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Welcome back to autumn and the traditional kick-off to the television season. Don't let people tell you that streaming has won that war and made the television season a year-round event; our lists say otherwise. For the first time since May 2023, nearly every major streaming
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When Morse, based on the popular Colin Dexter books, initially premiered in 1987 on ITV with John Thaw as the titular inspector, it was probably just seen as yet another contemporary police procedural in a landscape filled with them. However, the series turned out to be a massive turning point.
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The streaming revolution and peak TV were supposed to be the death knell of the September to May TV season. Viewers were no longer locked into a system that arbitrarily decided new shows began in the fall, took hiatuses over recent years, and ended in late spring. Sweeps weeks were
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The post-apocalypse is not the ideal place to be stuck with a load of Brits. Whenever we’ve wondered who we’d want in our zombie survival team, we’ve rarely considered that random Brits would make the cut. They automatically have loads of points against them: they love
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The beginning of July means a Fourth of July holiday weekend for most Americans, as barbeques fire up, fireworks light the sky, and families head to the beach. Once upon a time, this was the sleepy season for TV, as viewers left their TV sets behind on vacations. But tablets,
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June is finally here, and with it, hot days, warm nights, vacations, and a closing of Emmy nominations voting. That last factor brings a modicum of chill to the TV landscape as the prestige titles and debuts (which may or may not deserve that moniker) give way to the regularly
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May 2023 is upon us, and so is a moment in history. For the first time in 70 years, a new U.K. monarch will be crowned live in history's second-ever televised royal coronation. This historical moment is made even more notable as the last time a
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Earth Day originated in the 1960s as those who jumped on the climate change bandwagon tried to draw attention to how humans affected the environment. In 1969, Wisconsin environmental activist Sen. Gaylord Nelson came up with the idea to hold a nationwide ecological teach-in on April 22, 1970, known
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The spring TV season is officially in full swing. Even though in America (and overseas), the first week of April will see a short hiatus for the first week as Easter specials hit the airwaves, streaming services will not halt the arrivals of new programming. Over on PBS, the usual
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March kicks off the final three months of eligibility for the Primetime Emmys in TV. While that may not seem like a significant milestone, for shows that run ten episodes and wish to debut their finale as close to the final voting deadline without going over, this is the month
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February is the Tuesday of the year, with the only benefit being that it's shorter than all the other months and slightly quicker. However, the amount of streaming series does not go down just because the month is missing a few days or is somewhat dreary. It tends
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When Netflix remade the award-winning British series House of Cards in 2013 for its first major release, few understood just how much it would change the way we consume entertainment in the coming decade that followed. But as we round into 2023 and the tenth anniversary of that debut,