Don DeLillo Visits the National Book Festival
Nothing like giving out an impressively titled award to bring out a reluctant star. TV awards shows do it all the time, giving some oddly named lifetime achievement award out…
Saturday TV: Creative Emmys First
Last Sunday night's Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards (FXX, 9 p.m.) gets an airing on cable, on the recently splintered FX station, giving hints on how tomorrow night's Emmys will…
Friday TV: Shakespearean King Procession
"Let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings," Richard II said in Shakespeare's play of the same name. That's the idea, too, behind…
Mailbag: Of ‘Doc Martin’ and ‘Snorky’
A friend writes: This summer I watched 39 episodes of "Doc Martin" and am totally hooked on the series. I know that the 6th series is now showing in Britain and am…
Thursday TV: ‘Million Second’ Winner
The 10 day game show experiment "Million Second Quiz" (NBC, 8 p.m.)comes to a close with its own 7,200 second finale (that is to say, two hours). Ryan Seacrest names…
Andy Wins ‘Big Bro,’ Elissa Fan Favorite
Andy Herren, the young redheaded professor from Chicago, ended up winning "Big Brother" Wednesday, in a 7-2 vote among the jury that was no contest. Though he had befriended and…
Shootout at ‘The Bridge’
Sorry if there's less enthusiasm than usual for the usual shoot-em-up conclusions to TV dramas. Doesn't it seem that this is too easy a solution in American television? Days after…
Going After Loved Ones on ‘Survivor’
It's been common in recent years for "Survivor" to bring back former players to compete against new ones. For season 27, which started Wednesday, it's half and half, as 10 former…
Wednesday TV: ‘Survivor’ In, ‘Brother’ Out
One of the better episodes each season on "Survivor" (CBS, 8 p.m.) is the ones where loved ones come visit and maybe help compete in a challenge. The whole of…
Rockin’ with Dan Baird at the Iota
Amid a blistering rock 'n' roll performance by Dan Baird and Homemade Sin among other grey hairs holding a torch, one must wonder: Where has Baird been all these years?…