Smits Returns for ‘Outlaw’
Jimmy Smits returns to network TV not as President, as he did at the end of “The West Wing,” but as a Supreme Court justice who up and quits. The…
Fall TV Preview: Tuesdays
We’re covering the new fall TV season day by day all week. Here’s what’s on tap Tuesdays this fall. NEW SHOWS “No Ordinary Family”(ABC, 8 p.m., starts Sept. 21)…
‘Parenthood’ Finds a Pace
“Parenthood” returned for its second season Tuesday and since its rocky start last spring, when just 13 episodes aired after a production delay and executive producer Jason Katims says he…
Behind Dax Shepard’s ‘Parenthood’ Tattoo
For “Parenthood” costar Dax Shepard, who came to show business through hosting “Punked,” he’s been able to flex a big tree-like tattoo that seems to fit in with the show’s…
Fall TV Preview: Mondays
By and large, it won’t get started for another week, but we’d thought we’d begin the process in surveying the new fall TV season, night by night this week.…
Taylor vs. Kanye at the VMAs: In Song
You know this isn’t anywhere near the best MTV Video Music Awards, as some backstage twerp was insisting, if the biggest part of the show Sunday came in responding to…
When Hate Hijacks the News
I’m supposed to help spread the word about a peace march my Quaker Meeting is putting on in a couple of weeks. Hmm. What chance do we have in attracting…
‘Stand Up’ to Sour Notes
When it first appeared a couple of years ago (also on the same of the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon), “Stand Up 2 Cancer” seemed a sleek, succinct way to raise…
Playlist 9-9-10
Started with some old soul. Then, the death of a former ELO cellist from a freak accident -- his van was hit by a runaway 700-pound hay bale -- leads…
‘Nikita’ Star Learning American Action
“I’ve done action movies,” Maggie Q, the striking star of “Nikita” says. “I have never done TV, but we’ve never done an action-television show, which is a whole other deal.”…