"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…
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…
There were spools of dramatic period newsreel film to fill Ken Burns four-hour, two night documentary on "The Dust Bowl," which begins tonight on PBS. All of it, it seems,…
There is no mistaking that there is some great television on tonight regarding contemporary global counterterrrosism. But its name is “Homeland” (Showtime, 9 p.m.). That complex and fictional series is…
Networks that sour on TV pilots they’ve dumped a lot of money into are usually satisfied with burying them very deeply in vaults, pretending they never green lit them to…
The comic possibilities of Mitt Romney’s campaign are so rich, you might think the cast of “Saturday Night Live” may all end up voting for him just to keep the…
At 38, “Saturday Night Live” has long since aged beyond its target demographic. At the start of a new season Saturday, it showed it in a very precarious spot. The…
Every fall I spend opening day of daytime surveying the new shows, wondering anew what it is that keeps people watching any daytime shows. The new contenders this year were…
Fans of “Gilmore Girls” can take heart in more than reruns and Alex Bledel popping up on “Mad Men.” The show’s spirit has been virtually resuscitated in a new series…
Among its other uses, Memorial Day is a time to mark summer’s start, when people spend less time with their TV shows, networks take off their best shows, fill time…