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.

‘The Sopranos’ Was Still One of 2017’s Most-Binged TV Shows, Even 10 Years After It Ended (Dec. 29)

Most-Watched Television Networks: Ranking 2017’s Winners and Losers (Dec. 28)

Top Rated Shows of 2017: Here’s How the Super Bowl, Oscars, ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘The Walking Dead’ Faced Off (Dec. 27)

Paul Reiser on Reviving ‘Mad About You’: ‘There’s Still Comedy To Be Mined’ (Dec. 26)

‘The Office’ Cast: Where Are They Now, And Their Odds of Joining The Reboot (Dec. 19)

‘The Office’ Revival In the Works at NBC; Here’s Who Might Be Back (Dec. 18)

‘Live PD’: Secrets Behind A&E’s Addictive Cop Show, and How It Almost Goes Off the Rails Each Week (Dec. 15)

‘House of Cards,’ ‘Transparent,’ ‘Today Show’ and More: A Complete Guide To TV Rocked By Sexual Harassment Scandals (Dec.7)

‘The Good Doctor’ Phenomenon: Creator David Shore Says He Couldn’t Have Made This Show a Decade Ago, But Now It’s A Hit (Nov. 6)

Ron Perlman Says His Presidential Run Is No Longer A Joke: ‘We’re In Danger of Ending Our Days’ — Turn It On Podcast (Oct. 20)

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)

RuPaul Has a Powerful Message on Why The Bigots and Hate Groups Are Going to Lose — IndieWire’s Turn It On Podcast (Aug. 15)

 

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)

NBC Helped Create President Trump — and MSNBC Ratings Prove He’s Been Good for the Company (Aug. 4)

Matt Groening and ‘The Simpsons’ Producers on 30 Years, Beating ‘Gunsmoke’ and Taking On Trump — IndieWire’s Turn It On Podcast (July 26)

Amazon Has Great TV Shows. Now, About That Branding Problem (July 25)

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)

Danny Trejo on Weapons, Tacos, the Los Angeles Rams and Weird Looks from Parents — IndieWire’s Turn It On Podcast (July 12)

 

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)

‘Star Wars’ and Lucasfilm Have Lost Their Sense of Humor, and Firing Lord and Miller is Only One Example (June 23)

How the Alex Jones Debacle Has Exposed NBC’s $18 Million Megyn Kelly Problem (June 16)

‘Twin Peaks’: When David Lynch Killed Showtime’s Marketing Campaign, Here’s How The Network Improvised (June 13)

The 25 Best TV Theme Songs of the 21st Century, Ranked (June 13)

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)

Jon Stewart and HBO Made The Right Call to Kill Their Animated Cable News Parody, and Here’s Why (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)

Network Pilot Season: Why Someone Needs to Kill This Outdated Practice For Good (May 16)

‘Last Man Standing’ Wasn’t Canceled Because Tim Allen Is Conservative, So Stop Whining (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)

Bill O’Reilly Is Out at Fox News, But Don’t Congratulate the Network For Finally Taking a Stand (April 19)

 

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

‘Deadliest Catch’ Faces Its Own Extinction As Climate Change Rapidly Warms Ocean Waters (April 10)

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)

‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ Ratings Surge Has Suddenly Made Late Night Competitive Again (Feb. 18)

The Politics of Funny: Comedians Grapple with Their Approach After The Gloom of Trump’s Inauguration (Feb. 2)

Sterling K. Brown and Brian Tyree Henry: Breakthrough Stars’ Friendship Began Over a Pair of Beard Clippers (Jan. 16)

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