Ann Farmer

His handmade paper props—including lottery tickets, postage stamps, and first editions—help bring history to life. (Click photo to read.)

Neurodiverse actors on As We See It is alternately comforting, cathartic and outright fun. (Click photo to read.)  

Hailed for her forthright, respectful reporting, Judy Woodruff been known to miff politicians on the left and right. (Click photo to read.)  

Chef Bobby Flay has plenty of irons in the fire and pots on the stove as host or competitor in a trio of cooking competition shows. (Click photo to read.)  

The underwater shoot for My Octopus Teacher required the utmost sensitivity — and revealed an extraordinary friendship. (Click photo to read.)  

Current issues echo in Dickinson, a playful portrait of an artist ahead of her time. (Click photo to read.)  

As season seventeen wraps on Bravo’s Top Chef, fans of Padma Lakshmi (and there are many) can tuck into Taste the Nation, her new Hulu show exploring America’s many immigrant cuisines. (Click photo to read.)  

As mouthy Maysa and mysterious Marcia, an actress turns heads in disparate roles. (Click photo to read.)  

Art meets commerce in the new design competition with Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, streaming — bien sûr! — on Amazon. From the Paris opener to the final cut, it’s all about finding fashion’s next global phenom. (Click photo to read.)  

Maura Tierney, like everyone on Showtime’s The Affair, did not know how the story would end. (Click photo to read.)  

During eight seasons of Homeland, Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin proved their allegiance to each other as actors, time and time again. (Click photo to read.)  

When they met — bang! — it was fireworks. And for years, the collaboration of choreographer Bob Fosse and dancer Gwen Verdon created sparks on stage and screen. While their marriage didn’t last, their friendship did. (Click photo to read.)

When Gretchen Carlson challenged Fox News’s Roger Ailes, she inspired other women to expose his sexual harassment and sparked his departure. Showtime’s The Loudest Voice reveals the behind-the-scenes drama. (Click photo to read.)

With never-before-seen archival footage and new interviews from the likes of Monica Lewinsky, the A&E docuseries The Clinton Affair explores the investigation of a president. And in the light of the #MeToo movement, the ‘90s scandal takes on new tones. (Click photo to read.)

Move over, Martha Stewart. On a recent episode of At Home with Amy Sedaris, the host crafts a bird feeder that would turn Stewart neutral green with envy. Simply genius. (Click photo to read.)

Mark Margolis brings back a younger, fiercer “Tío” Salamanca in Better Call Saul. (Click photo to read.)

Since facing up to Parkinson’s, Michael J. Fox is reveling in roles that ring true to his new self. (Click photo to read.)

Scouring the world for real food and real life, this swashbuckling chef will sample any dish that’s offered. He’ll smile, swallow and take intestinal risks, but never insult his host. (Click photo to read.)

In her HBO series, Girls, Dunham’s emotional candor is sometimes uncomfortable but always compelling. (Click photo to read.)

Nearly a year in, Trevor Noah is making The Daily Show his own. (Click photo to read.)  

Meet the SNL makeup ace behind one of the season’s most startling transformations – actress/comedian, Melissa McCarthy, portraying White House Communications Director Sean Spicer. (Click photo to read.)  

For twelve years, Matt LeBlanc lodged himself in viewers’ consciousness as Joey, the lovable, if not-too-bright, struggling actor on NBC’s Friends and its Joey spinoff. Now he’s pulled the rug out on that. (Click photo to read.)