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 ...

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 ...

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.

Let’s get one thing straight right up front: I’m not a political enthusiast. Oh, sure, I happily participate in the democratic process, and before that participation takes place, I make a concerted ...

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 ...

The guy who addresses the camera at the beginning of Compared to What? The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank, which premieres on Showtime Friday night, is a politician who has contested his last ...

BEVERLY HILLS — No drama series in the past year was more mesmerizing and emotionally wrenching than Showtime’s “Homeland,” the post-9/11 thriller that continues to accumulate prestigious awards and ...

w it has released its full docu slate for the rest of 2015 and into the spring. Projects from Antoine Fuqua, Amy Berg and Stevan Riley, among others, tackle subjects ranging from rock’s ultimate ...