Television

As The Simpsons celebrates a landmark episode, a tour of creator Matt Groening's hometown reveals the real-world Portland landmarks behind characters like Ned Flanders and Sideshow Bob.

Van Der Beek played Dawson Leery on the hit show Dawson's Creek. He announced his colon cancer diagnosis in 2024.

A one-episode reboot of "The Muppet Show" airs on February 4. Jim Henson, the show's late creator, always hoped they'd live on. We'll hear excerpts from a Morning Edition interview Henson gave in 1986.

When five middle-aged women in Northern England form an amateur punk band, it's because they're fed up.

The actor was best known for playing Lamont Sanford, opposite Redd Foxx's Fred Sanford in the hit 1970s sitcom. Wilson died Friday from complications related to cancer, his publicist said.

O'Hara observed people closely; she found the tics, the mannerisms, the specific beats of drunkenness and used them to open us up to her characters' frailty, their vulnerability, their humanity.

Walton Goggins does it all. Master of comedy, action and drama – take his latest project Fallout.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Alex Horne and Greg Davies about the U.S. tour of their British show "Taskmaster," where comedians are assigned silly or pointless tasks.

The streamer's revamp of the 1980s-'90s talent show lets global viewers vote in real time, with almost instant results.

Jodie Foster has spoken French since she was a child. But it's only now that she's taken on a lead role scripted almost entirely in the language of Molière, for A Private Life.