The ABC fall schedule is “locked and loaded” and won’t be changed despite a management shake-up, the network’s new chief said Sunday. Paul Lee, noting he’d logged just 36 hours so far as ABC Entertainment Group president, said “you can do more damage than good”...

The World Cup will come to an exciting end this weekend with Sunday’s championship between the Netherlands and Spain. I’m surprised with how much soccer I’ve been watching, even after the US team was eliminated from competition - and I only partially blame it on the lack of regularly...

By Joshua Nichol-Caddy By GLENN GARVIN I’m not saying you’ll enjoy FX’s new comedy Louie — oh, I am sooooo not saying it — but you ought to watch anyway. Never before in the history of television has anybody stuck a rolling list of credits on a test pattern and tried to...

By Associated Press The 10 young men have washed corpses according to Islamic rites, cried while counseling unmarried pregnant women and joined a police crackdown on teenage motorcycle racers — all before judges on national TV. A Malaysian cable station has given a reality show makeover to its Islamic...

By Associated Press If you looked at the finances of the broadcast TV networks, you might not be optimistic about the future of free TV. Each year, ABC, NBC and Fox contribute a smaller share of the profits reaped by their parent companies. Meanwhile cable channels boost viewership and get growing chunks...

By Associated Press Image by Mark McLaughlin via Flickr Here’s something Larry David is happy about: an encore run of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” on TV Guide Network that includes a celebrity panel discussion. The network wanted to avoid trimming the HBO comedy to fit into a half-hour with...

As mentioned here and here , I’ve accepted a new job at HitFix.com, and will be covering TV there for the forseeable future. The new blog URL is: http://hitfix.com/whatsalanwatching See you there. Originally posted here:  You can find me at HitFix

A review of tonight’s “Chuck” coming up just as soon as I loosely translate your nickname from Bantu… “Dear God, it’s us 30 years ago.” -Turner “Sarah, that’s us in 30 years!” -Chuck In recent years, cable dramas like “The Shield”...

A review of tonight’s “Treme” coming up just as soon as my coffee drink is comped on behalf of my overwhelming righteousness… “But New Orleans is still my home!” -Antoine On “The Wire,” David Simon was fond of illustrating a thematic point by having characters...

A review of tonight’s “The Pacific” coming up just as soon as I make a table appear out of thin air… After three harrowing episodes focusing on Sledge’s time on Peleliu, “The Pacific” takes a sharp right turn, leaving Sledge and Snafu behind for a bit (other...