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In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one…

“22 Short Films About Springfield” (season 7, episode 21; originally aired 4/14/1996)

It seems like we just did this, but there’s a “final” trailer for Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes now, one that…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…

Most of the time, comparing a film or TV show to a video game is a snide way of dismissing that film or TV show. The…

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Friday, June 20, and Saturday, June 21. All times are Eastern.

In news apparently important enough to make the top 20 results on the Google News “Entertainment” page, Taylor Swift…

Excited for AMC’s Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul? Well, you’re going to have to wait a little longer for it,…

Indomitable inventor Wallace and his silent dog Gromit are coming to Amazon Prime’s streaming service, a fact that…

So Lifetime is going to make a behind-the-scenes movie about Saved By The Bell. If you go to Buzzfeed, you can look…

The producers of Midnight Rider, the Gregg Allman biopic whose production was halted after a train collision killed…

Like all TV shows making the slow evolution from pupa to larva, Girls has entered the “lots of guest stars” phase of…

After the first installment made a world-beating $4.6 million and the second an even better $3 million, the…

Francis Ford Coppola, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Patton, announced at the Produced By conference that…

For over a decade, director Philip Noyce, whose next film will be the adaptation of The Giver, has been trying to…

Todd VanDerWerff: On its surface, having an argument about whether True Detective or Fargo was “better,”…

“Tabula Rasa” (season 1, episode 3; originally aired 10/6/2004)

Before FX’s miniseries version of Fargo debuted in April, a tendency to scoff at the show for having the temerity to…

The characters on Rectify are always caught between the notion that life is a burden and the idea that it’s actually…

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, June 18. All times are Eastern.