The CW Closes Upfronts, Adds a Day
The CW ended a week of upfronts with something the other networks couldn’t offer — an extra night of shows. Since it began 12 years ago as a merger of…
Thursday: Finales for ‘Gotham,’ Six Others
Another seven shows have season finales — happy ones though, since they’re all coming back next season. After tonight, there’s just one more season of “Gotham” (Fox, 8 p.m.), so…
CBS Upfronts: Looks Familiar
CBS unveiled eight new shows for advertisers at its upfronts Wednesday, though at least two of them seemed like retreads. New versions of “Murphy Brown” and “Magnum P.I.” will both…
Wednesday TV: Finales and Royal Fuss
It’s all about season finales and the ramp-up to the royal wedding tonight. For its last episode, “Designated Survivor” (ABC, 10 p.m.) could have devised a neat ending to its…
ABC Upfronts: Four New Fall Shows
ABC began its upfront presentation Tuesday crowing about having the No. 1 show for the first time in a dozen years and then suggested a drinking game every time they…
Tuesday TV: Say Goodbye to ‘New Girl’
“New Girl” (Fox, 9 p.m.) ends its super short seventh and final season with a one hour series finale in which Zooey Deschanel and Jake Johnson’s characters Jess and Nick…
David Byrne Innovates at The Anthem
David Byrne has always been as interested in visual art as in music. So his tours with the Taking Heads became increasingly more creative performance pieces with the herky, jerky…
Fox Upfronts: Make Way for Football
At Fox, football is the new “American Idol.” Instead of scheduling around its onetime singing contest behemoth as it once did, now it’s all about using its acquisition of Thursday…
NBC Upfronts: Three New Fall Shows
NBC began the annual week of network upfronts, when broadcasters announce new shows and unveil fall schedules in hopes of locking down advertisers, in a manner that many networks will…
Monday TV: Last Glimpse of ‘Lucifer’
It’s that time of year when networks make decisions of what shows stay and which ones go. And all of a sudden, what would have been merely the third season…