Isabella Rossellini with Bau.
Isabella Rossellini trains a puppy to be a guide dog in “Animals Distract Me,” a documentary on the cable channel Planet Green on Saturday.
In “Cinema Verite” on HBO, Tim Robbins and Diane Lane play Bill and Pat Loud in a retelling of how “An American Family” became the first reality TV show.
Mr. Saks was behind the first episode of the popular sitcom about a suburban housewife skilled in the uses of enchantment.
April 21, 2011
Fox's "American Idol" attracted 21.8 million viewers on Wednesday as the seven remaining aspiring pop stars performed songs written in the last ten years.
April 21, 2011
An exhibition coming to Museum of the Moving Image called "Jim Henson's Fantastic World" will open on July 16 and run through Jan. 16, 2012, and it will feature more than 120 works, including drawings, props and, of course, puppets from Henson's more than 45-year career.
April 21, 2011
Ms. Egan said a planned HBO television series would "try to capture the polyphonic quality" of her novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction on Monday.
Morgan Spurlock examines the trend of branded content in his documentary, “The Greatest Story Ever Sold” and how that trend is changing popular culture.
A former F.C.C. chairman says that Julius Genachowski, the current chairman, helped draft a plan to reclaim airwaves from broadcasters in the 1990s.
The government wants TV broadcasters to give up some of their airwaves to allow for expanded use by cellphones and other mobile applications.
Ms. Davis and her 1950s writing partners were responsible for coming up with wacky physical predicaments for the show’s star, Lucille Ball, to get herself into.
Jason Priestley’s popular Canadian comedy series, “Call Me Fitz,” in which he plays a used-car salesman with many addictions, is being shown on DirecTV starting Thursday.
Ms. Sladen was a fan favorite on the long-running British science-fiction series.
A slight uptick in the ratings for “American Idol” reverses a trend and makes the show look increasingly like a cultural fixture.
The ESPN Sports Film series at the Tribeca festival offers seven documentaries about sports figures with a common theme: how competition transformed them.
A documentary about Frederick Law Olmsted, the main creator of Central Park, discusses how he helped diverse populations make a connection to nature amid a sea of concrete.
If Donald Trump were running for president, NBC would be required to offer free airtime to all candidates equal to his appearances on “The Apprentice.”
With this grim and bloody new series, HBO might have found a new “Sopranos.”
A documentary chronicles Phil Rosenthal’s bumpy journey as he tries to make a very American sitcom funny for Russian TV audiences.
April 21, 2011
April 21, 2011
“An American Family” was a reality-TV pioneer, and maybe a warning.
The ABC sitcom follows a jilted man, played by Zachary Knighton, and his friends.
The new Fox action comedy about a security firm stars Christian Slater and Bret Harrison.
On “Body of Proof,” a new ABC series that begins on Tuesday, Dana Delany plays a brilliant but cold and unlikable medical examiner.
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Slide Show: Sports at Tribeca
Previewing the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival 
