It’s strange when you consider that Boss is Kelsey Grammer’s first major dramatic role.  He has always been known for playing upright, no-nonsense roles, but for laughs.  Boss season 2, which premiered this past Friday on Starz,...

Two items collided on my desk today. The first, a press kit for Grimm, season 2. I scanned it. We’ll get to its reveals in a moment. The salient revelation came when the second scrap from the...

NYPD Blue, the heir apparent to Hill Street Blues as the thinking man’s cop show, was going strong early in season one.  David Milch and Stephen Bochco had brought to the small screen a procedural that focused...

I’m not a huge fan when it comes to network TV crime drama. My sour opinion on mainstream crime TV is inspired by the sad smell of surrender that seems to come off of such shows: A...

Series star eschews humility, takes call phone call from wife during panel at TCA. If you turn down the AC and the television and crack open a window in the wee hours of the morning, you can...

Fresh off her Emmy win for her wonderful portrayal of small town crime lord Mags Bennett in Complex favourite Justified, the always great Margo Martindale has joined the cast of August: Osage County, according to Deadline. The...

Stuck with 90 minutes to fill the other night, I caught up on the latest show from AMC, Small Town Security. Three episodes in, I was damn impressed. It wasn’t the standard fare of aiming a camera...

There’s a rule in Tinseltown, along with the better known ones like “nobody walks here”: If something’s working, keep working it. Work that crap right to death. A wise man once illustrated the design of the Hollywood...

The Television Critics Association (TCA) grist mill keeps turning, and now that we’re mowing through conferences with cable networks, we get to know about shows we actually care about. This is especially the case with Weeds, the...

If your name is Michael Chiklis, you may not want to read this. I’ve taken a liking to dropping giant, elephantine shits on upcoming network television premieres, particularly the high-gloss product.  I love doing it, because so...