The Year in Review: Daniel defends the indefensible

2007 was a wacky television year. How wacky was it? After calling for a mandatory boycott of AMC several years ago -- something about their pan-and-scan butchery of movies and their callous disregard for the word "classic" -- I was forced to crawl back to the network for Mad Men, perhaps the season's finest new scripted drama. More »

Weird year, 2007. It began with the public immolation of Grey's Anatomy star Isaiah Washington and ended with the possible immolation of TV as we know it. In between came the greatest fade to black of all time, the twee-est TV show ever to earn a full-season pickup and all kinds of really good (and some really bad) television.

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Pushing Daisies immediately proved itself worthy of being afforded the same special "Lost Rules" treatment.

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One year ago, I had only just joined the Zap2it team. "Veronica Mars" was still around, "Lost" seemed like a lost cause and the idea of year-round television was iffy enough that I started plotting the Great American Novel. As for the fall season, well gosh, good thing we had the writers merrily crafting established blockbusters to make up for what would surely be a crop of weak new offerings.

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Okay, so technically a yearbook comes out just before summer, but I couldn't resist attacking those ever-popular superlatives that pigeonhole students (or in this case, shows) for all of perpetuity. Although I did adhere to a few of the traditional categories (Best Couple, Class Clown), I also utilized a few creative additions of my own.

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As 2007 moves toward its conclusion, the days are getting shorter, the nights are getting colder and the amount of tangible entertainment news is dwindling. That can only mean one thing: It's time to present Zap2it's Second Annual List of TV's Most Underrated Performers. More »

I'm kind of late to the party on this, but as my anticipation builds for the fifth and final season of The Wire, I'm scrambling to find anything to meet my Omar-Bunk-McNulty-Marlo jones.

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It's a chilly day in Burbank as eager journalists wait outside NBC's studio lot for the first glimpse of not one, not two, but three cars that will play KITT in the upcoming Knight Rider TV movie sequel. More »

Despite learning a lot on America's Next Top Model, Bianca Golden was eliminated on Wednesday's show for not being enough of a "natural" when it came to posing for photos. More »

As I was screening the 300th episode of ER that airs Thursday, I started thinking about the enormous influence the show has had on television.

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