"The Comeback" has ended its comeback on HBO, completing what amounted to a victory lap for a show that was ahead of its time, yes, but despite cultish devotion, never really victorious.

As we approach a new year, television is a tangle of trends: Networks began "unbundling" their streaming services from their television channels. New (and old) platforms broke ground with scripted series — "Transparent" put Amazon in the Emmy's race and "Outlander" gave Starz a big hit.

• What's next in 2015?

Here's another 2014 victory for "The Walking Dead": The AMC drama ranks as TV's most-tweeted series by a wide margin.

A change is going to come to MSNBC in 2015.

• MSNBC targets young viewers with streaming video service Shift

Good news for fans of Jenna Coleman, who has played companion to the Doctor on the last season and a half of "Doctor Who": She's not going anywhere. At least for now.

Head writer Steven Moffat has been determining the course of "Doctor Who" since 2010, when show runner Russell Davies handed him the keys to the TARDIS and Matt Smith became the 11th Doctor, a dark and madcap traveler in time and space.

Former TV talk-show host Montel Williams was on CNN the other day discussing the Senate torture report and ...

Ah, December 2013. Do you remember? It was during that quiet week just before Christmas when the Internet suddenly whipped itself into a frenzy when a reality star gave a controversial interview to a magazine. It was a particular lightning rod because it involved A&E;'s inescapable reality...

Her performance as Lady Mary on "Downton Abbey" has brought Michelle Dockery many a thing: fans with tales of their own repressed sisterhood memories, a few Emmy nominations and a Twitter account for her eyebrows. The fifth season of the PBS drama premieres Jan. 4 — and the 33-year-old...

Much has been made of the rise of the TV antihero, and deservedly so. Walter White, Tony Soprano, Dexter and Don Draper gave new meaning to the term "guilty pleasure." It's taken a while for women to join those ranks, but now the airwaves are fairly teeming with female characters as ruthless,...

Here is Robert Lloyd’s look at the best of 2014 in television.

The holidays are a special time — that is to say, a time for specials. All over the television, the seasonal signifiers, the holly and the mistletoe, trees and lights, snowflakes and fake furs are dragged out of storage and gaily appended to sitcoms, serials, talk shows, game shows and...

Brandon Stoddard, the longtime ABC executive who played a key role in the 1970s classic "Roots" and other pioneering miniseries, has died. He was 77.

"Better Call Saul" is coming in February, and AMC has finally released a trailer that shows more of the series than just a tantalizing morsel. 

All hail "All Hail King Julien," to take the easy (though not critically disingenuous) way in to discussing the latest spinoff from DreamWorks Animation's "Madagascar" franchise.

Mince pies, Christmas crackers, all those "Keep Calm and Jingle On" T-shirts — and now television.

Stateside once more following an assignment in Pakistan that went tragically wrong, the CIA’s Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) reassesses her dark and complicated life on “Long Time Coming,” the Season 4 finale of Showtime’s “Homeland.”

"SNL" veteranMike Myers returned to the show on Saturday as Dr. Evil to mock North Korea's cyber war with Sony Pictures.

Thursday night, Stephen Colbert signed off from "The Colbert Report" for the final time. Friday night, it's Craig Ferguson's turn on "The Late Late Show." And similarly  to Colbert, Ferguson recruited a lot of guests to help send him off.

So, apparently, there might be more of “Stephen Colbert,” the fictional wing-nut talk show host portrayed so winningly by Stephen Colbert during nine-plus years of “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central. What else are we to make of a finale, Thursday night, in which...

Stephen Colbert takes his final bow on "The Colbert Report" tonight with the 1,477th episode of the Comedy Central show that made him a star.

Watching the first episode of "The Colbert Report," I remember thinking, He cannot possibly sustain this.

As a budding food scientist, northwest suburban native Amy DeJong is used to lab coats, beakers and goggles.

MSNBC has launched a new streaming video service aimed at attracting young viewers who are not growing up with the habit of turning on cable news.

"If TV has taught me anything, it's that miracles always happen to poor kids at Christmas," the now-familiar spiky-haired boy said on Dec. 17, 1989. "It happened to Tiny Tim. It happened to Charlie Brown. It happened to the Smurfs. And it's going to happen to us."

Never underestimate the power of the country vote on “The Voice.” In what may be considered an upset victory, Craig Wayne Boyd carried off the Season 7 crown on Tuesday night’s finale results show. 

The best thing about the Tuesday debut of the new, set-in-Chicago season of MTV's "The Real World" is that it's a sure sign taping is over and these people have left our city.

Watch out, Los Angeles. A zombie apocalypse is coming for you.

The seventh and final season of FX's "Sons of Anarchy" went out in typically violent fashion last week with a body count to rival "Game of Thrones." But with the blood also came the ratings. The final season of the tough-guy biker drama was the highest rated in FX's 20-year history.

Claire Halbur has always known hers would be a life of faith. In fact, she said recently, it was as though Jesus "proposed to me" years ago.

Just one day after Camille Cosby released a statement in support of her husband, Bill Cosby, the youngest of the couple's four daughters issued a statement to "Access Hollywood" addressing the recent storm of sexual assault allegations levied against her father.

Barbara Walters declared Amal Alamuddin Clooney the most fascinating person of the year on her Sunday night television special "The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2014."

In saying goodbye to veteran journalist Charlie Skinner (Sam Waterston), HBO’s “The Newsroom” also said farewell to viewers by wrapping its third and final season with Episode 25: “What Kind of Day Has It Been.”

Riding an Amtrak train from Washington, D.C., to New York last week, Brian Williams gets the greetings and nods of recognition from passengers expected for someone who has spent 10 years in the anchor chair at "NBC Nightly News."

In a season full of surprises, Showtime’s “Homeland” saved one of the biggest ones for “Krieg Nicht Lieb” as this penultimate Episode 411 called into question the status of Taliban commander Haissam Haqqani (Numan Acar).

It is almost unheard of for a TV series to get a second season nearly 10 years after the first. But with so many recent changes in the viewing landscape, nothing about television is business as usual anymore.

NBC is making a dramatic change to its midseason schedule. The net will launch a Thursday drama block, with "The Blacklist" anchoring the night in its new 9 p.m. slot beginning on Feb. 5, after an airing following the Super Bowl on Feb. 1.

A look at some snubs and surprises from the 2015 Golden Globe nominations.

The surreal show business satire "Birdman," a darling of critics for its innovative storytelling, led the Golden Globe Awards film nominations on Thursday, with its seven nods making it a frontrunner early in the Hollywood awards season.

Netflix, the home of the highly esteemed "House of Cards" and "Orange Is the New Black," goes epic Friday with the release of the 10-episode period epic "Marco Polo." They spent some money on it.

As if we needed another reminder, Stephen Colbert's Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report" is coming to a swift ending. The final show will be Dec. 18. And with just a handful of episodes left, it would be fair to listen to him when he throws out superlatives such as "favorite guest of all...