Dan Clarendon

TV Insider • July 7, 2024

‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Dexter’ & More Good Shows With Terrible Seasons

Some TV shows start well, finish well, and maintain that quality every season in between — Breaking Bad, The Wire, and Veep come to mind. Other shows, unfortunately, are plagued by seasons that pale in comparison to others. From Game of Thrones’ frustrating finale to Parks and Recreation’s inauspicious start to Community’s “gas leak” year, here are the shows with seasons in need of a do-over...

TV Insider • June 30, 2024

'The Umbrella Academy' Showrunner Steve Blackman Accused of Toxic and Sexist Behavior

Steve Blackman, the showrunner of the hit Netflix series The Umbrella Academy, is in the crosshairs. In a new report, former staffers accuse Blackman of fostering a toxic workplace in which he took credit for others’ work, made comments about women and LGBTQ+ individuals the staffers considered disparaging and degrading, and retaliated against staffers who pushed back.

TV Insider • June 29, 2024

‘The Leftovers’ Turns 10: Relive the Wildest Moments From HBO’s Deeply Weird Show

As The Leftovers attests, there’s no telling what will happen after one of every 50 persons on this planet — and three out of four Perfect Strangers cast members — vanish into thin air. Some people want to be (non-fatally) shot in the chest. Some opt for orgies aboard ferries. And some start heralding the return of Gary Busey.

TV Insider • June 19, 2024

Tubi, Freevee, Pluto TV & More Free Streaming Services, Ranked

Have the prices of cable TV subscriptions made you a cord-cutter or even a “cord-never”? Do the recent price increases of streaming TV subscriptions have you searching for a “Cancel Membership” button? The good news is, you don’t have to pay a dime to watch hit movies and TV shows — all you have to do is think FAST. Free ad-supported streaming television — or FAST for short — has taken off recently, with services like The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, and Tubi offering film and TV.

Queerty • June 16, 2024

‘Inside Out 2’ is here & Riley’s dad is still riling fans up - Queerty

The Disney–Pixar film Inside Out 2 hitting theaters two days before Father’s Day? All too fitting, since the internet has been lusting after Bill Andersen (voiced by Kyle MacLachlan), the daddy of the Inside Out film series, for nearly a decade now.

TV Insider • May 28, 2024

The Love Doctor Is In! 13 Best ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Couples, Ranked

Grey’s Anatomy has been running for so long that Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) — the magnificently-maned man who seemed like Meredith Grey’s (Ellen Pompeo) one true love for more than a decade — has been dead for almost as long as he was alive on the show. Yes, the MerDer ship comes in high on this ranking of relationships from the ABC medical drama, but it’s not our No. 1!

TV Insider • May 18, 2024

‘Battlestar Galactica’ Comes to Prime Video: 15 Essential Episodes

As a whole, this Battlestar version is revered as one of the greatest sci-fi series of all time. It spun a yarn of resilience, sacrifice, morality, deception, faith, and what it even means to be human, all in the guise of a human-versus-robot battle royale. But that doesn’t mean every episode is a winner.

TV Insider • May 5, 2024

‘Lost’: All 6 Seasons Ranked, From Worst to Best

Lost crashed onto TV screens with a high-concept premise — a disparate group of Oceanic 815 survivors banding together to stay alive on a mysterious island — before evolving into a philosophical rumination on, among other themes, the cost of living and the power of redemption.

TV Insider • April 13, 2024

11 Banned Books That Were Adapted for TV

It’s not hyperbole when PEN America says that the freedom to read “is under assault in the United States.” In a recent report, the freedom-of-expression advocacy organization found 3,362 instances of book bans in the 2022–2023 school year, with 40 percent of those bans happening in Florida alone.

TV Insider • April 7, 2024

The Very Best Bartenders in TV & Movie History

April 7 marks National Beer Day, a commemoration of the day in 1933 when the Cullen-Harrison Act went into effect in the United States. That legislation legalized the sale of alcoholic beverages of 3.2% ABV or lower at a time when harder drinks were still prohibited. Here at TV Insider, we couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate National Beer Day with our readers than to grab a cold one with our favorite bartenders from the screen.

