The push-pull of the true-crime genre is that, no matter how much it intends to give a voice to the victims, it more often gives notoriety to the accused. This is certainly the case if the accused is someone like Robert Durst, the bumbling, garrulous, eccentric, and wealthy septuagenarian at the center of Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling, and Zac Stuart-Pontier’s Emmy-winning 2015 docuseries, The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. That program famously included Durst seemingly confessing to three murders — the 1982 disappearance and assumed death of his first wife, Kathie Durst, the 2000 shooting of his friend Susan Berman, and the 2001 killing and dismembering of his neighbor Morris Black — because a hot mic caught him muttering to himself “killed them all, of course.”

Earth Day is right around the corner, and National Geographic has been rolling out conscientious programming all month long with ourHOME, the global cross-platform Earth Month Campaign it launched April 1 with The Walt Disney Company. Along with Disneynature’s Tiger, fans of nature documentaries will also find Secrets of the...

John Wilkes Booth was the worst. Even if he hadn’t assassinated Abraham Lincoln and ruined some of Reconstruction’s more powerful measures for integrating freed Black people into American social and political life, Booth was still a vain, violent, callow, self-aggrandizing bigot. Anthony Boyle, who plays Booth in the...

One of the fundamental mysteries of Ghosts has been finding out how each of the ghosts ended up dead in the first place — the only common thread between them being that they all died at Woodstone Mansion at some point in history. The latest of the undead to get the spotlight is Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky), the uptight lady of the manor and Sam’s great-great-great-great-great aunt, whose death story is finally revealed in Thursday’s episode.

There’s a growing category of true-crime documentaries that could be called “They Did It” — docuseries and features that make half-hearted attempts to keep the perpetrator(s) a mystery with padded run times or an overreliance on dramatic reenactments and drone shots. You really don’t have to watch more than the first 10 to 15 minutes of docs like What Jennifer Did, Love Stalker Killer, or I Just Killed My Dad to identify the guilty party.

One of TV’s most magnetic pairings split up earlier this year, when Stuart Martin, The Duke of Miss Scarlet and the Duke, announced he wouldn’t reprise his role as William Wellington opposite Kate Phillips (the eponymous Miss Scarlet). It was a huge bummer for fans of the cozy PBS Masterpiece detective drama, who’d waited for the investigative duo to become a romantic one after four seasons. Despite the duke’s proclamation of love at the end of Season 4, it was not to be.

Earlier this month, the final episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm aired on HBO. Talk about the end of an era. “No Lessons Learned” didn’t just bring Larry David’s loosely autobiographical sitcom to a close after 12 seasons and twice as many years. You could also say that it waved goodbye to the kind of antagonistic humor in which the star-creator specialized, a comedy of confrontation, awkward misunderstanding, and faux pas. Larry was rude to the bitter, irreverent end. That made him something of an outlier in the small-screen landscape of the 2020s — an unfashionably unsentimental crank, the anti-Ted Lasso.

The alt-history space drama For All Mankind has taken great leaps throughout its run, and we don’t just mean the nearly decade-long time jumps between seasons. The series, from Ronald D. Moore, Ben Nedivi, and Matt Wolpert, has dared to imagine a world in which a significant setback in the space race led to greater innovation in the U.S. and, for a time, spurred social change (in this alternate timeline, the ERA was ratified in the 1970s).

It's been nearly 30 years since the murder of Reena Virk, a 14-year-old girl of South Asian descent beaten and killed by a group of teenagers in Saanich, British Columbia, and certain questions about the case remain unanswered. To what degree did Virk's race play a role in the brutal murder? Why did Warren Glowatski get involved in the initial conflict between Virk and the group of girls she believed to be her friends? Which of Virk's injuries can be attributed to Glowatski, and which were caused by Kelly Ellard, who admitted to rolling Virk's semi-conscious body into the water on the night of November 14, 1997?

The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. HBO’s new documentary An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th doesn’t just revisit this horrific event but methodically details its origins in white male grievance and entitlement. Director Mark Levin, producer Daphne...

The world of Fallout is full of destructive power. This post-nuclear-armageddon world is one of laser guns, mutant monsters, and guns that fire actual mini-nukes, yet the most powerful weapon in the world is time — and a board room full of greedy executives with enough power to start the end of the world just to raise stock prices.

At long last, Season 4 of 90 Day: The Single Life has come to an end. It was starting to feel like we’d never get here, and that we’d have to watch Natalie watch her romantic life (in the U.S., anyway) flash before her eyes forever. But though...

It might seem surprising that one of the most popular TV shows right now is a preschool cartoon about anthropomorphic dogs, but Bluey continues to dominate streaming charts. The Australian hit, which first premiered on ABC Kids in 2018 before streaming internationally on Disney+, has developed a loyal fan base amongst kids and adults alike. It’s not just parents watching, either — the show has even become a TikTok phenomenon.

Since it began in 1984, 40 years ago this year, The Transformers has always had an uncomfortably close relationship with a particularly gross, child-exploiting branch of capitalism — the one that creates cartoon mascots who are driven insane by how delicious sugary cereal is, the one that puts prizes in Happy Meal boxes, and, of course, the one that creates entire TV shows and movies built around selling toys like G.I. Joe or He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Like The Transformers, those shows were all part of an '80s cartoon boom triggered by the way Ronald Reagan’s far-right FCC decided to dramatically roll back protections against advertisements directed at children.

“To truly appreciate the astounding grandeur of this planet, sometimes you must defile it. Behold the defiler,” Werner Herzog’s rich European voice intones at the start of the new Max documentary series Conan O’Brien Must Go. The defiler is none other than Conan himself, a late-night host...

It feels like Nicholas Galitzine is everywhere these days. He clearly has a knack for playing royals — he starred as Prince Henry in Prime Video’s Red, White & Royal Blue in 2023 and is now making waves with his portrayal of George Villiers in Starz’s steamy historical drama Mary & George. Coupled with high-profile projects like The Idea of You on the horizon, the 29-year-old actor is well on his way to becoming Hollywood’s next “it” boy.