My write-up of 2020, following 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019 . As always, I don't claim to have seen everything. I w...

Let’s presume you’re familiar with the premise of Kate & Allie (two divorced mothers — best friends since high school — decide to share...

Collateral was my favorite TV drama of 2018. With only two months remaining, I’d be surprised if Roadkill doesn’t wind up my favorite dra...

Of the sitcoms I’ve profiled at this blog, some emerged out of the gate fully formed ( Murphy Brown , Bewitched ). Others took a while to ge...

The second of three lost Doctor Who serials that don’t get nearly enough praise or attention. To check out the first, “The Abominable Snowm...

Criminal Minds debuted in the fall of 2005, as CBS was riding a wave of popular procedurals. The first of these, of course, had been CSI: C...

I had occasion to meet producer Norman Lear in the spring of 1978, when I was a freshman in college. He was coming to our university to give...

How do you stand up for women in this day and age — ordinary women — without being overlooked or ignored? I keep hearing — in this #MeToo er...

Completing my alphabetical look back at the actors who’ve played companions on Doctor Who , and judging their best and worst performances. T...

Was there ever a great show that peaked for as short a time as Designing Women ? It’s undeniably a classic — beautifully acted, frequently w...