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Is it time to cancel these ancient TV shows?
With the new television season set to premiere next week, everyone is talking about the new shows — hoping that even a fraction of them have the tremendous good fortune...
What TV networks get so wrong
With the most cynical, unimaginative fall lineup in seasons upon us, it would seem that the broadcast networks have just given up. Even as Netflix makes international inroads with “Narcos”...
Don't miss these 3 season finales
"Modern Family" Wednesday, 9 p.m., ABC Claire (Julie Bowen) gets a job offer from a big hotel chain, but she can’t tell whether or not her dad (Ed O’Neill) cares...
Stallone's 'Expendables’ moving to Fox as an 'event series'
Sylvester Stallone’s “Expendables” franchise is moving to TV with an event series in the works at Fox, deadline.com reports. Like the hit movies, “The Expendables” series will unite iconic TV...
'Sniper' and 'NCIS' success shows how out of touch media is
In just two months, “American Sniper” has become the first movie in ages to rise to the level of cultural phenomenon — in part because its success caught everybody by...
Meet Zoey Tur, TV's first transgender news reporter
Meet Zoey Tur of “Inside Edition” — the country’s first transgender TV news reporter. Prior to her reassignment surgery, Zoey, 54, was Bob Tur, an acclaimed LA news chopper pilot...
Terrible TV accents that'll make you reach for the earplugs
Having the training to sustain an accent over the course of a series has done wonders for the careers of actors like Hugh Laurie and Ruth Wilson, who fooled a...
'NCIS: New Orleans’ star Bakula is on TV’s most-wanted list
Scott Bakula is having the best year of his career. His new CBS drama “NCIS: New Orleans” is one of the few bona fide hits of the season, and Bakula...
Contestants are back to face the judges in 'American Idol' Season 14
1. DOWNTON ABBEY Sunday, 9 p.m., PBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryOljf976FA The most-watched show in PBS history returns for its fifth season, with plenty of intrigue on the horizon. As the season begins,...
Watch Miss Piggy and the 'Peanuts' gang this week
1. Brooklyn Nine-Nine Sunday, 8:30 p.m., Fox Jake (Andy Samberg) and Charles’ (Joe Lo Truglio) bromance starts to crack when they volunteer for an eight-day stakeout in very close quarters....
NBC gives Messing's 'Laura' full-season order
NBC has given Debra Messing’s new drama “The Mysteries of Laura” a full-season order. “Laura” has averaged 10.4 million viewers Wednesdays at 8 p.m. through its first six episodes. Late...
Costumes, costumes and more costumes on TV this week
1. Black-ish Wednesday, 9:30 p.m., ABC Maybe the best Halloween costumes of the week. Dre (Anthony Anderson) has a hard time convincing his two eldest children that they’re too old...
Grading TV's new fall shows: the early winners and losers
We’re only one month into the new TV season — an eternity in this dog-eat-dog environment. Early on, it’s already apparent that several new shows have energized the prime-time landscape,...
8 returning shows to watch this week
1. Blue Bloods Friday, 10 p.m., CBS Very few TV stars have had a career as stellar as Tom Selleck’s. And “Blue Bloods” showed him in a new light, as...
Scott Bakula lands in New Orleans for 'NCIS' spinoff
“NCIS: New Orleans” Tuesday at 9 p.m. on CBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO1UepIr_Xw In the second spinoff of this veteran franchise, special agent Dwayne Pride (Scott Bakula) leads the local field office investigating...
Five fresh fall TV faces
Who are the new stars of the fall season? Every year, people covering the debuts of series on the major broadcast networks try to predict which actors will be embraced...
Scott Bakula wants you to know how to pronounce his name
New CBS-TV series “NCIS: New Orleans” premieres the 23rd. It stars Scott Bakula.
A big stink over a CBS hippo
Is Bert the Farting Hippo — the flatulent puppet and “NCIS” mascot — intellectual property? The whole idea may smell funny to you, but not to Folkmanis, the Emeryville, Calif.,...
Wickersham on a role as ‘NCIS’ newbie
Emily Wickersham knew she had big shoes to fill when she joined the cast of “NCIS” early last season following the departure of Cote de Pablo. But, she says, her...
5 music artists who’ve taken over television
Fans of “Sons of Anarchy” were stunned Tuesday to hear that Hole singer (and Kurt Cobain’s widow) Courtney Love had been cast as a preschoolteacher for the seventh and final...