Monthly Archives: March 2012

Bad enough that “Jersey Shore” is preparing a fifth season. Now there are variations of the show, concentrating on dress shops and beauty parlors of the Garden State. Mostly, it’s led to a kind of character category, like the two Long Island guys who were just eliminated on “The Amazing Race.” Now here’s another New [...]

I’ve done my best to obtain early looks at most of what’s reviewed in this blog, but failed utterly to get on the mailing list for “Mad Men” (AMC, 9 p.m.). I like to think I was there on the ground floor, giving a rave before the first episode, getting to know the cast at [...]

The advent of the fifth season of “Mad Men” also makes more bittersweet the finale of “Luck” (HBO, 9 p.m.), which, has been building in strength and urgency in the last couple of episodes. Now with a culminating race, all of the characters are thrown into the drama. What’s missing is still some interaction among [...]

A cable staple retools for a network presentation, albeit one that plays in the afternoon. The new “Ball Boys” (ABC, 3 p.m.) is right along the lines of “Pawn Stars,” and is in fact from the same producers. In this case, it’s an all-sports memorabilia shop called Robbie’s First Base, located in in Lutherville, Md., [...]

Those missing “The Bachelor” can check in on the two hour season finale of “Sweet Home Alabama” (CMT, 9 p.m.) in which a Southern belle named Paige Duke, right, decides between her two finalists. As in “The Bachelor,” she’s a reject from a previous season (having trouble landing a guy named Tribble, as it happened). [...]