Review: 'Dirt'

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 Cox gives a seriously strong performance in the role of a tabloid editor. Watching the first... More »

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 show employed Avenue Q composers Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx to write the songs for the... More »

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 George Clooney with Fail Safe and Good Night, and Good Luck (but the jury's still... More »

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 Dale)? It looks like we may finally see them again once the series resumes in February. We're... More »

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 dominant and winning challenges galore. If Yul hadn't been in the game, I don't think Ozzy... More »

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). It was not supposed to be that way for Day Break -- for Day Break had... More »

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 new game show Identity, which kicks off Monday and runs for five straight nights. The network... More »

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 WORK THAT WAY." It's a line that perfectly encapsulates the first 12 episodes of what... More »

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 season two the Cohens welcomed Lindsay (who now?) into the family. And last season Ryan had... More »

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 will they, like me, miss the King Rat? Pre-credit sequence. Jonathan's hat has been hung in... More »