SEASON FINALE: Tonight, the verdict is in on the case – but the verdict on American Crime is in already. It’s been renewed, and will return with a different story and cast, as seems to be all the rage these days.

2015

May

LOUIE By David Bianculli

This week’s episode is another one featuring Ursula Parker as Jane, one of Louis C.K.’s TV daughters. Tonight, she hosts a sleepover – which means Louie does, too.

2015

May

LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guests on this fifth-to-last Late Show with David Letterman are actor/filmmaker George Clooney and musician Tom Waits. Letterman waited until now to invite Clooney, and Tom Waits for no man…

2015

May

CW'S NEW FALL 2015 SHOWS: FIRST IMPRESSIONS By David Bianculli

The CW, so pleased with last year’s development season, is introducing only one new series for fall. It’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and originally was developed for Showtime…

2015

May

MAD MEN MARATHON By David Bianculli

As a multi-day, every-episode warm-up to Sunday’s finale of Mad Men, AMC is presenting a mega-marathon, showing every episode of the series, in order, beginning with the Season 1 premiere episode, televised tonight at 6 p.m. ET. Don Draper keeps running – and, as in the opening credits, falling – all the way to Sunday’s 10 p.m. ET wrap-up.

2015

May

THE MIDDLE By David Bianculli

It’s not quite Boyhood, but on this series, we’ve seen the kids grow quite a lot – and that includes Sue (Eden Sher), who, over the years, has lost her braces and gained her confidence. Tonight, in the Season 6 finale of The Middle, she graduates from high school.

2015

May

AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: The news is out that next year will be the last for American Idol. That gives this penultimate Idol crowning a bit more oomph – but even with a troika of judges who get along, this series basically stayed a bit too long at the mic. And it didn’t help that this year, when it got to the Final Three, one of the most deserving of them, Jax Cole (center, flanked by surviving finalists Clark Beckham and Nick Fradiani), was sent packing. For my full story about the announced

2015

May

MODERN FAMILY By David Bianculli

Alex (Ariel Winter) has been given lots of screen attention at the end of this season, as she nears high school graduation. And tonight, she gets the spotlight once again, as the unwilling participant of her family’s “Skip Day” tradition.

2015

May

LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guests, one week before Letterman signs off for good: Julia Roberts and Ryan Adams.

2015

May

CBS'S NEW FALL 2015 SHOWS: FIRST IMPRESSIONS By David Bianculli

CBS is unveiling only five new shows for fall, and saving two of those for November. One of them is the latest comic-book superhero spinoff. Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane! It’s… Supergirl…

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