Photo: Sergei Bachlakov/The CW A reminder, to anyone who still needs one, to catch the season’s best comedy and best action show, Reaper, on The CW. If I have one complaint–and I always have one complaint–it’s that I don’t know if this sweet and hilarious show has the bigger themes and depth of characters to [...]

It’s fall premiere season, yet all I want to do is write about car commercials. (Maybe because I’m in the middle of buying one of these. Warning: does not actually transform.) This morning I complained about Nissan using a Clash song to sell the new Rogue during Heroes (scroll down). So why did that bug [...]

They’re not just kids; they’re human shields. Doug Hyun / HBO What’s more destructive to a relationship? Is it infidelity? Is it children? Or could it be… TiVo? If TV, after all, is the perfect tool for conversation-avoidance for a troubled couple, then TiVo promises to raise the medium to new heights of efficient, commercial-free, [...]

Roberto D’Este/CBS “Sugar is the new oil,” says rum-family scion Alex (Jimmy Smits) on CBS’s Cane. Which is a not so subtle way of trying to tell the viewer, “Cane is the new Dallas.” It’s not, but let’s indulge them for a minute and continue the parallel. It’s also a rich-family saga, but in this [...]

NBC Photo: Michael Yarish Big round of new-series and returning-shows premieres last night (see below for the Heroes thread). I reviewed some yesterday; now it’s your turn. Did Chuck suck? Should Journeyman… um… returneyman? I don’t have any rhymes for The Big Bang Theory or How I Met Your Mother, but you get the point. [...]