Around The World In 80 Plates debuts tonight on Bravo at 10 p.m. Eastern.

While longtime fans of Bravo’s Top Chef franchise continue to bemoan its gradual deterioration in quality over the past few seasons, it seems there ...

White Heat debuts tonight on BBC America at 10 p.m. Eastern.

It’s been more than 30 years since John Sayles’ The Return Of The Secaucus 7 inadvertently sparked a subgenre that might be called the “boomer regret” film ...

The pilot of Battleground is its own—forgive me—battleground, its scrappy underdog charm fighting tooth and nail against its stylistic excesses. The structure jumps through time instead of just telling a compelling story, and the show’s sense of ...

With Cheap Seats, their old ESPN Classic series, Jason and Randy Sklar had a show that felt as if it were just about perfectly scaled to the size of their talents. That might not be the kind of compliment that ...

Zach Galifianakis has always channeled a good portion of his energy toward the absurd end of the comedic spectrum, while still reaching mass popularity—seemingly accidentally—through big Hollywood movies, most specifically The Hangover. But his heart clearly doesn’t ...

Treasure Island debuts tonight on Syfy at 7 p.m. Eastern.

Treasure Island is far more exciting on the page than on screen, at least when taken in full instead of pared down and streamlined for a three-act structure. Through ...

Feeding off the Friday night success of The Discovery Channel’s Gold Rush: Alaska which begat Bering Sea Gold, the National Geographic throws it hat into the weekend-shows-about-prospectors ring with Goldfathers. It’s a familiar setup, another entry in the ...

In Plain Sight premiered  little less than four years ago, at a time when the out-of-the-blue success of Burn Notice made it seem plausible that the USA network might turn into a kind of retro broadcast wildlife preserve for decent ...

For nearly 20 years, HBO’s Real Sex franchise made audiences squirm by graphically exploring middle-aged American couples’ sexual crises (among other issues relating to human sexuality). By comparison, Lifetime’s attempt at a bold therapeutic experiment with 7 Days ...

Late in HBO’s recent documentary, There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane—about Diane Schuler, who killed herself and seven others while intoxicated and speeding in the wrong direction on New York’s Taconic State Parkway in 2009—director ...

The Pitch debuts tonight on AMC at 10 p.m. Eastern.

Mad Men offers TV critics, bloggers, and assorted armchair sociologists so much material to work with regarding changing social standards involving race, sex, and indoor smoking. Yet the show ...

“Fanklok” is the first new episode of Metalocalypse in a year and a half, but just because the show hasn’t been around doesn’t mean the band hasn’t been busy. The new season kicks off with a one-sentence ...

Theoretically, SyFy “original movies”—the subgenre that introduced the word “sharktopus” to the world—ought to have a blatant, old-school charm, redolent of drive-ins, late-night TV horror hosts, and those videos that were lying around the house all weekend because ...

Cloudstreet debuts tonight on Ovation at 10 p.m. Eastern.

Given the information overload in which we live, it’s always nice to encounter something with which you have no prior information. Cloudstreet, the Australian miniseries premiering tonight on Ovation ...

I lost track of Ugly Americans’ appeal at some point during its second half-season, mostly because I felt the show had lost track of itself. That first run of episodes in early 2010 set up a world where the bizarre ...

Total Blackout debuts tonight on Syfy at 10 p.m. Eastern.

Not that there’s been any chance in hell of saving the integrity of SyFy’s programming in many moons—surely the last vestiges of the viewership that still ...

The CW didn’t have much success with its reboot of Melrose Place, which tried to recreate a winning combination of absurdly good-looking people getting involved in hilariously melodramatic situations while pretending to hold down ordinary occupations in a sun-drenched ...

Birdsong debuts tonight on PBS as a part of the network's Masterpiece series. It will air at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific, 8 p.m. Central and Mountain in most markets, but you should check local listings.

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Paul F. Tompkins: Laboring Under Delusions debuts tonight on Comedy Central at 11 p.m. Eastern.

In recent years, Paul F. Tompkins’ career has been one of curious contrasts. Since the release of his debut album, Impersonal, the Los Angeles-based ...

I am a grown-ass man, and I really enjoy this show about cartoon ponies, which is ostensibly made for 6-year-olds.

It seems like literally every article about the series My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic must begin with a lengthy ...