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Anthony Edwards returns to series TV for the first time since “ER” with a a quasi “DaVinci Code” saga about ancient secrets, suppressed histories and murderous kidnappers in the new network series “Zero Hour” (ABC, 8 p.m.). It has the ambitious feel of a Hollywood B-movie and spares no expense on international-looking set design (or [...]

Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” begins with a shipwreck, with its passengers washing ashore on a strange island before the romantic comedy of errors and cross dressing begins. But for the Taffety Punk version of the play, they linger a little longer in the water, or a world between the deep and the shore. Nobody speaks those delicious [...]

Black History month gets a quick start with The 44th NAACP Image Awards (NBC, 8 p.m.). The event, held live from Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, honors standouts in the entertainment field. Steve Harvey hosts; Wyclef and Common are to perform. Among those to receive special awards are Vice Admiral Michelle Howard, and “Scandal” actress [...]

For what started as another “American Idol” copycat show, “The Voice” has certainly been influential in reality TV, inspiring first the dating show variation “The Choice” and now the cooking competition “The Taste” (ABC, 9 p.m.). It works the same way – blind sampling and pressing a button. But what taste test isn’t blind? Do [...]

The title of Annie Baker’s play at Studio Theatre, “The Aliens,” has nothing to do with either immigration or science fiction. Rather, it is one of dozens of proposed names for a band that a couple of pals named K.J. and Jasper never quite got around to forming. So, now approaching their 30s, sporting scraggly [...]

They were those kind of shows that would stand out among thousands in late night. Both “Late Night with David Letterman” and “Late Show with Jimmy Fallon” chose to go on with their shows, shot in the afternoons, on Monday though they closed them to audiences in an effort to comply with requests for people [...]

After just two episode, “Made in Jersey” is swimming with the fishes. The CBS legal procedural with a supposed Jersey Girl as lawyer starred Janet Montgomery, a British actress with just the slightest bump in her hair to show her N.J. roots. Unfortunately there was no such bump in the ratings. The Friday night saga [...]

So as to not sully the more glamorous awards to be given out next Sunday, the Creative Arts Emmys Sunday went to the technical awards that make TV’s best shows so good looking. Does it portend to what will win next week? Who knows. But for now, “Game of Thrones” seemed to lead with six [...]