various locations, but most notably in the Cinecittà studios in Rome, Italy. The series is set in the 1st century BC, during Ancient Rome's transition from Republic to Empire. The series features a sprawling cast of characters, many based on real figures from historical records, but the lead protagonists are ultimately two soldiers named Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, who find their lives intertwined with key historical events.
Shades of Blue - American crime drama television series created by Adi Hasak. The series is set in New York City and stars Jennifer Lopez as the main character Harlee Santos, a single-mother NYPD detective, who is forced to work in the FBI's anti-corruption task force, while dealing with her own financial and family problems. Also see Wikipedia.
Shameless - An American comedy-drama television series which airs on Showtime. This remake of the British series is set in Chicago's Canaryville neighborhood on the South Side, although filmed in Los Angeles, with the exterior scenes filmed in Chicago. Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. But the kids have found ways to grow up in spite of him. They may not be like any family you know, but they make no apologies for being exactly who they are.
Sherlock - A British television crime drama that presents a contemporary adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. See Wikipedia backgrounder.
Six Feet Under - HBO series. Using dramatic irony and dark, situational humor, the show approaches the subject of death through the eyes of the Fisher family, who own and operate Fisher & Diaz Funeral Home in Los Angeles.
Sky Arts - A TV channel dedicated to the arts. Every day Sky Arts broadcasts quality programs across the whole range of the arts from around the world. including: films, opera, ballet and concerts; documentaries, news, masterclasses and profiles; and specially-commissioned programs on today's top artists, performers and events.
Sleeper Cell - Showtime fictional series about an Islamist terrorist cell.
Sopranos, The - HBO series. Creator David Chase's drama series stars three-time Emmy winners James Gandolfini as mob boss Tony Soprano, Edie Falco as Tony's wife Carmela, Lorraine Bracco as therapist Dr. Jennifer Melfi, Michael Imperioli as Tony's nephew Christopher Moltisanti, and Dominic Chianese as Uncle Junior. Joining the cast of The Sopranos as a regular this season is Steve Buscemi (Ghost World), playing Tony Soprano's cousin Tony Blundetto.
Soundwaves TV - The long-running award-winning TV program Soundwaves (1983-2008) and its various spin-offs and specials. Soundwaves aired for 25 years from March 30, 1983 to October 1, 2008 and produced 500 episodes.
South Bank Show - Britain's dominant arts program for over a quarter century.
Spark - A weekly television show, an educational outreach program and a Web site about Bay Area artists and arts organizations.
Springboard - PBS series providing analysis of the ways that today's scientific and technological revolutions are reshaping the fabric of American culture. Host, Rebecca Roberts, brings together the experts from varying backgrounds, specialties, and philosophies who are creating the current revolution in science and society.
Sputnik: Orbiting the world with George Galloway - Debate and discussion between Galloway and authoritative, influential, and well-informed, guests.
State of Play - BBC series. When Sonia Baker, a young political researcher, falls on the Tube tracks and is killed, it devastates her high profile Labour MP boss (David Morrissey). The press smells blood and questions are asked about the nature of his relationship with Sonia. The story is pursued by a leading broad sheet, and its senior reporter, Cal McCaffrey (John Simm) is put on the case - his long-standing friendship with Collins considered a bonus to the editor (Bill Nighy). is uncomfortable with pursuing what amounts to a domestic scandal until his colleague Della (Kelly Macdonald) discovers a surprising link between Sonia's death and the murder of a black teenager named Kelvin Stagg that same morning. Someone clearly wanted Sonia dead, but why?
Succession - An American satirical comedy-drama television series created by Jesse Armstrong. It premiered on June 3, 2018, on HBO, and has been renewed for a third season, which is set to premiere in October 2021. Succession follows the Roy family, owners of media conglomerate Waystar RoyCo. The family patriarch, Logan Roy (Cox), has experienced a decline in health. His four children – removed oldest son Connor (Ruck), power-hungry Kendall (Strong), irreverent Roman (Culkin), and politically savvy Siobhan (Snook) – all with varying degrees of connection to the company, begin to prepare for a future without their father,[9] and each begins vying for prominence within the company. Among the series ensemble cast are Jeremy Strong as Kendall, Kieran Culkin as Roman, and Sarah Snook as Siobhan, Logan's children employed by the company. Matthew Macfadyen stars as Tom Wambsgans, Siobhan's husband and Waystar executive; Nicholas Braun as Greg Hirsch, Logan's grandnephew also employed by the company; Alan Ruck as Connor, Logan's eldest child; and Hiam Abbass as Marcia Roy, Logan's wife.
