Transparent

Gaby Hoffmann: ‘I really love my job, but I don’t want to do it that often’

Despite being a child actor and having her own sitcom at 12, the star of Transparent and new film C’mon C’mon is happiest out of the spotlight

Leonie Cooper

27, Nov, 2021 @10:00 AM

The 50 best TV shows of 2019: the full list

The pick of the year’s top television featured ghosts, gangsters, comedy buffoons – and a hot priest

19, Dec, 2019 @8:47 AM

Transparent's Judith Light: 'Botox doesn't work on me. I'm serious. I've tried it'

As she says goodbye to Shelly, the messy matriarch in Transparent, the star talks about nutty grandmas, missing her husband and cat – and her ‘sorrow’ over Jeffrey Tambor

Alexis Soloski

27, Sep, 2019 @4:45 PM

Transparent: Musicale Finale review – gloriously close to the bone

This game-changing, risk-taking series bows out with jazzhands, hilarious show tunes and a jaw-dropping final send-off for the Pfefferman family

Chitra Ramaswamy

27, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

Empire: Jussie Smollett’s send-off was an imperfect – and quick – moment

Shows have struggled with ‘cancelling’ their fallen stars; the Fox show marked the departure with a small throwaway line

André Wheeler in New York

26, Sep, 2019 @11:47 PM

The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century

Where’s Mad Men? How did The Sopranos do? Does The Crown triumph? Can anyone remember Lost? And will Downton Abbey even figure? Find out here – and have your say

Kate Abbott, Hannah J Davies, Gwilym Mumford, Phil Harrison and Jack Seale

16, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

Serial thrillers: the science behind our box set addiction

Hour after hour, we’re glued to the TV as the latest series unfolds. It feels like a thoroughly modern phenomenon. But, as Will Storr reveals, what keeps us gripped goes right to the heart of what it is to be human

Will Storr

28, Apr, 2019 @9:00 AM

Chimerica's Cherry Jones: 'Everything progressive in America has been trampled on'

Jones has played nuns, poets and even the US president in 24 ... while working with problematic men. ‘If we condemn by instinct, we’re on a slippery slope,’ she says

Zoe Williams

16, Apr, 2019 @2:23 PM

Jeffrey Tambor's character to be killed off in musical Transparent finale

The actor, who was accused of sexual misconduct, will see his character Maura die at the start of the Amazon comedy drama finale

Guardian staff

11, Apr, 2019 @6:31 PM

How to survive after Fleabag: a cultural guide

All the shows, books and even bands to seek out if you need more of a Fleabag-y fix

09, Apr, 2019 @11:50 AM

How Anna Friel’s new drama depicts the transitioning experience

ITV’s Butterfly, which centres on the life of a transgender child, is the latest suburban family drama to skewer the genre. Does it succeed?

Jack Seale

09, Oct, 2018 @8:00 AM

Jill Soloway: 'This identity is perfect, it feels like a perfect suit to put on'

Jill Soloway’s hit series Transparent turned gender radicalism into a searing family comedy. Now the writer and director has written a compelling memoir. Here, Soloway talks to Sophie Heawood about the joys of life imitating art

Sophie Heawood

07, Oct, 2018 @7:00 AM