Dan Clarendon

TV Insider • January 25, 2025

Who Should Play Sherlock in CBS’ ‘Watson’? 10 Actors We’d Nominate

How much you wanna bet Sherlock Holmes isn’t actually dead in this new adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories? We’re so certain that twist is coming that we’re already dream-casting the role of the consulting detective.

TV Insider • January 12, 2025

15 Years Ago, Conan O’Brien’s ‘Tonight Show’ Stint Came to an Ignominious End

The audience members who gave Conan O’Brien a standing ovation upon his appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last year — whom O’Brien then playfully chided for cutting into his 10 minutes on the late-night NBC talk show — likely remember that for a moment, the Tonight Show desk was his. That stint came to an end 15 years ago now as O’Brien lost the job to Jay Leno, his predecessor, after just seven months and fewer than 150 episodes.

TV Insider • January 11, 2025

Ranking The WB’s 15 Best Shows, 30 Years After the Broadcast Network’s Debut

For more than a decade, young TV viewers had a go-to channel on broadcast TV: The WB. Launched by Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting on January 11, 1995, The WB was a destination for teen dramas, family sitcoms, and supernatural series before it merged with UPN to form The CW in 2006. Now, on what would have been its 30th birthday, we’re counting down our picks for the best shows from The WB’s 11-year run.

TV Insider • January 5, 2025

The 16 Most Ridiculous ‘What Would You Do’ Situations Ever

In more than 150 episodes, ABC has staged bizarre, awkward, and criminal situations, recorded the reactions of unsuspecting passersby, and asked What Would You Do? Now the hidden-camera show is coming back for its midseason return on Wednesday, January 8, and we’re listing our picks some of the wildest hypotheticals from the show so far.

TV Insider • January 1, 2025

The Biggest History Channel Controversies in Its 30-Year History

MTV is no longer “Music Television,” and TLC is hardly “The Learning Channel” anymore, but of all the examples of channel drift, History Channel’s evolution seems to be the most extreme. Once devoted to fact-based historical documentaries, the History Channel’s slate is now loaded with reality shows and pseudoscientific programming.

TV Insider • January 1, 2025

Y2K, 25 Years Later: How TV News Exacerbated the Apocalypse That Never Was

If you’re of millennial age or older (or if you’ve seen a certain comedy-horror film now in theaters), you’re likely already familiar with the “year 2000 problem,” better known by the moniker Y2K. After all, it was practically all the news media could talk about in 1999.

TV Insider • December 31, 2024

9 New Year’s Resolutions for the TV Industry

January 1 brings us the chance to make New Year’s resolutions that we will have abandoned and forgotten by January 10. But we hope the TV networks will make many resolutions for 2025 and actually stick to them because we have quite a few gripes about the state of television in 2024. Take some notes, TV execs!

Queerty • December 28, 2024

This gay bro has rated the Roman emperors by hotness in one chart

While some people pined over Gladiator II actors, a Reddit user gazed upon the sculpted visages of real-life Roman Empire figures. And in a recent post on the r/askgaybros forum, we have the results: a chart showing dozens of Roman emperors, ranked by the OP’s appraisal of their hotness.

TV Insider • December 22, 2024

No Humbug Here! Our 10 Favorite Ebenezer Scrooges From Film & TV

A “squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner” of a character has proven irresistible to film and TV actors for decades, as star after star has taken on the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in screen adaptations of A Christmas Carol. Some played it faithful to Charles Dickens’ novella; others transferred the action to contemporary times and even turned Ebenezer into Ebbie, Ebony, or Ebenita. But they all gave a miserable misanthrope a crash course in the Christmas spirit.

TV Insider • December 7, 2024

10 Years Ago, A Man Was Nearly ‘Eaten Alive’ by an Anaconda on Discovery Channel

On December 7, 2014, Discovery Channel was ready to show a 20-foot anaconda devour conservationist Paul Rosolie whole. The special was titled Eaten Alive, which certainly made it seem like Rosolie would end up in the belly of the beast.

