AMERICAN CRIME: Wednesday 10PM on ABC AMERICAN CRIME‘s first season was, if not great network television, certainly ballsy. John Ridley’s series took on race and class and religion to boot, and it was shot in a self-conscious “art film” way, with lengthy, intense close-ups, a measured pace, and a minimum of both music and […]
SUPERSTORE: Monday 8PM (starting January 4) on NBC – If Nothing Else Is On… If a weak form of The Office‘s DNA seems to flow through NBC’s new sitcom SUPERSTORE, which previewed tonight before beginning its regular run on January 4, it’s not a coincidence: the series was created by Justin Spitzer, a writer/producer […]
IZOMBIE: Tuesday 9PM on CW – Potential DVR Alert Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero-Wright’s clever IZOMBIE (based on a DC comic) brings back from the dead something very close to the premise of ABC’s lamented Pushing Daisies. In that fantastical show, the hero had the magical ability to bring corpses back from the dead, but […]
THE ODD COUPLE: Thursday 8:30PM on CBS – If Nothing Else Is On… As Chandler Bing might say: Could there be a more CBS show than a reboot of a 45-year old multicamera sit-com, with a star 10 years from his last hit? If the network’s new version of THE ODD COUPLE works, maybe […]
AP BIO: Thursday 9:30PM on NBC (regular run starts March 1) – Change the Channel Most of the braintrust behind NBC’s new sitcom AP BIO hails from Saturday Night Live, starting with series creator Mike O’Brien and including Executive Producers Lorne Michaels, Seth Meyers and Michael Shoemaker, so it’s not hard to see why the pilot […]
STITCHERS: Tuesday 10PM on Freeform STITCHERS gave itself an IZombie joke tonight (the two shows have somewhat notoriously similar premises, both concerning young women who can temporarily enter the memories of the recently dead to solve their murders), and that gag was about as imaginative as things got. Stitchers is by far the more […]
REBEL: Thursday 10PM on ABC Krista Vernoff is one of network TV’s most prized showrunners. She’s successfully guided Shonda Rhimes’s Grey’s Anatomy into a remarkable 17th season of success (which will be extended further if the necessary deals are made), and when she took over Station 19, that show became an effective one-two punch […]
MAJOR CRIMES: Monday 9PM on TNT MAJOR CRIMES isn’t the kind of series to go for “game-changing” alterations, so the back half (actually 8 episodes) of its second season, which resumed tonight after a break since August, is only incrementally different from what aired last summer. The show is a straightforward procedural for the […]