Vintage (and not-so-vintage) shows are showing up in the strangest places. TV Guide Network, Reelz, Centric, Gospel Music Channel and other unlikely archives are airing encores of faves from the '80s to last year. Since there's nothing we love better than digging through the listings rubble, here's the result of our latest exercise in TV archaeology...

2010

Aug

GREAT NEW DVD RELEASES: CLEAR EYES, CRAFTY KILLERS, FLYING SQUIRRELS By David Bianculli

This week's batch of new releases of TV shows on DVD includes an absurdly entertaining triple helping of great shows, and the range couldn't be more eclectic. Coincidentally, they're all Season Four releases - of NBC/DirecTV's Friday Night Lights, Showtime's Dexter, and the classic Rocky & Bullwinkle adventures...

2010

Aug

WITH "THE BIG C," SHOWTIME PRESENTS ANOTHER GREAT ACTRESS -- BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THIS TIME, NOT ANOTHER GREAT SHOW By David Bianculli

The addition of "The Big C" to Showtime's lineup (10:30 p.m. ET Monday) brings Laura Linney, a fabulous actress, to a network already boasting several excellent shows in which they star: Edie Falco in "Nurse Jackie", Toni Collette in "The United States of Tara", Mary-Louise Parker in "Weeds". But while Linney belongs in that august company, "The Big C" does not...

2010

Aug

ON "MAD MEN," AND CURRENT CLEVER COMMERCIALS By Eric Gould

Mad Men is back -- the latest episode airs Sunday night at 10 ET on AMC -- and every week as I watch, I think about one of my real guilty pleasures: the art of smart commercials...

2010

Aug

CROSSING THAT "BROOKLYN BRIDGE" WHEN WE COME TO IT By Tom Brinkmoeller

[Bianculli here: Back in May, contributing writer Tom Brinkmoeller posted a column that may well have generated more comments than any single TV WORTH WATCHING post. It was about the oft-delayed DVD release of Gary David Goldberg's classic "Brooklyn Bridge" comedy series -- and with this report, he updates the story...]

2010

Aug

WEIRD & WILD: PENN & TELLER & SHAQ By Diane Werts

This is why you need to read For Better or Werts. Sure, Bianculli will tell you about some critically acclaimed drama or some innovative comedy or some blockbuster movie. But look at the photo. You need me for this...

2010

Aug

"MAX HEADROOM" FINALLY ARRIVES ON HOME VIDEO -- 25 YEARS INTO ITS FUTURE By David Bianculli

When Max Headroom first hit the media landscape in 1985, it was with a two-pronged assault: a music-video series in which the "computer-generated" titular character introduced and often ridiculed the hot acts of the day, and a live-action sci-fi movie explaining the "origin" of Max Headroom...

2010

Aug

NOT GETTING 'SNOOKERED' BY MTV'S "JERSEY SHORE" By Bill Brioux

BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- The first of two cable network days got a slap upside the head Friday as the Jersey Shore cast was in the House. The Situation, Snooki, JWoww, Pauly D, Sammi, Hungadunga and McCormick all stood on stage throughout the entire session, prompting questions like: "Do any of you know why MTV didn't let you sit down?"...and, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"...

2010

Aug

THE NEW TV SEASON: ON BROADCAST TV, NOT MUCH FRESH TV WORTH WATCHING By David Bianculli

Next month -- by which time this site will be in its newly redesigned incarnation -- we'll roll out a fall preview feature in which all our critics can weigh in on the new broadcast slate. Meanwhile, a handful of critics, myself included, were interviewed by Broadcasting & Cable for a sneak preview. The general consensus: Fall 2010, for broadcast TV, presents a disappointingly ho-hum roster of new shows...

2010

Aug

FALL TV: 'H50' MUSIC REBOOT By Diane Werts

Fall season pilot episodes are always a dicey thing for critics to write about, because you never know what the networks will change before the show finally hits air. So now that critics are writing about the 2010 Hawaii Five-0 pilot's awful "update" of the show's iconic theme music...

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