Marilyn Monroe is the most enduringly fetishized celebrity in movie history, her cultural cachet outlasting similarly worshipped contemporaries like James Dean, Humphrey Bogart, and even Elvis Presley. Fifty years after Monroe’s death, she remains a lucrative entertainment property with ...

The seventh and final series of Inspector Lewis will debut tonight as a part of PBS' Masterpiece Mystery series. It will debut at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific, 8 p.m. Central and Mountain, in most markets, but you ...

Twisted makes its official debut tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern on ABC Family.

Twisted is the type of show you hate yourself for loving. Not in a guilty pleasure way—it’s far too well-executed to be a guilty ...

The male/female duo procedural seems like one of the last reliable network formulas in the era of constant disruption. The shows just sort of endure, like a third starter in a pitching rotation that posts 12 wins every year ...

If Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin’s film about the recent travails of the Russian feminist punk-art collective Pussy Riot accomplishes nothing else, it does settle the eternal question of who is the world’s coolest dad. The trophy goes ...

“I want to thank Broadway for welcoming me. This city ... I’ve never been a stranger to hard work, but your hard work inspires me.” Cyndi Lauper’s words while accepting her Tony Award for Best Original Score represent something ...

Sinbad debuts tonight on Syfy at 9 p.m. Eastern. Primeval: New World debuts tonight on Syfy at 10 p.m. Eastern.

Pilot episodes for new dramas have the unenviable task of balancing table-setting exposition with character/world-defining atmosphere. Striking ...

The critic Lloyd Rose once pointed out that the image we all have in our heads of what Edgar Allan Poe looked “derives from daguerreotypes taken during the last five years of his life—the years from about 1845 on ...

“Second Chances”, Continuum’s season two premiere—which originally aired in Canada on April 21 before making its way stateside for tonight’s Syfy broadcast—is not the show at its best; indeed, it’s by a fairly wide margin ...

For the most part—Up All Night notwithstanding—television networks take that “if it ain’t broke” adage about 100 times more serious than the rest of the world. If ABC has a success with a singing reality show, then ...

In The Flesh debuts tonight on BBC America at 10 p.m. Eastern.

Zombies are perennial monsters, largely because they’re a walking symbol for whatever ails you. (Also they’re cheaper than good werewolf makeup.) They’ve skirted overexposure ...

As a network, TNT has rarely missed an opportunity to trumpet the fact that it knows drama. It’s a reasonable enough claim considering the lengthy runs of such series as The Closer—which has now morphed into Major Crimes ...

BounceTV is a relatively new, honest-to-goodness broadcast network. It’s a network geared at African-Americans—the first program it broadcast in September 2011 was The Wiz. Bounce took a different tack than Oprah’s OWN network, which poured millions into ...

Described in promotional materials as an “unscripted comedy series,” Lifetime’s Pretty Wicked Moms is merely another reality show in which viewers are invited to sneer at a lineup of vapid people whose willingness, if not ravenous desire, to be ...

Exit debuts tonight on SyFy at 10 p.m. Eastern.

Upon learning that this new SyFy series is based on a Japanese game show, it’s only natural to expect plenty of screaming, creepy production design, and possibly life-threatening danger ...

The only episode of Seinfeld I can remember watching live when it first aired was the series finale in 1998. It seemed important at the time to watch the finale at the same time as everyone around the block. But ...

Mistresses debuts tonight on ABC at 10 p.m. Eastern.

Mistresses just kind of exists. Too narratively banal to be memorable and not nearly sexy enough to make up for its narrative shortcomings, Mistresses is the dry toast and applesauce ...

The Fosters debuts tonight on ABC Family at 9 p.m. Eastern.

Is it possible to like a TV show solely because it has its heart in the right place? That’s the main thing ABC Family’s newest drama ...

Bravo’s new show Princesses: Long Island finds six college-educated women in their mid to late 20s living pampered lives with their parents on Long Island while trying really, really hard to get married. That Princesses is basically a prequel ...

Richard Pryor: Omit The Logic debuts tonight on Showtime at 9 p.m. Eastern.

It seems a bit strange that there hasn’t been a proper Richard Pryor documentary until this new Showtime production—Pryor is widely considered the greatest ...