A profile of Larry King at the height of his fame and on the heels of his sixth divorce.

A profile of Alex Trebek.

A troubled TV chef meets a mysterious creature.

From the proto-bleep to meta-bleep: how the US government protects us from the profane.

A profile of Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings.

A review of several books on Rupert Murdoch first criticizes the authors for not grasping the many sides of their subject, then offers a thesis of its own. He’s “not so much a man, or a cultural force, as a portrait of the modern world.”

A profile of the Fox News anchor, who started his media career as a promising magazine writer.

A profile of the Handmaid’s Tale star.

Bill Conradt, a well-known prosecutor, never arrived at the house in Murphy, Texas, where police and a crew from NBC’s To Catch a Predator were waiting. So the crew, along with a SWAT team, went to Conradt.

“Do you think you’re talking to a normal person here?”

A profile of Roseanne Barr and her multiple personalities.

A profile of the man who helped invent the modern art of presidential spin and came to embody the blurry line between journalist and government official.

A profile of Garry Shandling.

On the talent, ego, and late father of Bryant Gumbel.

“In this scene, set at a government dacha, they are joined by their American counterparts at the State Department for a daylong picnic that grows increasingly informal, involving drinks, flirtation, a guitar jam and (spoiler) contact between two spies. At times in my new job, I feel like a spy myself, and one with a shaky cover. I don’t have a good answer for how I got here.”

Talking to Lee Daniels about Empire, Hollywood, and survival.

Behind the scenes with the creator of Black-ish.

Mike Bloomberg goes back to work.

A roundtable on sexism in Hollywood and comedy.

The CNN anchor may not be the clueless bumbler the internet believes him to be.

The politics and rhetoric of Trevor Noah’s appointment as the new host of the Daily Show.

David Chase, the creator of The Sopranos and director of the series finale, analyzes the final scene shot-by-shot.

David Simon and Richard Price, two of the greatest crime storytellers of our time, talk about their craft.

She teaches directors to direct.

It’s a mess inside the network – and Brian Williams may still come out on top.