Barney Frank is such a colorful figure, he seems like a natural biographical subject. Yet “Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank” is a little too disjointed to fully do justice to ...

Barney Frank (left) and Jim Ready were married in July 2012. Their relationship is featured in the Showtime documentary "Compared to What?" Michael Chandler/Showtime Former Congressman Barney Frank ...

Presidents, lawmakers and other Beltway bigwigs make worthy and sometimes even fascinating subjects for documentary films — except when they don’t, which happens a lot in a genre we’ll call ...

Earlier today at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, Showtime announced that its inside-the-CIA documentary The Spymasters will bow in November. No w it has released its full docu ...

If you’ve ever wondered how television screws up so many promising projects, check out “Episodes,” a new Showtime series with Matt LeBlanc that provides the answers in deliciously hilarious detail.

Jack Bauer is all done delivering bloody beat downs to terrorists — at least until he shows up on the big screen. In the meantime, the producers of “24” have given us another passionate, post-9/11 ...