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Friday, January 5, 2018

End of Year Round-Up: My Favorite IndieWire Stories From 2017



It was my first full year at IndieWire (having joined in April 2016), and I'm proud to say the site is humming along nicely -- and ended the year with its most-read month (December) in IndieWire historu. I went through and selected some of my favorite stories fron 2017. Read 'em below.








Jimmy Kimmel: Here’s What Fueled His Reluctant Transformation into the Nation’s Moral Conscience (Oct. 4)


The 20 Best TV Spin-off Series of All Time, Ranked (Sept. 27)

 

Chuck Lorre on Following Up ‘Mom’ With a Pot Comedy, and How Making a Single-Camera Comedy Is Torture (Sept. 6)

 

The 15 Greatest TV Presidents of All Time, Ranked (Aug. 22)

 

How Netflix Has Ignited TV’s Talent War — and Network Fears — By Stealing Away Shonda Rhimes (Aug. 14)

 

As Disney Cuts Ties With Netflix, the Real Battle for Streaming Supremacy Begins (Aug. 8)


The 20 Best HBO Series of All Time, Ranked (July 25)

 

‘Game of Thrones’: Where to Find The Real-Life Staircase to Dragonstone in Spain (July 17)

 

How Donald Trump and James Comey Destroyed the Way Film and TV Depict the FBI and CIA (June 29)

 

‘Power’: When Starz Began Targeting African-American Viewers, It Paid Off With More Ratings and Subscribers (June 23)


Jim Carrey on The Perils of Standup Comedy In Our Outrage Culture — IndieWire’s Turn It On Podcast (June 7)

 

‘Transparent’ Star Jay Duplass on Why He Loves Acting More than Directing, and His Disgust for Superhero Movies (June 6)

 

Netflix and Bill Nye Aren’t Censoring His Old TV Show – Sorry, Conspiracy Theorists, Here’s What Really Happened (June 5)

 

The Mystery of Why Top TV Producers Shonda Rhimes, Greg Berlanti and Chuck Lorre Haven’t Won an Emmy (May 30)

 

These Are the 100 Most-Watched TV Shows of the 2016-17 Season: Winners and Losers (May 26)

 

‘The Bachelorette’ Rachel Lindsay Gets Grilled By Comedian Paul Scheer And Tells All — IndieWire’s Turn It On Podcast (May 24)

 

Women Leads on TV Decline As Networks Discover White Dudes in Crisis (May 19)

 

‘Downward Dog’ Creator Shares His Diary on How This Unlikely Show Ever Got Made (May 16)


‘American Gods’ Producers and Stars on How A Nudity Gender Equality Mandate Led to So Much Penis — IndieWire’s Turn It On Podcast (May 12)

 

Alex Jones Is Too Crazy For TV: Why Shows Can’t Pull Off Conspiracy-Theorist Characters (April 21)

 

‘Tales from the Crypt,’ David Chase Miniseries, ‘MTV Unplugged’ and More: A Status Check on Shows in TV Purgatory (April 14)


Trevor Noah Isn’t Angry with Donald Trump, and That’s Why Millennials Are Flocking to ‘The Daily Show’ (April 4)

 

‘Black-ish,’ ‘Insecure,’ and Others Aren’t Just ‘Black Shows,’ As Nielsen Study Proves (March 17)

 

Jimmy Kimmel Producers Reveal Oscars Secrets – What You Didn’t Know Happened Behind the Scenes (Feb. 27)



Joel McHale’s ‘The IT Crowd,’ Scott Baio’s ‘Rewind,’ and More TV Cancellations Before Their Premiere
(Jan. 5)

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