FX, home of some of the most distinctive series on television, rings in 2007 with another show that looks and feels like almost nothing else on screen. Dirt is a stylish peek inside the sausage factory of celebrity, and Courteney... Continue reading »

A couple things are apparent in watching the teaser clips for the Scrubs musical episode next month. One, Donald Faison and Zach Braff probably shouldn't quit their day jobs to become singers. And two, that really isn't a problem. The... Continue reading »

Having already exhausted the Christmas spirit with its special episode in November, Monk will instead give this holiday season a taste of yesteryear with its black and white "film noir" episode (airing Dec. 22). Hey, the color scheme worked for... Continue reading »

Hey, remember at the end of last season, when Lost introduced Desmond's long-lost love Penny Widmore (played by Sonya Walger, who despite similar coloring and features is not current regular Elizabeth Mitchell) and her very probably nefarious dad Charles (Alan... Continue reading »

Ozzy and Yul were a fitting Top Two for this Survivor season, but the reason I endorse the eventual final vote is simple: If Ozzy hadn't been in the game, I think Yul would have been capable of being physically... Continue reading »

So it has come to pass that Day Break is done at ABC, making the broadcast networks 0-for-the-season in their attempts to put on a serialized crime drama (see also Kidnapped, Smith and Vanished, provided you can find them online).... Continue reading »

How good are you at reading people? Or, alternately, how deeply ingrained is your way of looking at and thinking about others? Those are the central questions -- pretty much the only ones, really -- NBC is asking in its... Continue reading »

Two-thirds of the way through the first season finale of Showtime's Dexter, the murder we've come to know as the Ice Truck Killer addresses Michael C. Hall's Dexter and bellows, "You can't be a killer and a hero... IT DOESN'T... Continue reading »

Chrismukkah has always been very good to The O.C., which is appropriate since The O.C. has been spectacularly good to Chrismukkah. In season one, viewers got Summer in a Wonder Woman outfit (Yay!) and the introduction of Oliver (Boo!). In... Continue reading »

Well, everybody got what they wanted on last week's episode of Survivor: Cook Island. Jonathan, the season's most effectively competitive (and unquestionably obnoxious) player, was voted out. Will everybody be happier in his absence on Thursday's (Dec. 14) episode? Or... Continue reading »