NBC's upfront presentation lasted an hour and 45 minutes, but almost all of the important messages had to be decoded in a kind of subtext - some intended, others not and requiring a more trained eye t…
"Family Tree" bears rather disappointing fruit, so droll and dry as to be nearly taste-free, with only the occasional hint of bite.
The particulars of "Crowd Rules" - an especially cheap gameshow, which is kind of amusing amid all the high-stakes finance on CNBC - are less interesting than the idea, and the business-news channel b…
Beyond their good works, Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel's TV showcase helped simplify film criticism, bringing a gladiatorial thumbs-up or thumbs-down ruthlessness to such analysis. It was also a handy m…
For the hardy few to whom "Beverly Lewis' The Confession" really is the much-anticipated sequel to "The Shunning," its arrival is no doubt good news. To the rest of the world, this Hallmark Channel mo…
Howard Kurtz referred to his own work as "sloppy and inexcusable," and acknowledged that as a media critic, he should be held to a higher standard. So was his on-air mea culpa an act of refreshing tra…
PBS has demonstrated it can compete in the rough-and-tumble of primetime with the breakthrough success of "Downton Abbey." Yet that only makes it easier to forget how against the grain public…
The best part about “Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck” comes at the very end, when viewers are informed the producer/executive got to see the finished film three day…
Sweeps periods aren't what they used to be, back in the old days when networks loaded up May with big miniseries, and stations resorted to the trashiest of come-ons seeking to entice viewers to…
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings recently donned his Carnac the Magnificent hat, predicting apps will gradually replace networks, and traditional TV channels "that fail to develop first-class apps will lose…
