Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, who since her days playing Don Johnson’s daughter on Nash Bridges has played a number of increasingly risky roles – from a femme fatale on Prison Break to a psychotic witch on Two and a Half Men. Tonight she has a more mainstream guest role, as an entertainment reporter who’s attracted to Castle (Nathan Fillion). And, based on this photograph, the feeling’s mutual.

2012

Oct

LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN By David Bianculli

Stephen Colbert is on the promo circuit pushing his new book – and here’s one of his first stops, in this new installment of Letterman’s New York-based talk show.

2012

Oct

2003: ABC INTRODUCED 'KAREN SISCO' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 2003, ABC debuted Karen Sisco, a series spun from Elmore Leonard's 1996 novel, Out of Sight, and the same-name 1998 film...

2012

Oct

'SESAME STREET''S PLUCKY PARODY OF HBO'S 'BOARDWALK EMPIRE' By Christy Slewinski

Perhaps Steve Buscemi's Nucky Thompson could learn a thing or two about compromise from the Sesame Street parody of his gangster drama, Boardwalk Empire...

2012

Sep

1960: ABC BREAKS NEW TV GROUND WITH 'THE FLINTSTONES' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1960, ABC introduced The Flintstones, TV's most popular Stone Age family...

2012

Sep

THE SUNDAY DILEMMA: SO MUCH TV, SO LITTLE TIME... By David Bianculli

I love quality TV as much as the next guy. More than the next guy, probably. But on Sunday nights, even I find myself saying enough is enough. Or, maybe, too much…

2012

Sep

ONCE UPON A TIME By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: One of the few new bright spots on broadcast TV last season, Once Upon a Time took its fairy-tale premise, and its Disney imprimatur, and emerged with the best mythic mystery series since Lost. That enchanting season ended with a cliffhanger, as all the residents of Storybrooke were freed from their amnesiac spells, and Mr. Gold – a.k.a. Rumpelstiltskin – enveloped the town with a mysterious purple mist. What will the mist do? Tonight’s Season 2 opener, obvious

2012

Sep

CALL THE MIDWIFE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Everyone who enjoyed Downton Abbey should make a special effort to catch this new British import, which begins a six-week run tonight on PBS. This BBC production is set in London’s East End in the 1950s – the same time and place that, in England, inspired the long-running soap opera EastEnders. But the focus this time, based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, is a woman who worked as a midwife in the poor section of London in the Fifties. Young Jessica Raine plays the

2012

Sep

THE GOOD WIFE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Last season, we learned that the dangerous man chasing Kalinda, and now Alicia, was Kalinda’s husband. Tonight we find out more about him – and meet him in the flesh, rather than as a scary voice on the phone.

2012

Sep

DEXTER By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Last season ended with Dexter’s sister, Debra, witnessing her brother plunging a sword into the torso of the Doomsday Killer. The new season begins where that left off, with Debra holding a gun on Dexter and demanding an explanation. Talk quickly, Dex. For a full review of this season premiere, and of Homeland, see or hear my report on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

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