Monday TV: Unfollowing ‘The Following’
Talk about the wrong series for the wrong time. The high budget serial killer yarn "The Following" (Fox, 9 p.m.) features too many rooms of bloody bodies as it tries…
What’s on TV: Introducing Saturdays on a Sunday
Can't count the number of times the hottest acts of the UK have failed to make a spark in the U.S. Groups in general have had a problem. But in…
Monaghan’s ‘Wild Things’ a Tribute to Irwin
Dominic Monaghan, the British actor from "Lost" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, finds a new vocation tonight in hosting his own extreme animals series. "Wild Things with Dominic…
On ‘Ripper Street,’ Clothes Make the Man
The latest period piece for TV is "Ripper Street," which is more successful than the BBC America's last scripted show, "Copper," though it covers roughly the same time. "Ripper Street" (BBC…
New Road to TV Fame: The Podcast
The new road to TV fame may be that lowliest form of the internet age, the podcast. The latest comes tonight when "Stuff You Should Know" (Science, 10 p.m.) bringing…
Also On Saturday: Tot Mom Trial Movie
Besides maintaining a nifty comic turn on "Parks and Recreation," Rob Lowe is starting to become a go-to guy for pulpy Lifetime movies torn from tabloid headlines. After playing Drew…
Friday TV: A ‘Fringe’ Farewell, Maher’s Back
The trouble with shows that people get misty about at their end, is that they really felt this way about the series, they should have been watching earlier and more…
Armstrong Rides for Discovery Again
Though she's not a sports journalist, nor an investigator on the rank of those on "60 Minutes," which broke other parts of the story, Oprah Winfrey has acquired a reputation…
A New Invader to ‘Vegas’
If the first episodes of the CBS drama "Vegas" was about the arrival of East Coast mob forces into the wild west beginnings of a gambling town, it was the…
Thursday TV: ‘Legit,’ ‘Archer,’ More ‘Idol’
It's a tough sell to have a profane, inconsiderate lout be your main protagonist That's the case with Jim Jeffries, a comedian from Australia who I wasn't aware of, who has…