The most interesting change on the new season of "Jersey Shore" is that it's no longer a show about Italian-American idiots. Now, it's just a show about American idiots. Bowing to complaints about blatant...
July 28, 2010 12:00 AM
Here's a sure-fire recipe for success that even an amateur chef can master: Take one hugely successful UK show and add one famously arrogant and colorful TV chef (a real handful). Stir in a generous amount of...
July 27, 2010 12:00 AM
Who hasn't fantasized about having a TV antiques expert show up and declare that your grandfather's hedge clippers are worth thousands? So, when my daughter Jessica and her husband Kenny bought a run-down, circa...
July 26, 2010 12:00 AMJUNO (2007) Sunday, 12:30 p.m., USA The Best Screenplay Oscar went to Diablo Cody for this charming, funny and totally unexpected little movie about a wisecracking, oddball teen (Ellen Page) who finds out she’s...
July 25, 2010 3:35 AMIt’s taken me up until now to actually get it. Don Draper, I mean. Tragically, DD is the without question the emptiest suit ever to look great in one. He’s also a misogynist, has no sense of humor, has no empathy for...
July 25, 2010 3:35 AM
After watching Starz' eight- hour, six-night miniseries, "Pillars of the Earth," all I can say is that it's a good thing 12th-century Christians weren't kosher. Seriously. I can't remember ever seeing this much ham...
July 23, 2010 12:00 AM
"Big Brother" -- some one should be watching you. In a new low for reality TV, the producers are allowing a "houseguest" to lie to other contestants that his wife is suffering from melorheostosis, a disease that...
July 23, 2010 12:00 AM
'Mad Men" returns Sunday, and I'm still mad about the man. Don Draper, I mean. OK, admittedly there is more grease than machinery to him -- and the rest of the show, too. And yes, while many of the characters...
July 22, 2010 12:00 AM
Jennifer Love Hewitt lives up to her middle name in tonight's Lifetime movie "The Client List," playing a woman with love for sale. Well, the kind of love one can sell when showing up for work in a garter belt and...
July 19, 2010 12:00 AMSUPERMAN (1978) Sunday, 8:15 a.m., AMC Christopher Reeve was never more beautiful and Margot Kidder was never more adorable than in this wondrous tale of the legendary Man of Steel and the girl reporter who loves him....
July 18, 2010 3:00 AM
Let's just call this one, "When TV Genres Collide!" Yes, just when you thought it couldn't get any more shocking than watching the horrifying conditions in which people live on shows like "Hoarders" and...
July 16, 2010 12:00 AM
If gifted Long Island psychic Mary Occhino had done some stargazing instead of gazing at stardom, she would have known that putting her fate in the hands of Syfy for her new show "Mary Knows Best" would not have been in...
July 15, 2010 12:00 AM
Maybe they should just rename "The Real Housewives" "The Real Grifters and Felons of Bravo TV." First, the tawdry Salahis' breach of White House security on the upcoming "Real Housewives of DC," and now, the...
July 14, 2010 12:00 AM
Even if you can’t take one more police procedural this summer, you should give TNT’s terrific new cop show, “Rizzoli & Isles,” at least one chance. Why? Because it is your mother’s cop show. A throw-back to ye olde...
July 12, 2010 1:35 AMTHE COLOR PURPLE (1985) Sunday, 2 p.m., BET Eleven Oscar noms went to this heartbreaking and ultimately glorious story about a turn-of-the-century black woman (Whoopi Goldberg), who, after bearing her father’s...
July 10, 2010 11:42 PM
From the man who brought you "White Collar" comes No Collar, otherwise known as "The Glades," A&E's new police procedural that's as predictable as rain on weekends. Once more we have the bad boy/rogue cop (Matt...
July 09, 2010 12:00 AM
Coming at you at the speed of a charging Bengal tiger* is National Geographic's new hour-long series "Nat Geo Amazing!," an up-close, beautifully-filmed show that hits you with a new and different amazing story every 30...
July 08, 2010 12:00 AM
Four years ago, before "Glee" was even a twinkle in show creator Ryan Murphy's eye, a real-life choirmaster, Gareth Malone, was doing the hard work and living the real-life story. The then-30-year-old Malone -- who...
July 07, 2010 12:00 AM
Fill in the blanks: There's something strange going on in the seemingly idyllic New England fishing village of _____. Out of nowhere, violent _____ storms and choking fog envelope the village in the blink of an...
July 06, 2010 12:00 AM
It's been 20 years since "Pretty Woman" hit the screens and the American psyche like an incurable STD. The message of that movie? Hey kids! You, too, can be a hooker in the big city and end up with a really rich,...
July 05, 2010 12:00 AMBYE BYE BIRDIE (1963) Sunday, 8 p.m., TCM If you’re a fan of “Mad Men,” then you’ve seen Ann-Margret’s iconic version of the theme song from this musical about an Elvis-like singer, Conrad Birdie (Jesse Pearson), who...
July 03, 2010 11:32 PM
If you missed the premiere of "Boston Med" -- the best show of the summer -- last week, you can catch up tonight. In fact, you must catch up tonight. It's that good. Like a real-life "Grey's Anatomy," this...
July 01, 2010 12:00 AM
Used to be that Soviet secret agents in tuxedos and back less cocktail dresses would rendezvous at the Casino Royale Bacarrat tables in Montenegro. Yesterday, we found out that they've been reduced to meeting at pay...
June 30, 2010 12:00 AM
Yesterday, Katie Couric turned into the new Kate Gosselin. On Monday, The Post reported that Couric had turned down an offer to take Larry King's gig when both of their contracts expire not a moment too soon next...
June 29, 2010 12:00 AM
'Huge," a new series about overweight teens at a weight-loss camp, starts tonight, and I couldn't be happier if I'd just discovered calorie-free potato chips. I mean, are you kidding? Fat teens on TV -- who aren't...
June 28, 2010 12:00 AM
BEETLEJUICE (1988)Sunday, 2:30 p.m., ABC Family Hilariously gross, odd, and scary story about a dead couple (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) who haunt their old home but are disturbed by the horrible couple who bought...
June 26, 2010 10:53 PM
If James Bond was the ul timate guy fantasy of the late 20th Century, "Entourage" -- which returns Sunday night for its seventh and what is likely its next-to-last season -- is what boys wish they could be like in the...
June 25, 2010 12:00 AM
It's probably been a while since your favorite animated charac ters ran around nearly naked for an entire episode, or there was a president-in-a-jar named Nixon, or a pizza delivery guy frozen from 1,000 years ago got...
June 24, 2010 12:00 AM
He's a roguish, bad-boy cop with a good soul, an ex-wife and a funky muscle car, forced to endure the barbs of -- while developing a grudging respect for -- his tough-talking, middle-aged African-American female boss....
June 22, 2010 12:00 AM
Starting tomorrow night, Showtime, the network that brought you "The L Word," will fill the girl-on-girl void in their schedule with a reality version titled, "The Real L Word." I guess the first one was, in...
June 19, 2010 12:00 AM
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