Wednesday TV: Last Night of Sweeps, ‘Idol’ Finale
It used to be the biggest night of the TV season, let alone May sweeps (and the regular results show moves from Thursday to Wednesday to fit into it). But…
End Run in ‘Dancing’ Finale
In the end, the Super Bowl star beat the English soprano as Donald Driver became the fourth NFL star to win “Dancing with the Stars” Tuesday. It was a come…
An End to Housewife Desparation
“Desperate Housewives” (ABC, 10 p.m.) creator Marc Cherry knew how his series would end almost since it began. “The last act which I’ve had in my head for seven and…
On ‘Mad Men,’ Pete Goes for a Gilmore Girl
Pete Campbell, the oily cad on “Mad Men” has had a recekless romantic life on the series, unknowingly knocking up Peggy, going after a couple of younger girls despite a…
‘The Voice’ Chooses Its Final Four
Some reality shows shed their contestants drip by drip, but “The Voice” reaches its finalists by cutting the half its hopeful singers in one gulp. So the four judges who…
Good Knight, Gladys
L.A. proved too much for the gal. So she’s leaving the life she’s come to know. She said she’s goin’ back to find, Ooh, what’s left in her world, the…
If Only Roger Sterling Had Met Jack Webb
Who wears a suit to an acid trip? Until Roger Sterling on "Mad Men" Sunday, it was only Jack Webb on a classic episode of "Dragnet" from 1968. Had Roger…
Colton Cut from ‘Idol’
Colton Dixon, with the spiky 80s hair and the Christian rock roots, was the latest singer voted off “American Idol” Thursday, in a week when they claimed more than 53…
Tuesday TV: Could ‘Glee’ Kill Robin Gibb?
The poor guy is in a coma, all it could take is one small thing to send him beyond this life. Like "Glee" (Fox, 8 p.m.) doing a salute to…
Thursday TV: Sweet Sounds of Haiti
Through all its travails, its poverty, its natural disasters, one thing has kept the country going through the years: its music. Filmmaker Whitney Dow looks at the survival of a…