Dan Clarendon

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.

TV Insider • March 3, 2024

10 Things We Want to See in Final ‘Station 19’ Season

Fans, cast members, and even industry insiders are still scratching their heads over the surprise cancellation of Station 19, but what’s done is (almost) done. The firefighter drama’s upcoming seventh season will be its final outing on ABC. And with just 10 episodes left to wrap up this Grey’s Anatomy spinoff, we have a wish list for Season 7. Here’s what we want to see happen in the final season…

TV Insider • March 3, 2024

15 Worst Best Picture Winners

With days to go before the 96th Academy Awards, this year’s Best Picture race seems too close to call. Oppenheimer is the odds-on favorite, according to GoldDerby, but The Holdovers and Poor Things aren’t far behind. Whatever the result is on March 10, critics and moviegoers will certainly say another film deserved the Best Picture Oscar more. And in the spirit of naysaying, we’re voting for the following films as the worst winners of the Best Picture prize.

Distractify • February 19, 2024

Albert Einstein’s Brain Traveled the Country for Decades After His Death

Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein died in 1955, but the story of his brain has continued for years now, all because of one man who took the gray matter into his own hands and kept it for decades, even crossing state lines with the brain. What happened to Einstein’s brain? Believe it or not, it was the pathologist who conducted Einstein’s autopsy who just took the brain without permission, as detailed in last year’s documentary film The Man Who Stole Einstein’s Brain.

TV Insider • February 17, 2024

10 TV Shows That Should Have Had Only One Season

Any television buff will tell you, sometimes less really is more. We all know TV shows that ran too long, whether they “jumped the shark” or just drifted out of the cultural conversation. We’d go so far as to say that the TV shows here, however, could have ended after Season 1. We’re not saying we didn’t enjoy any of these shows from Season 2 onward, but we’d argue they would have better off as one-season wonders.

Distractify • February 13, 2024

“16 Carriages” Has Beyoncé Mourning Childhood Innocence

The Renaissance is far from over. Beyoncé effectively broke the internet on Super Bowl Sunday, announcing the upcoming album “Renaissance Act II,” a country-tinged follow-up to 2022’s “Renaissance.” And pundits are already parsing the lyrics of the two singles she released on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. So let’s dive into one of them: What does “16 Carriages” mean?

Distractify • February 12, 2024

Proposed Blue Cards Would Send Soccer Players to the “Sin Bin”

A blue card in soccer would provide another disciplinary measure for unruly players, but the International Football Association Board (IFAB) reportedly backtracked on plans to introduce the new card color on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. The IFAB was expected to announce blue-card trials on Friday. Instead, the organization postponed the announcement amid outcry about the idea, according to The Times.

TV Insider • February 11, 2024

‘Bachelor’ Producers Speechless When Pressed About Franchise’s Racial Issues

Judging from the reports coming from ABC’s panel yesterday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour, it seems you could have heard a pin drop after the producers of The Bachelor were asked about the reality franchise’s racial issues.

TV Insider • January 13, 2024

11 Actors Who Took on the Role of Watson, With or Without Sherlock Holmes

Choosing a favorite Dr. Watson is anything but elementary, since many film and TV stars have played Sherlock Holmes’ companion and crime-solving colleague so memorably over the decades. And now we have a new contender: Rosewood and The Resident alum Morris Chestnut will play the Arthur Conan Doyle character in a new CBS series.

TV Insider • January 10, 2024

‘The Sopranos’ Turns 25: 8 Most Shocking Deaths, Ranked

During The Sopranos’ six-season run, it seemed like the HBO show’s award tally would outpace even its body count. For as violent the mob drama got, critics and Emmy voters still lavished it with praise and trophies… and viewers still tuned in on Sunday nights to see who’d be whacked next.

TV Insider • January 4, 2024

‘General Hospital’ at 60: What Happened in the Very First Episode

Two long-running, hospital-set soaps — ABC’s General Hospital and NBC’s The Doctors — debuted on the same day on April 1, 1963. The Doctors ran for nearly 20 years, but General Hospital has lasted three times as long — and counting! ABC is honoring the show with a primetime special, General Hospital: 60 Years of Stars and Storytelling, but the General Hospital that started that day in 1963 is very different from the show fans see today.

Queerty • December 27, 2023

Gay men sound off on the need to confront transphobia among other gay men

Hang out on Reddit long enough, and you’ll eventually see transphobic attitudes show up—explicitly and implicitly—in queer communities on the platform. And social media is, of course, a microcosm of a society which some think LGB equality is an acceptable substitute for LGBT equality. One Reddit user recently shed light on transphobia in the gay male population, saying that although he loves being gay and trans, his interactions with cis gay men “[have], by and large, been less than ideal.”

TV Insider • December 25, 2023

Behind the Scenes, ‘Charmed’ Has Been Anything But: A Timeline of the Drama

Every family has its share of dysfunction, including the Halliwell sisters of The WB’s Charmed. For years, fans have heard about issues between stars Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, and Rose McGowan. And once The CW ordered a new version of Charmed, two generations of bewitching actors came into conflict.

TV Insider • December 24, 2023

Robotic Acting? 10 Stars Who Went Android on Television

Alexander Skarsgård is taking a turn for the mechanical with his latest TV role, having signed on to executive produce and star in Murderbot as “a self-hacking security android who is horrified by human emotion yet drawn to its vulnerable ‘clients.'" And like some of the actors here, Skarsgård might find that it’s not always easy playing an android on screen. Here are other TV stars with synthetic entries on their filmographies…

Queerty • December 9, 2023

Krampus is a queer holiday icon & he’s sleighing the internet

As much as Gay Santa posts sleigh every December, it seems social media has anointed Krampus as the new queer icon of the holidays. Marked by horns, fangs, a devilishly long tongue, Krampus carries around birch rods with which he swats the misbehaving. (And this is where some social media users might say, “Yes, daddy.”)