Having harvested jillions and zillions of Mousekebucks with "Hannah Montana" and its personable, pratfall-prone star, Miley Cyrus, Disney Channel executives can hardly be blamed for trying to find a potential successor. Disney can be blamed, however, for thinking small and safe and coming up with a ...

If corners were cut in the presentation of Super Bowl XLIII, it was hard to spot them. Maybe the commercials overall were a little less lavish, maybe less beer flowed and fewer luxury cars tooled along sleek and sylvan superhighways, but if pulled out of context and shown to an impartial audience of...

From most so-called reality shows, you learn nothing. From "Lie to Me," a scripted show premiering Wednesday on the Fox network, you could conceivably learn plenty....

Only his remaining ardent supporters would probably classify last night's TV appearance by President Bush as reality television. On the other hand, detractors -- a sizable group, judging by popularity polls -- would likely say George W. Bush's farewell to the nation, delivered from the East Room of ...

Who could forget "shock and awe" or "the Bush Doctrine" or, for that matter, "Mission Accomplished"? Who could forget, but then again, who would want to remember? Chris Matthews, one of the true superstars of cable, makes a good case for remembering tonight with a special edition of his "Hardball" s...

Molly Shannon and Selma Blair are two hoots worth a happy holler in NBC's "Kath & Kim," a cleverly funny sitcom debuting tonight after scoring a smash with a different cast in Australia. The show has been painlessly Americanized and might as well be an indigenous creation, armed as it is with wicked...

Pop an eight-track cartridge into the tape player, snap open a can of Tab cola, fire up the gas-greedy Cadillac convertible and head on down to "Swingtown," which is the title of a new CBS drama series and the nickname for the Chicago suburb where all kinds of changes are taking place....

Loping, romping and sometimes crawling to the finish line, "Saturday Night Live" ended another season on NBC with a show that featured Sen. John McCain, the likely Republican presidential candidate, in fine comic fettle, with the regular cast members' fettle even finer. Although the written material...

Not so much a documentary as a laser blast of rapidly changing images, "Sex: The Revolution" harks nostalgically back to the days of Times Square porno shops, high jinks in a place called Haight-Ashbury, nudity as a political statement and an obscure late-'60s magazine that advertised itself with th...

When Barack Obama met Hillary Clinton for another televised Democratic candidates' debate last night, it was more than a step forward in the 2008 presidential election. It was another step downward for network news -- in particular ABC News, which hosted the debate from Philadelphia and whose usuall...