Taboo - A British television drama series produced by Scott Free London and Hardy Son & Baker for BBC One and FX. The series, set in 1814, begins with James Delaney (Tom Hardy) returning to Britain after twelve years in Africa with fourteen stolen diamonds, following the death of his father and as the war with the United States is nearing its end. Encircled by conspiracy, murder and betrayal, a dark family mystery unfolds in a combustible tale of love and treachery. Also see Wikipedia.
Taken - A Franco-American drama series based on the Taken film trilogy. Former Green Beret Bryan Mills must overcome a personal tragedy, in order to get revenge while starting his career as a special intelligence operative.
Ten Days in the Valley - An American drama television series airing on ABC, starring Kyra Sedgwick. A television producer's life gets complicated after her young daughter disappears in the middle of the night and the two worlds she tries to navigate violently collide. See Wikipedia.
Thirteen - A British drama television miniseries created and written by Marnie Dickens. The series centres on Ivy Moxam (Jodie Comer), a 26-year-old woman who escapes from the cellar where she has been imprisoned for 13 years.
This Old House - The Emmy Award winning This Old House is the PBS's premier home improvement series. The show demystifys the home improvement process and while celebrating the fusion of old world craftsmanship and modern technology.
Thom Hartman - Progressive talk show.
Top of the Lake - A 2013 television miniseries written by Jane Campion and Gerard Lee, and directed by Campion and Garth Davis. Filmed and set in New Zealand, the drama series follows a detective (Elisabeth Moss) investigating the disappearance of a pregnant 12-year-old girl. Also see Wikipedia.
Treme - Drama series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer. Treme begins three months after Katrina, and they follow a diverse group of characters as they rebuild their lives in a city torn apart, a city in which tens of thousands of houses are abandoned, in which only 50 percent of the population remains, in which neighborhoods are still without power. The main characters in Treme aren't the overburdened cops, spiraling addicts, ruthless dealers, struggling dockworkers, corrupt politicians or compromised journalists of The Wire. In their place, for the most part, are musicians, as the show's title sneakily suggests: Treme (pronounced trih-MAY) is the New Orleans neighborhood where jazz was born. And even though it adjoins the French Quarter, few tourists visit Treme, where generations of the city's musicians have lived.
True Blood - An American fantasy horror drama television series produced and created by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a series of novels by Charlaine Harris. A reboot is currently in development. The series revolves around Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress living in the fictional rural town of Bon Temps, Louisiana. It is set two years after the invention of a synthetic blood product branded "Tru Blood" that has allowed vampires to "come out of the coffin" and let their presence be known to mankind. It chronicles the vampires' struggle for equal rights and assimilation while anti-vampire organizations begin to gain power. Sookie's world is turned upside down when she falls in love with 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), and for the first time, she must navigate the trials and terrors of intimacy and relationships.
True Detective - An American television anthology drama series on HBO created and written by Nic Pizzolatto, with the first season directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. Season one starred Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Potts, and Tory Kittles, and utilizes multiple timelines to trace two Louisiana State Police Criminal Investigations Division homicide detectives' hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana across seventeen years. The second season premiered on June 21, 2015, and stars Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch, Kelly Reilly, and Vince Vaughn. Also see Wikipedia.
TrulyCA - KQED is airing documentary films about California made by independent filmmakers.
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) - Offical guide to TCM.
TV Acres - Archive of TV program facts arranged by subject and derived from American and British TV shows broadcast during prime-time and Saturday mornings from the 1940s to the present.
Twilight Zone - One of television's most rightly revered series, The Twilight Zone (CBS, 1959-64) stands as the role model for TV anthologies. Its trenchant sci-fi/fantasy parables explore humanity's hopes, despairs, prides and prejudices in metaphoric ways conventional drama cannot. Creator Rod Serling wrote the majority of the scripts, and produced those of such now-legendary writers as Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont. Also see TZ Epoisode Finder and Wikipedia entry.
Twin Peaks: The Return - American television series created by Mark Frost and David Lynch and a continuation of the 1990–1991 ABC series Twin Peaks.
Veep - American political satire comedy television series, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Vinyl - American period drama television series created by Mick Jagger, Martin Scorsese, Rich Cohen and Terence Winter. The series stars Bobby Cannavale as Richie Finestra, a record executive in the 1970s. It premiered on HBO on February 14, 2016.
Wallander (British) - A British television series adapted from the Swedish novelist Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Kenneth Branagh as the eponymous police inspector. It was the first time the Wallander novels have been adapted into an English-language production. Yellow Bird, a production company formed by Mankell, began negotiations with British companies to produce the adaptations in 2006. In 2007, Branagh met Mankell to discuss playing the role. Contracts were signed and work began on the films, adapted from the novels Sidetracked, Firewall, and One Step Behind, in January 2008. Emmy-award-winning director Philip Martin was hired as lead director. Martin worked with cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle to establish a visual style for the series.
