- January 23, 2006
- Charles in Charge
Bleak House proves that if Dickens were alive today, he’d make an awesome TV executive.
- January 9, 2006
- Space Oddity
Science fiction has faltered on network TV. So why is Sci Fi Channel flourishing?
- December 26, 2005
- Sideline Blowhards
In all the hot air that swirls around TV sports, only one show does more than simply trot out jocks and jerks.
- December 12, 2005
- Bodies in Motion
Can you flirt over a corpse? Bones is a sexed-up CSI, a romantic comedy buried in a cop procedural.
- December 5, 2005
- There Goes the Neighborhood
Sleeper Cell proves an unspoken truth about terrorists: They’re just not that fun to hang out with.
- November 21, 2005
- The Poseidon Adventure
As in the original, ingenuity matters more than acting, plus there are grenades and fins.
- November 21, 2005
- They've Got Issues
The West Wing’s live debate was full of substance, as expected. It’s what was missing that really shocked.
- October 31, 2005
- Arch Rivals
David Spade and Stephen Colbert are the Goofus and Gallant of Comedy Central. So why is Goofus’s show better?
- October 17, 2005
- Hot Properties
Whatever the hysterical women in 'Hot Properties' are selling, it isn’t real estate.
- October 17, 2005
- Einstein's Big Idea
Just how the world found out that energy equals mass plus the speed of light squared is dramatized with more or less a straight face.