I’m sticking with Dollhouse. I do not blame you if you are not. I’m sticking with it because, despite an unfortunately-cast lead and a possibly-impossible premise, Joss Whedon’s playing with some interesting ideas and I want to see what he might do with them, on the basis of his past work. You may not [...]

Monty Brinton/CBS …such as it is. While a number of shows are returning tonight, there’s only one new show, par for the course in this strike-deprived fall: CBS’s sitcom Worst Week. Based on a British comedy, it’s the type of show that’s virtually unreviewable on the basis of one pilot episode. In a nutshell, it’s [...]

HBO LATINO If True Blood isn’t doing it for you, you have one other HBO drama option while you (or at least I) anxiously await the return of Big Love next year. Capadocia, a Mexican-produced drama set in a women’s prison, debuts tonight on HBO Latino, with English captions for the no-habla-ing among us. The [...]

Mackey’s back in town. / Prashant Gupta / FX Lots of TV on television tonight beyond the on-again Republican National Convention. First, and least threatening to President Bush’s demographic, is The CW’s remake of 90210, which the network did not send to critics in advance, presumably for fear we would be blinded by its sheer [...]

If you’re like me, no housing crash can suppress your obsession with the real-estate market and the TV shows that chronicle it. If you’re not like me—and you’re not—well, it’s August, so you may want to watch the return of Bravo’s real-esate reality saga, Million-Dollar Listing. I hear the price was just slashed to a [...]

On deadline today, so I haven’t had time to write up A&E’s The Cleaner, with Benjamin Bratt. But trust me, the less I write about this baby the happier everyone will be. An overwrought drama about a man who helps addicts get straight as part of a deal with God, it’s part Intervention, part Saving [...]

Borrowers’ temporary families. / NBC According to The Media and Society, you are Very Concerned about the Suddenly Pressing Topic of Teen Pregnancy. Perhaps you are concerned because of this. Or this. Or this. Or this. Or even this. Whatever the cause, it would take a very dull TV executive not to connect all these [...]

Garrity (Steve Pasquale) tries to stick to a fast in an upcoming minisode. / FX Remember Rescue Me? FX must be a little worried that by the time Denis Leary’s fireman ensemble returns next year, you’ll have plain forgotten it. To that end, the channel debuts the first of a summer series of roughly five-minute [...]

A quick reminder that tonight is The Riches‘ season finale. Or maybe a better term than “finale” is “the last episode they were able to finish, thanks to the strike.” Like AMC’s Breaking Bad, The Riches had its season order arbitrarily cut, to seven episodes. (This is the one episode of season 2 I haven’t [...]

On duty in the Persian Gulf. / PBS This week, PBS is airing what—if it had run it one hour a week like most networks do—would be called a reality or documentary series, Carrier, about life on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. Instead, airing two hours a night for five nights most places (check local [...]