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The writers strike wreaked havoc all over the scripted-television landscape last season, but it may have been felt more acutely on ABC's Wednesday lineup than anyplace else.
The first time we see Chuck Bartowski this season, he's hanging upside down from a dangerously high spot, pleading with the bad guy holding his ankles not to let go.
Amy Ryan earned an Oscar nomination this year for her scarily intense performance in Gone Baby Gone, and she had some quietly devastating scenes in the final season of The Wire. And Thursday, she'll be striking silly gangsta poses with Michael Scott on The Office.
If you've had your television on NBC even a little bit in the past couple of weeks, you've probably heard about a certain Earl Hickey "going back to the list."
CBS' Gary Unmarried is one of those comedies appreciated more by the laugh track (or, if you want to be generous, the studio audience) than by critics.
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Like a lot of 11-year-old boys in the early 1980s, I was a fan of Knight Rider. Even my 11-year-old, uncritical brain realized, though, that a show about a super-intelligent car and its driver, fighting crime together, was a fairly thin premise.
Can we get something out of the way up-front about CBS' The Mentalist? It isn't really all that much like USA's Psych.
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It's been generally accepted in recent years that the most daring, thoughtful and provocative programming on TV airs on cable. It's also true that not many people, relatively speaking, watch those daring, thoughtful and provocative shows, wherever they might air.
Sunday (Sept. 21) night's 60th Annual Emmy Awards concluded two minutes early and I'm fairly certain that all 40 people with the patience to stick around to the end were mighty grateful.
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