Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarahf (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): On Tuesday, Joe Biden launched his campaign’s firs...
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Oof, what a finale. The three-hour, live conclusion to Season 13 of “The Bachelorette” and Rachel Lindsay’s quest for love didn’t come down to a typical choice between two men — she sen...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rachel-lindsays-bachelorette-season-in-three-charts/
We’re in the home stretch of season 13 of “The Bachelorette,” which means it’s a perfect time to check in on how it’s held up against our rigorous pre-season “Bachelor” and “Bache...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rachels-season-is-fitting-neatly-into-bachelorette-history/
On Monday night, a 31-year-old lawyer from Dallas named Rachel Lindsay will start her televised journey to love on the season premiere of “The Bachelorette,” the 34th season of the Bachelor f...
Fox News founder Roger Ailes, who died Thursday at the age of 77, was one of the most (if not the most) controversial and influential news executives in American history. Ailes changed the way pe...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-roger-ailes-polarized-tv-news/
Our politics podcast is taking the holiday week off. But, instead of a new show, we’re bringing you audio from one of our favorite events of 2016. Over the summer, we did a live show in Los Ang...
We can quibble about where it stands in the TV canon, but “Sex and the City” has seven Emmys and a suite of Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild awards. It ran 94 episodes through six season...
It’s long been the case that “Game of Thrones,” the hit HBO show, was in danger of running out of book material. Now that the first episode of the sixth season has aired, that much is assur...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/hbo-game-of-thrones-the-sopranos/
The second season of the “Walking Dead” spinoff “Fear the Walking Dead” premiered Sunday on AMC to huge ratings. It was the most-watched thing on Sunday on cable and broadcast. But taking...
In the post-FDR era, it’s customary, if not necessarily telling, to assess a newly elected president’s performance after the hundredth day in power, when the electoral mandate dwindles and th...
On Monday night the most anticipated NBA game of the year was played between the San Antonio Spurs and the Golden State Warriors. Did you get a chance to watch it? No? You don’t have NBA TV, th...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/spurs-warriors-was-a-fluke-most-matchups-on-nba-tv-are-garbage/
Afraid you missed out on one of the best movies, TV shows, books or albums of the year? Don’t worry, the critics at probably have your back. In an age when websites need clicks and yearly roun...
HBO confirmed Monday that the sixth season of “Game of Thrones” will premiere in April. For fans of the show, this is presumably fantastic news, but for fans of George R.R. Martin’s long-ru...
CBS announced Monday that it will release a new “Star Trek” television show in 2017, and it really couldn’t come at a better time for the franchise. “Star Trek” isn’t ailing — the t...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/star-trek-needs-this-new-show-to-win-the-next-generation/
Like millions of other Americans, I watch the NFL on a regular basis. However, just like millions of other viewers, most Sundays I am not sure which games will be on my television. I live in Aust...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-nfl-team-are-you-stuck-watching-every-sunday/
An era is ending: “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” airs its last new episode tonight. This show has been on TV since I was 8 years old. I went to William & Mary, Stewart’s alma mater, and ...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/every-guest-jon-stewart-ever-had-on-the-daily-show/
Seth MacFarlane’s “Ted 2” came out in theaters Friday. Early reviews are not great, but I doubt many people are surprised by that. The thing with the comedy of Seth MacFarlane — the guy b...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Wednesday released the 2014 results from the American Time Use Survey. The survey offers the most detailed, up-to-date portrait of how people in the United State...
Congratulations, Lester Holt! Today, you were officially announced as the 10th anchor of the NBC evening newscast. Holt is the second African-American to become the anchor of a major weekday nigh...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/brian-williamss-reign-at-nbc-is-over-heres-how-it-stacks-up/
When I was a kid, my parents had strict television rules: no more than an hour a day, and the content must be educational. This meant a lot of PBS. I did briefly convince my mother that the secre...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/screen-time-for-kids-is-probably-fine/