It’s the not-so-secret dream of every fan that the actors they love so dearly onscreen actually like each other in real life. And when you’re a Battlestar Galactica fan, hearing that Edward James Olmos is “Grandpa Eddie to the Bambers,” your head and heart pretty much explode in tandem.

Cast and crew of TV Land’s highly bingeable soap Younger gathered Saturday at ATX Television Festival to show off the season 4 premiere and tease how its many relationships would be reshuffled in light of season 3’s shocking conclusion.

You might be tempted to file MTV’s now-cancelled Sweet/Vicious under “gone too soon,” but judging by the diehard crowd that assembled for ATX Television Festival’s Saturday panel, the fanbase isn’t ready to let this one go.

It’s been off the air for two-plus decades, but only a few minutes in to a retrospective screening of Northern Exposure, the early Nineties show about a New York doctor uneasily adapting to life in small-town Cicely, Alaska, and you could feel the Alamo Ritz flood with good feelings.

ATX Television Festival has built its reputation on stars and shows and writers and directors. This year, the studio elevator went all the way to the top floor with five network presidents present. As festival founder Emily Gipson explained, "Panels like this don't happen very often."

BFFs onscreen and off, Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham debuted the first episode of Playing House’s upcoming third season at the ATX Television Festival on Friday. In a post-screening Q&A, moderator Chris Harnick (E! News) prefaced a question with, “Obviously you guys are close.”

Austin filmmaker Lex Lybrand likes HBO's tech-bro comedy Silicon Valley. That's why he was a little surprised that this week's episode bore suspiciously striking similarities to his film The Trolls. He said, "If you take the synopsis from my film, and you remove the word Texas, it doubles as a synopsis of Sunday's episode."

Documentarian Ken Burns visited Austin Thursday, promoting his latest film project: The Vietnam War. It’s described as a 10-part, 18-hour documentary series, and an “immersive 360-degree narrative … the epic story of the war as it has never before been told on film.”

It'll be cold in June in Austin, with the announcement that the ATX Television Festival will open with a screening of the premiere of FX's new show Snowfall. Plus, get ready for an insight into the future of TV with a panel featuring broadcast, basic cable, premium, and streaming network presidents, from NBC to HBO.