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"Murphy Brown" (CBS)

Rebooting “Murphy Brown,” “Charmed” and a female “Greatest American Hero”

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Mackenzie Crook and Kelly Reilly in "Britannia" (Amazon Studios)

“Britannia”: A frothy stand-in for better TV epics

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Mo'Nique; Jessica Chastain (AP/Willy Sanjuan/Jordan Strauss)

Get that money: TV writers open the book on compensation

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Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein in "Portlandia" (IFC/Augusta Quirk)

Salon Exclusive: “Portlandia” gets all up in your lady business

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Taylor Kitsch in "Waco" (Paramount Network)

“Waco”: An incomplete view of the humanity behind the story

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Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome in "Another Period" (Comedy Central)

“Another Period” lampoons our new gilded era

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Matthew Shear and Douglas Smith in The Alienist (TNT/Kata Vermes)

Heady and harrowing, “The Alienist” enthralls

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Scientist Alexander Vail in Blue Planet (BBC America/Yoland Bosiger)

Oceanic wonder, as celebrated in “Planet Earth: Blue Planet II”

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American Masters: Lorraine Hansberry (Courtesy of David Attie)

“Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart”: An absorbing portrait of an activist’s soul

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Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein in "Portlandia" (IFC/Augusta Quirk)

The end of the dream: “Portlandia” kicks off its final season

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Cress Williams as Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning in "Black Lightning" (The CW/Bob Mahoney)

“Black Lightning”: A necessary jolt to the superhero genre

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James Cameron; Eliza Dushku (Getty/C Flanigan/AP/Chris Pizzello)

No mercy: Eliza Dushku, James Cameron and responsibility in our age of reckoning

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Edgar Ramirez as Gianni Versace in "The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story" (FX/Jeff Daly)

A trick of fashion: The bait and switch of “The Assassination of Gianni Versace”

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Lena Waithe (AP/Charles Sykes)

“This is the Chicago I know”: A conversation with Lena Waithe

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Olivia Taylor Dudley as Alice Quinn in "The Magicians" (SYFY/Eike Schroter)

Mirror, mirror: “The Magicians” and the loss of wonder

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Roseanne Barr (AP/Jordan Strauss)

Returning “Roseanne,” and Roseanne Barr, to TV: It’s complicated

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Jimmy Kimmel participates in the "90th Oscars" panel (AP/Richard Shotwell)

Jimmy Kimmel on the 90th Oscars: Anything can happen

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Oprah Winfrey accepts the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 75th Golden Globe Awards (Paul Drinkwater/NBC)

Oprah Winfrey, surprise savior of the 75th Golden Globes

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Alex Hibbert as Kevin and Jason Mitchell as Brandon in "The Chi" (Showtime/Matt Dinerstein)

“The Chi”: Finally, TV that does justice to Chicago’s South Side

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Emilia Clarke and Kit Harington in "Game of Thrones" (HBO/Helen Sloan)

The final “Game of Thrones” season shuts out female directors and writers

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Judges Charlie Walk, Meghan Trainor, Sean “Diddy” Combs and DJ Khaled in "The Four: Battle for Stardom" (FOX/Ray Mickshaw)

“The Four: Battle for Stardom”: Fox’s post-“Idol” swing

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Yara Shahidi as Zoey Johnson in "grown-ish" (Freeform)

“Grown-ish”: The kid is alright

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David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in "The X-Files" (FOX/Ed Araquel)

“The X-Files” returns to a world gone mad

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Ted Danson and Kristen in "The Good Place" (NBC)

13 reasons why . . . we can look forward to TV in 2018

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