The Hour

The Bletchley Circle revives a bygone era (like a few months ago) when British spies still existed on TV. Also: Bob’s Burgers bets the basement and Mad Men gets extra-secretive.

 As opposed to the fake BBC canceling the fake The Hour. 

Our TV Club staffers encourage each other to check out Peep Show, Shark Tank, Elementary, and even The Neighbors.

New TV is back, so The Hour, sensing its job of entertaining us through the holidays is finished, leaves us for another year. Also: An elderly clown falls in love with a teenage orphan. Seriously!

Top Chef and The Hour are the only things on tonight, but only the former is prominently boasting a roller skating Padma Lakshmi! Also: Little Caesars has a bowl game?

Find out what series almost made the list—and which writers need to be bugged about not watching Game Of Thrones.

Our Sopranos reviews come to an end, as Tony and family visit a certain New Jersey diner. Also: Rascal Flatts teaches you about adoption, and The Hour and Top Chef are new.

And also several nods for Homeland and Django Unchained, so it’s not all bad.

Celebrate Christmas? Modern Family has no need for your puny human holidays! Modern Family does what it wills itself to do! Also: Something something Amish Mafia.

We hear Arrow started getting pretty good, so we're going to ponder our imperfections while staring at his chiseled abs. Also: The hour of Murder Santa is at hand!

The Hour returns, because BBC America believes launching new seasons during the holiday season is a great idea. Also: Modern Family visits a big-box store.

“I’m all over the place, aren’t I?”

“You see sex in period films, and you think, ‘Oh, they’re having sex.’ You never stop to think, ‘But how are they actually doing it? What’s the mechanics of this?’” 

So it’s come to this. The A.V. Club once again wishes to welcome you to our fall TV coverage, in which we will be covering several dozen series, new and returning, on a regular basis, each episode receiving our patented episodic review treatm...

Let’s try a thought experiment: If The Newsroom had aired on TNT, would it have gotten nearly as vicious of reviews as it did?

A trip through the looking glass.

Who voted for which series? Which shows barely made the cut? And which less-heralded shows do you need to start DVRing? Read on.

We get rage with We’re Alive, Doug Loves Movies has an all-star edition, Marc Maron continues his examination of Sam Kinison, The Apple Sisters make some changes, lots of Paul F. Tompkins, and more.