JAMES PONIEWOZIK

The former president’s trials aren’t being aired. That isn’t stopping him from turning them into a political reality show.

The comedian returned to “The Daily Show,” claiming the prerogative to tell his audience jokes they don’t want to hear.

The Peanuts special is the most overtly Christian TV holiday classic. So why does it speak to me so deeply?

The resonant-voiced actor, skilled at cerebral roles, had a gift for conveying authority and for subverting it.

The “All in the Family” producer made sitcoms into a form of patriotic dissent.

Ron DeSantis, Gavin Newsom and a not-exactly-neutral Sean Hannity staged a campaign debate from an alternative timeline.

What do we mourn when we mourn a TV companion?

One of TV’s longest-lived characters gets revived, in an anticlimactic museum reproduction of the original.

In the ending of the FX comedy-drama, preserving the bonds among generations is a radical, magical act.

The retiring Fox leader built a noise-and-propaganda machine by giving his people what they wanted — and sometimes by teaching them what to want.