It sounds like the concept for a romantic comedy. A pair of divorced actors, both of them long in the tooth and carrying a few extra pounds, each get a comeback on separate shows on a youth-oriented network, opposite much younger actors. They’re so close, yet so far, separated only by their time slots. Then [...]

If you haven’t watched the premiere of Survivor: Guatemala and don’t want to know this season’s twist, stop reading. If you watched, I hope you’re as offended as I am. As promised, two past players returned to join the new tribes: they turned out to be the two last players standing from the decimated tribe [...]

This is as good a time as any to discuss the spoiler policy of this blog. It used to be that once a TV show aired, whoever wanted to watch it, had. But, as David Bianculli recently discussed in the New York Daily News, we live in the era of time-shifting. People use TiVo, they [...]

If there were a special Emmy award for Acting That Is Much Better Than the Series Being Acted In, there would be some excellent entries this season. Fox’s Bones, which debuted last night, is an inexcusably cheesy CSI ripoff. But Emily Deschanel gives an unnecessarily honest, striking performance as a brusque scientist who is great [...]