Thursday TV: ‘Secret Circle’ Accompanies ‘Vampire Diaries’ Return
Bummers all around to start the new series “The Secret Circle” (The CW, 9 p.m.), Cassie spins out in a car wreck about the same time her mom is killed…
Retreads Clean Up On ‘Big Brother’ Finale
What would be worse – that awful laugh by returning redhead Rachel Reilly, lording over her win; or that clownish crying that followed her every failure? In the end, she…
Cornrowed Crooner Takes ‘America’s Got Talent’
“America’s Got Talent” viewers are suckers for a strong voice, with vocalists winning most seasons of the summer talent show. This year was no exception, as the last singer in…
Father of Pop Art
Richard Hamilton, whose death was announced this week in England at 89, may have been one of the first pop artists. His playful 1956 collage, “Just What Is It That…
Wednesday TV: A Fall Hit: ‘Up All Night’
With a half dozen new and returning shows tonight, you might be fooled into thinking that the fall season is here on broadcast TV. It certainly has one of the…
Tuesday TV: New ‘Ringer’; ‘90210,’ ‘Parenthood’ Return
The first new network show of the fall broadcast season brings Sarah Michelle Geller back as twin sisters in “Ringer” (CW, 9 p.m.). The ne’er do well sister takes her…
‘Empire’ Already an Emmy Winner
Days before the big TV event, most of this year’s Emmys have already been handed out. True, most of the Creative Arts Emmys, as they are called, are technical in…
‘Spartucus’ Star Dead at 39
As star of“ Spartucus: Blood and Sand,” he easily vanquished squadrons of foes. But actor Andy Whitfield could not in the end win the battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He died…
How the Comics Page Marked 9/11
It’s always a bit worrying to find that all of the Sunday comic artists have agreed to have a similar theme for a day’s strips. It happens naturally on Christmas,…
Monday TV: Gaga with Gaultier, ‘Pad’ Ends
The networks’ fall TV season by and large begins next week, but The CW tries to get some attention once more by starting a bit early. They begin with a…