Latest to pin down fall debut dates: CBS. The new comedy 2 Broke Girls gets a big Monday night curiosity tune-in following Ashton Kutcher's arrival on Two and a Half Men, while The Good Wife moves to Sunday following The Amazing Race and leading in to CSI: Miami. (Big question: Why?...)

2011

Jun

WEIRD & WILD: 'BATMAN' GOES BONK! By Diane Werts

And THWAP! And KA-POW! The campy '60s sensation has become a nightly ritual at our house. The 11:30 p.m. ET airing of Batman on cable channel The Hub is a pretty swell way to end the day -- the deadpan delirium of title star Adam West, the funky parade of movie stars playing silly villains in comic book adventures...

2011

Jun

WEEKEND MARATHONS: 'TRUE BLOOD,' 'THE KILLING' By Diane Werts

Feeling behind the curve on some of the tube's coolest series? Settle in for some quick weekend catch-up on top titles from HBO and AMC. "True Blood" races through the entirety of its first three seasons before Season 4 kicks off...Tune to HBO Zone for nonstop immersion in the vampires, werewolves and other odd inhabitants of Bon Temps, Louisiana.

2011

Jun

SUMMER TV: NEW SERIES PREVIEW By Diane Werts

The-Protector-Ally-Walker.jpg NBC just announced it's burning off the previous-regime sitcom Friends With Benefits starting June 25. (And yes, that's a Saturday, which tells you what the current regime thinks of the show.) This also reminds me that I'm waaaay late in posting a list of summer programs on the networks and cable channels, so you know what to look forward to (or avoid).

2011

Jun

TRIBUTE: 'GUNSMOKE' WEEKEND MARATHON By Diane Werts

gunsmoke-arness-curtis.jpgJames Arness isn't just prime time's Iron Man in terms of playing a classic character for the longest time, as Bianculli noted earlier this week. Arness also remains perhaps TV's most enduring man, as proven by the ubiquity of his Marshal DIllon western Gunsmoke -- still airing on not one but two cable channels, nearly 40 years after its original run...

2011

May

RATINGS: NETWORK SHOWS' 2010-11 SEASON RANK By Diane Werts

So how did your favorite broadcast series do this past season? The folks at must-read site "Deadline Hollywood" have posted the entire Nielsen rankings list for 2010-11 -- that's 141 shows/time slots -- with results reported in both total viewers and the ad game's key age 18-49 demographic...

2011

May

MEMORIAL DAY: MILITARY MOVIES, SHOWS, MORE By Diane Werts

Hollywood has always found ways to honor those who gave their lives for us -- even sometimes in stories that wonder about war in the first place. This Memorial Day weekend is filled with military films on Turner Classic Movies, Fox Movie Channel and AMC, among others. You'll also find TV shows like "M*A*S*H", documentaries like "Gettysburg"...

2011

May

FLICK PICKS: IN THE SWIM! By Diane Werts

Michael Phelps hasn't done it. Mark Spitz didn't do it. But Esther Williams turned swimming talent into movie superstardom at the height of the Hollywood studio system. This month, Turner Classic Movies revisits that singular achievement...

2011

May

NEWS FLASH: BIN LADEN WRAPUP SPECIALS By Diane Werts

UPDATE: Our good friend Jaime Weinman notes that both "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" are in originals and doubtless writing about this topic as I type...TV networks are playing catchup Monday on the big news that broke late Sunday night, extending nightly newscasts to further report on the killing of Osama bin Laden...

2011

Apr

SWITCHEROO: FOX BOWS TO GOOD TASTE By Diane Werts

Hope you weren't looking forward to Sunday's Fox Animation Domination three-way crossover stunt. It is no more. It has ceased to be. At least until next season...

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Diane Werts

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Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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