STAR TREK: DISCOVERY – Episodes available each Sunday at CBS All Access – In the Quene There are quite a few perils to reaching a judgment about the new STAR TREK: DISCOVERY based on its opening hour, the only episode that will air on the CBS broadcast network before the series begins streaming (1 […]
MANIFEST: Mondays 10PM on NBC Of all the Lost rip-offs we’ve seen over the years, NBC’s MANIFEST seems from its pilot to be the laziest, and perhaps the worst. Creator Jeff Rake (he has the eminently forgettable The Mysteries of Laura to his credit) has replaced the dense mythology of Lost with a set-up […]
SUPERGIRL: Monday 8PM on CBS (premiere at 8:30PM tonight) – In the Queue SUPERGIRL is more thrilling as an experiment in network scheduling than as a TV show. There’s nothing terribly wrong with the series itself, which comes from the Greg Berlanti factory of DC Comics adventures that’s already given us CW’s Arrow and The Flash, with […]
PRISON BREAK: Tuesday 9PM on FOX – If Nothing Else Is On… Where was the clamor for a return of PRISON BREAK? The show had pretty much run its course both critically and with viewers by the time it went off the air in 2009 after a 4-season run, and even at its peak […]
MAGNUM, P.I.: Monday 9PM on CBS As everyone knows, the 2018-19 CBS TV season has turned out to be the final one overseen by Les Moonves, the longtime network mogul ousted after allegations of sexual misconduct. It’s fitting that the first new series of his last season is that definitive Moonves-ian object, a rebooted […]
THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH: Mon-Thurs 11PM on Comedy Central After one night of THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH, we conclusively know this: Comedy Central isn’t bleeping the word “shit” anymore. It was a fairly big deal when the network let Jon Stewart liberally use the cattle-related version of the word as […]
CROSSING LINES: Sunday 10PM on NBC – If Nothing Else Is On… Television’s changing economics will probably lead to a lot more internationally financed co-productions as time goes on. In terms of content, that means subject matter that can be sold worldwide even without an initial US network success, which may require iconic protagonists […]
SCREAM: Tuesday 10PM on MTV – If Nothing Else Is On… There aren’t a lot of sure things in Hollywood, but here’s one: you can always make some money by gathering together a group of teens and killing them off one by one. It’s been true since at least 1978’s Halloween (and its zillions […]