Television

August 24, 2016

The Checklist

What to read, listen to, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

2011 MTV Video Music Awards - Red Carpet

August 17, 2016

Best Brands Forever

Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato show just how much celebrity friendship has changed in the social media age.

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June 22, 2016

The Checklist

What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

June 22, 2016

#SpoilerAlert

To whom will the Bachelorette’s final rose go this season? Blogger Steve Carbone makes it his business to know—and tell his 1.5 million readers.

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Sports|

June 9, 2016

Delay of Game

Discovering the joys of Friday Night Lights, ten years after everyone else.

May 26, 2016

The Checklist

What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

Texas History|

May 20, 2016

The Lyndon Johnson Show

All the Way playwright Robert Schenkkan on Donald Trump, George Wallace, and why Bryan Cranston makes a great LBJ.

By Brian D. Sweany

April 20, 2016

The Checklist

What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

March 14, 2016

‘Preacher’ Sets The Pieces For A Big Texas Story At The SXSW Premiere Of Its Pilot

The much-anticipated new series from AMC premiered its first episode, followed by a panel discussion with the cast and creators.

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March 2, 2016

Hap and Leonard: From East Texas to Hollywood

A brief oral history of the television show based on Joe R. Lansdale's books—and how Hollywood learned to love the Nacogdoches native.

By Eric Benson

February 2, 2016

Carol Burnett and “The Family”

How the recent SAG Lifetime Achievement Award winner and San Antonio native captured Southern life through her work.

By John Nova Lomax

Arts & Entertainment|

December 23, 2015

The Checklist

What to watch, read, listen to, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

October 22, 2015

The Texas Law Hawk Is the Internet’s New Favorite Lawyer

Fort Worth defense attorney Bryan Wilson lands a body blow in his quest to claim the ”most ridiculous lawyer in Texas” crown.

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October 14, 2015

Is David Eagleman Neuroscience’s Carl Sagan?

The Houstonian's new PBS television series "The Brain" could do for neuroscience what "Cosmos" did for space.

By Michael Hardy

Sports|

September 24, 2015

Watch Kevin Durant And J.J. Watt Be Freaking Adorable

The two Texas sports heroes give their personal props to the rest of us.

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September 17, 2015

The Checklist

A look at what to read, watch, and listen to this (wonderfully jam-packed) month in order to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

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September 10, 2015

AMC’s ‘Preacher’ TV Show Gets Ordered To Series—Here’s Everything We Know

The most 'Texas' comic book of the past two decades is ready to be the most Texas TV show in years.

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August 12, 2015

Seven Things We Learned From The First Episode Of The Texans’ Hard Knocks

J.J. Watt and friends had their HBO debut last night. Here’s what you might have missed.

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August 4, 2015

Can The World Handle Another McConaughey? Meet Rooster, Matthew’s Brother

Here’s all that you need to know about Rooster McConaughey and his new show, 'West Texas Investors Club.'

By Jeff Winkler

Sports|

July 27, 2015

Tony Romo Is The New Rob Lowe In DirecTV Commercials

With DirecTV, he’s five-interceptions-in-two-different-games Tony Romo. With cable, he’s arts-and-crafts Tony Romo who bakes brownie cupcakes. We’re not sure what this ad is getting at.

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June 17, 2015

So About That “Texas Rising” Finale . . .

What this historical dramatization of the Texas Revolution could have been—and what it was.

Texas Rising|

June 11, 2015

The Latest Installment Is the Most Superior Yet

“Texas Rising” might even be good.

June 10, 2015

The Basic Problem with “Texas Rising”? A Lack of Human Connection

If the death of a horse is the most touching scene in this production, what does that say about it?

By James Donovan

June 4, 2015

We Have Minutiae, But Where is the Nuance?

Usually the devil is in the details, but with “Texas Rising,” the broad brush strokes are more troubling.

June 2, 2015

Are You Not Entertained?

If you don’t think about it too hard, Texas Rising is pretty enjoyable to watch.

By James Donovan

May 28, 2015

The Very Blurry Line Between Fact and Fiction

Texas Rising has taken historic liberties that have undermined rather than enhanced the narrative momentum of the story.

May 27, 2015

Let’s Not Count Out “Texas Rising” Just Yet

A slouchy story. No narrative drive. Questionable history. But, sure, I’ll keep watching Texas Rising.

By James Donovan

March 13, 2015

iRoberson

iZombie rises from the dead.

By Jason Cohen

January 14, 2015

Watch a Bunch of Actors Pretend to be Texans

And brush up on Texas history at the same time. “Texas Rising” premieres on Memorial Day.

By Hannah Smothers

August 14, 2014

How the Border Crisis Became Inspiration for a Television Show

How producers of "The Bridge" make entertainment out of grim news.

By Andy Langer

July 23, 2014

Ted Cruz Laments That He’s Lost The Vampire Vote

A Ted Cruz reference on True Blood apparently stuck in the Senator's craw.

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Television|

May 13, 2014

Scoot McNairy Catches Fire

Scoot McNairy, lavender farmer.

By Christopher Kelly

March 11, 2014

Mike Judge’s “Silicon Valley” Premieres April 6th on HBO, and It’s Really Funny

Who better to produce a show skewering California tech culture than someone from Austin, which is currently overrun with those people?

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March 7, 2014

King of Dreams

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?

By Carina Chocano

Television|

February 23, 2014

Let’s Discuss “Downton”

"Manor of Speaking" unpacks each new episode of the critically-acclaimed Masterpiece Classic series and has quickly become Houston PBS's most popular locally-produced show.

By Sonia Smith

Cold Justice|

February 6, 2014

A High-Profile District Attorney’s Second Act as a Television Personality

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.”

By Sonia Smith

February 3, 2014

J.C. Penney Did Not Drunk-Tweet The Super Bowl

The struggling Plano-based department store chain was trying to advertise mittens.

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January 16, 2014

Watch Texas Filmmaker Brandon Polanco’s Bryan Cranston-Led Short Film “Writer’s Block”

The Stephen F. Austin grad and Austin native landed Heisenberg himself for the lead role in his 13-minute amateur short.

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December 11, 2013

The Checklist

What to see, hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

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December 10, 2013

Great News. There Won’t Be a Friday Night Lights Movie.

Yesterday, Peter Berg—the guy responsible for the screen adaptations of Friday Night Lights—revealed that the beloved TV series would not add a big-screen coda, as the long-discussed project had been officially benched. Here's why that's great news.

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December 4, 2013

Tarantino Fans Take Note: There Is a Fake Big Kahuna Burger in Austin Right Now

The fictional ‘Pulp Fiction’ Hawaiian burger joint has taken over the Stallion Grill on Airport Boulevard and there's a whole bunch of film equipment outside.

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November 18, 2013

Will This Texas-Based Comic Book Series Be AMC’s Next Breaking Bad?

New reports surfaced that "Preacher," a comic cult favorite, may be developed by the cable network. If it is succesfully brought to a television audience, it could spark a national dialogue about what it means to be from Texas.

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Still from the show 'From Dusk Till Dawn.'