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High-end TV drama taps the marketing budgets of prestige brands in ways more usually seen in blockbuster movies
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Warner Bros has shown restraint in waiting so long to resurrect JK Rowling’s stories. Potterites will be counting on a word-perfect adaptation
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The glory days of streaming are over, but TV has never been more unpredictable
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Television: If you want to properly satirise a genre, you can’t look down on it to this extent
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Donald Clarke: What Larry David did with the ending of his comedy feels unique in the troubled history of televisual valedictions
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Already known to audiences for his roles in What Richard Did and RTÉ hit drama Kin, Irish actor Sam Keeley is making waves internationally
A look back at some of the Sopranos’ New Jersey locations, why they were chosen and what’s there today
The show captured a snapshot of the Garden State in the late 1990s and 2000s, beguiling viewers with its regional authenticity
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Larry David comedy to end after almost 25 years
HBO’s longest-running comedy draws on humour in everyday life but dialogue is mostly improvised
Steamy sex and secret lesbians: Apple’s content creators muscle in on Bridgerton territory
Patrick Freyne: The Buccaneers is about a bunch of wild and crazy girlbosses who like to party, as Edith Wharton no doubt would have described her novel
Seán Moncrieff: Myself and Herself look like quitting Netflix. Daughter Number Four may be the only reason it stays
Netflix may survive our streaming cull. But a reckoning is coming
Former BBC and New York Times boss Mark Thompson in talks to run CNN
Cable network has been searching for new head since Chris Licht’s ousting in June
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Declan Lowney shortlisted for Ted Lasso while final season of Succession dominates with 27 nods
The Idol: The Weeknd’s TV project plumbs dire depths not witnessed since the end of Game of Thrones
Who thought this hollowed-out cringe fest was a good idea?
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Brianna Parkins: When you are poor or working class, you spend a lot of mental energy and money trying not to look like it
What a punch Succession packs at the death. It goes out doing what it does best
Television: Jesse Armstrong’s dark dramedy about the billionaire Roy family ends with a flurry of body blows
Succession’s big finale: Here are seven questions we need to be answered
Before the last episode of the megasatire drops, we ask: Will Roman die? Is Tom Wambsgans poised for victory? What’s next for Greg?
Hollywood writers’ strike is at once heartening and depressing
When studios and streamers skimp on the screenwriting process, everybody is short-changed
Selling to the super rich: Succession properties hit the market in New York
Is there a downside to tying a property to the most loathsome charachters?
Can’t get enough of Succession? This is the podcast for you
Kara Swisher digs into the creative cloices and narrative twists as the hit show unspools its final series
Expensive week for Fox’s ‘continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards’
Planet Business: Succession’s Manhattan real estate, a Netflix catch-up and the bold royal plan to ‘let them eat quiche’
The Last of Us has become a weapon in the biggest video games deal in history
HBO’s adaptation of the Sony PlayStation game has been cited as a reason regulators should approve Microsoft’s swoop on Activision Blizzard
10 great TV series to get hooked on, from modern classics to new releases
Including The Sopranos, Only Murders in the Building, Alice in Borderland, The Last of Us and Secret Invasion
The Last of Us review: Heavily hyped show is a chilling, heart-shredding vision of the future
The video game’s mix of melancholy, melodrama and post-apocalyptic dread has been faithfully transposed to TV in HBO’s new adaptation
Is it time to join the set-jetters and take a White Lotus holiday?
Like the majority of White Lotus characters, some have had trips that were less than tranquil
From warm glows to gangrene, a glut of TV shows entertained in 2022
In what was ‘maybe’ a peak year for production, some shows triumphed, some disappeared and others wouldn’t stay dead
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