Fallon Addresses His ‘Tonight’ Move, Sort Of
Leave it to my friend Bill Carter at The New York Times, the dean of late night TV chroniclers, to nail down the news Wednesday that not only would Jimmy…
‘Idol’ Contestants Meet the Beatles
Hey, "American Idol." If the Beatles were so revolutionary half a century ago, as your show intro insists, how come this competition is among solo acts and not bands? Beatles…
Wednesday TV: Spacey Doc, ‘Rip the Runway’
A night of space travel tonight on Turner Classic Movies begins with "For All Mankind" (8 p.m.), Al Reinert's 1989 documentary on the Apollo missions with most of the footage taken…
Tuesday TV: ‘Splash’ Down, ‘NCIS’ Spinoff
There may have been a particularly pronounced celebrity drain from "Dancing with the Stars" this year. But it's not because so many celebrities decided instead to do "Splash" (ABC, 8…
The Devil is Not Obama, Burnett Says
That skinny African in a hoodie that is the Devil in Mark Burnett's surprisingly popular miniseries "The Bible"? It's not meant to be President Obama. Despite what Glenn Beck and…
Vera Farmiga Tackles Norma Bates
Vera Farmiga, who won an Oscar nomination for her role opposite George Clooney in "Up in the Air" now takes to television to flesh out the previously skeletal character of…
‘Top of the Lake’ is Top-Notch TV
The best new show this spring is an original and disarming mystery shot in an unusual corner of New Zealand. "Top of the Lake" (Sundance, 9 p.m.) will also satisfy…
Also on Monday: New ‘Dancing,’ Tapper
After months of Monday nights with Sean Lowe as "The Bachelor," he returns again as the last addition to the "Dancing With the Stars" (ABC, 8 p.m.). As it happens,…
Opening the ‘Bates Motel’
It's generally a lazy idea to remake something in pop culture simply because young audiences are unlikely to seek out the vastly more accomplished original versions. "Psycho" was remade a…
Getting Past Vietnam on ‘Amazing Race’
It was a long divisive war in Southeast Asia that tore apart America half a century ago. But you can now officially declare that either its wounds have completely healed…