Anyone who’s ever watched one of Frank Caliendo's limp routines--or the average 2008 Saturday Night Live sketch--can tell you that there’s more to a great... Read Comments: 0

Last year FX added a show about grifters trying to maintain their confidence lifestyle in a suburban McMansion to their lineup of crooked cops, alcoholic firemen, and oversexed plastic surgeons. ... Read Comments: 0

Over the past several Mondays, I’ve grown more and more impressed with The New Adventures Of Old Christine, the... Read Comments: 0

When I interviewed Parker Posey last week, I asked her about the future of The Return Of Jezebel... Read Comments: 0

Lewis Black can come off a little shrill and one note on The Daily Show. In his “Back In Black” segments he’s all deafening volume and comically over-the-top rage but he is an absolutely brilliant...

As a frothing-at-the-mouth 30 Rock super-fan I have an embarrassing confession to make. Until 30 Rock’s second episode I was a Tina Fey doubter, a skeptic, a semi-hater, an incorrigible,...

Let me burst your nostalgic bubbles immediately, dear readers. There was absolutely nothing redeeming about the two-hour TV-movie attempt to relaunch the Knight Rider franchise. It was horrible on... Read Comments: 0

When I was a kid, I got so amped about Super Bowl Sunday that I’d watch every minute of pregame coverage—though back then, the pregame show rarely topped two hours, and... Read Comments: 0

So let's talk about quirky television shows. In minute one of Eli Stone, when our hero (Jonny Lee Miller, aka Trainspotting's Sickboy) shows up in a small mountain village in India, in a suit, and takes a...

A man and a woman sit across a coffee table from one another in the opening episode of In Treatment, a new 5-times-a-week, 9-week series on HBO. He’s the therapist. She’s the patient. But be... Read Comments: 0

It’s only the first episode and already The Moment Of Truth has its own catchphrase: “But at what cost?” It’s an apt question for a show... Read Comments: 0

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has a strong command of tone, filling scenes of everyday existence with a sense of looming apocalypse and the uncomfortable feeling that violence could break out at any moment. It... Read Comments: 0

Well now, this is interesting. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, the two late night talk show hosts arguably the most reliant on writers—including their most important WGA-affiliated staffers,... Read Comments: 0

To be perfectly upfront, I know next to nothing about Anthony Bourdain. Other than the (exhaustive! professional!) research I did before interviewing him for a feature debuting this... Read Comments: 0

Flawed as it might be, I find myself thinking more about Mike Judge’s Idiocracy than just about any other movie in last few years. The film transports an average guy...