The Culture
April 28, 2013
Kickstarted: Veronica Mars Comes Back To Life
Austinite Rob Thomas and more than 90,000 fans broke four Kickstarter records to turn his canceled TV cult TV show into a feature film.
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The Culture
February 20, 2013
The Last Days of J.R. Ewing
The executive producer of Dallas talks about Larry Hagman's final working weeks.
The Culture
February 4, 2013
Dallas-based Ad Agency Scores Big On Super Bowl Sunday
The Richards Group aimed right for the heartland with a Paul Harvey "So God Made a Farmer" montage.
The Culture
February 1, 2013
Shooting J.R.
How is the new 'Dallas' handling Larry Hagman's mid-season death?
The Culture
January 21, 2013
J.R. Ewing, R.I.P.
SPOILER ALERT: TNT confirms that there will be a funeral for Larry Hagman's character during the upcoming season of its revived Dallas.
Energy
January 21, 2013
What the Frack is Up With ‘Dallas’?
Is TNT's reboot of the classic soap opera also a mirror of the country's changing relationship with fossil fuels?
The Culture
January 21, 2013
‘Game of Thrones’ Producers Apologize For Putting Dubya’s Head on Stake
HBO went into damage control mode after the website io9 called attention to the "cameo."
The Culture
January 21, 2013
Austin Becomes Dillon Once Again
Friday Night Lights cast members and producers come home for the ATX Television Festival, with a panel and an Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow screening.
Books
January 21, 2013
Buzz Bissinger & “Coach Taylor” Banter in Austin
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.
The Culture
January 21, 2013
Friday Night Lights’ Peter Berg Does Not Like Craig James
And Details also gets more details on the upcoming FNL movie from the director.
The Culture
January 21, 2013
HBO Picks Up McConaughey-Harrelson Show
The two Texans will star in True Detective, a multi-layered noir about a serial killer in Louisiana.
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
And the “Top Chef: Texas” Winner Is . . .
In the end, Top Chef: Texas gets one Texas thing right, as Austin's Paul Qui takes the crown.
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
It’s a “Top Chef Texas” Tearjerker
Even the emotion's bigger in Texas, as Austin cheftestant Paul Qui advances to next week's finale.
Hollywood, TX
January 21, 2013
Return to Southfork
The new Dallas smartly pretends the nineties never happened.
Feature
January 21, 2013
Larry Hagman’s Curtain Call
As the man known to the world as Dallas's J. R. Ewing fends off throat cancer, he gears up to reprise the role that turned him into an icon and looks back on one of the most extraordinary—and eccentric—lives in show business.
Feature
January 21, 2013
Lone Stars
The ten greatest TV Texans.
Hollywood, TX
January 21, 2013
Desperate Diva
Is Eva Longoria doomed to be tabloid fodder the rest of her days?
Hollywood, TX
January 20, 2013
All He Needs Is Love
Bill Paxton’s role of a lifetime.
The Culture
January 20, 2013
Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx pulls no punches.
Hollywood, TX
January 20, 2013
Pros and Cons
The best TV show you’ll never see.
Hollywood, TX
January 20, 2013
This Is Series Business
The trouble with Texas TV shows.
Film & TV
January 20, 2013
Big State, Small Screen
Is Friday Night Lights the best TV show ever made about Texas? Or just the first one (sorry, J.R.! Sorry, Hank!) that’s tried so hard to get the details right?
Feature
January 20, 2013
Unbelievable TV Texans
Sure they're supposed to be from Texas, but c'mon.
Feature
January 20, 2013
Notable TV Texan Character Names
Remember ol’ what’s his face?
Feature
January 20, 2013
TV Texans Played by Actual Texans
Someone’s got to keep ’em honest.
Feature
January 20, 2013
They Once Played a TV Texan
Though you might have forgotten.
Books
January 20, 2013
True West
Twenty-five years ago, Larry McMurtry published a novel called Lonesome Dove—and Texas hasn’t looked the same since. Listen in as more than thirty writers, critics, producers, and actors, from Peter Bogdonavich and Dave Hickey to Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, and Anjelica Huston, tell the stories behind the book (and
Film & TV
January 20, 2013
Barry Corbin
Barry CorbinGrowing up in Lubbock, I didn’t want to be a real cowboy, because I knew a bunch of them and they didn’t get paid anything and they were hurt all the time. But I wanted to play one in the movies. My favorite early on was Bill Elliott, and
Hollywood, TX
January 20, 2013
This Time It’s Personal
Can Steve Austin wrestle his acting career into submission?
Film & TV
January 20, 2013
Television • Chuck Norris
Lone Ranger.
Film & TV
January 20, 2013
Television • Hank Hill
An animated personality.
Hollywood, TX
January 20, 2013
Fumble!
Dim the Lights.
Web Exclusive
January 20, 2013
Good Friday Night
John Spong talks about unearthing the history of TV’s portrayal of Texas through the ages and how Friday Night Lights changed it all.
Hollywood, TX
January 20, 2013
Who’s That Girl?
Who are Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato?
Hollywood, TX
January 20, 2013
Frozen Asset
The best sitcom you may never get to see.
The Culture
January 20, 2013
Big D & the Women
Reality (TV) bites Dallas women.
Web Exclusive
January 1, 2013
Big Rich Texas’s Big Unlikely Success
Despite withering reviews, the Dallas-based reality television show has enjoyed increased ratings and has spawned a franchise.
Music
September 30, 2012
Making an Austin City Limits Debut
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.
The Culture
August 30, 2012
Sherman Hemsley Still Unburied in El Paso
The body of The Jeffersons star is caught up in an estate dispute between a longtime friend in Texas and a man who claims to be his brother in Philadelphia.
The Culture
August 28, 2012
Is Lindsay Lohan Destined to Play Anna Nicole Smith?
The casting sheet for Lifetime's Anna Nicole Smith biopic is out, and LiLo seems to be a heavy favorite.
Web Exclusive
July 31, 2012
TNT’s Dallas Spurs Its Namesake to Prosper
The time-honored TV show is finally back, and it's bringing Dallas economic and tourism growth, as well as a certain sense of pride.
The Culture
June 12, 2012
What Do the Critics Think of ‘Dallas’?
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 Culture
June 8, 2012
‘America’s Got Talent’ Contestant Under Fire for Allegedly False War Stories
After a week of scrutiny, contestant Timothy Poe apologizes for "incomplete facts" in the heart-breaking story he gave on his audition for America's Got Talent.
Politics & Policy
May 8, 2012
Mexican Presidential Debate Resembles “Sabado Gigante”
The appearance of a sexily dressed model at Sunday's Mexican presidential debate took the focus off one set of boobs onstage.
The Culture
April 20, 2012
Austin Sees the Original Unaired “Party Down” Pilot
Rob Thomas, the Austin-based writer and producer whose next project is an HBO pilot with Ira Glass and Owen Wilson, also said a Party Down movie is still in the works.
Hollywood, TX
March 31, 2012
Her Bust Interests
In The Client List, Jennifer Love Hewitt tries to the breast of her ability.
Arts & Entertainment
March 2, 2012
Win the Weekend: Texas Historical Markers Turn Fifty
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.
The Culture
February 26, 2012
Creator of Failed Television Program “Lone Star” Tries Again
Will Kyle Killen's new NBC drama Awake, a cop show starring Jason Isaacs, have better luck than Lone Star, which Fox canceled after two episodes?
Hollywood, TX
February 1, 2012
Trite and True
We have met the enemy, and they are Good Christian Bitches.
Hollywood, TX
September 30, 2011
For Real, Y’all
What does a rash of new reality TV tell us about the Metroplex?