The five-part Showtime docu-series avoids the worst pitfalls of the true-crime genre, favoring character over sensationalism.
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Don’t worry: there are only two Texans left.
’21 Bridges’ won’t be the film to get him there.
Twenty years on, the band is Texas’s most subliminally recognizable export.
Austin native Gabriel Luna will reprise his role as the title character of the just-announced Hulu original.
On the latest National Podcast of Texas, the South Texas-raised stand-up comic talks about Mexican-American representation in Hollywood, the border situation, and writing jokes for Clint Eastwood.
Houston writer Shea Serrano's ’Rap Yearbook’ gets the docu-series treatment, produced by The Roots and Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney.
The most 'Texas' comic book of the past two decades is ready to be the most Texas TV show in years.
If the death of a horse is the most touching scene in this production, what does that say about it?
Usually the devil is in the details, but with “Texas Rising,” the broad brush strokes are more troubling.
If you don’t think about it too hard, Texas Rising is pretty enjoyable to watch.
Texas Rising has taken historic liberties that have undermined rather than enhanced the narrative momentum of the story.
A slouchy story. No narrative drive. Questionable history. But, sure, I’ll keep watching Texas Rising.
Who better to produce a show skewering California tech culture than someone from Austin, which is currently overrun with those people?
Over the past twenty years, from his outpost in Texas, Robert Rodriguez has quietly revolutionized the movie business. What happens when he gets his own TV network?
Kelly Siegler uses the skills she honed in a two-decade-plus career in the Harris County district attorney’s office to solve cold cases on the TNT show “Cold Justice.”
What to see, hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Is TNT's reboot of the classic soap opera also a mirror of the country's changing relationship with fossil fuels?
Actor Kyle Chandler was among the fans at the BookPeople, where Friday Night Lights author H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger read from his new book Father's Day.
Terry Lickona, the television show's executive producer, talks about some of the acts that will step on the Austin City Limits stage for the first time, including Radiohead and Kat Edmonson.
TNT's 2012 gloss on the Ewing family premieres tonight, and the advance word has been (mostly) good. Here's what ten critics have to say about the reboot of Dallas.
The Texas Historical Commission's markers are now eligible for their own plaque, Ron Paul and Sheila Jackson Lee are the Hill's best talkers, and the TCU drug bust was a bit pitiful.
Their mission is to save the world, not conquer it, but the stars of Xena: Warrior Princess are winning television-ratings battles from San Angelo to Slovakia. The two-year-old syndicated show airs in more than eighty countries, making Lucy Lawless, who plays Xena, the first leather-clad TV lead since the Fonz—and…
MY MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER, Grandma Page, was up at three-thirty or four o’clock in the morning to bake and churn and get ready for the cotton fields on our family farm in Bloomington. At night, after all the cooking and sewing, there was energy left for her reading. “Come, Danny, I’ll…
Cash-poor PBS stations can’t seem to come up with innovative new ideas, so they ought to resurrect an innovative old one: Newsroom, the best local public- affairs program in Texas history.