Dogged Winner for ‘Survivor’
From a final three that had the oldest average age than perhaps any in “Survivor” history, the tough therapist from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Denise Stapley,41, won the $1 million on…
Sunday TV: Finales for ‘Homeland,’ ‘Dexter,’ ‘Survivor’ and Bachelorhood
The one show this season that's seems to have captured the zeitgeist as well as any is “Homeland” (Showtime, 10 p.m.) which attempted the difficult task of forging a path…
‘SNL’ Holiday Edition: Martin Short, McCartney and a Cast of Thousands
"Saturday Night Live" is like college -- and has probably been running longer than some of them. Graduates return home, especially around holidays and they get a month long winter…
Theatre Review: Pajama Men
Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez likely honed their humor in back rows of classes in their Albuquerque, N.M., high school, goofing on the habits and vocal tones of teachers and…
Saturday TV: Jonah Hill Choices, $tones
It’s Jonah Hill night on premium cable as both “21 Jump Street” (Starz, 9 p.m.), the remake of the old series, with Channing Tatum; and “The Sitter” (Cinemax, 10 p.m.),…
Tears for Newtown
Do tragedies have to become more horrific for them to register at all? Already this week there had been one mass shooting in a mall, now the kind of thing…
Friday TV: ‘Winter in Portlandia’ Special, The Beatles’ ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ Unearthed
One of my favorite comedies is the funny and wryly observed “Portlandia” in which Fred Armisen of “Saturday Night Live” gets to be creative and funny in a way that…
Fiddling with Reality in Reality Shows
I was a little surprised to find I was on “ABC World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer” Thursday night, for even a couple of seconds. America’s leading reality TV blogger…
‘Homeland’ Leading Awards Categories
In the rush of nominations this week for awards next year, “Homeland” was an early, if predictable, front-runner, leading all of the Golden Globe nominees, announced this morning, with four,…
Thursday TV: New Soprano, Lotsa ‘Les Miz’
Lyric soprano Ailyn Perez, left, winner of this year’s Richard Tucker Award for young opera singers, is the focus of tonight’s “Live from Lincoln Center” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local…