In TV show ‘Roseanne’ and its reboot, a comedy that actually cares about working class America

The American show continues to situate its characters’ life experiences within a wider social and economic context.

Scott Doidge, The Conversation

· Apr 22, 2018 · 07:30 pm

How the new season of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is taking Margaret Atwood’s novel in new directions

Season Two is a response to the #metoo movement.

Linda Wight, The Conversation

· Apr 17, 2018 · 07:30 pm

Why viewers can’t get enough of a Netflix series set in 1920s Berlin

The German-language ‘Babylon Berlin’ has emerged as a global hit.

Peter Tregear, The Conversation

· Apr 05, 2018 · 07:30 pm

Kids going missing and stranger things: What explains TV’s obsession with children in peril?

An empty cradle, a barren playground, a vacant bunk bed. Does that sound familiar?

Ankita Chawla

· Feb 27, 2018 · 08:15 am

BBC comedy ‘Man Like Mobeen’: No overbearing daddy, blushing hijabi or interfering auntie in sight

British comedian Guz Khan sets up his gags so that we laugh with him, not at him.

Sarah Ilott, The Conversation

· Feb 03, 2018 · 08:30 pm

In BBC’s ‘Gunpowder’, desperate men and desperate measures (and Kit Harington)

The ‘Game of Thrones’ star plays the ringleader of a plot to assassinate King James I of England in 1605.

Ankita Chawla

· Nov 18, 2017 · 08:15 am

Detective series ‘Strike’, based on the JK Rowling novels, makes its mark

‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’ is a three-part series based on the murder mystery written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

Ankita Chawla

· Sep 12, 2017 · 08:15 am

‘Bhajan cool’: Two words for talent show ‘Om Shanti Om’ judged by Baba Ramdev

There is ‘no elimination, only elevation’ on Pankaj Narayan’s show on Star Bharat.

Archana Nathan

· Sep 09, 2017 · 10:15 am

If ‘South Park’ is 20, there is only one reason: No holy cows

How Trey Parker and Matt Stone made it for the long haul. Parental advisory: explicit content.

Phillip Vaughan, The Conversation

· Sep 05, 2017 · 01:30 pm

British TV series ‘The State’ is a disturbing portrayal of life under the Islamic State

The series accurately portrays how Islamic State uses propaganda to curtail, constrain and control its recruits.

Chris Allen, The Conversation

· Sep 02, 2017 · 08:15 am

‘Comrade Detective’ review: The funny, smart and weird ’80s Romanian cop drama that never was

The Amazon Prime Video comedy recreates 1980s television and communist Romania to give an in idea of how propaganda works.

Ankita Chawla

· Aug 31, 2017 · 09:15 am

A doctor tries to navigate India and cliches in TV show ‘The Good Karma Hospital’

The British series has numerous problems but a heartwarming lead actor.

Vikram Johri

· Aug 31, 2017 · 08:15 am