Simply Mad
‘Who knows why people do what they do?” asks the tagline of AMC’s Mad Men, which airs Sundays at 10 P.M. Eastern. The Manhattan-set drama, a current critical darling, chronicles ...
Crowning Prince Caspian
Douglas Gresham, co-producer of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, is the stepson of the author of the Narnia series, C. S. Lewis. A child when Lewis married his mother, ...
The Lawyer Who Saved America
Beginning this Sunday at 9:00 P.M., HBO explores our nation’s revolutionary past with a new miniseries, John Adams. Starring Paul Giamatti as Adams and Laura Linney as his wife, Abigail, ...
Sarah Connor Terminates the Writer’s Strike
Just in time to distract us from reality — and from the torrent of “reality TV” that the writers’ guild strike has engendered — FOX is airing a new science-fiction ...
The Kite Runner Flies
This weekend, a faithful adaptation of the Khaled Hosseini’s popular novel The Kite Runner, a story of betrayal and redemption in Afghanistan, flies into theaters. A distressing and uneven book ...
Wrestling the Divine
Like the Biblical Jacob, the title character in TNT’s drama Saving Grace, wrestles with an angel. The angel is a tobacco-swirling, taco-munching, Oklahoma country-boy angel named Earl (Leon Rippy), while ...
Bella Is Beautiful
There are moments in life that change everything. They are hinges, turning us toward perhaps toward joy, perhaps toward sorrow, but ensuring that nothing will ever be the same again. ...
Family Gone Wild
In a heroic attempt to entertain us, the broadcast networks introduced some 20 new shows this month. We have an uber-enhanced Bionic Woman, a sad fellow who temporarily raises the ...
Friday Night Gets Religion
Forget your overly coiffed housewives of Wisteria Lane, your arrested-in-adolescence doctors at Seattle Grace Hospital, and your tank-top wearing detectives in Las Vegas. For those who want quality drama ...
Stop and Smell the Daisies
Pushing Daisies, a sweet little fairytale for grown-ups premieres this Wednesday at 8pm, on ABC. Surrounded by much well-deserved buzz from critics and TV fans alike, it is the show ...