Dan Clarendon

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.

TV Insider • September 13, 2025

11 Most Cringeworthy ‘Friends’ Moments Ever

Friends was progressive in some aspects — it featured a same-sex romance from the jump, for example, and it depicted interracial relationships and casual sex without judgment. And perhaps there’s an argument to be made that the six lead characters and their narcissistic, toxic, fragile, biased traits are the punchline. But you still can’t excuse away Friends’ worst transgressions, including these fails.

TV Insider • September 6, 2025

Face the Nation Changes Policy After Kristi Noem Interview

Face the Nation interviewees will now face the nation live as part of a new policy instituted following a contested interview with U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. CBS announced the shift on Friday, September 5 — following Noem’s accusations of deceptive editing on the long-running interview show — and the change-up has social media divided.

TV Insider • September 6, 2025

CBS Post-Wildfire Altadena Sitcom Incites Controversy

A new CBS sitcom project from producer Kenya Barris and actor Mike Epps sparked controversy due to its setting: Altadena, California, in the aftermath of the recent Eaton Fire. News of the project broke last month, with Deadline reporting that Barris was creating and writing the multi-camera sitcom and that BET Studios and CBS Studios were producing.

TV Insider • September 5, 2025

Best Denzel Washington Performances: Glory, Malcolm X, etc.

“Denzel Washington is beyond category: a screen titan who is also a subtle and sensitive craftsman," said A.O. Scott. In other words, and to paraphrase one of his most famous characters, King Kong ain’t got [bleep] on him. After much deliberation, we’ve narrowed down Washington’s nearly-half-century-long filmography to these picks for his best performances yet.

TV Insider • September 4, 2025

Why Is 'Caillou' So Hated?

Barney & Friends became the bane of children’s TV in the 1990s and Teletubbies inherited that dishonor in the 2000s, but 2010s-era parental scorn belonged to Caillou. The animated children’s series debuted in Canada in 1997 and migrated to the United States 25 years ago — debuting on PBS Kids on September 4, 2000 — but good luck finding many viewers waxing nostalgic.

Remind • September 4, 2025

Did 'Dallas' Have the Weirdest Final Episode Ever?

Decades after the (original) end of Dallas, fans are still upset the CBS primetime soap ended the way it did. “Worst series finale ever, [in my opinion],” one Reddit user wrote last September. “An insult to the intelligence of the audience. Having said that, it was Dallas in name only at that point.”

Remind • September 2, 2025

The True Story Behind Fonzie’s Infamous ‘Jump the Shark’ Episode on 'Happy Days'

These days, it’s common parlance for TV fans to talk about a show “jumping the shark” when it starts declining in quality, usually due to some unexpected plot point or storyline. The origins of the expression date back nearly half a century, to the Happy Days episode “Hollywood, Part 3,” which aired on September 20, 1977 — the episode in which Henry Winkler’s Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzarelli accepts a challenge to jump over a shark while waterskiing.