Dan Clarendon

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 - Queerty

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 - Queerty

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 - Queerty

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.

TV Insider • September 20, 2024

‘Lost’ Turns 20: The Show’s Ending & Biggest Mysteries Explained

Does Lost have you feeling lost, even 20 years later? You’re not alone. ABC’s hit castaway drama created a mythology that vexed even the fans who dissected each revelation on message boards in the late 2000s. So as we mark the 20th anniversary of Lost’s series premiere, we’re taking a swing at some of the show’s biggest mysteries.

TV Insider • August 25, 2024

‘Scoop’ vs. ‘A Very Royal Scandal’: 18 Twin Projects Released the Same Year

Just in case you watched Prince Andrew’s 2019 Newsnight interview, saw that interview dramatized in this year’s film Scoop, and still wanted more, the Prime Video series A Very Royal Scandal is retelling the sordid tale starting on September 19. And this is far from the first time that rival projects have dealt with the same subject in the same year.

TV Insider • August 17, 2024

Ranking 13 TV Shows With the Best Pilot Episodes: 'Lost,' 'Game of Thrones,' More

In 2011, WSJ reported that networks were fielding around 500 pitches a year but commissioning only 70 as scripts, then producing only 20 of those scripts as pilots, only for a handful to make it to screen. So a pilot script has to hook a reader, and a pilot episode has to leave a viewer eager for more, as did all of the following series-starters. Here are our picks for TV’s best pilot episodes.

TV Insider • July 21, 2024

What Is Controversy? 9 ‘Jeopardy!’ Clues That Angered Fans

When Jeopardy! writers and judges get it wrong, or when they don’t give contestants a fair shot, you can be sure they’ll hear about it on social media. On social media, viewers live-tweet and dissect each episode of the beloved trivia game show. And clues that are inaccurate, confusingly worded, or downright misleading get armchair players up in arms.

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.