The members of Monty Python, when defending their satirical masterwork The Life of Brian against charges that it was mocking Jesus, repeatedly explained that there was nothing inherently funny about Jesus or what he had to say. (Those claiming to ...

Talking Dead is the weirdest show on television right now. In case you haven’t heard of it, it’s the live talk show that takes place right after the latest episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead, in which ...

Mr. Selfridge debuts as a part of PBS' Masterpiece tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific, 8 p.m. Central and Mountain in most markets. You should check local listings.

There’s a memorable moment in an old episode ...

The American Masters episode “Philip Roth: Unmasked” debuts tonight on PBS at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific, 8 p.m. Central and Mountain in most markets. You should check your local listings.

In a profile of Philip Roth published ...

180 Days: A Year In An American High School debuts tonight on PBS at 9 p.m. Eastern.

Washington Metropolitan High School, the subject of PBS’ 180 Days: A Year In An American High School, is a school that serves ...

Phil Spector debuts tonight on HBO at 9 p.m. Eastern.

The most compelling character in Phil Spector, writer-director David Mamet’s intriguing exploration of the trial of the controversial music mogul isn’t the title character but rather his ...

SyFy may be the network that rebooted Battlestar Galactica to great acclaim, but these days it specializes in irony: cheap, silly made-for-TV movies that emulate mockbuster studio The Asylum. That’s particularly obvious in DVR-confusing titles like American Horror House ...

I mean, where to fucking begin? If Splash were the only reality show this calendar year to feature D-list celebrities and athletes from other sports participating in a diving competition months after any residual interest gained during the 2012 Olympics ...

Over the course of its 10-episode first season, Canadian import Continuum has established itself more as a solid, efficient police procedural than as a mind-blowing time-travel show. The big mysteries raised way back in the series premiere are finally addressed ...

If Wile E. Coyote were an action hero, using his powers for good instead of evil and bucking for redemption, he’d be a lot like Lucas Hood (Antony Starr), the hero of the Cinemax series Banshee. Hood can take ...

The World According To Dick Cheney debuts tonight on Showtime at 9 p.m. Eastern.

“I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults.”—Dick Cheney

To those who stand on the opposite side of the political ...

Preachers’ Daughters debuts tonight on Lifetime at 10 p.m. Eastern.

The greatest sin perpetrated by Preachers’ Daughters? It’s boring.

Lifetime’s goal here to capitalize on the trope of the reckless scion of the godly, a favorite topic ...

Watching Loiter Squad is a bit like watching Saturday Night Live, if it were fast-forwarded and compressed to fill a mere 15 minutes—and much, much funnier. Where SNL and other mainstream sketch comedy shows err on the side of ...

Animal Planet’s latest submission to the lexicon of Great American Programming is Battleground: Rhino Wars, in which a group of paramilitary patriots journey to South Africa’s Kruger National Park to take a stand against rampant rhino poachers. With ...

LA Shrinks debuts tonight on Bravo at 10 p.m. Eastern.

“Being a therapist, you’re being hired by the hour, you’re helping people, but at the same time you’re holding people’s innermost secrets. You’re somewhere ...

The Staircase: Last Chance debuts tonight on Sundance at 10 p.m. Eastern.

In December of 2001, Kathleen Peterson died in a bloody, grisly scene at the bottom of a staircase in her North Carolina home. Her husband, writer Michael ...

The Bible debuts tonight on the History Channel at 8 p.m. Eastern.

Even a nonbeliever would have to admit that the Bible could make a hell of a cable miniseries. The source material, rife with dramatic miracles, violent spectacle ...

You’ve seen this family before. Mom is blonde, a bit tense—probably a Type A—loves her family, lives in terror anything bad will ever happen to them. Dad is more laid back, with the scruffy beard and the ...

The Ben Show With Ben Hoffman and Nathan For You debut tonight on Comedy Central at 10 and 10:30 p.m. Eastern.

Comedy Central will debut a pair of similar new shows tonight: The Ben Show With Ben Hoffman ...

Boston's Finest debuts tonight on TNT at 9 p.m. Eastern.

On a surface level, all you need to get out of Boston’s Finest, premiering tonight on TNT, lies in its title. This isn’t propaganda posing as ...