Wallander (Swedish) - A Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels, starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The first season of thirteen films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The second season of thirteen films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad, Skåne near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost (#1), Mastermind (#6), and The Secret (#13) were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden (The Revenge), was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, aired in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson replacing the late Johanna Sällström as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.
War and Peace - A British-American television serial first broadcast on BBC One and A&E in January 2016. In this new adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel, three young people experience life, love and loss against the backdrop of Russia's wars with Napoleon.
Warriors - A American martial arts crime drama television series that premiered on April 5, 2019, on Cinemax. It is based on an original concept and treatment by Bruce Lee, and is executive-produced by his daughter, Shannon Lee, and film director Justin Lin. Jonathan Tropper, known for the Cinemax original series Banshee, is the showrunner. Set during the Tong Wars in late 1870s San Francisco, the series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who emigrates from China in search of his sister, only to be sold to one of the most powerful tongs in Chinatown.
Weeds - An American dark comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan that aired on Showtime from August 8, 2005 to September 16, 2012. Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), a widowed mother of two boys—Silas (Hunter Parrish) and Shane (Alexander Gould)—begins selling marijuana to support her family. Other main characters include Nancy's lax brother-in-law Andy Botwin (Justin Kirk), who moves in to help raise her children; naive acquaintance Doug Wilson (Kevin Nealon); narcissistic neighbor Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins), who lives with her husband Dean (Andy Milder) and their daughter Isabelle (Allie Grant); as well as Nancy's wholesalers Heylia James (Tonye Patano) and Conrad Shepard (Romany Malco). Over the course of the series, the Botwin family become increasingly entangled in illegal activity.
West Wing, The - As the winner of four consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Drama Series, The West Wing - under the direction of executive producer John Wells - offered viewers a realistic, behind-the-scenes peek into the Oval Office as seen through the eyes of its eclectic group of frenzied staffers and the devoted First Family.
Westworld - An American science fiction thriller television series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy for HBO. It is based on the 1973 film of the same name, which was written and directed by American novelist Michael Crichton, and to a lesser extent on the 1976 sequel Futureworld. The program takes place in fictional Westworld, a technologically advanced, Western-themed amusement park populated completely by synthetic androids dubbed "hosts". Westworld caters to high-paying visitors dubbed "newcomers" (also known as "guests"), who can do whatever they wish within the park, without fear of retaliation from the hosts.
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali - Directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Southpaw, The Magnificent Seven, The Equalizer franchise) with LeBron James and Maverick Carter serving as executive producers, What’s My Name/Muhammad Ali explores Ali’s challenges, confrontations, comebacks and triumphs through recordings of his own voice. The two-part documentary paints an intimate portrait of a man who was a beacon of hope for oppressed people around the world and, in his later years, was recognized as a global citizen and a symbol of humanity and understanding.
Who Do You Think You Are? - BBC program where famous people trace their family histories.
Will - American drama television series about the (fictional) life of William Shakespeare in his early 20s, the wild story of young William Shakespeare's arrival onto the punk-rock theater scene in 16th century London - the seductive, violent world where his raw talent faced rioting audiences, religious fanatics and raucous side-shows.
Wire, The - HBO series. Honored with a 2004 Peabody Award as "one of the most intense and complex narratives television viewers have seen. Probing the full rangeof human behavior, 'The Wire' has the depth and intensity of a complex novel. Both cops and criminals face dilemmas where boundaries of right and wrong, honesty and dishonesty are continually blurred."
X-Files, The - An American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter. The program originally aired from September 10, 1993, to May 19, 2002, on Fox, spanning nine seasons and 202 episodes. The series revolves around FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) investigating X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries to debunk his work and thus return him to mainstream cases. See Wikipedia.
Young Pope, The - An English-language Italian television drama series created and directed by Paolo Sorrentino for Sky Atlantic, HBO, and Canal+. The series stars Jude Law. The new pope is, superficially, novel: He's hooked on Cherry Coke Zero, he's pop-culture literate, he - well, he looks like Jude Law. But his beliefs turn out to be militantly conservative, if not medieval. Mr. Sorrentino composes shots as if painting religious art, and "The Young Pope" looks awesome in both the vernacular and spiritual senses. See James Poniewozik's review in the NYT.
Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling, The - An American documentary film that premiered on HBO in two parts on March 26 and 27, 2018. Directed and produced by Judd Apatow, the film explores the life and legacy of comedian Garry Shandling.

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