“House of Cards,” Netflix’s first self-distributed original TV show, made its entire first season available to subscribers for instant streaming last month on Feb. 1. A political drama based loosely on the British novel and subsequent British television series of the same title, it follows the life of Frank Underwood, majority whip in the House of Representatives, in his quest [...]

When it comes to travel television, shows like Anthony Bourdain’s “The Layover” and “House Hunters: International” rule the airwaves. Designed to take viewers to far off places while remaining firmly and safely in their La-Z-Boys, travel shows pander to an audience that longs to adventure abroad. Unfortunately, like most other reality television, travel shows create a false sense of accessibility [...]

Picture a pair of spies who love their country. A man and a woman, patriotic enough to travel to a dangerous land, a place where the police operate with impunity and a madman has come to power. There they wait, posing as husband and wife, operating in secret. Their children and neighbors none the wiser, working to bring down the [...]

WVUA plans to premiere a new art-driven television show, “Alabama Art Seen,” on Wednesday, Feb. 13. This student-produced program will exhibit the many different kinds of artists living and working in the state of Alabama. The half-hour segment currently has three episodes set to air at 7 p.m. on Feb. 13, 20 and 27. Created by UA faculty and produced [...]

If you happened to be one of the 6.8 million people who watched the “Parks and Recreation” pilot episode on April 9, 2009, you would have seen a hodge-podge cast of B, C and D list actors and actresses in their first show on prime time television. Now, over halfway through its 5th season, “Parks and Recreation” has become a [...]