If you thought The Sopranos finale was irritating, you should have seen Sunday's wrap-up episode of Showtime's The L Word. Having spent a whole season setting up the murder of the show's most treacherous, manipulative, duplicitous, greedy, exploitative and generally bitchy characte...

On Fox Sports' telecast of Saturday's women's basketball game between Arizona State and Stanford, analyst Mary Murphy was trying to make the point that Stanford needed to get the ball to its juggernaut center Jayne Appel. "When you're shooting the kind of percentage she is,"...

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No wonder CNBC keeps clobbering Fox Business News in the ratings. CNBC keeps concentrating on the sectors of the America that are still thriving -- the ones regulated not by the SEC or the FCC, but the local vice squad. Wednesday at 9 p.m., the network airs its umpteenth documentary on the sex and/o...

Three in the morning and Conan O'Brien's eyes were wide open. Not that his zillion-dollar-a-night bed at the Mandarin Oriental was uncomfortable; but it's only three months -- three months! -- until he eases his lanky frame into that desk where Johnny and Jay sat and begins the first of ...

Reaper (8 p.m. Tuesday, The CW) -- The funniest comedy on television that nobody watches returns for a second season. Bret Harrison plays Sam, a slacker loafing through life who discovers his soul has been sold to the Devil (an archly funny Ray Wise). This season, there's a new twist: Sam has ju...

It's months until Halloween, but out in Hollywood the dead are already climbing from their dusty graves to menace the living. The CW, not content with remaking old shows, has now announced it's going to start remaking spinoffs of old shows. The network has just given a green light to a pilot...

It may not be an original metaphor, but it's still a damn good one: The U.S. government's war on drug trafficking is like squeezing a balloon -- you squish it down in one place and it pops up in another. The pressure Washington brought on Colombia during the 1990s simply moved the problem to...

It's been too long since TV has aired one of those delicious the-sleaze-inside-Palm-Beach tales. And hooray! Here comes Brian Ross riding to the rescue with a report on how the Bernie Madoff financial scandal has not only roiled the waters of Palm Beach's Jewish community but triggered an ug...

 ...is, shockingly, not me. And it turns out I'm not even the hottest Garvin in Florida. Both titles belong to Jessica Garvin, the Coral Springs actress who is, to my knowledge, the only Garvin ever to have appeared in a Playboy video. (They keep begging me, but I won't do nudity unles...