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Brown Brothers/PBS Why Presidents Are Also Celebrities
The Roosevelts transformed the United States—and made its leaders into stars.
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NBC A Definitive Ranking of Every Character on The West Wing
And by "every character," we mean it. Everyone who ever served at the pleasure of the president and then some, ranked.
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HBO A More Immersive Documentary, Thanks to Google
HBO's Terror at the Mall goes light on presenting background info, on the assumption that viewers are going to look up the facts anyways.
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Marion Ettlinger James Ellroy Returns Home
With Perfidia, the novelist mines racial tensions in wartime Los Angeles, digging into the city's dark past once again to work through his own.
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Nick Ut/AP Joan Rivers: Hollywood's Greatest Comeback Story?
Once blackballed by Johnny Carson and shunned by the industry, the indefatigable comedian reclaimed her spot on the Red Carpet through pure grit.
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Dell Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules for (Criminal) Success and Happiness
Timothy Olyphant, star of TV’s Justified, reads a passage from the 1976 novel Swag.
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Vince Bucci/AP TV Is Anxious
The medium is dealing with a lot of new issues. This year's Emmy awards made that obvious.
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NBC The Satirical Genius of Billy Eichner's Emmys Shtick
The comedian won a new audience by sending up the award show's irrelevance.
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Mike Blake/Reuters Breaking Bad's Hard-Earned, Heartwarming Emmys Win
True Detective's loss hinted that, for now, movie-style slickness and stars don't trump six years of storytelling.
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Mario Anzuoni/Reuters The Poignance of Blue Ivy Carter
Amid the falseness of the VMAs, as her parents try to sell an image, Beyoncé and Jay Z's kid keeps it real.
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BBC America Doctor Who: Older, Wiser, Sexless
The show's eighth season premiere movingly ends the David Tennant/Matt Smith era of romantic hijinks.
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AMC Networks The Directors Who Make Television Cinematic
Six scenes from Emmy-nominated shows that demonstrate how the golden age of TV isn't just about dialogue
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Chris Fallows/Discovery Channel Social Media Ruined Shark Week
You don't need on-screen OMGs to know that a fish mauling a human is OMG-worthy.
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Starz Outlander: False Feminism?
Three Atlantic writers discuss Starz's buzzy new fantasy show.
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HBO The Brilliant Nihilism of The Leftovers
Might the year's most depressing show be pointing toward a happy ending after all?
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National Geographic Learn How to Open a Door
The brilliant banality of National Geographic's new show Going Deep With David Rees
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Bravo The Best Project Runway Looks of All Time
In honor of the long-running reality series' 13th season premiere, we take a look back at the best fashions ever produced on the show.
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Miramax Films Disability Is Not Just a Metaphor
The entertainment industry loves disabled characters—but not disabled actors.
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Reuters Elaine Stritch: Cantankerous and Spectacular
Even through her shtick, the late actress radiated vulnerability and charm.
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NBC Just Shoot Me and the Deep Comfort of Mediocre Sitcoms
The purest form of pop-cultural love I've ever felt was toward a show whose jokes I didn't even understand.
