Bigger Dance Floor, Smaller Skills
The 12th season of “Dancing with the Stars,” they’ve moved into a huge, barn-like studio, with a big wide floor, an orchestra that can be pneumatically lifted from the ground…
Kelso Does ‘Two and a Half Men’
There was a bit of wicked glee in the much-anticipated season premiere of “Two and a Half Men” Monday. Creator Chuck Lorre not just fired Charlie Sheen earlier this year,…
Falcons Beat Flyers, Emmys, too
The Sunday Night Football game in which Atlanta beat Philadelphia, clobbered the 62nd annual primetime Emmys Sunday night. Some 21.5 million watched the game on NBC’s Sunday Night Football, while…
The New Fall Season: A Yawn and A Few Laughs
Today’s the official start to the new fall season on network television, and while a few shows have already premiered (mostly on The CW), slightly more than two dozen new…
The New Fall Season: Mondays
Broadcast networks roll out their new (and returning) shows tonight as the fall TV season officially begins. Here's the first in a nightly look at what they'll have to offer.…
Monday TV: New ‘Man,’ Sheen Roast, More ‘Dancing’
Amid the new shows on tonight (see the Fall TV Preview: Monday) one of the biggest events will be the return of “Two and a Half Men” (CBS, 9 p.m.),…
‘Modern Family,’ ‘Mad Men’ Repeat as Emmy Winners
“Modern Family” swept the Emmys Sunday night in a way that few other comedies ever have; while the drama category splintered between a number of shows, with “Mad Men” taking…
Sunday TV: Emmys and a New ‘Breaking Bad’
Jane Lynch tries to cut down the Sue Sylvester smarm sufficient to host The 63rd Annual Primetime Emmys (Fox, 8 p.m.), an event which will shake us out of our…
Marshall Crenshaw at the Birchmere
Marshall Crenshaw’s gig at the Birchmere Friday was billed as a 30th anniversary of his first recording. But it wasn’t his stellar self-titled Warner Bros. album debut it referred to;…
Saturday TV: Hallmark Prequel, Celebrity Nightmares
The new TV movie “Love Begins” (Hallmark, 9 p.m.) is a prequel to the “Love Takes Wing” (Hallmark, 7 p.m.), which nonetheless precedes it. It moves a little stiffly, with…