‘I’m Not Here to Make Friends With Muppets’

Listen in as Gilbert Cruz, The Times’s television editor, and Jeremy Egner, our in-house “Game of Thrones” expert, offer a debrief at the conclusion of Season 7. 

John Eligon, a national correspondent covering race, and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, a domestic affairs correspondent, discuss the racial divide in America with Marc Lacey, The Times’s national editor. 

James Poniewozik, watches TV all day and gets paid for it. Dream job, right? James is the chief TV critic at the New York Times. He’s also the author of “Audience of One: Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America.” On this episode, he explains how Rupert Murdoch brought a ...  Show more

James Andrew Miller, author of the new HBO oral history "Tinderbox," shares what he learned through his interviews with five decades of network executives, stars and producers. HBO created a "whole new pathway for people to experience television," he says. But now it is under tre ...  Show more

Ronna McDaniel’s time at NBC was short. The former Republican National Committee chairwoman was hired as an on-air political commentator but released just days later after an on-air revolt by the network’s leading stars.

Jim Rutenberg, a writer at large for The Times, di ...

This week, thousands of writers went on strike against Hollywood studios over what they say is an existential threat to their livelihoods.

John Koblin, a media reporter for The New York Times, explains how streaming turned the most prolific era in American entertainment ...