A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have ha...
PUNCTURE: Worth A Ticket – A Bracingly Dark Ride No one is going to see PUNCTURE in theaters, and that’s a shame, because unaccountably, it’s one of the best pictures around. “Unaccount...
In 2003, ABC’s NYPD BLUE aired a scene that included a brief shot of actress Charlotte Ross getting into a shower, exposing her rear end and the side of her breast to the camera. The Federal Communications Commission fi...
> Premieres Thursday 10PM on USA: If Nothing Else Is On… (But it’s summer, so nothing is.) At this point, I think we could all identify a USA Network series blindfolded and with the soundtrack running backward...
SUITS – Thursdays 10PM on USA WHERE WE WERE: On a precipice. Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) was a hustler with limited formal education but a photographic memory. He used his talents, among other things, to tak...
THE GOOD WIFE: Sunday 9PM on CBS WHERE WE WERE: Waiting for Kalinda’s door to open. She (Archie Panjabi) was calmly waiting inside with a gun, waiting for her former husband, a man who even Kalinda thinks is da...
There were a lot of nips and tucks in the now-concluded 2d season of USA’s FAIRLY LEGAL. The show overall had a less comedic feel, and the heroine, Kate Reed (Sarah Shahi), was turned into more of an adult, which...
With far less fanfare than last night’s farewell to The Closer, tonight TNT rang down the season’s curtain on FRANKLIN & BASH, a show that can barely be bothered to remember that a season finale is differ...
This summer, TNT is airing an ambitious slate of original programming, including the final season of its signature series The Closer, the launches of spinoff Major Crimes and new procedural Perception, a...
MADE IN JERSEY: Friday 9PM on CBS – Change the Channel CBS is the network of The Good Wife, but don’t get your hopes up for its new legal drama MADE IN JERSEY. This one is a thin example of why the words ...
After 5 seasons, 2 of them exclusively on DirecTV, DAMAGES and its saga of dueling attorneys Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) and Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) came to its close this week, mostly with a whimper. There were no la...