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  • There was major drama in the reality TV world when Bachelorstar Colton Underwood stormed off set and hopped over a fence. These surprise moments give long-running reality shows staying power.
  • The Federal Communications Commission announces new rules for children's programming on digital TV. Children Now and other advocacy groups had been pushing the FCC to require broadcast channels to program the same amount of children's educational programming they now offer on each of the new digital channels they will get. That's what the FCC announced. But advocates are still concerned about the click-and-spend potential digital TV offers. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports.
  • Ahead of Easter and Passover, TV is flooded with religious programming, from NBC's "A.D. The Bible Continues" to CNN's "Finding Jesus."
  • There aren't enough leisure hours in the day to keep up with all the good TV out there. NPR's TV critic tells us what he's looking forward to in 2018.
  • Latino USA producer Daisy Rosario grades the big TV networks on which ones got diversity right and wrong this season.
  • American television loves nothing better than a spot of tea, singing medieval knights and those delightful accents.
  • Television season finales get dangerous this year: Seven characters from major shows will bite the dust, four will get married, and two will be institutionalized — plus, we'll have a new "Idol," and Tyra will tell us who America's next top model is. What makes a good season finale? TV critics weigh in.
  • NPR's Michele Norris talks with Daniel Laikind, executive producer of the television series Amish in the City. The series follows five Amish young adults and six non-Amish roommates who are living together in the Holywood Hills, near Los Angeles.
  • The ABC show Scandal is ending its seventh and final season. The political thriller is the first Shonda Rhimes show to end on its own accord. We look back at the ground it broke.
  • After 20 years as a television critic — and many more as a simple viewer — a reflection on how a kid who mostly grew up without a father learned how to become one himself by watching dads on TV.
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