Dan Clarendon

Queerty • May 14, 2023

It’s Mother’s Day, but Twitter users honor “MOTHER” icons all year

This year’s Mother’s Day falls on Sunday, May 14, but you don’t need to celebrate your mother—or “motherr” or “motherrr”—just once every 365 days. On Twitter, for example, users worship the maternal figures in their lives—pop divas, actors, fictional characters, and even heavenly bodies—all year long.

TV Insider • May 7, 2023

Why Writers Strike Turned 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards Into a Clip Show

Now we know what the MTV Movie & TV Awards looks like without writers, and it’s not a pretty sight. We still got pre-taped sketches from former host Drew Barrymore, but there were no presenters, no performances, and no live appearances.

TV Insider • May 6, 2023

King Charles III Coronation: 4 Takeaways From the TV Event

“I come not to be served, but to serve.” So said King Charles III, the United Kingdom’s monarch, at his and Queen Camilla’s coronation on Saturday, May 6, at London’s Westminster Abbey. It was a rainy day in the U.K. capital, but thousands of Brits braved the elements to get a glimpse of their new king and queen at Buckingham Palace and along the mile-long procession route to the abbey. In London’s Trafalgar Square, however, the royals didn’t get such a warm welcome…

New York Daily News • May 1, 2023

The 2023 Met Gala’s Karl Lagerfeld theme evokes criticism and controversy for some

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is readying for its 2023 Met Gala on Monday night, and once again, the theme of the yearly black-tie fund-raiser for the Met’s Costume Institute is a controversial one.

TV Insider • April 29, 2023

10 Gender-Swapped TV Reboots, Ranked

Revivals and reboots are still flooding the television lineup, although TV creators of late have been swapping male protagonists for female ones. The new Prime Video miniseries Dead Ringers has Rachel Weisz pulling double duty as twin characters, as Jeremy Irons did in the 1988 film of the same name, for example. Keep reading to see how we’ve ranked other gender-swapped TV reboots from least to most successful — in our books, anyway.

TV Insider • April 25, 2023

10 TV Shows With the Best Series Finales of All Time

We’ve listed the series finales that live on in television infamy; now it’s time to go from one extreme to the other and showcase the best of the best finales. While so many other television series ended with frustrating storylines — or never got a chance at any sort of resolution at all — the shows here ended on a high note.

TV Insider • April 15, 2023

13 Best-Ever TV Period Dramas, Ranked

While some TV shows interrogate modern-day life or imagine humanity’s future, some of the most popular series retread familiar territory. All hail the period drama, one of the most enduring genres of entertainment, as old as the motion-picture medium itself. Here are our picks for the best period dramas of TV history, which collectively cover millennia of real-world history.

TV Insider • April 11, 2023

11 'Game of Thrones' Universe Villains, Ranked from Bad to Worse

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. And in the Game of Thrones universe, winning often involves plumbing the depths of depravity. Of the evildoers from Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon so far, here are our picks for the most significant, ranked from bad to worse.

TV Insider • April 10, 2023

10 Worst Series Finales of All Time

We certainly don’t envy TV writers tasked with bringing shows to an ending both surprising and inevitable — as the adage goes — or at least satisfactory to fans. But we’re having a hard time forgiving the show-ending sins on display here: misplaced fan service, dangling plot threads, implausible twists, anticlimactic reveals, and behind-the-scenes pettiness.

TV Insider • April 8, 2023

Ranking Netflix's 15 Best Original Series So Far

It all started 10 years ago when Netflix released the first season of House of Cards all at once in February 2013. After a decade of Netflix Originals, here are our picks for the 10 best series from the streaming giant — based on storytelling finesse, onscreen performances, cultural impact, awards-show recognition, and global viewership.

TV Insider • April 4, 2023

'Live' Turns 40: See the Show's Evolution of Hosts

The show now titled Live With Kelly and Ryan debuted four decades ago, though you’d hardly recognize it. At the time, it was called The Morning Show, and it was a local program for the New York City market. But late TV personality and longtime Live co-host Regis Philbin was one of the faces of The Morning Show way back then, and he and Kelly Ripa are the common link between all the show’s many shakeups in the intervening decades.

