I was pretty confident I could keep up after deciding to take on the National Spelling Bee. Not that I could spell any of the words or anything, but I was in a spelling bee once, so, you know. I ...

At least in terms of public reception, Tyler Perry is the Lena Dunham of black people—or maybe Lena Dunham is the Tyler Perry of women. It’s fashionable to tear apart everything they create, fashionable and easy, because it ...

Musing on the baker’s art, Marcella Valladolid, one of the judges on The American Baking Competition, says “You can’t put a cake in the oven and walk away. You have to be there. You have to watch it ...

Falling somewhere between Robot Chicken: Star Wars and the computer animated The Clone Wars, the Lego Star Wars TV specials have been delightfully irreverent mash-ups of Star Wars ideas that spotlight the silliness of George Lucas’ universe. The first special ...

Let’s get this out of the way right off the bat:  Melissa Joan Hart grossly miscalculated the possibility of funding her independent film Darci’s Walk Of Shame through Kickstarter. Veronica Mars had a rabid fanbase itching for a ...

There’s no denying that the circumstances under which CBS airs its six-part documentary series Brooklyn DA are suspicious. Current district attorney Charles Hynes has served Kings County (which encompasses Brooklyn) since 1989 and has several challengers in the upcoming ...

The Fall made its debut on Netflix today. All five episodes are available for streaming there.

Debuting its full, five-episode first season only a few days after 15 new Arrested Development installments appeared, Netflix isn’t doing many favors to ...

There are a few important rules about viewing The Bachelor and Bachelorette, and since the shows are unchanged, an intact remnant of the reality boom, these rules are evergreen and resolute.

The Bachelor and Bachelorette can only be viewed in ...

If you were hoping and praying for a basic cable version of Showgirls, VH1 has just the show for you. Instead of Vegas and scantily-clad ladies, Hit the Floor takes place in the world of professional dance teams. It’s ...

Ring Of Fire debuts tonight on Lifetime at 9 p.m. Eastern.

Ring Of Fire compresses some sixty years in the life of June Carter Cash into roughly an hour and a half of screen time, not counting commercials. It ...

Marvel's Avengers Assemble debuts Sunday on Disney XD at 11 a.m. Eastern.

Who are the Avengers? Five years ago, if you asked that question to people who didn’t read comics, they probably would have either talked about ...

Behind The Candelabra debuts Sunday night at 9 p.m. Eastern on HBO.

Scott Thorson (Matt Damon) has traveled to Las Vegas with his friend, the well-connected Bob Black (an amusingly laid-back Scott Bakula). The two have mostly made the ...

Sanjay And Craig debuts tomorrow, May 25, on Nickelodeon at 10:30 a.m. Eastern.

One of the best attributes of any truly great kids show is its ability to dive swiftly and deeply into utter surrealism. SpongeBob SquarePants is ...

AMC’s new summer reality show is out to prove that America’s got talent... just not in those exact words. Still, Showville exudes a certain air of familiarity, even if its structure is akin to cramming an entire season ...

Does Someone Have To Go? debuts tonight on Fox at 9 p.m. Eastern.

Of the many fascinating anecdotes that came out of the 2008 presidential campaign, one of the most memorable came not from a marquee name like Barack ...

Save Me debuts tonight on NBC at 8 p.m. Eastern.

Reviewing Save Me is like admitting the whole game of reviewing TV pilots is a sham. It’s all rigged, because it’s supposed to be possible to draw ...

Of all the various stories from this network television season, Chicago Fire’s is the least likely and perhaps the most interesting. It began the season as almost an afterthought on NBC’s schedule, dismissed as competently bland nothingness and ...

Although it’s unlikely to receive the 100 Episodes treatment anytime in the near future, it may astonish you to learn that Rules Of Engagement hit that very mark this evening, a landmark occasion that CBS also decided to use ...

Motive debuts tonight at 10/9c on ABC before moving to its regular timeslot at 9/8c on Thursday.

In 2010, ABC debuted The Whole Truth, a legal procedural that focused on both the prosecution and defense of a single ...

Mel Brooks: Make A Noise airs tonight on PBS as part of the American Masters series. It will debut at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific, 8 p.m. Central and Mountain in most markets, but you should check local ...