'Good Night, and Good Luck' Remembers When TV Had a Conscience, and a Spine by James Poniewozik

A TV critic looks at George Clooney's play about CBS News standing up to political pressure, even as its current ownership might succumb to it.

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Richard Chamberlain Was a Mega Star in TV Mini-Series 'The Thorn Birds' and 'Shogun' by James Poniewozik

The actor, who died at 90, was the most compelling face of a maximalist, soapy television era.

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TV, Movies, Music and Art to Look Forward to in 2025 by James Poniewozik, Zachary Woolfe, Jon Pareles, Jason Farago, Gia Kourlas, Jesse Green, Salamishah Tillet, Mike Hale, Alissa Wilkinson, Amanda Hess, Jason Zinoman and Maya Phillips

"Severance" is finally back for its second season, three New York art museums are set to reopen and ballet goes extreme.

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I Loved 'Pee-wee's Playhouse' Enough to Marry It by James Poniewozik

Paul Reubens's oddball masterpiece celebrated the kind of anarchy that captivates kids and freaks out adults.

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For a Broadway torn by a pandemic, a split-personality Tony Awards by Jesse Green Elisabeth Vincentelli - The New York Times,james Poniewozik

With so much on its to-do list, how did the Tonys do? Jesse Green, The New York Times' chief theater critic, discussed the presentation " or, rather, the presentations: one on Paramount+ and…

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For a Broadway Torn by a Pandemic, a Split-Personalities Tonys by Jesse Green, Elisabeth Vincentelli and James Poniewozik

The streaming part of the ceremony actually did a better job conveying the electricity of being in a theater than the CBS special billed as "Broadway's Back!"

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'WandaVision' Lives Inside TV. Just Like We Do. by James Poniewozik

After a year of pandemic life, the superhero show's inventive premise " television as both escape and prison " is all too relatable.

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Review: 'P-Valley' Has All the Right Moves by James Poniewozik

Sex may sell this Starz strip-club drama, but at heart it's a potent, lyrical story about hard work.

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Review: 'Central Park' Is the Show We Need Right Now by James Poniewozik

This musical valentine to urban life, from the creator of "Bob's Burgers," is another TV show that has new resonance in the pandemic era. But for once that relevance is delightful, not depre…

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Review: 'The Investigation' Makes the Mueller Report a Dark-Comic Indictment by James Poniewozik

The star-studded reading was surreal and unsubtle but somehow fitting for a political era of tragedy-as-farce.

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Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes Gave Us Fox. These Shows Try to Make Sense of It All. by James Poniewozik

"The Loudest Voice," "Ink" and "Succession" map out the influential world the two men created.

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Review: In 'Fosse/Verdon,' a Portrait of the Artist as Problematic Fave by James Poniewozik

This dual Broadway biopic has style and moves but gets tripped up by an overfamiliar story of a brilliant, toxic man.

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'The Leftovers' Leads Television's Musical Golden Age by James Poniewozik

On some of best series, the song selections are as nuanced, ironic and transcendent as the acting and writing.

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Casting a Black Hermione Granger Underscores a Key 'Harry Potter' Theme by James Poniewozik

It would be the most perverse kind of fandom for any Potterphile to use the reasoning of a Malfoy.

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