TV Insider • June 30th, 2026

The Biggest Censor Fails in TV History: F-Bombs, Nipplegate, the Oscars Streaker & More

Fifteen years ago, on June 30, 2011, MSNBC suspended political analyst Mark Halperin for a Morning Joe segment in which Halperin referred to then-President Barack Obama as “kind of a d***.” That wasn’t the first or worst time that TV censors dropped the ball. Here are even more salacious and outrageous moments that went uncensored, our picks for the biggest censor fails in television history.

TV Insider • May 22nd, 2026

‘Alias’ Ending Explained — Plus, What We Loved & Didn’t

Twenty years after Alias’ conclusion, it’s time to reopen the Sydney Bristow dossier and revisit that two-hour series finale.

TV Insider • May 16th, 2026

The Best Late-Night Hosts of All Time, Ranked

The curtain is closing on The Late Show, both Stephen Colbert’s show and the CBS franchise as a whole. And with the current state of late-night TV, other post-primetime chat-fests might go off the air, too. The decline of late night is a shame, because for some 70 years now, comedians have been tickling our funny bones, bringing A-listers into our living rooms, and even inspiring social change. Here are our picks for the best to have ever done it.

Remind • February 28th, 2026

Why 'Pretty in Pink's Original Ending Got Booed

Forty years ago, moviegoers watched a teenage love triangle play out in the comedy-drama film Pretty in Pink, as the working-class Andie (Molly Ringwald) weighed her romantic prospects with fellow outsider Duckie (Jon Cryer) or upper-class love interest Blane (Andrew McCarthy).

In the end — four-decade-old spoiler alert! — Andie chooses Blane, and Duckie sacrifices his own happy ending to support the new relationship. But John Hughes’ screenplay for the film didn’t originally end that way.

Remind • February 18th, 2026

Why Fred Rogers Took On His Only Acting Role Outside 'Mr. Rogers'

Fred Rogers logged hundreds of TV appearances in his persona as Mister Rogers — and not just on his long-running series Mister Rogers Neighborhood. But he only played another character on screen one time — and that rare acting role came 30 years ago, in an episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

In the CBS drama’s fourth season episode “Deal with the Devil” — which aired on February 17, 1996 — Rogers played Reverend Thomas. And the role was familiar territory for the children’s TV star...

Queerty • November 15th, 2025

It’s Transgender Awareness Week, and trans folk are sharing their stories

Every November 13 to November 19 is Transgender Awareness Week, a time to educate the public about trans identities and the fight for trans equality and safety, all of which leads up to Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20. As GLAAD explains, trans advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith created Transgender Day of Remembrance in 1999 in memory of Rita Hester, a trans woman murdered the previous year.

TV Insider • October 11th, 2025

13 Best TV Opening Title Sequences Ever

Many TV shows just show a simple title card or, worse, rely on AI-generated graphics in a not-so-Secret Invasion of nonhuman artistry. But the best opening title sequences set the tone of the show, complement the narrative, or just serve as an entertaining diversion from the drama at hand. Here’s our pantheon of TV’s best opening title sequences of all time.

Distractify • February 19th, 2024

Albert Einstein’s Brain Traveled the Country for Decades After His Death

Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein died in 1955, but the story of his brain has continued for years now, all because of one man who took the gray matter into his own hands and kept it for decades, even crossing state lines with the brain. What happened to Einstein’s brain?

Believe it or not, it was the pathologist who conducted Einstein’s autopsy who just took the brain without permission, as detailed in last year’s documentary film The Man Who Stole Einstein’s Brain.

Queerty • December 27th, 2023

Gay men sound off on the need to confront transphobia among other gay men

Hang out on Reddit long enough, and you’ll eventually see transphobic attitudes show up—explicitly and implicitly—in queer communities on the platform. And social media is, of course, a microcosm of a society which some think LGB equality is an acceptable substitute for LGBT equality.

One Reddit user recently shed light on transphobia in the gay male population, saying that although he loves being gay and trans, his interactions with cis gay men “[have], by and large, been less than ideal.”

LGBTQ Nation • April 4th, 2022

Young people are coming out in huge numbers. These families found beautiful ways to support their kids.

Paria Hassouri and her husband were thousands of miles from home, on vacation in Thailand, when they got a call from their daughter’s school. A teacher told them that Ava, then 13, was questioning her gender identity. During Ava’s coming-out experience, Hassouri educated herself about how best to support her daughter. Other parents are trying to do the same, as children and teens are opening up — sometimes even earlier in their lives — about their placement in a galaxy of queer existence.

INTO • April 22nd, 2021

Harry Potter Fans Have a Wizarding World Without J.K. Rowling

Fans’ love for Hogwarts’ witches and wizards need not snuffed by the ramblings of a 50-something cisgender white lady. They have used Vanishing Spells on the woman whose words hurt trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people around the world.

Call it the Fandom That Lived.

Teen Vogue • April 28th, 2020

Gender Affirming Surgeries Are Being Delayed or Canceled Because of the Coronavirus Pandemic

On March 13, the American College of Surgeons recommended hospitals across the country minimize, postpone, or cancel all scheduled elective surgeries because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As many hospitals took that advice and shed certain procedures from the books, many transgender people were left with devastating setbacks as gender-affirming surgeries were canceled or indefinitely postponed as the question of which procedures are “elective” looms.

Queerty • November 24th, 2019

Surprise, surprise — ‘they’ has been used as a singular pronoun for 600 years

After declaring the violence epidemic against transgender people a “myth,” journalist and self-described “gay conservative” Chad Felix Greene is now attacking the idea of the use of “they” as a singular pronoun and criticizing the APA for endorsing the usage.

A Plus • December 3rd, 2017

For Actors Of Color, The Struggle For On-Screen Visibility Can Sometimes Be Literal

Color photography was developed, so to speak, with a definite bias toward lighter skin — a reality cinematographer Ava Berkofsky sought to overcome when she was hired to light season 2 of the HBO comedy Insecure.