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Just because one of its executive producers used to work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer does not mean that Point Pleasant is at all funny.

John Leonard reviews the season premiere of Sex in the City, Degas and the Dance, Forbidden Iran, and more.

Mystery Weekend launches a new series of prefab detectives in made- for-cable movies in the mode of Murder, She Wrote.

Another try at loose-limbed television from Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney lets aspiring actors improvise their own lines in a variety of sadomasochistic situations.

The series returns for a slick new season of countering Great Britain’s domestic terrorists.

Jack Bauer takes another licking. But have the show’s scenes of torture become too topical?

Nothing becomes a Baldwin more than slumming.

Geoffrey Rush, part penguin, part pratfall, a windmill with an identity crisis, is an inspired choice to play Sellers.

Malcolm in the Middle serves up sitcom with a subconscious�jazzy, satirical, and deeply, deeply weird.

You may be struck by how closely global capitalism resembles a pomo novel and a clandestine intelligence operation, with deep covers, false-bottomed narratives, and unreliable narrators.