When Shark Tank,  which gives small-timers a chance to present their products or businesses to a panel of five high-toned hustlers who may or may not choose to invest their own money in them, premiered on ABC in the fall ...

Bravo’s Newlyweds: The First Year follows four couples who apparently have never watched a family sitcom in their entire lives. Nor have they discussed anything about post-marriage life, including where to live, the work-life balance or anything to do ...

90210 died exactly the way it lived: as a wholly unnecessary afterthought. Sure, that’s harsh—and maybe unnecessarily so—but is there any other way to describe a show that lasted for 114 episodes, when the majority of the ...

Constitution USA With Peter Sagal is a four-part PBS docuseries that follows the host of NPR’s Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me on his quest for evidence of the Constitution in the lives of “ordinary Americans,” from a medical ...

Felt is an oddity, but a refreshing one. The show takes real therapists and their real sessions with couples, records them, edits them down to episodic chunks, and then both protects the identities of the clients and creates some comedic ...

I became a daytime soap fan over a quarter century ago. My summer babysitter didn’t watch much television while I was at her house, but every afternoon at 12:30 the set would be tuned to The Young And ...

Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous debuts tonight on MTV at 10:30 p.m. Eastern.

If there is one thing I’ve learned from watching years of reality programming, especially MTV’s particular brand, it’s this: You, too ...

Manhunt debuts tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern on HBO.

The key thing about Manhunt: The Search For Bin Laden is the subtitle. It’s almost all about the search. Manhunt, which was directed by Greg Barker (whose other credits ...

Family Tools debuts tonight on ABC at 8:30 p.m. Eastern.

It used to be easy to identify which shows the networks had faith in simply by looking at the time of the year in which those shows were ...

Inside Amy Schumer debuts tonight on Comedy Central at 10:30 p.m. Eastern.

Amy Schumer has built a deservedly great reputation as a stand-up over the past few years, gaining some notice on Last Comic Standing and then breaking ...

A couple of weeks ago, Amazon.com put a bunch of pilots for shows it might pick up to series on its website. You can view them here. While there’s plenty to talk about in terms of how this ...

Teen Mom is a franchise resistant to finales. Even setting aside the fact that the combination of tabloid culture and Twitter means that fans of the show are aware of the stars’ major life events months before they air on ...

Ke$ha’s built a career on being as uncensored and metaphorical balls-to-the-wall blatant as possible, but she isn’t exactly an open book. We know she likes glitter, face paint, and more glitter. We might know she wrote songs ...

When the news came down that Jimmy Fallon would be replacing Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show, there was fervent speculation about who would replace Fallon on Late Night. But I was on vacation that week, so ...

Just forget about Young Justice. Teen Titans Go! is a lot more enjoyable if you don’t think about how this candy-colored madcap children’s show is replacing one of best superhero series in TV history. Teen Titans Go! is ...

Ryan Lochte is known for his vapidity almost as much as he’s known for his prowess in the pool. Earlier this week, a Lochte interview with Good Day Philadelphia anchors Mike Jerrick and Shenielle Jones went viral, after Jones ...

The Bletchley Circle debuts tonight at 10 p.m. on PBS.

There’s nothing quite like an old-fashioned British mystery. We do mysteries here in the States, but they’re not quite the same—our tendency is push mysteries into ...

When I mentioned to a (non-AV Club) co-worker that I was reviewing Hemlock Grove this weekend, he told me he’d recently finished Netflix’s previous originall series, House Of Cards. I asked him what he thought of it. “It ...

Mary And Martha debuts tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern on HBO.

At first, the off-the-cuff insensitivity that Mary And Martha’s characters persistently exhibit seems benign enough. Mary And Martha is, after all, a made-for-TV melodrama about two mothers ...

Out There is a much sweeter, gentler-spirited show that you might guess from its pedigree—the series’ creator, Ryan Quincy, was previously best known for his work on South Park—or even from a random glimpse. It’s certainly a ...