In “The Farnsworth Invention,” two ambitious visionaries race against each other to invent television. Each knows that if he doesn’t keep going, the other will gain the edge. Who will win the race to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Topic Studios, the company behind films including Spencer and Spotlight, has snapped up the rights to Emily Nussbaum’s Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV. The company is planning to ...

Reality TV dominates television today. It’s estimated that almost 80 percent of adult viewers watch reality TV shows. But how did we get here? Amna Nawaz spoke with Emily Nussbaum, author of the new ...

An unidentified man (possibly John Logie Baird) holds Stooky Bill (left) and another ventriloquist’s dummy used in Baird’s first TV transmissions. John Logie Baird made history by transmitting the ...

From the pioneering black-and-white broadcasts of the 1920s to today’s streaming mega-series, the invention of television changed the world’s entertainment. TV has been a major part of global culture ...