Nurse Jackie

HBO sensed that your Sunday wasn’t busy enough, so it’s throwing Veep into the mix. Also: The Borgias are try to steal your attention from Mad Men, too.  

After nearly a decade of hourlong series driving the conversation about “good TV,” half-hour shows were at the head of the class this year.

Everything from series finales of long-running cult hits to aging sitcoms to news coverage makes our supplemental list.

Find out what series almost made the list—and which writers need to be bugged about not watching Game Of Thrones.

It took a while, but Showtime has put together a solid little schedule, then filled in the cracks with some really bizarre stuff.

We’ve passed the halfway point of the year. Here’s an early look at what’s trending on our favorite-things-of-2012 lists. 

The Emmy nominations were announced this morning in Los Angeles. They mostly liked good things, but some of the things they liked were not as good.

This Father’s Day, salute Noah Wyle as the father of a brave, new post-alien-invasion world. Also:Oh, that’s who killed Rosie Larsen, and other season-finale reveals.

The actor and director discusses the highlights of a four-decade career, from translating for François Truffaut on Close Encounters Of The Third Kind to Wes Anderson’s particular genius on Moonrise Kingdom. 

Mad Men ends a season while True Blood begins one, fanning the flames of the eternal advertiser/vampire feud. Also: Selina Meyer ends her first term, and Scuzzlebutt is coming right for us! 

A&E's new Western series Longmire isn't there just yet, but at least it's copying the answers off of the right shows. Also: Game Of Thrones' second season comes to an end.

More secrets for everyone.

Family Guy still has plenty of ideas—like doing a sequel to an episode based on viewer-submitted story pitches. Also: Lady Gaga, Beefsquatch, and Harry Crane sightings.

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Sunday, May 13. All times are Eastern. TOP PICK Survivor (CBS, 8 p.m.): The events of Survivor’s current season definitively prove that women are more ...

Sherlock in “The Case Of The Swiftly Saturating Sunday Schedule.” Also: Bryan Cranston and Patton Oswalt get animated.

If it pleases the court, The Good Wife would like to end its third season. Also: The Simpsons do David Foster Wallace (sort of) and Rod Serling. 

Julia Louis-Dreyfus vetoes the “Seinfeld curse” in Veep. Also: The dead talk back on The Killing and Game Of Thrones goes to Harrenhal.

Girls [marimba loop] what we really want is Girls. Also: Kenny Powers retires, and the History Channel finally solves that pesky “Why did the Titanic sink?” mystery.

Do you enjoy watching people watch things? Then tonight's How I Met Your Mother just might be for you! Also: Adventure Time joins the regular rotation, and the Brewers play the Cubs.

The Borgias brings the politics of Catholicism, the boobs of the Renaissance to your Easter Sunday. Also: Showtime’s “Strong-But-Troubled Female Power Pack” returns, and James Cameron give his “final” (sure) word on the Titanic.

The actress and playwright talks about Let Me Down Easy, now a PBS special, and the life and death issues surrounding it. 

The TCAs are slowly winding down, and soon enough our own Todd VanDerWerff will be forced to say goodbye to his TCA friends, promising to write them lengthy, impassioned notes that include no modicum of meta-commentary on what the practice of writing note...

Our annual look at how companies are successfully buying The A.V. Club’s love. 

In the first week of its third season—and its first airing on a Monday, without a cushy lead-in—HBO’s Bored To Death pulled in 240,000 viewers.

The director of the new film Bridesmaids talks about the importance of funny women and learning to be okay with Freaks And Geeks’ cancellation.