"A Room With A View" is viewed anew on PBS
If PBS’s venerable and much-honored “Masterpiece Theatre” wants to freshen up its image, rearrange its theme music, add more contemporary stories to its ...

Agents of the DEA on Spike TV
And: "Suburban Shootout" on DVD
As seen in a new documentary series on cable's Spike TV channel, agents of the federal Drug Enforcement ...

Whose idea was this war, anyway?
And: "Miss Guided" on ABC
Next time somebody says we don’t need PBS, that cable’s news, history and nature channels have made it unnecessary, remind that somebody of “Frontline.” Specifically, you might mention the latest &...

John Adams gets his due on HBO
It's been 25 long years since Americans sat transfixed in front of their TV sets watching "The Thorn Birds." ...

Hillary complains, the media jump
And: Two new series from Fox
Recent coverage of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination reminds me of the Subway commercial with the football referee ...

A cop on Fox lives forever -- whether he wants to or not
And: a new Fox comedy aims low
If you remember Mel Brooks' 2,000-year-old-man routine, you may also remember that when Carl Reiner asked if he knew Marie Antoinette, Mel said certainly he knew ...

A new HBO documentary celebrates Joe Louis
As happens to too many athletes, Joe Louis lived his life between his early 20s and his middle 30s. The next 30 years were postscript, a wandering existence of ...

Camp Pendleton's Haditha case gets the 'Frontline' treatment on PBS
And: "Dexter" moves to CBS
The Camp Pendleton courts martial of Marines accused in the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians have been going on for months, with more still to ...

NBC's "Lipstick Jungle"
And: HBO's "Bernard and Doris"
Watching ABC’s “Cashmere Mafia” lately? Lapping up the girl-on-girl bickering action? Like the way it’s almost sort of like ...

ABC's "Eli Stone"
And: "Welcome to the Captain" on CBS
Writers strike? I could swear I heard somebody say something about a Hollywood writers ...