TV Insider • March 30, 2023

10 Declassified Facts About 'Mission: Impossible,' Which Ended 50 Years Ago

Covert operations, shadowy government agencies, foreign intrigue, technological wizardry, masters of disguises, heist-like action, self-destructing tapes — Mission: Impossible had it all. Oh, and that iconic theme song, of course. With the Mission: Impossible finale a half century behind us — and the next installment of Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible film series only months away — here are 10 facts about the making of the TV show. (Don’t worry — this intel won’t self-destruct anytime soon.)

TV Insider • March 28, 2023

7 Wild, Wacky Moments on 'Wheel of Fortune'

We’ve seen some epic fails on Wheel of Fortune, but what moments had our heads spinning faster than that 2,400-lb. wheel itself? Now that we’ve see host Pat Sajak literally wrestle a contestant on the long-running, syndicated game show, we’re rounding up several other Wheel of Fortune episodes that made a buzz.

TV Insider • March 12, 2023

13 Wild Moments From Oscars History

The Will Smith/Chris Rock slap was far from the first time the awards show has had an unexpected moment, though it’s definitely one of its most shocking. Throughout its 95-year history, scores of artists have produced unforgettable moments on the stage of film’s biggest night. Some were joyous wins, others embarrassing production snafus, and some bold statements made in the name of activism.

Distractify • March 7, 2023

Elon Musk Calls Ex-Twitter Employee's Disability Into Question in Public Twitter Dispute

Amid all the other staff upheaval and technical difficulties at Twitter, now we have Twitter CEO Elon Musk getting into a very public dispute with former employee Haraldur Thorleifsson — and even accusing Haraldur of using his disability as an excuse.

New York Daily News • March 7, 2023

Republican-led Florida bill would ban abortions at six weeks of pregnancy

A Republican state legislator in Florida is seeking to limit access to abortion even further, filing a bill on Tuesday to ban most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

TV Insider • March 7, 2023

7 Wild Oscar Campaigns That Could Have Only Happened in Hollywood

Moviegoers might think that Hollywood talent wins Academy Awards by merit alone, but often, nominees live or die on Oscar night by the effectiveness of their awards-season campaigns. In fact, you can probably thank million-dollar campaigns for Crash beating Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture or Shakespeare in Love beating Saving Private Ryan. Here’s a recap of Oscar campaigns that were so wild — so tireless, tricksy, or downright tacky — they could only have happened in Tinseltown.

Queerty • March 4, 2023

These empowering “gay voice” tweets have us cheering in every octave

The Washington Post broke down the stereotypical “gay voice” in 2015: “A man speaks at a higher pitch, and in a more melodious fashion. The man might pronounce his p’s, t’s and k’s very crisply, or have what’s sometimes (incorrectly) described as a ‘lisp.’” Twitter users, meanwhile, have found the humor — and the power and the glory — in the gay voice…

TV Insider • March 4, 2023

Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards: What Is Slime, and Why Do We Love It?

As you read this, Nickelodeon is probably whipping up thousands of gallons of its trademark green slime in some top-secret laboratory ahead of the 2023 Kids’ Choice Awards. In fact, the KCAs is one of the few Nickelodeon shows where the green stuff still flows freely, and no celebrity is safe from the neon-colored goop. (Just ask Katy Perry, who took a high-powered jet of slime to the face at the 2010 edition of the awards show.)

TV Insider • March 2, 2023

See the 'Daisy Jones & The Six' Characters vs. Their Real-Life Inspirations

Daisy Jones & The Six isn’t a real band, but try believing that after you see the rock ensemble hit high notes and low notes in the Prime Video series of the same name. As Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, and the other cast members got ready to rock out on screen, they attended a months-long “band camp" and found inspiration in real-life stars of the music industry.