Emily S. Mendel
Just as the U.S. presidential candidates begin to blanket the airwaves with promises that we doubt they can keep, along comes Masterpiece Theatre’s The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard, the entirely entertaining tale of Ros Pritchard’s rocket ride from West Yorkshire to ...
Emily S. Mendel
Meadowlands is the quintessential paranoid fantasy of a suburb...a community
that appears to be safe, bucolic and picturesque, but actually has a
sinister, threatening inner core.
As the series begins, Danny (David Morrissey) and Evelyn (Lucy Cohu) ...
Theodore Bale
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib premiered in competition at this year's 2007 Sundance Film Festival website “It was a door that I was afraid to walk through. If you walk through it, at which point do you say it’s ...
Emily S. Mendel
Heartland, an original one-hour medical drama about an organ-transplant
surgeon, his work and his family premieres on June 18th, 10 ET/PT on TNT.
The surgeon, Dr. Nathaniel Grant (Treat Williams), is the pioneering,
workaholic chief of the ...
Arthur Lazere
"Liza With a 'Z'" is the title of a gently amusing autobiographical patter song written for the star by her frequent collaborators Fred Ebb and John Kander. It also serves as the title of a classic live concert staged ...
Lewis Whittington
Fans of the American version of Queer as Folk need a fix so bad that the fizzle of the last two seasons will hardly matter as the rainbow sets on Pittsburgh’s mythical gaytropolis.After more than a year, the show ...
Paul De Angelis
The defining characteristic of Firefly is that it melds together two seemingly disparate genres: science fiction and the Western. But this isn't a gimmick or genre-busting for its own sake. Creator Joss Whedon is taking what is implicit in ...
Paul De Angelis
Despite its flaws, Babylon 5 remains one of TV's greatest science fiction shows. It is ambitious storytelling, told on a scale rarely attempted in SF outside of literature (due to a lack of both money and imagination). But ...
Bob Wake
Our review of the New York stage production of Talking Heads Note - UK videos are not compatible with US equipment. These are PAL format. Talking Heads videos ...
Arthur Lazere
The Mystery! series, produced by PBS Boston affiliate WGBH, has been on the air for an astounding twenty-four years, presenting a seemingly limitless series of British mystery tales. A spinoff from Masterpiece Theatre, Mystery! maintains the high production values ...
