Television

We’ve got Jack Bauer coming and going this week. On Thursday, Netflix premiered “The Night Agent,” a spy thriller in which a young F.B.I. agent battles a conspiracy of vast dimensions that threatens the foundations of American government. It’s the latest series to carry the DNA of “24,” the show that firmly welded paranoia to … Read more

The rats were not on the call sheet. They turned up anyway. For the members of the brain trust behind the new Hulu musical series “Up Here,” this balmy September night last year was to be a precious occasion: After more than two years of cross-country video calls, the writer and executive producer Danielle Sanchez-Witzel … Read more

Dickens purists, look away! At the start of FX and the BBC’s new six-part “Great Expectations,” a young man walks to the center of a bridge on the River Thames, pauses to look out over the London vista, then swiftly attaches a rope to the railing and around his neck. For a vertiginous moment, he … Read more

From the start, the HBO series “Succession,” returning Sunday for its fourth and final season, has kept us dangling. The first ever episode teased a retirement announcement that never came, and ever since, the characters have fought over who should succeed the powerful media titan Logan Roy (Brian Cox) as head of the Waystar Royco … Read more

Season 2, Episode 1: ‘Friends, Romans, Countrymen’ In a 1994 interview with The Baltimore Sun about her album “Under the Pink,” Tori Amos explained: “Part of this record is dealing with the betrayal of women, by women.” She went on to say that “the history of woman has been very lonely, and when you think … Read more

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. TikTok the Spy Lawmakers interviewed the chief executive of TikTok on Thursday, looking for connections to China and the … Read more