The TV series that inspired Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: Impossible’ films is ultimate geek heaven

The show, created and produced by Bruce Geller, ran for seven seasons from 1966 to 1973 and returned for two in 1988 before wrapping up.

Vikram Johri

· May 30, 2018 · 08:15 am

In ‘Come Home’ TV show, a home turns into a battlefield

The BBC mini-series depicts a disintegrating family trying to understand what went wrong.

Ankita Chawla

· May 28, 2018 · 09:15 am

‘The Rain’ review: The Netflix thriller is a bit of a washout

The Danish show combines science fiction with horror elements.

Vikram Johri

· May 12, 2018 · 09:15 am

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