There’s a mouse in the Fox house: The Walt Disney Company is set to acquire 21st Century Fox for $71.3 billion of cash and stock, with shareholders approving the deal last summer following an intense bidding war between Disney and Comcast, the parent company of NBCUniversal. The deal is exciting news for moviegoers — the X-Men and the Fantastic Four can finally join the Marvelverse — but what does it mean for TV fans? How will Fox’s TV properties be affected?

On Tuesday, March 13, Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were indicted in Operation Varsity Blues, an investigation into a nationwide college admissions scam involving the alleged faking of students’ SAT and ACT scores and athletic achievements. And by now, more startling and bizarre details have emerged in the press.

In an Instagram post on February 11, Chris Pratt refuted Ellen Page’s recent claims that Hillsong, his church and that of many other Hollywood types, is “infamously anti-LGBTQ.” In his caption, he gave high praises to Hillsong. Trouble is, we’re just not buying them. “It has recently been suggested that I belong to a church which ‘hates a certain group of people’ and is ‘infamously anti-LGBTQ,’” the Jurassic World star wrote. “Nothing could be further from the truth. I go to a church that opens their doors to absolutely everyone.” Ahem. We daresay a great many things could be “further from the truth” than Page’s assertion.

If Netflix’s cancellation of Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and Daredevil last fall was a critical hit to fans of Marvel TV shows, its cancellation of Jessica Jones and The Punisher this week was a kill shot. The streaming service has now axed all of its Marvel shows, ending an empire it announced with great fanfare in 2013. But just like their Avengers counterparts, these Marvel heroes may be primed for a comeback.

By December 2018, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon had all banished the Living Hope Ministries app, following outcry from LGBT activists and allies who said the app promoted gay conversion therapy. But as of press time, the app is still available for download from Google’s Play Store, and more than 139,000 petitioners are wondering why.

A New Zealand-based team of writers and illustrators are taking us back to the Promised Land — specifically, the Promised Land Tales series of LGBTQ-inclusive children’s books. Following the success of 2017’s Promised Land and 2018’s Maiden Voyage, the team has launched a Kickstarter to fund their third book, Raven Wild. The book, a fairy tale with a young trans woman saving the day, has already earned $18k toward its $27k goal within the first week of the campaign.

Looking for some good television? You’re in luck — there are a ton of “good” shows on the tube. We have good cops, good doctors, good omens, good places, and — of course — good wives. But how good are these shows anyway?

Listen, not every Grey’s Anatomy episode is gonna be a “Losing My Religion” or a “Didn’t We Almost Have It All?” or a “The Sound of Silence.” The writers on the record-breaking medical drama can’t hit a home run each time at bat. But we would still contend that Grey’s at its worst is still better than a lot of other TV shows at their best.

Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff recently called the March 28 episode, "Silent All These Years," the “most powerful hour of TV I’ve ever been a part of.” And that’s saying something, considering she’s been a part of most of the ABC medical drama’s 15 seasons so far. In light of that statement, we’re revealing our picks for the most powerful episode of each season so far.

For a show about cleanliness, Tidying Up is sure stirring up a messy debate: There's backlash to the Netflix series and now backlash to the backlash. And all this controversy is pointing out some pervasive social issues.

Everywhere we turn, we're bombarded with messaging that we should be working—and if we are working, we should be working harder. Rise and grind. Hustle harder. Own your moment. Always be closing. Sleep when you're dead. If you love what you do, it doesn't feel like work. Elon Musk is telling us that "nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week." We're living in a society, at least in America, where working past the point of exhaustion is exalted.

Twenty-five years ago this month, the world met Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), the brilliant and “spooky” FBI agent who not only catalogued but “wanted to believe” in paranormal phenomena, and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), the doctor-turned-agent whose skepticism the Bureau entrusted to keep Mulder in check. The X-Files debuted on September 10, 1993, to decent ratings and favorable reviews. So how does that very first episode hold up?

Being the partner of an academic is not too dissimilar from being a military spouse. Both of these groups must often follow their significant others to unfamiliar locations, which can result in fewer suitable employment opportunities. Due to lack of access to flexibility, specifically location variety and location independence, these trailing partners are often forced to “opt down” into lower paying, less challenging positions, or leave the workforce entirely.

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.

Women bring millions of viewers to TV networks and billions of dollars to the box office… so why don’t they get equal pay, equal say, and equal billing? Here’s what 14 famous women are saying and doing to close the gap.

Duck Dynasty‘s Phil Robertson is a bigot, and A&E is reprehensible for not taking his offenses more seriously and for kowtowing to its Phil-supporting viewership.

The Biggest Loser contestants' relapses are scientifically proven to be a problem of physiology, not willpower — and the reality show is one of many whose results aren’t always as successful as you see on TV.

The best weddings are a reflection of the two people swapping the vows, I believe. But the story of our wedding day gives people the false impression my husband and I are morning people.