Queerty • March 31, 2024

Here’s a few ways you can shine more light on Transgender Day of Visibility on social media

In 2009, Rachel Crandall-Crocker created International Transgender Day of Visibility as a day of celebration and a counterpoint to the mournful Transgender Day of Remembrance that falls every November 20. Her efforts paid off, as International Transgender Day of Visibility, or TDOV, has become a global occasion every March 31.

TV Insider • March 31, 2024

TV Easter Eggs: The 10 Best of All Time (So Far)

Creators have been hiding Easter eggs in media for at least half a century now. You might recall that video game designers hid secret outcomes in early computer games like 1973’s Moonlander and 1980’s Adventure. Easter eggs are all over television, too. Sometimes they hint at future plot twists. Sometimes they seem like throwaway details until years later. Sometimes they connect disparate-seeming stories into a shared universe. And sometimes they’re just for laughs.

Queerty • March 23, 2024

‘Luca’ is finally in theaters & fans still don’t get why it isn’t canonically gay

Pixar has been bringing its pandemic-era, streaming-only movies to multiplexes this year, with Soul lighting up screens in January and Turning Red following suit in February. Now it’s Luca’s turn—the film started playing in theaters March 22—and social media users are still mourning the gay romance that could have been Pixar canon.

TV Insider • March 23, 2024

How Cristina, Izzie & 7 More ‘Grey's Anatomy’ Characters Could Return

Jessica Capshaw is bringing Dr. Arizona Robbins back in this current 20th season, gracing the show for the first time since Season 14. There are other former stars fans would love to see on the show, though, and we have ideas for bringing nine onetime Grey’s characters back into the fold.

TV Insider • March 21, 2024

6 Reasons ‘Yellowstone’ Fans Should Check Out ‘Deadwood’ on Its 20th Anniversary

Fans of Yellowstone still have months to go before the Paramount Network hit returns with its last batch of episodes, but we have a TV anniversary to celebrate in the meantime. HBO’s 2004 series Deadwood, another small-screen Western, turns 20 on March 21. All 36 episodes of Deadwood are streaming on Max — as the 2019 follow-up, Deadwood: The Movie — and we reckon it’s high time for you to pay that town a visit, especially if you like Yellowstone.

TV Insider • March 20, 2024

Who Was the Yorkshire Ripper, Subject of New True Crime Series ‘The Long Shadow’?

Only a few years after the death of the so-called Yorkshire Ripper, the true-crime series The Long Shadow, premiering on Sundance Now and AMC+ on Thursday, March 21, presents the “definitive depiction of the desperate five-year hunt” for the serial killer as his killing spree continued.

TV Insider • March 19, 2024

‘The 100’ Turns 10: Ranking the 10 Most Shocking Death Scenes

The 100 executive producer Jason Rothenberg warned fans that no one was safe in the world of the CW show and that “anyone, even a beloved character, can die at any time.” But really, someone was dying all the time on the CW series, which followed some of the 100 juvenile delinquents who were exiled to a post-apocalyptic Earth. One death count logged 4,878 casualties across The 100’s seven seasons… not including the 11 billion who died in the nuclear doomsday that started it all.

Queerty • March 16, 2024

Social media cheers as this LGBTQ-inclusive St. Patrick’s Day parade finally arrives

For years now, organizers of the St. Patrick’s Parade in the New York City borough of Staten Island have blocked LGBTQ groups from marching. But now a new competitor has entered the arena. The Forest Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade, a second Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day parade, will kick off on March 17 and will welcome LGBTQ groups, according to The New York Times.

TV Insider • March 15, 2024

All Hail ‘Kings’: 6 Reasons to Revisit the One-Season Wonder

Kings had an all-too-brief reign on NBC, canceled after just 13 episodes. At the time, the network executives who had championed the show were getting pushed out, the new guard was unwilling or unsure of how to promote the show properly, and network TV itself was struggling to stay relevant. Ultimately, Kings aired for just six episodes before getting dethroned from its Sunday night time slot and then exiled to summer for the rest of its run.

Queerty • March 9, 2024

It’s Oscars time & the internet is rooting for all of this year’s LGBTQ+ nominees

Oscars voters were immune to “The Power of Love,” apparently, since they declined to nominate the fantastical gay romance All of Us Strangers and Andrew Scott, its leading man. But there are plenty of other LGBTQ+ nominees for whom we can root during Sunday’s 96th Academy Awards telecast, and X users are doing just that.