The MTV MTVA’s recent decision — effective this year — to scrap their best actor and best actress categories in favor of a single gender-neutral category is a conversation starter, if nothing else.

2017

Apr

FROM 'THE GOOD WIFE' TO 'THE GOOD FIGHT': CAN TOO MUCH GOOD TV BE BAD FOR THE SYSTEM? By Alex Strachan

A friend who’s just discovered The Good Fight told me the other day that she can’t believe how much she’s enjoying it. In the next breath, she admitted she’d never seen The Good Wife. This is the kind of admission that demands instant cross-examination...

2017

Mar

ALTERNATIVE ACTS: IF YOU COULD CHANGE THE ENDING, WOULD YOU? By Alex Strachan

If you could choose a different ending to Breaking Bad would you? Netflix executives are already talking about so-called “branch narratives” and different ways to connect plot points in some of its adult dramas...

2017

Mar

ETHICS IN NATURE FILMMAKING: WHERE IS THE REALITY LINE IN THE SAND? By Alex Strachan

Scan YouTube for highlights of Planet Earth II and one can’t help but be struck by how many compilation fan videos are of the blood-’n’-claws variety...

2017

Mar

‘THE AMERICANS’ AND RUSSIA: CO-CREATOR JOE WEISBERG ON WHERE REEL LIFE MEETS REAL LIFE By Alex Strachan

“Here’s what you need to know about Russia’s ambassador to the US,” the Washington Post told readers, in its Friday edition. Joe Weisberg, the former CIA case officer who co-created The Americans with Joel Fields, could be forgiven for allowing himself a small laugh...

2017

Mar

ARE YOU TALKING TO ME? I CAN’T HEAR YOU. SPEAK UP! By Alex Strachan

The great Al Pacino can mumble with the best of them, as he proved in Warren Beatty’s wacky 1990 caper movie Dick Tracy. Arguably — and not for the first time in his storied career — Pacino stole the movie...

2017

Feb

CAN 18 MILLION ‘NCIS’ VIEWERS BE WRONG? REPORTS OF TV’S DEATH ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED By Alex Strachan

There are secrets, and then there are lies...

2017

Feb

MAKING 'PLANET EARTH II': 10 LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS By Alex Strachan

Mike Gunton is not the household name David Attenborough is, but if there’s to be a third go-round of Planet Earth, Gunton is likely the person who will sign off on it...

2017

Feb

WHO’S NEXT FOR ‘DOCTOR WHO’? SOME SAY IT SHOULD BE A FEMALE OR BLACK ACTOR By Alex Strachan

Doctor Who doesn’t return until April 15, but once again it’s facing a recurring existential question: Who will play the next Doctor when the rebooted series returns the following season?...

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