The X Factor

If we act like nothing is wrong, then everything will be just fine, right?

 It's back to the oil derricks.

At last summer’s Television Critics Association press tour, Fox president Kevin Reilly was casually confident about his network winning yet another ratings crown for yet another season.

Here is a brief list of shows you may care about that were not mentioned once, by questioners or NBC executives, during Sunday morning's NBC executive session at the winter Television Critics Association press tour: Parks & Recreation, 30 Ro...

Also: The Gang has its day in court (at Paddy’s) and Jake Sisko has several blasts from the past.

 Who will provide credibility and glasses now?

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.

Hideous beasts with shadowy intentions terrorize innocent civilians. Oh, and The Vampire Diaries is back. Also: 30 Rock gets Cranston-ized and FX comedies return with plots about circumcision, waste disposal. 

Given NBC’s decent fall, how will the final season of 30 Rock bite the hand that feeds? Also: Ron Swanson meets his the non-Tammy woman of his dreams and Dwight Schrute teaches Dothraki as a second language.  

Dive (dive! dive!) into Last Resort. Also: season and series premières that have nothing to do with submarines.

 And its Thursday night is still popular solely on the Internet.

A curious nation turns to the Saturday Night Live election special to see if anything worth mocking happened in politics this week. Also: The return of NBC Thursday nights and the departure of almost everything else.

After 4,999 seasons of utter insanity, Survivor begins season 5,000 with a song in its heart and a spring in its step. Also: Top Chef Masters is pretty much the only other thing on.

Introducing Glee: The New Class. Also: Louis C.K. in late night and Jenna Hamilton in a web of lies.

The X Factor returns for another season, having stocked up on Britney Spears and Demi Lovato in the singing competition judge arms race. Also: Damages ends its run.

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...

Contemplate Monica Keena’s career trajectory with this week’s Dawson’s Creek TV Club Classic reviews. Also: White Collar goes to the museum and Home Movies puts marbles in its nose. (Put them there.)

Really, CBS president Nina Tassler should come out at the Television Critics Association press tour one of these years carrying a leaf blower and a giant bag of money.

Confidence and conservatism in Los Angeles.

Artistic integrity assured.

Fox has just announced its fall schedule. Details and night-by-night analysis to come. New shows are in bold. Mondays 8 p.m.: Bones 9 p.m.: The Mob Doctor 9 p.m. midseason: The Following Tue...

Here’s your roundup of TV upfront and scheduling news for the day: • Fox, which holds its upfront Monday, has been keeping a relatively low profile, compared to fellow Monday upfront network NBC. Fox had yet to pick anything up as of this morni...

Brutal honesty from someone who's climbed every worn rung on the ladder to success.

A disarming debut fuses sharp, eclectic songwriting with the oddness of outsider art. 

“You got Justified in my Archer!” “You got Archer in my Justified!” Also: Sheldon snaps, Leap Day with Liz Lemon, and Kramer as Merv Griffin.