Dan Clarendon

TV Insider • June 13, 2026

7 Times ‘Jeopardy!’ Arguably or Actually Got It Wrong

Will Jeopardy! have to eat its words again? Viewers of America’s favorite quiz show are calling out a Final Jeopardy! clue about riverboat gamblers. But Jeopardy! writers and judges aren’t infallible. Here are other oopsie-daisies from the show.

TV Insider • June 7, 2026

Biggest ‘Baywatch’ Controversies: 6 Times the Tide Turned Against the Original Series

As TV producers prepare a Fox reboot of the 1990s lifeguard drama Baywatch, they’d be wise to study the mistakes of their predecessors. A few of those hard-learned lessons: Protect the female cast members. Give them serious storylines and not just skimpy swimsuits. Showcase a diversity of humanity. And don’t piss off the locals.

TV Insider • June 2, 2026

12 CBS News Figures Who Resigned or Lost Jobs Under the New Regime — and What They’ve Said

The CBS News operating today is hardly the same CBS News that was operating a year ago. In the intervening 12 months, parent company Paramount settled a lawsuit President Donald Trump had filed over a 60 Minutes story as it sought approval for a merger with Skydance. David Ellison, a Trump ally at the helm of the newly-created Paramount Skydance, then hired Bari Weiss as CBS News’ editor-in-chief, and she began reworking many of CBS News’ flagship programs.

TV Insider • May 22, 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.

Queerty • May 16, 2026

Murray Bartlett is in the middle of his career renaissance and has two more big roles coming

Not long ago, Murray Bartlett was considering a new job. He had moved from NYC to Provincetown in early 2020, and showbiz had slowed to a standstill. Amid the upheaval, Bartlett wasn’t sure what to do with his life and was considering teaching drama. Luckily for us, he stuck with acting. Shortly thereafter, he starred in the first season of The White Lotus. That breakout role—both scene-stealing and scatological—earned Bartlett a Primetime Emmy Award and career renaissance.

TV Insider • May 16, 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.

TV Insider • May 16, 2026

‘Naked and Afraid’ Pixelating, Explained — The Blur Man Group Is the Show’s Real Heroes

They may be Naked and Afraid, but the nude survivalists on Discovery’s reality franchise needn’t be scared of being exposed on national TV. And that’s thanks to the crack team of blurring experts working to make sure all their bits are obscured.

TV Insider • May 13, 2026

Remembering Michael Strahan’s Contentious 'Live' Exit, 10 Years Later

If you only tuned into ABC’s Live With Kelly & Michael for Michael Strahan’s final episode 10 years ago, on May 13, 2016, you might have thought there was nothing but love between the former NFL star and Kelly Ripa, his cohost of nearly four years. But if you were following showbiz news — or even if you witnessed Ripa’s body language in then-recent episodes of the morning talk show — you’d have known that Strahan’s move to Good Morning America sent Live into behind-the-scenes chaos.

TV Insider • April 28, 2026

How Trump’s FCC Has Changed the Media and What It Means for the Future

If it feels like the Federal Communications Commission has gotten more press in the past 18 months than it got in the previous nine decades, you can thank Brendan Carr. President Donald Trump named Carr, a longtime FCC commissioner and a Project 2025 contributor, as FCC chairman in November 2024. And since then, Carr has been using enforcement actions, official letters and statements, and even a podcast interview to reshape the media landscape.

TV Insider • April 10, 2026

Remember the Kennedys Miniseries Even History Wouldn’t Touch?

With a preposterous docuseries called Ancient Aliens and discredited documentaries about Bigfoot and Amelia Earhart, History doesn’t have a sterling reputation among actual historians. But in 2011, the cable channel found the miniseries The Kennedys subpar and decided against airing the $30 million production. Fifteen years after the miniseries ended its run on Reelz on April 10, 2011, we’re taking a look at how the controversy unfolded…

TV Insider • April 6, 2026

10 Shondaland TV Shows That Didn’t Soar to Success

Like anyone else in the TV biz, Shonda Rhimes and producing partner Betsy Beers have had their share of setbacks with their company, Shondaland. The medical drama Off the Map went, well, off the map 15 years ago, on April 6, 2011, despite a cast stacked with familiar (and, yes, good-looking) faces. Read on for details on that Shondaland project and others that faltered.

