Carnivàle

The cult showrunner discusses the show’s first season—including how Bruce Campbell almost played Brother Justin.

It's a big night for network dramas, as ABC debuts Nashville, The CW debuts Arrow, and NBC debuts Chicago Fire. Also: Two new Modern Family episodes.

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The Winchesters are back on Supernatural, and they're fighting as many monsters as ever. Also: Mitt Romney and Barack Obama host an old-fashioned hoedown.

With all of the shows returning tonight, we thought we'd highlight The Neighbors because we know that's what you want. Also: Everything is back! Enjoy it while it lasts!

After 4,999 seasons of utter insanity, Survivor begins season 5,000 with a song in its heart and a spring in its step. Also: Top Chef Masters is pretty much the only other thing on.

The X Factor returns for another season, having stocked up on Britney Spears and Demi Lovato in the singing competition judge arms race. Also: Damages ends its run.

Football is back! Grrrrr! Argh! Men crashing into each other! Oblong spheroids flying through the air! Things! Also: Bill Clinton, tennis people, and Amy Adams' first Oscar nomination.

Futurama ends its latest season with the strangest episode concept we've heard in a while, which is saying something. Also: Paul Ryan is here to whisper sweet nothings in your ear.

The brilliant, perceptive, and short-lived Better Off Ted never won any ratings competitions.

So You Think You Can Dance pulls in a famous choreographer ringer, but all we want to talk about is his even more famous spouse. Also: Futurama does a heist movie parody.

If you've been wondering why all that blood was raining from the sky, wonder no more! Oh Sit! is here, and it's taking names. Also: Spend three-and-a-half hours with D.W. Griffith!

NBC decides to follow up the Olympics with a new sitcom about Matthew Perry in grief counseling, which sounds like a good time. Also: How will Dallas cliffhang its season?

Top Chef Masters returns to give you yet another food show to watch this summer. Also: You will contract Olympics fever. The British will make sure of this.

We almost canceled the show before HBO did, but here comes Carnivàle, season two, for your TV Club Classic pleasure. Also: Inside Men concludes, and TCM celebrates Andy Griffith.

The TV season ended officially last night (though we’ll still have a few stragglers hanging on for a week or two), and we’re in for a few weeks of bumpiness before everybody’s summer favorites—and True Blood—come back ...

A reader asks about pop-culture mysteries: What unanswered questions in art do we all still wonder about? And do we really want the answers?

Happy Endings ends a great second season at yet another wedding. Also: One Tree Hill ends its run after 500 seasons, everything explodes on Survivor, and baseball is back!

America’s Next Top Model proves its impression of Canada is informed and accurate (which is to say it’s neither of those things). Also: Happy Endings lies, and our long, national Whitney nightmare comes to an end.

NBC's debuting Bent, a promising new comedy with a schedule that burns off its six episodes in three weeks. That should work. Also: lots and lots of dumb reality TV.

South Park returns for season 16, and its earnest attempts to shock us now just seem so adorable. Also: new ABC comedies, Rottweilers in E.R.'s, and way too much Jennifer Lawrence talk.

It's March, so it's time for ABC to burn off a low-rated but awesome comedy just because it can. This year's victim? Happy Endings. Also: Pizza, obsessions, and lacrosse.

In honor of Leap Day, Top Chef completes its latest season. Also: Psych and America's Next Top Model are back, and, like, 55 different shows do Leap Day episodes.

Suburgatory’s all like “Hey, people still laugh at Jersey Shore, right?” Also: Spring smackdown, carnival justice, and all your middle-school crushes.

Been wondering if one gender is better than the other? Well, fear not, because Survivor's about to answer all your questions. Also: Stupid Canadian spelling, James Wolk taunts, and Bieber.