C'mon! Arrested Development's best moments – interactive

The beloved show is heading Netflix for another season – maybe you've heard? We asked Guardian readers to share their favourite inside jokes and videos of the Bluth clan so farKayla Epstein [continue]

Are we really in a 'second golden age for television'?

Steven Soderbergh is the latest Hollywood director to praise TV over film, but this second coming of great drama, including The Sopranos, The Wire and Spooks, may already be overCinema has historically considered itself superior to television, with executives and critics frequently sneering that a movie or documentary has a "made-for-TV" feel. But a number of significant Hollywood film-makers – including David Lynch, Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone – have moved to the junior medium for... [continue]

Zombieland: when fan power turns bad

The Kickstarter-funded Veronica Mars movie showed fan engagement at its strongest, but as the canned Zombieland TV pilot proves, viewers can also kill a projectAfter jumping into the TV game with a set of eight free-to-watch sitcom pilots last month, Amazon is now acting like a proper US network by culling its slate. As the Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos put it when the pilots arrived online: "Amazon Studios is working on a new way to greenlight TV shows. The pilots are out in the open where everyone can... [continue]

Arrested Development season four: the return of the greatest sitcom ever

Seven years after being cancelled, the show has been resurrected by Netflix. But why has it retained such a vast army of fans? Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Cera, Tony Hale and other cast members explain whyNow the story of an amazing TV show, That got cancelled,And the cast and fans who had no choice, But to keep the faith that it would one, day come back, It's ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT.Chances are, you are among the majority of people who would read the above paragraph and wonder not just what on earth I... [continue]

US television's fall lineup: the best and worst from the 2013 previews

The networks have presented their new fall shows. From cop shows to a modern-day Ichabod Crane, here's the best and worstThis past week was the television upfronts in New York, when the networks (and the ascendant cable networks) present their new fall show to advertisers at lavish, star-studded parties hoping that someone, anyone, will pay for the dozens of pilots that are ordered every season. Of course there are trailers of all these shows that are made available not only to ad buyers from... [continue]

ESPN puts MLS up front after NBC takes English Premier League

As ESPN announces a daily soccer highlights show, Graham Parker spends a day with the broadcaster at an MLS game, and asks what the future holds for that relationship, now the English Premier League has gone to NBCI'm on the roof of Red Bull Arena in New York, looking down at the field below. To my right is a small line of broadcast booths that contains, among others, ESPN commentator/play-by-play announcer Adrian Healey and his co-commentator/color analyst, Taylor Twellman. To my left, some... [continue]

Star Trek – review

Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Namco Bandai, cert: 16, out nowCarving out a niche for itself between the two blockbuster movies, Star Trek follows up on the fate of the vagabond Vulcans, now missing one home planet, while reintroducing the reptillian Gorn aliens into the rebooted canon.The game benefits from voicing by the films' cast and from their likenesses, but that, sadly, is where the praise ends. This largely co-op outing proves glitchy and frustrating, with the twin leads of Kirk and Spock... [continue]

Barbara Walters to retire from US TV - but she's not going just yet

Famous host announces on The View that she'll leave in May 2014, but not before ABC airs a primetime Walters retrospectiveBarbara Walters has never done things by half measures on television, and that will certainly be the case in her leaving of it. The grande dame of American TV journalism announced her retirement on Monday, with the proviso that her last day in front of camera will not be until May 2014.Walters' long-expected confirmation that she is bowing out is in fact a harbinger of the... [continue]

24 to return in new format for 12-episode series

Fox Entertainment announces thriller starring Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer will be renamed 24: Live Another DayKiefer Sutherland is to return in a new series of real-time thriller 24 – but in a 12-episode format in which the less interesting hours will be left out.The new series, called 24: Live Another Day, was announced on Monday, three years after the Fox drama was axed after eight seasons, a total of 192 episodes between 2001 and 2010.Following the exploits of counter-terrorism unit... [continue]

Seth Meyers to replace Jimmy Fallon as host of NBC's Late Night

SNL Weekend Update host moves to his own nighttime talk show when Fallon takes over the Tonight Show from Jay LenoSeth Meyers is moving from his Weekend Update desk to his own late night show on NBC.The network said Sunday that the longtime Saturday Night Live cast member will replace Jimmy Fallon at the 12.35am Late Night show. Fallon will be moving up an hour as Jay Leno's replacement on the Tonight show.Meyers' show will originate from New York's Rockefeller Center, just like Fallon's Tonight... [continue]