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Thrill to the financial-solvency drama of Lockhart/Gardner! Also: Introducing Tina Belcher: Investigative Reporter and Lip Gallagher: Sexual Predator Predator.

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Everything from series finales of long-running cult hits to aging sitcoms to news coverage makes our supplemental list.

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

The A.V. Club names the best TV show of 2012.

The A.V. Club asked some of our favorite celebrities for their favorite sounds and sights of the past year.

It’s not just because it’s a Halloween special—we’re just glad to have The Venture Bros. back. Also: Other holiday spirits (har har) and the end of The Thick Of It.

BBC America takes on the biggest fight scene this side of Doctor Who. Also: Emily and Carrie Mathison deal with finding out the deep, dark, truth.

The Walking Dead starts a new season on death row (because of the zombies, see?). Also: Dexter Morgan and Nicholas Brody inch closer to getting caught.

Homeland returns with its million Emmys to ask, “How ya like me now?” Also: Every show that hasn’t returned yet does so.

Your favorite dramas earn more accolades while your favorite comedies are steamrolled by Modern Family on the Primetime Emmy Awards. Also: A return to Tremé and disappearing bootleg hooch.

The Weeds finale marks the end of one cable empire, while another—of the Boardwalk variety—extends its influence. Also: The return of Malcolm Tucker and the rise of a 19th-century Robin Hood. 

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...

The fourth season of Childrens Hospital is here to heal your funny bone (and other vaguely horrifying ailments). Also: Louie has a date with IKEA and Wilfred has a date with destiny.

See Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte bring an end to a rivalry that you only recently started caring about. Also: Louie entertains a child while Suits fends off a damaging law-suit. (Suddenly we understand the title of that show.)

Hulu held a brief panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour today, mostly to introduce its summer lineup (the upcoming Up To Speed and Larry King Now, as well as the currently airing Rev., The Thick Of It...

And now, the exciting, awkward conclusion to Louie’s first two-parter. Also: Interrupting dogs and confused cats.

Project Runway returns to see if it can bounce back from what might have been its worst season ever. Also: TBS debuts a new sitcom in the summer of terrible new sitcoms.

And now for something completely different: TV Club Classic takes on Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Also: Wilfred hates babies while Louie goes to Miami.

What, you didn’t notice that Awkward. came back last week? That’s okay. No, really, it’s fine. Also: Everybody loves Wilfred and dinner(s) with Louis C.K.

Until you can buy Louie directly from Louis C.K., enjoy it as part of FX’s new Thursday-night comedy bloc. Also: Olympic-sized disaster from across the pond, and the return of Jenna Hamilton.

Flouting leash laws, Wilfred takes a walk on its own. Also: Michael Westen takes on a drug cartel, and Deep Space Nine crewmembers do “Mirror, Mirror”

It’s not truly summer until the schedule is packed with frothy USA fare like Burn Notice and Suits. Also: Eagleheart hunts for the “king of the tramps,” and Ron Howard learns a valuable lesson about responsibility.

Fox senses your Gordon Ramsay fatigue, offers up the underutilized Cat Deeley (and a soupçon of George Lopez). Also: Chris Monsanto storms the art world and The Maquis storms the Star Trek world.