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Listen in as Gilbert Cruz, The Times’s television editor, and Jeremy Egner, our in-house “Game of Thrones” expert, offer a debrief at the conclusion of Season 7. 

John Eligon, a national correspondent covering race, and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, a domestic affairs correspondent, discuss the racial divide in America with Marc Lacey, The Times’s national editor. 

Times reporter-turned-podcast host Michael Barbaro talks about “The Daily” and the thinking behind the Times’ new daily podcast. Susan Lehman is host. 

James Poniewozik, watches TV all day and gets paid for it. Dream job, right? James is the chief TV critic at the New York Times. He’s also the author of “Audience of One: Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America.” On this episode, he explains how Rupert Murdoch brought a ... Show More

James Andrew Miller, author of the new HBO oral history "Tinderbox," shares what he learned through his interviews with five decades of network executives, stars and producers. HBO created a "whole new pathway for people to experience television," he says. But now it is under tre ... Show More

Ronna McDaniel’s time at NBC was short. The former Republican National Committee chairwoman was hired as an on-air political commentator but released just days later after an on-air revolt by the network’s leading stars.Jim Rutenberg, a writer at large for The Times, discusses th ... Show More

This week, thousands of writers went on strike against Hollywood studios over what they say is an existential threat to their livelihoods.John Koblin, a media reporter for The New York Times, explains how streaming turned the most prolific era in American entertainment into an in ... Show More

Today, we look at whether Joe Biden is too old to run for President again?Biden’s competency is under scrutiny after an investigation into the handling of classified documents found him to be ‘a well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory’. In fiery exchanges with reporters last ... Show More

Michael Harrison talks with Emmy Award-winning TV news cameraman and producer Tim Ortman about the significance of changes in the definition of the term “fake news.” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not- ... Show More

The BBC’s media editor Amol Rajan asks James Ball, special correspondent at BuzzFeed News, and Mark Frankel, social media editor at BBC News, about the different meanings of 'fake news' and how journalists should respond to it. 

Almost exactly four years ago, David Letterman signed off his show for the last time, after 33 years that revolutionized late-night television. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist chats with the iconic TV host about his relatively quiet lifestyle since leaving that role ... Show More

Culture editor Katie Razzall joins Adam to explain why, for the first time since the 1960s, both the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America are on strike. They also speak to the actor Brian Cox.There’s more movie news as ‘Barbenheimer’ fever takes over the red carpet. B ... Show More