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For four days every spring, Austin turns into “TV Camp for Grown Ups" with the Austin TV Festival.
Read More »EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: ATX TV Fest Founders Caitlin McFarland and Emily Gipson Talk About ‘TV Camp for Grown Ups’
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Discovering Funny at ATX TV Fest: Five Shows, and the Writers of ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’
What is "funny?" Besides just showing us funny shows, this year’s ATX TV Festival took two deep dives into the subject.
Read More »ATX TV Event: Classic ‘Twilight Zone’ Moments with a Rod Serling Biographer
Every seat in the room was taken when the presentation began with a showing of Season 1 Episode 5 of The Twilight Zone, “Walking Distance.”
Read More »ATX TV Fest: Lea Thompson Introduces Us to ‘Anna Pigeon’ and Grizzly Bears
The ATX TV Festival, which ran in Austin from May 28-31, gave a sneak preview of USA Network’s upcoming drama series 'Anna Pigeon.'
Read More »TV Review: ‘Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure’
Celebrated writer, broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough revisits the planning, trials and triumphs of the groundbreaking documentary.
Read More »NAB 2026: AI, ‘Survivor’, Sports, Rob Lowe and Nate Bargatze
NAB Show 2026 brought broadcast, the creator economy, sports, and AI together to create a cutting-edge fan experience.
Read More »SXSW 2026 Reviews: ‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’ with Samara Weaving and ‘The Comeback’ Starring Lisa Kudrow
"Ready or not," it's time for a "comeback" with Samara Weaving and former 'Friends' star Lisa Kudrow.
Read More »SXSW 2026: The Ultimate Fest Reinvents Itself
Changes in Austin have forced SXSW to make changes. The changes, though, might just be fun.
Read More »TV Review: HBO’s New ‘Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’
Turn on HBO’s newest Game of Thrones spinoff, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and you might be forgiven for thinking you’ve stumbled not into Westeros, but into an old-fashioned television Western. Episode one begins with a burial. A very tall young man, the squire Dunk (Peter Claffey), lays his master, …
Read More »Rumplestiltskin: the Dark Alchemist of ‘Once Upon a Time’
Few characters in modern fantasy television have burned as brightly—or fallen as hard—as Once Upon a Time’s Rumplestiltskin. When the ABC fantasy series debuted in 2011, the show introduced a sorcerer so layered, so unpredictable, so alchemically compelling that he virtually redefined what a fairy-tale villain could be. Part of …
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