TV Insider • November 30, 2024

12 Shows Forced to Kill a Main Character: ‘Grey’s,’ ‘Yellowstone’ and More

When a television star wants (or is wanted) off a series, writers and producers have to devise an exit strategy for that actor’s character — and sometimes sending in the Grim Reaper seems to be the only choice. Kevin Costner’s falling out with Yellowstone meant the Paramount Network hit’s writers had to kill off his character, and as you’ll see here, his exit is just one instance of what TV Tropes calls the “Actor Leaves, Character Dies” phenomenon.

TV Insider • November 17, 2024

‘And Just Like That,’ We’re Counting Down Miranda Hobbes’ Worst Moments on the Show

When the Sex and the City sequel series And Just Like That… debuted on Max, we couldn’t help but wonder: Who is this bumbling, reckless, duplicitous character Cynthia Nixon is playing, and what has she done with the progressive, competent, forthright Miranda Hobbes?

TV Insider • November 16, 2024

Making ‘House’: How the Medical Drama’s Pilot Came Together

In the fall of 2004, Fox didn’t have a trusty procedural like NBC’s Law & Order and CBS’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. So the network took a chance on House, a medical drama with episodic storylines driven by conditions, not crimes, and a British actor little known to stateside audiences playing a diagnostician with zero bedside manner.

Queerty • November 10, 2024

“Leave Shawn Mendes alone” is the new “Leave Britney alone” after the singer's recent disclosure

In case you missed it, pop star and Internet boyfriend Shawn Mendes told the crowd at an October 28 concert that his sexuality is still TBD. Mendes’ candor about his personal life became viral news, with many people misinterpreting his comments as a coming-out. Of course, people have been making assumptions and insinuations about Mendes’ sexuality for years now, despite his many pleas for a stop to the speculation.

TV Insider • November 10, 2024

12 Best ‘Sesame Street’ Muppets, Ranked

Viewers have been enjoying sunny days sweepin’ the clouds away for 55 years now: Sesame Street debuted on TV on November 10, 1969. To celebrate the show’s latest milestone anniversary, we’re naming the best Muppets from the show — of the regular cast, at least — from the goofy to the Grouchy.

Queerty • October 20, 2024

Suspenders are in and the gays are strapping up

Suspend any skepticism: Suspenders, once the domain of Steve Urkel and Larry King, have become fashionable. And social media has all the proof you need.

TV Insider • October 13, 2024

Barney Is Back With a New Show — Why Do People Hate the Purple T. Rex Anyway?

Barney is leaving another big footprint on TV with the release of his new show Barney’s World… but what kind of real-life world is he stepping into? One where his messages of love and compassion will be accepted? Or one that will mock and vilify the character, as it did when Barney & Friends became a PBS hit in the 1990s?

TV Insider • October 12, 2024

Ranking 9 Actors Who Played Supervillain Lex Luthor on Screen

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… a superhero often upstaged by his arch-nemesis! Yes, Clark Kent a.k.a. Superman is the pride of Metropolis, but if he’s the Man of Steel on screen, then Lex Luthor is the Man of Scene-Stealing.

TV Insider • October 3, 2024

‘Desperate Housewives’ Is 20: ‘Matlock,’ ‘The Munsters’ & More Shows Filmed on Wisteria Lane

Two decades ago, TV viewers tuned into Desperate Housewives for the first time and met the residents of Wisteria Lane, a suburban street where lawns couldn’t be tidier and lives couldn’t be messier. But the fictional Wisteria Lane is the real-life Colonial Street, one of the outdoor sets on Universal Studios’ backlot in Los Angeles. And many of the houses had been in use in films and the TV shows for decades by the time of Desperate Housewives’ debut.

Queerty • September 21, 2024

These #GayBatman posts are revealing what Bruce Wayne’s nightly activities are really like

Holy nerdy holiday, Batman! As the third Saturday of September, this Saturday, September 21, is Batman Day—a day to pay tribute to a caped crusader who has protected Gotham since his introduction in the 1939 comic book Detective Comics #27. And it wasn’t long before people came to the understandable conclusion that Bruce Wayne is a hero in the streets and a queero in the sheets.