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2012
May
14
 
 
As the networks release their schedules for the 2012-13 TV season, we'll collect them here — so you can return, as need be, to make sense of things and plan your upcoming viewing schedule.vAlthough, to be honest, time slots aren't as critical as they were in the old days. But finding the good shows quickly — that's even more important, and tricky, than ever...we aim to help...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
14
 
 
CBS’s The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson takes a wonderfully unpredictable tour of Ferguson’s home country of Scotland. Here's a fast photo-tour of Monday's show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
13
 
 
Later this month, on May 22, it’ll be 20 years since Johnny Carson said farewell as the longest and greatest host of NBC’s Tonight Show. As an early salute, Monday’s American Masters on PBS presents a two-hour profile, and appreciation, of the Great Carsoni…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
13
 
 
NBC announced Monday its projected schedule for the fall 2012 TV season. We offer quick, bite-sized video samples of the network’s new offerings, along with our own very first impressions. There looks to be at least one winner here…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
10
 
 
NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross turns 25 years old this week. The long-running Philadelphia show’s first national broadcast was May 11, 1987. I feel both proud and old to say I was a part of that maiden voyage, providing a piece on the finale of NBC’s Hill Street Blues…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
9
 
 
That big sigh of relief you hear is from everyone at American Idol, who get to proceed to the end of this year’s music-competition finish line, from tonight on, without having to compete for attention with NBC’s The Voice.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
8
 
 
As we approach Tuesday’s winner-crowning season finale on NBC’s The Voice, this deserves note: On Monday’s show, judge Christina Aguilera’s treatment of finalist Tony Lucca, who started out with Aguilera on The All New Mickey Mouse Club, was rude beyond belief…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
7
 
 
To promote its new summer musical competition series, Duets, ABC is taking a bite from the Apple – and echoing the iconic, Orwellian ad used by Apple to launch the Macintosh computer in 1984. I invite you to compare and contrast, and ask whether it’s a good idea…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
6
 
 

While recording my interview with writer-producer Steven Moffat the other day for NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, I grilled him for secrets about the upcoming golden anniversary of Doctor Who. Moffat didn’t crack under interrogation – but did reveal one newsworthy secret, which didn’t make it on air. I offer it here, exclusively…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
4
 
 
Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon behind the wheel of the new Avengers movie? For TV fantasy fans, it’s a fantasy come true. But other TV shows and movies based on Marvel Comics characters have flopped a lot more than they’ve soared…