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Shazia

Arts & Culture, The Critics, The Devil's in the RemoteFebruary 12, 2014

The Lesser Time Travellers

By Shazia Ahmad

The Devil’s in the Remote returns with an all-new avatar, as Shazia wonders why Doctor Who’s companions are rarely developed as characters rather than plot devices.

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Arts & Culture, The Critics, The Devil's in the RemoteDecember 19, 2013

A Very Subjective “Best of 2013” List

By Shazia Ahmad

Kicking off our series of year-end roundups, Shazia highlights the less lauded triumphs of TV in 2013.

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Arts & Culture, The Critics, The Devil's in the RemoteNovember 4, 2013

Skirting Around “Otherness”

By Shazia

In this week’s installment, resident TV critic Shazia analyzes representations of the “differently abled” and the actors who play them.

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Arts & Culture, The Devil's in the RemoteSeptember 9, 2013

You Can’t Always Get What You Want

By Shazia Ahmad

Can Glee manage a poignant, sensitive tribute to its fallen cast member? Shazia Ahmad muses on how other shows have dealt with actor mortality.

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Arts & Culture, The Critics, The Devil's in the RemoteAugust 21, 2013

Don’t Trust the Happy Endings at ABC

By Shazia Ahmad

Shazia Ahmad rages against TV’s cancelation travesties in the second of her two-part tirade…

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Arts & Culture, The Critics, The Devil's in the RemoteJuly 31, 2013

Television Programming Cancellation Travesties

By Shazia Ahmad

For me, when I enter a meditative state, I’m reliving the best scenes on television from the previous week; be it the Red Coat…

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The Devil's in the RemoteDecember 3, 2012

Pilots Part Duex

By Shazia

Can we just start this column off by getting down on our knees, raising our fists to the skies and screaming in despair? The…

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The Devil's in the RemoteNovember 3, 2012

Pilots: What’s hot and what really isn’t

By Maryam Piracha, Shazia Ahmad

Awards Season As children of the 90s, it’s funny how uncomfortable we are with the idea of competition and people losing (that whole “everybody’s…

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The Devil's in the RemoteSeptember 11, 2012

Pretty Little Liars: BetrAyer

By Shazia Ahmad

The Devil’s in the Remote reviews “Pretty Little Liars”

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The Devil's in the RemoteAugust 29, 2012

Suits: I’m Too Busy Being Awesome

By Shazia Ahmad

Oh Suits, you teased us so with the possibility of an adversary worthy of Jessica and Harvey, someone with a justifiable motive and the…

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One last love letter...

April 24, 2021

It has taken us some time and patience to come to this decision. TMS would not have seen the success that it did without our readers and the tireless team that ran the magazine for the better part of eight years.

But… all good things must come to an end, especially when we look at the ever-expanding art and literary landscape in Pakistan, the country of the magazine’s birth.

We are amazed and proud of what the next generation of creators are working with, the themes they are featuring, and their inclusivity in the diversity of voices they are publishing. When TMS began, this was the world we envisioned…

Though the magazine has closed and our submissions shuttered, this website will remain open for the foreseeable future as an archive of the great work we published and the astounding collection of diverse voices we were privileged to feature.

If, however, someone is interested in picking up the baton, please email Maryam Piracha, the editor, at [email protected].

Farewell, fam! It’s been quite a ride.