Tonight is an evening of imports. First up is “Kath and Kim,” inspired by an Australian sitcom of the same name, debuting at 8:30 p.m. on NBC. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false;… Read More
Timing really is everything. If there weren’t a strike by the Writers’ Guild, would a TV series based on a moribund movie franchise that starred the governor of California ever get serious consideration? googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
“Quiet on the set, quiet on the set,” Kim Saucier shouted, trying to hush the 10 pizza-devouring teenagers gathered in her living room to watch last week’s episode of the Fox reality series “On the Lot.” Saucier, a video production teacher at Hermon High School,… Read More
One show premiering tonight appears fresh, while the other seems familiar. The better of the two is “Heist.” A caper series, it centers on a group of professional thieves who are plotting to simultaneously rob three Beverly Hills jewelry stores during Academy Awards week. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
It’s fire-sale time at The WB. With next fall’s advent of The CW, each new series is competing not only against every other show on the WB, but also each one on UPN as well. This means that the snowball’s chance in hell that new… Read More
Booze. Drugs. Rock ‘n’ roll. Not necessarily in that order, and not exactly what a mom wants for her 15-year-old. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i… Read More
“Timber” Tina Scheer may get a chance to put some of her lumberjill skills to the test when she’s surviving in the rainforests of Panama on the new season of “Survivor,” which premieres at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, on CBS. Scheer, the owner and… Read More
The Rev. Daniel Webster thought things couldn’t get much worse after he bailed his 16-year-old daughter out of jail for selling – but not smoking – marijuana. So, when his brother-in-law disappears with the $3 million earmarked for a school, the Episcopal priest seeks help not from God,… Read More
For the third time ever in its six seasons, the popular home-makeover show comes to Maine. The difference this time is that “Portland: Doe Lane” features two semipublic figures, the morning anchor team of John Hopperstad and Vivian Bean, and their respective spouses, all of… Read More
The most valuable thing that premium cable channels bring to the TV landscape is the ability of their original programming to tackle hot-button issues, such as organized crime, drugs and homosexuality. Subscribers to HBO and Showtime know what they’re getting, which is generally fare that’s too edgy for… Read More
Maybe, at some point, “Father of the Pride,” which debuts at 9:30 tonight on NBC, seemed like a good concept. Just take DreamWorks Animation, arguably the hottest studio in town thanks to the “Shrek” franchise, and turn its CGI artists loose on the many animals… Read More
The best new drama so far in the fledgling fall TV season is “Alias,” debuting at 9-10:06 p.m. Sunday on ABC, without commercial interruption. “Alias” is the baby of J.J. Abrams, who also created the teen soaper “Felicity.” But his new heroine is no curly-haired,… Read More
Showtime’s new series offering, “Leap Years,” seeks innovation but falls flatly into gimmickry. The drama, which debuts at 10 p.m. Sunday, follows the lives of five New Yorkers not just in the present, but also in 1993 and 2008. (It airs regularly at 10:45 p.m. Read More
With the networks largely content to fill up their summer schedules with reruns and burnoffs of unused and unwanted programming, it’s a good time to turn to the cable channels for original series. TNT, which has taken tentative steps when it comes to original shows,… Read More