Queerty • April 4, 2026

These LGBTQ+ books are being banned & people are making noise so it doesn’t go unnoticed - Queerty

April 4 is 404 Day, an annual occurrence the Electronic Frontier Foundation defines as “a nationwide day of action to call attention to the long-standing problem of Internet censorship in public libraries and public schools.” And while we’re on the topic of censorship in public libraries and schools, it’s around this time of year that the American Library Association releases its annual list of the past year’s most challenged books.

TV Insider • March 17, 2026

‘The Lady’ Revisits Story of Jane Andrews, Royal Dresser Turned Murderer

Come Wednesday, March 18, American television viewers will see a slice of British royal life that The Crown didn’t touch. That’s when BritBox debuts The Lady, a story of Jane Andrews, a former dresser for ex-duchess Sarah Ferguson and a convicted murderer. Andrews made headlines in 2000 when she killed boyfriend Thomas Cressman, though she has said was acting in self-defense.

TV Insider • March 16, 2026

Daytime TV Decline Explained: Why So Many Cancellations?

Another long-running daytime TV institution is coming to an end: As pop culture vultures learned last week, Access Hollywood is going off air this summer after 30 years and taking spinoff Access Live offline with it. And those aren’t the only syndicated NBCUniversal productions disappearing from the daytime lineup: Karamo and The Steve Wilkos Show are ending this summer, too, and NBCUniversal previously announced that The Kelly Clarkson Show is coming to a close this year.

Queerty • March 13, 2026

Dan Levy is a not-so-celibate gay pastor making Big Mistakes in new Netflix comedy series

Six years after the end of his Emmy-winning comedy Schitt’s Creek, Dan Levy returns to television with a character in a situation far worse than anything David Rose endured. In the upcoming Netflix comedy series Big Mistakes, Levy is playing a gay pastor with an annoying sister, a secret relationship, and a reluctant involvement in organized crime.

TV Insider • March 10, 2026

Actors Who Played Younger Versions of Their Parents on TV

Jake Cannavale has gone from Bobby Cannavale’s child to his costar in the new Prime Video series Scarpetta. The father-and-son duo plays the same character at two different ages in the crime drama, which starts streaming on Wednesday, March 11. “I’d say the biggest challenge is … once you do all this work with your counterpart off-screen, you kind of have to trust that they’ll do that on set and vice versa,” Jake previously told TV Insider with a laugh.

TV Insider • March 9, 2026

9 Aaron Spelling TV Shows That Didn’t Spell Success

Aaron Spelling was so prolific as a TV producer that for each one of his hit series, there was another show that didn’t make it past Season 1. (Is anyone celebrating the 30th anniversary of Malibu Shores on March 9? Anyone?) Yes, Spelling had his fair share of disappointments — especially when his dominance on ABC, then nicknamed “Aaron’s Broadcasting Network,” ended in the late 1980s following the conclusions of his shows Charlie’s Angels, The Love Boat, Hart to Hart, and Dynasty.

TV Insider • March 8, 2026

Rosanna Arquette Slams Quentin Tarantino’s Use N-Word Use

She may have starred in his film Pulp Fiction, but Rosanna Arquette has a bone to pick with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. In a new interview, Arquette said it’s “racist and creepy” that Tarantino, a white man, feels entitled to use the N-word.

TV Insider • February 28, 2026

‘Dr. Phil’ Controversies From Talk Show’s 21-Year Run

Even by daytime TV standards, Dr. Phil lives on in infamy. A psychologist once promoted by Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Phil McGraw was hit with several lawsuits during the show’s 21-season run, and the production was lambasted by critics, guests, staffers, and observers. “The legacy of Dr. Phil is a cautionary tale,” addiction activist Ryan Hampton told The Daily Beast in 2023.

Remind • February 28, 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.