Just as programs on the Big Four and a Half networks are taking a break for the holiday, the same thing is happening on cable. Unfortunately, some of these shows have been on break since the late summer-early fall. While we’ve been missing them to death, the good news is that many, including Leverage, Psych, White Collar, Damages, and Burn Notice, are about to return to complete their seasons.

It may seem to you that The Closer just returned two weeks ago … because it did. Despite that, through some insane scheduling shenanigans over at TNT, “Dead Man’s Hand” was, in fact, the season finale. The good news is that the oddly short run was very well done. The bad news is that we’ll […]

I’m not sure how to explain it, but there’s something about Men of a Certain Age that just makes me smile. It could be the great acting, or the stories that suck me in without really being about much at all. Or maybe it’s the great writing. But whatever it is, MOCA has come along […]

This week’s episode started out promising, but it ended off in the traditional SNL way, with sketches that are either outright not funny or just come out as “meh.” It was strange that the episode actually ran a little longer than usual, and with what I think might have been a pre-recorded sketch. No post-episode […]

Sanctuary has always been unabashedly derivative, so it was only a matter of time before we got an episode that reflects the current interest in young, hot vampires. Sanctuary‘s smart move was to put a tongue-in-cheek spin on the story. Squeezing in references to True Blood, Buffy, and of course Bram Stoker, the writers entered […]

Dollhouse this season has shaped up to a battle of the wits between Echo and Adelle (see how I avoiding using a pun there; I did that just for you). Echo seems to have been gaining more and more power, while DeWitt has seen it slowly slip away. Last night she just about slipped off […]

Believe it or not, we have reached the mid-point in the 2009-10 television season. Unlike the past few years, this season may turn out to be one of the most successful. Thanks in part to some new and old comedies. After years of shunning comedy scripts for proceurals and serialized dramas, the networks have filled their schedules with some laughs rather than sobs.