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Smash premiered on Monday night right after the most agreeable lead-in NBC could possibly muster: The Voice, thus having musical-reality television lead into musical-fiction television....
Lilyhammer is a new show that Netflix is premiering right now -- in fact, you can watch the entire, eight-episode first season streaming on Netflix's...
Madonna was careful, in interviews before the Super Bowl, to say how nervous she was, how no one had to worry about her plotting to...
Smash is an admirable risk for a network television series. Given that the size of the Broadway-show audience, if every ticket-holder tuned in, would probably...
A Glee for grown-ups, Smash is an admirable risk for a network television series. Given that the size of the Broadway audience couldn't keep Work…
Debuts Jan. 29, 9 p.m. HBO Luck is an entrancing mixture of beautiful horses, stumblebum gamblers, exciting races, and a tightly controlled yet open, emotional…
On Wednesday night's Late Show With David Letterman, the host celebrated his 30 years in late night with typical asperity, noting that at this point,...
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are, they proclaimed on the debut of their Key & Peele half-hour on Tuesday night, biracial--"half-black, half-white"--and therein lies the...
By 8 p.m., the Florida primary victory had been called for Mitt Romney by all the news networks. Before the 9 p.m. hour, a shift...
Luck, the new David Milch-Michael Mann HBO series, premieres tonight. I'm so on-board (on-horse?) with this show, I'm offering you two reviews of it. First,...
You may have seen John Mulaney on Saturday Night Live, where he's made some drolly precise, funny appearances on "Weekend Update." (Mulaney is also a...
Michael Mann is the rare director-writer-producer who has maintained simultaneous careers in feature films and television, and he's done this since the 1970s. Leading up...
Wednesday night's CSI was an episode titled "Willows in the Wind." The tortured play on words, crossing "in the wind" with the Kenneth Grahame book...
The earnest new drama Touch has its heart in the right place and its mind drifting off into unknown areas. Kiefer Sutherland stars as Martin...
TV's Justified is based on a couple of Leonard novels — and especially on a Leonard creation, deputy U.S. marshal Raylan Givens. Here Leonard seems…
In his last State of the Union address before he faces a re-election challenge, President Obama on Tuesday night called upon Congress to "lower the...
Alcatraz premiered last week with back-to-back episodes that lured more than 10 million viewers and bested the premiere of its time-period predecessor, Terra Nova. The...
NBC burned off the final two episodes of Prime Suspect on Sunday night. The football game was on Fox, CBS aired a rerun, you aren't...
The victory of Newt Gingrich in South Carolina on Saturday night found much of the TV news punditocracy caught flat-footed, grasping for answers beyond cliches...
Michael Mann is the rare director-writer-producer who has maintained simultaneous careers in feature films and television, and he's done this since the 1970s. Mann's TV...
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