CALIFORNICATION: Sunday 10:30PM on Showtime Even in the relatively free-and-easy world of paycable, there’s something about CALIFORNICATION that seems to get under people’s skin. Perhaps it’s the ca...
Once it became clear that, for the most part, THE LAST SHIP was science fiction only in the strictest sense (there was science and it was fiction), it was fairly enjoyable for the neo-Tom Clancy-esque action-adventure it...
OPENINGS: The box office may not have hit bottom yet (see “Next Weekend” below), but it’s getting close, with the horror movie THE INVITATION (Screen Gems/Sony) topping the weekend at a painful $7M. ...
NETWORK FINALS: CHICAGO FIRE gained 0.1 in final numbers, while NANCY DREW lost the same. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:�...
> Michael Scott is really gone. Technically, that’s been true since a few episodes before the end of THE OFFICE‘s last season, but with tonight’s season premiere, Office 2.0, the most well-publicized reb...
CBS continues to trickle out its new series orders, and the latest to be announced is the sitcom FRIENDS WITH BETTER LIVES, about friends who each envy the others, with a cast that includes James Van Der Beek, Brooklyn D...
The curtain rang down on the 4th season of WHITE COLLAR tonight, an unusually labored one. The show still has a fair amount of style and charm, but it’s starting to feel as shackled as Neal Caffrey’s ankle ...
>At the end of tonight’s pregame show for the MLB All-Star Game in Phoenix, FOX previewed this fall’s THE X-FACTOR. The on-air promotion department went to that old tried-and-true technique: the dream sequence...
DON’T TRUST THE B– IN APT 23: Tuesday 9:30PM on ABC WHERE WE WERE: New York City, where naive midwestern arrival June shares an apartment with street-smart, manipulative Chloe (Krysten Ritter). Their ne...
CW has clarified that the May 13 episode of its rebooted 90210 will be its series finale, not just the end of its 5th season. Although CW likes to give its veteran shows a farewell lap on the way out (as Gossip Girl ha...
HERETIC (A24 – Nov. 15): A nifty piece of philosophical horror from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the writers of the original A Quiet Place. The set-up is almost fairy tale in its simplicity. A pair of young wo...
>Tonight’s ESPN Monday Night Football game (the 2-10 St Louis Rams at the 5-7 Seattle Seahawks) will have a limited impact on the broadcast fast nationals in the morning. In St Louis, the game will be carried locall...
Although still down steeply from Fifty Shades of Grey, FIFTY SHADES FREED (Perfect World/Universal) is opening on par with the initial sequel Fifty Shades Darker. According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, Freed ear...
BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON (Amazon): Paul Downs Colaizzo, previously a playwright, makes a remarkably assured film writing/directing debut with Brittany Runs a Marathon, which features a breakout star performance by Jill...