Dan Clarendon

TV Insider • January 3, 2026

15 Best Netflix Movies Ever, Ranked

The streaming company has churned out original films for a decade now, though it has typically sent its films to select movie theaters for award-show eligibility. Earlier this year, however, Netflix celebrated its first time topping the U.S. box office with a singalong version of KPop Demon Hunters, which, yes, is one of our picks for the best Netflix films yet.

TV Insider • December 31, 2025

2025’s Most Disappointing Shows, From ‘All’s Fair’ to ‘Zero Day’

For many, 2025 is ending not with a bang or a whimper but just an exasperated sigh. Amid all the anxieties and terrors of the last 365 days, even television, our best and most accessible means of escapism, has been letting us down.

TV Insider • December 20, 2025

15 Years Ago, Inaccurate Post-it Trivia Put Fox’s ‘Million Dollar Money Drop’ in a Sticky Situation

If the researchers of Million Dollar Money Drop were thinking about Post-it notes, perhaps they could have used a Post-it reminder to double-check their work. For it was a trivia question about the adhesive stationery that caused a stink for the Fox game show 15 years ago now.

TV Insider • December 12, 2025

11 Actors Whose Real-Life Diagnoses Became TV Storylines

Eric Dane and Jamie Lynn-Sigler are far from the only TV actors whose real-life medical conditions became character traits, too. In this photo gallery, see a four-decade chronology of TV characters’ conditions mirroring those of their portrayers.

Queerty • November 15, 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 • November 8, 2025

11 Network Evening News Moments That Changed TV History

Though evening news broadcasts might not be the appointment TV they were in the days of Walter Cronkite, the format isn’t going anywhere soon. Nielsen data shows 18 million people tune into ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, or NBC Nightly News each evening. Still, the business remains in constant churn. Here, learn about 11 shakeups in network evening news history.

TV Insider • November 8, 2025

9 Saddest ‘Lost’ Moments — We Have to Go Back (for Tissues)!

When Lost didn’t have us scratching our heads, it had us dabbing our eyes. For as much as the ABC castaway drama constructed a mysterious and metaphysical mythology that we’re still trying to wrap our minds around, it also moved us with human drama anyone can understand. This is a show that yanked at our heart strings, often while we heard a swell of strings. (Damn that Michael Giacchino and his emotional orchestrations!)

TV Insider • November 5, 2025

Bindi Irwin’s ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Legal Issue Explained

Robert Irwin’s headline-making run on Dancing With the Stars Season 34 comes a decade after older sister Bindi Irwin waltzed to victory in the ABC show’s 21st season — and a decade after a bizarre court case nearly took the elder Irwin out of the competition. On November 5, 2015, which is 10 years ago now, a Superior Court of Los Angeles judge rejected Bindi’s contract for a lack of proof that her and Robert’s father, the zookeeper Steve Irwin a.k.a. TV’s “Crocodile Hunter,” was actually dead.

TV Insider • November 3, 2025

Relive 9 'GMA' Moments That Made History, For Better or Worse

And as on-air talent have come and go and world events and cultural trends have shaped the program, GMA has seen highlights and lowlights over its half-century-long history. Here are our picks for the most impactful.

TV Insider • November 2, 2025

Best Robin Hood Films & TV Shows

Perhaps it’s ironic that Hollywood has made millions off a tale about an outlaw who steals from the rich to give to the poor… but in any event, another adaptation of the Robin Hood story is coming to the screen. The creators of this TV series have their work cut out for him, though, since the Robin Hoods here are all tough acts to follow.

TV Insider • November 1, 2025

Actors Whose Diagnoses Became TV Storylines, Like Eric Dane

Eric Dane is returning to TV, and as art imitates life, his new character has ALS, just as Dane does. And the former Grey’s Anatomy star is far from the only TV actor whose real-life medical condition became a character’s trait. In the photo gallery here, see a four-decade chronology of TV characters’ conditions mirroring those of their portrayers.

TV Insider • October 26, 2025

Worst HBO Shows: 'The Idol,' 'Entourage,' 'Ballers,' and More

HBO, for all of the prestigious name recognition that made Warner Bros. executives want to put the “HBO” back in “HBO Max,” has had its share of misfires. The same network that brought us The Wire, The Sopranos, and Succession also delivered the shows below, our picks for the biggest flops from the premium-cable powerhouse. (And And Just Like That… should consider itself lucky we’re only including HBO series and not TV shows that brought cringes to the Max…)

TV Insider • October 25, 2025

Best Scream Queens: Jamie Lee Curtis, Sarah Paulson, More

Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Maika Monroe, two horror-genre faves, joined forces for The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, a horror thriller movie that debuted on Hulu on Wednesday, October 22. Winstead and Monroe have already achieved scream-queen status, the former with films like Final Destination 3 and Black Christmas, and soon, we might rank them in this pantheon.

TV Insider • October 19, 2025

Good Shows With Bad Titles: Cougar Town, CGB, Selfie, Etc.

A TV show title is a work of art in itself. As a writer or executive, you want to pique viewers’ curiosity while conveying a sense of your show’s storyline and tone. And we wish the creators and networks behind the shows below had spent a little more time at the drawing board. In some of these cases, the title is opaque. In others, the title is on-the-nose. And sometimes, the title just doesn’t make a lick of sense. And none does justice to its show.

Queerty • October 15, 2025

Pro tennis player João Lucas Reis served a groundbreaking coming out

Reis’ success on the court has coincided with his coming out. Late last year, he went Instagram official with his boyfriend, Brazilian actor Guilherme Ricardo. Reis posted a brief birthday message and declaration of love. “Feliz aniversário,” he wrote. “Feliz vida. Te amo muito.” (Translation: “Happy birthday. Happy life. I love you very much.”) Those seven words made Reis the first player to ever publicly come out on the men’s ATP Tour.

TV Insider • October 12, 2025

TV Shows With Skippable First Seasons

Though it pains our completist hearts to say this, there are TV shows whose first seasons aren’t exactly essential viewing. Some don’t have a grasp on their characters, some aren’t sure of their tone, and some just aren’t comedic or dramatic enough in their debut seasons. If you are short on time or just want to cut to the chase, these are TV shows for which you should feel free to start with Season 2.

TV Insider • October 11, 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.

Remind • October 6, 2025

The Lost Original Film Behind Ben Stiller’s 'Meet the Parents'

2000’s Meet the Parents, which pitted Ben Stiller’s character against a suspicious prospective father-in-law played by Robert De Niro, became a blockbuster rom-com, making more than $330 million at the box office and inspiring two sequels (with a third on the way). But it all started with a 1991 version you probably haven’t seen — and likely never will.

Remind • October 2, 2025

The Television Ghost: Details About 1931 Horror Anthology

It won’t be long now until horror buffs mark the centennial anniversary of The Television Ghost. The groundbreaking 1931 television horror anthology told murderous tales several decades before shows like Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story, American Crime Story, and Monster compiled frightening stories, making many consider it the first ever horror TV series. But don’t expect any celebratory Television Ghost screenings: Without known footage remaining, the production is deemed lost media.

TV Insider • September 29, 2025

17 Dick Wolf TV Shows That Flopped

You know the TV business is a hard one when even a producer like Dick Wolf, the creator of the United States’ longest-running primetime live-action series and the mastermind behind three current TV universes, has as many misses on his track record as he does. Yes, for all his success — especially with NBC’s Law & Order and Chicago franchises and CBS’s FBI shows — Wolf has also had his share of failure. Case in point: Law & Order: LA, which began its brief run 15 years ago.